Unthinkable: The Susan Smith Story
It was unthinkable 30 years ago that a Union, South Carolina, mother could strap her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons into their car seats and watch as the car slowly sunk into John D. Long Lake. Susan would claim she tried to end her life, too, but couldn't go through with it. Inside the trunk was Susan's wedding album, dress, and other parts of of her life that prosecutors believe she was trying to walk away from.
What followed was a deception that rattled the nation. Susan falsely claimed she'd been carjacked by a Black man and her boys taken, kicking off a nationwide search. Nine days later, she confessed to the boys' murders.
In "Unthinkable: The Susan Smith Story," hear from the prosecutors who handled Smith's case and why authorities doubted her story from the beginning. The boys' father, David Smith, talks about why he believes 30 years in prison isn't long enough for Susan and what he's prepared to tell a SC Board of Pardons and Paroles to keep her behind bars.
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