The words of David Smith’s father have stayed with me for years and years, asking if she at least was holding on to the car bumper because no parent would let someone take their kids and leave them without a fight. He was right on the money.
Totally agree! She wasn't bruised either and you would think, even if it was a long shot, that she'd have tried to have forced herself into the car or hold onto it to stop it which would have given her bruises and probably cuts too. She obviously had been in no fight for her kids.
And yet parents kill their children all the time🙄. I didn’t know that until Susan Smith. I was in elementary school and this case was always on the news. Prior to this, prior to Susan Smith, I had no idea that the mother could kill her children… It just never occurred to me.
And him calling the jurors who refused to give her death "a county full of cowards". They were afraid of that pig stepfather of Susan's, in spite of him molesting her.
The lawyer arguing that she had a tough life is crap. I grew up with alcoholism, abuse, and neglect. I watched my father shoot a man in the face when I was 8 years old. The past doesn’t make you kill your children. It gives you an excuse.
You are right! Sorry about your past. We all have crap; abuse, drugs, booze, family in prison. None of that has ever made me want to commit a crime or use it as an excuse to be evil
I feel for you.. I was molested by all my alcoholic mothers so called boyfriends.. I would never use that as an excuse.. I've learned that my mother was sick and didnt know what was happening.. I have 5 children and raised them on my own. I owe all that responsibility due to my great foster parents.
My dad had the worst life. He was raised by his grandparents very poor in London. He was the best father until he passed. A bad childhood is total bs and an excuse. If your childhood is that bad then make your adulthood the best you can.
I’m so sorry for the abuse you suffered that is horrible, unfortunately this happens in a lot of families and I believe it’s just getting worse, but your right it doesn’t give you an excuse for killing your children if she was that fucked up don’t have children period! You see it in the news it seems like everyday when a mom or dad or gf or bf kill their kids it’s absolutely horrible!
No matter how depressed I get, sad, overwhelmed or stressed… killing my children has NEVER even crossed my mind! How does a mother make that leap? It’s sickening.
@@summer-c7i I don’t have kids either, but I’m a teacher and when I think of an any emergency situations, I feel I’d walk through a fire for them, other people’s kids.
This isn't about your kids now is it. All these b.s. help me comments aren't about you. It's about these 2 little boys, but kudos for trying to take the limelight, good job
@@patrickc3419 I was 11 and even at 11 I questioned why Susan let some random stranger drive off with Michael and Alex as my own Mother wouldn't have let me and my brother get kidnapped by some random person...
I’m so sick of these child killers blaming their childhood on their actions! I was molested, I had several step-dads, we moved around a lot,…I did not have the greatest childhood either but I wouldn’t go around breaking the law and hurting people!
Agreed. Abuse certainly can affect and change the personality. But if someone is good to the core and has a strong character, they do not let abuse turn them to evil; they fight against it.
@@breathej.4872 There is a lot of monsters out there walking right among us and sadly we don’t see em until it’s too late and tragedies like this happens.
I believe when this happened, you were even able to drop babies and very young kids at police stations, hospitals and fire stations - no questions asked. It's utilized more than people believe. A local woman drove to the ER I was working at at the time and simply told the receptionist she didn't want her baby. Given how fresh (just a few hours old) that the baby boy was, we asked the mom if we could check her out to make sure she was alright. You could tell she was in a lot of pain and exhausted. Asked if we could give post birth care instructions and even supplies if she needed them. She didn't want that kind of help and left. No other questions asked. Baby John Doe was taken to the nursery, totally healthy and did fine. When he was old enough for the state to take custody, he was taken in by them. At least he had a chance at life thanks to his birth mother. I pray he got a wonderful forever home! Stories like this where a parent kills their own kids...for any reason but especially to spite the other parent or "have a better life" without kids is so sick. Children are not pawns.
I read somewhere that a Mother dropped off her baby at a Hospital Entrance, and left, and the Authorities wanted to investigate who the mother was but she had on a hoodie and sunglasses.
@@MarySmith-lv3mo they would have caught up if they moved and reviewed camera footage. It is not a huge ordeal to get an orphan baby - we're trained for that. And mom's well being but if mom appears as an adult with no immediate psych issues and no complaints of physical issues, she can leave. Again, no questions asked.
@@misfitbrit1989 I honestly thought the point of ANONYMOUS baby dropping off at a Hospital Entrance was so Mom who doesn't want her baby can drop him or her off with no strings attached...
@@MarySmith-lv3mo there are no strings attached as far as baby. In first responder training, you are told to ask if mom is ok, too. Unless it's deemed an emergency such as a 5150, she's in extreme pain, bleeding profusely or something where it's involuntary that medical staff intervene. Never knew her name. Guessed her approximate age. Don't know where she was from. No questions about baby - just mom and her personal care which is not only allowed but grounds for termination and loss of license if you aren't asking how another person is when there are signs to ask certain questions.
What nauseated me was that they played the video of the car sinking with the camera in the back with the jury out of the courtroom and again WITH the jury in the courtroom. When the jury was OUT she didn’t really pay attention to the video, she played tic tac toe with her lawyer, she talked her lawyer and laughed... you get it. She was unaffected by it. When the jury came back and they replayed the video the crocodile tears came back. She’s a true sociopath
@@kalel311superman9 God - it feels like just yesterday the case unfolded. I remember my stomach dropping when the sheriff announced "two counts of murder." I hope she never gets out.
The line that hit me the most is when she told her friend "I wonder what life would be like if I didnt have kids," because a real mom would say " I couldn't imagine life without my kids"
I think it’s actually totally normal for moms to wonder that. Raising kids is tough and even the best moms are going to have bad days when maybe they think “What if my life had turned out differently?” But I think for normal moms-as opposed to sick and monstrous ones like Susan-that moment is just a moment. And it passes.
Don’t let’s forget that it was pitch black in October when this happened and the temperature of that water was probably icy cold what a truly terrifying death for anyone let alone children! Truly evil.
@@jamielehman4934 Warm or cold, the terror those little boys were feeling is unimaginable. They wouldn't have lived long once they were under the water. When they said a hand was pressed up against the window when the car was found, just about killed me.
In David Smith's book he says how what sealed his mind, beyond any doubt, that Susan meant for the kids to drown is when they found the car the emergency lights were still on meaning she could see it when it was sinking in the water and made no attempt to run after it as she wasn't even wet when she ran to the neighbors house. I never believed her "botched suicide" story. If you really wanted to save them, even if you couldn't see the car, you'd at least jump into the water and try as hard as you could to find the car and get them out. So wicked. Even if she didn't want the kids, she didn't have to drown them. They could have stayed with their dad and been perfectly happy.
Exactly like i dont get why she didn’t just continue with the separation and give david primary custody so she could go have her child free life and get a boyfriend. But no, she chose the cruelest possible “solution” in her mind
@@marbles9176 My guess is that in her warped mind, giving up custody would make her look like a bad mother. She probably thought she'd get away with drowning them and would have sympathy and support from the community. Of course, as it turns out, she would have looked a lot better if she had just let David have the kids.
And the SADDEST part of all, was that her kids were so cute and innocent too... I shure wished I could be a father someday and have a nice pair of sons just like them. I'd be willing to risk my own life just to save those kids! 😞
@@bettywiendels5714 Steve Harvey did a stand-up routine on this. He said that this woman (I'm not going to call her a "mother") looked at the news cameras and pretended to cry. No real tears, nothing. He also said something that every parent will understand...there were no bruises on her, no cuts, scrapes, etc... In his words, which I absolutely love, "You can't take a real mother's kids"without a fight. My kids are teenagers now, but if anyone even thought of doing something when they were babies (and even now - both are on the autism spectrum and my younger son has terminal cancer) You would find chunks of the guy under my fingernails. And those chunks would be the only part of him the police would find. After seeing a talk show that focused on a "mother" who saw her husband molesting her own daughter and walked away, my son asked me what I would do. He asked if I would call the cops. I said "no." We have a justice system, but it is very flawed. The creep would get a fair trial, and the jury would have sympathy because his grandma didn't bake him enough cookies when he was a kid. My way of looking at it - it doesn't take long to dig a hole in the ground and bullets are cheep. I'm a "real mom" who would do whatever it takes to protect my kids.
@@neillp3827 There _was_ no black man involved *at all.* Susan made that story up to try and throw everybody (the public, police, investigators, etc...) off track and divert suspicion away from herself.
@@morganjanelle4282 yeah he got away Scott free in his little hat. I know no black man was prosecuted, but I would have rested easier had they got ome off the streets
My son was born the day this happened. I remember seeing this on tv n holding my newborn son and felt my heart breaking bc I could not imagine loosing my child
I am adamantly opposed to the death penalty, but it's absurd to argue that someone shouldn't get it because they want to die. Punishments are supposed to fit crimes, not the will of criminals.
Susan claimed that she tried to get the car back when she realized that she didn't take Michael and Alex out of the car as it sunk in but the car got away from her. Bullshit. I do remember at least one person saying that they didn't like the Prosecution implying that Susan could have gotten the car out of the lake on her own. They pointed out that it was DARK when Susan allowed the car to roll into John D Lake and she was alone, so even if she had a change of heart and regretted letting her innocent babies roll helplessly into the lake, no way would she have been able to get the car back in the dark and alone.
when i saw her on the couch with her husband , asking to bring back her kids , she wasn’t shedding a tear and talked fine , told my wife right then she did it . she looked back at me and just said yeah .
Let alone, she never looks at the camera during these Interviews. That's a sign of guilt I hope that SS will someday come too the Lord & ask for forgiveness & turn too Him. Her precious boys are with the Lord & they're happy. For the former things have passed away, all things are new. They went straight into Jesus arms when they passed & that's the only comfort we can have Is knowing they're with the Lord now & they're both playing & are happy ❤
I now live in the state this took place, and I still consider this the coldest, most horrible crime that happened here. I’m a mom of a 3-year old, and Michael and Alex would have been close to my age. I couldn’t imagine how scared Michael and Alex were. Imagine being strapped in your car seat, doors locked, windows closed not being able to get out of the car and then not being able to swim at all, and being in the dark. Basically having every obstacle blocking you with no chance of escape, rescue, or survival. This monster should never be released. Note: I commented on this video before but had to create a new channel. This case still haunts me.
@@christinab2630 exactly girl that bullshit burns me up they blatantly holla a black man when a blackman is nowhere in sight!!!! Karen you're just evil!
In a now deleted video of this, a Poster wrote something like,"If this was truly a Suicide attempt and she backed out at the last minute, she would have gotten her babies out of the car soon after she was out and taken them home with her." Good point.
If it was a suicide attempt...she could've sent the boys with their father or grandparents & then took herself out. Taking them with her wouldn't have made any sense, especially knowing how much David loved his boys. That was a res flag for me & I was 14 at the time.
When all this happened my husband and another couple were eating dinner at a sports bar with the tv blaring. Both husbands were so sympathetic to the mother. My girlfriend both said at the same time “ this is bs. No mother would ever leave her children “!
@@kenterminateddq5311 Yup...have you heard of Mitchell Blair??...killed two of her kids && put their bodies in a deep freezer......had them there for like 2 years......and get this....she says she wouldn't change anything..smh
@@lisatryme3518 The court decided to sentence her to 30 years with a chance for parole in prison, so she would always think of what she had done to her innocent sons. Maybe her request for parole will be denied anyway.
They recently interviewed the prosecuter because Smith is up for parole and he said people should see the father's testimony during the trial so they realize Susan should never be released.
That and throughout the whole interview she only talked about herself. She never once mentioned what her boys might be feeling or going through. I oppose the death penalty but that monster should have faced the same fate that she forced on her innocent babies 😭
@@laur131306 as long as people who commit murder don’t have to face death themselves the crime rate will continue to be high !! If justice was swift like within 6 months of your arrest then and only then will numbers decrease !! It has to be every single state not just a few !! If you commit a capital crime then you should have to answer for it with your own life !!!
How could you drown your own kids! How? I just don’t understand how you could EVER make your kids suffer terrified like that.. they were crying for her to save them I know it..
Have you heard about the Chris Watts case? He smothered his two little daughters (3 and 4 years old) and dumped their bodies in huge oil tanks out in a field/ranch. He also strangled his PREGNANT wife prior to that and buried her in a shallow grave on the same site.
I get mad when a parent hurts their child by killing shooting them. I remember first hearing this when i was 11 years old i was devastated no child should be hurt horribly Diane down shot 3 kids and one died. Susan Smith drowned her two children Andrea Yates drown her five children. Which devastates me. Im glad Susan Smith ex husband had another baby with his new wife
Andrea Yates was coerced to have more and more children despite how ill it made her. She's very ill, NOT evil. Rusty Yates is the one who made Andrea kill her children, but he gets to walk.
Yes, her ex hubby David is happily married to another woman and even gained 2 kids, but he NEVER forgets his older late sons who are constantly in his thoughts. Saw him on Dr. Oz show a couple of years ago.
@@bettywiendels5714 I read that David's Father was worried that David was going to commit Suicide because David had become deeply depressed after Michael and Alex were drowned by his ex wife. Thank God David didn't commit Suicide. That would have made this whole tragic case even more sad.
But you have to wonder… Andrea Yates husband knew she suffered from Mental issues … why did he keep getting her pregnant? That was selfishness on his part.
I'm from Greenville SC and I remember this because I was 12yrs old when this happened. My dad said that every BLACK MAN was considered a suspect in every way. Racial tension was rising very hard especially because of the O.J. Simpson trial.
Selma Omer I remember the prosecutor in response to the amount of time it took for that car to sink : 6 min . That’s a long time to be crying for mama. She’s a monster .
@@korihagerud4624 _Years_ ago, I saw an interview (I _want_ to say on Oprah? I _think)_ with one of the investigators, and he said that when they pulled the car out of the lake, Michael & Alex were *holding hands.* Finding that out, broke my heart into a million pieces. Regarding those 6 minutes it took the car to sink (smh 🥺😢) ....I looked it up and when a person is drowning, it takes approximately 2 -3 minutes to lose consciousness and 5-10 minutes to die.
@@korihagerud4624 You're so right, Kori. ✔😢 I'm sure that _somewhere,_ there is (or _was) a photo_ of the boys holding hands when they pulled the car out, _but_ it was never released to the public. (Thank goodness 💔) but ever since I heard that (shortly after Susan was arrested), I have never been able to get that image out of my head. Also, the video clip of the boys' dad sobbing uncontrollably after his sons' funeral.
Totally heartbreaking that Susan’s boys drowned, holding hands. 😭 She is one of the worst mothers I have ever known. Chose her snobby, rich boyfriend Tom Findlay over her totally innocent sons who loved and depended on her.
I could never forget this case. I had just finished work and I went to my friends for lunch. She turned on the radio and as soon as I heard the story, I said, "she did it.
I will never forget this story. I worked in a communications department at the time and this one manager stated from the beginning that she was not telling the truth. I hope she is suffering daily. She’s a MONSTER
@@aprilhinds1827 I heard she regretted killing Michael and Alex when she realized Tom STILL didn't come back to her and realized she killed her Babies for NOTHING!
@@MarySmith-lv3mo I know Tom did not love Susan and her boys. Susan is one of the stupidest women that I have ever known! She obviously did not realize her innocent, beautiful sons really loved and depended on her totally. If still alive, they would have been 30 and 28 by now. Too bad, she will never have grandkids to spoil. I am very lucky to be a mom of one and a grandma of 2.
I truly feel so sad for David Smith. You can tell that he is such a loving and devoted father who would have taken very good care of his two lovely sons. Susan Smith should spend the rest of her life in prison for killing those two wonderful boys.
I honestly think David shouldn't be placed on some kind of pedestal. While he played no part in the death of his sons, he was just as guilty of messing around and his crazy affair. Do not aim hate at me. I read the book, and my heart goes out to him. There were two people who made a mess of their young lives, and only one who chose this disgusting path.
@@putsie1974What on earth are you talking about? It’s perfectly reasonable to have sympathy for him. The fact that he had an affair is irrelevant. This woman deliberately drowned her children in a prolonged, diabolical manner. Of course people should feel for the husband, who had NO connection whatsoever to his wife. Comparing their lives here means nothing. She’s guilty as sin. He’s left without his children. Anger is justified.
@@Goldenwhatever there's always one out there who has to get up on their soap box. Did you forget that he was engaged to another lady when he first got Susan pregnant, and that ended so he could be with Susan? Yup, you adore this guy as much as you want.
This is one of those cases that have always and will always haunt me. I just cant imagine the horror those baby boys faced in their last moments. The video the court played of the reenactment, how long it took for that vehicle to become fully submerged. They saw their mom ditch them, they screamed for her, and they were found holding hands 💔 You will never be forgotten brave baby boys.
@@riverjordan2725 Omg 💔 I'm sure they did, such a slow way to go. Those babies had to be terrified. I feel bad for the people that had to get them out of there. I couldn't do a job like that. I'm sure it sticks with you forever.
@@jillybean9563 I agree with you. I'd be absolutely TERRIFIED if I were drowning in a lake, late at night, and I'm an ADULT, knocking on 40! 😩😱😬😳I can't imagine being only 3 or 14 months and drowning in a lake, late at night! 😱😬😳😩
@@riverjordan2725 Susan is so grotesque. Someone would have adopted them if she didnt want them. The Dad would have been there. What she did is uncognizable.
At her press conference her lying was written all over her face. While trying to cry, she fought to keep from grinning. How could anyone have missed it?
I remember my mom absolutely hating this woman during the case. She had 3 miscarriages before she had me and was so struck by the fact that a mother that was lucky enough to carry babies to term could just kill them, apart from the fact that it's already horrific. Especially for the love of a man.
Susan then realized that DAVID was the one she was meant to be with, he stuck by her side for 9 days whereas Tom basically ignored her. Susan wanted David back after it became obvious that Tom wasn't going to take her back.
She do look like a Karen, that will lie on black people . That's why so many of us are single and can't find a good man because of Susan's actions. Locking up our black men behind lies.
She lost every right to breathe the moment she chose a man over her own babies. No human being is capable of something like this. The boys final moment was probably screaming for mommy. How fucking heartless you have to be to do something like this. Susan needs to live a long painful escruciating life to redemp her sins
Yep, if she had merely ended up chasing a worthless man who dumped her would have been bad enough, but she killed her Babies over him..She was evil, mean, selfish, and a Bitch to kill her babies for some man!
Especially over a man who didn't want her. Sure, he didn't want kids & she had kids. She thought that was why he didn't want to fool with her anymore. But she wasn't grasping the concept that he kept trying to tell her...which was the fact that he didn't want her. She was a good time gal around the office. He didn't want a long-term relationship with her. He didn't want her like she wanted him. It wasn't just the kids.
I remember at least one Person saying,"Tom was a Temporary Fling that was already over on Tom's side. Her Babies would have been a PERMANENT thing. She's an IDIOT for killing her Babies for a Temporary Fling that was already over!"
@@MarySmith-lv3mo you can read the letter Tom wrote to Susan on the internet. It's quite lengthy but interesting. She definitely didn't have her head on straight, even before she killed her boys.
@@suzyworster8193 Shame she only focused on the,"I don't want kids," part. She ignored the parts about him wanting to be with her until she cheated on him by kissing a married man in a hot tub and how she needed to stop being a ho and focus on bettering herself if she wanted to get a nice guy. He said something like,"Nice girls don't kiss married men in hot tubs." He strongly implied the kissing the married man in the hot tub was the real reason he was dumping her and they would have dated longer had she not kissed that married man in a hot tub. Susan realized AFTER she killed Michael and Alex that Tom still didn't come back to her. She must have read the letter all the way through after killing Michael and Alex and finally understood that the kissing the married man in the hot tub was the real reason she got dumped because in her confession letter,she acknowledged that she hurt Tom very badly and he wasn't coming back to her.
On a now deleted video of Susan, Posters commented that if Susan REALLY was Suicidal, she wouldn't have been SMILING after her life in Prison Sentencing. She would have looked devastated and horrified...
19:59 Susan has to bite her lip and cover her face to hide her laughter. Watch closely. She also laughs when pleading to the public for her children's safe return.
@Donnell Okafor Donnell, people do what you can't imagine. Susan laughed the whole time searchers were looking for her children. Knowing full well they were wasting their time. The camera was able to capture it on film.
How many innocent black men are in jail because of trash like this....we already have it hard enough that's why God will not spare alot of Caucasians come judgement day....
Its mind boggling how mothers and fathers etc can go through with the killing of their children. Do they have remorse for their children or just pretending to?! Ty for uploading, Mom's been looking for this.
I think Susan started feeling real remorse her final interview. She looked more scared than smug. In her final interview, she acknowledged that People thought SHE had something to do with Michael and Alex's disappearance. She went from 😏 in the first interviews to 🥶 in her final interview.
I can't imagine returning home and seeing the children's photos, toys, beds, and clothing. Someone has to be completely unconsciousable to be able to do that.
When this case first came out, I could tell right away Susan was guilty, even before she was officially arrested. Who else sensed her guilt from the beginning? The two gorgeous angels are happily in heaven.
@@jasonmuller1199 you are so seriously stupid aren’t you (for lack of a better/harsher term for you), not only me you freaking moron, but many others also saw her guilt from the start, even before she officially confessed, did you ever see how she acted in front of the cameras? How she carried herself in the interviews/press conferences? She barely even cried (although when she tried to, it was also clear it wasn’t really a genuine cry because almost no tears were even seen), She didn’t presicley react nor carried herself in a way any other normal person would’ve under that kind of circumstance of suppsedly having two kids missing/kidnapped, and not only that, but her stories didn’t make sense nor added up either, one of them being that when she said that a black man had stole her car and just took off with the kids, give me a break, realistically, a carjacker would just want to take the car and get everyone out of there, they wouldn’t take anybody with them, let alone small kids, nobody is going to believe that horseshit of a African American guy carjacking a car and also taking off with two small white kids, among other things she said that also didn’t make much sense, really only a certified stupid dimwit like you wouldn’t be able to see nor sense that something was really off with that woman. it's also scary that some folks could also be such ignorant dumbasses.
@@QueenAlexis556I thought Jason's reply was weird too. I was just about to reply to him that instinct tells you when someone is guilty, but you already told him that.
My Mom looked ready to kick Susan's ass for murdering Michael and Alex! My mom's face looked like 😡🤬 My Mom had a three year old son herself, meaning Michael was the same age as my younger brother. I personally remember thinking even at 10 that it was weird that Susan let someone hijack her car with Michael and Alex in it and didn't fight him off or something like that. If I had Babies, I'd fight someone who wants to carjack my car with my babies inside!
This is one of the most tragic and heartbreaking cases I have ever heard. I am so sick of child killers putting the blame on their childhood for their actions. “I was molested, I was abandoned, I was physically abused, I had several step parents, we moved a lot, my parents committed suicide, my parents never loved me, and I didn’t had the greatest childhood.” Susan Smith will officially go on as one of the most hated not only women, but as one of the most hated mothers in the USA along with Casey Anthony. Susan was a heartless, selfish, lying, cheating, narcissistic psychopath. She cheated on David with several men including a wealthy man who doesn’t want to be with her and doesn’t want children. Susan hated being a mother and she hates living in a middle class family. She had a breakdown and she drove her car along with her sons to the lake where they drowned and she puts the blame on a black man. She’s now in prison and I hope that she never gets out when she is eligible for parole in 2024.
To be fair, you seem to be mixing up two different posts , but very similar posts from two different people. One Poster on here was the one who said something like,"I'm sick of Child killers blaming their bad childhood on their bad actions! I was molested, I was abandoned, I was physically abused, I had several Stepfathers, we moved around a lot, I didn't have a good childhood either, but I don't go around breaking the law and hurting people!" Someone else something like,"I watched my Father shoot a man in his face when I was a child and I STILL wouldn't even think about murdering my own Babies. Bad childhood pasts aren't a good reason for people to do bad things, they just use them as miserable excuses."
Yep, those Mothers hugging their babies were understandably devastated that a Mother Murdered her own Babies and couldn't imagine Murdering their own babies.
Fortunately, very little of that happened. How many black guys drive that specific vehicle, or look like that? For various reasons, police (most people) suspected her story from the very beginning. It just didn't ring true.
@@royrichardson9164 .. Yes, in SC. I was there at the time (in the military) and everyone, everywhere (stores, restaurants, bars, etc), was talking about it - opening questioning and doubting her story. Damn few believed her. Even the police, on the second day, made her take a lie detector test, which she failed. She was wrong to point a finger at a black man, but nobody was buying it.
A real Mother would have held onto the car like Halle Berry's character did in Kidnapped when her son got into the car with kidnappers. She got roughed up because she fell off the car. Susan should have at least looked roughed up.
I remember this very well. I was a sophomore in HS in MD in 1994 and remember when this story broke about the missing children and I remember my mother and I speculating that the mother might have been involved in their disappearances and possible deaths. How I wanted for us to be wrong and for the little boys to be alive and well. I never understood if she didn't want her children, why didn't she just let their father raise them? I really hope and pray that she doesn't get parole in a few years. I don't think she'd find life on the outside any better. May God bless little Michael and Alex and their father.
I have read that Inmates at Leath Correctional Facility pretend to be Michael and Alex and say stuff like,"Mommy, help us! We're drowning in the dark and cold water and scared! Save us! We love you!" She 100 percent deserves that!
It’s so awful because her kids went into the cold dark icy October lake knowing even as a 3 year old or infant at least 3 you can comprehend your own mother betrayed you and left you to fall into the water to die. Michael held Alex’s hand when found he may have been 3 but he could understand it was terrible and he was in deep trouble and was going to die and Alex. That’s why he held his hand there was no way of getting out they were forced to drown to death as the car kept sinking with them in it. It makes me cry I live in Union I’ve been to John D fishing at night water is freezing even during the summer months and I always think of them and I can feel their spirit when I go at night. It’s eerie
There are People who doubt that the Babies were holding hands since Michael's hand was pressed against the window. They must have forgotten Michael has TWO hands. One hand could have been pressed against the window and one hand could have been holding Alex's hand.
It's now 2024 and Susan Smith's parole hearing is coming up rather quickly in November of this year; fortunately David Smith has vowed to appear at the hearing and make sure that Susan is kept in prison for the rest of her life.
I was only 9 when this hit the news. I didn't quite understand what was going on and my mom had to sit me down and tell me everything. I was curious and then I just cried and hugged my mom. And I cant believe that a MOTHER could do this and how terrified those kids had to be
omg can you imagine how the cops were just randomly stopping black 35ish year old men and just invading their cars looking for babies? and NONE OF IT WAS TRUE!!!!
@@PatrickJ12334I was 14 at the time & the moment she opened her mouth, I knew she was lying. It was her voice that made me believe instantly...that she was lying & guilty. It was her voice.
Okay I came back a week later after I read Beyond All Reason by David Smith. There were SO MANY details that were left out of the media coverage. Like the fact that Susan knew EXACTLY where the car was in the lake, as if she’d watched it sink. Not to mention after they winched the car out of the lake, when they righted the car the parking lights came on. David wondered if Susan had left the parking lights on to make sure it sank.
I remember this! I was 14, I remember seeing it on the news and thinking she was a fake! My mom also didn’t believe her. I remember when it was finally discovered that she did it and that morning my mom was watching the news broadcasts saying she had done it! I was getting ready for school and my mom was downstairs watching, all I heard was “ that BITCH! I knew it!! I knew she did it!!!!
I remember being at my mil's house and i had a 2 yr old at the time, i watched her on the news crying with absolutely no tears whatsoever. I told my mil..she is lying..I would be going out of my freaking mind if those were my kids. And i was right, crocodile tears.
Ill never forget this i was 12 years old. We went to the sight where she killed them . It was awful and all I could think was yet another black man accused. Wtf.
No matter WHAT happened in smith's life, the kids didn't deserve to pay for it. She lied,, and would've continued to lie if not for a good interrogator. Stupid jurors let the boys down
If Smith had a more aggressive interrogator, like Casey Anthony had, she would still stick to her story. I believe Smith even failed a lie detector test.
This case still haunts me. Those poor babies. Those poor babies. I feel so bad for them and their poor Dad. I remember my older sister asking about him some years after the crime (she didn't know he had remarried and had two more children by then). We were glad he was able to move on, even though we know how much it still hurts him. It just shows how far affecting this case was; we were only 10 and 11 when this case happened. Also, it's not mentioned here, but she also had her wedding photos and maternity clothing in the trunk. She didn't just murder her children: she tried to erase their memories.
She won't be. She hasn't been a model prisoner when she got there. She has committed many disciplinary actions during her sentence if you look at her record. She has zero chance of ever being released.
@@jcorone2000 She decided to turn her life around now that her Parole year is only THREE YEARS away.. It's been reported she's on VERY good behavior....
@@MarySmith-lv3mo Yes she has been on good behavior since 2015 till now probably because of her advanced age but from when she got in prison in the mid 90s-to the mid 2010s. She hasn't been on good behavior and had sex multiple times with two guards, mutilated herself, drug usage, having sex with other inmates and other disciplinary violations. The parole board will look at her behavior during her stay in prison and the nature of her crime she went to prison for before making their decisions on whether to parole or not. Based on that. She has below zero chance of parole. Even if she was a model prisoner since the day she was sentenced till her parole hearing in a couple years. Child killers especially multiple child killers especially baby and or toddler age kid killers which her kids were at the time of their deaths by their mother has less than zero chance of release. I would be absolutely shocked if she ever gets paroled and released from prison.
@@jcorone2000 David said he will be at every Parole Hearing for her to demand them to keep her locked up for good for killing their Sons and lying for 9 days claiming some Black man carjacked the car and drove away with the Babies. I don't know if he will still demand that she remain locked up for good considering he recently said he forgave her for killing their Babies....
@@MarySmith-lv3mo It doesn't matter if DAVID is there at the hearing or not. Like I said the parole board looks at the nature and seriousness of the crime committed and her behavior the entire time behind bars before making their decisions to grant parole or not to grant parole. Knowing all they know about her time behind bars and her killing a toddler and a baby. They will never ever release her into FREE society. Her one and only way out of prison is if she has a deadly condition and has a few days or a few hours to live while on her death bed. Nothing else. Even that they still might let her die at the women's prison hospital. She's doomed. A serial or mass killer of adults has a better chance of parole than child killers.
This is a heartbreaking case. I understand that being a mother can be hard at times, especially with postpartum/depression. Those are serious illnesses that need to be properly treated. I also understand that a horrible childhood can damage a person, both physically and mentally, especially if there are things left unhandled. However, I'm also aware of the fact that there are plenty of mothers who go through severe depression/postpartum who would never inflict any kind of pain on their child(ren) whatsoever. There are also plenty of people who had seriously horrible childhoods who were able to recover and become happy, prosperous and successful adults. Also, I can't post this without mentioning the racism in Susan's story. It wasn't random. She told the police the “kidnapper” was a black man because she thought they would be more likely to believe her, implying that a black man would be more likely to commit the crime than anyone else, even though, in reality, it was a white woman. People really need to stop associating crime with people of color. It is highly offensive and unbearably painful. The truth is that Susan Smith stood there for six minutes, watching her helpless children become submerged in a lake and drown. The fear the children felt must've been unimaginable. I'm sure they were screaming and crying out for Susan and David. To me, there's nothing that justifies forcing your children to go through any part of that. Lastly, I feel terrible for her family, especially David. He believed her, supported her and stood by her, and then she exposed her lies and confessed that she murdered their babies. I cannot imagine the excruciating pain and betrayal he must have felt. Overall, Susan Smith received the punishment she deserved, in my opinion, because, like her own attorney said, she will have to think about it and live with it for the rest of her life. To Michael and Alexander: May they rest peacefully and painlessly in Heaven with God, surrounded by more love and joy than anyone could ever imagine. God bless you all.
I remember this so well. I was 11 years old and me and my father was watching it on the news. My father said to me "I don't see any tears, she's lying." I really didn't know what to think. He was right!!
I'll never understand how she didn't get the death penalty. How was it a "botched suicide attempt" when she intentionally put on the emergency brake to save herself only, but then intentionally took it back off a few seconds later to murder the kids?? Sounds to me like a perfectly executed plan of action to murder the kids and save herself in the process.
Not a single tear. Poor babies and poor daddy. He stood by the murderer of his boys. He must've been devastated to find out his sons were left in the hands of a monster! Sleep sweetly in Jesus' arms baby boys. 😭😭🙏
Susan will answer to God when she leaves this Earth. RUclips guidelines say to be respectful in comments....Susan Smith should have been respectful to her children
I'm different, Michelle. When I see David on an interview, I'm ANGRY FOR HIM! The mother of his kids did what she did to them? Honestly, I would've hunt after Susan with a shotgun.
@@yvettedragonIn David's defense, he had NO IDEA that Susan was going to murder Michael and Alex. David said he 100 percent believed Susan was carjacked. He said in a much more recent interview that the ONLY thing Susan said to him that was plain weird was,"Of, I mean, WHEN we get Michael and Alex back,do you think we can be a Family again? Tom was like,"I wondered why Susan at first said,"If," at first implying there was a chance that we might never get Michael and Alex back. I always assumed we would get Michael and Alex back, so her "If," was just plain weird to me. " Susan always seemed like a GOOD Mother. Even Tom Findlay said something like,"I didn't know Susan was going to murder Michael and Alex. She seemed like a good Mother for them. "
So many other options 🤦♀️. Her ex would have taken them. Grandparents probably would have taken them. No, she chose to kill them. So sick of these so called parents killing their own because they either want a fresh start or because the person they're interested in doesn't want kids. How about putting your children first? Like a parent is supposed to do. My daughter will always come before me and anybody else. Especially when it comes to her life. These people are not parents. They shouldn't have kids to begin with.
The children always come first before the men as the men come and go while the children love you forever. After all, I am a proud mother of one and a loving grandma of 2. I will never understand Susan Smith who tried to commit suicide and ended up killing her totally innocent boys who loved her and depended on her. Her snobby rich ex boyfriend Tom Findlay did not want her beautiful boys and did not love her, either. If he really loved her, he would have welcomed her boys with open arms. Obviously, Susan was totally unstable and not fit to be a mother. I am sure David would be more than willing to take their boys.
@@kenterminateddq5311 I've seen a new report, it's possible that Scott did not kill laci. Over a dozen people claimed to see a pregnant woman havung the same description of laci and her dog in the neighborhood, during the time that Scott had already left the house.
Absolutely. At the very moment she climbed out of the car, her instinct for self-preservation kicked in. It's just a pity she didn't extend that same courtesy to her two children: three-year old Michael and 14 month old Alexander.
Smiling and laughing in this situation is so bizarre, but it makes me wonder if it’s any coincidence that her sociopathic personality also has that weird disorder of smiling and laughing when severe stress occurs??
They argued that her life was hard? Okay... I'm missing memory from the age of 8 years old past that time. Literally only a few minor memories. My mother was a opioid addict, and my father was a no show. I treat my two young kids to express their emotions, to talk to myself and their dad. They trust us completely. Just because you had a rough past, that doesn't define you. Just like the lady said in the video: "any mother who could drown her babies, there ain't nothing to her". And she's beyond correct. Mental health is of essence. But to use your past as an excuse to murder your babies? You're not a mother. You're a monster. The fact that she could get out of prison in two years... It's sickening.
I remember someone saying something like,"After Susan dies and is burning in Hell, she's going to look up at Heaven and see Michael and Alex playing happily with God while she's burning in Hell."
One of the things that cinched it for me was at 12:30, when Susan said: "I loved them, I really did." My lights went on immediately. PAST TENSE!! I knew then they were dead. I said: "Past tense, they're dead!"
@@kenterminateddq5311It's like when Chris Watts revealed that his eldest daughter Bella was due to start Kindergarten. The key word is "was" even while he was "begging" for the safe return of Shannan, Bella and Celeste. In my opinion Court TV reporter Ashleigh Banfield hit the nail on the head when she described Chris as a "lying cheating horror show." While a lot of people believed that Chris should have received the Death Penalty; it was the decision of Shannan's parents Sandra and Frank Rzucek Senior to spare Chris' life via a plea bargain. That and the fact that the court system of Colorado seldom if ever pursued the Death Penalty against criminal defendants.
She was denied parole days ago and had the nerve to have an attitude about it.
The words of David Smith’s father have stayed with me for years and years, asking if she at least was holding on to the car bumper because no parent would let someone take their kids and leave them without a fight. He was right on the money.
Totally agree! She wasn't bruised either and you would think, even if it was a long shot, that she'd have tried to have forced herself into the car or hold onto it to stop it which would have given her bruises and probably cuts too. She obviously had been in no fight for her kids.
And yet parents kill their children all the time🙄.
I didn’t know that until Susan Smith. I was in elementary school and this case was always on the news.
Prior to this, prior to Susan Smith, I had no idea that the mother could kill her children… It just never occurred to me.
@@spiralrose 300,000 unborn babies are killed by their mothers every year in America.
And him calling the jurors who refused to give her death "a county full of cowards". They were afraid of that pig stepfather of Susan's, in spite of him molesting her.
Indeed! 💯💯💯
The lawyer arguing that she had a tough life is crap. I grew up with alcoholism, abuse, and neglect. I watched my father shoot a man in the face when I was 8 years old. The past doesn’t make you kill your children. It gives you an excuse.
You are right! Sorry about your past. We all have crap; abuse, drugs, booze, family in prison. None of that has ever made me want to commit a crime or use it as an excuse to be evil
I feel for you..
I was molested by all my alcoholic mothers so called boyfriends..
I would never use that as an excuse.. I've learned that my mother was sick and didnt know what was happening.. I have 5 children and raised them on my own. I owe all that responsibility due to my great foster parents.
My dad had the worst life. He was raised by his grandparents very poor in London. He was the best father until he passed. A bad childhood is total bs and an excuse. If your childhood is that bad then make your adulthood the best you can.
I’m so sorry to hear about you troubled past. I hope that you’ve healed from that and are doing well. ❤️
I’m so sorry for the abuse you suffered that is horrible, unfortunately this happens in a lot of families and I believe it’s just getting worse, but your right it doesn’t give you an excuse for killing your children if she was that fucked up don’t have children period! You see it in the news it seems like everyday when a mom or dad or gf or bf kill their kids it’s absolutely horrible!
No matter how depressed I get, sad, overwhelmed or stressed… killing my children has NEVER even crossed my mind! How does a mother make that leap? It’s sickening.
IKR? I don't even have kids, and watching anything bad happen to Baby Yoda makes my maternal instincts so high!
Well be grateful for that
Same! I have three boys and have NEVER wanted to hurt them!
@@summer-c7i I don’t have kids either, but I’m a teacher and when I think of an any emergency situations, I feel I’d walk through a fire for them, other people’s kids.
This isn't about your kids now is it. All these b.s. help me comments aren't about you. It's about these 2 little boys, but kudos for trying to take the limelight, good job
Those babies would be 30 and 28 years old by now.
That hurts to think about. They'd probably be planning to get married and have kids. Their own "mother" ripped that away from them.
That’s crazy; I remember when this happened when I was 13 & now I’m 40 with 2 children of my own.
@@patrickc3419 I was 11 and even at 11 I questioned why Susan let some random stranger drive off with Michael and Alex as my own Mother wouldn't have let me and my brother get kidnapped by some random person...
I have thought about their ages too. When I can't sleep I read up on these cases. The other scum was Dianna Downs.
Really? That's hilarious 😂
I’m so sick of these child killers blaming their childhood on their actions! I was molested, I had several step-dads, we moved around a lot,…I did not have the greatest childhood either but I wouldn’t go around breaking the law and hurting people!
Some people are just evil or are psychopathic with zero empathy for others. The average person has too much empathy to hurt others.
Agreed. Abuse certainly can affect and change the personality. But if someone is good to the core and has a strong character, they do not let abuse turn them to evil; they fight against it.
I'm sick of all of them blaming black men for every crime in human history.
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@@Mont3000 your fucken telling me
When they say the divers saw a small hand pressed against the window it just completely shatters your heart.
That tore me apart 💔
@@breathej.4872 There is a lot of monsters out there walking right among us and sadly we don’t see em until it’s too late and tragedies like this happens.
That made me so sick. Poor babies
Those poor babies
I think I've heard they were holding hands too 😭
I believe when this happened, you were even able to drop babies and very young kids at police stations, hospitals and fire stations - no questions asked. It's utilized more than people believe. A local woman drove to the ER I was working at at the time and simply told the receptionist she didn't want her baby. Given how fresh (just a few hours old) that the baby boy was, we asked the mom if we could check her out to make sure she was alright. You could tell she was in a lot of pain and exhausted. Asked if we could give post birth care instructions and even supplies if she needed them. She didn't want that kind of help and left. No other questions asked.
Baby John Doe was taken to the nursery, totally healthy and did fine. When he was old enough for the state to take custody, he was taken in by them. At least he had a chance at life thanks to his birth mother. I pray he got a wonderful forever home!
Stories like this where a parent kills their own kids...for any reason but especially to spite the other parent or "have a better life" without kids is so sick. Children are not pawns.
I read somewhere that a Mother dropped off her baby at a Hospital Entrance, and left, and the Authorities wanted to investigate who the mother was but she had on a hoodie and sunglasses.
@@MarySmith-lv3mo they would have caught up if they moved and reviewed camera footage. It is not a huge ordeal to get an orphan baby - we're trained for that. And mom's well being but if mom appears as an adult with no immediate psych issues and no complaints of physical issues, she can leave. Again, no questions asked.
@@misfitbrit1989 I honestly thought the point of ANONYMOUS baby dropping off at a Hospital Entrance was so Mom who doesn't want her baby can drop him or her off with no strings attached...
@@MarySmith-lv3mo there are no strings attached as far as baby. In first responder training, you are told to ask if mom is ok, too. Unless it's deemed an emergency such as a 5150, she's in extreme pain, bleeding profusely or something where it's involuntary that medical staff intervene.
Never knew her name. Guessed her approximate age. Don't know where she was from. No questions about baby - just mom and her personal care which is not only allowed but grounds for termination and loss of license if you aren't asking how another person is when there are signs to ask certain questions.
The "safe baby" sites really weren't as common in the early 90s as they are now. After Susan, Andrea & Darlie...then they became more prevalent.
What nauseated me was that they played the video of the car sinking with the camera in the back with the jury out of the courtroom and again WITH the jury in the courtroom. When the jury was OUT she didn’t really pay attention to the video, she played tic tac toe with her lawyer, she talked her lawyer and laughed... you get it. She was unaffected by it.
When the jury came back and they replayed the video the crocodile tears came back.
She’s a true sociopath
Miss Moxie Where did that happen. Time stamp it.
Lisa Serene I read it in a book
It wasn’t in this documentary
@@LisaSerene rude ass way to ask for something you could find yourself
@@ErinJeanette LOVE LOVE LOVE your username ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@cathyblack5683 thank you 😊❤️
She should never be let out of prison.
I hope the parole gets denied.
She's no Sideshow Bob.
Set her up with Chris Watts.
i think she is eligible for parole in 2025 still i hope she never gets out
@@kalel311superman9 God - it feels like just yesterday the case unfolded. I remember my stomach dropping when the sheriff announced "two counts of murder." I hope she never gets out.
@@samanthasays3603 same here
The fact that she said a black man robbed her is beyond me.
She’s from a confederate state where the teach the civil war was only about states rights and the economy. What a surprise.
@@ryanmccarthy7858 that’s crazy
I remember a Poster saying she might have gotten away with it if she said a crazy Pedophile kidnapped the Babies.
@@jasonmuller1199 it’s not like a white man can go into a church and kill black people and still be alive.
@@jasonmuller1199 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
The line that hit me the most is when she told her friend "I wonder what life would be like if I didnt have kids," because a real mom would say " I couldn't imagine life without my kids"
I think it’s actually totally normal for moms to wonder that. Raising kids is tough and even the best moms are going to have bad days when maybe they think “What if my life had turned out differently?” But I think for normal moms-as opposed to sick and monstrous ones like Susan-that moment is just a moment. And it passes.
You so right my dear
@@fadedneverland6091 That's right I've heard that too. They actual dont kill there kids and be evil but it been said before
U got that right!
I also wonder would she have still killed them even if she hadn't been in that relationship with Thomas Finley
Don’t let’s forget that it was pitch black in October when this happened and the temperature of that water was probably icy cold what a truly terrifying death for anyone let alone children! Truly evil.
A horrible death poor little mites they must have been scared
Scary for those poor boys....
It was October in South Carolina. From what I hear the south is unbearably hot through November meaning the water was likely warm.
@@jamielehman4934 Warm or cold, the terror those little boys were feeling is unimaginable. They wouldn't have lived long once they were under the water. When they said a hand was pressed up against the window when the car was found, just about killed me.
@@jamielehman4934it's not blazing hot in November, who told you that lie
In David Smith's book he says how what sealed his mind, beyond any doubt, that Susan meant for the kids to drown is when they found the car the emergency lights were still on meaning she could see it when it was sinking in the water and made no attempt to run after it as she wasn't even wet when she ran to the neighbors house. I never believed her "botched suicide" story. If you really wanted to save them, even if you couldn't see the car, you'd at least jump into the water and try as hard as you could to find the car and get them out. So wicked. Even if she didn't want the kids, she didn't have to drown them. They could have stayed with their dad and been perfectly happy.
Precisely! She could have let David have custody of the babies. David was way too good looking of a guy for her! What was he thinking?
Exactly like i dont get why she didn’t just continue with the separation and give david primary custody so she could go have her child free life and get a boyfriend. But no, she chose the cruelest possible “solution” in her mind
@@marbles9176 My guess is that in her warped mind, giving up custody would make her look like a bad mother. She probably thought she'd get away with drowning them and would have sympathy and support from the community. Of course, as it turns out, she would have looked a lot better if she had just let David have the kids.
@@QueenAlexis556 Funny I thought same thing! Handsome! I know he will fight her parole 2024! I need to buy his book about her. Keep her in prison!
And the SADDEST part of all, was that her kids were so cute and innocent too... I shure wished I could be a father someday and have a nice pair of sons just like them. I'd be willing to risk my own life just to save those kids! 😞
I love when fake grieving people fake cry in interviews. They close their eyes, and mimic the sound of crying.. but no tears fall.
In the interview on the couch, there are tears in Susan's eyes.....
Sometimes the 'crying' sounds a bit like laughing !
@@MarySmith-lv3mo If that is the case, the tears weren’t for her two children but for herself.
@@LaPlaztiqueincluding for Thomas Finley
@@INDLIS AGREED!
Those poor babies probably thought “Mommy, why aren’t you helping us”? 🙁
So sad...😭😔
To sad for me
Susan could’ve given her children away to their father or to a grandparent- anything other than what she actually did!!😓
But that would make her a bad mother (while giving a sarcastic gasp).
I've known mothers to kill their children to spite their father.
@@BruteStrength99 Sadly, u are right.
@@kenterminateddq5311 the world we live in
@@BruteStrength99 parents who kill the children to spite the other parent , true
That poor father. I can’t even imagine
I remember the morning news, when they reported that she failed the polygraph test, and my mom said, "she did something." My heart sank.
I had an instinct that Susan was guilty. I was right all along.
@@bettywiendels5714 Steve Harvey did a stand-up routine on this. He said that this woman (I'm not going to call her a "mother") looked at the news cameras and pretended to cry. No real tears, nothing. He also said something that every parent will understand...there were no bruises on her, no cuts, scrapes, etc... In his words, which I absolutely love, "You can't take a real mother's kids"without a fight. My kids are teenagers now, but if anyone even thought of doing something when they were babies (and even now - both are on the autism spectrum and my younger son has terminal cancer) You would find chunks of the guy under my fingernails. And those chunks would be the only part of him the police would find. After seeing a talk show that focused on a "mother" who saw her husband molesting her own daughter and walked away, my son asked me what I would do. He asked if I would call the cops. I said "no." We have a justice system, but it is very flawed. The creep would get a fair trial, and the jury would have sympathy because his grandma didn't bake him enough cookies when he was a kid. My way of looking at it - it doesn't take long to dig a hole in the ground and bullets are cheep. I'm a "real mom" who would do whatever it takes to protect my kids.
@@bettywiendels5714 yeah ok 👌
@@samanthasays3603 REALLY insightful post! I'm baffled that it didn't get replied to until now! 🤔
Yes, she was guilty, but no one should assume guilt solely from a polygraph test. They’re notoriously unreliable.
Her crying was so fake and synthetic. It was obvious at that point that she was guilty.
She sounded like she was laughing she’s evil ,conniving,and very hateful.
It was cringing! Her crying was forced ugh! I can't take this woman! 😖
Just like you fake people in the comment section
Really trying to Blame a Blackman
I know they never caught him, I think he was the lover
Nile Horuseus Susan blamed it on a _black_ man because _that_ story was more believable *(according to the investigators.)*
@@neillp3827 There _was_ no black man involved *at all.* Susan made that story up to try and throw everybody (the public, police, investigators, etc...) off track and divert suspicion away from herself.
@@morganjanelle4282 yeah he got away Scott free in his little hat. I know no black man was prosecuted, but I would have rested easier had they got ome off the streets
They won't catch him now, he's probably changed his hat and he might look a bit older now, unless he got surgery
My son was born the day this happened. I remember seeing this on tv n holding my newborn son and felt my heart breaking bc I could not imagine loosing my child
When was this happen which year
When was this happen which year
I had nearly the same happen. My son’s News paper headlines were all about The Columbine Massacre. A heartbreak.
On the day of his birth, if I wasn’t clear about that.
Bea's world it happened back in 1994, like it says in the video
I am adamantly opposed to the death penalty, but it's absurd to argue that someone shouldn't get it because they want to die. Punishments are supposed to fit crimes, not the will of criminals.
The thought of those babies being strapped into that car while it slowly sunk is SO heartbreaking :'(
Susan claimed that she tried to get the car back when she realized that she didn't take Michael and Alex out of the car as it sunk in but the car got away from her. Bullshit.
I do remember at least one person saying that they didn't like the Prosecution implying that Susan could have gotten the car out of the lake on her own. They pointed out that it was DARK when Susan allowed the car to roll into John D Lake and she was alone, so even if she had a change of heart and regretted letting her innocent babies roll helplessly into the lake, no way would she have been able to get the car back in the dark and alone.
when i saw her on the couch with her husband , asking to bring back her kids , she wasn’t shedding a tear and talked fine , told my wife right then she did it .
she looked back at me and just said yeah .
During that interview I just kept looking at David and he had a look on his face that he knew Susan had something to do with it
@@QueenAlexis556I noticed that too.
Right and their dad looked blank and broken
Let alone, she never looks at the camera during these Interviews. That's a sign of guilt I hope that SS will someday come too the Lord & ask for forgiveness & turn too Him. Her precious boys are with the Lord & they're happy. For the former things have passed away, all things are new. They went straight into Jesus arms when they passed & that's the only comfort we can have Is knowing they're with the Lord now & they're both playing & are happy ❤
I now live in the state this took place, and I still consider this the coldest, most horrible crime that happened here. I’m a mom of a 3-year old, and Michael and Alex would have been close to my age.
I couldn’t imagine how scared Michael and Alex were. Imagine being strapped in your car seat, doors locked, windows closed not being able to get out of the car and then not being able to swim at all, and being in the dark. Basically having every obstacle blocking you with no chance of escape, rescue, or survival. This monster should never be released.
Note: I commented on this video before but had to create a new channel. This case still haunts me.
Let’s not forget about all the Black men harassed and arrested over her LIE
@Kel Mel right smh
Exactly those cops won't be man enough to apologize to the black community. All we will get is We were just doing our job.
Thank god that no black man in this case lost their life or freedom because of this woman crying wolf.
@@christinab2630 exactly girl that bullshit burns me up they blatantly holla a black man when a blackman is nowhere in sight!!!! Karen you're just evil!
Let’s not forget those babies okay!
She never dropped a tear.. disgusting
Interesting how your expression in your Avatar matches your feelings in this post.
I think Susan is hot 🤷🏻♂️
In a now deleted video of this, a Poster wrote something like,"If this was truly a Suicide attempt and she backed out at the last minute, she would have gotten her babies out of the car soon after she was out and taken them home with her." Good point.
If it was a suicide attempt...she could've sent the boys with their father or grandparents & then took herself out. Taking them with her wouldn't have made any sense, especially knowing how much David loved his boys. That was a res flag for me & I was 14 at the time.
When all this happened my husband and another couple were eating dinner at a sports bar with the tv blaring. Both husbands were so sympathetic to the mother. My girlfriend both said at the same time “ this is bs. No mother would ever leave her children “!
There is no greater evil in the world than that of a mother that chooses to take the life that came from her.
Sadly, it's happening A LOT. :(
I can think of variety of more evil acts actually
@@kenterminateddq5311 Yup...have you heard of Mitchell Blair??...killed two of her kids && put their bodies in a deep freezer......had them there for like 2 years......and get this....she says she wouldn't change anything..smh
@@virgoqueen0911 WTF? That might be worse than Diane Downs. :(
@@kenterminateddq5311 Yea...it was bad...look it up...then look up her court interviews....she talks like she doesn't gaf !!
Her "crying" sounds like she's almost laughing... Eerie.
I'm surprised Casey Anthony never had a fake cry like Smith.
When she is supposedly "crying," I noticed there were NO TEARS rolling down her cheeks.
Susan IS laughing.
@@raynekimi2755 When I first watched this I noticed the exact same thing. This sicko got off easy with life in prison.
@@lisatryme3518 The court decided to sentence her to 30 years with a chance for parole in prison, so she would always think of what she had done to her innocent sons. Maybe her request for parole will be denied anyway.
Definitely was a Black woman that yelled “YOU NEED TO CRY!” @18:46
Yep, she's definitely black! 😈 I wonder where that woman who said that is today and how she feels having her voice immortalized in this very video. 😈
my heart breaks for the father. shoulda been an all black jury.
Agreed
You have a good point,to say it was a black man, terrible.
I'll do you one better. It should have been an all black male jury. 😈
They recently interviewed the prosecuter because Smith is up for parole and he said people should see the father's testimony during the trial so they realize Susan should never be released.
Her story stunk from the being. The closed eye interview solidified for me.
Yeap! And I didn’t see any tears 😭
That and throughout the whole interview she only talked about herself. She never once mentioned what her boys might be feeling or going through. I oppose the death penalty but that monster should have faced the same fate that she forced on her innocent babies 😭
@@laur131306 as long as people who commit murder don’t have to face death themselves the crime rate will continue to be high !! If justice was swift like within 6 months of your arrest then and only then will numbers decrease !! It has to be every single state not just a few !! If you commit a capital crime then you should have to answer for it with your own life !!!
I thought she was lying from the start, but I was still shocked when the news came out that she murdered her children.
How could you drown your own kids! How? I just don’t understand how you could EVER make your kids suffer terrified like that.. they were crying for her to save them I know it..
Well you live in Texas. Ask Andrea Yates
@@BruteStrength99 ooh burn! Lol good one
@@BruteStrength99 Andrea Yates suffered a psychotic brakedown, that's a very different story... So sad!
Then thinking about the fish and other nasty underwater parasite eating off those poor babies for 10 days smh makes me so sad
Have you heard about the Chris Watts case? He smothered his two little daughters (3 and 4 years old) and dumped their bodies in huge oil tanks out in a field/ranch. He also strangled his PREGNANT wife prior to that and buried her in a shallow grave on the same site.
I get mad when a parent hurts their child by killing shooting them.
I remember first hearing this when i was 11 years old i was devastated no child should be hurt horribly
Diane down shot 3 kids and one died. Susan Smith drowned her two children
Andrea Yates drown her five children. Which devastates me. Im glad Susan Smith ex husband had another baby with his new wife
Andrea Yates was coerced to have more and more children despite how ill it made her. She's very ill, NOT evil. Rusty Yates is the one who made Andrea kill her children, but he gets to walk.
Don't put Andrea Yates into the same category. She asked for help and didn't receive it!
Yes, her ex hubby David is happily married to another woman and even gained 2 kids, but he NEVER forgets his older late sons who are constantly in his thoughts. Saw him on Dr. Oz show a couple of years ago.
@@bettywiendels5714 I read that David's Father was worried that David was going to commit Suicide because David had become deeply depressed after Michael and Alex were drowned by his ex wife. Thank God David didn't commit Suicide. That would have made this whole tragic case even more sad.
But you have to wonder… Andrea Yates husband knew she suffered from Mental issues … why did he keep getting her pregnant? That was selfishness on his part.
Oh man, the nostalgia of Bill Curtis's voice and American Justice. Thank You for uploading this KenTerminatedDQ😊
I Always loved his voice .. very rich & soothing
I'm from Greenville SC and I remember this because I was 12yrs old when this happened. My dad said that every BLACK MAN was considered a suspect in every way. Racial tension was rising very hard especially because of the O.J. Simpson trial.
that is horrible what a stupid lady
The amount of confusion and suffering those babies went through is what makes me so sad and angry 😢
Selma Omer I remember the prosecutor in response to the amount of time it took for that car to sink : 6 min . That’s a long time to be crying for mama. She’s a monster .
@@korihagerud4624 _Years_ ago, I saw an interview (I _want_ to say on Oprah? I _think)_ with one of the investigators, and he said that when they pulled the car out of the lake, Michael & Alex were *holding hands.* Finding that out, broke my heart into a million pieces.
Regarding those 6 minutes it took the car to sink (smh 🥺😢) ....I looked it up and when a person is drowning, it takes approximately 2 -3 minutes to lose consciousness and 5-10 minutes to die.
@@morganjanelle4282 God that’s awful 😢
@@korihagerud4624 You're so right, Kori. ✔😢
I'm sure that _somewhere,_ there is (or _was) a photo_ of the boys holding hands when they pulled the car out, _but_ it was never released to the public. (Thank goodness 💔) but ever since I heard that (shortly after Susan was arrested), I have never been able to get that image out of my head. Also, the video clip of the boys' dad sobbing uncontrollably after his sons' funeral.
Totally heartbreaking that Susan’s boys drowned, holding hands. 😭 She is one of the worst mothers I have ever known. Chose her snobby, rich boyfriend Tom Findlay over her totally innocent sons who loved and depended on her.
I could never forget this case. I had just finished work and I went to my friends for lunch. She turned on the radio and as soon as I heard the story, I said, "she did it.
I will never forget this story. I worked in a communications department at the time and this one manager stated from the beginning that she was not telling the truth. I hope she is suffering daily. She’s a MONSTER
Stephanie Owens apparently she has a lover. So unfortunately no it’s not.
I saw in a news clip that she is said to be “haunted” by memories of her boys and is “a tortured soul”.
@@aprilhinds1827 I heard she regretted killing Michael and Alex when she realized Tom STILL didn't come back to her and realized she killed her Babies for NOTHING!
@@aprilhinds1827 Serves her right!!
@@MarySmith-lv3mo I know Tom did not love Susan and her boys. Susan is one of the stupidest women that I have ever known! She obviously did not realize her innocent, beautiful sons really loved and depended on her totally. If still alive, they would have been 30 and 28 by now. Too bad, she will never have grandkids to spoil. I am very lucky to be a mom of one and a grandma of 2.
I truly feel so sad for David Smith. You can tell that he is such a loving and devoted father who would have taken very good care of his two lovely sons. Susan Smith should spend the rest of her life in prison for killing those two wonderful boys.
So do I but I also feel David's rage. He looked like he wanted to rip Susan to shreds.
@@kenterminateddq5311 I would to. U murder someone in my family and I’m gonna dunk u on ur head. Any family man would
I honestly think David shouldn't be placed on some kind of pedestal. While he played no part in the death of his sons, he was just as guilty of messing around and his crazy affair. Do not aim hate at me. I read the book, and my heart goes out to him. There were two people who made a mess of their young lives, and only one who chose this disgusting path.
@@putsie1974What on earth are you talking about? It’s perfectly reasonable to have sympathy for him. The fact that he had an affair is irrelevant. This woman deliberately drowned her children in a prolonged, diabolical manner. Of course people should feel for the husband, who had NO connection whatsoever to his wife. Comparing their lives here means nothing. She’s guilty as sin. He’s left without his children. Anger is justified.
@@Goldenwhatever there's always one out there who has to get up on their soap box. Did you forget that he was engaged to another lady when he first got Susan pregnant, and that ended so he could be with Susan? Yup, you adore this guy as much as you want.
They have white washed this story as usual. They have left out how they really treated the black men arrested.
Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
It is sad.
I am sure he broke other crimes hahaha. Just kidding 😂
@@deanobannon842 notice how absolutely nobody found that funny.
@@laurendovey226 I knew most wouldn't. People are so politically correct sheep . People are so sensitive
This is one of those cases that have always and will always haunt me. I just cant imagine the horror those baby boys faced in their last moments. The video the court played of the reenactment, how long it took for that vehicle to become fully submerged. They saw their mom ditch them, they screamed for her, and they were found holding hands 💔 You will never be forgotten brave baby boys.
I read that a Diver said that the babies looked like they had been screaming and crying and they had looks of absolute fear on their faces. 😩☹️😭🥺
@@riverjordan2725 Omg 💔 I'm sure they did, such a slow way to go. Those babies had to be terrified. I feel bad for the people that had to get them out of there. I couldn't do a job like that. I'm sure it sticks with you forever.
@@jillybean9563 I agree with you. I'd be absolutely TERRIFIED if I were drowning in a lake, late at night, and I'm an ADULT, knocking on 40! 😩😱😬😳I can't imagine being only 3 or 14 months and drowning in a lake, late at night! 😱😬😳😩
@@riverjordan2725 Susan is so grotesque. Someone would have adopted them if she didnt want them. The Dad would have been there. What she did is uncognizable.
At her press conference her lying was written all over her face. While trying to cry, she fought to keep from grinning. How could anyone have missed it?
I remember my mom absolutely hating this woman during the case. She had 3 miscarriages before she had me and was so struck by the fact that a mother that was lucky enough to carry babies to term could just kill them, apart from the fact that it's already horrific. Especially for the love of a man.
I bet she hates Casey Anthony.
My mom hates her too, she says as we were going through the state where it happened in 1995 she just held me and cried!
My thoughts exactly
Susan then realized that DAVID was the one she was meant to be with, he stuck by her side for 9 days whereas Tom basically ignored her. Susan wanted David back after it became obvious that Tom wasn't going to take her back.
@@kenterminateddq5311 plus taunting her precursor Diane Downs
Thank you for posting. I will never forget her name and what she did. I will until the day I die will use this documentary to educate my people.
Unfortunately, Smith's parole is in a few years. :(
She do look like a Karen, that will lie on black people . That's why so many of us are single and can't find a good man because of Susan's actions. Locking up our black men behind lies.
She lost every right to breathe the moment she chose a man over her own babies. No human being is capable of something like this. The boys final moment was probably screaming for mommy. How fucking heartless you have to be to do something like this. Susan needs to live a long painful escruciating life to redemp her sins
And the man, Tom didn't love her. She was obsessed with him.
Damned sociopath murderess.
Yep, if she had merely ended up chasing a worthless man who dumped her would have been bad enough, but she killed her Babies over him..She was evil, mean, selfish, and a Bitch to kill her babies for some man!
Especially over a man who didn't want her. Sure, he didn't want kids & she had kids. She thought that was why he didn't want to fool with her anymore. But she wasn't grasping the concept that he kept trying to tell her...which was the fact that he didn't want her. She was a good time gal around the office. He didn't want a long-term relationship with her. He didn't want her like she wanted him. It wasn't just the kids.
@@MoonewitchIn high school Susan Smith was described as boy crazy.
She didn’t chose a
man it’s worse than that- he had broke up with jer
Talk about acting on a temporary emotion with a lifetime of grief for everyone around her.
I remember at least one Person saying,"Tom was a Temporary Fling that was already over on Tom's side. Her Babies would have been a PERMANENT thing. She's an IDIOT for killing her Babies for a Temporary Fling that was already over!"
@@MarySmith-lv3mo you can read the letter Tom wrote to Susan on the internet. It's quite lengthy but interesting. She definitely didn't have her head on straight, even before she killed her boys.
@@suzyworster8193 Shame she only focused on the,"I don't want kids," part. She ignored the parts about him wanting to be with her until she cheated on him by kissing a married man in a hot tub and how she needed to stop being a ho and focus on bettering herself if she wanted to get a nice guy. He said something like,"Nice girls don't kiss married men in hot tubs." He strongly implied the kissing the married man in the hot tub was the real reason he was dumping her and they would have dated longer had she not kissed that married man in a hot tub. Susan realized AFTER she killed Michael and Alex that Tom still didn't come back to her. She must have read the letter all the way through after killing Michael and Alex and finally understood that the kissing the married man in the hot tub was the real reason she got dumped because in her confession letter,she acknowledged that she hurt Tom very badly and he wasn't coming back to her.
She was not trying to kill herself!!!She was smiling all the time .You can see her smiling in the end when she goes to the car....
On a now deleted video of Susan, Posters commented that if Susan REALLY was Suicidal, she wouldn't have been SMILING after her life in Prison Sentencing. She would have looked devastated and horrified...
I still think of her sons. So heartbreaking.
19:59 Susan has to bite her lip and cover her face to hide her laughter. Watch closely. She also laughs when pleading to the public for her children's safe return.
Good catch.
Omg, she actually does.
It does appear so
Chris Watts did the same thing in his media interview. He could not contain his giddiness.
@Donnell Okafor Donnell, people do what you can't imagine. Susan laughed the whole time searchers were looking for her children. Knowing full well they were wasting their time. The camera was able to capture it on film.
How many innocent black men are in jail because of trash like this....we already have it hard enough that's why God will not spare alot of Caucasians come judgement day....
God reads the heart, not the skin color. Your comment is stupid & ignorant - just like you.
Its mind boggling how mothers and fathers etc can go through with the killing of their children. Do they have remorse for their children or just pretending to?!
Ty for uploading, Mom's been looking for this.
I think Susan started feeling real remorse her final interview. She looked more scared than smug. In her final interview, she acknowledged that People thought SHE had something to do with Michael and Alex's disappearance. She went from 😏 in the first interviews to 🥶 in her final interview.
I can't imagine returning home and seeing the children's photos, toys, beds, and clothing. Someone has to be completely unconsciousable to be able to do that.
Her _body_ .
Her _choice_ !
When this case first came out, I could tell right away Susan was guilty, even before she was officially arrested. Who else sensed her guilt from the beginning? The two gorgeous angels are happily in heaven.
You sound just as crazy, no one can sense whether someone is guilty or not, it's scary that they think they can
@@jasonmuller1199 you are so seriously stupid aren’t you (for lack of a better/harsher term for you), not only me you freaking moron, but many others also saw her guilt from the start, even before she officially confessed, did you ever see how she acted in front of the cameras? How she carried herself in the interviews/press conferences? She barely even cried (although when she tried to, it was also clear it wasn’t really a genuine cry because almost no tears were even seen), She didn’t presicley react nor carried herself in a way any other normal person would’ve under that kind of circumstance of suppsedly having two kids missing/kidnapped, and not only that, but her stories didn’t make sense nor added up either, one of them being that when she said that a black man had stole her car and just took off with the kids, give me a break, realistically, a carjacker would just want to take the car and get everyone out of there, they wouldn’t take anybody with them, let alone small kids, nobody is going to believe that horseshit of a African American guy carjacking a car and also taking off with two small white kids, among other things she said that also didn’t make much sense, really only a certified stupid dimwit like you wouldn’t be able to see nor sense that something was really off with that woman. it's also scary that some folks could also be such ignorant dumbasses.
My mother knew right away she had something to do with it. Thanks for pointing that out
@@jasonmuller1199boo hoo some people have what's called instinct, obviously you don't know anything about that
@@QueenAlexis556I thought Jason's reply was weird too. I was just about to reply to him that instinct tells you when someone is guilty, but you already told him that.
My mom told me about this woman and what she did to her children. She watched it live, saying my mom was pissed was an understatement.
I was beyond pissed when this happened.
My Mom looked ready to kick Susan's ass for murdering Michael and Alex! My mom's face looked like 😡🤬 My Mom had a three year old son herself, meaning Michael was the same age as my younger brother. I personally remember thinking even at 10 that it was weird that Susan let someone hijack her car with Michael and Alex in it and didn't fight him off or something like that. If I had Babies, I'd fight someone who wants to carjack my car with my babies inside!
This is one of the most tragic and heartbreaking cases I have ever heard. I am so sick of child killers putting the blame on their childhood for their actions. “I was molested, I was abandoned, I was physically abused, I had several step parents, we moved a lot, my parents committed suicide, my parents never loved me, and I didn’t had the greatest childhood.” Susan Smith will officially go on as one of the most hated not only women, but as one of the most hated mothers in the USA along with Casey Anthony. Susan was a heartless, selfish, lying, cheating, narcissistic psychopath. She cheated on David with several men including a wealthy man who doesn’t want to be with her and doesn’t want children. Susan hated being a mother and she hates living in a middle class family. She had a breakdown and she drove her car along with her sons to the lake where they drowned and she puts the blame on a black man. She’s now in prison and I hope that she never gets out when she is eligible for parole in 2024.
To be fair, you seem to be mixing up two different posts , but very similar posts from two different people. One Poster on here was the one who said something like,"I'm sick of Child killers blaming their bad childhood on their bad actions! I was molested, I was abandoned, I was physically abused, I had several Stepfathers, we moved around a lot, I didn't have a good childhood either, but I don't go around breaking the law and hurting people!" Someone else something like,"I watched my Father shoot a man in his face when I was a child and I STILL wouldn't even think about murdering my own Babies. Bad childhood pasts aren't a good reason for people to do bad things, they just use them as miserable excuses."
The amount of mothers that took there babies to the funeral and held them so close will forever make me sad 😥
Mine IS taking me slowly to Grave...
Yep, those Mothers hugging their babies were understandably devastated that a Mother Murdered her own Babies and couldn't imagine Murdering their own babies.
Their*
I bet their is another story to this that probably gets left out on purpose.....black men that was harrased at the time ....
Fortunately, very little of that happened. How many black guys drive that specific vehicle, or look like that? For various reasons, police (most people) suspected her story from the very beginning. It just didn't ring true.
@@dwightstewart7181 in SC? Yeah right....
@@royrichardson9164 .. Yes, in SC. I was there at the time (in the military) and everyone, everywhere (stores, restaurants, bars, etc), was talking about it - opening questioning and doubting her story. Damn few believed her. Even the police, on the second day, made her take a lie detector test, which she failed. She was wrong to point a finger at a black man, but nobody was buying it.
Dwight Stewart that’s lucky. Other times this has happened people believed it and terrorized the local black community.
@CiCi Ryder huh? No shit she killed them! Bye Felicia...
“she ain’t holdin the bumper.” That’s right grandpa! You knew she was a liar.
A real Mother would have held onto the car like Halle Berry's character did in Kidnapped when her son got into the car with kidnappers. She got roughed up because she fell off the car. Susan should have at least looked roughed up.
@@riverjordan2725or have bad road rash
@@saintcatherine Yep, Susan should have had bad road rash from holding onto to the car. I agree with you.
The most heartbreaking part of this for me was David outside after the funeral 😣💔
From what I understand David Smith was so distraught about what Susan had done he could not walk by himself.
I remember this very well. I was a sophomore in HS in MD in 1994 and remember when this story broke about the missing children and I remember my mother and I speculating that the mother might have been involved in their disappearances and possible deaths. How I wanted for us to be wrong and for the little boys to be alive and well. I never understood if she didn't want her children, why didn't she just let their father raise them? I really hope and pray that she doesn't get parole in a few years. I don't think she'd find life on the outside any better. May God bless little Michael and Alex and their father.
I have read that Inmates at Leath Correctional Facility pretend to be Michael and Alex and say stuff like,"Mommy, help us! We're drowning in the dark and cold water and scared! Save us! We love you!" She 100 percent deserves that!
WTF? Why?
@@kenterminateddq5311 They do that to torture Susan by pretending to be the drowning Michael and Alex....
@@MarySmith-lv3mo To get her riled up?
@@kenterminateddq5311 I don't think it would get her riled up, but it definitely would torture her....
@@MarySmith-lv3mo I mean they did it to upset her? I am sure they didn't it as a joke or as their own entertainment.
HOW COULD YOU KILL YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!!! DAVID LOVED THEM!!!
It’s so awful because her kids went into the cold dark icy October lake knowing even as a 3 year old or infant at least 3 you can comprehend your own mother betrayed you and left you to fall into the water to die. Michael held Alex’s hand when found he may have been 3 but he could understand it was terrible and he was in deep trouble and was going to die and Alex. That’s why he held his hand there was no way of getting out they were forced to drown to death as the car kept sinking with them in it. It makes me cry I live in Union I’ve been to John D fishing at night water is freezing even during the summer months and I always think of them and I can feel their spirit when I go at night. It’s eerie
There are People who doubt that the Babies were holding hands since Michael's hand was pressed against the window. They must have forgotten Michael has TWO hands. One hand could have been pressed against the window and one hand could have been holding Alex's hand.
it made me cry reading ur comment
@@saisaisalvatore287 it’s awful
@@MarySmith-lv3mo I know David Smiths daughter Savannah and she said they were holding hands
It’s sick to think she’s eligible for parole in 2 years! I hope those little boys Daddy goes to the hearing to try to keep her in prison!!!
She won’t ever get paroled.
It's now 2024 and Susan Smith's parole hearing is coming up rather quickly in November of this year; fortunately David Smith has vowed to appear at the hearing and make sure that Susan is kept in prison for the rest of her life.
I was only 9 when this hit the news. I didn't quite understand what was going on and my mom had to sit me down and tell me everything. I was curious and then I just cried and hugged my mom. And I cant believe that a MOTHER could do this and how terrified those kids had to be
I was 11 and I questioned why Susan let a Stranger drive off with her Babies....
@@MarySmith-lv3mo I too was 11. I'm also a Black Man. So this Case Pissed me off as well as other black kids like me.
omg can you imagine how the cops were just randomly stopping black 35ish year old men and just invading their cars looking for babies? and NONE OF IT WAS TRUE!!!!
I look at it as an adult and realize she was lying the moment she said a black man took her kids.
@@PatrickJ12334I was 14 at the time & the moment she opened her mouth, I knew she was lying. It was her voice that made me believe instantly...that she was lying & guilty. It was her voice.
You can tell she’s acting
Blame a Black man was a textbook ploy
i did not expect them to describe the boys bodies. i have 2 boys and now i cant stop hugging them
Okay I came back a week later after I read Beyond All Reason by David Smith. There were SO MANY details that were left out of the media coverage. Like the fact that Susan knew EXACTLY where the car was in the lake, as if she’d watched it sink. Not to mention after they winched the car out of the lake, when they righted the car the parking lights came on. David wondered if Susan had left the parking lights on to make sure it sank.
what do the parking lights have to do with making sure the car sank?
@@bellakatherman1477 I’m assuming, if the lights are on, you could see whether or not the car is sinking and how deep it’s going into the water.
I remember this! I was 14, I remember seeing it on the news and thinking she was a fake! My mom also didn’t believe her. I remember when it was finally discovered that she did it and that morning my mom was watching the news broadcasts saying she had done it! I was getting ready for school and my mom was downstairs watching, all I heard was “ that BITCH! I knew it!! I knew she did it!!!!
Lol I love your mom awesome.
@@captainkirk9691 thanks 🤣🤣
I remember being at my mil's house and i had a 2 yr old at the time, i watched her on the news crying with absolutely no tears whatsoever. I told my mil..she is lying..I would be going out of my freaking mind if those were my kids. And i was right, crocodile tears.
Ill never forget this i was 12 years old. We went to the sight where she killed them . It was awful and all I could think was yet another black man accused. Wtf.
If u made a video or picture of it, it would get a lot of views.
Obviously i did admit that
No matter WHAT happened in smith's life, the kids didn't deserve to pay for it. She lied,, and would've continued to lie if not for a good interrogator. Stupid jurors let the boys down
If Smith had a more aggressive interrogator, like Casey Anthony had, she would still stick to her story.
I believe Smith even failed a lie detector test.
When she was crying, her eyebrows weren't even moving
Everyone was frowning but her, such a bad liar
The footage of David Smith at his boys’ funeral is so devastating. That poor man and those poor babies. Thankfully she was denied parole.
Rest in peace Michael and Alex
This case still haunts me. Those poor babies. Those poor babies. I feel so bad for them and their poor Dad. I remember my older sister asking about him some years after the crime (she didn't know he had remarried and had two more children by then). We were glad he was able to move on, even though we know how much it still hurts him. It just shows how far affecting this case was; we were only 10 and 11 when this case happened. Also, it's not mentioned here, but she also had her wedding photos and maternity clothing in the trunk. She didn't just murder her children: she tried to erase their memories.
She will be eligible for parole on November 4, 2024. I pray to God that she won't be released!
She won't be. She hasn't been a model prisoner when she got there. She has committed many disciplinary actions during her sentence if you look at her record. She has zero chance of ever being released.
@@jcorone2000 She decided to turn her life around now that her Parole year is only THREE YEARS away.. It's been reported she's on VERY good behavior....
@@MarySmith-lv3mo Yes she has been on good behavior since 2015 till now probably because of her advanced age but from when she got in prison in the mid 90s-to the mid 2010s. She hasn't been on good behavior and had sex multiple times with two guards, mutilated herself, drug usage, having sex with other inmates and other disciplinary violations. The parole board will look at her behavior during her stay in prison and the nature of her crime she went to prison for before making their decisions on whether to parole or not. Based on that. She has below zero chance of parole. Even if she was a model prisoner since the day she was sentenced till her parole hearing in a couple years. Child killers especially multiple child killers especially baby and or toddler age kid killers which her kids were at the time of their deaths by their mother has less than zero chance of release. I would be absolutely shocked if she ever gets paroled and released from prison.
@@jcorone2000 David said he will be at every Parole Hearing for her to demand them to keep her locked up for good for killing their Sons and lying for 9 days claiming some Black man carjacked the car and drove away with the Babies. I don't know if he will still demand that she remain locked up for good considering he recently said he forgave her for killing their Babies....
@@MarySmith-lv3mo It doesn't matter if DAVID is there at the hearing or not. Like I said the parole board looks at the nature and seriousness of the crime committed and her behavior the entire time behind bars before making their decisions to grant parole or not to grant parole. Knowing all they know about her time behind bars and her killing a toddler and a baby. They will never ever release her into FREE society. Her one and only way out of prison is if she has a deadly condition and has a few days or a few hours to live while on her death bed. Nothing else. Even that they still might let her die at the women's prison hospital. She's doomed. A serial or mass killer of adults has a better chance of parole than child killers.
This is a heartbreaking case. I understand that being a mother can be hard at times, especially with postpartum/depression. Those are serious illnesses that need to be properly treated. I also understand that a horrible childhood can damage a person, both physically and mentally, especially if there are things left unhandled. However, I'm also aware of the fact that there are plenty of mothers who go through severe depression/postpartum who would never inflict any kind of pain on their child(ren) whatsoever. There are also plenty of people who had seriously horrible childhoods who were able to recover and become happy, prosperous and successful adults.
Also, I can't post this without mentioning the racism in Susan's story. It wasn't random. She told the police the “kidnapper” was a black man because she thought they would be more likely to believe her, implying that a black man would be more likely to commit the crime than anyone else, even though, in reality, it was a white woman. People really need to stop associating crime with people of color. It is highly offensive and unbearably painful.
The truth is that Susan Smith stood there for six minutes, watching her helpless children become submerged in a lake and drown. The fear the children felt must've been unimaginable. I'm sure they were screaming and crying out for Susan and David. To me, there's nothing that justifies forcing your children to go through any part of that.
Lastly, I feel terrible for her family, especially David. He believed her, supported her and stood by her, and then she exposed her lies and confessed that she murdered their babies. I cannot imagine the excruciating pain and betrayal he must have felt.
Overall, Susan Smith received the punishment she deserved, in my opinion, because, like her own attorney said, she will have to think about it and live with it for the rest of her life.
To Michael and Alexander: May they rest peacefully and painlessly in Heaven with God, surrounded by more love and joy than anyone could ever imagine.
God bless you all.
I remember this so well. I was 11 years old and me and my father was watching it on the news. My father said to me "I don't see any tears, she's lying." I really didn't know what to think. He was right!!
I can't imagine killing my children at all, let alone over a man that doesn't want me anyway 🤬 so stupid
Obviously, Smith's mind was money
I had stop & come back so many times to watch this in its entirety. She’s a classic case of a sociopath.
“A small hand pressed across the window” 🥺😭😭
How can you do that to your own flesh and blood!!!!??? How???
I broke down when I heard that part!!! 💔
How can yo do that to anyone.
Yes or to any kid
I'll never understand how she didn't get the death penalty. How was it a "botched suicide attempt" when she intentionally put on the emergency brake to save herself only, but then intentionally took it back off a few seconds later to murder the kids?? Sounds to me like a perfectly executed plan of action to murder the kids and save herself in the process.
Not a single tear. Poor babies and poor daddy. He stood by the murderer of his boys. He must've been devastated to find out his sons were left in the hands of a monster! Sleep sweetly in Jesus' arms baby boys. 😭😭🙏
Oh god how can a mother do that??? Those beautiful boy's. Rip. ♥️💓💙
So sad heartbreaking
Susan will answer to God when she leaves this Earth. RUclips guidelines say to be respectful in comments....Susan Smith should have been respectful to her children
If she was truly suicidal, then she would’ve tried to drown with them.
Yep but Smith is a COWARD so she sacrifice her kids to make herself feel important.
She should’ve gotten the death penalty cause that’s what they would’ve gave the black man
Yep, he would have been executed by now.
Whenever I see David interview, it makes me cry. I feel his hurt from here and even after all these years.
I'm different, Michelle.
When I see David on an interview, I'm ANGRY FOR HIM!
The mother of his kids did what she did to them? Honestly, I would've hunt after Susan with a shotgun.
@@kenterminateddq5311 David said he wanted to kill Susan after she confessed to killing their babies. I don't blame him. 🤬
I’m not blaming him but he could have fought for sole custody.
@@yvettedragonIn David's defense, he had NO IDEA that Susan was going to murder Michael and Alex. David said he 100 percent believed Susan was carjacked. He said in a much more recent interview that the ONLY thing Susan said to him that was plain weird was,"Of, I mean, WHEN we get Michael and Alex back,do you think we can be a Family again? Tom was like,"I wondered why Susan at first said,"If," at first implying there was a chance that we might never get Michael and Alex back. I always assumed we would get Michael and Alex back, so her "If," was just plain weird to me. "
Susan always seemed like a GOOD Mother. Even Tom Findlay said something like,"I didn't know Susan was going to murder Michael and Alex. She seemed like a good Mother for them. "
So many other options 🤦♀️. Her ex would have taken them. Grandparents probably would have taken them. No, she chose to kill them. So sick of these so called parents killing their own because they either want a fresh start or because the person they're interested in doesn't want kids. How about putting your children first? Like a parent is supposed to do. My daughter will always come before me and anybody else. Especially when it comes to her life. These people are not parents. They shouldn't have kids to begin with.
It's like the Scott Peterson situation: Scott could have divorced Laci but instead he killed her and his unborn child: Connor. :(
@@kenterminateddq5311 your replies are all over the place. Casey Anthony, Scott Peterson.... focus on just this one for god sakes.
@@katscratchfever3506 The comparisons are pretty inevitable.
The children always come first before the men as the men come and go while the children love you forever. After all, I am a proud mother of one and a loving grandma of 2. I will never understand Susan Smith who tried to commit suicide and ended up killing her totally innocent boys who loved her and depended on her. Her snobby rich ex boyfriend Tom Findlay did not want her beautiful boys and did not love her, either. If he really loved her, he would have welcomed her boys with open arms. Obviously, Susan was totally unstable and not fit to be a mother. I am sure David would be more than willing to take their boys.
@@kenterminateddq5311 I've seen a new report, it's possible that Scott did not kill laci. Over a dozen people claimed to see a pregnant woman havung the same description of laci and her dog in the neighborhood, during the time that Scott had already left the house.
Absolutely. At the very moment she climbed out of the car, her instinct for self-preservation kicked in. It's just a pity she didn't extend that same courtesy to her two children: three-year old Michael and 14 month old Alexander.
Smiling and laughing in this situation is so bizarre, but it makes me wonder if it’s any coincidence that her sociopathic personality also has that weird disorder of smiling and laughing when severe stress occurs??
Exactly, not even Casey Anthony does that.
She only does that when she parties. :(
They argued that her life was hard? Okay... I'm missing memory from the age of 8 years old past that time. Literally only a few minor memories. My mother was a opioid addict, and my father was a no show. I treat my two young kids to express their emotions, to talk to myself and their dad. They trust us completely.
Just because you had a rough past, that doesn't define you. Just like the lady said in the video: "any mother who could drown her babies, there ain't nothing to her". And she's beyond correct. Mental health is of essence. But to use your past as an excuse to murder your babies? You're not a mother. You're a monster. The fact that she could get out of prison in two years... It's sickening.
Almost 30 years! Wow! Hard to believe to this day! I think about these precious babies often. They are in God's loving arms! God bless!
I remember someone saying something like,"After Susan dies and is burning in Hell, she's going to look up at Heaven and see Michael and Alex playing happily with God while she's burning in Hell."
@@berlindamoustafa1887 Indeed!
One of the things that cinched it for me was at 12:30, when Susan said: "I loved them, I really did." My lights went on immediately. PAST TENSE!! I knew then they were dead. I said: "Past tense, they're dead!"
"did" is a past tense so good point.
Same
@@kenterminateddq5311It's like when Chris Watts revealed that his eldest daughter Bella was due to start Kindergarten. The key word is "was" even while he was "begging" for the safe return of Shannan, Bella and Celeste. In my opinion Court TV reporter Ashleigh Banfield hit the nail on the head when she described Chris as a "lying cheating horror show." While a lot of people believed that Chris should have received the Death Penalty; it was the decision of Shannan's parents Sandra and Frank Rzucek Senior to spare Chris' life via a plea bargain. That and the fact that the court system of Colorado seldom if ever pursued the Death Penalty against criminal defendants.