Thirty years ago this week, Susan Smith drowned her two little boys in a South Carolina lake. She lied and said a man carjacked her, leading to a nationwide manhunt.
The case rocked the entire country.
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Smith eventually confessed and was sentenced to life in prison. But now, decades later, she’s up for parole.
Channel 9′s Tina Terry got a behind-the-scenes look at evidence from the case that hasn’t been seen by the public. Kevin Brackett, the 16th Circuit Solicitor, was one of the men who helped prosecute Smith’s case years ago. As he fights to keep Smith in prison, Brackett showed Terry records that he saved from the case 30 years ago.
‘A worldwide phenomenon’
Susan Smith became a household name on Oct. 25, 1994.
“I would like to say to whoever has my children that they’d please, they’d please bring them home to us where they belong,” she said then.
The young mother from Union, South Carolina claimed a Black man carjacked her and took off with her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 1-year-old Alex, in the backseat.