Susan Smith, notorious child murderer, faces parole board Wednesday

UNION, S.C. (WLOS) — BREAKING: A South Carolina parole board rejected conditional launch for infamous youngster assassin Susan Smith.

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Infamous youngster assassin Susan Smith will discover out if her time behind bars for the demise of her two boys shall be reduce on Wednesday, Nov. 20.

Smith is scheduled to seem just about earlier than the SC Board of Paroles and Pardons from Leath Correctional Establishment in Greenwood.

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She turned eligible for parole on Nov. 4, 2024, after serving one-third of her life sentence. A jury sentenced Smith to life in jail after she confessed to rolling her automobile down a ship ramp and into the lake along with her 3-year-old and 14-month-old boys within the backseat.

The incident shined a nationwide highlight on the quiet metropolis of Union after Smith concocted a lie that led to a nationwide seek for her youngsters.

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The case

Smith appeared on the McCloud’s dwelling on Oct. 25, 1994, falsely claiming that whereas she was stopped at a visitors mild close to Monarch Mill, a Black man climbed into the passenger seat of her automobile, put a gun in her aspect, and demanded she “shut up and drive.” Smith informed authorities that the person informed her to cease the automobile and get out miles down the street. Smith claimed she requested to get Michael, 3, and Alexander, 14 months, out of the automobile, however the man informed her he did not have time and drove off.

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9 days later, Smith confessed she had deliberate to take her personal life that night time, however as she stood on the boat ramp and John D. Lengthy Lake, she could not undergo with it. Nonetheless, she despatched the car with the boys strapped of their automobile seats down the ramp into the water then ran to the McClouds along with her lie.

In 1995, a jury discovered her responsible of two counts of homicide for her sons’ deaths and sentenced her to life in jail.

Father to talk at parole listening to

Michael and Alexander’s father, David Smith, informed Information 13 he did not plan to organize feedback for Wednesday’s listening to and deliberate to talk to the board from his coronary heart.

“I wish to take a look at them. I wish to look them within the eyes the entire time I am talking to them, and hopefully that may make an impression,” Smith mentioned.

David Smith deliberate to inform the SC Board of Paroles and Pardons that the 30 years Susan Smith has served just isn’t sufficient punishment for the 2 younger lives she took.

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Among the many objects the Board of Paroles and Pardons can think about is Susan Smith’s file earlier than and through her incarceration. In August 2024, Smith was charged with speaking with a sufferer and or witness after having phone calls with a documentary filmmaker about her crimes. She’s additionally been charged with possessing unauthorized medication and mutilation throughout her incarceration, in addition to having intercourse with two corrections officers.

On Wednesday, 50 South Carolina inmates are scheduled for parole hearings. Susan Smith is one in every of 9 charged with homicide up for consideration.