1. Susan Leigh Smith is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, in 1994 by strapping her children in their car seats, and rolling her car containing her two children into John D Long Lake in South Carolina.
Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
Susan Smith was first eligible for parole on November 20,2024, which was denied.
Susan Smith is incarcerated at the Leath Correctional Institution near Greenwood, South Carolina.
Susan Smith's father died by suicide when she was six years old, and Susan Smith herself attempted suicide at age 13.
Susan Smith married David Smith, and they had two sons.
On October 25,1994, Susan Smith reported to police that she had been the victim of a carjacking by a black man while driving her 1990 Mazda Protege sedan with her sons still in the back seat.
Susan Smith's motivation was reportedly to facilitate a relationship with a local wealthy man named Tom Findlay.
Susan Smith said there was no motive nor did she plan the murders, stating that she was not in a right state of mind.
Susan Smith had claimed that a traffic light had turned red, causing her to stop at an otherwise empty intersection.
Susan Smith was sentenced to two concurrent life terms in prison in 1995 for the murders of her two sons.
Susan Smith was originally incarcerated in the Administrative Segregation Unit in the Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.
Susan Smith appears briefly in archival footage in the 2002 film Bowling for Columbine in a scene about "dangerous black guys".