Moments after a parole board rejected Susan Smith’s bid for freedom on Wednesday, the dejected 53-year-old emotionally lashed out when returned to her jail cell.
“She was pissed,” stated an onlooker at Leath Correctional Establishment in Greenwood, South Carolina. “She was angry crying. Waving her hands, very agitated. It looked like she threw a tantrum.”
Not that the convicted assassin acquired an excessive amount of sympathy from her fellow inmates. “The girls pretty much all think it’s funny,” says the onlooker. “She walks around here like she rules the roost. Guess what? You don’t. You’re just like everybody else.”
Added the supply: “I don’t think she was thinking about her sons at all yesterday. She was clearly just thinking about herself.”
Throughout Wednesday’s listening to, a tearful Smith apologized for drowning her two younger sons in 1994 and stated she wished she may take it again.
Attending the assembly remotely through Zoom, Smith instructed the board that she had misplaced contact with actuality when she killed her sons Alex and Michael by strapping them of their automobile seats and letting them drown in a South Carolina lake in 1994.
“I am a Christian and I know that God has forgiven me,” Smith instructed the board, earlier than begging the panel to “show the same kind of mercy.”
However, true to type, Smith nonetheless refused to take full accountability for her actions, blaming others for the alternatives she made.
Her argument didn’t sway the 7-member South Carolina Board of Parole Board, who instantly voted to disclaim Smith’s request.
Smith was a 22-year-old mother when she grew to become a family title for killing her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander. In 1994, she let her automobile roll into John D. Lengthy Lake in Union County, South Carolina, together with her boys nonetheless strapped into their automobile seats.
Smith falsely instructed police {that a} black man had carjacked her and kidnapped the tots, resulting in a manhunt wherein authorities went door to door amongst native neighborhoods that had been predominantly African American.
Smith and her then-husband David Smith appeared on nationwide information every single day, pleading for the boys’ secure return.
However 9 days later, Smith lastly confessed that there was no carjacker, and that she had drowned her sons within the lake.
She was convicted of homicide and sentenced to life in jail. Her first parole listening to was on Wednesday.
Smith will now be capable of apply for parole each two years — that means the household of her murdered sons must present as much as combat her request in the event that they need to guarantee she stays behind bars.
