Susan Smith(XII)
Susan Smith was born Susan Leigh Vaughan on September 26, 1971 in
Union, South Carolina. She's the daughter of Linda and Harry Vaughan.
Her biological father committed suicide when Susan was six years old.
Smith first attempted suicide at age thirteen and was molested by her
stepfather when she was a teenager. Following graduation from high
school in 1989 she made a second attempt at suicide. In 1994 Susan
drowned her sons Michael Daniel Smith and Alexander Tyler Smith by
driving her car into a lake (Michael was only three years old while
Alexander was a mere fourteen months old). When Smith reported the
incident on October 25, 1994 to the authorities she claimed a black man
had carjacked her automobile and driven off with the two boys still
inside the car. Nine days after an intensive heavily publicized
investigation and nationwide search Susan confessed that she had
committed this heinous act so she could have a relationship with a
wealthy local man who wasn't interested in having a family. Smith's
crime was met with much contempt and revulsion by the American public
who felt betrayed by her tearful initial attempts at eliciting sympathy
by falsely stating that her sons had been abducted. She was convicted
on two counts of murder on July 22, 1995 and placed in the
Administrative Segregation Unit in the Women's Correctional Center in
Columbia, South Carolina so she can serve a life sentence. Susan was
then moved to the Leath Correctional Institution in South Carolina
after two guards at the previous penitentiary admitted to having sex
with her. Smith is eligible for possible parole on November 4, 2024.