10 - The Murder of Susan Daniels Smith
Beyond Contempt True Crime
Renee Lynn
4.4 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Susan Daniels Smith was working with FBI agent Mark Putnam and became enchanted with him. After she confronted him about being pregnant with his child, she disappeared. The case did not have many leads and was only solved when local authorities pressured the FBI to investigate her disappearance.
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| 1:09.3 | Thank you. I'm Renee, and this is Beyond Contempt True Crime. Today we have an unusual story of an FBI agent who became entangled with his informant. |
| 1:16.1 | She disappeared and did not tell one person where she went, including her sister. |
| 1:21.2 | This informant had several enemies that might have caused her harm because of her work with the FBI. |
| 1:27.6 | She was missing for a year and the whole case unraveled |
| 1:31.1 | when local authorities pressured the FBI to investigate her disappearance. |
| 1:36.7 | You are listening to Episode 10, The Murder of Susan Daniel Smith. |
| 1:43.0 | Mark Putnam and Kathy Ponticelli had both grown up in Connecticut. They met |
| 1:48.6 | right after Mark finished college. He took a job as a clerk in the FBI office in New Haven, |
| 1:55.1 | Connecticut. They eloped in 1984. Mark had always wanted to be an FBI agent. |
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