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Into The Dark

24. Murderous Parents: Michael and Alexander Smith

Into The Dark

OH NO MEDIA

True Crime

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this new mini-series, Payton details the murders of Michael and Alexander Smith and discusses why parents harm their children. https://linktr.ee/bingedpod Case Sources: wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith murderpedia.org/female.S/s/smith-susan.htm/female.S/s/smith-susan.htm loveandmoms.com/susan-smith/ web.archive.org/web/20121017163947/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/smith/index_1.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to Binge, before we get into it.

0:22.5

Thank you so much to everyone who went and left a review, or if you're watching on YouTube

0:27.4

has participated in the comments, it means so much to me, and I want to remind you that

0:31.9

over on Instagram, we post pictures every week that have to do with the case, pictures

0:37.5

of the victims, anything that I talk about.

0:40.2

So if you ever want to tag along with those images, you can follow us over on Instagram

0:44.4

at Binge Pod.

0:46.0

So our last two episodes featured stories about children killing children.

0:51.8

In this week and next week's episodes also involve children, but in these stories, all

0:57.0

of the children are innocent victims, and the perpetrators are, well, the people they

1:02.3

trusted the most.

1:03.3

Today's case was one of the biggest crime stories of its time, and it all started in Union

1:10.0

South Carolina on October 25th, 1994.

1:15.6

It was about 9 o'clock in the evening, a woman named Shirley McCloud was reading the newspaper

1:20.7

in the living room of her home when she heard something up on her front porch.

1:26.1

Now carefully, Shirley got up and looked onto the porch and saw a young woman crying.

1:31.7

Please help me, the young woman begged, he's got my kids and he's got my car.

1:37.5

Shirley opened the front door and invited the hysterical young woman inside.

1:42.0

A black man has got my kids and my car, the woman said.

1:46.1

By this time, Shirley's husband Rick had heard the commotion and appeared in the living

1:51.1

room.

1:52.1

Call 911 Shirley told him.

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