447: Susan Smith: Someone Stole My Babies (from "How It Really Happened")

True Crime Obsessed

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

It's one of the most tragic and infamous cases of the 1990s: a mother who not only committed the most horrible act against her small children, but then played upon the prejudices of the society and her community to try to pin the crime on another, imaginary person.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You want to hear a throwback?
0:01.1	Oh, my God, always.
0:02.2	We don't talk about Bruno in my head.
0:03.7	Oh, my God.
0:04.8	Remember when that was the biggest thing ever?
0:06.1	It was the only song Daisy listening for a year and in Spanish. She loved it in Spanish. Yeah, because I got sent an early copy of, like, an authorized biography of Lid Memo Miranda. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The education of an artist is excellent. but I'm in the Enkonto part right now.
0:18.8	Oh my God.
0:19.9	We don't talk about Bruno.
0:22.3	I was like, you know what?
0:23.2	I'll take it.
0:23.8	This is a shit. but I'm in the Encanto part right now. Oh my God. We don't talk about Bruno.
0:21.9	So I was like, you know what?
0:23.2	I'll take it.
0:23.8	This is a shit story we're about to tell.
0:26.1	I know.
0:26.6	I know.
0:29.5	Hi, Jilline Matzavali.
0:35.3	Hello, Patrick Hines.
0:36.1	You know what is not shit?
0:37.4	Our book club.
0:38.5	Our book club is so amazing.
0:39.6	We've got like 600 people in it.
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