67: The Killing of FBI Informant Susan Daniels Smith

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In 1987, an ambitious rookie FBI agent came to Pikeville, Kentucky for his first posting out of the academy. He soon met a girl from the nearby holler who worked as an informant. Susan Daniels Smith lived a life of poverty, violence and misery. And then she met Mark Putnam and became obsessed.

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0:25.8	In 1987, an ambitious new FBI agent was assigned to his first field office in Pikeville, Kentucky.
0:35.6	Pikeville is a small town in a holler next to the poverty-stricken hills where almost everyone was on welfare.
0:42.4	Meth was rampant and the teen pregnancy rate was among the highest in the country.
0:47.4	The post was pretty dismal and Mark Putnam was disappointed,
0:51.8	but determined to make a name for himself and do a good job.
0:55.0	He brought his wife Kathy and his young daughter with him.
0:58.2	Drugs, political corruption and even bank robberies plagued the area.
1:02.8	An agent could sit and cool his heels, waiting for his next post,
1:07.4	or he could roll up his sleeves and make the best of it.
1:10.2	Mark made the best of it.
1:12.0	He was soon introduced to an FBI informant in the area, a mountain girl named Susan Daniel Smith.
1:19.0	Susan had the reputation of a drug addict with a big mouth,
1:22.6	but she had come through for the FBI before.
1:25.4	She could be a pain in the ass,
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