Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims,

whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real?

I use my experiences in law enforcement, corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts. Some so evil, many feel they are unspeakable. Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences.

If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, it's KJ here back for another episode of Unspeakable. How is your Thanksgiving? I hope it was wonderful. Mine was fan-frikin-tastic. I had a great time. I got so many lovely messages from people just wishing me, you know, a happy holiday. And so I hope I was able to answer every single one of you because I was just so tickled. It means so much. And my family and I even went down to Grand Isle after we ate our Thanksgiving grub and we went crabbing and all that. I put some pictures on Patreon if you want to check that out. But just a good time. And then I've been working my butt off on this episode that I'm

about to start right now because this is one that is all up in the news again. And so I said,

hey, I got to give the people what they want. And so I pushed aside another episode I was going

to do so I could nail this one for you. So get ready because Susan Smith is a name that

was in every single household in the early 90s, specifically

1994. You couldn't get away from her. It was everywhere. So let's back up, if you don't know all the

details of this case. And let's just start with when Susan was born. Okay? So she was born in September

of 1971, and she's from the South, South Carolina,

born as the youngest of three children to her parents, Linda and Harry Vaughn. Now, her dad worked

in a textile mill, and her mom, I believe, was a homemaker. I wasn't 100% sure on that one

and didn't find a bunch of, like, real definitive stuff on there. And from the start, it was pretty obvious that this was just not a happy marriage.

They weren't, it was not going well.

Literally from the I do, it was kind of like the, ah, shit I've, you know, should I've done this.

But Susan was super close with her dad and she was really young, about six years old when she was hit with the fact

look we're divorcing and we're not going to be together anymore and this brought you know about a major

change in her life but nothing would hurt as much as when her dad just a few months later

decided to commit suicide.

This was huge to her. This was a big blow to her life.

And he shot himself in the chest.

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