And the Hey everyone welcome back to crime weekly news I'm Derek Levasser and I'm

Stephanie Harlow and we're gonna be talking about Susan Smith. Many of you have already heard about this case,

but there are some updates, and Stephanie's going to relay them to you now

if you haven't heard of them.

Well, so as a quick recap, Susan Smith, she was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the

1994 murders of her two sons, three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex. As of

now, she's currently up for parole and listen, I don't think she should get it.

Okay, I'm just going to spoil that for you and tell you I don't think she should get it.

And I know Derek's not super familiar with this case, but I'm going to give you a breakdown of it now because it was a horrific and senseless crime and it sent shock waves, not just through the country, but through the world. It went international because it was kind of like one of the first

times, one of the first major stories of a mother killing her children.

In October of 1994, Susan Smith strapped her two sons into their car seats and then she allowed the

vehicle to roll into a South Carolina lake.

She basically did nothing while her children drowned in that car. She later told police that a

black man had carjacked her at gunpoint and she then put on a show of crying for

reporters telling them quote I want to say to my babies that your mama

loves you so much you just got to be strong I just know I just feel in my heart that

you're okay you've just got to take care of each other end quote and see this is

is the where people really get it twisted where they're like well you know maybe she was going through something she had mental health issues she post-part and depression.

Okay, but then you get up in front of cameras and you lie about what happened to your kids and

claim a black man took them and now you don't know where they are and you're sending a message to your children that you know are no longer alive,

it's giving Chris Watts, it's giving Casey Anthony, it's giving malicious and not the result of some mental health issue.

Now 10 days later, Susan Smith did confess to drowning her children and it wasn't like she

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