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History of the 90s
Kathy Kenzora
4.7 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In October 1994 a young mom from a small town in South Carolina reported that she was carjacked on a rural road. Susan Smith claimed that an unknown Black man forced her out of her car at gunpoint and then drove away with her two toddlers in the backseat.
The search for the boys and Smith’s emotional pleas for their return drew media attention from around the world for nine days. On this episode of History of the 90s host Kathy Kenzora looks back at the case and the shocking outcome.
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| 0:47.0 | Just after 9 o'clock on a fall evening in 1994, Shirley and Rick McLeod heard what they |
| 0:53.7 | described as inhuman wailing outside their |
| 0:56.5 | lakeside house. At first, they thought it was an animal. Then they heard a voice crying, |
| 1:02.3 | please help me. The McLeod's turned on the outside light and opened their front door. On the |
| 1:08.0 | porch stood a young woman in a sweatshirt, jeans, and running shoes with a white |
| 1:12.3 | bow in her hair. She was sobbing hysterically. In between sobs, the woman finally got out the words. |
| 1:20.1 | He's got my kids and my car. I'm Kathy Kinsora, and this is History of the 90s, a podcast about a decade that changed the world. |
| 1:29.4 | In this episode, I share what happened when a young mother said her children had been kidnapped by an armed black man during a carjacking on an isolated road in northwest South Carolina. |
| 1:41.2 | This is the story of Susan Smith. |
| 1:48.4 | Music Carolina. This is the story of Susan Smith. After the McLeod's let the 23-year-old woman into their home, they called the police and |
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