Discretion is advised.

Ten-minute murder.

Susan Smith was born as Susan Daniels in 1961.

She was raised in Freeburn, Kentucky, alongside nine siblings, and with a mother who worked as a housekeeper and a father who lost his job in the local coal mines, the Daniels children

often had to go without.

In the seventh grade, Susan had no choice but to drop out of school.

Her parents just couldn't afford to pay the fees.

When she was 15 years old, Susan met 22-year-old Kenneth Smith.

Susan didn't care that Kenneth was a grown man seven years her senior,

or that he made a living selling cocaine, PCP, and methamphetamine.

In 1979, a few years after the relationship began,

Susan and Kenneth got married, just as she turned 18. Due to Kenneth's role as a local, prominent drug dealer,

drugs were a big part of his relationship with Susan from the very start, and it only got worse

after they were married. Susan might have expected Kenneth to settle down

and become more responsible when he became a father, but soon enough, she was a mother of two,

and she was fighting with Kenneth more than ever. Eventually, Susan and Kenneth agreed that they

were simply not compatible enough to be in a romantic relationship. They decided to get a divorce,

but continued living in their family home together for the sake of their young children.

In the late 1980s, Kenneth's Circle of Friends in Pikeville, Kentucky, were beginning to track

the attention of the FBI. Investigators were interested in one man in particular, 32-year-old Carl Edward Lockhart,

who was known by the nickname Cat Eyes. Carl had already been convicted of robbery, but the FBI

believed that he was planning to carry out more crimes in the future. In 1988, a young agent was

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