She had some good days and some bad, but on the days she went in for her disability assessment, she made sure she looked like she was really struggling.

So my mom went with my cousin Jennifer to go be evaluated for her disability, a crazy check she called it.

So she goes in there.

with her hair disheveled, like she put on a show for them to get her check.

She had her shirt buttoned all wrong, different colored socks.

She would cry in the interview.

It

He knows in many ways he's going against what his mother would want.

It's a question that has left many perturbed, including her son.

It was just the lies.

There are so many lies.

So the narrative that's in front of us can't be the truth.

But in this series, we'll speak to those who knew her best, like her only child, Ray.

The mother-son stuff that I've dealt with my whole life, that I can deal with.

I've learned to deal with that.

But to know that she possibly covered up a murder for somebody.

In the end, Ray believes Susan was fixated on what she thought was the ultimate prize, fame and fortune.

Tom started throwing movie ideas out, and I mean, I could almost see the hamster wheel in my mom's head just going crazy, just, "Oh, wow, yeah, movies this, movie that." She talked about the people that would play her.

You know, they talked about the people who would play Tom, and it's like, as far as my mom is concerned, it's already there.

She's just gotta get there.

He's quiet and contemplative.

I mean, I'm supposed to do this.

[laughs] If she, if she were alive, she wouldn't want me cooperating with anybody the way I am, but I think where she's at now, I think she would want to rest in peace.

And if there's any way that I can use the stuff that she has to bring peace to anybody, even her, that, you know, it's all worth it.

Ray's father was even younger, but in spite of this, took full custody when Susan up and left for Kentucky.

My dad was 14.

My mom was 15.

So you can see kinda like where the gap could come with our relationship, you know, how difficult it could have been for a young woman to mother, you know, a child, when she's a child herself.

She had some good days and some bad, but on the days she went in for her disability assessment, she made sure she looked like she was really struggling.

So my mom went with my cousin, Jennifer, to go be evaluated for her disability, a crazy check, she called it.

So she goes in thereWith her hair disheveled.

Like, she put on a show for them to get her check.

It's a question that has left many perturbed, including her son.

And it was just the lies.

There are so many lies, so the narrative that's in front of us can't be the truth.

But that's not what happened.

So I was learning, in real time, the lies.

There was a lot of lies.

Susan's son is wrestling with his mother's legacy to this day.

I mean, my mom was, I use the word diabolical.

But that's not what happened.

So I was learning, in real time, the lies.

There was a lot of lies.

Susan's son is wrestling with his mother's legacy to this day.

I mean, my mom was, I use the word diabolical.