Susan Smith
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Nov 5, 2026
Mel BarrettHOST
When I started working on Pam's case, I thought of a lot of women.
Mel BarrettHOST
Lorena Bobbitt, Mary Kay Letourneau, Susan Smith, Betty Broderick, Casey Anthony, Eileen Wuornos, Andrea Yates, Amy Fisher, and of course, Darlie.
Mel BarrettHOST
The 90s and early 2000s felt like the wild, wild west of murder, mayhem, shady prosecutions, and televised trials,
Mel BarrettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
especially for the women.
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Mel BarrettHOST
Yes.
Mel BarrettHOST
And then we had OJ.
Mel BarrettHOST
But one of the things that really influenced this case... was actually Susan Smith.
Danelle Stahl FugateGUEST
Yes.
StephanieHOST
Imagine how bad it had to have been to have killed her kids right
BrendaHOST
right right right oh i remember like i remember reading a book about um was about i don't know if you remember susan smith
StephanieHOST
you might have
BrendaHOST
been pretty young when that i know
StephanieHOST
susan smith
BrendaHOST
but yeah so she's the woman who back in the 90s decided to push her kids, put her kids in, strap her kids in the car, and let the car go into the water.
BrendaHOST
And she claimed that her kids were kidnapped, she was carjacked.
Drew LaneHOST
Well, I'd read this before.
Drew LaneHOST
But Susan Smith, who drowned her two kids, she was in love with this other person.
Drew LaneHOST
And this girl was a lesbian, actually.
Drew LaneHOST
She was in prison for something, and they were lovers, supposedly, for like eight years.
Drew LaneHOST
And she was talking about Susan Smith.
Drew LaneHOST
Anyway, in the story, she mentioned the same thing I heard a while back, that Susan Smith makes tons of money catfishing people.
Drew LaneHOST
Well, not really catfishing.
Drew LaneHOST
They know who she is, and she's saying she's Susan Smith.
NikkiHOST
When your kids tell you to go to hell, and you've given up your life for them, that's painful.
NikkiHOST
And so when you are mad at your children, everybody Google this name Susan Smith.
NikkiHOST
Remember that? You were probably too young.
NikkiHOST
You're born in the '80s.
NikkiHOST
Susan Smith said that a Black man stole her car in America.
NikkiHOST
Meanwhile, she just strapped her two babies in the backseat of a car and rolled it down into the lake.
NikkiHOST
Andrea Yates, remember her? She killed her five kids in the bathtub.
Lea WoodfordGUEST
She just had to go report.
Lea WoodfordGUEST
And she's calling me in tears because she had to report on the Susan Smith trial.
Lea WoodfordGUEST
Oh, wow.
Lea WoodfordGUEST
And she told me, you are so lucky you didn't go into this.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
He finished the marathon in four hours and 18 minutes.
Kerry DoughertyHOST
In 1994, Susan Smith was arrested for drowning her two sons.
Kerry DoughertyHOST
Yeah.
Kerry DoughertyHOST
Nine days after claiming they'd been abducted by a black carjacker.
JimmyHOST
On October 25th, 1994, a frantic 23-year-old mother from Union, South Carolina, told police a story that tapped into every parent's deepest fears.
JimmyHOST
Susan Smith claimed that while stopped at a quiet intersection, a mysterious black male had forced her from her Mazda protege and sped away, taking her two small sons with him.
JimmyHOST
For nine agonizing days, America watched as Susan made tearful televised pleas for the safe return of three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex.
JimmyHOST
Her face, etched with what looked like unbearable grief, became a fixture on the evening news.
JimmyHOST
It was a narrative the public readily consumed, a heartbreaking drama playing out in real time.
JimmyHOST
But the twist was that it was all a lie.
JimmyHOST
The supposed perpetrator that Susan Smith created was both specific and chillingly generic, a black man in a knit cap.
JimmyHOST
Little did the public know, the true perpetrator was the one standing before them, live on TV.
speaker_19GUEST
How does a bar move from...
speaker_19GUEST
You remember Susan Smith drawing her kids? Yeah.
speaker_19GUEST
And then there was a...
speaker_19GUEST
There was a...
speaker_0HOST
That's bad.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah, that's obviously bad.
speaker_20GUEST
With Clancy, I think that there's a couple of things that happened between Susan Smith and now.
speaker_20GUEST
Social media is definitely part of it.
Nick ReaganHOST
I'll be back in the courtroom.
Emily JohnsonGUEST
And Susan Smith's parole hearing is next month.
Emily JohnsonGUEST
So I will be at both.
Emily JohnsonGUEST
If anyone's interested, maybe we'll do a little recap on all that.
WoodyHOST
What did she do?
Gina GradHOST
I always get her mixed up with Susan Smith.
Gina GradHOST
Did she drown her kids in the bathtub or did she back her car into the lake? No,
SammyPANELIST
she did not kill her daughter, allegedly, who was found in the trunk or was transported in the trunk.
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