Killer mom Susan Smith will argue she should be paroled because she’s been (mostly) well behaved: ‘Just let me live my life’
By Steve Helling
Published Sep. 24, 2024, 6:38 a.m. ET
Susan Smith, in prison for the cold-blooded 1994 murders of her two young sons, has a parole hearing in just six weeks — and family members say that she has come up with at least four arguments she will make as she makes her bid for freedom — including that she’s been (mostly) well behaved in prison.
“She believes she might be a free woman in less than two months,” a relative told The Post.
“And she’s hoping that [the parole hearing] will go her way. She’s put all her hopes in that basket, and she’s manifesting her freedom.”
The Post has learned that Smith, 52, plans to argue that she grew up in a sexually abusive household that skewed her understanding of right and wrong. “She has a different moral compass than other people, because of her trauma,” the relative said. “It really did a number on her.”
Secondly, Smith wants to argue that she was not in her right mind as a young mom — and that she may have suffered from undiagnosed mental illness.
She was a 22-year-old mom when she let her car roll into John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina, with her boys — 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander — still strapped into their car seats.
It’s an argument Smith has used before. “I am not the monster society thinks I am,” she wrote in a letter from jail to reporters at The State in 2015.
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