Same here.
We (husband, first child and I) had just moved from South Carolina. I saw it on the news and called Daddy, who had lived there at one time and had large ongoing engineering projects in Charleston near Columbia that kept him in the state nearly all the time.
He said the same thing - that she had killed those babies, and that they wouldn’t be found alive.
I told him I hoped he was wrong, but of course he wasn’t. Now that I’m older, I guess I’d say the same thing.
Stopped at my mother’s house at the time she was doing a presser with the sheriff and packs of news monkeys. My mom believed her of course, but I told her that Smith was lying.
A real tell was her generating the waterworks yet still being able to speak clearly. Saw that plenty growing up from my seven younger siblings with fake crying.