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Killer mom Susan Smith will argue she should be paroled because she’s been (mostly) well behaved: ‘Just let me live my life’
NY Post ^ | Sep. 24, 2024, | Steve Helling

Posted on 09/24/2024 9:35:48 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul

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.

“Something went very wrong that night. I was not myself. There was no motive as it was not even a planned event. I was not in my right mind.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: murder; southcarolina; susansmith
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To: frank ballenger

“His blood stained executioner’s clothes, axes, and guillotines remain on display today at the Criminology museum at the Oratory of the Banner building in Central Rome.”

I used to live near Balboa Park, which is and amazing park & museum in San Diego, CA. My then-husband was in the Navy at the time, so I had long stretches of time to entertain myself when I wasn’t working.

For some UNKNOWN REASON Balboa Park had a ‘display’ of all likes of torture/death devices as well as real, still-functioning guillotines. It was HORRIFIC and I remember it to this day.

But, you know, ‘Forget it, Jake. It’s California.’ *SHUDDER*


61 posted on 09/24/2024 4:25:21 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Andera Yates was suffering from post partum when she drowned her 5 babies. Susan Smith never claimed post partum. As for teenagers, I just watched the Menendez boys Netflix, Monsters. It’s better to get them before they get you.


62 posted on 09/24/2024 4:34:14 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: DeplorablePaul

Yates was acting.


63 posted on 09/24/2024 4:35:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DeplorablePaul
"SCREW YOU MAMA"... is all the sympathy I can muster up bitch.


64 posted on 09/24/2024 4:38:59 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Never heard of it but around 1967 I went to the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum in NYC. Saw torture devices.


65 posted on 09/24/2024 4:50:24 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Friend of mine’s mother is a retired coroner. She did the autopsies on Smith’s boys.


66 posted on 09/24/2024 5:03:20 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: DeplorablePaul

“It’s better to get them before they get you.”

LOL! ;)


67 posted on 09/24/2024 5:21:59 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You read my mind and expressed my sentiments exactly, to the letter.


68 posted on 09/24/2024 5:56:49 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: TheWriterTX
I am glad someone agrees with me.

I just want people to stop killing kids.

And I think prompt execution of the people who kill kids would aid in this goal.

I know they want me to cry and be all emotional over the killers but I can't. Because killing kids, especially your own kids, is something that should not be encouraged.

69 posted on 09/24/2024 6:51:35 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Sounds like a low grade psychopath.

Is there a HIGH grade psychopath? Susan Smith didn't let her kids "just live their lives". She shouldn't get the chance either.

70 posted on 09/24/2024 7:00:10 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Round Earther
Re: "They gave her life in prison."

Sorry, that is incorrect.

They gave her a minimum 30 year sentence.

She is eligible for parole in November 2024.

71 posted on 09/24/2024 8:14:56 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: DeplorablePaul

I remember when there was a mystery about this woman. I saw it happen in my mind as they explained the story. My sister was talking about it, and I said “she drowned them” off the top of my head. I don’t know how I knew, but I did know as if I was the news report from a few days later. Weirdest thing ever happened to me.


72 posted on 09/24/2024 8:53:36 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: zeestephen

Life in Prison with a possibility of parole after 30 years.

Ms. Smith should not confuse possibility of parole with probability of parole.

Ms. Smith, it is possible you get paroled, but it is not probable.


73 posted on 09/24/2024 8:54:18 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Round Earther
The jury rejected the death penalty and gave Smith 30 years to life.

Susan Smith's life before the murders was chaotic.

Her father committed suicide when she was six.

As a teenager, Smith tried to kill herself twice, and she was diagnosed with a mental disorder.

74 posted on 09/24/2024 9:22:58 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Glad2bnuts

Good for you. I don’t believe anyone. The thing that gave it away for me was when she accused a black man of carjacking with her kids in the car. That would have been the first carjacking ever in Union County, in the middle of no where, little town SC, where everybody knows everybody. Of course cars are stolen, but for a black man to yank a white lady with kids out of the car and drive off? Impossible.


75 posted on 09/25/2024 4:19:01 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: DeplorablePaul

She should spend forever in hell.


76 posted on 09/25/2024 4:31:41 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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