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Killer mother Susan Smith inspires 360 correspondence – see how many people opt for parole
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Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who strangled her two young sons to death in 1994, will be up for parole on Nov. 20, and the South Carolina agency tasked with overseeing her bid for freedom has received 360 correspondence about her upcoming hearing.

In 1994, when Smith was 22, he strapped his sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander, into the backseat of his car and watched the vehicle roll away. John D. Lake in Union County. It took six minutes for the children to drown.

Anita Dantzler, communications director for the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services (PPP), told Fox News Digital that as of Nov. 8, the department had “received 360 correspondence regarding Susan Smith’s parole consideration.”

“Six were in favor of parole,” Dantzler said.

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Susan Smith, 22, left in a recent mugshot and right in 1994, has been incarcerated in South Carolina for nearly 30 years for the murders of her two sons. (South Carolina Department of Corrections)

Smith, now 52, ​​was convicted on Oct. 3 of communicating with a victim and/or witness of a crime, according to Chrysti Shain, communications director for the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC).

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One of Smith’s relatives told The New York Post that the letters sent to the South Carolina PPP were “terrible.”

“They say things like, ‘He belongs in that lake with his sons,'” the relative said. he told the Post. “People don’t want him to get out of prison, and they’re telling the parole board that.”

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Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. (William Campbell/Sygma)

A criminal complaint was filed against Smith crime After agreeing to send her contact information, including her ex-husband’s, to a documentary filmmaker in September, the producer then deposited money into Smith’s account.

SCDC inmates are not allowed to make phone calls or in person, but they can write letters according to prison rules.

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Susan Smith walks with her lawyers in 1995

Susan Smith initially claimed she had been carjacked, but evidence later revealed that she had murdered her two young sons, Michael and Alexander. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma)

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Although this conviction was Smith’s first disciplinary action in a decade, Smith had previously had sexual intercourse with a guard, a prison source said. interview with people In 2020.

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After Smith killed her sons in October 1994, she led law enforcement and the Union County community to believe for days that an unidentified Black man had carjacked her and kidnapped her children inside her vehicle.

However, evidence in the case later showed that Smith was the prime suspect in the murders.