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  Susan Smith: Child Murderer or Victim? - The Crime Library
The letter was addressed to Susan Smith, a secretary at Conso, and a woman Tom Findlay had dated on and off in 1994.
Tom wrote that he thought Susan was a great person and that he was impressed that she had enrolled in night school at the local college.
Susan was furious at Tom and hurt by his rejection.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/smith/index_1.html   (550 words)

  
  Susan Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Susan Smith (born September 26, 1971 as Susan Leigh Vaughan), of Union, South Carolina, was convicted of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith, born October 10, 1991, and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith, born August 5, 1993, and sentenced to life in prison in 1995.
Smith made tearful pleas on television for the rescue and return of her children.
In 2003, a journalist from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who was writing a story about Smith being held in general population at a South Carolina women's prison (a setting likely to endanger her because of her notoriety), concluded that the deaths of Michael and Alex Smith were the result of an accident, not murder.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susan_Smith   (581 words)

  
 Susan Smith-penalty   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Smith was dressed in a white shirt and plaid Mickey Mouse tie and at times cried uncontrollably when talking about the nine days he spent believing his sons had been abducted by a carjacker.
Smith testified that he was paid $110,000 and that he kept $20,000 of the $110,000 to help him through the trial, since he had taken a leave of absence from his job as the night manager of the Winn Dixie in Union.
Susan’s act was a culmination of a disturbed and emotionally disordered life that resulted in the tragic murder of two innocent children.
www.fathers.ca /susan_smith_9.htm   (1842 words)

  
 South Carolina v. Susan V. Smith
Smith family pleased with verdict (7/23/95) -- David Smith's family was pleased with the guilty verdict a jury returned Saturday against Susan Smith for the drownings of their sons last fall in a Union County lake.
Susan Smith's lawyer vs. the electric chair (7/21/95) -- David Bruck is not at all flamboyant, and his soft voice does not always make it to the far reaches of a courtroom.
Smith: My children are not all right (7/18/95) -- The investigators who exposed Susan Smith's lie said they have never seen anyone as remorseful after a confession, and they told her she didn't deserve to die.
www.teleplex.net /shj/smith/trial/latest.html   (1938 words)

  
 Susan Smith-the trial   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Susan was not present because she had waived her right to be present at the hearing and her right to bail.
The two circumstances that made Susan Smith eligible for the death penalty were the fact that she murdered two people during one act and that the murders were committed against children under the age of eleven.
Susan’s defense attorneys did not claim she was insane or that a mental illness caused her to murder her sons.
www.fathers.ca /susan_smith_8.htm   (5026 words)

  
 SUSANSMITH   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Susan never knew the exact year of her birth, but thought she was about five when sent off to Canada, although the passenger list records her age as seven and is probably closer to being correct.
Susan's last recollection of England was that of standing on a dock with her mother, sister Elizabeth and brothers Alfred and George.
Susan said what finally prompted her to leave, was being sent out in the snow and bitter cold, to dig potatoes from the frozen ground.
home.earthlink.net /~gaalli/SUSANROBINSON.html   (4010 words)

  
 CNN.com - Susan Smith's ex-husband: Let Yates father grieve - July 6, 2001
Smith's ex-wife, Susan, was convicted of murdering their two boys -- 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex -- and is serving a life prison sentence.
On October 24, 1994, Susan Smith told police she had been carjacked by a fl man and that her two children were still in their car seats in the vehicle.
Smith said that if he were to talk to Yates, he would apologize for the loss of the Yates children.
archives.cnn.com /2001/US/07/06/smith.yates   (597 words)

  
 Susan Smith-investigation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Susan’s test showed that her greatest level of deception was when she was asked the question; "Do you know where your children are?" The investigators did not hide the results of her polygraph from Susan.
Susan told Caldwell that Mitch lived less than a mile north of the Monarch intersection and that she had stopped at a red light on Monarch, but saw no other cars at the intersection while she had stopped.
Susan seemed reluctant to speak publicly in order to raise awareness of her missing children and this caused additional speculation that Susan was somehow involved in the disappearance of her children.
www.fathers.ca /susan_smith_6.htm   (4611 words)

  
 The Susan Smith Trial and TV   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Susan Smith is accused of the murder of her two young sons.
As the case of South Carolina vs. Smith proceeded to trial, one of Smith's defense attorneys, David Bruck, appeared in a pretrial hearing to argue a motion that, contrary to normal practice in South Carolina, television cameras should be excluded from the courtroom.
Smith initiated national interest in her and her children, and in subsequent events, was irrelevant and carried no legal significance in deciding whether or not cameras should be allowed in the courtroom.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~taflinge/smith.html   (2289 words)

  
 MURDERING MOM: SUSAN SMITH
In 1994, Smith appeared on national televison and claimed a "fl man carjacked my car and took my children." I like the rest of America watching was praying and hoping that little Alex Smith, age 14 months and Michael Smith, age 3 years, would be found safe and sound.
Susan Smith and her ex-husband David went on a national television show and pleaded with the carjacker to let the children out somewhere safe.
Susan Smith committed the most unthinkable act when she broke humanity’s most sacred trust, the love of a mother for her children.
www.geocities.com /theunx/susansmith.html   (1521 words)

  
 Susan O'Dooley Smith
Smith also is editor in chief of the national magazine for individuals grieving the death of a loved one.
Come along with Susan as she clears out a closet heaped high with misconceptions about God and her relationship with him … misconceptions she slips on as easily as an old pair of shoes.
Let Andy and Susan help you discover the secret of finding joy in the joyless task no matter where it is. Be warned, though, Their methods of finding joy may spark uncontrollable laughter, knee-slapping and rib-holding.
www.classervices.com /susansmith.html   (1175 words)

  
 WAS SUSAN SMITH'S ONLY CRIME HER SENSE OF TIMING   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If Susan Smith had chosen to kill her babies four years ago and fourteen months ago it would have not even made the local headlines, let alone attract the attention of the national news.
Susan's lack of a proper sense of timing has angered the nation; a nation who would have excused her if she had just killed her children a little earlier.
Susan is guilty of being without "natural affection," but so is the woman who kills her baby in her womb.
www.southavencoc.org /Power/p1995/timing.htm   (752 words)

  
 SUSAN SMITH
Susan Porter Smith, environmentalist, artist, and pioneer in the movement for equal rights for women in the workplace, died on September 11, 2003 of ovarian cancer at the home of long time friends in Blue Point, New York.
Susan Smith vs. Readers Digest, a class action suit organized by Susan which was eventually settled out of court, was notable for having the highest payment per capita for a sex discrimination case based on equal employment rights at that time.
Susan's ashes were thrown to the head of the Laja on 11/07/03.
www.bobjanuary.com /susan.htm   (670 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - A decade after Susan Smith case, South Carolina city still trying to heal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
UNION, S.C. (AP) — A decade after Susan Smith strapped her sons in their car seats and let her car roll into a lake, carrying the boys to their deaths, residents are trying to move on.
Susan Smith was convicted of murder for the drowning deaths of her two boys Alex and Michael in 1994.
Prosecutor Tommy Pope, who tried Smith for the crime, said he recently started a conversation in a store with a "little old lady." She was very sweet and polite until the subject of Smith came up, then the woman began to "sound like a sailor," he said.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-10-23-susan-smith_x.htm   (617 words)

  
 A Continuing Saga of Sex, Murder And Racism - Susan Smith Is Still Scheming In Prison
COLUMBIA, SC - Susan Smith, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her two toddler sons, has admitted having sex with a prison guard at the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
In 1994, Smith led the country on a wild goose chase for nine days by blaming a fictitious fl man for carjacking her Mazda with her sons still in the car.
Headline grabbing hearings about sex with Susan Smith behind bars are scintillating but scheming Susan's racist attempt to blame a fl man in a knit cap for her horrible deed is a continuing tradition that goes way back to demonizing fls to justify enslaving them.
www.commondreams.org /views/091400-101.htm   (1002 words)

  
 Susan Smith
As you recall on October 25, 1994, in Union, SC, Susan Smith drowned her two children and then reported that a car-jacker had stolen her car along with her two children.
Approximately one week later, Smith confessed that she had drowned her children by driving her car into a lake with her children trapped in the car.
On the show, several experts (doctors, FBI Agents, etc.) felt that Smith wanted to kill herself and her children, but as the car was going into the water Smith at the last minute bailed out of the car leaving her children to die.
www.statementanalysis.com /smith   (858 words)

  
 Jet: Susan Smith's ex-mother-in-law's hubby recalls he was a suspect in case; waits for jury to decide her fate - ...
Susan Smith's ex-mother-in-law's hubby recalls he was a suspect in case; waits for jury to decide her fate - Adolphus Benson
She is the mother of David Smith, who was married to Susan Smith; and the grandmother of the couple's two children.
Defense attorneys for Smith are expected to point out evidence of mental illness and a lifetime of abuse and failed relationships as a reason to spare Smith the death penalty.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n13_v88/ai_17387758   (703 words)

  
 CNN - U.S. News Year in Review - Susan Smith Trial - Dec. 28, 1995
Susan Smith had confessed to doing the unthinkable, killing her two young sons by strapping them in their car seats and rolling the car into the John D. Long Lake.
Smith appeared in a Union, South Carolina court in January, where her lawyer, David Bruck, said Smith would not enter a plea in the case.
Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison.
www.cnn.com /EVENTS/year_in_review/us/smith.html   (726 words)

  
 Nine Days in Union
Children's kidnapper still eludes authorities (10/27/94) -- Susan Smith said she stood in the middle of a rural highway Tuesday night and screamed "I love y'all" as a stranger drove into the darkness with her two screaming children.
Smith friend not a suspect in abduction (11/2/94) -- Union County Sheriff Howard Wells said during an evening news conference Tuesday that statements by Mitch Sinclair were misconstrued by the media and that he did not mean what he had said on a national television program.
Susan Smith's handwritten confession (11/23/94) -- A copy of Susan Smith's handwritten confession to drowning her 2-year-old son Michael and 14-month-old son Alex.
www.teleplex.net /shj/smith/ninedays/ninedays.html   (969 words)

  
 The Freedom of Susan Smith
Her lawyers are expected to argue that Susan Smith has been the victim of destructive relationships and influences since she was born, swept helplessly through life like a cork down a quick-moving creek.
Onlookers began to consider that perhaps Susan Smith had not created herself out of whole cloth, that perhaps her state of mind at the time of the murders was the fatal culmination of a life history and recent events which she neither planned nor controlled.
If we believe Susan Smith acted coldly and rationally out of selfish motives, so be it; but we need not, indeed cannot (if we are being reasonable) buy the notion that she chose to act out of some mysterious, uncaused capacity called free will.
www.naturalism.org /freewill2.htm   (3592 words)

  
 Dr. Susan Smith
Smith, and M. Walker Insulin Regulation in AhR-null Mice: Embryonic Cardiac Enlargement, Neonatal Macrosomia, and Altered Insulin Regulation and Response in Pregnant and Aging AhR-null Females.
Smith, S.M. The retinoic acid receptor isoform ß-2 is a early marker for alimentary tract and central nervous system positional specification in the chicken.
Induction of proline-rich glycoprotein synthesis in mouse salivary glands by isoproterenol and by tannins.
www.erp.wisc.edu /faculty/smith.html   (598 words)

  
 Fear of Writing: Susan Smith: Fear of Writing Success Story
Susan is a retired English teacher who has been married to her husband, Bill, for 36 years.
Susan has worked as a belly dancer for fun and profit but says it was one of the things that had to go when she went back to school.
Susan said, “I dressed up as her at an eccentric tea party given by Fear of Writing pal, Dee Nielsen.
millithornton.blogspot.com /2006/03/susan-smith-fear-of-writing-success.html   (1633 words)

  
 My Daughter Susan Smith
Susan was never a violent person, never abused her children.
Susan was sad she couldn't be there, but she wanted to know everything—the colors they were using, who was in it, what songs Donna and Mitch picked out, where they were going on their honeymoon.
Obviously, I have to accept that Susan was responsible for the deaths of her children.
www.authorsbooknook.com /smith.htm   (1508 words)

  
 SMITHFAMILY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Susan is believed to have been working at the Inn and Henry was working as a laborer or wood cutter "in the woods".
Susan received a small war pension and somehow managed to raise the children and go on to own several properties.
Susan and Henry's first born were twins, Gertrude "Gertie" Amelia and Henry "Harvey", born in Toronto, on February 27, 1901.
home.earthlink.net /~gaalli/SMITHFAMILY.html   (744 words)

  
 AlterNet: Gingrich & The Susan Smith Case   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Even after a South Carolina jury declared Susan Smith guilty of murdering her two sons, reporters are not pressing Gingrich about the Smith case.
But Susan Smith attempted suicide at age 13, and at age 15 told authorities that her stepdad had been sexually molesting her for at least a year.
And Susan Smith was not even represented in court by a lawyer or guardian, as required for minors.
www.alternet.org /columnists/story/8695   (942 words)

  
 Susan Smith and Robert Latimer: A Tale of Two Murders   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The community was shaken with outrage as Susan Smith, a South Carolina mother confessed to killing her two young sons.
Susan Smith was thoroughly ostracised by the community.
Like Susan Smith, Robert Latimer tried to cover the killing of his daughter with a lie, but confessed when the evidence became too strong.
www.normemma.com /artaleof.htm   (700 words)

  
 Afro-American Greats
Born Susan Maria Smith in March of 1847, Susan became the first African American female doctor in New York state, and the third in the United States.
Reverend Steward was the chaplain of the 25
The Susan Smith McKinney Junior High School, in Brooklyn, New York, was named in her honor on September 25, 1974.
www.uis.edu /multiculturalstudentaffairs/afro-american_greats.htm   (818 words)

  
 Lithograph prints for sale, lithographs, ceramic sculptures, wall sculptures
The Smith-Hunter Gallery welcomes you to the works of Mel Hunter (please click lithograph prints for sale to view lithographs) and Susan Smith-Hunter (please click ceramic sculptures or wall sculptures to view either).
For more than 20 years, Mel Hunter is best known for his original hand-drawn lithographs (more than simply realistic paintings), and now for his artistic greeting cards, all of which are created with what Mel calls "Remembered Realism." His quite original lithographs have won respect and acclaim worldwide.
Susan Smith-Hunter has created imaginative but functional ceramic sculptures for more than 20 years as well, whose functionality in no way negates their status as fine art sculpture.
www.smithhuntergallery.com   (227 words)

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