Murderous mum Susan Smith heard a call in prison swearing in the middle of a money-making plot
South Carolina the murderous mother of Susan Smith told an unidentified man over the phone that she was “not going to talk” to the media just weeks before she was eventually disciplined behind bars for what she did, according to jailhouse calls recently obtained by Fox News Digital.
The 53-year-old was denied parole on November 20 after serving 30 years in prison – the decision came after she was found guilty of talking to a documentary filmmaker, which is against prison rules.
Smith was charged with communicating with a victim/s or witness to a crime on Aug. 26 and was sentenced on Oct. 3, Chrysti Shain, director of communications for the South Carolina Department of Corrections, previously told Fox News Digital.
Less than two weeks before she was charged in the incident, Smith told a male jail caller on Aug. 13 that she “got a letter from a woman,” who she said worked for a national media outlet, adding, “I already threw it away, so you I can’t even read.”
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Susan Smith has been in prison in South Carolina for almost 30 years for murdering her two sons. (South Carolina Department of Corrections)
When asked what the letter was about, Smith replied, “He just wanted to talk to me. Same thing, like most of them … they want to give me a platform to tell my story.”
“I wouldn’t talk to them even if I could,” she told the male caller.
Smith then mentioned another letter she had received.
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“I got a letter from some guy in California, but all he said was, ‘Hi, you don’t know me and I’ve never done this before. Do you want to talk?’ That was it – only one line was handwritten…it was kind of weird,” she said. – That probably also goes in the trash.
In a previous recorded phone conversation, apparently with the same male caller, Smith discussed the Freedom of Information Act.
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The toys are displayed on a small memorial near the spot where Michael and Alexander Smith drowned in 1994. (Photo by William F. Campbell/Getty Images)
That same month, she was charged after speaking with the director – Smith’s first disciplinary action in nearly 10 years.
In their conversations, Smith and the director discussed conducting interviews and even making a documentary and ways to get paid for it.
They also spoke Smith’s crime in depth and the events leading up to and after, including details such as “what was in the trunk of the car when it fell into the water and her plans to jump off the bridge while holding the boys, but one woke up,” the incident report says.
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Susan Smith during a Nov. 20 parole hearing.
Susan Smith initially claimed she had been kidnapped, but evidence would later reveal that she had killed her two young sons, Michael and Alexander. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma)
South Carolina Department of Corrections inmates are not allowed to conduct interviews on the phone or in person, per SCDC policy, but may write letters.
Smith agreed to provide the director with contact information for friends, family and victims, including her ex-husband. The director deposited the money into Smith’s “Calls and Canteen” account, according to the incident report, which redacted the director’s name.
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Smith lost her phone, tablet and canteen privileges for 90 days.
“SCDC inmates are issued tablets that are secured for correctional use. The tablets can be used to make monitored phone calls and send monitored electronic messages,” Shain previously said. “They are considered a privilege. The department will determine when and if inmate Smith will earn the opportunity to be issued a pill again.”
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Susan Smith strapped her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander Smith, into the back seat of her car and let them roll down the ramp at John D. Long Lake in Union, South Carolina, on October. 25, 1994. (Tommy Pope)
Smith strapped her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander Smith, into the back seat of her car and let them roll down a ramp into John D. Long Lake in Union, South CarolinaOctober 25, 1994.
Smith, who was 22 at the time, watched as it took six minutes for the water to fill the car, drown her boys and sink the car to the bottom of the lake.
She was convicted of murdering her two children on July 22, 1995, and although prosecutors argued that Smith should receive the death penalty, she was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
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On July 22, 1995, Susan Smith was convicted of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. (Getty Images)
Susan Smith cries during a Nov. 20 parole hearing.
On Nov. 20, the board voted unanimously to deny Smith parole after she appeared emotional and tearful at prison court feed during her hearing.
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“I know what I did was horrible…I’m sorry I made them do it…I wish I could take it back, I really do…I was just scared,” she said during her parole hearing. “I didn’t know how to tell the people who loved them that they would never see them again…I’m sorry, I know it’s not enough…just words, but they come from my heart.”
The reasons for the parole board’s denial were the nature and seriousness of the crime and Smith’s institutional record of misdemeanors.
