Exclusive: Sincerely, Susan: Union mother convicted of murder 20 years ago ... - The State
Susan Smith, the Union mother sentenced to life in prison after confessing to the murder of her two young boys 20 years ago, said she never planned to kill her children. Smith reiterated in a letter she wrote to The State that she loved her boys. She only lied about the boys being kidnapped because “I didn’t know how to tell the people who loved Michael and Alex that they would never see them again. “I had planned to kill myself first and leave a note behind telling what had happened,” Smith said in a letter to The State newspaper. Wednesday marks the 20th anniversary of Smith’s conviction, for which she received a life sentence in the deaths of 14-month-old Alex Smith and 3-year-old Michael Smith. In August 2014, The State submitted a letter to Smith asking if she would share her experiences of her trial and investigation for a 20th-anniversary article regarding the untold stories of the Susan Smith case, which was published in the... Smith said she was unable to respond in time to tell her side because the letter “was sent to the SCDC Correspondence Review Committee and was not approved until Nov. But now, 43-year-old Smith has shared some of her thoughts regarding the night she killed her children. Source: www.thestate.com
