Susan Smith, the deranged mom who killed her two sons because they were a hindrance to her love life now wants your sympathy.
“I am not the monster society thinks I am,” wrote Smith in a letter to The State newspaper editor Harrison Cahill.
Smith, now 43, reiterated that she intended to kill herself the night she put her car into drive and watched it roll down the ramp into the murky water, drowning her sons 14-month-old Alex Smith and 3-year-old Michael Smith.
“I had planned to kill myself first and leave a note behind telling what had happened,” Smith said in the letter. “I didn’t believe I could face my family when the truth was revealed.”
Smith, a narcissist who believed her sons stood in the way of her happiness with her boss’s son, blamed the children’s disappearance on a non-existent black man.
For days, Smith led law enforcement on a wild goose chase, searching for a kidnapper who didn’t exist.
Like a typical narcissist, Smith went on morning news shows and stood before the cameras at press conferences to plead for her sons’ return — all the while knowing she had sent her sons to a watery grave.
Wednesday is the 20th anniversary of Smith’s conviction. Cahill wrote Smith in prison asking for her side of the story to coincidence with the morbid anniversary.
But the letter was not delivered to Smith on time for The State‘s article.
Smith said the letter “was sent to the SCDC Correspondence Review Committee and was not approved until Nov. 19, 2014.”
“I imagine that was done on purpose,” Smith said. “I wanted to let you know that I would have most likely responded to your letter because I have (not) yet been able to speak on my behalf. It has been hard to listen to lie after lie and not be able to defend myself.”
Smith is serving a life sentence for murdering her sons.
