Episode 21: Nine Days and Two Car Seats

Susan Smith, Union, South Carolina

My sources for this episode

• Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith by David Smith
• Violence As Seen Through a Prism of Color by Letha A. See
• The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment and Other Macroaggressions by Kathryn Russell

Further recommended reading

• Sins of the Mother: The Heartbreaking True Story of Susan Smith by Maria Eftimades
• My Daughter Susan Smith by Linda H. Russell with Shirley Stephens
• Mother Love, Deadly Love: The Susan Smith Murders by Andrea Peyser
• Susan Smith: Victim or Murderer by George Rekers
• Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady (poetry that “deals with the vision of the black man in white imagination. Narrated largely by the black kidnapper that Susan Smith invented…”)

All books have been added to the podcast’s Goodreads bookshelf.

Susan’s extremely peculiar, calm, and seemingly cheerful confession note:

Findagrave: Alexander Tyler Smith (1993-1994)

Findagrave: Michael Daniel Smith (1991-1994)

Murderpedia: Susan Smith

Susan Smith: Child Killer full length documentary:

American Justice episode:

Tommy Pope. prosecutor, speaks out 20 years later:

Steve Harvey:

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