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)
Susan Smith: Child Killer full length documentary:
American Justice episode:
Tommy Pope. prosecutor, speaks out 20 years later:
Steve Harvey:
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