Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who committed a heinous crime, mentioned in a phone call with an unidentified male that she did not want to engage with the media shortly before being reprimanded in prison for breaking that rule, as revealed in recently obtained recordings by Fox News Digital.
Following her denial of parole on November 20, after spending three decades incarcerated, it was revealed that she had violated prison regulations by speaking with a filmmaker for a documentary, leading to her parole being denied.
Smith was formally charged with unauthorized communication with a victim or witness of a crime on August 26, with her conviction following on October 3, as confirmed by Chrysti Shain, the South Carolina Department of Corrections’ communications director, according to Fox News Digital.
Less than two weeks before being charged with the incident, Smith told a male prison caller on Aug. 13 that she “got a letter from a woman,” who she said worked for a national media outlet, adding “I’ve already thrown it away, so I can’t even read it to you.”
Susan Smith was convicted on July 22, 1995 of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. (Getty Images)
Susan Smith crying during her Nov. 20 parole hearing.
A board unanimously voted to deny Smith’s parole on Nov. 20 after she appeared emotional and crying on a jailhouse court feed during her hearing.
“I know that what I did was horrible…I’m sorry that I put them through that…I wish I could take that back, I really do…I was just scared,” she said during the parole hearing. “I didn’t know how to tell the people that loved them that they would never see them again…I’m sorry, I know that’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 offenses.
