Susan Smith up for parole 30 years after killing her sons

(NewsNation) — Thirty years aft she killed her 2 children, Susan Smith is present eligible for parole, raising the question of whether she volition get retired of prison.

Susan Smith initially told instrumentality enforcement that a antheral carjacked her and took disconnected with her 2 children inactive wrong the car successful 1994.

Smith, who is white, identified the carjacker arsenic Black erstwhile she described the alleged late-night carjacking adjacent Union, South Carolina.

Smith pleaded with the media and nationalist for assistance locating three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex, attracting planetary attraction to the case. For 9 days, she appeared connected TV begging for help.

But elements of her communicative didn't adhd up, including her statement of the carjacking and wherefore the carjacker would merchandise her but support her young children.

Eventually, Smith admitted to strapping her 2 sons into car seats successful the backmost of her car and driving it onto a vessel ramp astatine a South Carolina lake, letting the conveyance rotation into the h2o with her children inside,

Smith said she was having an matter and the antheral that she was cheating with didn't privation kids.

Now, 30 years later, Smith is eligible for parole. That angers investigators similar Union County Sheriff Jeff Bailey, who says Smith deserves to walk each time of her beingness down bars, adjacent if she's already been locked up for 30 years.

"Those kids didn't person a accidental and I don't deliberation she deserves one," Bailey said. "She inactive killed her kids, that is the bottommost enactment That is [her] blood, [she] chose to fto them spell into the h2o and drown. That is simply a horrible death."

Smith's parole proceeding is acceptable for Wednesday morning, wherever she volition marque her lawsuit for release.

During the trial, Smith's lawyers said she was experiencing a intelligence breakdown and had intended to enactment successful the car with her sons but had exited astatine the past minute.

Smith has besides made claims that her then-husband abused her, thing helium has denied.

During her clip successful prison, Smith has faced occupation aggregate times, for everything from utilizing drugs to having sex with situation guards.