Infamous South Carolina Child Killer Caught Violating Prison Rules

It's a story that I'd hoped I'd be able to wipe from my memory. There have been a great number of horrific acts perpetrated by people in areas I've lived over the years, but none can touch the case of Susan Smith in Union, South Carolina in 1994.

For those who don't remember or weren't around, here's what you need to know. In October of 1994, Susan Smith reported her two sons, Michael (3) and Alex (1) missing. For more than a week afterward, Smith went on TV pleading for her boys' safe return-doubling down on her assertion they'd been abducted by a carjacker. In reality, Susan Smith had rolled her car into a lake with her boys strapped in. For her crime(s) she was sentenced to life.

You would think that with her being eligible for parole next month, that Susan Smith would be on her best behavior. Think again. The South Carolina Department of Corrections caught Smith talking to a documentary filmmaker on the phone about her crimes. Fox Carolina reports, “She agreed to provide the filmmaker with contact information for friends, family and victims, including her former husband. “The filmmaker also deposited money into Smith’s account.”

Corrections inmates are not allowed to do interviews by phone (or in person) in South Carolina, but they may write letters. For this violation, Susan Smith (incarcerated in Leath Correctional in Greenwood) has lost her telephone, tablet and canteen privileges for 90 days, beginning Oct. 4. This is not her first in-prison faux pas. Although this is the first disciplinary issue in nine years, she has been cited in the past for drugs and having sexual contact with a prison guard.

Somehow, I get the vibe that parole hearing is not going to be a positive for her in November. And that's a good thing.