Murderous South Carolina mother Susan Smith’s ex-husband ‘still broken’: author

The former husband of South Carolina child murderer Susan Smith is “obviously still broken,” according to author and New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser, who wrote a book about Smith’s arrest and conviction for the 1994 murders of her two young sons has.

blacksmith, who drowned 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander in a Union County lake in October 1994 will get a chance at parole 30 years later, with a hearing scheduled for Nov. 20.

“[H]It’s obviously still broken. I mean, he’s been living with this for 30 years,” Pesyer told Fox News Digital of the killer’s ex-husband, David Smith. “He tried to move on.” He had a new family and so on, but he’s not over it yet and never will be. I don’t see how you get over this.

Peyser’s comments come in response to David Smith’s recent interview with FOX Carolina.

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“She always kind of wanted to be in the spotlight…she always wanted attention and she was always trying to manipulate people and I don’t think she’s going to change,” David Smith told FOX Carolina, adding that he has his two boys still missing. “I wish I could have prevented it.

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Susan was 22 when she strapped Michael and Alexander into the back seat of her car and watched as she let the vehicle roll inside John D. Lake in Union County. It took six minutes for the two boys to drown. She subsequently told law enforcement and the public that she had been assaulted by a black man, but the evidence led to her being arrested shortly after her sons’ deaths.

“I’m still fighting for justice for what happened to you.”

– David Smith, via FOX Carolina

“I am still fighting for justice for what happened to you. … I am doing everything in my power to make sure what happened to you is not in vain,” said David Smith FOX Carolina about what he would tell his sons if he could.

Susan Smith, pictured left in a recent mugshot, was 22 years old in 1994 and has been incarcerated in South Carolina for nearly 30 years for the murders of her two sons. (South Carolina Department of Corrections)

Peyser recalled meeting David’s father in the 1990s when she reported the story.

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“I had a little contact with David, not much… but I spoke to his family members… and he was really heartbroken about it. I have never seen such an angry person in my life and that is completely understandable,” Pesyer said. “He believed in her. He loved his wife. And she really took away everything he had at the time.”

“[S]he really took away everything he had at the time.”

—Andrea Peyser

Although a date has been set for Susan’s parole hearing, Peyser does not believe it is likely that she will be released after reports of several scandalous incidents at the prison.

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Susan Smith initially claimed she had been mugged, but evidence later showed she had killed her two young sons, Michael and Alexander. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma)

According to Chrysti Shain, communications director for the South Carolina Department of Corrections, Susan was convicted on Oct. 3 of communicating with a victim/or witness to a crime.

Smith was charged in September after he agreed to send David’s contact information to a documentary filmmaker, who then transferred cash to Smith’s account. SCDC inmates are not permitted to conduct telephone or in-person interviews, but are allowed to write letters, according to prison rules.

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While the sentencing was her first disciplinary action in a decade, Smith previously had a sexual relationship with a prison guard, a prison source said in a statement Interview with People in 2020.

Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. (William Campbell/Sygma)

“It’s completely illegal in South Carolina to get telephone interviews and give out information about other people,” Peyser said. “I don’t know what their game is. I think she’s trying to gain sympathy to get out of prison, but she doesn’t deserve it. She has proven time and time again that she has learned nothing and that she is not.” She is still a young woman. It could cause great external damage.

Former Union County prosecutor Tommy Pope, now a South Carolina state representative, previously told Fox News Digital that Smith should not be released.

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Pope said that at the time, Smith was having an extramarital affair with Tom Findlay, the son of a wealthy local business owner, who wrote Smith a letter a week before the murders telling the 22-year-old woman that he was interested in her romantically , he wasn’t fit to raise children like that Birmingham News reported in a 2005 interview with Findlay.

Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after killing her two sons in 1994. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma)

This letter would become an important piece of evidence in the prosecution’s case.

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“She has proven by her behavior in prison that she has had sexual relationships with guards, that she has Facebook friends and sugar daddies waiting for her to get out,” Pope said. “She’s focused on what’s best for Susan and not what happened to Michael and Alex.”

Pope called for the death penalty Smith during her trial in 1995and he doesn’t believe she should be eligible for parole today.

Fox News’ Mollie Markowitz contributed to this report.