What Life’s Been Like in Prison for Susan Smith Over the Last 25 Years — Transcript

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1. 0:00she looks like she could be a soccer mom
2. 0:02but 25 years ago this woman committed a
3. 0:05crime that shocked the nation our lives
4. 0:08have been torn apart by this tragic
5. 0:11event in 1994 Susan Smith claims she was
6. 0:15carjacked by a black man who took off
7. 0:17with her two young sons in the backseat
8. 0:19she pleaded for the safe return of her
9. 0:22boys 14 month old Alex and three
10. 0:25year-old Michael I would like to say to
11. 0:28whoever has my children that they please
12. 0:35please bring them home little by little
13. 0:3823 year old Smith story fell apart until
14. 0:41this bombshell announcement Susan Smith
15. 0:45has been arrested and will be charged
16. 0:48with two counts of murder in connection
17. 0:51with the deaths of her children in
18. 0:53reality Smith let her car rolled down a
19. 0:55boat ramp into this lake with her two
20. 0:58boys still strapped in their car seats
21. 1:00in the back the reason according to
22. 1:02authorities she was having an affair
23. 1:04with a man who didn't want children both
24. 1:07of her son's drowned so what has life
25. 1:09been like in prison for Susan Smith the
26. 1:11past 25 years you can see how the young
27. 1:14mom has aged in the last two decades
28. 1:17she's now 48 in that time she has been
29. 1:20disciplined five times including get
30. 1:23this for having sex with two
31. 1:25correctional officers captain Alfred
32. 1:28Rowe was one of them she had enough
33. 1:30charm to attract you to her how did it
34. 1:32start her approaching me about three
35. 1:36o'clock one morning telling me that she
36. 1:40thought I was the nicest officer there
37. 1:45and that she was lonely and things just
38. 1:50escalated Rowe told me he had only one
39. 1:54sexual encounter with Susan Smith but it
40. 1:57was enough to cost him his job
41. 1:59I'd get a phone call not to come back to
42. 2:01work you were fired yes
43. 2:04did you lose your pension did you lose
44. 2:06everything yes
45. 2:08lost it all what do you want people to
46. 2:11know about Susan Smith that she's a
47. 2:13manipulator and good at it
48. 2:17you make it sound as though she played
49. 2:19you like a fiddle she did Smith is said
50. 2:22to be haunted by memories of her little
51. 2:24boys
52. 2:25she's a tortured soul one source tells
53. 2:28People magazine
54. 2:29she keeps pictures of her boys in her
55. 2:31prison cell yes
56. 2:35[Music]