Susan Smith, in prison for the cold-blooded 1994 murders of her two young sons, had no shortage of romantic suitors during her incarceration — but now that she has a shot a freedom none of the lovelorn men will vouch for her.
Smith has not been able to find a single character witness to testify on her behalf at her upcoming parole hearing on Nov. 20, sources told The Post.
“Yeah, they all wanted just one thing out of her,” said a relative of the 53-year-old killer. “But they didn’t want to put their full names on the record to argue that she should get out of jail.”
The Post reached out to four of the men who regularly called and messaged Smith. Two of them did not return calls, one hung up, and the fourth one groaned audibly when he heard Smith’s name.
“I am not going to stick my neck out for her, and then have her run off with another guy,” the suitor, in his early 60s, told The Post. “I’m no chump.”
“I found out that if I support her, my name and address become public record,” he continued. “I don’t need that s–t in my life.”
But while Smith has been unable to garner any support for the hearing, the people who oppose her release are flooding the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services with nearly 150 letters condemning her.
While the letters are not publicly accessible, the Smith family source previously told The Post that many of them are full of nasty comments about Smith’s attempt to get out of prison after 30 years.
In addition to the letters from the general public, those closer to the case also plan to vehemently oppose her parole.
Former prosecutor Tommy Pope and Smith’s ex-husband, David Smith, plan to testify against her release.
“The belief was that she would spend her time thinking about [her murdered sons] Michael and Alex,” Pope told Greenville Online. “It’s clear she hasn’t been thinking about Michael and Alex.”
“She’s having sex with the guards and now got guys that want her on social media when she gets out of prison,” Pope told the outlet. “She’s not focused on remorse for the lives she took. I think she needs to continue to serve her sentence and serve it out forward.”
David Smith, who lost his two sons in the murders, agrees.
“She took the greatest gift that we have of life,” he told Fox Carolina. “She took that away from them, and I want people to remember that.”
Smith was a 22-year-old mom when she became a household name for killing her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander. In 1994, she let her car roll into John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina, with her boys still strapped into their car seats.
Smith then falsely told police that a black man had carjacked her and kidnapped the tots, leading to a manhunt in which authorities went door-to-door among local neighborhoods that were predominantly African American.
Smith and her then-husband appeared on national news every day, pleading for the boys’ safe return.
But nine days later, Smith finally confessed that there was no carjacker, and that she had drowned her sons in the lake.
Her alleged motive: She was having an affair with a wealthy man who didn’t want children. The car was pulled from the water with the two boys inside, exactly where she left them.
But Smith insists that she is just misunderstood. In a 2015 letter to the State newspaper, she said she was mentally ill.
“I am not the monster society thinks I am. I am far from it,” she wrote. “I am far from it. Something went very wrong that night. I was not myself. I was a good mother and I loved my boys. There was no motive as it was not even a planned event. I was not in my right mind.”
It seems unlikely that Smith will be paroled.
She has received multiple violations while in prison, including ones for marijuana possession, self-mutilation and having sex with guards.
Last month, she was convicted of trying to cash in on her infamy by talking to a documentary producer from behind bars and discussing receiving payment for her story.
Smith lost her telephone, tablet and canteen privileges for 90 days, beginning Oct. 4. She can receive visitors, but has no electronic communication with anyone.
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