Susan Smith

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

in a small town in Union, South Carolina. On
October 25th Susan Smith explained that she was "heading east on Highway 49 when
she stopped at a red light at Monarch Mills about 9:15 p.m., and a man jumped
into the passenger seat." She described the man "as a black male in his late
20s to early 30s, wearing a plaid shirt, jeans and a toboggan-type hat." She
said that the abductor held her at gun point and told her to drive. She drove
northeast of Union for about 4 miles. Then the man suddenly told her to stop the
car. Mrs. Smith said she asked if she should pull over, but the man said for her
to stop in the middle of the road. She claimed that she begged for the release
of her two children, who were still strapped in the back seat, but it was to no
avail. The town sent out thousands of volunteers to search through "over five
hundred square miles for the children." The story later went national but
there was still no sign of the children or the attacker. The town Sheriff, ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

her home for
fingerprints. She failed a lie detector test and the neighbours began to get
suspicious telling the police about a man she was recently seeing. A letter
from Tom Fidley (the man she was seeing) was found telling Susan that he wanted
to be with her , yet he was not ready for a ready made family. "The pressures
were suddenly more than Susan could handle and she broke down under questioning
and confessed after nine days." On November 3rd, she told police the location
of the bodies. Divers went to John D Long Lake at 4:15pm on Thursday and they
pulled the car from the mud. At 6:45pm it was confirmed that two bodies were
found in the back seat. Mrs. Smith was arrested and ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: