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Killer mum Susan Smith phone sex tapes exposed ahead of parole hearing

Susan Smith is serving life for murdering her two toddlers in 1994. As her first parole hearing looms, her prison antics have been revealed.

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Susan Smith thinks she’s served enough time in prison for the 1994 murder of her two young sons — a case that shocked the US.

The infamous killer from South Carolina received life sentences for the deaths of 14-month-old Alex Smith and three-year-old Michael Smith almost 30 years ago.

Smith initially claimed she was stopped at a red light when a black man forced her out of her car at gunpoint and drove off with her two small sons in the back.

However she later confessed to watching her car roll into a lake with both her sons strapped into the back seat.

Smith’s first parole hearing for her life sentence is on November 4 — and she’s spent the past few months convinced that she could be getting out, family members said.

As a result, she’s hard at work finding sugar daddies willing to bankroll her life on the outside, the New York Post reports.

Alex and Michael Smith were killed by their mum in 1994 when she rolled her car into a lake with them in the back seat. Picture: William Campbell/Sygma
Alex and Michael Smith were killed by their mum in 1994 when she rolled her car into a lake with them in the back seat. Picture: William Campbell/Sygma
Susan Smith was convicted on July 22, 1995 of murdering the 3-year-old and his 14-month-old little brother. Picture: Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma
Susan Smith was convicted on July 22, 1995 of murdering the 3-year-old and his 14-month-old little brother. Picture: Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma

And the 52-year-old inmate is not above engaging in a little phone sex to lure them in, according to family sources and prison call recordings obtained by the publication.

“It’s time for me to get out,” she told one suitor earlier this year in one call. “I’ve done my time. I’m ready to go.”

In the March conversation, she asked him how she can support herself if she gets out. He told her that she has a large nest egg waiting for her if she’s paroled — a combination of funds from the sale of family property, gifts from admirers and money that he has saved up.

“I’ll tell you what I did last night, thinking of you,” the caller told Smith. “I made a spreadsheet that starts out with $213,000. You’re gonna have more than that. I think you’ll be in the $220,000 range, all put together.”

The figure the man gave is approximately $330,000 Australian dollars.

“You can [spend] $40,000 a year,” he continued. “While you’re withdrawing from that balance, it’s still earning interest on the undrawn amount.”

“In 20 years’ time, you will have spent most of that,” he said. “but you will still have some of it left over.”

After a short pause, Smith sighed. “I love you so much,” she said.

“I love you too,” he replied, before they began to make kissing noises to each other.

After serving almost 30 years of her life sentence, Smith is gearing up for her first parole hearing. Picture: Department of Corrections
After serving almost 30 years of her life sentence, Smith is gearing up for her first parole hearing. Picture: Department of Corrections

The conversation then turned sexual, complete with giggling and heavy breathing, with the man explaining in detail a sex act in his car he had been imagining as well as speculating what Smith would look like in a wet T-shirt.

“You’re so bad,” she responded with a giggle. “I have some ideas of things we can do. But I’m going to make you wiggle and squirm before I tell you.”

“Babe,” he said, “I’m already wiggling and squirming.”

But this man is not alone; Smith has carried on sexual and romantic conversations with at least a dozen men in the past 3 years, according to prison call recordings, which are public under South Carolina law, the New York Post reported.

In another conversation with a different man from late last year, she speculated how she would wake him up in the morning.

“I have ways to get your attention,” she teased. “I can get you up in the morning. And I mean up.”

The reality is that Smith is unlikely to be paroled on her first attempt — or possibly ever, according to experts.

She’s reportedly been speaking to ‘sugar daddies’ from prison, with recordings of their phone sex being obtained by the New York Post. Picture: Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma
She’s reportedly been speaking to ‘sugar daddies’ from prison, with recordings of their phone sex being obtained by the New York Post. Picture: Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma

Smith was a 22-year-old mum when she let her car roll into John D. Long Lake with 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander still strapped into their car seats. She stood on the side of the lake as the vehicle sank to the bottom, drowning both boys.

Smith then falsely told police that an African-American man had carjacked her and kidnapped the boys, leading to a massive manhunt.

Smith and her then-husband, David, appeared on national news, pleading for the boys’ safe return.

It took nine days for Smith to finally confessed the truth: there was no carjacker, and that she had driven the boys into the lake.

Her alleged motive: She was having an affair with a wealthy man who didn’t want children.

She was convicted of murder, but spared the death penalty and instead given life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.

David Smith, who has since remarried and welcomed two additional children, and his family plan to vehemently oppose her release.

That hasn’t stopped Smith from thinking she’s about to become a free woman again.

“She’s figuring out her future,” a family member told the New York Post. “She is seeing who she can rely on, and who will be able to help her.”

Smith has expressed her intent to appear at the upcoming hearing.

The South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services has notified the victims’ family of the upcoming hearing.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

Originally published as Killer mum Susan Smith phone sex tapes exposed ahead of parole hearing

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