A murderous South Carolina mother has been convicted of a prison disciplinary charge, just weeks before her parole hearing was set to take place.
Twisted murderer Susan Smith, 53, was sentenced to life in prison in 1995 for drowning her two sons, three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander, in a South Carolina lake in October 1994.
The Department of Corrections has now revealed that the convicted child killer was found communicating with a filmmaker from behind bars in August this year.
She was said to have been discussing her crimes, and providing contact information for friends, family and victims, including her former husband, David Smith.
The filmmaker also deposited money into Smith’s account, police said.
Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison in 1995 after murdering her two sons, and has now been charged with an internal disciplinary charge weeks before her parole hearing
Michael, 3, and Alexander, 14-months-old, were strapped into their car seats by Smith, who then let the car roll into a lake in South Carolina
Smith was charged with communicating with a filmmaker and discussing her crimes, which violates South Carolina Department of Corrections policy
The South Carolina Department of Corrections said Smith was slapped with an internal disciplinary charge for communicating with a victim and/or witness on October 3.
Smith violated the SCDC policy which states that inmates are not allowed to do interviews on the telephone or in person while in custody.
They are, however, allowed to write letters.
The disciplinary charge means the loss of telephone, canteen and tablet privileges for 90 days beginning on October 4 while she is being held at Leath Correctional in South Carolina.
‘The tablets can be used to make monitored telephone calls and to send monitored electronic messages. They are considered a privilege,’ said the SCDC Director of Communications Chrysti Shain.
‘The department will determine when and if inmate Smith will earn the opportunity to be issued a tablet again.’
Smith has had a history of infractions during her incarceration, including drug use, self-mutilations and incidents in which she was caught having sex with guards.
And in February this year, DailyMail.com revealed that the evil mother had been having phone sex with a man half her age from prison.
Smith was also found to have provided the filmmaker with contact details of friends, family and victims, including her former husband David Smith
Smith reported the boys missing in 1994 and claimed an unidentified black man took them during a carjacking
It was claimed she killed the boys after the man she was having an affair with, Thoman Findley, broke up with her because he didn’t want children
Smith reported her two sons missing in October 1994 and told deputies the boys had been taken by an unidentified black man during a carjacking.
She wept on national television while her husband begged for their safe return.
Her story was quickly picked apart and Smith confessed to strapping the two boys into their car seat and watching the car roll into the lake.
It was claimed she killed the boys after the man she was having an affair with, Thoman Findley, broke up with her because he didn’t want children.
Smith was sentenced to life in prison for two counts of murder and was originally placed in prison in Columbia before she was transferred to Leath following multiple sex scandals.
She revealed to reporters in 2015 that she had planned to kill herself, instead of her sons, on the tragic day and she is ‘not the monster society thinks I am’
Smith and her former husband went on National Television to plead for their children’s safe return before she confessed to killing the young boys
She revealed to reporters in 2015 that she had planned to kill herself, instead of her sons, on the tragic day and she is ‘not the monster society thinks I am’.
‘I had planned to kill myself first and leave a note behind telling what had happened,’ Smith said. ‘I didn’t believe I could face my family when the truth was revealed.’
Smith attempted to take her own life at age 40 in 2012 after a long history of depression.
Her stepfather, Beverly Russell, admitted during the initial court case that he had molested Smith as a teenager and had consensual sex with her as an adult.
Russell mortgaged his home to pay for Smith’s defense and said the guilty was not all hers to bear.
For now, Smith is still eligible for parole on November 4 in which she will request a release hearing, something her ex-husband opposes.