Susan Smith, mom who killed two sons in 1994, sends romantic letters to boyfriend from prison

Susan Smith, one of the most notorious prisoners in South Carolina’s prison system, has been sending romantic letters to her boyfriend from the prison where she is serving a life sentence for drowning her two young sons in 1994. 

Smith, now 50, has reportedly started a long-distance relationship with an unnamed  man, with the hopes that the relationship will continue if she’s released on parole in November 2024, a family member told People.

The man, a divorcee who reportedly works in home construction and has two adult children, was described as being in his 40s and living just outside the state capital of Columbia. 

The mystery man allegedly wrote to Smith after seeing a documentary about her and her crimes.

Susan Smith’s mugshots when she was first arrested in 1994

She killed her sons; 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith, born October 10, 1991, and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith, born August 5, 1993

‘They write letters all the time,’ the family member told the outlet. 

‘They started about a year ago. Handwritten letters about what their future will be. She’s very romantic like that, always wanting to find a happily ever after.’

In one letter obtained by the news outlet, Smith wrote that ‘I hope I get to see you f2f [face to face] soon.’

In a second letter, she wrote ‘I can’t believe I can fall for someone I’ve never met.’  

Smith has spent more than 26 years in a South Carolina jail for murdering 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex after a man she was having an affair with said he didn’t want kids. 

David and Susan Smith arrive at the Union County Sheriff’s office in Union, South Carolina on October 27, 1994

Law enforcement officials, 1 clad in scuba gear, talking lakeside as they comb the water’s bottom for the car of Susan Smith, who admitted to drowning her sons in John D. Long Lake

Toys & pics of Michael & Alex Smith at John D. Long Lake shore shrine, site of drowning murder of two boys by their mom Susan Smith (she said they were abducted)

Smith’s boys disappeared on October 25, 1994.

That day, she told deputies they had been taken by an unidentified black man during a carjacking and she wept on national television as she and her husband David begged for their safe return.

But her story quickly unraveled and she was forced to admit she had strapped her kids into the back of her car, and let it roll into a lake.

It was claimed she carried out the heartless crime after a man she was having an affair with left her claiming he didn’t want children.

Smith was sentenced to life in prison for two counts of murder but continued to find herself in trouble behind bars, receiving at least five infractions for self-mutilation and the use and possession of narcotics or marijuana, among other things.

In 2000, then 28, she was disciplined for having sex four times with 50-year-old prison guard Houston Cagle – who was later jailed for three months for the affair.

Smith confessed to the sexual encounter with Cagle after testing positive for an STI.

David Smith, father of the boys, leaves the church after funeral services for the two young boys

Smith is led from the Union County Courthouse after the first day of testimony in the penalty phase of her trial. Smith was convicted in the October 25, 1994 murders of her sons 

David Smith holds up a picture of his murdered sons Michael and Alex and smiles July 28 after his ex-wife [Susan] Smith was sentenced to life imprisonment on two counts of murder

The following year, prison captain Alfred Rowe also pleaded guilty to having sex with Smith and was sentenced to five years probation.

She has also run afoul of drugs rules, after she was caught with marijuana and narcotics. She was disciplined twice in 2010 and once in 2015 for the offences, losing privileges for more than a year.

Privileges that can be lost, include visitation, canteen and telephone privileges.

Smith insists she is ‘not the monster society thinks I am’ and revealed to reporters in 2015 that she had been planning to kill herself, not her sons, on the night of the tragedy.