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# Episode 21: Nine Days and Two Car Seats
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/nine-days-two-car-seats/
- Published: 2017-11-01T23:56:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:55:42.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

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### Susan Smith, Union, South Carolina

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### My sources for this episode

- [Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith](http://amzn.to/2A5zwEF) by David Smith
- [Violence As Seen Through a Prism of Color](http://amzn.to/2zXI1kf) by Letha A. See
- [The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment and Other Macroaggressions](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780814776186) by Kathryn Russell

#### Further recommended reading

- [Sins of the Mother: The Heartbreaking True Story of Susan Smith](http://amzn.to/2xN69FG) by Maria Eftimades
- [My Daughter Susan Smith](https://amzn.to/3klM8ys) by Linda H. Russell with Shirley Stephens
- [Mother Love, Deadly Love: The Susan Smith Murders](http://amzn.to/2A7nQkR) by Andrea Peyser
- [Susan Smith: Victim or Murderer](http://amzn.to/2hvNlVe) by George Rekers
- [Brutal Imagination](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780399147203) by Cornelius Eady (poetry that “deals with the vision of the black man in white imagination. Narrated largely by the black kidnapper that Susan Smith invented…”)

All books have been added to [the podcast’s Goodreads bookshelf](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2800966-carla?shelf=there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast).

Susan’s extremely peculiar, calm, and seemingly cheerful confession note:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f27f54d3b-bb35-432b-982b-1844fb84a2c9_380x568-jpeg.jpg)

Findagrave: [Alexander Tyler Smith (1993-1994)](https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Smith&GSiman=1&GScid=647308&GRid=21467&)

Findagrave: [Michael Daniel Smith (1991-1994)](https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Smith&GSiman=1&GScid=647308&GRid=21466&)

[Murderpedia: Susan Smith](http://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/smith-susan.htm)

Susan Smith: Child Killer full length documentary:

American Justice episode:

Tommy Pope. prosecutor, speaks out 20 years later:

Steve Harvey:

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