Now that killer mom Susan Smith could be paroled after spending 30 years behind bars, none of her lovers who penned letters to her in prison will vouch for her release.
Smith, now 53, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1994 murders of her two little boys – 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander.
During her time in the South Carolina Department of Corrections, she attracted several admirers who frequently kept in touch through phone calls and letters.
But as her Wednesday parole hearing draws near, the convicted child murderer is struggling to find a single supporter to publicly champion for her freedom.
"I am not going to stick my neck out for her, and then have her run off with another guy," a 60-year-old paramour exclusively told the New York Post in an interview published Tuesday. "I'm no chump."
"I found out that if I support her, my name and address become public record," he admitted. "I don't need that s--t in my life."
A relative of Smith's speculated her long-distance lovers "all wanted just one thing out of her. But they didn't want to put their full names on the record to argue that she should get out of jail," they told the Post.
While Smith scrambles to find a single person to testify on her behalf, there seems to be no shortage of people opposed to her release, including Michael and Alex's father, David Smith.
"She took the greatest gift that we have of life. She took that away from them, and I want people to remember that," David told WHNS-TV earlier this year, pleading to the public to write letters to the parole board in support of Smith's ongoing imprisonment.
"Maybe those who are old enough when that happened to remember how they felt when they learned that Michael and Alex were dead and that she had done it; and for them to maybe themselves write a letter to the parole board or something encouraging them to keep her behind bars."
As of Monday, the state received nearly 500 letters in support of continuing Smith's incarceration, according to WIS-TV.
Smith – a then 24-year-old mom – was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years for the murders of Michael and Alex. She kept them secured in their car seats in her vehicle while she allowed it to roll into a Union County, South Carolina lake in 1994.
Prosecutors said she was motivated to kill because the man she was having an affair with amid her separation from her husband didn't want kids.
Smith first tried to pin her children's disappearance on a made-up, armed Black man who she claimed forced her out of her vehicle and drove off with her sons. But after an intense 9-day manhunt, Smith confessed to the murders.
