Mother Love, Deadly Love

by Andrea Peyser

Book Overview

Written by a journalist who has covered the heartbreaking saga from its beginning, this book tells the untold story of Susan Smith, the apparently loving mother who killed the two most precious people in her life, her own children.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061008273
• ISBN13: 9780061008276
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: HarperPrism
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

so sad

This is a well-written book about an unbalanced woman who cold-bloodedly drowned her two babies so she could have the rich man she wanted. Never mind she still had a husband, and both were having affairs. These precious children were sent into a dark, cold lonely lake on a chilly October night ten years ago this month. After letting her car go down the boat ramp with her babies strapped inside, she rushed to the nearest house screaming that her car had been carjacked with her children in it, by a black man. This was Union, South Carolina, a small mill town where relations between blacks and whites were almost certainly strained. This became a very infamous case, and she let the whole world believe her lies for nearly ten days before she finally broke down and confessed to the sheriff, saying, "My babies are NOT okay!" John D. Long lake was dragged and divers found the car with a little hand pressed against the window. The bodies were so bloated and waterlogged that they were almost unrecognizable as human. This is a heartwrenching story. But the monster was given life, not what she deserved, which was the death penalty.If Michael and Alexander Smith had not been murdered by their mother they would now be 13 and 11 years old, respectively. Another mother of two sons.

How can she killed her own children ???

I start reading this book and couldn't stop thinking about why Susan Smith killed her own children. I have dreams all night and keep thinking about the incident. She was very cruel !! I cannot imagine how the 2 kids feel when they are trapped in the car drowned into the lake !! I cannot imagine how much they suffered !! The book contents is o.k. - but if it contains more psychological factors from Susan Smith, that will be more interesting.