Kristina 'Kris' Kelton

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Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder · Ep. 130 | The Kidnapping That Turned Into A Double Murder | Susan Smith · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

And the story became one of the biggest in the country.

Families watched the news each night for word of the two boys who came to be called America's Children, and the coverage carried around the world.

And Susan was in front of the cameras constantly.

On NBC's Today Show, she said, quote, as a mother, it's only a natural instinct to protect your children from any harm, and the hardest part

Of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive, and it hurts, unquote.

And in another appearance, she spoke to Michael and Alex directly, as though they might be listening, saying, quote, You guys have got to be so strong.

I just feel in my heart that you're okay, but you gotta take care of each other, unquote.

And David would stand by her in the frenzy, and he pleaded, quote, if the person who has mine and my wife's children

See this, we come to you and we beg that you please do not hurt our children.

Just find the compassion, find it somewhere in your heart to let them return home safely and don't hurt them.

You can take the car, whatever you want, just don't hurt our children.

The description of the perpetrator was general enough to fit a great many men.

A black man around 40.

That doesn't really narrow it down.

So when

Union, the search pressed hardest on black residents.

And Mayor Harold Thompson spoke of men pulled from their homes in question because they matched what Susan had described.

And the tension in town climbed through the nine days, even if it never fully boiled over.

But away from the cameras, the investigators were beginning to doubt the carjacker even existed.

And they brought Susan back in on October 26th and

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