Case Files 14: Susan Smith and the Impact of False Accusations with Celisia Stanton
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What is the focus of the Susan Smith case discussion?
True Story Media. Hello, it's Andrea, and I've got a really fascinating Case Files episode for you today. This is a crossover with my friend, Silesia Stanton, creator of the excellent podcast, Truer Crime, which we will be sharing an episode of in the feed tomorrow. Today, Silesia and I are talking about the Susan Smith case, which touches on a bunch of themes that both of our shows cover. I love doing these crossover episodes with other shows. So let me know if there are other shows or creators that you think we should talk to. If you want to get in touch with us about that or anything else, give us a shout at hello at nobody should believe me dot com. Or you can leave us a comment on Spotify. We also appreciate ratings and reviews of the show on Apple Podcasts.
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Well, hello, Celicia. Thank you so much for being here. I'm really excited to talk about this case with you today. To start off with, can you tell us about your show, Truer Crime?
How did Celisia Stanton start Truer Crime?
Yeah, well, I'm really excited to be able to chat with you today. My show, Truer Crime, I actually created it just sort of as an outgrowth of my own personal experiences. In 2020, I actually, long story short, was defrauded of my life savings by a financial advisor who turned out he was defrauding all of his investor clients. He was actually a fiduciary, meaning he had like extra legal financial responsibilities and he still chose to kind of use this money for his own personal game, like vacations and homes and cars and things like that. And so that was obviously a super jarring experience for me. And after I had found out about this, like, you know, all my life savings was gone. He actually had stole over $2 million total from all of his clients. But after that, I was kind of like, you know, navigating this whole criminal legal process and also just, you you know, it was 2020. So there wasn't a lot going on. I've been a wedding and portrait photographer for many years. And so winter in Minnesota during the pandemic, not a time of a lot of business.
And so I was like literally just binging true crime all day. It was kind of like a coping mechanism for dealing with this thing that, you know, I'd never kind of seen coming. And Um, and then sort of, you know, just constantly pausing those shows and complaining to my husband about things I felt like were missing from a lot of true crime narratives. Um, you know, obviously I found that the sort of like listening to them, you know, interesting and engaging. And there was something, um, that was really drawing me in for episode after episode. episode, but I also felt like a lot of these shows really didn't dive into race or gender or sexuality or the root causes of crime.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the focus of the Susan Smith case discussion?
0:04–2:30
2
How did Celisia Stanton start Truer Crime?
2:30–7:42
3
What are the details of the Susan Smith case?
7:42–16:47
4
How did Susan Smith's false accusation impact the community?
16:47–22:12
5
What are the psychological aspects of deception in crime?
22:12–29:22
6
What are the racial implications of false accusations?
29:22–1:13:14