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Susan Smith, the Glossary

Susan Leigh Smith (née Vaughan; born September 26, 1971) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander, in 1994 by drowning them in a South Carolina lake.^[1]

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Criminals from South Carolina
Female murderers of children
People convicted of murder by South Carolina
People with personality disorders
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by South Carolina
Racial hoaxes

ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Affair

An affair is a union of more than two people in one romantic and sexual relationship,, passionate attachment in which at least one of its participants has betrayed their partner (regardless of formal or informal relationship status) with a third person or more people (regardless if the partner and the third person(s) were aware, not aware, and/or disagreed to having an affair).

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Arrested Development

Arrested Development is an American television satirical sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz.

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Arrested Development season 3

The third season of the American television satirical sitcom series Arrested Development aired between September 19, 2005, and February 10, 2006, on Fox in the United States.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Blind Melon

Blind Melon is an American rock band formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California.

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Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 documentary film written, produced, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore.

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Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution

Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution is a South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) state prison for women in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Carjacking

Carjacking is a robbery in which a motor vehicle is taken over.

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Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia is the capital city of the U.S. state of South Carolina.

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David Bruck

David Isaac Bruck (born 1949) is a Canadian-American criminal defense attorney, clinical professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, and director of the Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse.

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Dependent personality disorder

Dependent personality disorder (DPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people.

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Dotdash Meredith

Dotdash Meredith (formerly The Mining Company, About.com and Dotdash) is an American digital media company based in New York City.

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Everything I Long For

Everything I Long For is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Hayden.

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Expert witness

An expert witness, particularly in common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert.

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Filicide

Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child.

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Greenwood, South Carolina

Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Greenwood County, South Carolina.

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Hayden (musician)

Paul Hayden Desser (born February 12, 1971), who records as Hayden, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Thornhill, Ontario.

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Imprisonment

Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty against their will.

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Infidelity

Infidelity (synonyms include non-consensual non-monogamy, cheating, straying, adultery, being unfaithful, two-timing, or having an affair) is a violation of a couple's emotional or sexual exclusivity that commonly results in feelings of anger, sexual jealousy, and rivalry.

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Jessica Walter

Jessica Ann Walter (January 31, 1941 – March 24, 2021) was an American actress who appeared in more than 170 film, stage, and television productions.

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John D. Long Lake

John D. Long Lake is an manmade lake in Union County, South Carolina.

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Judy Clarke

Judy Clare Clarke (born 1952) is an American criminal defense attorney who has represented several high-profile defendants such as Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Joseph Edward Duncan, Zacarias Moussaoui, Jared Lee Loughner, Robert Gregory Bowers, Burford Furrow, Lisa Montgomery and Susan Smith.

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Kathryn Erbe

Kathryn Elsbeth Erbe (born July 5, 1965) is an American actress.

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Law & Order

Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, launching the ''Law & Order'' franchise.

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Leath Correctional Institution

Leath Correctional Institution (LCIW) is a South Carolina Department of Corrections prison for women located in unincorporated Greenwood County, South Carolina, near Greenwood.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.

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Murder in United States law

In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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NCIS (TV series)

NCIS is an American military police procedural television series and the first installment within the ''NCIS'' media franchise.

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New York Post

The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.

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Oz (TV series)

Oz is an American prison drama television series set at a fictional men's prison created and principally written by Tom Fontana.

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Parole

Parole (also known as provisional release or supervised release) is a form of early release of a prison inmate where the prisoner agrees to abide by behavioral conditions, including checking-in with their designated parole officers, or else they may be rearrested and returned to prison.

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People (magazine)

People is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories.

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Polygraph

A polygraph, often incorrectly referred to as a lie detector test, is a junk science device or procedure that measures and records several physiological indicators such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while a person is asked and answers a series of questions.

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Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry.

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Racial hoax

A racial hoax occurs when a person (usually the purported victim) falsely claims that a crime was committed by member of a specific race. Susan Smith and racial hoax are racial hoaxes.

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Red Star Belgrade (band)

Red Star Belgrade was an American alternative country band, originally formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1994 by former music critic Bill Curry.

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Secondary school

A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.

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Shirley Bellinger

Shirley Bellinger, played by Kathryn Erbe in the HBO series Oz, is a fictional character who was first presented in the related book OZ: Behind These Walls: The Journal of Augustus Hill.

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Solitary confinement in the United States

In the United States penal system, upwards of 20 percent of state and federal prison inmates and 18 percent of local jail inmates are kept in solitary confinement or another form of restrictive housing at some point during their imprisonment.

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Soup (Blind Melon album)

Soup is the second studio album by American rock band Blind Melon, released on August 15, 1995, through Capitol Records.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.

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South Carolina Department of Corrections

The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of South Carolina.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Birmingham News

The Birmingham News was the principal newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States in the latter half of the 20th Century and the first quarter of the 21st.

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The Buffalo News

The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located in downtown Buffalo, New York.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The State (newspaper)

The State is an American newspaper published in Columbia, South Carolina.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

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Tom House (musician)

Tom House (born 1949 in Durham, North Carolina) is an American singer-songwriter and poet whose music combines elements of country, singer-songwriter, and folk.

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Tommy Pope (politician)

Thomas E. Pope (born July 24, 1962) is an American politician.

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Tony Hale

Anthony Russell "Tony" Hale (born September 30, 1970) is an American actor.

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TruTV

TruTV (stylized as truTV) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).

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Union, South Carolina

The city of Union is the county seat of Union County, South Carolina, United States.

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Vimeo

Vimeo, Inc. is an American video hosting, sharing, services provider, and broadcaster headquartered in New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith

Also known as Alexander Tyler Smith, Michael Daniel Smith, Murders of Michael and Alexander Smith, Smith, Susan, Susan Leigh Smith, Susan Leigh Vaughan, Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith, Susan V. Smith, Susan Vaughan, Susan Vaughan Smith.

, The Birmingham News, The Buffalo News, The New York Times, The State (newspaper), The Washington Post, Time (magazine), Time Inc., Tom House (musician), Tommy Pope (politician), Tony Hale, TruTV, Union, South Carolina, Vimeo.

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See also

Criminals from South Carolina

Female murderers of children

People convicted of murder by South Carolina

People with personality disorders

Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by South Carolina

Racial hoaxes

References