Susan Smith, who killed her 2 young children 30 years ago, denied parole

[ShazzieB]

19. Oh, when you said "boyfriend," I assumed you meant the guy who had just broken up with her.

I'm still not sure if that's what you meant, but the boyfriend and the stepfather were 2 different people. The stepfather's name was Beverly Russell, and the boyfriend who dumped her because he didn't want a relationship with kids involved was Tom Findlay.

I followed the case pretty closely at the time, and have also read a book about it, and I don't see any reason to suspect that Smith's husband was not the father of her kids.

Russell molested her when she was a teenager, but the boys were born after she was married to David Smith. It would have been very unusual for the molestation to have continued after she was married and living in her own home with her husband.

As for Findlay, iirc she already had the 2 kids when she got involved with him, and as I said, he dumped her because she didn't want to to be in a relationship with a woman who had kids.

I'm sure that neither the cops or the media dug into the paternity angle because they didn't think there was any reason to do so. She confessed to the crime and has never recanted; and her motive of hoping to get Findlay back seems believable to me. Ymmv, I guess.