When a mother calls the police to say that her child has been killed, everyone immediately sympathizes and hopes to catch the real culprit.
However, in the United States, there was a case of a mother mutilating her son, which broke people's perception of common sense.
At the Union City Police Department in South Carolina on October 25, 1994, it was as calm as ever, with occasional clerks hurrying past with a pile of documents, leaving only footsteps.
The operator was sleepy and absentmindedly flipping through the magazine.
Suddenly, a rapid telephone rings, and the operator quickly shakes his spirits and picks up the phone with trembling. On the other end of the phone, the voice of a young woman, she said in slightly accented English that her two children had been robbed!
The woman, whose name was Susan Smith, had just been driving down the street with her child when a black man came out and snatched the child away. Hearing the news, the police immediately set out to Susan's home.
When I arrived at Susan's house, I saw that Susan looked haggard and her eyes were just red and swollen from crying. When Susan saw the police coming, she immediately walked over and choked up and told the truth of the matter.
Ten minutes earlier, she had driven with her two sons, Mike and Alex, the eldest three and the younger one and a half. The three were waiting at traffic lights on the street when suddenly a black man with a gun knocked on the glass window and asked Susan to give her some money.
Susan was hesitating when the gangsters rushed into the car, threw Susan out of the driver's seat, and walked four or five miles with the three of them all the way to a deserted area on the outskirts.
But when Susan took out all the money on her body, she still couldn't satisfy the gangsters, so the gangsters kicked her out of the car and drove away. Susan chased after her for a long time before she hurriedly found a family and borrowed a phone to call the police.
A single mother with two children was robbed in broad daylight, which shocked the whole society at that time. In this regard, the people also demanded that the government find out the truth and severely punish the murderers.
In the aftermath of the incident, Susan often appeared in front of television, hoping in an almost pleading tone that the gangsters would see the news and return her two sons. There are also many people in the society who spontaneously help to find it, hoping to give the poor mother a little comfort.
Susan's original husband, David Smith, had broken up due to emotional problems. But in order to be able to find the child, David found Susan again, comforted her, and searched for the child together.
The neighbors in the town were also very sympathetic to Susan, and even spontaneously hung ribbons in front of their homes, hoping that God would bring them good news.
And because Susan emphasized that the murderer was a black man and was tall, for a moment all the black people in the town were suspicious of other people of other colors, as if they were looking at a murderer.
This made the local blacks very unhappy, but there was no way to solve it, and they could only hope that the murderer would be arrested as soon as possible and return their innocence.
Because of the huge sensation of the incident, even the FBI has dispatched a special team to assist in the investigation, and even the governor himself has given a speech saying that "every woman should be a safe mother."
The town of Youning, where Susan is located, is a quiet and somewhat cold town on weekdays, crowded with the media, police, and do-gooders, and in the end, in order to protect the lives of the locals, the police have to pull up a cordon around the town.
Although the force of the manhunt operation was very large, the case can be summed up in nothing. For days, their grasp of the killer remained in Susan's description, and all suspicious people, including several of Susan's "boyfriends" and neighbor friends, were ruled out.
The police, who had made no progress in the media coverage, had lost interest and began digging deep into Susan's personal information to attract attention. After being tracked down and investigated by the reporters, they were surprised to find that Susan was not as simple as it seemed.
She was only 23 years old, which was the youngest time. But she already has two children, as well as several "boyfriends." After marrying her husband and having children, she still maintained relationships with several boyfriends.
Her relationship with her husband later broke down, the two divorced, the children were raised by Susan, and her ex-husband David was responsible for sending a monthly maintenance payment.
Originally, Susan wanted to choose a suitable new husband from the "boyfriends" to be herself, but after several times, his boyfriends wrote letters to inform them of the breakup.
One of the men, the eldest son of the owner of Susan's company, had a large amount of property in his hands and was Susan's favorite object. The man told Susan that he didn't want to continue with her because he didn't want to raise someone else's son. He and Susan announced their breakup on October 24, the day before Susan's two sons disappeared.
After that, information about Susan was also cut off. The media was completely speechless about Susan's reporting, and they were eagerly hoping that the government would reveal the effective information as soon as possible.
It wasn't until Nov. 4 that local police officer Wells informed the media that they would be holding a press conference in the afternoon about Susan's case.
The government press room was jammed with reporters' cameras, and all eyes were focused on Wells. Wells walked slowly to the podium and announced in a hoarse voice a news that surprised everyone.
Susan Smith, on suspicion of intentional homicide, has now been arrested.
The whole conference room exploded, and the media reporters didn't know why Wells announced such news, but they still spread the news throughout the country at the first time.
With the increase of public information, the doubts in people's hearts have gradually been solved.
On November 3, Susan suddenly approached the police station, and when people thought she was here to inquire about the progress of the case, Susan said, "I turned myself in."
The police officer thought that the mother had gone insane and called a psychologist to talk to her. But Susan's expression was very normal, and she did not mean to be crazy in the slightest.
Susan said that when she received her boyfriend's letter, she knew the two children were not a responsibility but a bondage for her, so she drove the car on the slope by the lake and tied them to the seat of the car.
Her two sons were asleep, and she pushed the car into the lake.
Then she cleverly disguised herself as being robbed, called the police in a hurry, and made up a good play.
When the police used salvage equipment to salvage Susan's location, they found Susan's car, which contained the bodies of two poor, blistered, puffy toddlers.
"We've been tricked by this demonic woman!" The whole society was aware of this, and the condemnation and attack on Susan quickly surpassed the heat of their prayers for the child.
In fact, as early as the police analyzed the case, they found many suspicious points.
The first is the so-called "traffic light"
According to Susan's description, there were no other vehicles at the intersection at that time, and the intelligent variable control light would allow Susan's vehicle to pass directly when detecting this situation, and there was no such thing as "waiting for the green light".
In addition, this "black gangster" only appeared in Susan's mouth from beginning to end, and it was not detected from any surveillance footage, and there were no witnesses or matching objects at the scene.
In addition, Susan said that the gangsters were originally to "rob the money", but after kidnapping the two children, it is reasonable to contact Susan to let her prepare money. But police monitored Susan's home phone for weeks and found no information about it, nor did Susan receive any messages from the gangsters.
After these problems, Officer Wells actually suspected that Susan was a thief, but Susan was the biological mother of two children after all, and he did not believe such a humane thing.
However, he still took Susan to the police station and conducted a series of questioning and lie detector tests on Susan. Perhaps it was the torture of the heart that played a role in making Susan wake up before she decided to turn herself in.
When the car was salvaged and the photo was posted in a media newspaper, someone said they witnessed Susan driving the car to a lake near the town.
This undoubtedly became the last ironclad evidence, and Susan's charges were fully implemented. In the face of public anger and media questioning, Susan can only respond with a very calm smile.
When the dust settles, Susan's case goes to trial, which is broadcast live on television across the country. Tens of thousands of people were gathered outside the courtroom, all expecting the law to severely punish the murderer who deceived society and killed children.
Susan's defense lawyer said that Susan had been sexually abused by her stepfather when she was a minor, so she had always had psychological shadows. But the jury did not accept this explanation, and they voted to pass the punishment for Susan: thirty years in prison without parole.
The case took place in 1994, 27 years have passed since today, and Susan's imprisonment is only three years left. When she is released from prison, what will society think of her?
When police simulated Susan's assailance, they found that susan had about five minutes to repent and rescue the two children from the time the car fell into the water to the time it sank completely.
But she didn't, she even smiled, quietly watched the whole process, and then ran to someone else's house to report the police.
When Susan was very young, her father died.
Her mother remarried her, and her stepfather was an ordinary shoemaker with a very meager income, a penchant for alcoholism, and repeated sexual assault on Susan. Susan's mother couldn't do anything about it and let it happen.
Later, Susan married David, and the original life of Harmony and Beauty ended due to Susan's dissatisfaction with David's income, status, etc. And her heart is also twisted in changes and experiences again and again, and finally catharsis in the two children.
If Susan's family had taken more care and care of her, this tragedy might have been avoided.
The biggest hint of this case may be to maintain this shining society together, so that every generation can live a sunny and healthy life.