He learned on TV that his wife drowned their two young sons. He wants her in prison forever | CNN
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Susan Smith, who shocked the nation by confessing to drowning her two young sons in 1994, has a parole hearing this month after 32 years in a South Carolina prison. Her former husband, David Smith, says he hopes she never gets out.
David Smith sits on a brown couch in his living room, cradling a framed photo of his two young sons. He dabs his eyes with his fingers and abruptly excuses himself to go to the bathroom, emerging minutes later with his face flushed and streaked with tears.
Smith struggles to imagine that his sons would be in their 30s now. In his mind, they’re still the toddlers in the photograph – Michael with his bowl cut, Alex with his round cheeks – tinkering with miniature monster trucks and watching “Mrs. Doubtfire” together on the couch.
