Parents And Violence

March, 1995

Leading the morning news programs on November 3, 1994 were interviews with Susan Smith and her estranged husband, David. As if they had cloned themselves and could be in several places at once, Susan and David appeared shortly after seven A.M. on ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC, and their pleas for the safe return of their two sons, Michael, three, and Alex, 14 months, touched our hearts. Later that same day, our hearts would be touched again--but this time by an ice pick.For more than a week, Susan Smith...