Killer mom Susan Smith, notorious for drowning her two young sons in a South Carolina lake in 1994, is accumulating significant amounts of money from admirers, promising to be with them if she ever leaves prison.

The Daily Mail has secured transcripts of numerous voice and text exchanges between Smith, now 53, and men while she continues her life sentence at Leath Correctional Institution in Greenwood, South Carolina.

Smith typically engages in 15 to 20 text exchanges daily and spends hours on phone calls with infatuated men, indulging in romantic and sexual conversations. These men range in age from 27 to their mid-60s.

After one man, identified as Jason, sent money to her prison account earlier this year, Smith left him a text message on the prison communication system.

‘Thank you so much for the funds,’ she writes, ‘It was so sweet and so thoughtful of you. And…it was a lot. I am so grateful that God placed you in my life. He knew I needed someone like you at this time, so thank you for listening to Him and reaching out to me.’ 

To another paramour, she writes, ‘I don’t ask for money; that’s not who I am. But if you wanted to send me something, I can tell you how to do it.’ He later writes her back and says that he has transferred money to her account. 

‘Love ya!’ she responds.

And to a third man, she writes, ‘I want to be with you when I get out. Thank you for the funds; they will come in handy.’ 

In March 2024, Smith asked yet another man if he would support her if she were paroled. The man explained that she had a large nest egg – a combination of money that he had saved up, gifts from her admirers, and the sale of family property.

“I’ll tell you what I did last night, thinking of you’, he said. ‘I made a spreadsheet that starts out with $213,000. You’re gonna have more than that. I think you’ll be in the $220,000 range, all put together. You can [spend] $40,000 a year. While you’re withdrawing from that balance, it’s still earning interest on the undrawn amount.”

‘In 20 years time, you will have spent most of that, but you will still have some left over.’

After a short pause, Smith sighs. ‘I love you so much,’ she says. ‘I love you too,’ he replies, before they make kissing noises to each other.

Smith has a long history of sexual activity with male suitors.

When she was a 22-year-old married mother living in Union, South Carolina, she started an affair with Tom Findlay, the son of her boss at Conso Products – a home décor trim company.

But after Smith kissed and fondled another man during a 1994 naked hot tub party, Findlay, now 56, dumped her – and told her in a letter that he didn’t want to be with a woman with children.

‘Susan, I could really fall for you,’ Findlay wrote. ‘You have so many endearing qualities about you, and I think that you are a terrific person.

‘But like I have told you before, there are some things about you that aren’t suited for me, and yes, I am speaking about your children.

‘I’m sure that your kids are good kids, but it really wouldn’t matter how good they may be… the fact is, I just don’t want children.’

A week later, furious and despondent Smith let her burgundy Mazda roll down a boat ramp into John D. Long Lake with her two sons – Michael, three, and 14-month-old Alex – still strapped into their car seats.

After the brothers drowned, Smith falsely told police that a black man had carjacked her. 

For nine days Smith and her husband David made tearful appearances on TV begging the supposed kidnapper to return their boys before she finally confessed.

Smith was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder, but the jury rejected the death penalty and she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 30 years.

But her last  hearing was a disaster, and Smith was denied an early release. She can apply for parole again in 2026. 

‘I will not die in prison,’ she wrote to Jason after the hearing. ‘I believe that God will be with me. When I get out, I want you to be in my life.’