July 13, 2003

POUT: even depraved killers are more popular than I am

Susan Smith has an online personal ad seeking pen pals. Her ad has drawn so much media attention that the website has issued a press release.

3) How many visitors has Susan received on her webpage?

As of 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, July 12, 2003, Susan has received over 150,000 visitors on her personal page. She is currently receiving approximately 170 viewings per minute.

According to this Charleston Post and Courier [charleston.net] story:
Inmates have no access to the Internet, but they have a legal right to mail and phones, [Corrections department director Jon E.] Ozmint said.

The ad costs $40 for a year. According to Roberts [Jason Roberts, spokesman for WriteAPrisoner.com], Smith took out the ad and paid for it with a S.C. Department of Corrections check, apparently provided as in-house jail credit. Smith took out the ad probably because she wanted friendship or attention, or both, he said.

Ozmint also said someone else must have taken out the ad on Smith's behalf because the corrections department provides no source of cash to inmates.

Oh, and just in case you do not know or remember who Susan Smith is, the story succinctly gives her history:
Smith drowned her children in a Union County lake in 1994. The children's disappearance captured the nation's attention as Smith made tearful pleas on national television programs for their safe return, claiming they had been kidnapped.

attribution: Backcountry Conservative > Palmetto Anglican

Posted by Tiger at July 13, 2003 08:34 AM
Comments

There is something seriously wrong in this society if they would visit a murdering hag's ad over a Tiger rantin'!

She gets more visitors than Glenn Reynolds! That's sick and wrong.

Posted by: serenity at July 13, 2003 11:36 AM

That 'woman'--when it comes to her, I have to use the term loosely--should NOT have a computer. She should NOT be online. People go to prison to be PUNISHED, not sit around on the Internet all day. My friggin' tax dollars are paying for that cockroach-eating reptilian child-killer's bandwidth! ARRRRGHH!

I say, pull the plug on that b*tch.

--Denita TwoDragons
Associate Tender of the Fire

Posted by: TwoDragons at July 13, 2003 05:04 PM

She killed her kids, but she's still human. What's wrong with advertising for some letters?

Posted by: Glenn at July 20, 2003 06:07 PM