The ex-husband of South Carolina child killer Susan Smith is “obviously still devastated,” according to author and New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser, who wrote a book about Smith’s arrest and conviction in the 1994 murders of his two young children.

Blacksmith, who drowned Michael, 3, and Alexander, 14 months, in a Union County lake in October 1994, have a chance for parole 30 years later with a hearing scheduled for Nov. 20.

“He’s obviously still devastated. I mean, he’s been living with this for 30 years,” Pesyer told Fox News Digital of the killer’s ex-husband, David Smith. “He’s tried to move on. He had a new family and everything, but he’s not over it and he never will be. I don’t see how he can get over it.”

Peyser’s comments come in response to David Smith’s recent interview with FOX Carolina.

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Susan Smith was convicted on July 22, 1995, of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. (Greg Smith/Corbis)

“She always wanted to be the center of attention in some way… she always wanted attention and she always tried to manipulate people, and I don’t think that’s going to change,” David Smith told FOX Carolina, adding that he still misses his friends. two children. “I wish I could have stopped it.

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Susan was 22 years old when she tied Michael and Alexander to the back seat of her car and watched as she let the vehicle into the car. John D. Lake in Union County. It took six minutes for the two children to drown. She later told authorities and the public that a black man stole her car, but evidence led to her arrest shortly after her children’s deaths.

“I’m still fighting for justice for what happened to you.”

– David Smith, according to FOX Carolina

“I’m still fighting for justice for what happened to you…I’m doing everything I can in my power to make sure what happened to you isn’t in vain,” David Smith said. FOX caroline of what he would tell his children if he could.

Susan Smith, pictured in a recent mugshot on the left and aged 22 in 1994, has been imprisoned in South Carolina for nearly 30 years for the murder of her two sons. (South Carolina Department of Corrections)

Peyser recalled meeting David’s father in the 1990s when she was covering the story.

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“I had a little contact with David, not much… but I spoke to members of his family… and he was really devastated by this. I’ve never seen a person so upset in my life, and it’s totally understandable,” she said. Pesyer. “He believed in her. He loved his wife. And she really took away everything he had at that time.”

“He really took away everything she had at that time.”

—Andrea Peyser

While a date has been set for Susan’s parole hearing, Peyser does not believe she is likely to be released after reports of several scandalous incidents in prison.

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Susan Smith initially claimed her car had been stolen, but evidence would later reveal that she killed her two young sons, Michael and Alexander. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma)

Susan was convicted on Oct. 3 of communicating with a victim or witness of a crime, according to Chrysti Shain, director of communications for the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

Smith was charged in September after agreeing to send David’s contact information to a documentary filmmaker, who then deposited cash into Smith’s account. SCDC inmates are not allowed to conduct interviews by phone or in person, but they can write letters, according to prison rules.

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While the conviction was his first disciplinary action in a decade, Smith had previously had a sexual relationship with a prison guard, a prison source said in a interview with people in 2020.

Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. (William Campbell/Sygma)

“It is completely illegal in South Carolina to obtain telephone interviews and give information about other people,” Peyser said. “I don’t know what his game is. I think he’s trying to get sympathy to get out of jail, but he doesn’t deserve it. He’s proven time and time again that he hasn’t learned anything and that he’s not a very old person.” . She is still a young woman. He could do a lot of damage on the outside. “He has done damage on the inside, but he could do even more on the outside.”

Former Union County Prosecutor Tommy Pope, now a South Carolina state representative, previously told Fox News Digital that Smith should not be released.

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Pope said Smith was having an extramarital affair at the time with Tom Findlay, the son of a wealthy local businessman, who wrote a letter to Smith a week before the murders, telling the 22-year-old woman that while he was interested in her romantically, he was not suitable for raising children, since the Birmingham News reported in a 2005 interview with Findlay.

Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after killing her two children in 1994. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma)

That letter would become a key piece of evidence in the prosecution’s case.

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“She has demonstrated by her conduct in prison that she has had sexual relations with guards, has friends on Facebook and sugar daddies waiting for her to come out,” Pope said. “She’s focused on what’s best for Susan, not what happened to Michael and Alex.”

The Pope called for the death penalty for Smith during his trial in 1995and does not believe she should be eligible for parole today.

Fox News’ Mollie Markowitz contributed to this report.