murder story

Crimes happen everywhere throughout the world they are many different types of crimes the most popular ones are stealing cars, bank robbery, murder, kidnaping, and rape. But there is one unusually type of murder on October 25th 1994 a women name Susan smith murder her children by letting her car roll down a hill and into a lake. They were two boys in the car the oldest boy was 3 years old his name was Michel smith and 1 ½ year old Alex smith. Susan smith was 23 at that time she reported to the police that an African American carjacked her with the two boys still inside of the car. The police and a search team went out looking for the two boys but the police was suspicious that Susan smith was the murder because of her story she told the investigators. Susan was married at the time to a man name Dave smith they were both asked to take a polygraph Dave pass but Susan fail with a question "Do you know where your children are?" (Rachel Pergament chapter7) ever since she has failed the investigators made her take many polygraph tests. The story that Susan smith told to the FBI did not match up to the crime that was committed and her story keep on changing but what really made the FBI and the investigators into believing that she was the murder was before the carjacking she was driving for hours going nowhere the second reason was that the police had no suspects or evidences and they very little information about the carjack. Later the police discovered that car jack was a lie because on that same day and time she reported the carjacker stole her car on the same street when undercover police who was working on a drug case on that same street he reported that he since no African American stealing a car and if the carjacking was really t...

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...the fact the Susan smith was very depressed at a young age and had multiple attempt of suicide even though she was sexual abuse by her step farther and that she had something wrong with her mind she still knew that killing her own children was wrong and against human nature because she had the intent hurt her two boys but not herself. She was not worried what will people think about her or what kind punishment will happen and was also not thinking about what she will put Dave through. None of that went through her mind only thing she was thinking about was her life that she will be spending with her new lover. She acted out and was only looking at the positive outcome to her crime I feel like the choice theory best describe this criminal act because it explains exactly what Susan smith did. It is still not understandable that a person can commit such a crime.