It Did Happen Here

Amid new revelations about Susan Smith, a town mourns her sons and braces for the trial

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For now the principals in this drama remain mostly silent. Smith is in isolation at the Women's Correctional Center in Columbia, where a camera observes her round the clock. Findlay reportedly left for Britain immediately after Smith's arrest and may not return to Union. David Smith, who said he never once suspected his wife of the murders, is on paid leave from the Winn- Dixie, holed up in an apartment increasingly crowded with boxes of supportive letters -- many of them addressed simply "David Smith, Union, S.C." And the weary citizens of Union murmur among themselves, dreading the next act, in which the entire tragedy of Susan and David Smith must be replayed -- with no hope of changing the ending.

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