Beyond All Reason Author:David Smith It was a night that David Smith would never forget...the night he began living every father's most agonizing nightmare. On that chilly fall evening in 1994, he learned that his two young sons had been kidnapped. The person who broke the news was his estranged wife Susan Smith--the children's mother. In the harrowing days and nights that follo... more »wed, an intensive manhunt would begin that would focus the eyes of America on the Smith family. But through it all, David had only one thought: to get his boys back.
"I believed her anger, I believed her outrage. I believed her story. I believed her..."
Nine days later, a tearful Susan Smith had confessed that the kidnapping had been a hoax, a cruel lie. The truth would be even crueler; three-year-old Michael and fourteen- month-old Alex were dead, slain by their mother's own hand. As a stunned nation mourned and rallied in an astonishing outpouring of sympathy and support for David Smith, he had to grapple with his own shock and disbelief: his wife had cold-bloodedly murdered his babies.« less