Editing Susan Smith (section)

==In popular culture==
The [[Arrested Development (season 3)|season three]] premiere of ''[[Arrested Development]]'' ("The Cabin Show") features a flashback scene in which Lucille Bluth ([[Jessica Walter]]), having recently gone off her postpartum medication, is watching a news story about Smith, and says, "Good for her!"— much to the concern of her son Buster ([[Tony Hale]]). The end of the episode features Lucille walking away from her car, with Buster asleep in the back seat as it rolls into a nearby body of water.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arrested Development: "The Cabin Show"/"For British Eyes Only" |url=https://www.avclub.com/arrested-development-the-cabin-show-for-british-eye-1798174964 |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=November 13, 2012 |language=en-us}}</ref>

Season 6, Episode 8 ("Angel") of ''[[Law and Order (TV series)|Law and Order]]'' was based on her case.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wyatt |first=Edward |date=January 8, 2005 |title=Even for an Expert, Blurred TV Images Became a False Reality |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/08/arts/television/even-for-an-expert-blurred-tv-images-became-a-false-reality.html |access-date=August 27, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

[[Blind Melon]]'s song "Car Seat (God's Presents)," from their 1995 album ''[[Soup (Blind Melon album)|Soup]]'', was inspired by the Susan Smith murders,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Coupe |first=Stuart |date=September 1995 |title=Just a Drummer |url=http://www.blindmelonarticles.com/credits/00_publications/drummedia/1995/1995-09-00_drummedia_01.pdf |magazine=Drum Media |location=Australia |access-date=May 27, 2022|via=blindmelonarticles.com}}</ref> as was the [[Tom House (musician)|Tom House]] song "I'm in Love with Susan Smith." The song "When This is Over," on [[Hayden (musician)|Hayden]]'s 1995 album ''[[Everything I Long For]]'', is written from the point of view of one of Smith's sons as the car sinks into the lake.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=July 19, 1996 |title=Hayden's Edge |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/07/19/haydens-edge/75bd607a-5101-4f0e-8f84-807b5994ad98/ |magazine=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=November 1, 2022}}</ref> The first song released by [[Red Star Belgrade (band)|Red Star Belgrade]], "Union, S.C.", is written from Smith's perspective.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Menconi |first=David |date=February 11, 1995 |title=Continental Drift |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yAsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT19 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |language=en |page=18}}</ref> "Paper Gown", a song from folk singer [[Caroline Herring]]'s 2014 album Lantana takes the form of a murder ballad from the point of view of Smith. 

Smith appears briefly in archival footage in the 2002 film ''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'' in a scene about "dangerous black guys".<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q165394|id=tt0310793|title=Bowling for Columbine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://vimeo.com/39131010 |title='Dangerous black Guys' from Bowling for Columbine |website=[[Vimeo]] |accessdate=10 July 2022}}</ref>