Chapter 56 second quarter

Susan had a problem with showing off to her husband her pre-Davey relationships with other men.It was from here that David learned a secret about the Lusso family. It was 1987, and Susan was not yet 16.One day, one of Bavelli Russo's daughters came, and Suzanne gave up her room and moved the bedding, etc., to the sofa in the living room.When Susan was about to go to bed, her stepfather came and sat on the other end of the sofa. Instead of telling him to leave, Susan crawled over like a child and fell asleep with his head on Beverly's lap.Susan woke up slowly, feeling Bavelly's hands on her shoulders and breasts, and taking her hands on his genitals.Susan closed her eyes and continued to pretend to be asleep.She later told Linda that the reason she didn't stop her stepfather's sexual harassment was "to see what he would do".

Susan did not tell David what happened next.She reported the sexual harassment incident to relevant departments. According to the results of the joint investigation by the South Carolina Department of Civil Affairs and the Union District Police Department, Susan obviously seduced and abetted Beverly Russo, and she was also suspected of "misbehavior".Investigators asked Susan, Linda and Bowley to participate in family counseling and ordered Bowley to move out temporarily.They went to consult four or five times together, and it wasn't long before Bavelly moved back home.As a result, everything went back to normal in the Lusso family, and the sexual harassment continued as usual.

This incident undoubtedly played a role in fueling the fire, making the relationship between David and his father-in-law's family worse. The couple officially separated for the first time in March 1992, on the eve of their wedding anniversary.In fact, before this, Susan had run back to her natal home several times with her children.It was during this separation that Susan reconnected with her former lover at Wyn-Dix, and she succeeded—David was jealous, and the two reconciled before long. But the good times didn't last long.In the summer of the same year, David and Susan separated again, and Susan and Michael moved back to Lusso's house.Davis was eager to think about it, and he really didn't want to break up with Susan, so he ran to Lusso's house every day.Their relationship was back and forth, and in November of that year, Susan became pregnant again. In December, the two young men decided to try again for the children, and the couple moved back together again.Susan said that the key to the reconciliation of their husband and wife is to have their own house, which David also knows very well.But what about money?The family has little savings.Susan meant, of course, to ask Linda with the back of her hand down.Although David was totally unhappy, in order to maintain the family, he could only turn a blind eye and follow his wife.Soon, they bought a bungalow at 407 Tony Road with a down payment of $6,000 from Baveley and Linda.

Susan's second pregnancy was not as blissful as the first.She complained constantly that she had become "fat and ugly" and had a tendency to lose her temper for no apparent reason.Susan used to love to tell her husband all kinds of interesting things about little Michael, but she didn't know when she didn't bother to talk about it anymore.With a repulsive attitude, she often didn't speak to David for days. This time it was David's turn to have an affair.Depressed and lonely, and desperate to confide in someone, David began dating Tiffany Moore, a cashier at Win-Dix, and moved back to his great-grandmother, Moana, in June 1993.Susan and Tiffany were in the same class at Union High School. They knew each other, but not very well.In fact, Susan had nominated Tiffany to take over when she left her post as the president of the Student Volunteer Union.Now times have changed, and Susan is no longer the Susan she used to be.She heard that Tiffany sometimes spent the night with David, and she stormed into Win-Dix in a rage, and insulted both David and Tiffany in public.

Susan gave birth to the Smith family's second son by Caesarean section on August 5, 1993. They named the child Alexander Taylor, nicknamed Alex.For this new life just born, and to help Susan recover after surgery, the couple put aside their previous feuds and lived under the same roof again.Although Tiffany Moore could understand David's difficulties, it was really unbearable.Jealous, impulsive, and at a loss what to do, she often drove around the Smiths' house after get off work, or parked across the road to wait for David to come out, and once honked at the Smiths' house in the middle of the night.Three weeks later, David broke up with Susan again.This time, both of them knew in their hearts that there was no hope for their marriage.

To be fair, David and Suzanne are, in every sense of the word, competent parents, despite all the rifts between the couple.According to Susan's cousin Mary Hexon: "No matter how much they quarreled, they always agreed on issues concerning the children. That was the only place where they didn't have conflict." Even during their separation , Susan also took the children to Win-Dix to see their father three or four times a week.As long as the two sons have something to do, such as going to the hospital, David is always on call. The neighbors still remember that Susan let the little brothers sit in a red trailer and pulled them in front of their house. Running back and forth.The barbers who cut Michael and Alex's hair remember that the children were afraid of having their heads shaved, and Susan was always there to hold their little hands.The aunts in the nursery also remember that Susan often knelt on the floor and played with her two sons for a long time.

Susan didn't want to go back to Win-Dix.After confinement, she found a job as a bookkeeping secretary in a company called Kangshuo Industry. Kangshuo was originally a small local factory. In 1986, J. Cary Fairey, an accountant from Charlotte, North Carolina, and several investors partnered to buy the handmade ornament factory that was on the verge of bankruptcy.Their original plan was to turn the factory into a profit in the shortest possible time, and then sell it at a high price.But later, J. Cary Fairley found that decorations were a business with great potential, so he bought out the equity of other trading partners in 1988, changed the company's name to Kangshuo Industry, and purchased a place 7 miles south of Union Town. A large estate with several houses, the whole family moved here.Facts have proved that Kari Ferry really has great foresight. In November 1993, Kangshuo Industry became the first company in the Union region to be listed on the stock market. In December of the same year, it opened branches in the United Kingdom, Canada and Mexico.

Susan quickly rose from bookkeeping secretary to office secretary to boss and president J. Cary Fairey, and she really enjoyed her job at Consol Industries.Susan's responsibilities include booking hotels and air tickets for out-of-town customers, ordering flowers for the company's weekly and large-scale events, and arranging Kari Ferry's business trips.Susan thus came into contact with a luxurious world that she was unfamiliar with. Another reason for Suzanne's interest in the Kangshuo industry is Tom Ferry, one of J. Carrie Ferry's three sons. 27-year-old Tom grew up in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. After graduating from Auburn University in 1990, he directly entered Kangshuo Industry as the director of the design department, in charge of the design of advertisements, packaging and product manuals.In terms of appearance, Tom is unremarkable, with sparse hair and unclear facial features.But because he is the young owner of the largest company in the Union area, he is young and rich, so he is favored by young women in Union Town, and is considered one of the most attractive single nobles in the area.In serious theory, in the relationship between Susan and Tom, Tom Ferry was the instigator who first invited Susan out on a date.

Susan also made a bunch of new friends at Concord Properties, and she often hangs out with them at the Hickory Bar, the only bar in Uniontown that just opened in the summer of 1993. Because of their two sons, Susan and David kept in touch during their separation. In December 1993, Susan asked David to accompany her to the grand Christmas ball held by Kangshuo Industry for the employees. She told David mysteriously that she wanted to introduce him to someone.After Susan and David danced twice, they took the initiative to go over to invite Tom Ferry. While dancing with Tom, she signaled to David that this was the person she mentioned.Susan hugged Tom tightly in front of David, and then simply put her head on Tom's shoulder.After the song came down, David disappeared.It turned out that he rushed out of the venue, ran to a nearby small restaurant to get drunk, and then returned to Kangshuo Industry to make trouble, and was beaten up at the entrance of the dance.

Since January 1994, Susan and Tom Ferry have been dating frequently.They often had lunch together, watched movies, and Susan had been to Tom's party at Ferry Manor and Tom's place alone. Since the Yule Ball, David had talked to Susan several times, hoping to restore their relationship, because he believed that the two children needed a father as well as a mother.Susan finally agreed to try again. In the spring of 1994, David moved back to 407 Tony Road.But in fact, Susan still couldn't let go of Tom Ferry. In late July, she told David she wanted a divorce.At that time, the two agreed to break up and not to pursue each other's faults during the divorce process.

David rented a two-bedroom apartment two miles from the house on Tony Road.He bought new furniture and put a crib for Michael and Alex in one of the bedrooms, a crib and lots of new toys. Susan continued to date Tom Ferry, dreaming of one day marrying at the Ferry estate.The problem was, Tom was a dude, and although he liked Susan, he never thought of marrying her.When Susan made it clear that she was anxious to become Mrs. Ferry, Tom began to distance herself from her. On September 21, David came home from get off work.As soon as he parked his car and walked to the door of the apartment building, Susan's lawyer, who had already been waiting in a car across the street, came over and handed him a copy of the divorce indictment submitted by Susan to the court.The indictment stated: "The defendant has been committing adultery with his mistress during their marriage. Due to the defendant's misconduct and other differences, the plaintiff and the defendant have been separated for a long time." David was very angry after reading it, because Susan broke her promise and used David and Tiffany Moore's extramarital affair as grounds for her divorce. On October 21, 1994, Susan's divorce complaint was officially registered in the Union District Court. On the day of the accident, October 25, the night was already very deep.The search for the Smith brothers and the burgundy Mazda has seen a growing police presence.State Police dispatched a helicopter equipped with infrared temperature detectors to search the area around John D. Long Lake and the Summit National Forest.This temperature difference detector is very sensitive and can detect any object in the forest that is warmer than the outside air temperature, such as people, animals or decomposing corpses. After 11 o'clock, Police Officer Howard Wells advised Susan and her family and friends to leave McGraw's house and find a more convenient and comfortable place to wait for news and search results.Susan wanted to go to Mount Vernon with her mother and stepfather.After getting into David's car, she said she had to go back to Tony Road to pick up contact lenses. A young photojournalist of the "Alliance Daily Times" heard about the carjacking and kidnapping on the police radio through a scanner on his way home from get off work. Longhu filmed footage of the police search.Susan knew that the media would act immediately, and she didn't want to wear glasses to appear in the newspaper or on TV.She also reminded David that Tom Ferry would call and ask him not to do anything stupid out of jealousy.David Smith later wrote in his book "Susan and Me": "All I could think about was Michael and Alex, and God knows how she could have such silly thoughts." Despite David's reluctance, for the sake of the overall situation, he stayed with Susan at the Russo's house, and let Susan cry on him, or kiss her and hug her when she needed it.In the next few days, they went out as a couple again, accepting interviews with reporters, and praying for the safe return of their children in front of the TV cameras.David knew in his heart that they did this not because they were a husband and wife, but because they were the parents of the two victims. David's father, Charles Smith, and his wife had flown back to Uniontown from California, and his uncle, Douglas Smith, whom David had never met, also drove from Michigan with his wife.Various people, both acquainted and unknown, in Union Town sent food of all kinds, and a store nearby delivered a large number of free drinks.The Lusso family came and went, relatives, friends, neighbors, acquaintances and pastors of the church gathered together, and Susan was the center of attention. Never in her life had so many people greeted and cared for her. in every possible way.Anyone who knows her can see that Susan is very grateful for all this.David, on the contrary, preferred to shut himself up in a small room.All the relatives and friends also tried their best not to disturb him. Susan had been waiting for a call from Tom Ferry, but there was no response, but Tiffany Moore called David frequently.Susan bluntly told David that it was unfair. She told David to tell his girlfriend to stop calling Russo's house, which David did. He only dared to talk to Tiffany in the backyard on his cell phone. After two or three days, Tom Ferry's call finally came.When Linda told Susan that Tom was looking for her, it seemed to David that Susan, in an exaggerated tone and a voice that everyone could hear, asked Linda to put the phone into her room.David glanced at the time subconsciously and noticed that Susan had casually closed the bedroom door.In less than three minutes, Susan came out of the room.That was the only call from Tom Ferry.Tom later told police that he only expressed his deep concern and sympathy for Michael and Alex to Susan on the phone.When Susan turned the topic to their relationship, Tom told her not to think about it so much now, but to focus on the two children. Tom Ferry has never visited Susan, even when the employees of Kangshuo Industry visited collectively.Once, Sue Brown, the marketing manager, came to Russo's house with other colleagues. Susan called Sue aside and asked her quietly when Tom was going to come. Afterwards, people speculated that apart from Susan, Tom Ferry was probably the first person to understand what happened on the night of October 25, 1994. The news of Michael and Alex's abduction did make it to the local radio station and the "Alliance Daily Times" early the next morning.Residents in and around Union Town, especially the employees of Win-Dix and Kangshuo Industry, after hearing the news, used their spare time to voluntarily participate in the several-day search on foot.At the same time, the South Carolina State Police Department also sent several divers to search the bottom of the lake, but they did not find children and cars in the John D. Long Lake area they dived into.A reporter described this search as a three-dimensional joint operation of underwater, ground, air, sea, land and air. Within a day, every household in Union Town, as well as shops, schools, companies, etc., tied yellow ribbons at their doorsteps and nearby tree trunks, symbolizing a safe return.Wen-Dix and Kangshuo respectively decided that David and Susan's wages should be paid during the investigation of this case. The first thing Howard Wells did on October 26 was to ask a police artist to paint a mock portrait of the robber based on Susan's description.Before long, people saw a black man in his 40s in newspapers and on TV, wearing a dark woolen hat, dark shirt, jeans and a plaid jacket. Notably, a national nonprofit group, the Adam Welch Center, quickly joined the search.Adam Welsh is a 6-year-old boy who lives in Hollywood, Florida. One day in 1981, he followed his mother to a Searles store, and Mrs. Welsh was going to return an item.While passing the appliance department, little Adam wanted to play a video game.Mother didn't agree at first, but Adam assured him that he wouldn't walk around.Mrs. Welsh left for less than 3 minutes, and when she returned to the appliance department, little Adam had disappeared.The local military, police and people searched on a large scale for 10 consecutive days, and finally found the child's body 150 miles south of Hollywood.Adam Welch's killer is still at large.In 1981, the police had no standard operational procedures for searching for missing children, no computer database of suspected child molesters, and no national organization providing information on missing children.In memory of their beloved son, Adam's parents fought for many years, urging Congress to pass the Missing Children Act in 1984, and based on this act, established the Adam Welch Center with a nationwide computer network.Adam's father is John Welsh, the famous host of Fox's highly rated Saturday night TV special program "America's Most Wanted". The Adam Welch Center has four sub-centers across the United States, one of which is in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, 70 miles south of Uniontown. On the morning of October 26, the executive chairman of the sub-center, Ms. Margaret Fryerson, called Susan’s sister-in-law, Wanty Vaughan, and said that the center would provide some services for the Smiths. Please tell Susan Or David to call her back.It was Bavelly who called Marguerite later and told her how to get to Russo's house.Before leaving Columbia, Ms. Fryerson and her assistant, Charlotte Foster, obtained photos of Michael and Alex through the South Carolina State Police and used them to create numerous posters. In the afternoon, two ladies from the Adam Welsh sub-center came to the Russo's home, and the Smiths, the Russoes and Susan's brother Scott Vaughan attended the meeting.Margaret Fryerson explained to them the purpose of the center and the various services the center provides for parents and relatives of missing children.She said that the center could act as a coordinator between them and the media, arrange interviews for them, broadcast photos of the Smith brothers on TV, and information about the case.About 40 minutes into the meeting, Susan and David withdrew together, and they had made an appointment to go to the Union Regional Police Station to interview with the investigators.Ms. Fryerson drove there with the Smiths in her own car.While Sergeant Howard Wells was alone with Susan in his office, Margaret Fryerson and Eddie Harris of the State Police consulted with David to get Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the country. The TV media published a speech praying for the safe return of the children.David was very nervous at first, afraid that he could not speak well.Margaret and Eddie told him it was necessary. On the steps of the Union District Police Station, Susan and David stood side by side in front of a national TV audience.David said: Whoever took our two sons, we hereby implore you, please do no harm and let them go home.We love them dearly... We ask that gentleman, by all means, to bring our children back to us in safety.No matter where I am in the house, I can see their toys and pictures everywhere.They are very obedient and lovely good children.I don't know how to express my feelings.I can't imagine life without them. People saw on TV that Susan was still wearing the white sweater with the orange "Auburn" printed on it.In the next few days, she also wore the "Auburn" fleece sweater many times to accept interviews with reporters. On that day, several investigators from the Union Regional Police Department and the South Carolina State Police Department took turns talking to Susan respectively, and it lasted more than 6 hours.These different people asked the same questions over and over again, especially those about the details of the case.That night, after Susan and David left the police station, Sergeant Welsh called David A. Kajol, director of the state police forensic science laboratory in Columbia, and asked him to come to Union Township to talk to Sue. Susan interviewed, because the police had a lot of doubts about Susan's story, in particular, the traffic light at the Monaco Mill intersection connecting the main highway 49 is always green unless there is traffic in the northwest-southeast direction perpendicular to it Stop at the intersection.According to Susan's story, there were no cars around at the time.