He is the first FBI agent convicted of murder. Mark Steven Putnam (born July 4, 1959) is a criminologist and former FBI agent (1987-1990). That same year, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. He subsequently confessed, pleaded guilty to strangling Smith, and told authorities where to find her body. Putnam underwent a polygraph exam, which he failed. In 1990, the investigation into Smith's death became an FBI matter, as Putnam was under suspicion for her disappearance. Three days later, Smith was reported missing by her sister, Shelby Ward. Putnam left Kentucky and returned to his family in Florida. The next day, he dumped Smith's body along an old coal mining road. At that time, Putnam strangled and killed Smith and placed her body in the trunk of his car. On June 8, 1989, Putnam took Smith in his rental car to a clearing, and after a brief discussion and threats by both sides, they began to fight. Putnam insisted he and his wife Kathy could adopt the baby but Smith refused. When he reached Kentucky, Smith contacted him about her pregnancy and told him the baby was his. Still, in mid-1989 he had to return to complete an unrelated investigation. Putnam, however, was aware his behavior could damage his career and his family, and in early 1989, he signed a petition to be transferred from Kentucky to Florida, in order to focus on other cases. However, Smith insisted on continuing their relationship, and by mid-1988, they had begun an active sexual relationship. Adultery and Murder Īccording to Putnam, his contact with Smith became less frequent after Lockhart's case was closed. Smith received $5,000 (equivalent to over $11,000 as of 2020) for her contribution to the case. Lockhart was apprehended in December 1987 and the next year sentenced to 57 years in federal prison on charges of robbery. Smith and Putnam met in the spring of 1987, and they began to have frequent contact for the exchange of information about Lockhart's upcoming criminal plans. A local sheriff's deputy, Albert "Bert" Hartfield, recommended that his longtime friend Susan Smith visit Putnam to earn extra income and to help him with the case. His aim was to arrest a famous 32-year-old ex-convict and bank robber, Carl Edward "Cat Eyes" Lockhart. In 1987, an FBI agent named Mark Putnam began his first investigation in Pikeville, Kentucky.
Susan and Kenneth eventually divorced, although they kept sharing their home with each other and their children. However, the couple started to have a conflicted relationship, highly compromised by drug abuse. By the mid-1980s, Susan had given birth to two children. They married in the late 1970s, and soon after Kenneth was arrested on November 27, 1979. In 1977, Susan Smith met Kenneth Smith, a local dealer of methamphetamine, PCP, and cocaine. She studied at Freeburn grade school, but dropped out in 7th grade, because of financial problems within her family. Her parents moved to Freeburn, Kentucky, when Susan was an infant. She was the fifth of nine children (including her sister Shelby Ward). Susan Daniels Smith was born in 1961 in Matewan, West Virginia, to Sidney "Sid" Daniels, an unemployed and former coal miner, and Tracy Daniels, a housekeeper.
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