“Above Suspicion,” in theaters Friday, is a tragic tale of how FBI agent Mark Putnam’s ambition and informant Susan Smith’s wild infatuation collided with deadly consequences.

Susan Daniels Smith was 27 and pregnant when FBI agent Mark Putnam strangled her to death on June 8, 1989, in Pike County. Police file/Family photo ...

But today, Coventry native Mark Putnam, the first FBI agent to be ... now 41, has completed a 10-year prison sentence for killing Susan Daniels Smith, his informant and lover while he was ...

Mark Putnam and Susan Smith's murder case. As published on Amazon, Mark Putnam and Susan Smith met in 1987 after he was assigned his first investigation case in Pikeville, Kentucky.

‘Game of Thrones’ star Emilia Clarke, left, will portray Susan Daniels Smith in a new movie to be filmed in Kentucky. Smith was killed in 1989 by her lover, Pike County FBI agent Mark Putnam ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Filming is underway for a movie based on a 1989 murder in Pike County, Kentucky. "Above the Suspicion" is based on the murder of Susan Smith.

Susan Smith, a South Carolina woman who admitted to drowning her two children 30 years ago, was unanimously denied parole after she appeared before the board for the first time on Wednesday. "I ...