Susan D. Snell

Susan D. Snell also know as Sue Snell was a student of Ewen High School in Chamberlain, Maine and the girlfriend of Tommy Ross. She was one of Chris Hargensen's friends who joined in tormenting Carrie White, especially during the shower incident. Sue later felt guilty about her part in the bullying and asked Ross to take Carrie to their high school prom in her place. She hoped that by doing this, she would be helping Carrie to know what it is like to be accepted and put her conscience at ease.

Sue's plan failed in a way that not even she expected: She discovered that her school was burning and raced to see what had happened. Upon her race to the school, she got into a minor skidding accident in her mother's car, which may have caused a slight concussion. She then searched for Carrie and found her later lying on an empty parking lot bleeding to death. Sue had somehow managed to "hone in" on Carrie's broadcast telepathy, and invited the young woman into her mind to see that she was not involved in the prom debacle, nor did she ever feel any animosity towards her.

After Carrie died, Sue finally had her period, although it has been said that she may have been miscarrying, for she was suspecting she was carrying a child she believed to be Tommy's.

In 1986, Snell published a memoir recounting her part in the Black Prom. It is shown she has become a heartbroken woman because of these events.