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Susan Vaughan Smith (born September 26, 1971), of Union, South Carolina, was convicted in 1995 of murdering her two sons (3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex), and is now serving a life sentence. She is due for a parole hearing in 2005.
The case gained national attention because Smith initially told police on October 24, 1994, she had been carjacked by an African-American man and her sons were still in the car when the man drove away. For nine days, Smith made tearful pleas on television for the return of her children. However, she finally confessed to intentionally rolling the car into nearby John D. Long Lake, drowning her children inside.
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