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In October 1994, South Carolina mother Susan Smith claimed that a Black man had carjacked her and kidnapped her children

Days later, she confessed that she'd let her car roll into a lake with sons Michael, 3, and Alexander, 14 months, inside

She began serving a life sentence for the murders one year later and was denied parole in November 2024

Thirty-one years after Susan Smith confessed to the murder of her two young children, she continues to serve a life sentence in prison.

Smith, a young South Carolina mother, claimed a Black man had carjacked her and had taken off with her two toddlers in the car in October 1994. However, just nine days later, Smith confessed that there had been no carjacking. In reality, she had driven her car to a local boat ramp and let it roll

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