(WSPA)—It’s a betrayal that was felt in homes across this country. A mother from Union begged for help to find her sons. Then we found out she locked them in their car seats and rolled them into an Upstate lake.
Even if you lived through it 30 years ago, you may have forgotten about all the yellow ribbons and the flyers taped to car windows with pictures of the boys, the carjacked vehicle, and the bogus suspect.
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But Susan Smith’s lies are something you will never forget.
She claimed a Black man carjacked her children.
Her desperate pleas for their return quickly turned Union into a media circus.
Across the nation, people looked everywhere for Michael and Alex.
Over nine excruciating days, doubts emerged. News leaked that Smith failed a lie detector test. Her shattered husband David’s only hope to see his children again was to keep believing her.
Later, he’d find out his boys were rolled into John D. Long Lake. Prosecutors said it took six minutes for the car to sink.