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Wed Nov 20 2024

'The ultimate betrayal': Child killer Susan Smith denied parole

Donna Sweezy of Union, South Carolina, shows 2-year-old Taylor Smith of Jonesville, South Carolina, the flowers and gifts left at the burial site of murdered Michael and Alex Smith at the Bogansville Methodist Church near Union, S.C., July 29. Convicted murderer Susan Smith was given a life sentence July 28 for the October 1994 drowning.

Amid racial tensions and in a conservative part of the Deep South, Smith falsely claimed a Black man carjacked her and took her sons.

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