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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who killed her kids and blamed a Black man, denied parole

A South Carolina mother who was convicted of killing her two children by rolling her car into a lake with the boys strapped in their car seats has been denied parole after 30 years.

Susan Smith, 53, was convicted of murder in 1995 but the jury decided not to sentence her to death. Under state law at the time, she is eligible for a parole hearing every two years now that she has spent 30 years behind bars.

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