South Carolina killer mom Susan Smith, who drowned sons, up for release as experts sound alarm

Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two young sons in a lake in the 1990s, is up for a parole hearing in a month.

Smith, then 22, strapped her sons, Michael and Alexander Smith, into the back seat of her car in October 1994, and watched as she let the car roll into John D. Lake in Union County. It took six minutes for the two boys, one 3 years old and the other just 14 months, to drown.

"She spent nine days claiming that the carjacker had taken the kids and asking for help...