Seven drown in murder-site visit

UNION, South Carolina - The lake in which a mother drowned her two sons in 1994 took seven more lives when a car holding four…

UNION, South Carolina - The lake in which a mother drowned her two sons in 1994 took seven more lives when a car holding four children and an adult rolled into it and two adults in the same party drowned trying to save them. Memorials were erected at John D. Long Lake last year for the children of Susan Smith, who strapped them into car seats and let the car roll into the lake.

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