Susan Smith -story ‘tells 1994 drowning of children

It was inconceivable 30 years ago that a union, South Carolina, woman could tighten her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons into their car seats and look at as the car slowly sank into John D. Long Lake.

Susan Smith would argue that she also tried to end her life but couldn’t go through it.

Inside the trunk was Smith’s wedding album, dress and other parts of her life that prosecutors believe she was trying to walk away.

What followed was a deception that rattled the nation. Smith falsely claimed she had been carjacked by a black man and her boys taken and started a nationwide search. Nine days later, she confessed to the boys’ murder.

In “Unthinkable: Susan Smith story,” hear from the charges that handled Smith’s case and why the authorities doubted her story from the start. The boy’s father, David Smith, talks about why he thinks 30 years in prison is not long enough for Susan and what he is prepared to tell a South Carolina board of pardons and paroles to keep her behind bars.