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Crime History: 7 die in lake where Susan Smith drowned her sons

By Scott McCabe
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Crime History: 7 die in lake where Susan Smith drowned her sons

On this day, Aug. 31, in 1996, seven people who visited the site where susan smith drowned her two boys died in the same lake.

Two young families had gone to see a granite memorial placed on the edge of the John D. Long Lake in South Carolina where Michael, 3, and Alex Smith, 14 months, drowned after their mother rolled her car into the waters with them strapped inside in October 1994.

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