Susan Smith, the woman who killed her two sons after driving her car into a lake in South Carolina in 1994, is set to have a parole hearing Wednesday. The case involving Smith and the deaths of her sons Michael and Alex made national and international headlines when the

Amid racial tensions and in a conservative part of the Deep South, Smith falsely claimed a Black man carjacked her and took her sons.

Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother convicted of killing her two sons by rolling her car into a lake in 1994 with the boys strapped in their seats inside, will ask a parole board for her freedom on Wednesday.

Susan Smith, who killed her children by drowning them in a lake in Union County and was convicted of murder, is up for parole on Nov. 20. She's serving life.