The father of the two boys who were drowned in a lake back in 1994 stood tearfully at ex-wife Susan Smith's parole hearing in South Carolina Wednesday
Smith, now 53, testified before a seven-person board with the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, in an attempt to persuade them of her worthiness for freedom, following her decades-long prison stint
Authorities in South Carolina are working "diligently" to learn the identity of skeletal human remains discovered by a utility worker last week, though the bones were "likely" exposed to the elements for years.
Smith, now 53, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1994 murders of her two little boys – 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander
