7 DIE AT LAKE WHERE MOTHER KILLED HER BOYS.Byline: Rick Bragg Rick Bragg (born July 26, 1959 in Piedmont, Alabama) won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996 for his work at The New York Times. He credits his writing ability to the oral storytelling of family and friends in his childhood in the Appalachian foothills of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times They had come to remember the drowned children of Susan Smith for the Playboy playmate see Susan Smith Susan Smith (born September 24, 1971 as Susan Leigh Vaughan), of Union, South Carolina, was convicted July 22, 1995, of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith, born October 10, 1991, and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler and ended up victims themselves. Seven people, including four children, died in John D. Long Lake on Saturday night when they came to see the spot where Susan Smith drowned her two young sons in the fall of 1994, in a murder that drew worldwide attention to the usually quiet town and lured thousands to the lip of the lake. The seven victims, including a family of five from nearby Buffalo, S.C., were looking at two memorials for the two boys, who died after Mrs. Smith let her car roll down a boat ramp into the water. She then misled police and the nation for nine days in October 1994, by tearfully begging a fictional carjacker to bring home Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months. Saturday's tragedy, which police are calling an accident, came as a morbid byproduct by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. Noun 1. of the curiosity that has drawn countless visitors to the lake to place flowers, say prayers or pose for pictures. A group of 10 people had driven out to the lake late Saturday night in a Chevrolet Suburban This article is about a type of vehicle. For other uses, see Suburb. The Chevrolet Suburban is a large sport utility vehicle from Chevrolet. It is one of the longest-lived automobile nameplates in the United States, dating from 1935 and is likely to be produced and parked next to the ramp, shining the headlights of the vehicle on granite memorials to the two Smith boys. Five of the people had gotten out of the car when it started to roll down the embankment, with four children and one adult still inside, said Howard Wells, the Union County Sheriff. The truck, shaped like an enclosed pickup, plunged into 15 feet of water, drowning all those inside. Two people outside the truck, including the wife and mother of four of the victims, went into the water to try to save them, and also drowned. Wells, who was largely credited with breaking Smith's story, said that investigators ``do not have any reason to suspect foul play'' in the latest tragedy and that the investigation would continue. Why no one was able to stop the truck is still a mystery. ``No skid marks skid marks skid npl → Reifenspuren pl; (from braking) → Bremsspuren pl , no sign they tried to stop,'' the sheriff said. The accident claimed an entire family from Buffalo, a rural community near Union. Killed were Tim Phillips Tim Phillips is the name of more than one person.
me·le·na n. , 23 months, and Kinsleigh, 4 months. Wells said Tim Phillips was behind the wheel. It also drowned an additional child, Austin ``Cody'' Roodvoets, 3, of Inman, and Carl Sydney White, 29, of Campobello. Both towns are about 30 miles northwest of Union. White, along with Angie Phillips Angie Phillips is a meteorologist for BBC Newsline. Phillips is from Belfast and was educated in Holywood in County Down. She trained at the Met Office's College in Reading, Berkshire, and joined the service in 1985. She became a weather forecaster in 1991. , had tried to rescue the others. Union residents milled around the site of the latest tragedy, as they had done in 1994. ``People here are dumbfounded dumb·found also dum·found tr.v. dumb·found·ed, dumb·found·ing, dumb·founds To fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound. See Synonyms at surprise. ,'' said Ralph Greer, a retired newspaper and radio journalist who covered Union and the surrounding countryside for 35 years, and has lived here for half a century. No one can believe, Greer said, that such a terrible thing as the drowning of children has visited this place not once but twice. That it came as a result of the curiosity over Smith's crime, something people here want to forget, is eerie, he said. ``People have been coming ever since it happened,'' he said of the site. ``People from all the over world. They just want to look.'' The Suburban passed between the two markers as it rolled down the bank and over a small tree planted in memory of the Smith boys. The polished stone markers have likenesses of the two boys carved in them. ``It's like it's haunted or something,'' Tommy Vinson, a 46-year-old Union County resident, told the Associated Press. ``It keeps taking lives.'' |
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