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Friday, March 16, 2012  A South Carolina mother has pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in the deaths of her two young sons whose bodies were found in a car in a river in 2010.

Friday, December 10, 2010  A South Carolina mother accused of suffocating her two young sons and driving her car into a river in an attempt to cover up their deaths has lost custody of a third child.

Monday, September 13, 2010  A judge has denied bond for a South Carolina mother accused of suffocating her two young sons, then staging an accident by steering her car into a river with their bodies strapped inside.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010  The Orangeburg County coroner says she has found defensive wounds on a 2-year-old boy whose mother police say smothered him and his brother before strapping them into their car seats and driving them into a river.