Shaquan Duley wanted to be free, police say.
That is why, they say, she pressed her bare hands over her children’s faces, two little boys, and smothered them. That is why she placed their bodies into her Chrysler sedan and sent the car into the blackwater of the Edisto River.
Early Monday when police responded to calls about the submerged car, the 29-year-old mother initially lied, investigators said. She said she had been driving along a country road outside Orangeburg, South Carolina, and had lost control of her car. She told police she walked nearly a mile before flagging a motorist who called for help.
