ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>BONNIE ANDERSON, FMR. CNN CORRESPONDENT: Nine days earlier, the world heard about this young woman in South Carolina, Union, South Carolina, who says that her car was carjacked by a black man who also took off with her two boys, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex. She was distraught, she was hysterical, she pleaded for help.</s>SUSAN SMITH: I mean, please bring them home.</s>ANDERSON: Within hours, everybody within the South started searching for the man, searching for the two children. But nine days after the search began, Susan Smith was arrested for the murder of her two boys.</s>SHERIFF HOWARD WELLS, UNION COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA: Susan Smith has been arrested and will be charged with two counts of murder in connection with the death of her children, Michael, 3, and Alexander, 14 months.</s>ANDERSON: No one believed it at first. Then there was anger among the African-American community. And there was also, you know, a sense of sadness, because the world believed the story. There was a lot of praying, there was a lot of healing to be done in Union, South Carolina. And the communities really and truly came together. We were standing on a corner in Union, South Carolina when her car was driven past us on a flat-bed, and there was absolute silence in the crowd. Everybody just hushed for that moment.
CNN 20: Susan Smith Charged With Murder, November 3, 1994