“Oddly enough, it is also just a couple of miles from where Sherri Smith disappeared...”
Is that the same woman is South Carolina who strapped her kids in the car, pushed the car into the lake and said that her kids were kidnapped by a black man?
This is the Shari Smith story. Her sister went on to become Miss South Carolina.
http://www.examiner.com/article/murder-of-shari-smith-revisited-larry-gene-bell-may-have-killed-others