i'm trying to find out name, history and a photo of this mother. she
resurrects a horrifying memory of that lying sick slag susan smith.
Children's bodies recovered from submerged car, mother arrested
Posted: Aug 16, 2010
ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SC Two children's bodies have been recovered from a submerged vehicle in the Edisto River and their mother has been arrested.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol was called to the Shillings Bridge boat ramp for a report of a vehicle in the water around 6 a.m. Monday. Once on the scene, troopers, believing it was more than an accident, called the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Department.
Orangeburg County dive team members discovered the bodies of a 1-year-old and 2-year old boy inside the Green Dodge Intrepid at 6:40 a.m. The toddler's bodies were still strapped in their child restraint seats when they were recovered.
Ramona Millhouse watched as rescue crews worked to recover the boys, and pull the car out of the water.
"One of them carried a little boy off to the ambulance and then there was a girl working with them and she took the other little boy off the stretcher and she carried him to the ambulance," said Millhouse.
According to Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams, the boys' 29-year-old mother walked almost a mile before calling for help. Williams said she described the incident as an "accident."
Authorities said the mother has one other child and is from Orangeburg County. Her name has not been released. She is charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Williams said there's a possibility this was not an accident.
"It's a possibility, of course, with her leaving the scene of the accident, and we're going to further interview her today, and that's a possibility," said Williams.
Williams says Troopers did not find any evidence that the car was in an accident. The only explanation, according to Williams, is that the car went into the river at a nearby boat landing.
"She left the location," said Williams. "She walked away from the vehicle, maybe three-fourths of a mile away, of course, where she had contacted someone to call law enforcement to report that she had been involved in an accident."
"We definitely didn't have any evidence of a vehicle accident," added the sheriff.
A witness said she overheard investigators saying the ignition was left on when they opened the car door in the water.
Orangeburg sheriff's deputies had Shillings Bridge Road closed down for most of the morning while trying to retrieve the vehicle from the river.
The names of the children have not been released.
An autopsy will be conducted on the bodies to determine exact cause of death.
The sheriff did not say whether the investigation is to a point where investigators can say for sure, exactly how, or who put the car in the river.
edit to add...
Orangeburg County Coroner Samuetta Marshall identified the victims as 2-year-old Devean C. Duley and 18-month-old Ja'Van T. Duley. She said a cause of death has not been determined. An autopsy will be conducted on Tuesday.
Shaquan Duley, who was identified by the Orangeburg County Detention Center as the mother of the children, is being interviewed by the sheriff's department after the incident that Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams doesn't believe was an accident.
here's her facebook pic on the right.
"'m 24yrs old, I am an easy person to get along with. I love to have fun and crack jokes. My family is very important to me. I am a "B-A-B-Y M-A-M-A" (I KNOW YALL HEARD MY NAME IN THE SONG !!!! ) I have a beautiful daughter that means the world to me. "
daughter is 5, still living. they all lived with grandma.
An Orangeburg man with numerous past encounters with law enforcement was arrested Monday on allegations that he shot at his former girlfriend.
Maurice Duley, 33, of 941 Chester St., has been charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, malicious injury to personal property and assault with intent to kill. He is expected to make an appearance today in magistrate’s court for a bond hearing.
The charges are related to an incident in which a woman told deputies Duley shot at her and her male acquaintance.
The Orangeburg woman told investigators she ended a year-long relationship with Duley a few months before. She said Duley started calling her on Oct. 23, according to an Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office incident report.
When the woman and a male acquaintance returned to her home after dinner, they were confronted by Duley, she said. An argument broke out.
“The subject got angry that she would not speak to him and she got into the car with victim No. 2,” the report said. “At this time, the subject produced a revolver with brown wood grips believed to be a .357-caliber pistol.”
A shot was fired into the acquaintance’s vehicle, where the man was seated, the report said. He was showered with glass.
“The subject told victim No. 2 to get out of here, which he, fearing for his life, did so immediately,” the report said.
The woman claimed the gunman fled the scene, but later called back threatening to kill her.
The woman and her two children were removed from the home and taken to a secure location, according to the report.
In August, the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office obtained a warrant against Duley alleging first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. The warrant accused Duley of performing sexual battery on a 10-year-old child on July 13.
In 2006, Duley was given a 10-year sentence suspended to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of accessory after the fact to felony assault and battery with intent to kill for helping a man convicted of shooting two deputies.
Although Roger Johnson was later found guilty in both shootings, officials said Duley drove Johnson out of the county in an attempt to evade police.
In 1995, Duley faced charges of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possession with intent to distribute within proximity of a school. A SLED analysis later showed, however, that the substance he had was not cocaine and the charges were thrown out.
Five months earlier, Duley had clutched a red Bible during his trial as he faced the death penalty for the murder of popular Orangeburg educator and businessman Franklin Glover.
The 54-year-old school administrator and business owner was shot twice – once in the chest and once in the head – with a semiautomatic, .25-caliber pistol on Feb. 16, 1993.
booking photo. so far charge is only leaving the scene of an accident.
A toddler's shoe gently floated from the submerged car where authorities say two small children were found dead early Monday.
authorities are looking into the possibility the children were already dead prior to their entering the water strapped in their safety seats.
sheriff: "She didn't have any evidence that she had been submerged in the water."
ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SC (WIS) - Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams says the death of two toddlers found submerged in a car in the Edisto River "has a stench of foul play."
In an interview with CNN's Nancy Grace, Williams said investigators found the car's gear in neutral, there were no skid marks and the mother's clothing was dry.
news conference at 1000. this fat bitch will get death in SC, unlike that slag whore susan smith who did the same thing but was white.
Orangeburg, SC (WLTX) - Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said Tuesday his officers are seeking a warrant Tuesday morning to bring murder charges against a mother of two children found dead in the Edisto River Monday.
she killed them before they went in the water. a small mercy? :sad:
Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams has charged Shaquan Duley with two counts of murder in connection to deaths of her two toddlers pulled from the murky water of the Edisto River on Monday.
Williams' announcement came at a 10 a.m. press conference at which he informed several media outlets that Duley had confessed to smothering her children before placing them in the car.
See local coverage with CNN affiliates WOLO-TV, WIS-TV and WLTX-TV in Columbia.
(CNN) -- South Carolina authorities will bring murder charges against a woman who admitted she suffocated two of her children, who were found in a car submerged in a river Monday, Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said in a news conference Tuesday.
Shaquan Duley, 29, told police she smothered her toddler sons at the Trumps Inn motel in Orangeburg by placing her hands over their mouths, Williams said. He added that the children were dead before she put them in their car seats and drove them to the river while "trying to find a way to discard the bodies."
Williams said Duley is not a hardened criminal, but an angry, upset, unemployed woman who felt she had no way to support her kids.
"She just wanted to get rid of the children, as sad as it may be," Williams said.
If there were so many problems, and she no longer wished to care for them (which sucks in my book) why did she not consider surrendering them to Foster care..or family?
she was arraigned today. and here are the poor babies. so cute and innocent!
(CNN) -- Shaquan Duley made her first appearance in a South Carolina courtroom Wednesday in connection with the deaths of her two toddler sons, entering no plea during a brief hearing.
Handcuffed and dressed in orange jail coveralls, Duley sniffled and sobbed through the session, which lasted less than three minutes. No date was set for her next appearance.
$100. bill? i thought she was poor. she didn't work, but the kids were in daycare full time.
the older little boy had defensive wounds, he tried to fight the mommy who was murdering him.
she wanted to be free? she'll never be free again.
and her mother says don't judge her. (but do send money to help with funerals.)
Manager Renu Patel can't even go near Room 31 at the Trump Inn Motel in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
What happened inside is just too much to bear, she said.
At the end of the hallway, behind the maroon door with the number fixed above the peephole, is where police say Shaquan Duley pressed her hands over the mouths of her two toddlers and suffocated them. She is accused of then strapping them into their car seats and sending her car off of a boat ramp and into the Edisto River.
Duley's attorney cautions against a rush to judgment and says there's more to the story than meets the eye.
But Patel says she knows enough to make her want to avoid the scene of an alleged crime that has stunned her community.
"I don't feel like opening it right now," Patel said when asked about Room 31, the last unit in the single-floor complex. "Even if I just stand in front, I remember all that she had done to those kids because I am a mother, too."
Outside the room, remnants of police tape are still fixed to the door. Placed on the welcome mat are flowers and balloons, one an "It's a boy" new baby balloon, although it was changed to reflect that there were two boys: Devean and Ja'avan Duley, ages 2 and 1.
Patel put the mementos outside the room after police finished combing it for evidence Tuesday. Ever since, she says, she can't even walk to the back of the lot, much less venture inside the room where two young lives ended.
"I was shaking," Patel said. "That was anger on her, and I felt sad for the kids."
So she handed me a master key with the number 31 on it but said she couldn't go with me. Before she handed over the key, Patel said that nobody else had been inside besides Duley and police.
Inside the room, the scent of cigarette smoke lingered. Water slowly dripped into the rusted sink. A white sheet was still tightly fitted to the room's lone wooden bed, but the cover lay ruffled at the foot.
A pair of blue latex gloves left behind by investigators remained in a lone trash can. Most of the belongings inside were carried away by police in three or four brown evidence bags, Patel says.
The room hasn't been cleaned since police were there, and workers say they can't bring themselves to go inside, either.
Patel recalled that Duley seemed a bit nervous when she came to the motel window and inquired about a room early Monday morning, but she thought nothing of it. Duley paid with a $100 bill, and Patel never saw her with a car or her two children.
She was gone before check-in time, something Patel knows only because police officers first came to the motel, looking for Duley.
Patel, who has owned the motel since 1997, said she told officers that if Duley came back, she'd be sure to let them know.
Orangeburg, South Carolina (CNN) -- A funeral service was held Friday for two boys found dead this week in a South Carolina river. Mourners, many still shocked over the circumstances of their deaths, packed St. Paul Baptist Church in Orangeburg.
Shortly after 11 a.m., mourners began filing one by one past two tiny open caskets containing the bodies of Ja'van and Devean Duley, ages 1 and 2. The boys were dressed in white tuxedos and clutched toy cars. Floral arrangements crowded their coffins. :CarryTheSin:
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A judge has granted a request by prosecutors to perform a mental evaluation on an Orangeburg County mother accused of suffocating her two young sons and driving her car into a river.
Court officials say Circuit Judge Edgar Dickson agreed Wednesday that a psychiatrist needs to figure out if 29-year-old Shaquan Duley is fit to stand trial.
Duley was charged with two counts of murder after divers pulled the bodies of 2-year-old Devean Duley and 18-month-old Ja'van Duley from the North Edisto River on Aug. 16.
Investigators said Duley confessed to smothering the boys after a fight with her own mother, who Duley said badgered her about her failures as a parent.
Duley is in jail and has been denied bond. No trial date has been set.
damn straight she got the idea from susan smith who was also from S.C.
An unemployed and mentally ill South Carolina mother pleaded guilty on Friday to suffocating her two toddlers and then leaving their bodies in car seats in a vehicle she dumped in a river.
Shaquan Duley, 30, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder.
She faces 30 years to life on each count when she is sentenced later this month, prosecutor David Pascoe said.
'She accepted criminal responsibility for what she did,' Mr Pascoe said.
The case was similar to that of another South Carolina mother, Susan Smith, who drowned her two sons, three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander in a vehicle in 1994.
Duley suffocated her two children, two-year-old Devean and 18-month-old Ja'van, in August 2010.
Police said she snuffed out their lives by putting her hand over their mouths, then placed the bodies in a car that she pushed over an embankment into the Edisto River.
Police at the time said she confessed after initially lying about the deaths and trying to make them look accidental.
'She was a mother that was unemployed. She had no means of taking care of her children,' then-Sheriff Larry Williams said in 2010.
'The responsibility of being a mom was a bit much for her. She was living with her mother. I believe she was fed up with her mother telling her that she couldn't take care of the children, or she wasn't taking care of the children.
‘She just wanted to be free.' Emotional testimony came from family members supporting Duley, a single mom who said she had been depressed.
'She snapped on August 15,' Pascoe said on Friday. 'There was no evidence that she had been planning this out.'
A state-appointed forensic psychiatrist found last summer that Duley suffered from mental illness but that she knew right from wrong and knew what she was doing when she killed her children, Pascoe said.
The father of Duley's children was never located, the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office said.
An unemployed and mentally ill South Carolina mother has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing her two young sons, then putting them in her car and staging a crash into a river.
Shaquan Duley, 30, said nothing during the hearing except a very quiet 'yes sir' as Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson asked her questions.
Dickson said he appreciated Duley taking responsibility but she needed to be punished for what she did.
'The sentence I hand down today does not reflect in any way this court minimizing the horror of what you did to your children, your family and this community,' Dickson said.
!!!! ) I have a beautiful daughter that means the world to me. "
through the session, which lasted less than three minutes. No date was set for her next appearance.
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