Laurens, SC (WSPA) - A mother and daughter who were reported missing Sunday in Greenwood, were found dead in a car in Lake Greenwood early Tuesday morning.
The Laurens County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Natural Resources says the mother and teenaged child were found in a car about 80 feet from shore about 2:00 a.m. Tuesday.
The mother and child were reported missing from the city of Greenwood after visiting a friend in Cross Hill. We're told authorities backtracked the route they would have taken to return to the city.
Authorities say the car traveled down a dirt road at what they believed was a fast rate of speed and went off a wall into Lake Greenwood.
The Laurens County Coroner's office have identified the victims as 36-year old Jennifer Dianna Jones and her 14-year old daughter, Alicia Michelle Jenkins. Agents with the State Law Enforcement Division have joined the investigation into the deaths.
9/22/2009 1:08:13 PM
