. >> but that is exactly what nancy smith was accused of in the spring of 1993. >> it was a nightmare, and it began one day and it never ended and it's still a nightmare today. >> nancy had been born and raised in lorraine, ohio, a once booming industrial town on lake erie. she stayed out of trouble and grew up with modest aspirations. >> i always knew that i'd probably want to grow up and be a mother. you know, get married and be a wife, you know, have children, have a house, you know, what everybody dreams of. >> of course, she never dreamed that a divorce would leave her with four children to raise alone and she never imagined that factories that had employed workers in lorraine for generations would shut down. driving a school bus was the best job nancy could find. it offered health insurance and by all accounts, she was good at it. but then on a monday morning in may, 1993, nancy smith's life changed forever. >> i went to the bus garage to get my bus, and my boss come up and said that they needed to talk to me downtown, and then that is when they told me that a mother had made an