Snake identification help!

[kimberleyX]

Hi all!

My name is kimberley and I am from Australia.

My sister in law is American and lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. They found a baby snake in their pool yesterday and decided to come to me to help identify it...because i am Australian and they assume I would be like Steve Irwin lol! I am not familiar with snakes from the US so i thought i would see if anybody here could help identify it.

Sadly, her husband decided to chop it's head off (i'm not happy about that at all!) so I am not sure what it's head looks like but hopefully this pic will be enough to help identify it.

Thanks everybody!!

Kimberley