The death of Stephen Smith, a high school classmate of Buster Murdaugh, is now being investigated as a homicide after his body was exhumed. Buster is Alex Murdaugh's son. Alex was just found guilty of murdering his wife and other son.
Smith's death was initially ruled a hit-and-run, but after the exhumation, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said there were no indications that is how his death could have occurred. Smith was a 19-year-old nursing student when his body was discovered in Hampton County on July 8, 2015. Stephen Smith's death is now officially being considered a homicide by South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, according to family attorney Eric Bland.
Alex Murdaugh, formerly a prominent South Carolina lawyer, was convicted of Maggie and Paul's fatal shootings on March 2, nearly two years after their deaths in 2021, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. His trial lasted 28 days, with prosecutors focusing on powerful circumstantial evidence relating to his additional 99 financial misconduct charges as a primary motive for the murders. He has appealed his convictions.
"I have tried my best to ignore the vicious rumors about my involvement in Stephen Smith's tragic death that continue to be published in the media as I grieve over the brutal murders of my mother and brother. I love them so much and miss them terribly," Buster Murdaugh said in a statement via attorney Jim Griffin, who represented his father."I haven't spoken up until now because I want to live in private while I cope with their deaths and my father's incarceration.
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