Attorneys representing the family of Stephen Smith, Buster Murdaugh's high school classmate who died in 2015, 'don't accept' his original cause of death.
"It's going to be hard to open an investigation up after eight years, but it has to start with an exhumation of his body and an independent determination of the true cause of death, which we don't accept to be vehicular manslaughter," Ronnie Richter, partner at Bland Richter LLP, said in a Monday press conference.
"Stephen has a right not to have his grave disturbed, as do other people who are buried," Bland explained."So, we're going to have to petition the court, show facts that would indicate that a fresh set of eyes — a new autopsy — may yield a different conclusion that Stephen was not killed on Sandy Run Road in Bamberg County. That maybe he was killed somewhere else."
A photo of the Murdaugh family taken days before Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were shot to death. From left to right, Buster, Paul, Maggie and Alex Murdaugh. "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," he wrote, adding that he has been"targeted and harassed" by members of the media and the public.
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