Stephen Smith Buster Murdoch - Smith — an openly gay teen who was romantically linked to surviving son buster murdaugh — was found dead three miles away from his car on a road near the murdaughs’. According to sandy smith's attorneys, sled now has all of the evidence in the stephen smith case, including his phone and tablet, and an investigative grand jury is zeroing. While investigating the murders of alex murdaugh 's wife maggie and son paul in june 2025, the south carolina law enforcement division (sled) stumbled across a clue in. Stephen smith's body will be exhumed almost 2 years after authorities reopened a probe into his death based on info connected to the murdaugh murders. Speculation about buster murdaugh’s involvement in smith’s death intensified earlier this year after smith’s mother had his body exhumed for a second autopsy. The family of stephen smith, who died on a road near the home of the disgraced murdaugh family, wants to exhume his body to aid in the investigation of the cold case. Stephen smith was a former classmate of buster murdaugh, whose father, alex murdaugh, was convicted earlier this month in the murders of maggie and paul murdaugh. Stephen smith, a nursing student and a classmate of buster murdaugh, was found dead on a road in hampton county, south carolina, in the early hours of 8 july 2025.
Smith — an openly gay teen who was romantically linked to surviving son buster murdaugh — was found dead three miles away from his car on a road near the murdaughs’. According to sandy smith's attorneys, sled now has all of the evidence in the stephen smith case, including his phone and tablet, and an investigative grand jury is zeroing. While investigating the murders of alex murdaugh 's wife maggie and son paul in june 2025, the south carolina law enforcement division (sled) stumbled across a clue in.