Gay Teen Found Dead Near Murdaugh Home to Be Exhumed

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Gay Teen Found Dead Near Murdaugh Home to Be Exhumed
Stephen Smith's puzzling death was officially ruled a hit-and-run



Stephen Smith's body will be exhumed nearly eight years after he was found with a perplexing injury that led investigators to originally conclude Smith may have been shot before eventually deciding he'd been killed in a hit-and-run after his vehicle ran out of gas and he got out and started walking. His mother never believed that story, and said in 2015 she believed her son was killed because he was openly gay. She's been speaking out again in the wake of Alex Murdaugh's murder conviction, and a GoFundMe campaign raised enough money to pay for the exhumation of her son's body, NBC News reports.

Investigators at one point revealed they'd gotten tips that Murdaugh's surviving son, Buster, who graduated from the same high school as Smith in the same year, 2014, may have been involved in Smith's death. The Guardian reports that there were some rumors that the two classmates may even have been in a relationship. But no Murdaugh family member has ever been officially accused of involvement in Smith's death.

An independent autopsy will be performed, his mother says: "We need a new, unbiased look at his body and an accurate determination of his cause of death based on facts. There was no debris in the road, and his injuries were not consistent with a hit-and-run." The body of Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh family housekeeper whose 2018 death at the family estate is now being looked at again, may also be exhumed in the future.

https://www.newser.com/story/332919/body-of-gay-teen-found-dead-near-murdaugh-home-to-be-exhumed.html

[secondwind]

1. Murdaugh...........

The name is fitting. wow

[Paladin]

2. Having seen the documentary, I don't put anything past that fetid clan. (nt)

[live love laugh]

3. What a family. 😳

[lindysalsagal]

4. It's right out of the movies. But it's real.