Plans to exhume the body of a 19-year-old killed near the Murdaugh family residence in South Carolina have given his mom hope a new autopsy will solve his mystery death.
Stephen Smith died in July 2015, but his mother Sandy has long disputed the official recorded cause of death, a hit-and-run, and claimed he was murdered.
The investigation into his death was revisited in 2021 after the murders of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh – for which husband and father Alex was convicted on March 3.
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said they began probing the case “based upon information gathered during the course of the double murder investigation,” but have not elaborated further.
Sandy said she would “pursue the exhumation immediately” after raising $40,000 via a GoFundMe page to pay for an independent exhumation and autopsy.
“While the state can…
