The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has been investigating Smith’s death since 2021, when it opened a case based on information surrounding the Alex Murdaugh murder probe.
The death of a South Carolina man who was found on a rural road around 15 miles from the home ofhas been investigated as a homicide, a state law enforcement agency said Tuesday.
Lawyers of the family of Stephen Smith, 19, announced the homicide investigation as a major development. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said it has been investigating it since 2021.“SLED is investigating Stephen Smith’s 2015 death as a homicide and been investigating this since 2021,” agency spokesperson Renée Wunderlich said Tuesday.
The confirmation, which family attorneys said occurred in a phone call with SLED Chief Mark Keel, came almost three weeks afterNo one has been arrested or charged in Smith’s death. His body was found on a rural road in Hampton County around 4 a.m. on July 8, 2015, around 15 miles from the Murdaugh home.An autopsy report at the time listed the cause of death as being struck by a vehicle as Smith was a pedestrian, apparently walking after running out of gas.
of murder and other counts in the killings of his wife, Maggie, and their youngest son, 22-year-old Paul.
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