When Richard “Alex” Murdaugh was convicted guilty of two counts of murder, the family of a South Carolina boy discovered dead in 2015 is working to increase their efforts to solve the decades-old “cold case.” The teen’s mom reported recently donating money for an exhumation and expert autopsy.
Sandy Smith has been nervously awaiting the resolution of her case as the Murdaugh trial grabbed the media and the public’s attention from January 23 to its finish on March 2, when Murdaugh was convicted of murdering his wife and son. But she has already been holding out for 8 years.
Stephen Smith, a 19-year-old medical student, was her only child. On July 8, 2015, his body was discovered in the middle of a country road in Hampton County, close to the Murdaugh farm in Colleton County. A killed himA head injury killed him, but the matter was dogged by controversy from the beginning.
Officials initially classified the killing as a hit-and-run, but eventually believed it to be a homicide due to proof found at the site.
