Like father… like son?? Buster Murdaugh is coming under fire as the investigation into his classmate Stephen Smith’s death picks back up.
As we’ve been following, the 19-year-old was found dead near the Murdaugh family home in South Carolina in July 2015. Initially, cops believed it had been a homicide, but they then changed their mind and declared the cause of death a hit-and-run, though some claim there wasn’t enough evidence to point to that conclusion.
The case went cold in 2016 until 2021 when undisclosed evidence was discovered during the double murder investigation of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.
The family patriarch Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of the crimes earlier this month. Earlier this week, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division announced they have once again reopened the investigation and are now considering the death a homicide.
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