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The body of a 19-year-old South Carolina nursing student who was found dead on the side of the road a few miles away from the now-disgraced Murdaugh family’s hunting estate will be exhumed to undergo an independent autopsy.
The teen’s mysterious 2015 death has been the subject of renewed interest since Alex Murdaugh was convicted earlier this month on two counts of murder for fatally shooting his wife and son on the property in June 2021.
The mother of Stephen N. Smith on Thursday announced that she would not waste any time in seeking the exhumation and autopsy of her son’s body after she raised more than $53,000 on a GoFundMe page.
“I could not have imagined when we began this fundraiser that it would take off the way that it did. Thank you for not allowing Stephen’s story to be swept under a rug,” she wrote. “We will pursue the exhumation immediately and provide updates along the way.”
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