Alex Murdaugh’s son Buster issued an announcement Monday denying any involvement within the dying of a 19-year-old man whose physique was discovered close to the household’s South Carolina searching dwelling in 2015.
The 26-year-old, in a assertion launched by a household lawyer, mentioned he has been harassed and focused over claims that he's tied to Stephen Smith’s dying following his mom and brother’s capturing deaths in 2021. He requested for peace as he copes along with his father’s latest life sentence for his or her murders, and known as the claims “baseless” and “vicious.”
“I've tried my finest to disregard the vicious rumors about my involvement in Stephen Smith’s tragic dying that proceed to be revealed within the media as I grieve over the brutal murders of my mom and brother. I really like them a lot and miss them terribly,” he mentioned.
“I haven’t spoken up till now as a result of I wish to reside in non-public whereas I deal with their deaths and my father’s incarceration,” he continued. “I unequivocally deny any involvement in his dying, and my coronary heart goes out to the Smith household.”
Shortly after Smith’s dying, rumors circulated that the Murdaugh household was someway linked, the Augusta Chronicle and different native information retailers reported. TV documentaries that emerged after the Murdaugh killings additionally urged Buster Murdaugh was concerned in Smith’s dying, although authorities haven't named any suspects within the incident.
In June of 2021, shortly after the capturing deaths of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, the South Carolina Legislation Enforcement Division mentioned it was opening its personal investigation into Smith’s dying resulting from new info it had gathered whereas investigating the Murdaugh deaths. Prior media studies have misstated that the division was reopening its investigation however the division didn’t open a case till that yr, a consultant advised HuffPost.
A South Carolina Legislation Enforcement Division spokesperson mentioned Sunday that the division has made progress investigating Smith’s dying. They didn't present any extra info, nonetheless, stating “this investigation stays energetic and ongoing.”
Smith’s mom introduced earlier this month her intent to exhume her son’s physique for an unbiased post-mortem. The teenager had been categorised as a hit-and-run sufferer however his household disputes this.
“We want a brand new, unbiased have a look at his physique and an correct willpower of his reason for dying based mostly on details. There was no particles within the street, and his accidents weren't in step with a hit-and-run,” reads a fundraiser not too long ago arrange by Smith’s mom to assist pay for the post-mortem.
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