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48 Hours on ID: How Is Alex Murdaugh Related to Stephen Smith’s Murder? By “A Death in Murdaugh County” is an episode of that will air on on Stephen Smith was 19 when he was found dead on the Sandy Run Road in Hampton County, South Carolina. He was found during the early hours of July 8, 2015, and investigators initially assumed he was shot. However, an autopsy revealed that he died because of blunt force trauma to the head.

It said that he was likely killed in a road accident. His car was found about three miles away from where he was found dead. The vehicle reportedly ran out of gas before he left it there.



He had then begun walking, as per a report by . The Murdaugh family was reportedly named several times in the primary interrogation following Stephen Smith’s death. However, none of the family members were questioned, and Smith’s death was ruled as a road accident.

Things took a rough turn 6 years later. In June 2021, Margaret Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh were found dead. Margaret’s husband and Paul’s father, Alex Murdaugh, were then found guilty of the double homicide.

During the investigation of the Murdaugh murders, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division reopened Stephen Smith’s case, and rumors began about Alex Murdaugh’s connection to Smith’s death. Another son of Alex, Buster Murdaugh, was a classmate of Smith. However, Buster claimed that the connections drawn between his family and Smith’s death were baseless, as per .

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