The local medical examiner and sheriff’s office initially wrote Stephen Smith’s death off as a hit-and-run despite several highway patrol officers insisting that it appeared to be a murder.
just hours after the 19-year-old was found dead near Alex Murdaugh’s family estate in 2015, according to a former South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper who investigated Smith’s death. Michael Duncan, the former trooper, told NewsNation on Wednesday that ordering a rape kit was rare in a traffic accident investigation.
The local medical examiner and sheriff’s office initially wrote Smith’s death off as a hit-and-run despite several highway patrol officers insisting that it appeared to be a murder. State authorities re-opened the case after obtaining unspecific new information in the course of their investigation into the 2021 murders of Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son.
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