BOMBSHELL TROUBLE FOR ALEX MURDAUGH: Teen Stephen Smith Death is Homicide

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It has taken eight years but teen Stephen Smith's death will finally be investigated as a homicide.

The Smith family has never believed that the 19-year-old's death was a hit and run as determined by a previous investigation. In just a week, the South Carolina mom raised more money through a GoFundMe account than what is needed to pay for the exhumation of Smith's body. Now, all that's needed is court approval.

South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) Chief Mark Keel notified Smith's attorneys that the agency now officially considers Smith's death a murder. Smith's body was found miles away from his car and lying in the middle of the road. At first, responders thought he had been shot in the head, but the death was designated as a hit-and-run.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Eric Bland - Attorney for Sandy Smith & Gloria Satterfield’s sons- Founder/Partner Bland, Richer, LLP Attorneys at Law; Twitter: @TheEricBland; Co-host of ‘Cup of Justice’ podcast.
Ronnie Richter - Attorney for Sandy Smith, Satterfield family, and other victims of Alex Murdaugh; Partner, Bland Richter Law Firm; Twitter: @BlandRichterSC
Caryn Stark - Psychologist; Twitter: @carnpsych
Chris McDonough - Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective, & Host of YouTube channel, ‘The Interview Room’
Dr. Michelle DuPre - Former Forensic Pathologist, Medical Examiner, & Detective: Lexington County Sheriff's Department; Author: "Homicide Investigation Field Guide" & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide;" Forensic Consultant
Blair Sabol - Investigative Reporter for Live 5 News in Charleston, SC, Twitter: @BlairSabolTV

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1:13.2	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
1:15.9	Bomshell out of South Carolina. In the last hours, the inquiry into the death of teen boy Steven
1:29.9	Smith has turned into a homicide investigation. That's right. For all these years, the teen found not
1:40.0	too too far from Alex Murdoch's Mozel hunting lodge has been deemed to be a hit and run. That
1:48.7	has changed in the last hours repeat. That inquiry has turned into a homicide investigation.
1:57.6	I mean, it's he Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us here at Fox Nation and
2:02.0	serious XM 111. Joining me right now is Ronnie Richter, partnering bland Richter who is spearheading
2:11.7	the effort to have Steven Smith's body exhumed for a private autopsy. Ronnie, thank you for being with us.
2:19.6	Ronnie, what happened? My partner Eric Blanton, I received a call from Chief Mark Heal. He is the
2:26.1	top cop in the state of South Carolina in charge of the South Carolina Law enforcement division to tell
2:32.1	us that if we are proceeding with the exhumation of Steven Smith's body to try to prove the sled that
2:38.3	this was not just a hit run that we did not have to do that. That they don't view it as a hit run.
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