Stephen Smith Body Exhumation to Determine Cause of Death

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

More than eight years after the death of South Carolina teen Stephen Smith, a push is on to have his body exhumed to determine his cause of death. A driver called 911 to report finding Smith's body in the middle of the road. Police say the 19-year-old had blunt force trauma to his head. At first police believed the injury to be a gunshot wound, but the coroner's office later rules Smith's death a hit-and-run. Smith's car had run out of gas. His family say there's no way Smith would have been walking in the middle of the road.
Rumors and gossip about a Murdaugh family connection to this death have swirled for years, however nothing concrete has brought forward. Today Nancy Grace talks with attorney Dale Carson about what could be learned from the investigation.

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0:00.0	Hi guys, Nancy Grace here in the last hours we learned that the Murdoch family furnishings
0:20.6	are to be auctioned off.
0:23.2	This is what we know.
0:24.6	A Georgia auction house has announced it will be selling items from the Murdoch family
0:31.6	home there in Colton County hosted by Liberty auction.
0:38.0	Wow, all those furnishings are now going on the block and there's more as it relates
0:44.3	to the Stephen Smith homicide potential homicide investigation.
0:49.9	The young teen found dead in the middle of the road near a Murdoch property.
0:55.9	But first let me introduce you Dale Carson joining us.
0:59.2	Dale, high profile lawyer out of Jacksonville but also a former fed with the FBI as an FBI agent.
1:07.3	You know, Dale, having just come from South Carolina Courthouse where Murdoch was found guilty
1:12.9	on double murder and the deaths of wife Maggie and son Paul.
1:19.4	The Murdoch was living on a grand scale Dale and that's quite the dichotomy compared to
1:27.7	his possessions being auctioned off at a public auction.
1:32.6	I mean, I don't know if I'd want to buy stuff that belonged to Alex Murdoch but that said
1:38.6	that is quite the reversal of fortune, Dale Carson.
1:42.8	Well, it absolutely is and you think about this.
1:46.5	That money derived from the auction should go to the victims that money was taken from
1:53.7	sold from by his father.
1:56.3	So you wonder if there's an estate that's set up which certainly would be true for the
2:00.4	mother and the other is brother.
2:03.8	Then that money should reasonably go if it becomes the Murdoch estate.
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