I don't know who killed Stephen Smith, but I do know that something went wrong in the investigation of his death.

And because of that, Stephen's family has been waiting 2,194 days to get justice in his case.

My name is Manny Matney. I'm the news director at Fitznews.com.

I have been investigating the Murdock family for more than two years now.

And this is the Murdock Martyrs podcast.

So this podcast is different from other true crime podcasts because it's all still developing.

I'm waiting on freedom of information, requests to come back. I'm waiting for different

pieces of the story to finally come out. I understand that there's a lot to follow here

and it gets very complicated, but we will do our best to guide you through all of the twist

interns. Two episodes ago, we introduced you all to the Stephen Smith case. I know so many

of you are eager to learn more details of this investigation, so this week we're going to go

back and do part two of who killed Stephen Smith. So let's start with a recap.

Smith was found dead just before 4am on July 8th, 2015. He was found in the middle of Sandy Run Road,

Enhampton County, South Carolina. On June 22nd, 2021, huge news broke in his case. I was

first to report that the South Carolina law enforcement division also known as Sled,

the same agency investigating the Murdock murders, opened an investigation into Stephen Smith's death.

Sled told me that this was based on information gathered during the course of the double homicide

investigation, a Paul and Maggie Murdock. We don't know what information led them to that position,

but it's important to look back on the 2015 case and see what went wrong. Like the probe of the

2019 Bo Crash, the killed Mallory Beach, the 2015 investigation into Smith's death was chaotic

from the beginning, derailed by jurisdictional perplexity and suspicions of investigative interference.

In the last episode, we discussed the evidence or lack thereof found at the scene on Sandy Run Road

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