The Latest Breaking News from Alex Murdaugh

Colleton County Sheriff’s Office said the call was released due to ‘human error’ after a podcast filed a FOIA request for Murdaugh’s jailhouse calls

Viewership jumps 600% when guilty decision rendered

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Buster Murdaugh on Monday publicly denied being involved in the death of a teenager hours before Stephen Smith’s mother and her attorneys held a news conference.

Stephen Smith was found dead in the middle of a road in Hampton County in 2015 and his family now plans to exhume his body for an independent autopsy

Family of Stephen Smith plan to exhume his body for an independent autopsy as they insist: ‘This is not Alex Murdaugh 2.0’

Stephen Smith’s mother has always maintained that her son was murdered yet, for almost eight years, his death was dismissed as a hit-and-run. Now, South Carolina investigators have officially announced that she was right all along. So will she finally get answers? Rachel Sharp reports

Stephen Smith's death was ruled a hit-and-run. His body was found 15 miles from the estate of former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who was found guilty this month of killing his wife and son.

Death of Stephen Smith, 19, was ruled a hit-and-run but case was reopened after Murdaugh’s conviction of murder of wife and son

A GoFundMe page has now raised more than $56,000 for Stephen Smith’s body to be exhumed and re-examined

The media tents and trucks have packed up and left and the wall-to-wall cable network coverage of the six-week trial of South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has ended. However, in rural Hampton County, it's a difficult, uneasy time.

‘You know, she’s not ‘the wife that was murdered.’ I mean, we don’t want her to be remembered that way,’ her friends say