The Latest Breaking News from Buster Murdaugh

A mother whose son was found dead in the middle of a South Carolina road eight years ago is opening a private investigation into his death after raising almost $90,000 amid the publicity surround the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh

Family says it is a major development and ‘a chance to right eight years of wrongs’

In the letter, Sandy Smith said an individual had come forward to the family claiming to have witnessed Stephen being beaten to death with a baseball bat

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

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.

Brooklyn White reportedly described the ordeal to law enforcement officers as an ‘ongoing intrusion into her life by reporters’