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Stephen Smith’s body is exhumed after murder near Murdaugh home – as family offers $35k reward to catch killer

Exhumation comes just weeks after SLED announced Smith’s death was officially ruled a homicide and after Buster Murdaugh issued a statement denying any involvement

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Woman finds never-revealed Murdaugh family photos after buying camera at estate sale

Dawn Martin bought the camera at the estate sale in Georgia

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Stephen Smith’s mother flagged Buster Murdaugh as a potential suspect in his murder in 2016 letter to the FBI

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

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Dead in a road, inconsistent injuries and Murdaugh family murmurs: What happened to Stephen Smith?

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

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The body of a teenager found dead near the Murdaugh estate in 2015 will be exhumed

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.

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With Alex Murdaugh behind bars for murder, a small South Carolina community comes to terms with his other crimes

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.

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Maggie Murdaugh’s friends break silence for first time after husband Alex was convicted of murder

‘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

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Body of man mysteriously found dead near family killer Alex Murdaugh's home to be exhumed

Stephen Smith, 19, from South Carolina, US, was found dead just a few miles away from Alex Murdaugh's home in July 2015. It was initially determined by police as a hit-and-run case

Daily Mirror

Friends of Alex Murdaugh's murdered wife share tributes to 'witty and fun' woman

Caroline Price and Shellie West, two old friends of Maggie Murdaugh, spoke out on her tragic killing by husband Alex and how they want her to be remembered as the woman that she was

Daily Mirror

Maggie Murdaugh’s friends break silence for first time after husband Alex was convicted of murder

‘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

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh case detective explains key mystery from trial

Detective Laura Rutland elaborated on a detail that came up during her cross-examination by the defence

The Independent UK

‘Unsettling and frightening’: Buster Murdaugh asks to be left out of future police reports

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Ongoing media attention following the conviction of his father for double murder has prompted Buster Murdaugh to ask the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office that he not be associated with future police reports.

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Attorneys appeal Alex Murdaugh's convictions, life sentence

Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh have filed a notice to appeal his convictions for the murder of his wife and son along with his two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh's brother claims double killer 'knows more' after murdering wife and son

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was jailed on Friday after he was found guilty during a 6-week televised trial of shooting dead his wife Maggie and son Paul in June 2021

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Alex Murdaugh’s brother gives first interview since trial: ‘He knows more’

In New York Times interview, Randy Murdaugh says he remains unsure if his brother murdered son and wife in South Carolina

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh jurors reveal why they weren’t fooled by his ability to turn the tears ‘on and off’ on the stand

Rather than convince the jury of his innocence, jurors said the killer’s decision to testify in his own defence helped to prove his guilt

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh jurors reveal why they weren’t fooled by his ability to turn the tears ‘on and off’ on the stand

Rather than convince the jury of his innocence, jurors said the killer’s decision to testify in his own defence helped to prove his guilt

The Independent UK

Three bodies, 1,700 acres and a whole lot of hogs: Inside Alex Murdaugh’s $4m Moselle estate

The Moselle estate had a mysterious past even before Maggie and Paul’s murders with ties to a suspected drug smuggler and a housekeeper’s fatal fall, reports Rachel Sharp

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The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh’s new mugshot released after double life sentencing for murder of wife and son

Murdaugh will spend 45 days at Kirkland Correctional Facility while South Carolina Department of Corrections determines where he will serve time

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Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys say son Buster’s pleas wouldn’t have made difference in double life sentencing

‘Judge Newman, he is a very stringent punisher when it comes to crimes and sentences. That was never in dispute,’ attorney Jim Griffin said

ABC News

Alex Murdaugh's high-profile murder trial featured a tangled web of lies, risky testimony and a bomb threat

The Murdaughs held a tight grip on a South Carolina county for more than 100 years until a double homicide and a twisted web of crimes brought the family patriarch undone.

The Independent UK

Judge tells Alex Murdaugh his wife and son will ‘visit him every night’ in searing sentencing remarks

Judge Clifton Newman said that the evidence against Murdaugh was “overwhelming”.

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh maintains his innocence as he’s sentenced to life in prison for murders of wife and son

Jurors took less than three hours to find him guilty of the 7 June 2021 murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul

Daily Mirror

Alex Murdaugh: 5 clues that led police to killer from T-shirt to mystery phone call

Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh shot dead his wife and their son in June 2021 on the family's hunting estate in South Carolina, US, in a case highlighted in the Netflix documentary Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh trial: Timeline of murders, financial fraud, unexplained deaths, arrest and conviction

In the 20 months since brutal double murders propelled the Murdaughs into national headlines, a series of other scandals, allegations and alleged crimes have also come to light

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