New autopsy of man killed near Murdaugh home 7 years ago may uncover clues to mysterious death: expert

News Plans to exhume the body of a 19-year-old killed near the Murdaugh family residence in South Carolina have given his mom hope a new autopsy will solve his mystery death. Stephen Smith died in July 2015, but his mother Sandy has long disputed the official recorded cause of death, a hit-and-run, and claimed he was murdered. The investigation into his death was revisited in 2021 after the murders of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh – for which husband and father …