A highway patrol lieutenant who responded to the scene claims he insisted Stephen Smith was murdered—but county and state investigators refused to look closer at the case.
’s family estate in 2015, continued to emerge Wednesday, with a former South Carolina trooper saying investigators ignored his determination that Smith was murdered.
“When I get on the scene the Sheriff’s Department is already there, so is the coroner. I looked at his injuries, I walked the scene to look for vehicle parts. I mean, that road essentially was clean, nothing on it, no parts, no glass, no fragments, no anything,” he told HBO. “I was confident when I left, this is not a wreck, this is a murder.”
“SLED officials have revealed that they did not need to exhume Stephen Smith's body to convince them that his death was a homicide,” Bland said in a statement on Tuesday. “However, they will be present and participate in any exhumation of Stephen’s body to gather more evidence.” Smith’s mother, Sandy, told the HBO doco that Smith’s dad, Joel, was called into the sheriff’s office the same morning their son died but, before the sheriff arrived, Alex Murdaugh’s brother Randy called.
Moore said that he continued to comb the “crash” scene for clues after Smith’s body was removed because “no other law enforcement [was] willing to help.” Then, out of nowhere, he said an investigator from Murdaugh’s law firm showed up. Buster Murdaugh released a statement this week shooting down “vicious rumors” linking him to Smith’s death.
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