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[Music] this has been a Hampton County story this has been a Hampton County Scandal a jury found the disgraced South
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Carolina attorney guilty of murdering his wife and his youngest son this has been the downfall of a family Dynasty
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today is not the end it's the next step and a long road to justice for every person who has been victimized by Alex
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Murdoch Justice for Sten Smith Alex Smith was another body in this orbit of the myd family Steven was a gay young
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man in the low country of South Carolina that is courageous and and of itself I can't imagine the terror he was in that
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night in the early morning hours of July 8th 2015 19-year-old Steven Smith was found
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dead in the middle of a rural road there was an autopsy that basically said is a
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hit and run there was no vehicle debris no broken headlight paint scrapes or or anything
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you never believed it no not at all they never would have been walking in that road not voluntarily do you
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believe Steven was murdered I do an investigation of some sort took place that led
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nowhere and then it went cold I wanted a second opinion Sandy Smith is unique in this whole story she
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doesn't know who killed her son she doesn't know why people in town really believed that it was connected to the
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murdocks in some way the name Buster Murdoch kept coming up I never had anything to do with his murder and I
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never had anything to do with him on a physical level of of any regard the rumors also suggest uh a covera we are
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aware of no evidence today that would suggest that any mdll played any role in Steven Smith's death or played any role
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in trying to cover up the investigation into his death all I want is peace and no one what happened to my son he's my
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world and I'm going fight to the end this is a woman that has fought this battle alone since
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2015 screaming as loud as she could with not a lot of people listening CBS News confirming that the
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South Carolina law enforcement division is now investigating Steven Smith's death as a homicide
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the Murdoch case brought Steven's Cold Case to life somehow some way in the Mur murder investigation a new thread was
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opened up into Steven Smith our primary function right now is to have that body exhumed have a true independent set of
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eyes look at it and tell us once and for all what really happened to Steven Smith
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the gash was from part of this eyebrow across here the injuries can tell us so much about what happened
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and in this case they did I did set the scene for me on July 8th 2015 here Steven
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was was somewhat right here in the road how confident are you that you know what happened to step Smith that night
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I'm as close to a degree of scientific certainty as I've ever felt