COLUMBIA, S.C. — Plans to exhume Stephen Smith’s body are proceeding rapidly and will involve a team of state and national experts, one of the attorneys for Stephen Smith’s mother said Friday.
“As far as we’re concerned, his body is a crime scene,” attorney Ronnie Richter said.
Richter’s statements in an interview with The State Media Co. came after a flurry of state and national renewed interest last week in the death of Smith, 19, an openly gay teenager whose body was found in the early morning hours of July 8, 2015, in the middle of the two-lane Sandy Run Road in rural Hampton County.
