The Latest Breaking News from Buster Murdaugh

Buster Murdaugh breaks silence on Stephen Smith killing – and calls father Alex a ‘psychopath’

Despite insisting Alex Murdaugh didn’t kill Maggie and Paul, Buster said it was ‘a fair assessment’ to describe his father as a psychopath

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2023

Buster Murdaugh breaks silence on Stephen Smith killing – and insists his father is innocent

Despite insisting Alex Murdaugh didn’t kill Maggie and Paul, Buster said it was ‘a fair assessment’ to describe his father as a psychopath

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2023

Alex Murdaugh planned a birthday party for his son Paul from jail 10 months after killing him, book claims

Details of the party that was allegedly being planned for what would have been Paul’s 23rd birthday were described in a new book “Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders” by John Glatt

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2023

Here’s what we know about the first Stephen Smith autopsy and the SC pathologist who performed it

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Before dawn on a steamy July day in 2015, Hampton County coroner Ernie Washington was called to an area of pine trees and cornfields, where a young man’s body was sprawled in the middle of the road.

Tribune News Service · Apr 8, 2023

A second autopsy has been done in a probe of an unsolved South Carolina death

The autopsy was completed this weekend on the exhumed body of a teenager found dead nearly eight years ago on a South Carolina road, according to the family's lawyer.

WEKU · Apr 4, 2023

Second autopsy done in unsolved South Carolina death probe

A lawyer for the family of a teenager found dead nearly eight years ago says a second autopsy of the exhumed body is complete

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2023

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

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2023

Couch where Alex Murdaugh had ‘shortest nap in history of the south’ sells for $30k as family items auctioned

Also up for sale was the family-of-four’s camo hunting clothes, an eerie decorative skull and a framed poem which – based on what happened to the family – has taken on a whole new meaning

The Independent UK · Mar 24, 2023

Mom of teen found dead near Murdaugh home warns killer: ‘I don’t care what your name is, you need to be punished’

Stephen Smith’s mother spoke out after SLED announced that her son’s death was finally being investigated as a homicide

The Independent UK · Mar 23, 2023

Stephen Smith died 8 years ago. More people than ever want to know why

State agents say Smith was murdered. Interest in his case has spiked in part because of where he died: about 8 miles from where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death.

WEKU · Mar 22, 2023