CEDAR COUNTY, Mo. (KOAM) - After human remains were discovered in a brush pile last week, Sheriff James McCrary states the identity of the victim is now known. "Through the
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was a hate crime. cnn s dianne gallagher has more. the investigation into who killed 19 year old steven smith is heating up with state investigators calling his mother s attorneys tuesday with an update on her son s case. this is not a hit and run that this is something more and something different. and that sled is actively investigating this as a homicide . smith s body was found in the middle of this rural hampton county south carolina road in july. 2015 highway patrol investigators at the time said there was no evidence he had been hit by a car, but a pathologist who performed the autopsy said smith was the victim of a hit and run the nursing student with dreams of becoming a doctor died from blunt force head trauma. sandy smith has said she feared her son was targeted because he was gay. he was openly gay young man. in an area that state where it s not popular to be an openly gay man. and it probably had to do with one of his relationships
in connection with stephen smith death. in fact, look, they re still asking for information and tips right now, but buster murdoch s name did get thrown around in some of the interviews after stephen smith s body was found with highway patrol investigators again, not a suspect in buster murdoch released a statement this week saying that he s been trying to focus on grieving his mother and his brother while his father was convicted of killing them. but that he was unable to ignore the vicious rumors for any longer, he said. this has gone on for far too long. these baseless rumors of my involvement with steven and his death are false, unequivocally deny any involvement in his death, and my heart goes out to the smith family again. this is an nearly eight years old. voter at this point that they are looking into erica john, and they are asking anybody who may have information to please reach out to them. his mother hopes to be able to exume
originally reported by a medical examiner. the family attorney raised concerns that smith might have been targeted because he was gay. and as cnn s dianne gallagher reports for us now, the initial police case file mentions the murdoch family dozens of times. the investigation into who killed 19 year old steven smith is heating up with state investigators calling his mother s attorneys tuesday with an update on her son s case. this is not a hit and run that this is something more and something different. and that sweater is actively investigating this as a homicide . smith s body was found in the middle of this rural hampton county south carolina road in july. 2015 highway patrol investigators at the time said there was no evidence he had been hit by a car, but a pathologist who performed the autopsy said smith was the victim of a hit and run the nursing student with dreams of becoming a doctor died from blunt force head trauma. sandy smith has said she feared her son was targeted becau