never accepted her son was the victim of a hit and run. what do you believe happened be to your son? i believe he was beaten to death. reporter: the case file obtained by cnn shows even the lead investigator at the time didn t believe this was a hit and run. typically you don t see the highway patrol working a murder, and that s what this is. the there s no doubt. we re not classifying this as anything other than a murder. reporter: yet stephen s case went cold until june of 2021, that s when the south carolina law enforcement division known as s. le d. opened an investigation on stephen s death, based on information gathered while investigating the murders of paul and maggie murdoch. s. le d. has not said what was found. did your son know the murdoch family? he went to school with buster. they played little league ball together. reporter: during interviews released by highway patrol to cnn, the murdoch name is
to the murdoch family? law enforcement has not released anything new about what led to the death of the 19- year-old steven smith or explained why the mysterious murders of paul and maggie murdoch in the low country of south carolina led to his case being reopened six years later. that was very surprising to me. there is no explanation. maggie and paul s death was so shocking and as things unfolded and more information came out it was so clearly in the event in a much larger story.
it s lik of the that s that sad the only person i feel really bad for is judge jeanine. she bet tyrus. you see that?bet ty no.ru see that? what happened? s house that it would would be a hung jury. so me and tyra just rentede n a u-haul. and we re heading up after 5:e five to get his weight room stuff in.00 that s a pretty big house, too.s big house.tu very good. you might not know of a nicer your thoughts on the on verdict and on the sentence. so to your point about a life sentence being a walk in the park sometimes. well, this wastence a transcrip his conversationar with busteran bin laden.sc maguess what we re calling him now, man, i hit nine out ofa sud eleven games on the sunday pro games. i won likeay six soups and fourm beef sticks. so he will be well fed.ed. but that s like he alreadyt is found a way to have fun. un. yes, he ll be just fine. yeah, but look, i would say that there was reasonable doubt tn this case, which is why i was shockingis to me that in forty five minut
paul murdoch has been shot twice with a shotgun. .,. horrendous. horrible. but during. both were murdered near the dog kennels on the family s property, not far from the main house where alex murdaugh said he was not being at the time. that was a lie. was that you on the cannelville eo at 8:44 pm on june 7th the night that maggie and paul were murdered? it is. he was backed into the corner. investigators found this video on his cell phone after his death. it was recorded at 8:44 pm just a few minutes before prosecutor say that the murders occurred. alex murdaugh can be heard talking in the background. i was nowhere near paul and