Death road to canada hunting lodge trial#
Other scandals discussed in the trial include a 2019 boat crash involving his late son Paul which killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach.
Through more than 75 witnesses and nearly 800 pieces of evidence, jurors heard about betrayed friends and clients and Murdaugh’s failed attempt to stage his own death in an insurance fraud scheme. The life he faces is a far cry from the privileged world of multi-million dollar homes from the coast to the hunting lands of the Lowcountry to which he has grown accustomed in his 54 years. As he is a double murderer, he will be housed with the state's most brutal and violent inmates. He will spend the next few weeks at the R&E facility where he faces rigorous testing before he will be assigned to a permanent state prison. On Friday, Murdaugh was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, in Moselle on June 7, 2021. 'It's peeling the onion… you keep peeling it, you find more,' Bland said. 'Buster himself is going to have to come to grips with: 'Is my father capable of murdering my mother and brother?' The jury said so and he's going to have to look at his future in this family.'Īnd following Murdaugh's conviction, the family's connection between suspicious deaths in the area and questions over Smith's death remain unclear. And he just lost his father essentially on Friday when he was sentenced to double life in prison. He's a true victim here as far as the murders of his mother and brother are concerned. Meanwhile, Bland said Buster is in a 'very difficult' situation after his father was convicted of double murder.īland added: 'Buster is in a very difficult spot. 'According to Sandy Smith, she received a telephone call from him where he offered to represent her and she was very confused by this about why she would need representation,' Bland said. Sandy has claimed that Murdaugh's brother Randolph, who is an attorney, attended the scene of Stephen's accident, Bland said. 'There's a big cry in South Carolina to find out what actually happened to Stephen Smith,' Bland said. Detectives have not revealed what information they have uncovered.īland said that now Buster's father Alex Murdaugh has been convicted for double-murder, there is a public outcry to find out the truth behind Stephen's death.
Investigators at the time said they had reopened the cases after discovering information in their investigation into Maggie and Paul's murders. He added that investigators reopened Stephen's case - as well as an investigation into the death of the family's housekeeper Gloria Satterfield - in 2021 following the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.
'But there was no broken glass, there was no car parts, his clothes were in tact, his shoes were on and he had a clear head trauma injury that looked like it was done by something other than a car.'īland said Stephen was gay and a good student, who wanted to go to college to study becoming a nurse. He said: 'Stephen was found in the middle of a country road in Hampton County and the Highway Department said he was hit by a car. Stephen Smith, 19, (pictured with his mother Sandy) was found dead in the middle of a country road 15 miles from the Murdaugh family's Islandton hunting lodge on July 8, 2015īland, who represented the two sons of the Murdaugh's late housekeeper Gloria Satterfield who died inside the family's home in 2018, said investigators had initially said Smith had been hit by a car.
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