
Murdaugh double murders: 2019 boat crash survivor feared crossing family of lawyers
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Stephen Smith was 19 years old in 2015 when he was found dead on a rural South Carolina road in what was officially ruled a hit-and-run, despite the incident report stating there was "no evidence to suggest the victim was struck by a vehicle.”
Now court documents have revealed Smith’s death appears to have been briefly mentioned last year in an unrelated lawsuit involving one of the murder victims – a member of a well-connected legal family in South Carolina’s coastal Lowcountry region. Anything they get in, they get out of. I've always been told that. The 2020 deposition of Connor Cook was publicly unveiled this week as part of court proceedings against state and local investigators involved in the 2019 boat crash that killed Mallory Beach in a river near Parris Island.More Related News