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Stephen Smith Case: Person Of Interest Behind Bars

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One of the two persons of interest in connection with the still-unsolved 2015 murder of Stephen Smit
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VERITAS Top fan August 29, 2023 at 7:38 pm

Randy Murdaugh and John Marvin Murdaugh are two “fixers” for the Murdaugh family. Always on the scene “rendering aid” and being “generally helpful”. The fact that Randy Murdaugh injected himself onto the Stephen Smith scene and offered his “services” pro bono says something. The Murdaughs are connected to Stephen Smith, and people need to start talking, including the Murdaughs.

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SubZeroIQ August 30, 2023 at 11:07 pm

There is ZERO veritas in your comment.
“Randy Murdaugh’s inject[ing] himself onto the Stephen Smith scene” is NOT a “fact” but one of the MANY self-contradictory lies by Sanctimonious Sandi Smith.
Think about it for a minute. Sandi claimed she saw Randy on the road while Sandi and her husband were on their way to the police station to identify the body.
That means the body had already been moved from “the scene” and the site was no longer an “active” scene. Otherwise, it would have been strange for Sandi to not visit the site or stop at it to see what was going on there on her way to the police station.
Also, did it occur to any one who insists it could not have been a hit-and-run ONLY because Stephen Smith’s were supposedly still on his feet that the same idiot who thought the skull fracture was a gunshot wound just unthinkingly put the shoes back on Stephen Smith’s feet to ensure they stayed with the body?
Nor did Randy Murdaugh offer his services pro bono. Most, if not all, personal injury lawyers work on a contingency basis, which is NOT “pro bono” although the client pays nothing UPFRONT. The lawyer gets the fee from the recovery.
Also, in her filthy and false September 2016 letter to the FBI, Sandi Smith wrote that, after the death of her husband (who WAS Randy Murdaugh’s client on an apparently totally unrelated workman’s compensation claim), Randy Murdaugh did not return Sandi’s calls. So, it was Sandi pursuing Randy, not the reverse.
I do not understand the cruelty of insisting that any one and every one named Murdaugh must be the cause of all natural, accidental, suicidal, and homicidal deaths in a five-county area.
I agree with you, though, that “people need to start talking.” But those people are SLED and whoever impanelled the grand jury. There should be transparency about the money from Sandi’s Go-Fund-Me page, about the report from the second autposy, and about the grand jury findings.
The innocent should not be left defenseless against false accusations.

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Cynthia November 16, 2023 at 6:57 pm

If the Murdaughs weren’t involved, the case would not have been dropped so quickly. That did not happen for the 2 scapegoats they now have their eyes on. That happened for a Murdaugh. How about tracking activity on cell phones? How about determining if Buster was in a softball tournament that night? How about tracking Buster’s movement that night through his car data? How TF long is this going to take? Hasn’t the Smith family waited long enough? P.S. I also believe that Buster is supporting his father right now bc AM has dirt on him re: Stephen.

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Candy Jones September 28, 2023 at 7:08 pm

Oh please give us all a break,AM lied about being at the scene,they have him on recording with Paul’s phone,he’s so guilty, try getting a life and leave Sandy Smith alone she lost her son ,no one needs your ignorant comment’s in their time of great loss.

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Cynthia December 21, 2023 at 11:33 pm

Shawn Connelly, Patrick Wilson and Buster are all the same age and went to the same high school. Perhaps it was Buster plus Shawn and Patrick. Maybe that’s why Shawn and Patrick were not prosecuted 8 years ago. Just speculating… bc that’s all we can do until we are given some actual new information.

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Astonished Top fan August 30, 2023 at 3:32 pm

Geez, having alcohol with a broken seal in your car in Hampton County is a “jailable” offense?

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SubZeroIQ August 30, 2023 at 11:09 pm

That’s probably the legalistic way of saying an open alcohol container in a moving motor vehicle.

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SubZeroIQ August 31, 2023 at 8:49 pm

Might as well post here what I posted on YouTube:
If that is really an SC DC policy, it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and, in Alex Murdaugh’s (“AM”) case, particularly CRUEL. Even if it were true that he murdered his wife and younger son, WHO are the living victims SC DC is trying to “protect” from hearing AM’s voice or point of view in the media?
AM’s older son, Buster, only sister (a professional victim’s advocate at that), and at least his brother Jim, ALL think AM is innocent of the murders. Even Maggie’s own sister and parents did NOT speak againt AM at his sentencing.
SC DC’s policies must be directed and limited towards the safety of the guards and other inmates and preventing escapes. SC DC has absolutely no right to limit an inmate’s speech that does NOT endanger anyone or promote escapes.
THE PUBLIC has a right to know. At least 25% of the public think AM is innocent of the murders. The media which got the documentary is doing a public service by presenting the other point of view.
And it is EXTREMELY hypocritical of those mouth pieces for those who sued AM and probably pinned the murders on him to gain advantage in the civil litigation to be decrying other media.
Also, if they were so jealous of lawyers’ ethics, look at South Carolina’s Rule of Professional Conduct 4.5. A lawyer should NEVER participate in criminal proceedings or professional disciplinary matters against another person to gain advantage in the civil litigation against that person. That rule has been unabashedly broken repeatedly by the very lawyers paying Mandy Matney, Kassidy O’Connell, and their ilk.
And even in other cases, say in a rape case, all the rape victim need do is not watch the media where the convict speaks. SC DC’s policy is stupid and UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Too bad even the ACLU has been so intimated from defending AM’s rights behind bars they would not sue to strike this policy down.

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SubZeroIQ September 4, 2023 at 11:25 pm

Prisoners are still humann beings with rights, subjugated to security concerns, but still rights. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled UNANIMOUSLY, with Justice Alito writing the opinion, that they even have a right to grow a 1/4 inch beard if they want to UNLESS the prison officials can prove that a beard that short can be used to conceal a weapon.
I do not know if a Seikh inmate would be allowed to keep his hair; but fortunately not many Seikhs commit crimes in America. Let’s pray it stays this way.

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Cynthis November 16, 2023 at 7:06 pm

On a related matter – although I feel AM is guilty of the murders of PM and MM, I believe Becky Hill did make inappropriate comments and suggestions to the jury. She was filmed saying that after the jury’s trip to Moselle she didn’t think it would take long to reach a verdict. She also strikes me as someone who likes attention and who would overstep the boundaries of her actual job.
AM actually does deserve to get a new trial.

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