Thank you for posting this article, @sds71.Stephen Smith family attorney: Substantial progress in homicide investigation of slain teen
Slain teen Stephen Smith's 2015 cold case could break with new information by Labor Day, family attorney Eric Bland said. Here's what to know.www.greenvilleonline.com
Great news ! Labor Day seems so far away, but will be here in no time !Thank you for posting this article, @sds71.
Encouraging info? Time will tell, imo.
From the article:
SLED Chief Mark Keel has been keeping the Smith family updated, and the most recent SLED update was promising, Bland said.
"According to Chief Keel, they (SLED) have some individuals in mind who have some knowledge and responsibility, and they are issuing subpoenas and warrants," Bland recently told The Hampton County Guardian.
Bland is also seeing evidence, although unconfirmed, that the S.C. Attorney General's Office has empaneled the S.C. State Grand Jury.
"Only a court or a grand jury can issue subpoenas," added Bland. "I really do feel like by Labor Day we should see some sign of movement and know some things publicly."
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Questions surround presence of Murdaughs at Stephen Smith's death scene
Randy Murdaugh has denied being at the scene when Stephen Smith's body was moved, though Smith's mother says she saw him there.
6/21/23
HAMPTON COUNTY, S.C. (Court TV) — In an interview with Court TV on Tuesday evening, the attorney representing Stephen Smith‘s mother, Sandy, revealed that the Murdaugh family is calling Sandy’s recollection of the morning her son died into question.
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Sandy Smith previously told Court TV’s Vinnie Politan that on the morning her son’s body was removed from the road, she saw Alex and Randy Murdaugh at the scene. On Tuesday, Eric Bland told Politan that Randy Murdaugh’s attorney is disputing Sandy’s recollection of events. Murdaugh, through his attorney, said that was at the scene where Stephen’s body was found the day following his death with an investigator, but denied being there when Sandy was. Sandy has said that Randy was at the scene twice: both when the body was moved initially by police and again the next day with an investigator.
The questions surrounding who was present at the scene come as Bland confirmed that a grand jury has been impaneled in Stephen’s death. Bland said that he has heard through several sources that there are five to six people with knowledge of what happened the night Stephen was killed, and that the grand jury has been issuing subpoenas.
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“I absolutely believe that they knew that Stephen was on that road,” Bland said. “And whether they were trying to scare him and it got out of control and they hit him — I don’t think the automobile actually struck him or the moving vehicle — I think there could have been something extending from the moving vehicle, we’ll have to see what the professionals say.”
Dr. Michelle DuPree, who attended the autopsy, confirmed that Stephen’s skull was fractured, but did not have any depressed fractures that would have been consistent with being beaten by a bat or a pipe.
Bland said Sandy would like justice for her son, but her main goal is to find out what happened.
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What in the world would AM and RM be doing on the scene so soon?? Do they have no compassion or are they just soulless, blood sucking ambulance chasers? I'm surprised JMM wasn't there too. GAH, this makes me sick.Questions surround presence of Murdaughs at Stephen Smith's death scene
Randy Murdaugh has denied being at the scene when Stephen Smith's body was moved, though Smith's mother says she saw him there.
6/21/23
HAMPTON COUNTY, S.C. (Court TV) — In an interview with Court TV on Tuesday evening, the attorney representing Stephen Smith‘s mother, Sandy, revealed that the Murdaugh family is calling Sandy’s recollection of the morning her son died into question.
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Sandy Smith previously told Court TV’s Vinnie Politan that on the morning her son’s body was removed from the road, she saw Alex and Randy Murdaugh at the scene. On Tuesday, Eric Bland told Politan that Randy Murdaugh’s attorney is disputing Sandy’s recollection of events. Murdaugh, through his attorney, said that was at the scene where Stephen’s body was found the day following his death with an investigator, but denied being there when Sandy was. Sandy has said that Randy was at the scene twice: both when the body was moved initially by police and again the next day with an investigator.
The questions surrounding who was present at the scene come as Bland confirmed that a grand jury has been impaneled in Stephen’s death. Bland said that he has heard through several sources that there are five to six people with knowledge of what happened the night Stephen was killed, and that the grand jury has been issuing subpoenas.
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“I absolutely believe that they knew that Stephen was on that road,” Bland said. “And whether they were trying to scare him and it got out of control and they hit him — I don’t think the automobile actually struck him or the moving vehicle — I think there could have been something extending from the moving vehicle, we’ll have to see what the professionals say.”
Dr. Michelle DuPree, who attended the autopsy, confirmed that Stephen’s skull was fractured, but did not have any depressed fractures that would have been consistent with being beaten by a bat or a pipe.
Bland said Sandy would like justice for her son, but her main goal is to find out what happened.
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