Crime & Justice

How Buster Murdaugh’s Lawsuit May Be the Key to Solving a Murder Mystery

‘OPENING A CAN OF WHOOP ASS’

Alex Murdaugh’s only surviving son has never been charged. But a fight to clear his name may finally yield answers in an unsolved murder.

Buster Murdaugh, Alex Murdaugh and a cross for Stephen Smith, that marks the location he was found dead.
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