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Podcast: MURDERISH
Episode: Stephen Smith: âUnsolved Murdaugh Mysteryâ | MURDERISH Ep. 134
Description: Just after 4 AM on July 8, 2015, a call came into Hampton County emergency dispatch. A driver spotted a body in the center of a remote stretch of highway known as Sandy Run Road. The body belonged to 19-year-old Stephen Smith, a nursing student at nearby Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College. There was nothing to suggest a vehicle had been involved in Stephenâs death, yet a hit and run would become the sheriffâs departmentâs official determination. The story didnât sit well with Stephenâs friends, his family, or the South Carolina Highway Patrol. The circumstances begged several questions: Why would Hamp...