![]() ![]() His cause of death was blunt force trauma. There are conflicting reports of what caused Smith’s death first, the family was told he died from a gunshot wound, then they were told he was beaten, then it was a hit-and-run. The slayings of Maggie and Paul opened up another unsolved death from 2015-that of Stephen Smith, a gay teenager whose body was found dead on a remote road in Hampton County. He has bags under his eyes and he just looks miserable. He’s aged like 10 years in the past year. He doesn’t make eye contact and he doesn’t really engage like he used to. He’s gained some weight, he’s grown a beard, as much as he can. “I think he’s developed this attitude of ‘I’m gonna shut people out before they shut me out.’ His circle of friends got really small really fast.” They continued, “He’s really down. He has really closed off and built walls around himself.” Another childhood friend of Buster told the outlet, “Buster is collateral damage to his father’s situation,” says a friend who has known him since childhood. Now he doesn’t respond to most texts, or if he does, it’s one or two words. ![]() His phone was surgically implanted in his hand or something, like you’d send a text 24/7 and he’d respond, and he loved to chat. “He really withdrew after everything happened. “He’s not doing well at all,” a former college classmate told People. He testified that his father was always “apologetic and sorry” when he was confronted about his drug use. ![]() “I thought that he had handled it,” Buster testified, before acknowledging that there were “a couple of more times” that his father had relapsed. Though, he was aware of his father’s drug addiction. “He was heartbroken,” Buster said during the trial and painted the picture of a loving, “close-knit” family. The surviving members of the family also did talk about safety concerns in the days after the murders. In a question asked by Alex’s lawyer Jim Griffin, Buster affirmed that the family generally handled disagreements civilly, “like adults,” and that they were never violent. Their family later issued a joint statement offering $100,000 for information about the murders. They stayed at the homes of several relatives after the murders, including Maggie’s parents’ home. “I was in shock.” He testified that he spent much of the following weeks with his father and rarely left his sight. “I just sat there for a minute,” he recalled. So with his father on trial, where is Buster Murdaugh now?īuster also said that his father called him a second time to inform him about the murders. There’s also a suspicious death which speculation implicated Buster in himself but nothing has ever come of it. ![]() Prosecutors argued Alex shot his wife and son to “escape accountability” for more than 100 financial crimes including fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and forgery, with which he’s been charged. “I just came back.” He later told investigators he’d been spending the day with his mother, who has dementia, but while on the stand, testified he’d lied about his whereabouts and was in fact on the property moments before the slayings occurred. “I’ve been gone,” he told a dispatcher, NBC reported at the time. The victims were found with multiple gunshot wounds on June 7, 2021, after 911 dispatchers received a call from Alex at around 10pm. The Murdaugh murder trials are underway and many people who are interested in the case are asking: where is Buster Murdaugh now?įormer lawyer Alex Murdaugh, Buster’s father, was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on March 3, 2023, for the murders of his wife, Maggie, and his younger son, Paul. ![]()
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