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Buster Murdaugh, the son of disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, has filed a lawsuit against several media companies, accusing them of defamation for documentaries they produced about his family.
The Murdaugh family had been a prominent and powerful legal dynasty in the state's Lowcountry, prompting national attention to the murders and trial. In the wake of the verdicts, several documentaries were produced about the high-profile case. Rather, his lawsuit centers on the case of Stephen Smith, a 19-year-old whose body was found along a rural road on July 8, 2015. Though Smith's death was initially classified as a hit-and-run, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said that it had uncovered evidence leading them to reopen Smith's case during its investigation into the Murdaugh murders.
The documentaries are accused of alluding to Buster as Smith's murderer as well as insinuating that Buster and Smith had a romantic relationship.Though not named directly, Buster pointed to a"young man with red hair carrying a baseball bat" visible in the Netflix documentary series."The Plaintiff has red hair, and it is readily ascertainable from the content of the series that the creators were depicting the Plaintiff as the murderer of Stephen Smith.
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