MURDAUGH SON TANGLED IN GAY MURDER PROBE!

Pal’s body being exhumed as cops reopen the case

JUST weeks after diabolical lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s double-murder conviction, damning evidence has emerged linking his surviving son, Buster, to the mysterious 2015 death of a gay buddy!

Investigators at the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SCLE) have reopened the homicide investigation into the bloody demise of 19-year-old nursing student Stephen Smith, who apparently was good pals with the Murdaugh kid.

Now Stephen’s body is slated to be exhumed in a desperate bid to unravel the truth!

Smith’s battered corpse was discovered on a country road about 15 miles from the sprawling 1,700-acre estate where Alex would later brutally gun down his wife, Maggie, and son Paul. At the time, his cause of death was determined to be a hit-and-run, but new evidence points to something much more sinister.

Newly released crime scene photos show the teen’s lifeless body lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the road. Among other injuries, his skull was partially crushed and he had a gaping hole in his forehead. There was so much blood, the first officers to arrive thought he’d been shot.

“No way that was a hitand-run,” declares Shannon Beekhuizen, a forensic sleuth who holds a degree in crime scene technology. Shannon’s been studying the case for nearly a year and declares, “It was murder.”