Second autopsy performed on South Carolina teen after Alex Murdaugh case

Stephen Smith was found dead on a highway in 2015 but lawyers for mother say no evidence links death to Murdaugh family

A second autopsy was completed this weekend on the exhumed body of a teenager found dead nearly eight years ago on a South Carolina road, according to the family's lawyer, after the public attention surrounding Alex Murdaugh's murder trial boosted a mother's search for answers in the unsolved case.

Lawyers for the mother of Stephen Smith have said there is no evidence linking his death to the Murdaugh family, and state investigators have remained tight-lipped since taking the case around the same time police said Murdaugh killed his wife and son.