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In the last hours we learned that very, very unobtrusively the body of a young teen, Steven Smith and South Carolina has been exhumed.

What does that mean?

He's a young man.

In the last hours we learned that very, very unobtrusively the body of a young teen, Steven Smith and South Carolina has been exhumed.

What does that mean?

He's been dug up from the cemetery for lack of a better phrase to describe it.

As we all know, Steven Smith, a young teen, openly gay and a rural area in South Carolina, body found by a stranger, a pastor's by about three o'clock in the morning, ish, very dark road.

There is no, there are no skin marks. There is no, we find no abrasions on his body to suggest he was hit and then dragged along the asphalt.

There is no sign of plastic glass metal, anything from a car.

This is a major, major development and joining me right now, high profile lawyer at of Jacksonville, Dale Carson, author of Arrest Proof Yourself, former FBI agent with the feds.

Dale, thank you for being with us. This is another thing I've learned I want you to analyze.

We learn that according to sources, two POIs have been named and they are not Buster Murdoch. Now, is there going to be a Murdoch connection? Maybe, but tangentially.

And I'll get to that. These two individuals were teens themselves at the time, lived near Mozel, the hunting lodge, was not far from Mozel about eight to eleven minutes on the road where Steven Smith's body was found, which triggered all sorts of speculation.

They also lived there there. Now, this is what we're learning, Dale Carson. According to sources, these two POIs teens themselves at the time were out late at night and hit Steven Smith, then tried to cover it up.

What do you make of what we're learning right now and how difficult is it to get an order of exclamation and then actually autopsy and already imbalmed body?

Well, of course, what we're looking for here is injuries consistent with a hit run, the Hickula homicide.

That's what we're looking for because that's where everything was initially focused. And you're looking for things that will be patently evident in the exome exhumed autopsy.

You're looking for spiral fractures below the knee. You're looking for places most individuals who are walking in the roadway are struck by a vehicle.

I've handled a number of these cases as a cop and Miami. You get fractures below the legs. In addition to that, below the knee, rather.

In addition to that, you're going to have what I call a dirt dump. Now, this is rural South Carolina. And a dirt dump is where your car strikes something.

And when it does, all the material that is up in the wheel wells and on the frame drops onto the ground. So typically at the strike point, you're going to find dirt if you don't find anything else.

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