Kenny Kinsey, Who Convicted Alex Murdaugh Now Seeks Stephen Smith’s Killer

The expert on crime scenes who wowed the jury and the public with his analysis of the murder of Richard “Alex” Murdaugh has moved on to solving the 2015 murder of Stephen Smith.

On Thursday, the law office representing the Smith family in this murder inquiry, Bland Richter LLP, made public the hiring of Dr. Kenneth Kinsey, a forensic crime scene analysis expert with a doctorate from the University of Florida. who has assisted in over 800 other death investigations will head up the current one into Smith’s death.

According to an interview Kinsey gave to The Hampton County Guardian on Thursday, he first visited the Hampton County crime scene on March 29 after being hired to acquire a sense of the area and to prepare for an interview with Court TV.

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“I am committed,” Kinsey said. “I want to help that family get answers, I really do.”Even though Murdaugh was convicted of killing his wife and son in June 2021, eight years after Smith’s body was discovered in the middle of Sandy Run Road in rural Hampton County, the case remains unresolved.

Guru Kenny Kinsey Helped Convict Alex Murdaugh
Guru Kenny Kinsey Helped Convict Alex Murdaugh

South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) reopened the case just weeks after the Murdaugh murders, and on March 23 SLED confirmed to the Smith family that it was officially considering the case as a murder investigation. The case had originally been ruled a vehicular hit-and-run homicide in 2015.

probable ties to the Murdaughs, but none have been confirmed. After Alex Murdaugh’s conviction, the case received its own explosion of attention when the prominent company Bland Richter, which is known for defending Murdaugh’s victims, announced last week that it will be representing the Smith family.

On Thursday, Bland also announced that they had brought on board Dr. D’Michelle P. DuPre, Dr. Dan Schultz, and Dr. Heather Walsh-Haney to assist Kinsey with the investigation. Eventually, Bland Richter may assign another crime scene investigator to work alongside Kinsey.

The team was dubbed “Stephen Smith’s Dream Team” by Bland. “We are so fortunate,” said Bland. “We are really excited. It’s a great team, a dream team of experts. But what excites me most is the cooperation that we have gotten from SLED. Chief Mark Keels has been amazing.”

Guru Kenny Kinsey Helped Convict Alex Murdaugh
Guru Kenny Kinsey Helped Convict Alex Murdaugh

Bland continued by saying that the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED), which came under fire for its policing during the Murdaugh murder trial, feels “vindicated and empowered” after the defendant’s guilty verdict and is ready to put its entire resources into the investigation of Smith.

Bland, speaking for SLED, claimed that now that the “Murdaugh stranglehold” was broken, residents could be more willing to talk about the Smith murder. Sandy Smith has put up a GoFundMe to help pay for her son’s investigation team, and they’ve already earned over $110,000!

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