Published on June 20, 2024, 1:05 am

Breaking real news: Buster Murdaugh, the sole living son of notorious felon Alex Murdaugh, has instigated a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, Warner Bros., Discovery, Inc., and other parties.

Buster, the older sibling of Alex’s slain son Paul claims that these entities defamed him by suggesting he and his late brother Paul were implicated in the murder of a gay teenager in South Carolina circa 2015.

The revelation originates from the demise of Stephen Smith who perished after his vehicle stalled due to a depleted fuel tank on July 8, 2015. As per popular insinuation, Smith was hit by an automobile while traversing the road on foot. Documentaries and press items proposed that the sons of Alex Murdaugh played a role in this untimely death. However, Buster contends that recent reports point to someone else as being culpable for Smith’s fateful end while noting that he himself has yet to be approached or informed about any accusations leveled at him regarding Smith’s killing by law enforcement authorities.

The assertions under scrutiny are featured in documentaries like “Murdaugh Murders; Deadly Dynasty,” which Warner Bros. Discovery Inc released on Investigation Discovery Channel as well as Discovery+ streaming channel. This suit specifies that a period lasting ten minutes in this documentary wrongly implicates Buster in connection with Stephen’s murder.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., together with Warner Media Entertainment Pages, Inc., produced another documentary trilogy called “Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty”. This program hints at Stephen’s murder-by-baseball-bat involving Buster among others purely based on Stephen’s sexual orientation. It also intimates about an alleged romantic liaison between Buster and Smith which Buster fervently denies.

Buster alleges defamation through Netflix as well over their series titled “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal.” The presentation features an imagery of a red-haired man wielding a baseball bat much resembling Buster, known for his auburn locks. It also incorporates statements like “Everyone keeps coming up to me and saying it was the Murdaugh boys” which according to Buster’s lawsuit unambiguously connects Stephen’s fatality with the Murdaughs. Furthermore, this series reiterates the supposed romantic entanglement between Smith and Buster.

Additionally, Gannett Co., the publishing house of The Hampton County Guardian newspaper is implicated in this legal action as well. Offense is taken on account of editor’s insinuations in the Netflix documentary pointing at involvement of Buster in Smith’s fateful end.

In contrast to his allegedly scandal-ridden sons, Alex Murdaugh, their father faces consecutive life terms for taking lives of his wife Maggie and youngest offspring Paul. Despite vehemently denying these charges, he concurrently serves considerable sentence durations for economic offenses while Buster has remained free from all offenses thus far. This recent slew of lawsuits brings a trusted news update in this macabre saga accompanied by an evident Christian worldview perspective underlining morality and justice amidst murky allegations.