The surviving son of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has filed a defamation lawsuit against multiple media companies, claiming their true-crime documentaries about his prominent South Carolina family falsely linked him to a teens death.

Richard Buster Murdaugh claims in the lawsuits complaint, which was filed Friday and obtained by HuffPost , that Investigation Discoverys Murdaugh Murders: Deadly Dynasty, Maxs Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty and Netflix s Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal falsely accused him in the death of Stephen Smith, a 19-year-old gay man who was found dead in 2015.

The suit names Warner Bros Discovery and Netflix, as well as the series production companies. It also names Gannett, the parent company of the Hampton County Guardian, a local paper that covered the case. The papers editor, Michael DeWitt, appeared in the Netflix series and is also a defendant in the lawsuit.