Murdaugh Prosecutors Have Snapchat Video Paul Murdaugh Sent to Friends on Night of Murders
The prosecutors call the video “critical to the case” and “important to proving the State’s case in chief.”
The prosecutors call the video “critical to the case” and “important to proving the State’s case in chief.”
Graphic descriptions of the injuries suffered by disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s younger son are included in a new court filing in the elder Murdaugh’s murder trial this week. Alex Murdaugh is set to go on trial on January 23 for the murders of Paul Murdaugh, 22, and his 52-year-old wife, Maggie Murdaugh, on …
The family of a 19-year-old woman who died in the crash of a boat driven by a drunk Paul Murdaugh has settled its wrongful death lawsuit with Murdaugh’s surviving brother and the estate of his mother. The news comes less than two weeks before disgraced South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh goes on trial for …
South Carolina prosecutors alleged that jailed ex-attorney Alex Murdaugh tried to claim his wife and son’s slayings last year were related to a fatal 2019 boating accident involving his late son. Murdaugh, 64, was charged in July with killing Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, 52 and 22, who were found fatally shot at the family’s lodge …
A South Carolina grand jury indicted Alex Murdaugh on tax evasion on Friday, a month ahead of his trial for the murders of his wife and son. Greenville News reported that Murdaugh, 64, failed to report $6,954,639 of income garnered from illegal acts from 2011 through 2019. The Attorney General said Murdaugh owes $486,819 in …
Prosecutors this week revealed a possible motive for why South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh allegedly murdered his wife and son, WCSC-TV reports. In a court filing on Thursday, lawyers for the government alleged that Murdaugh committed the murders to divert attention away from his theft of almost $9 million from clients. Because of that …
A South Carolina banker has been found guilty for his part in disgraced South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh’s schemes to defraud clients of parts of their legal settlements. A federal jury convicted former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte on wire and bank fraud charges. Each of the six charges carries a maximum sentence …
Alex Murdaugh’s surviving son reportedly suggested that he is not supporting his jailed lawyer father who is charged with killing his mother and brother last year. Buster Murdaugh, 25, allegedly told the Daily Mail, “I don’t want to see it written anywhere that I’m supporting my father [Alex Murdaugh].” He reportedly went on to say …
New court documents filed earlier this week change the timeline of the deaths of Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her 22-year-old son Paul Murdaugh, whose bodies were found on the legal scion family’s hunting property in Colleton County, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021. Alex Murdaugh, Maggie’s husband and Paul’s father, has been charged with their …
Prosecutors alleged on Thursday that disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh waited an hour to call 911 after the 2021 murders of his wife and son. State Grand Jury Chief Prosecutor Creighton Waters also claimed that video footage shows Murdaugh at the family’s 1,770-acre lodge in Colleton County with Paul and Maggie before their phone …
Attorneys for disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh are pointing the finger at Murdaugh’s cousin Curtis “Eddie” Smith. In a new court filing, the lawyers say that Smith, who reportedly failed a polygraph, should have been more rigorously investigated as a prime suspect by police. During a polygraph five months ago, Smith was asked three times …
Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, accused of murdering his wife and son, now alleges that his cousin likely committed the killings, The State reports. In a new court filing, lawyers for Murdaugh argue that investigators should have given more weight to a lie detector test taken by Murdaugh’s cousin Curtis “Eddie” Smith. “Smith decidedly …