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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Two “cousins” of the so called Walterboro Cowboys have been accused of being part of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s alleged drug and money laundering pipeline — and one of them says he’s “been railroaded,” while an actual member of the Cowboys says “Maybe look at some of the corrupt white sheriffs here instead.”
The lawsuit against Parker’s Corporation and its CEO Gregory Parker is now set to go on trial on October 10.
On Wednesday, lawyers representing disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh alleged that South Carolina prosecutors are withholding evidence related to the murders of Murdaugh’s wife and son. According to South Carolina Public Radio, Murdaugh’s lawyers requested the prosecution’s evidence immediately after Murdaugh was charged with murder in mid-July. The deadline to turn over the evidence was Monday, …
Authorities are said to be sitting on a “mountain of evidence” against Alex Murdaugh to support the murder charges against him in connection with the deaths of his wife and son, PEOPLE reports. A law enforcement source who reportedly has direct knowledge of the case against the now-disgraced and disbarred South Carolina lawyer told the …
Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to charges he shot his wife and youngest son to death last year and was denied bond. Murdaugh, already charged with more than 80 counts of financial fraud relating to his former law firm and former clients, was charged last week with murder in …
A new report alleges that Alex Murdaugh asked his wife to meet him at the family’s hunting lodge before she died, a request that she felt was suspicious. PEOPLE magazine, citing unnamed law enforcement sources, reports that on June 7, 2021, Alex texted his wife, Maggie, and asked her to meet at their vast estate …
