An inmate in South Carolina’s Ridgeland Correctional Institute is being charged with making the bomb threat that temporarily halted Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial earlier this month. The Colleton County courthouse was evacuated on February 8 after courthouse personnel received the bomb threat, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The trial was halted until about 2:30 p.m. while …
Paul Murdaugh’s girlfriend has not only alleged that the murdered 22-year-old was abusive but that he also had a problem with alcohol prior to the deadly 2019 boat crash. Morgan Doughty, 23, recalled an instance in which Paul kicked her before grabbing her by the throat and punching her. “He got on top of me, …
At the onset of Monday’s proceedings, Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers asked the court to bar prosecutors from asking their client about his alleged financial crimes if he testified in his own defense. The defense argued that Alex retains his Fifth Amendment right to shield himself from self-incrimination even if he takes the stand at his double …
On Wednesday, one of Alex Murdaugh’s former law partners testified about allegedly discovering part of Paul’s skull at the crime scene after SLED had released it. Attorney Mark Ball said he located a baseball-sized skull fragment in the feed room on June 8, hours after Paul and Maggie’s murders. Ball said Alex’s brother, Randy, had …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace tells Fox News that the judge in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial “threw the defense a bone” Tuesday when he allowed a “ballistics expert” with no ballistics training to testify that the gunman who killed Murdaugh’s wife and son was “really short, like 5-2.” “The jury had to be dumbfounded,” Grace said. “But …
On Monday, Buster Murdaugh testified that he believed Alex uttered, “They did him so bad,” when being interviewed by police shortly after Maggie and Paul’s murders. Previously, prosecutors showed video footage from June 10, 2021, three days after the slayings. Alex is seen sitting in a car with law enforcement when he says, “I did …
Buster Murdaugh testified on Monday that Paul and Maggie were aware of Alex’s opioid issues because they had discovered his pills. Buster also said that Alex entered a detox facility sometime after Christmas 2018 and additionally did at-home detoxes. Buster claimed he knew a little about his father’s alleged drug addiction. “I knew that either …
Prosecutors rested their case Friday against disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, wrapping up the state’s testimony with a final witness to tie up phone and GPS information that had been given to jurors over the past two weeks of trial. A new piece of information: Paul and Maggie Murdaugh apparently uncovered Alex Murdaugh’s drug …
Prosecutors in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial put a witness on the stand Thursday to testify about the disgraced former lawyer’s botched “suicide for hire” scheme, which played out a day after his family’s storied law firm kicked him out and three months after his wife and son were shot to death on the family’s …
