Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of disgraced South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh, accused in the June 2021 murders of his wife Maggie and younger son Paul on the family’s hunting estate, Moselle. A judge decided Monday morning that no live feed would be available for jury selection, WCBD reported. Prosecutors say Murdaugh …
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 …
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, …
Maggie Murdaugh, the murdered wife of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, left all her property to her husband in a will signed 16 years before her untimely death. While it’s unclear exactly what property Maggie Murdaugh owned at the time of her death, it appears that one property she owned was Moselle, the family …
Alex Murdaugh, now facing a total of 48 counts of financial fraud — stemming from an alleged botched suicide-for-hire plot and stealing money from his former law firm and his dead housekeeper’s estate. A South Carolina judge set bond at $7 million with the proviso that Murdaugh must pay his bond in full. Previously, State …
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh paid an ex-client more than $155,000 from a fake account in the months leading up to the unsolved murders of his son and wife, according to recently-obtained bank checks and documents. Murdaugh, 53, is facing criminal charges for hiring his former client, Curtis Smith, 61, to fatally shoot him in …
Embattled South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh waived extradition in Florida on Friday and will be returned to his home state to face charges related to millions in missing insurance money owed to the heirs of his former housekeeper’s estate. Murdaugh, whose law license was suspended by the South Carolina Supreme Court following allegations that he …
A lawyer for Alex Murdaugh appeared on “Good Morning America” Friday to insist that his client had nothing to do with the murder of his wife and son, while criticizing what he said were false rumors about the dramatic, complicated criminal web surrounding the prominent South Carolina legal family. Murdaugh’s attorney Dick Harpootlian was on …
‘If I’d have shot him, he’d be dead.’
The South Carolina attorney whose wife and son were murdered this summer has been arrested on charges related to the death of the family’s housekeeper. As the New York Post reports, Alex Murdaugh was arrested on Friday on suspicion of misappropriating settlement funds connected to the 2018 death of the Murdaugh family housekeeper Gloria Satterfield, …
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Friday suspended the law license of Alex Murdaugh’s best friend and college roommate, Cory Fleming, the attorney who earlier this week reached a settlement with the estate of Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh family housekeeper who died at their property three years ago. Fleming, who negotiated the initial wrongful death …
