Murdaugh Murders

Alex Murdaugh, formerly an attorney in Hampton County, is on trial for the July 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, both found shot to death on the ...

[Sign up for the Happiness is a Warm TV newsletter here.](https://t.news.newsobserver.com/webApp/mccSignUp?newsletter=newsobserver_happiness_warmtv_newsletter) ▪ Other deaths are covered: The Netflix series doesn’t ignore the other deaths connected to the Murdaugh family. Tinsley is very effective in delivering evidence that Paul was indeed driving the boat that night (the Murdaughs accused passenger Conner Cook of being the driver). We also hear from other parents of the kids on the boat that night, including ... ▪ More interviews with Paul’s friends: In addition to Doughty, we get interviews with other friends, including those on the boat the night of the crash. The videos give a much more intimate view of Paul and the friend group than we’ve seen so far.

Alex Murdaugh is testifying in his own defense in a murder trial in which he is accused of carrying out an execution-style killing of his wife and son in ...

Murdaugh said he took the chicken out of the dog's mouth and placed it on top of a dog crate at the kennel — "and then I left." He added that he was in a tough spot financially after "spending so much money on [opiate] pills." He laid on the couch, he said, but then he opted to follow them, taking a golf cart down to the kennels. Asked by the 911 dispatcher when he last spoke to his wife, Murdaugh replied, an "hour and a half, probably two hours ago." Murdaugh said he and Paul had been driving around the property, checking on plantings for fields they used to hunt doves. Murdaugh said he tried to check for a pulse and tried to turn Paul over. He went into detail about how his dogs behaved — and he said one of the dogs, Bubba, had chased and caught a chicken. The threats were so "over the top," he added, that the family disregarded it. In court, Murdaugh said his phone had fallen between the seat and the console. Murdaugh admitted that he lied to investigators about his alibi — he has repeatedly said he didn't see his wife and son after they ate dinner at Moselle, their hunting estate. He then drove the Suburban to the kennels. "As my addiction evolved over time," Murdaugh said, he had incidents of great paranoia.

Alex Murdaugh, a disgraced South Carolina attorney accused of killing his wife and youngest son, has begun testifying in his own defense in his double ...

Alex Murdaugh told investigators early in the case that he was not down by the kennels that night and had last seen his wife and son at dinner before finding bodies upon returning home from visiting his mother. He said that being asked about his relationship with his wife and getting tested for gunshot residue following the murders triggered his paranoia. Waters asked, to which Alex Murdough responded, "I disagree with that." "And you want this jury to believe a story manufactured to fit the evidence that you brought forth just yesterday after hearing this trial's worth of testimony?" ... I would never hurt Paul," Alex Murdaugh said. "On June the 7th, I wasn't thinking clearly," he said. Weeks into the trial, Alex Murdaugh was called to take the stand by his defense team on Thursday. Waters asked Alex Murdaugh if phone calls he made during that time, including to his wife, was to "manufacture an alibi." "No, I did not," Alex Murdaugh said. "I saw what y’all have seen pictures of," he told the jurors, crying. "It is an absolute fact that I am not manufacturing an alibi," Alex Murdaugh said. that night, when Alex Murdaugh said he was in his home getting ready to visit his mother.

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In 2018, Gloria Satterfield, who had been a housekeeper for Alex and Maggie Murdaugh for decades, died at Moselle, the family’s 1,700-acre hunting estate. A couple of months later, he was charged with the murder of his wife and son. “The double homicides of Maggie and Paul really changed everything.” Phone records from that night and the days following show that the investigators repeatedly called members of the Murdaugh family. “It is not an indication that there was incompetence, because you couldn’t have that much incompetence,” Tinsley says in the show. Paul Murdaugh—who was driving the boat when it crashed, with a blood alcohol content three times the legal limit—is the son of Alex Murdaugh, the main focus of the docuseries. Alex and Randolph Murdaugh showed up almost immediately, obstructing law enforcement from interviewing Paul and trying to convince another passenger, Connor Cook, to tell the authorities that he had been driving the boat. For over a century, the Murdaughs served as solicitors in the 14th circuit of South Carolina. He took the stand to testify in his own defense for the first time on Thursday, when he admitted to lying to police about never having been with his wife and son on the night that they were killed, blaming his longtime addiction to painkillers. And at times, they were above the law.” Four years ago, in the dark hours of a February morning, a boat crashed into a bridge on a chilly river in South Carolina’s lowcountry. In 2022, a three-part HBO docuseries, Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty, chronicled the family’s sinister legacy.

Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, the disbarred South Carolina attorney charged with murdering his wife and son, on Thursday admitted to lying to investigators about ...

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On the death certificate the manner of death was ruled ‘Natural,’ which is inconsistent with injuries sustained in a trip and fall accident,” the coroner’s request to the law enforcement division said. One week into his rehab treatment, Murdaugh confessed to police that he was the mastermind of his own shooting. WJCL reports that the firm began investigating after they found a [suspicious cheque on his desk](https://www.wjcl.com/article/alex-murdaugh-timeline-murder-update-7/42942455). Murdaugh was indicted on four more crimes related to a scheme to defraud multiple insurance companies in March. By the end of January 2022, Murdaugh faced 71 charges stemming from accusations that he defrauded victims of nearly $8.5 million in various schemes. Murdaugh told investigators that he returned to the sprawling estate late at night after visiting his elderly mother and found the bodies of his wife and son. [Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal](https://www.netflix.com/title/81519789) was released to the streaming platform Wednesday, one day ahead of disgraced South Carolina lawyer [Alex Murdaugh being called to give testimony](https://apnews.com/article/alex-murdaugh-will-testify-in-trial-7c491a9fbb295bd6b6766ec1b65f8905) in his own defence. 13, 2021, Murdaugh told police that he had hired a former client, distant cousin and drug dealer, 62-year-old Curtis “Cousin Eddie” Smith, to shoot and kill him. Investigators ruled the death of the openly gay teen as a hit-and-run, but his family doubted the ruling from the beginning. He faces roughly 100 other charges — from stealing from clients to arranging his own shooting on the side of a highway. He is accused of shooting Paul twice with a shotgun and Maggie five times with a rifle at the family’s hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. Murdaugh Murders interviews the other teens that were on the boat that night, including Paul’s girlfriend Morgan Doughty, Beach’s friends Miley Altman and Connor Cook, and Beach’s boyfriend Anthony Cook.

Here's if Alex Murdaugh cheated on his wife Maggie, 15 years before he allegedly shot her to death.

When asked if he killed or would ever hurt his wife or son, Murdaugh replied: “I would never hurt Maggie and I would never hurt Paul.” The synopsis of which is as follows: “The Murdaughs were one of South Carolina’s most prominent families, but the death of teenager Mallory Beach in a drunken boating accident began the unraveling of their legacy. Taking the stand himself on February 23, 2023, Murdaugh spoke of his drug dependence in his testimony during the prosecution’s cross-examination and how “stealing money” from his law firm, Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick. At the time, in the bad place that I was, it seemed like the better thing to do.” He added that he had $12 million in life insurance for himself but neither Paul nor Maggie had life insurance policies. A cellphone video is the most damning piece of evidence against Murdaugh, it was taken by him about five minutes before prosecutors say the slayings took place and it captured Maggie’s voice in the background. His lawyer Jim Griffin told news outlets at the time that Murdaugh’s car, a Mercedes-Benz SUV, had a flat tire and he’d pulled over when someone opened fire, Murdaugh escaped with a superficial headwound. He also noted cellphone data that placed Murdaugh at the scene of the crime just minutes before his family’s phones would “go silent forever”. In his opening statement, Creighton Waters, the state’s lead prosecutor in the case, noted that neither Paul nor Margaret had defensive wounds, “as if they didn’t see a threat coming from their attacker.” The details of the injuries suffered by Murdaugh’s wife and son are “gruesome”, Waters told the jury. On September 6, Murdaugh released a public statement to say he’d resigned from his family’s law firm, Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick, saying he’d “made a lot of decisions that I truly regret” (per [WCSC](https://www.live5news.com/2021/09/06/alex-murdaugh-releases-statement-after-weekend-shooting/)) and cited a [substance abuse problem](https://stylecaster.com/why-alex-murdaugh-kill-family/). Murdaugh is facing charges of double homicide in relation to the deaths of his wife, Maggie, and their son Paul, who were found shot to death on June 7, 2021. [The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/alex-murdaugh-affair-maggie-sister-marian-proctor-b2282406.html) described that while the jury was out of the room, Proctor claimed infidelity had happened 15 years ago and while Murdaugh and Maggie were able to work through it at the time, it was still a sensitive topic in their marriage, enough to bring it up with her sister shortly before [she was killed](https://stylecaster.com/how-buffalo-jim-die/). “I just came back.” He later told investigators he’d been spending the day with his mother, who has dementia, and her caregiver that day.

Alex Murdaugh Admits He Lied to Police, Says Painkillers Made Him 'Paranoid'. The disbarred attorney sniveled as he admitted to lying to police about where he ...

After the jury left, Waters estimated he had another three to four hours of questions for Murdaugh on Friday. He told Griffin that he admitted to his brother and to one of his law partners that he had taken money. “I think I touched her down around like the — I don’t know,” he whimpered. Prosecutor Creighton Waters began cross-examining Murdaugh around 3:45 pm and completed close to two hours of questioning before the jury was dismissed for the evening. In his testimony Thursday, Murdaugh said for the first time on the court record that Paul had received several threats before his death. On the stand, Murdaugh admitted for the first time that he lied about his whereabouts that night. During several hours of testimony, he sniveled as he told jurors that although he lied to authorities about his whereabouts the night of the murders, he was “nowhere near” his wife and son “when they got shot.” At the time of his death, Paul was facing felony charges amid accusations that he had killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach after drunkenly crashing a boat into a bridge. He also asked Murdaugh to describe his relationships with his son and wife. 4 saying he’d been the victim of a hit-and-run attack while he was changing a tire on the side of the road. Murdaugh initially said he had not been to the kennels that day until he arrived late in the evening and discovered Maggie and Paul’s bodies near the dog kennels. Early on, Griffin brought up prosecution evidence debunking Murdaugh’s alibi that he had not been in the area of the murders the night of the shootings.

On the witness stand, the prominent South Carolina lawyer blamed his addiction to painkillers for his lies to investigators, but said he did not kill his ...

Harpootlian said a wealth of evidence — texts, pictures, witness testimony and at least one video from the day of the crimes — would show that the Murdaughs were a happy family. “That’s the significance of what he was trying to prevent from being exposed.” Murdaugh was arrested at a Florida drug detoxification center and charged with swindling millions of dollars from the sons of Ms. July 8, 2015: The body of Stephen Smith, 19, was found on Sandy Run Road in Hampton County, S.C. Smith ran out of gas on the side of the road several miles away from where his body was found. Smith, who had been a classmate of Alex Murdaugh’s older son, was found dead on Sandy Run Road in Hampton, S.C., about 10 miles from the Murdaugh home, early in the morning on July 8, 2015. Murdaugh testified that later, he did go to the kennels, following after his wife and younger son on a golf cart. Prosecutors have suggested, based on tracking data from his car, that Alex Murdaugh did not have time to check on the bodies of his wife and son at the dog kennels — as he claimed — before making a 911 call. He admitted that he lied to investigators about his whereabouts, saying he was paranoid at the time and then got caught up in the lie. He is also asking about Murdaugh’s specific knowledge of various forms of evidence, including tracking data from cars. His wife, he said, was “such a lady.” While she “didn’t grow up in the swamp and in the country,” he said, she came to enjoy the area and raising their two boys. Then, he said, he drove over to check on his mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

The prominent South Carolina lawyer is set to take the stand Thursday morning. He has denied killing his wife and son.

Mr. His wife, he said, was “such a lady.” While she “didn’t grow up in the swamp and in the country,” he said, she came to enjoy the area and raising their two boys. Prosecutors have said that Mr. Murdaugh carried out the murders and was an attempt to create an alibi. Then, he said, he drove over to check on his mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Murdaugh’s financial and social dealings, and prosecutors ended the day without having asked Mr. In his cross-examination of Mr. The prosecutor, Creighton Waters, held up a stack of papers relating to clients whom Mr. To many, he was a successful, fourth-generation lawyer who earned millions of dollars for his family’s firm and lived a life of comfort. It has also revealed what amounted to Mr. “I didn’t shoot my wife or my son any time — ever,” Mr. He conceded that he had pocketed a check he was supposed to hand over to his law firm.

The South Carolina scion weeps as he recalls finding his wife and son dead, but denies murder.

"I was wrong," Mr Murdaugh said, over and over again. The jury also heard a recording of the 911 call Mr Murdaugh made after his wife and son were killed. He blamed the earlier denials on paranoia from his years-long addiction to painkillers. "I saw what y'all have seen pictures of," he told jurors, referring to graphic photos of the crime scene. That addiction also featured prominently in his testimony. In a murder trial that has gripped the US, the heir of a South Carolina legal dynasty has admitted to lying about his whereabouts on the night his wife and son were killed.

Netflix's true crime series, Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal, takes a deep-dive into a deadly boating accident and examines exactly what happened that ...

Miley was dating Connor Cook at the time of the boat crash and is still dating him today. Mark Tinsley, the Beach family civil attorney, hired a biomechanical engineer who was able to prove that Connor could not have driven the boat, based on his injuries and the damage to the vessel. Connor is Anthony Cook's first cousin and the boyfriend of Miley Altman. Anthony was Mallory's boyfriend at the time of the accident. Paul was charged with two counts of boating under the influence with great bodily injury and one count of boating under the influence causing death. The timeline of the deaths was from 2015 to 2021.

South Carolina lawyer contradicts his previous claims and says he did visit the kennels where his wife and son were later found dead.

Prosecutors believe he wanted to secure a $10m insurance windfall for his son Buster. As Buster Murdaugh – Murdaugh’s surviving son, who testified earlier this week that his father was “destroyed” and “heartbroken” by the deaths – watched from the audience, Murdaugh described what he said was his confusion and panic. A few months after the homicides, Murdaugh reported surviving a roadside assassination attempt. The wealthy family’s fortunes began to unravel in 2019, when Paul Murdaugh allegedly caused a boat crash while intoxicated. He blamed his deception on paranoia brought by panic, compounded by his addiction to prescription painkillers, and described a cascading effect as lies mounted on each other. Contradicting his previous claims, Murdaugh said that he did, in fact, visit the kennels where they were later found dead of gunshot wounds.

Alex Murdaugh is currently on trial for the deaths of his son Paul and wife Maggie. 'Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal' streams on Netflix on February ...

[large settlement](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a40755054/shakira-tax-fraud-prison-case/), per [ABC](https://abcnews4.com/news/murdaugh-murders/judge-approves-43m-judgement-for-estate-of-alex-murdaugh-housekeeper-gloria-satterfield). At the time, the firm estimated Murdaugh had stolen over $1 million, per [PEOPLE](https://people.com/crime/murdaugh-family-murders-everything-to-know/). He primarily worked with settlements for fatal accidents and workplace injuries, according to the [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/alex-murdaugh-murders-what-happened-1b5922a399510407bc1e32d84add0111). [murder](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/g28068183/best-true-crime-documentaries/) in June 2021. He was initially arrested on fraud charges related to the Satterfield family's life insurance claim. Alex Murdaugh called 911 that night, reporting he found the bodies near the family's dog kennels, per The New York Times. Despite maintaining his [innocence](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/g29028290/best-true-crime-shows/), he was indicted on two counts of murder back in July of 2022, per [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/article/murdaugh-murders-alex-paul.html#:~:text=Mr.%20Murdaugh%20turned%20himself%20in,false%20police%20report%20%E2%80%94%20all%20felonies.). However the phrase ‘Murdaugh murders’ most often refers to the shootings of Paul and Maggie at their family hunting lodge in June 2021, per The New York Times. [Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal](https://www.netflix.com/title/81519789) opens with Mallory's death. [true crime docuseries](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/g29028290/best-true-crime-shows/), [Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal](https://www.netflix.com/title/81519789), dives into the real events and sad story behind the killing of two members of an elite southern family from South Carolina. This led to an influx of wealth and power into the Murdaugh family. Alex Murdaugh, 54, is a member of the Murdaugh family in South Carolina.

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Still, Murdaugh kept the badge he received as a volunteer assistant solicitor in his vehicle, he said, acknowledging he would “get better treatment” if he were pulled over. He took a golf cart to the kennels, where Maggie had let out the dogs while Paul was “fooling” with the tail of one dog that belonged to his friend. Paul’s injuries were particularly bad, Murdaugh said, and he recalled trying to check his son’s body for a pulse and trying to turn him over. For a time, Murdaugh himself wanted to be the solicitor, he testified. Murdaugh soon returned to the house and laid down on the couch, he said. Maggie and Paul weren’t there, he said, and Murdaugh assumed they were still at the kennels, so he went there. The state, however, contends the purported misconduct was about to be revealed at the time of the killings and that he fatally shot his wife and son in order to stave off those looming revelations. He had already showered, he said, and changed his clothes after sweating during a ride with Paul around the property earlier that evening – undercutting questions raised by the state about what he was wearing that night. Now they’re tasked with persuading a jury Murdaugh is telling the truth about the killings while acknowledging he was dishonest about other parts of his life. Prior to Thursday, Murdaugh had repeatedly denied being at the scene, telling investigators he visited his mother and found the bodies when he returned home later that night. “I did lie to them,” he said, blaming his addiction to opiate painkillers. That video has become a cornerstone of the state’s case, and prosecutors have used it to put Murdaugh at the scene minutes before they say Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, were killed, contradicting his repeated statements to law enforcement that he had not been there that night.