Alex Murdagh: Who is the disgraced lawyer and why is he on trial?
Five shocking words were revealed Monday at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, following the murder of Alex Murdagh’s wife and son.
Jurors heard evidence about Mr Murdaugh’s second interview with law enforcement on 10 June 2021 – three days after he was accused of shooting and killing Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, at the family’s estate in Islandton on 7 June 2021.
In the interview, SLED Special Agent Jeff Croft told Mr Murdaugh: “I made him very bad.”
When lawyers tried to suggest in an interview that the 54-year-old’s legal heir had escaped, Mr Murdagh appeared to shake his head and say in court: “That’s not what I said”.
The audio of the interview has also raised doubts, with some believing that he actually says: “They made him so bad.”
Agent Croft is expected to be cross-examined by Mr Murdaugh’s lawyers when the trial resumes on Tuesday morning.
The trial is one of Mr. Murdagh’s troubles, spanning hitman plots, multi-million-dollar fraud schemes and unexplained deaths.
Crime scene photos show bloody dog kennels
The photos were introduced into evidence Friday as SLED forensic analyst Melinda Varley testified on the third day in Colleton County Court in Walterboro, South Carolina.
Rachel Sharp31 January 2023 11:00
Did Alex Murdagh unknowingly confess to the murders?
Five shocking words were revealed Monday at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, following the murder of Alex Murdagh’s wife and son.
Jurors heard evidence about Mr Murdaugh’s second interview with law enforcement on 10 June 2021 – three days after he was accused of shooting and killing Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, at the family’s estate in Islandton on 7 June 2021.
In the interview, SLED Special Agent Jeff Croft told Mr Murdaugh: “I made him very bad.”
When lawyers tried to suggest in an interview that the 54-year-old’s legal heir had escaped, Mr Murdagh appeared to shake his head and say in court: “That’s not what I said”.
The audio of the interview has also raised doubts, with some believing that he actually says: “They made him so bad.”
Agent Croft is expected to be cross-examined by Mr Murdaugh’s lawyers when the trial resumes on Tuesday morning.
Rachel Sharp31 January 2023 10:30
Murdagh. He had a ‘clean’ shirt after claiming to have touched the bloody bodies of his wife and son
Newly released stills from bodycam footage showed Alex Murdagh, dressed in a “clean” white shirt, when he discovered the bloodied bodies of his wife and son on the family estate in South Carolina.
Mr Murdoff is seen wearing a white T-shirt and dark shorts in the pictures. The stills are grainy but there are no obvious signs of blood on his shirt.
Oliver O’Connell31 January 2023 09:45
A timeline of murders, financial fraud, hitman conspiracy and unexplained deaths
Rachel Sharp Put together a timeline of key moments in the sprawling case against Alex Murdagh.
Oliver O’Connell31 Jan 2023 08:45
Murdaugh tells a 911 dispatcher that his son Paul has been receiving threats
Alex Murdaugh told 911 dispatchers after discovering the bodies of two murdered family members that his son Paul had been receiving threats “for months” about the fatal boating accident.
Mr Murdagh, 54, can be heard telling the operator that his son Paul was involved in a fatal boating accident and has been receiving threats for “months and months and months”.
Oliver O’Connell31 Jan 2023 07:45
WATCH: The first officer on the scene describes what he witnessed
Alex Murdagh murder trial: First officer on scene describes what he witnessed
The first police officer to arrive at the scene told the jury at Alex Murdagh’s murder trial what he saw. Sergeant Daniel Green, the first witness to take the stand, told the court how he found the bodies of wife Maggie and son Paul. He recalled how Murdaugh was armed when he arrived and said he was going to get a shotgun because “he felt he had to have it.” Murdagh, 54, is accused of fatally shooting his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, on the family estate. Sign up to our newsletters.
Oliver O’Connell31 Jan 2023 05:45
Who is Alex Murdagh?
Rachel Sharp A high level lawyer submitted this detail.
Oliver O’Connell31 Jan 2023 03:45
Murdaugh cried as bodycam video was shown at the trial
Bodycam footage was played during a high-profile double-murder trial Thursday morning at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina.
Oliver O’Connell31 Jan 2023 02:45
Murdagh broke down as the lawyer described the brutal ‘butchering’ of wife and son
Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh broke down in tears as his lawyer described how his son and wife were “butchered” on the family’s South Carolina hunting estate.
Mr Murdagh’s defense lawyer wiped tears from his eyes as he described the scene near the kennels on his client’s estate and denied he had anything to do with it.
Dick Harpootlian told the jury that the prosecution’s explanation for the murders was only “theories” and “conjecture” and that Mr Murdagh was a “loving” husband and father.
Oliver O’Connell31 Jan 2023 01:45
Alex Murdagh’s spectacular fall from grace
He was a high-powered lawyer who ran his own law firm and worked in the local prosecutor’s office.
He was the son of a powerful legal dynasty that dominated the local South Carolina community for nearly a century.
And he was a family man who lived with his wife and two grown sons on their sprawling country estate.
Rachel Sharp Following the case for independent.
Murders, Deception and a Hitman Plot: Alex Murdagh’s Spectacular Fall from Grace
The ‘trial of the century’ is now underway in a South Carolina courtroom, where the wife and son of powerful legal tycoon Alex Murdagh have been charged with the brutal double murder. But that’s far from the only twist in a bizarre and sprawling tale of unexplained deaths, hitman plots and multi-million dollar fraud schemes, writes Rachel Sharp.
Oliver O’Connell31 Jan 2023 00:45
