And if there's not consequences for doing this, then it's going to happen again." Paul Murdaugh was released on his own recognizance and for nearly two years, his case dragged on as he awaited trial. Then in June of 2021, Paul Murdaugh and his mother Maggie Murdaugh were found fatally shot outside their family home.
Three months after the gruesome discoveries of his wife and son on the family estate, Alex Murdaugh allegedly hitched a suicide-for-hire plot to have himself shot and killed on another rural Hampton County road so that his surviving son Buster could collect on a $10 million life insurance policy.
Alex Murdaugh, the suspended South Carolina attorney accused of financial wrongdoing and setting up a suicidal insurance fraud scheme, was charged with 23 more crimes in four new indictments returned by a grand jury, the state attorney general said Friday.
In November, a series of five indictments charged Murdaugh with 27 counts of financial crimes between 2015 and 2021. The charges allege he stole a total of $4.8 million from clients and his law firm, laundering the money through a personal bank account.
Mr Murdaugh's attorney Jim Griffin previously said his client was a person of interest in his wife and son's deaths “from the get go” but insisted that he didn't think “in any form or fashion” the will was a motive for their deaths.
The failed shooter, 61-year-old Curtis Edward Smith of Walterboro, has since been arrested and issued a $55,000 total bond. Overnight, an arrest was made in the shooting of prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, an attack authorities now say Murdaugh actually planned himself. @CatieBeckNBC reports.
Alex Murdaugh reaches $4.3M agreement with former housekeeper's sons. According to court documents, Murdaugh has admitted to liability in the lawsuit filed by Satterfield's sons and agreed to a judgement of $4,305,000.
Murdaugh has been indicted on charges he engineered a scheme to collect $4.3 million in liability insurance proceeds that were supposed to go to the Satterfield family.
Beach's mother has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Alex Murdaugh and his surviving son, Richard “Buster” Murdaugh. A 2021 shooting—in which Alex Murdaugh was both victim and orchestrator: Just a day after his resignation from PMPED, Alex Murdaugh called police and reported that he had been shot.
Alex Murdaugh shot Alex Murdaugh calls 911 after being shot on the road in Varnville, S.C. Officials say it was a "superficial wound" and Murdaugh's lawyer says he was airlifted to a hospital in Savannah, Ga. Murdaugh's lawyer says the shooting was not self-inflicted and there was an entry and exit wound.
An Atlanta attorney who masterminded the 1992 murder of his wife in front of their two young sons has died in prison. Fred Tokars, 67, died of natural causes in a Pennsylvania prison while serving a life sentence, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Murdaughs' property is located in the South Carolina Lowcountry community of Islandton. What county is Islandton in? This story was originally published September 10, 2021 3:43 PM.