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(UPDATE 5/24/23 astatine 12:50 P.M. ET): Alex Murdaugh was indicted connected 22 counts for alleged fiscal schemes connected Wednesday, May 24, 2023. The charges came 2 months aft helium was recovered blameworthy of the murders of his woman Maggie and lad Paul. The charges included slope fraud, ligament fraud, wealth laundering, and conspiracy to perpetrate slope and ligament fraud, per CNN. Alex’s lawyers expect to settee the charges retired of court. “We expect that the charges brought contiguous volition beryllium rapidly resolved without a trial,” they said successful a statement.
(UPDATE: 3/2/23 astatine 2:00 P.M. ET): One time aft Alex Murdaugh was recovered blameworthy of 2 murders, helium received his situation sentencing. The erstwhile lawyer was fixed 2 beingness sentences for the crimes helium committed. He near the courtroom successful a situation jumpsuit and successful handcuffs.
(ORIGINAL) Richard “Alex” Murdaugh, 54, has been recovered blameworthy of murdering his wife, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, and 1 of their sons, Paul Murdaugh, connected June 7, 2021. He was besides recovered blameworthy of 2 weapons charges, which means helium did decision a azygous complaint successful his case. Jurors came to their decision aft a fewer hours of deliberation connected March 2 aft analyzing six weeks’ worthy of grounds by 70 witnesses and aft they visited the 1,700-acre transgression country connected March 1.
The disgraced South Carolina lawyer was accused of fatally shooting his household connected their sprawling Islandton, S.C. spot known arsenic Moselle and was subsequently slapped with 2 counts of execution and 2 weapons charges successful July 2022. He pleaded not guilty, and his surviving 26-year-old son, Buster, testified successful his defence connected Feb. 26. He testified that his begetter called him portion helium was connected the mode to Moselle and called him aft allegedly discovering his parent and brother’s bodies. “He said, ‘Are you sitting down?'” Buster recalled of the infinitesimal helium discovered the news, per PEOPLE. “He sounded odd, and past helium told maine that my ma and my member had been shot.”
Alex Murdaugh gets affectional successful tribunal (Photo: Andrew J Whitaker/AP/Shutterstock)
“He was heartbroken,” helium continued successful beforehand of the jury. “I walked successful the doorway and saw him, gave him a hug.” He besides claimed his begetter was “destroyed” by the loss.
During the closing statement connected March 1, however, prosecutors painted a representation of a antheral who stole from and lied to his clients for years and reached a breaking constituent arsenic helium experienced much fiscal and ineligible woes. “The grounds that you’ve heard shows that the suspect became truthful addicted and truthful babelike connected the velocity of wealth that the millions of dollars successful ineligible fees that helium was receiving was not capable and truthful helium started to steal,” Prosecutor Creighton Waters said connected March 1, per CNN.
Alex was besides nether immense unit owed to a pending suit by the household of a young pistillate killed successful a Feb. 2019 boating accident. The pistillate was thrown overboard and died aft the boat, which was owned by Alex and was allegedly being driven by his son, Paul, crashed. “The pressures connected this antheral were unbearable and they were reaching a crescendo the time his woman and lad were murdered by him,” Waters added.
Alex Murdaugh stands successful tribunal (Photo: Jeff Blake/AP/Shutterstock)
Furthermore, Alex admitted to lying astir his whereabouts connected the nighttime of June 7, 2021. While helium primitively claimed that helium was ne'er adjacent the canine kennels connected his spot astatine which his woman and lad were found, video from his telephone taken that nighttime proves otherwise.
The lawsuit and beingness of Alex caught nationalist attraction and adjacent spawned documentaries from Netflix and HBO Max. The documentaries dug not lone into the execution of Alex’s woman and son, but the boating incidental arsenic well, positive an alleged murder-for-hire and security fraud plan, his galore fiscal crimes, and a bid of deaths associated with the Murdaugh family.
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