Alex Murdaugh: Who is the disgraced attorney and why is he on trial?
Alex Murdaugh’s five shocking words were revealed after the murders of his wife and son at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, on Monday.
Jurors heard evidence about Mr Murdaugh’s second interview with law enforcement on June 10, 2021 – three days after he was charged in the shooting deaths of Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, at the family’s estate in Islandton on June 7, 2021.
In the interview, SLED Special Agent Jeff Croft testified that Mr. Murdaugh told him: “I did it so bad.”
While prosecutors sought to suggest the legal knife, 54, fell during the interview, Mr Murdaugh was seen shaking his head and appearing to say “that’s not what I said ” in court.
The audio of the interview has also raised doubts, with some believing he says: “They did it so badly.”
Agent Croft is expected to be cross-examined by Mr Murdaugh’s solicitors when the trial resumes on Tuesday morning.
The trial is just one of Mr. Murdaugh’s troubles in a saga that includes a botched hitman plot, multi-million dollar fraud schemes, and unexplained deaths.
Did Alex Murdaugh confess to unwitting murders?
Alex Murdaugh’s five shocking words were revealed after the murders of his wife and son at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, on Monday.
Jurors heard evidence about Mr Murdaugh’s second interview with law enforcement on June 10, 2021 – three days after he was charged in the shooting deaths of Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, at the family’s estate in Islandton on June 7, 2021.
In the interview, SLED Special Agent Jeff Croft testified that Mr. Murdaugh told him: “I did it so bad.”
While prosecutors sought to suggest the legal knife, 54, fell during the interview, Mr Murdaugh was seen shaking his head and appearing to say “that’s not what I said ” in court.
The audio of the interview has also raised doubts, with some believing he says: “They did it so badly.”
Agent Croft is expected to be cross-examined by Mr Murdaugh’s solicitors when the trial resumes on Tuesday morning.
Rachel Sharp31 January 2023 10:30
Murdoch. he was wearing a ‘clean’ shirt after he said he had touched the bloody bodies of his wife and son
Newly released stills from body camera footage show Alex Murdaugh dressed in a “clean” white shirt after he allegedly touched the hidden bodies of his wife and son when they were found shot dead at the family’s Carolina estate South.
Mr Murdaugh is dressed in a white T-shirt and dark shorts in the images. The stilts are grainy but there are no obvious signs of blood on his shirt.
Oliver Connell31 January 2023 09:45
A timeline of murders, financial fraud, a hit man plot and unexplained deaths
Rachel Sharp they put together a timeline of the key moments in the sprawling case against Alex Murdaugh.
Oliver Connell31 January 2023 08:45
Murdaugh tells the 911 dispatcher that his son Paul has been receiving threats
Alex Murdaugh told a 911 dispatcher minutes after he said he discovered the bodies of two murdered family members that his son Paul had been receiving threats “for months” over a fatal boating accident.
Mr Murdaugh, 54, can be heard telling the operator that his son Paul had been involved in a fatal boating accident and had been making threats “for months and months and months”.
Oliver Connell31 January 2023 07:45
Watch: The first officer on the scene describes what he saw
Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial: The first officer on the scene describes what he saw
The first police officer to arrive on the scene has told the jury what he saw in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh. Sergeant Daniel Greene, the first witness to take the stand, told the court how he found the bodies of his wife Maggie and son Paul. He also recalled how Murdoch was armed when he arrived, and that he told him he had left to get a shotgun because “he felt he needed it.” Murdaugh, 54, is accused of fatally shooting his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, at the family estate. Sign up for our newsletters.
Oliver Connell31 January 2023 05:45
Who is Alex Murdaugh?
Rachel Sharp file this profile of the high-profile lawyer.
Oliver Connell31 January 2023 03:45
Murdaugh is crying as body camera video is shown at trial
Bodycam footage was played at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, Thursday morning as the high-profile double-murder trial got underway.
Oliver Connell31 January 2023 02:45
Murdaugh breaks down as lawyer describes brutal ‘butchering’ of wife and son
Disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh broke down in tears as his lawyer described how his son and wife were “butchered” on the family’s hunting estate in South Carolina.
Mr Murdaugh shed tears as his defense solicitor described the scene he claims his client found near the estate’s concourse and denied having anything to do with it.
Dick Harpootlian told the jury that the prosecution’s explanation for the murders was nothing more than “theories” and “speculation” and that Mr Murdaugh was a “loving” husband and father.
Oliver Connell31 January 2023 01:45
Alex Murdaugh’s spectacular fall from grace
He was a high powered attorney who ran his own law firm and worked in the local prosecutor’s office.
He was the son of a powerful legal dynasty that had ruled 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 continuing the case for The Independent.
Murders, fraud, and a hit-man plot: Alex Murdaugh’s spectacular fall from grace
The ‘trial of the century’ is now taking place in a courtroom in South Carolina where powerful legal man Alex Murdaugh is accused of the brutal double murder of his wife and son. But this is far from the only twist in the strange and sprawling tale of unexplained deaths, hitman plots and multi-million dollar fraud schemes, writes Rachel Sharp
Oliver Connell31 January 2023 00:45
ICYMI: Prosecutors paint ugly portrait of Alex Murdaugh killing wife and son
Prosecutors dropped their allegation that South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh murdered his defenseless wife and son at the family’s hunting lodge in 2021.
Mr Murdaugh is accused of brutally murdering his wife Margaret, known as Maggie, and his youngest son, 22-year-old Paul, outside a kennel on the estate on June 7, 2021.
Prosecutors said at the opening of his trial Wednesday that Mr. Murdaugh first shot his son with a shotgun, then killed his wife with an AR-style rifle.
Oliver Connell30 January 2023 23:45
