Alex Murdaugh has filed a lawsuit against the court clerk whose behavior during his trial led the South Carolina Supreme Court to overturn his murder convictions for the deaths of his wife and son.
Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions and life sentence for the deaths of his wife and son have been overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court because the court clerk at his trial suggested he was guilty.
Alex Murdaugh's lawyers are asking the South Carolina Supreme Court to overturn his murder convictions.
Former South Carolina court clerk Becky Hill has pleaded guilty to showing sealed court exhibits to a photographer and lying about it in court.
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Hulu has released a limited series called “Murdaugh: Death in the Family,” dramatizing the story of Alex Murdaugh, a South Carolina attorney who was convicted in the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
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Alan Wilson, the four-term Republican attorney general of South Carolina, kicked off his bid for the state’s first open gubernatorial race in 16 years.
Alan Wilson, the four-term Republican attorney general of South Carolina, is set to enter the state’s open gubernatorial race in 2026.
A former court clerk who helped with the murder trial that led to the conviction of once-powerful South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been arrested.
The banker who prosecutors say helped Alex Murdaugh move millions of dollars around to avoid detection of his thefts in exchange for a share of the money has had his conviction and seven-year prison sentence overturned on appeal.
Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for stealing from clients and his law firm.
Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh say an FBI agent conducting a polygraph test the agency says the convicted killer flunked had asked odd questions, throwing the test's results off.
Federal prosecutors say convicted killer Alex Murdaugh didn’t tell the truth when FBI agents repeatedly asked him where more than $6 million he stole ended up.
A South Carolina court official under investigation amid allegations of tampering with the jury in the Alex Murdaugh trial is resigning.
A South Carolina judge has denied Alex Murdaugh's bid for a new double-murder trial after hearing allegations that jury tampering influenced the guilty verdict.
The judge handling the fallout over Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions plans to hold an evidentiary hearing next month.
Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for stealing $12 million from his clients and family law firm.
Alex Murdaugh has pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars from vulnerable legal clients in schemes lasting over a decade under an agreement.
An appeals court in South Carolina is allowing Alex Murdaugh to ask a judge to throw out his murder convictions and life sentence and get a new trial after his lawyers accused the court clerk in his trial of influencing the jury.
Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has appeared publicly for the first time since a murder trial where he was found guilty of fatally shooting his wife and youngest son.
Attorneys for convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh want to call jurors and others back into the courtroom in an effort to get a new trial.
South Carolina prison officials say convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has lost his phone privileges and his prison tablet computer after his lawyer recorded him reading his journal entries on a call for a documentary on his case.
Alex Murdaugh has been arraigned on federal money laundering and wire fraud charges for indictments saying he stole money from his clients.
A longtime friend of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has admitted he helped his old college roommate steal more than $4 million meant for a wrongful death settlement after Murdaugh’s housekeeper died in a fall.
Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is facing federal charges for the first time after being indicted on 22 financial fraud charges over allegations the former attorney schemed to steal settlement money from clients.
A mother whose son was found dead in the middle of a South Carolina road eight years ago is opening a private investigation into his death after raising almost $90,000 amid the publicity surrounding the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh.
Prosecutors produced no direct evidence linking South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to the killings of his wife and son, yet a jury took less than three hours to convict him.
The judge who sentenced Alex Murdaugh on Friday to life in prison for killing his wife and son has earned attention and plaudits for his even-handed demeanor throughout the trial and for his dressing-down of the once-prominent lawyer just before he sent him to prison.
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Defense lawyers in the double murder trial of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh want jurors to believe the crime scene can’t tell them much about the deaths of his wife and son because state agents did a poor job investigating.
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh is testifying he cooperated with police investigating the killings of his wife and son in every way except mentioning the last time he saw them alive.
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has denied killing his wife and son but admitted lying about when he last saw them alive while testifying in his own defense.
A law partner of Alex Murdaugh has testified at his double murder trial that more than a dozen people who weren’t first responders or law enforcement walked around the scene of the killings.
Alex Murdaugh’s defense called his surviving son to the witness stand Tuesday to poke holes in evidence that prosecutors have presented in the double murder trial of the disgraced South Carolina attorney.
In an interview two months after Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son were killed, investigators zeroed in on inconsistencies in what Murdaugh told authorities about their deaths.
The man who took care of Alex Murdaugh’s dogs testified Tuesday during the disgraced attorney’s double murder trial that puddles of water were not where they should have been when police responded to the killings of Murdaugh's son and wife.
Three weeks into disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial, prosecutors are still presenting evidence they say showed he killed his wife and son.
Alex Murdaugh’s housekeeper has testified at his double murder trial that the she never saw the shirt and shoes the disgraced South Carolina attorney was wearing in a video hours before his son and wife were killed after their deaths.
A lawyer who called Alex Murdaugh one of his best friends has testified on behalf of the disgraced lawyer who is standing trial for allegedly killing his wife and son.
Alex Murdaugh’s paralegal is testifying at his double murder trial about the betrayal she felt when she discovered he lied and manipulated to steal millions of dollars from clients.
Jurors in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial in South Carolina are hearing evidence about what crime scene technicians discovered when they tested a rain jacket found three months after his wife and son were killed in 2021.
A judge has ruled he will allow jurors to hear evidence that disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was stealing money from his law firm and clients and committing other financial crimes long before his wife and son were killed in 2021.
Two weeks into the double murder trial of South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, prosecutors haven’t presented any direct evidence that he killed his wife and son at their home in June 2021.
Prosecutors at Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial are asking a judge to allow jurors to hear from the son of the family's housekeeper who says Murdaugh promised to take care of them when she died in a fall, but kept a $4 million settlement for himself.
A judge has ruled that prosecutors can call witnesses to testify how Alex Murdaugh allegedly stole money as part of the double murder trial for the disbarred South Carolina attorney.
A state agent testifying in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial meticulously reconstructed activity from his iPhone and the cellphones of his son and wife the night they were killed to try to link the disgraced South Carolina attorney to the shooting deaths.
A state agent is insisting he heard a possible confession from Alex Murdaugh even after defense attorneys for the disgraced South Carolina lawyer slowed the audio down at his double murder trial.
The first officer to arrive after Alex Murdaugh called 911 and reported his wife and son were shot noted the the attorney was upset but that he had no tears in his eyes.
After 19 months of speculation, prosecutors have finally laid out their evidence that Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and son as they opened the double murder trial for the disgraced South Carolina attorney.
A lawyer for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh says investigators have indicated they intend to pursue murder charges against him for the deaths of his wife and son, who were fatally shot outside their home more than a year ago.
Speaking publicly for the first time in months, the prominent South Carolina attorney accused of a slew of mostly financial crimes after his wife and son were found shot dead blamed some of his problems on a 20-year-long opiate addiction shortly before a judge set bond at $7 million.
A prominent South Carolina attorney who wife and son were gunned down six months ago in unsolved killings has been indicted on 21 more charges that he stole settlement and other money from clients.
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An attorney told a judge that a South Carolina lawyer involved numerous police investigations has been cagey about his assets and should hand over control of his money to independent representatives so that he doesn't engage in further fraud.
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A judge in South Carolina has denied bond for a prominent South Carolina attorney who has become embroiled in two multimillion-dollar insurance fraud cases months after he found his wife and son dead in their home.
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The attorneys for prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh have released medical records they say show he was shot in the head on the side of a highway last month.
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