HAMPTON COUNTY, S.C. — On the morning a Colleton County grand jury indicted Alex Murdaugh for the shooting deaths of his wife and son, the graveyard where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were buried stood empty of mourners, groundskeepers or any other human noise.
Floral bouquets, trinkets and flags dotted the well-groomed yard. As did the Murdaugh name, etched into grand headstones throughout the historic cemetery.
Randolph Murdaugh Sr. and Jr. are both buried at Hampton Cemetery, as is Randolph Murdaugh III, who died at 81, just days after Paul and Maggie were found shot to death at their estate. All three served at one point as solicitor of the 14th Judicial Circuit, a prominent and powerful legal position in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.
