The Latest Breaking News from Alex Murdaugh

‘You’ve done some illegal’ stuff, Alex Murdaugh’s son tells dad in jail phone recording

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The son of suspended Hampton County lawyer Alex Murdaugh told his father during a recorded phone call in December that Alex did “some illegal” stuff.

Tribune News Service · Jun 15, 2022

Who killed Maggie and Paul Murdaugh? 1 year later, South Carolina police say case ‘very much active’

The first call notifying 911 that Maggie and Paul Murdaugh had been shot to death came one year ago June 7 from a frantic Alex Murdaugh, who told operators he found his wife and youngest son bleeding out and not breathing on the family’s Moselle estate.

Tribune News Service · Jun 7, 2022

Body of Murdaugh family’s housekeeper to be exhumed amid new rumors around troubled household

Coroner says manner of death on certificate ‘is inconsistent with injuries sustained in a trip and fall accident’

The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2022

For 10 years, Alex Murdaugh’s law firm missed millions in thefts. What went wrong?

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Everyone trusted Alex Murdaugh.

Tribune News Service · Mar 25, 2022

Murdaugh friend charged with aiding insurance fraud scheme

A longtime friend of once-prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh now faces 18 charges in an alleged scheme to help Murdaugh steal more than $3 million from the family of Murdaugh’s dead housekeeper

The Independent UK · Mar 16, 2022

Once-prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh gives up stake in deceased wife's estate

HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Jailed South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has given up his right to accept any interest in the estate of his late wife, Maggie Murdaugh, according to a document filed Monday in Colleton County Probate Court.

Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2022

Once-prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s legal team sues jail chief to stop release of more phone calls

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for jailed South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh filed a lawsuit Monday against the interim director of Richland County’s Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center over the alleged improper release last week of Murdaugh’s phone calls from jail.

Tribune News Service · Feb 28, 2022

Ex-girlfriend of Alex Murdaugh’s son sues over ‘disfigurement’ from boat crash

Lawyers for Morgan Doughty say Paul Murdaugh drunkenly crashed his parents’ boat, leaving her with ‘permanent scarring and disfigurement’

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2022

SC Supreme Court backtracks on judge assigned to Alex Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes

The South Carolina Supreme Court’s chief justice reassigned a Columbia judge to oversee a swath of charges accusing Alex Murdaugh of financial crimes — the latest unexplained judicial switch from the court.

Tribune News Service · Jan 27, 2022

Alex Murdaugh faces 23 new counts of financial crimes, adding $2.3M to missing money

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A state grand jury on Thursday indicted disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh on a new array of financial crimes.

Tribune News Service · Jan 21, 2022