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South Carolina judge sets Thursday hearing as lawyers in Murdaugh murder trial continue to spar

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Following allegations that the South Carolina Attorney General’s office has withheld evidence from the defense in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial, a judge has scheduled a Thursday hearing to sort out differences.

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Alex Murdaugh attorneys claim associate’s ‘failed’ lie detector test exonerates him in wife and son’s murders

Murdaugh’s attorneys allege the prosecution is withholding results of Eddie Smith’s failed polygraph test

The Independent UK

Defense lawyers say Eddie Smith failed polygraph about Alex Murdaugh’s wife, son

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Defense attorneys for accused double murderer Alex Murdaugh say in a new court filing that Curtis “Eddie” Smith, not their client, likely killed Murdaugh’s wife and son in June 2021.

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Alex Murdaugh's attorneys, South Carolina prosecutors battle over leaks and evidence in double murder case

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys on both sides of the Alex Murdaugh case got some of what they asked for from a South Carolina judge Monday after a few fiery courtroom clashes.

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Paul Murdaugh’s cellphone video depicts ‘happy family’ before killings, source says

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A short cellphone video of the Murdaugh family purportedly taken right before Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were fatally shot at their rural estate in June 2021 depicts a “happy family,” according to a source familiar with the video recording.

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Lawyer: Officials to pursue murder charges for Alex Murdaugh

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

The Independent UK

Commission of Inquiry hears little done to stop paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin despite report of child abuse material on laptop

A person who bought a laptop from now-notorious paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin decades ago alerted police of links to child exploitation websites and followed up after not hearing back, but nothing was done.

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From an SC jail, Alex Murdaugh tried to get his son back into law school

Sitting in the Richland County jail on financial fraud charges, once powerful Lowcountry lawyer Alex Murdaugh fretted about getting his surviving son, Buster, back into the University of South Carolina’s law school.

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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.

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Alex Murdaugh will stay in jail as SC judge refuses to lower $7M bond. What to know

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh will stay in jail for the foreseeable future.

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