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Alex Murdaugh's murder trial begins in the shooting deaths of his wife and son

Jury selection in lawyer Alex Murdaugh's trial began on Monday. He's charged with murdering his wife and son in a case that has transfixed the public.

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South Carolina judge grants Alex Murdaugh’s attorney request for blood spatter evidence

WALTERBORO, S.C. — A South Carolina judge on Friday granted a motion from Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys to compel the state to turn over communications and underlying files that led an expert witness to say Murdaugh’s shirt was covered in blood from his son’s gunshot wound.

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Attorneys for once-prominent SC lawyer Alex Murdaugh demand answers about why blood-spatter expert changed his mind

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Defense attorneys for accused double murderer Alex Murdaugh have filed a motion to compel the state to turn over material that would shed light on why an expert witness changed his opinion on the presence of blood from “high-velocity impact spatter” on a shirt worn by Murdaugh…

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Legal team for once-prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh questions blood DNA evidence in murder case

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for accused double murderer Alex Murdaugh have asked a state judge to prohibit testimony at trial about “blood spatter patterns” on Murdaugh’s T-shirt and want to get copies of all communications published between the state and one of its witnesses.

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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: Judge vows to stop courtroom ‘carnival’ in fiery hearing as legal heir tries to subpoena agents

Attorneys for the disgraced legal heir and state prosecutors clashed in a heated hearing on Monday morning over the handling of evidence in the double murder case

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Once-prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to face charges in June 2021 shooting deaths of wife and son

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh is expected to be indicted later this week for murder in the grisly June 2021 shooting deaths of his wife and son, according to two sources with knowledge of the pending indictments.

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Secrecy surrounds latest SLED arrest of Murdaugh alleged accomplice

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Curtis “Fast Eddie” Smith, an alleged accomplice in some of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s multimillion-dollar fraud schemes, has been quietly arrested and is being held in the Colleton County jail.

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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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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

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