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Alex Murdaugh petitions to delay Mallory Beach trial amid murder charges

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HAMPTON COUNTY, S.C.- Disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh has requested a stay in the wrongful death trial brought by the family of a 19- year-old girl who died when she was thrown from a boat allegedly being driven by a drunk and underaged Paul Murdaugh. His youngest son, Paul, was facing charges connected to the crash prior to his June 2021 murder.

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Prosecutors said the 67- year-old cashed in more than $4.8 million from nine life insurance policies with seven different life insurance companies by falsely claiming his wife Bianca Rudolph died accidentally on Oct. 11, 2016, while they both were on a hunting trip in Zambia. "The murder of Bianca Rudolph was not an easy case to investigate and prosecute, but it…

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Eight years ago, the editor of the Beaufort newspaper wrote about a spate of cases where judges had sealed records and closed courtrooms in South Carolina's 14th Judicial Circuit, in apparent violation of a Supreme Court rule that limits what records can be sealed and the S.C. In one case, a family court judge sealed the records in the divorce case of a S.C. House…

The Murdaughs are members of a prominent S.C. legal family that first made regional headlines after Paul Murdaugh was involved in a February 2019 boat crash in Beaufort County that resulted in the death of Mallory Beach, 19, of Hampton County. Here's a general look at dates connected to the past few months of news out of Hampton County:. June 10: Randolph Murdaugh…

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WALTERBORO- Alex Murdaugh's defense attorneys on July 20 pushed a judge for a speedy trial on charges accusing the disbarred lawyer of fatally shooting his wife and son. Columbia lawyer Dick Harpootlian asked Circuit Judge Clifton Newman for a trial by November, saying his client wants to clear his name so state police can find Maggie and Paul Murdaugh's real "…

In the literary genre known as Southern Gothic, writers dip into the fantastic, the grotesque and the macabre because that's just the way things are down here. Not were, but are– as in the South as it is, and ever was, and as it ever shall be, world without end. And so, nothing much surprises us, even when someone as prominent as Alex Murdaugh is accused of murdering his wife,…

It's been a little more than a year since attorney Alex Murdaugh called 911 to his family's home in Hampton County, South Carolina, to report that his wife, Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh, 52, and son Paul, 22, had been shot multiple times and left dead in the yard. In addition to the murders of Maggie and Paul, the powerful Murdaugh family has been connected to three other…

Disbarred Hampton County attorney Alex Murdaugh has been formally indicted by a Colleton County grand jury in the June 2021 murders of his wife and youngest son. The indictment was announced Thursday by the South Carolina Attorney General’ s Office and the State Law Enforcement Division, two days after news broke that SLED was planning to charge Murdaugh, 54,…

Several sources told Nexstar's WSAV that Alex Murdaugh, the former high-profile Hampton County attorney, is expected to be indicted for the murders of his wife and son by a grand jury. Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were found shot and killed on the family's Moselle hunting property in Colleton County, about 70 miles outside Charleston, on June 7, 2021.