Alex Murdaugh

The South Carolina double-murder trial will resume Thursday at Colleton County Courthouse as disgraced legal scion Alex Murdaugh stands accused of fatally ...

Prosecutor Creighton Waters said in his opening statements Wednesday that he hopes to take the jury to the kennels where the murders took place. The substance was later determined Since their deaths, he has been disbarred and disgraced as he has been linked to several other deaths in the community, and an alleged failed attempt to take his own life. “You’re not going to hear a single witness say that their relationship was anything other than loving.” The murder trial for Alex Murdaugh will resume Thursday after prosecutors spent Wednesday's opening day laying out evidence to suggest the South Carolina lawyer fatally shot his wife, Maggie, and their son, Paul, in 2021. Murdaugh's mother suffers from advanced Alzheimer's, he said. He had previously ruled that the portrait would be dismantled. The portrait depicts Randolph “Buster” Murdaugh Jr., who served as the 14th Circuit Solicitor, a role that serve five South Carolina counties including Colleton County, where the murder trial is being held. There’s no forensics tying him to the crime. There’s no fingerprints. There’s no eyewitnesses. [double slaying](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/homicide) of Alex’s son, Paul, 22, and his wife, Maggie, 52, in June 2021.

The prosecution will begin calling its first witnesses Thursday as it tries to prove former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and son.

“Alex murdered Maggie and Paul, that he was the storm, that the storm was coming for them, and the storm arrived on June 7, 2021, just like the storms that are heading here right now. The state pointed to a cell phone video taken around three minutes before the murders that puts Alex at the scene. Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters also mentions that Alex had purchased three different .300 Blackout rifles, one for each of his sons in 2016 and a third in 2018 after Paul’s was stolen. That they died as a result of it,” said South Carolina Senior Asst. They hope to have that solved Thursday morning and get to that footage from the night of the crime. “Alex, stand up, this is Alex Murdaugh.

The newly-seated jury in the trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will hear from the first witnesses in the case when court resumes Thursday ...

Says the search warrant would allow them to check every structure and all of the 1700 acres. You’re going to see the traumatic injuries and their suffering.” Says he doesn’t know if SLED entered the home. Chapman testified that when asked about how Maggie and Paul would have gotten to the kennels, Alex told investigators that they were probably in Paul’s white F-250. Says the prints that crossed over would not be his or the other detective’s. “He remained in the scene. Greene was the first person to arrive at Moselle on the night of the murders. He was cooperative, but there were times that you can see reactions to different things,” Chapman said. It’s during the initial 911 call that Murdaugh first makes mention of the Beaufort County boat crash involving Paul. Colleton County’s Administrative Services Captain Angela Stallings was also called to the stand. If that call was for another country then the center would transfer the call. The court was shown Greene’s body camera footage in full.

After months of speculation, prosecutors laid out their evidence Wednesday that Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and son as they opened the double murder trial ...

The trial of a former lawyer accused of killing his wife and youngest son began this week, and according to a defense attorney, prosecutors may struggle to ...

"They will portray Alex Murdaugh as a devoted father and husband who was overcome with grief by the murder of his wife and son." "The sheer amount of scandals and crimes surrounding Alex Murdaugh will make it difficult for the prosecutors to narrow down a motive for this crime and determine which evidence is most relevant to their case – and the defense will object to most of that evidence." The trial of a former lawyer accused of killing his wife and youngest son began this week, and according to a defense attorney, prosecutors may struggle to nail down a motive.

COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh appeared emotional Wednesday afternoon during a trial in which he is accused of killing his ...

Jury selection was finalized and opening statements were given Wednesday in the double murder trial for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh.

After 19 months of speculation, prosecutors finally laid out their evidence Wednesday that Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and son as they opened the double ...

News accounts and the family of the teen killed suggested he was trying to Murdaugh rocked back and forth with his head down and wiped his eyes as the condition of the bodies was discussed. Paul Murdaugh was charged with felony boating under the influence after investigators said he was driving a boat that crashed and killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach who was on board. Chapman said he didn’t want to drag the sheet across the body and possibly dislodge evidence. My son was in a boat wreck a while back. It took Greene about 20 minutes after the 911 call to get to the Murdaugh home in the rural county of 38,000 people. Prosecutors suggested in their questioning that he might be making sure his alibi was sticking. Much of the defense’s cross examination centered on protecting evidence at the crime scene. Investigators said his 22-year-old son Paul was shot twice with a shotgun near kennels outside the family’s Colleton County hunting lodge. Greene said it wasn’t his job. His 52-year-old wife Maggie was shot four or five times with a rifle close by. Daniel Greene’s body camera footage and other video from Murdaugh’s South Carolina hunting lodge on June 7, 2021.