His grandfather, Randolph Buster Murdaugh Jr., was Solicitor at the time and his father, Randolph III, was an assistant solicitor, making him the fourth generation of the family in action in the Hampton County Courthouse. The family offered a $100,000 reward for information to bring justice for Maggie and Paul. The reward had an expiration date within three months of the homicides and when Griffin asked why, Buster said he didnt know. While the Murdaughs have released very little information in the discovery process, they did release some information about their insurance policies. In June 2021, Alex called 911 and told them that he found the dead bodies of his wife and son at the family's hunting lodge in Moselle. }); According to. endobj (COLUMBIA, SC) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced today that the South Carolina State Grand Jury issued a new indictment against Richard Alexander Murdaugh and Curtis Edward Smith.Alex Murdaugh was indicted along with Curtis Edward Smith for two conspiracy counts including a narcotics count related to Oxycodone. Buster is named as it was his license that Paul used to purchase the alcohol that night a practice which, lawyers for Beach allege, was both common and done with Buster's knowledge. Murdaugh himself donated to state-level politicians as well as small-town council members and county sheriffs Democrat and Republican alike. Murdaugh family murders: Rise and fall of their South Carolina dynasty. 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Sources: This article cites facts based on newspaper archives, Hampton County local history books, background checks by USAT Network journalists, property and court records, as well as interviews and personal observations by the author, who grew up with members of the Murdaugh family and attended schools with them. Court will resume at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Alex Murdaugh's older son was kicked out of law school for plagiarism. Tractors chugged in the field. To outsiders, Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh seemed to lead a charmed life. Law School: University of South Carolina School of Law, 1994 Bar Admission: 11/21/1994. They carried multiple grocery bags of possessions, including toilet-paper, soft furnishings, a woven laundry basket and tall houseplant. The same year he also joined the S.C. Association of Justice and the American Association of Justice. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) { pg.acq.push(function() { Buster said he never saw a shotgun at Moselle loaded with buckshot followed by birdshot, which is the order of shells used to kill Paul. In 2021, he took on a case involving a teenager about to start college who was seriously injured in a 2018 boat crash in the Savannah River near Allendale Countyone year before his son was charged in a boating crash that left college student Mallory Beach dead. endstream } x+ | HWMo8Wh#20A`3c`9({:_He9NKY$^zun^^F\^} y^EVB,ME"tq?o[qK\nM~/.E"X.I.Dwx"DD.>,.u%Lsd*21wd. One who knew Maggie described her as simply, 'wonderful. Alex Murdaugh Alex is a lawyer from Hampton County, South Carolina. ^"^ hitType: 'event', About an hour-and-a-half before the crash, Murdaugh was allegedly throwing chairs and trying to start a fight in a downtown Beaufort, S.C. bar. The Murdaughs attorneys and Beachs attorney filed documents arguing that the trial should be held in Hampton County. Paul came three years later. In one year, more than 67 percent of the countys lawsuits were filed by residents from other counties and 41 percent of those cases involved incidents that did not occur in Hampton County, the report said. It was a sun-soaked life fit for an heir to the Murdaugh legal empire, but dark clouds soon emerged over the 14th Judicial Circuit. Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced scion ensnared in a slew of investigationsincluding the allegation that he staged a doomed plot to kill himself on Sept. 4 so his surviving son, Buster, could. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? hitType: 'event', Prosecutor David Fernandez grilled Sutton in cross-examination about his areas of expertise. Murdaugh's oldest son, Richard Alexander Murdaugh Jr., known by the family as "Buster," was the first witness to take the stand on Tuesday. In the meantime, Maggie's family and friends on Facebook remember her for her "heart of gold," for being "beautiful, smart, very funny, very nice," and for her warm personality. Buster, 25, refused to answer DailyMail.com's questions when approached but did acknowledge that he had spoken to his father in recent days. 26 0 obj This request for insurance was the second time in less than two years that Alex Murdaugh has asked an insurance company to cover a death claim. people who committed wrongdoing) individuals who were not named as defendants in the lawsuit. <>stream 16 0 obj 6 0 obj Dressed casually in flip-flops, chinos and a white T-shirt bearing the logo Blue Heaven, Buster occasionally checked his cell phone as he walked up and down the back stairs of the pale grey clapboard house. That included Paul, a student at the University of South Carolina, and his underage friends, according to allegations in a civil suit deposition. endobj In April 2019, Paul, then 20, was arrested and later indicted on charges of one count of boating under the influence (BUI) causing death and two counts of causing great bodily injury, online court records show. uuid:be6fafd1-2c26-4561-8ad0-faea593f0ae5 ;3 gads_event = event; But through it all, Murdaugh has denied killing his family members, crimes which he will face before a Colleton County jury beginning Monday, Jan. 23, in a trial that is expected to last for weeks and draw international publicity. According to Fox News, as of November 2022, he is "living a quiet life with his longtime girlfriend" on Hilton Head Island, S.C. One neighbor described them as a "really nice couple" who always "smile and say hi." x+ | Murdaugh was visiting his sick father in hospital on the night of the shooting Randolph Murdaugh III died three days later after a long battle with cancer. Alex Murdaugh was identified by sources close to the investigation very early on as a " person of interest " in connection with their inquiries, although he reportedly provided police with an. Mallory Beach, 19, was thrown from the boat. One obvious candidate would be Paul Murdaugh (above) the only person who has been criminally charged in connection with Beachs death. if(document.querySelector("#adunit")){ Paul is survived by his beloved father Richard Alexander Murdaugh (Alex) and his older brother Richard Alexander Murdaugh Jr. (Buster), both of whom he looked up to with all of his heart. 12 0 obj Home > News & Politics > News. He kept licenses to hunt deer, turkey and waterfowl. endstream <>>>/MediaBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/StructParents 2/Rotate 0>> S.C. civil court records indicate that, like other PMPED attorneys, the second son of Randolph III handled many types of personal injury cases in both state and federal courts, from products liability and trip-and-fall cases in big box department stores to vehicle and tire defect lawsuits and even wrongful deaths. Hadwin also had negative high school memories involving young Murdaugh. Kacen Bayless/The Island Packet, via Associated Press It turned out that Mr.. Tall and athletic even as a teen, he was a three-sport athlete, most notably playing Red Devil football. Murdaugh has denied killing his family members, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. endobj Owner He has been charged with conspiracy in a suicide plot, with fraud, tax evasion, drug trafficking and even the June 7, 2021, shooting deaths of Paul and Maggie. SmokeballDocuments.WordFileOpener His name got him that, said Ginger Harriot Hadwin, a younger sister of the late Gloria Satterfield (one of Murdaugh's alleged victims and his former employee) who also attended Wade Hampton with Murdaugh. Defense lawyers agreed on Wednesday to ask the judge to deny Murdaugh bond, saying he cant afford to post it anyway. },false) Want to contact Mandy? But then along came Richard Alexander Murdaugh, and what had taken his family a hundred years to build went spiraling into disgrace and infamy in less than three years. }); ga('ads.send', { Wiki February 28, 2023. Three generations of the Murdaugh family served as the top prosecutor in Hampton . For years, SouthCarolina law allowed plaintiffs to file civil lawsuits against businesses virtually in any county in the state specifically wherever the corporate defendant does business or owns property. endobj He was qualified as an expert on forensic engineering and acoustics at the start of his testimony, but said he has years of experience in accident reconstruction which includes shooting cases. Local hunters jokingly say that you cant just buy a spot in Green Swamp, someone rich must die and leave it to you in their will, and there may be some truth in that. The documents were filed two weeks after mediation efforts related to the case fell through. Who is Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, the now-disbarred attorney who utterly disgraced and ultimately destroyed a South Carolina legal dynasty and faces more than 100 criminal charges, including indictments that he murdered his wife and child? 1D-N1g.]K`o 67,;ADU2y!kQFb_^;]X *HKRADLk3.;3nTnl>stream window.googletag.cmd.push(function() { Shes an investigative journalist from Kansas who has worked for newspapers in Missouri, Illinois, and South Carolina before making the switch to FITS. Fernandez asked Sutton if the ammunition used in his gunshot acoustics tests was the same as the ammunition used to kill Paul Murdaugh. Click to Display. In that case, a 57-year-old woman died after a trip and fall in Hampton County on February 26, 2018, according to a court documents (below). 11 0 obj All rights reserved. He was heartbroken. Who are the tortfeasors they are talking about? Paul is survived by his beloved father Richard Alexander Murdaugh (Alex) and his older brother Richard Alexander Murdaugh Jr. (Buster), both of whom he looked up to with all of his heart. }); Columbia, S.C. attorney (and S.C. senator)Dick HarpootlianandJim Griffin two of the most prominent criminal defense attorneys in the Palmetto State are representing Murdaugh. Since 2014, Richard "Alex" Murdaugh and other members of the Murdaugh family have been involved in investigations involving several murders, corruption, and other alleged crimes, including insurance fraud, defrauding clients, theft of insurance payouts, and drug-related charges. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), endobj Responding to earlier requests about the case, Crosby said in a statement, The Augusta Chronicle reports, "SLED understands the media's interest and the public's desire for answers to what has happened in their community. On Tuesday morning, Judge Clifton Newman announced another juror had fallen ill. Juror no. xM10. There are three ongoing cases associated with the boat crash Beachs lawsuit, a federal lawsuit filed by an insurance company against the Murdaughs over claims from the civil suit, and the criminal case against Paul Murdaugh. <>stream Maggie is survived by her loving husband Richard Alexander Murdaugh (Alex), her oldest son Richard Alexander Murdaugh Jr. (Buster), her dear sister, Marian Branstetter Proctor (Bart), her. A2004 report by the American Tort Reform Foundationnamed Hampton County the No. Alex and Maggie met as undergraduates at the Columbia campus. Alex was also a member and shareholder in an exclusive hunting club, the Green Swamp Club in Tillman, say court records. 16:23 GMT 13 Sep 2021 <>stream eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), Alex and Maggies first son, named after Alex, goes by Buster in honor of his great-grandfather. Or an issue youd like to address proactively? Murdaugh has. These kinds of people werent just expendable to him they were often targets of his hazing and bullying. Anyone with information about the case should call the Colleton Sheriff's Office at 843-549-2211 or Crime Stoppers at 888-CRIMESC. In high school yearbook photos, the redheaded jock is often pictured in a red football jersey with a cute coed by his side, and as an upperclassman he was named Prom King. 17 0 obj Court documents did not specify why Alex Murdaugh was at fault in the womans 2018 death which is completely separate from the Beach case. Murdaugh received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from USC in 1990, a Juris Doctorate Degree in May 1994 from the USC School of Law and was admitted to the Hampton County Bar, the South Carolina Bar, and the American Bar Association in November of 1994. Splitting her time between the family's rustic, 1,770-acre property in Islandton, in the Lowcountry, and their airy beach house in Edisto, on the coast, Maggie enjoyed attending events with her husband and sons at their local yacht club, swimming in the family's pool and spending time out on the water on their boat. The documentary primarily focuses on Alex Murdaugh and his son Paul, but what about his other son? <>stream HAMPTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA: It has been more than two years since Alex Murdaugh has been accused of killing his wife Maggie, and son Paul. endobj He used Winchester 12-gauge buckshot and Winchester turkey load in his tests. His childhood was spent in the deep woods of the Lowcountry exploring exclusive hunting lands with his elders and their well-connected friends during the fall and winter or boating at the family riverside and beachfront retreats in the warmer months. The documents do not say where the woman fell. }); HAMPTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA: It has been more than two years since Alex Murdaugh has been accused of killing his wife Maggie, and son Paul. No trial date had been set. "His circle of friends got really small really fast 14 0 obj endstream Sutton looked at the evidence in October 2022 and concluded based on the angle of .300 Blackout bullets that struck the quail pen and doghouse on the property, he believes the shooter must have been around 5 feet, 2 inches tall. CLICK HERE. <>stream State of South Carolina v. Richard Alexander Murdaugh is an ongoing American criminal case in the fourteenth circuit of the South Carolina Circuit Court in which Murdaugh is accused of the murders of his wife and their 22-year-old son in June 2021. These exclusive pictures obtained by DailyMail.com show Richard Alexander 'Buster' Murdaugh Jr. and a family member at the family's Edisto Island property in South Carolina. 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