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December 2024

  • a man in a suit sits in front of a microphone

    Alex Murdaugh’s murder appeal cites biased clerk and prejudicial evidence

    Disbarred South Carolina attorney asks for review of his conviction for killing his wife and son, which he denies

August 2024

  • a man in an orange jumpsuit has his handcuffs removed

    Alex Murdaugh could get retrial as state supreme court agrees to hear appeal

    Disgraced South Carolina attorney found guilty of murder of wife and son accuses court clerk of jury tampering

June 2024

  • Man in mask and prison garb being led by sheriff.

    Alex Murdaugh’s son sues Netflix over docuseries linking him to 2015 death

    Son of convicted murderer says Netflix defamed him when suggesting he was involved in death of Stephen Smith

April 2024

  • A man in an orange jumpsuit sits in court

    Alex Murdaugh sentenced to 40 years for stealing from clients and law firm

    Disbarred attorney already serving life sentence without parole in South Carolina prison for killing his wife and son

January 2024

  • Man in orange jumpsuit stands in court with court officials while lawyers sit

    Alex Murdaugh’s bid for new trial over jury-tampering allegation denied

    Murdaugh, 55, convicted of murder of wife and son in 2021, had said county clerk swayed jurors before they delivered guilty verdict

December 2023

  • Alex Murdaugh is handcuffed at Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., on March 2, 2023. Murdaugh, a prominent attorney, was found guilty of murder in the 2021 shooting deaths of his wife and son. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool)

    Alex Murdaugh trial: court clerk accused of plagiarism

    Becky Hill, who Murdaugh’s lawyers accuse of jury-tampering, alleged to have plagiarized passages in memoir from BBC article

November 2023

  • FILE - Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh speaks with his defense attorney, Dick Harpootlian, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in Beaufort, S.C. Already serving time for murder, disgraced South Carolina lawyer Murdaugh will now be sentenced for stealing from his clients. The hearing on Tuesday, Nov. 28, will allow any of his 18 victims to look him in the eye and say to him whatever they want. (AP Photo/James Pollard, File)

    Alex Murdaugh sentenced to additional 27 years for financial crimes

  • Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh speaks with his defense attorney, Dick Harpootlian, in Beaufort, S.C. on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. A pretrial hearing is scheduled Friday on state charges that Murdaugh stole money from his legal clients. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

    Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh pleads guilty to stealing millions from clients

September 2023

  • Alex Murdaugh at the Colleton county courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, in March.

    Murder, mystery … mistrial? Stage set for another chapter in Murdaugh case

    Months after Alex Murdaugh was found guilty in the killings of his wife and son, defense lawyers are accusing the county clerk of influencing the jury

  • Alex Murdaugh in court in Walterboro, South Carolina, in March.

    Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys file motion for new murder trial

    Lawyers for convicted murderer accuse court clerk of improperly influencing jury and betraying oath of office for money and fame

  • Alex Murdaugh gives testimony in his murder trial at the courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, US

    Alex Murdaugh’s only surviving son says calling father psychopath is ‘fair’

    Buster Murdaugh, 29, also said he doubts his father murdered his mother Margaret and brother Paul

August 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: Alex Murdaugh gives testimony in his murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, U.S., February 23, 2023. Grace Beahm Alford/Pool via USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS/File Photo

    Double murderer Alex Murdaugh loses phone privileges after talking to media

    South Carolina lawyer, 55, disciplined by prison after giving interviews for new TV documentary on his case

July 2023

  • Mallory Beach.

    Family of Murdaugh boat crash victim Mallory Beach settles for $15m – report

    Most of the settlement money to go to family of 19-year-old killed in 2019 crash of boat purportedly driven by Alex Murdaugh’s son

April 2023

  • Stephen Smith,Sandy Smith<br>FILE - Sandy Smith holds a photo of her late son, 19-year-old Stephen Smith, on June 24, 2021, in Hampton, S.C. A second autopsy was completed on the exhumed body of Stephen Smith, who was found dead nearly eight years ago on a South Carolina road, according to the family's lawyer on Sunday, April 2, 2023. Public attention surrounding Alex Murdaugh's murder trial boosted Sandy Smith's search for answers in the unsolved case. (Kacen Bayless/The Island Packet via AP, File)

    Second autopsy performed on South Carolina teen after Alex Murdaugh case

    Stephen Smith, 19, was found dead on a highway in 2015 but lawyers for mother say no evidence links death to Murdaugh family

March 2023

  • Alex Murdaugh is led to the Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies for sentencing Friday, March 3, 2023 in Walterboro, S.C., after being convicted of two counts of murder in the June 7, 2021, shooting deaths of Murdaugh's wife and son. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

    Body of teenager found dead near Murdaugh property to be exhumed

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    Alex Murdaugh’s brother gives first interview since trial: ‘He knows more’

  • Alex Murdaugh at the Colleton county courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, on 3 March.

    Murder and mystery in the south: how the Murdaugh trial gripped America

  • Mandy Matney.

    ‘He was gaslighting everybody’: Mandy Matney on exposing Alex Murdaugh

  • Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison for murders of his wife and son

  • Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murder of wife and son

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