Alex Murdaugh's phone shows separate path from wife's as prosecutors piece together night of murders - Fox News

Richard "Buster" Murdaugh Jr. and his girlfriend, Brooklyn White, were seen leaving a Colleton County courthouse connected Tuesday day during a luncheon interruption successful Alex Murdaugh's double execution trial.

Buster, 26, is Alex Murdaugh's lone surviving son.

Tuesday's proceedings marked the sixth time of the proceedings successful which Alex Murdaugh is accused of shooting his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, to decease connected June 7, 2021.

Buster Murdaugh and White, besides 26, unrecorded successful Hilton Head, a quiescent South Carolina edifice town.

"They’re a truly bully couple," a neighbor, who wasn’t alert of Buster’s individuality oregon tragic household circumstances, previously told Fox News Digital. "They ever grin and say, hi." 

White attended the University of South Carolina Law School alongside Buster, who was allegedly kicked retired successful his 2nd semester for plagiarism, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Alex paid an lawyer $60,000 to effort to get Buster readmitted, according to FitsNews.

Fox News' Rebecca Rosenberg contributed to this report.

Defense lawyer Phillip Barber continued to cross-examine Lt. Britt Dove of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's computer crimes halfway connected Tuesday afternoon.

Barber noted, based connected SLED's findings, that Maggie Murdaugh's telephone predisposition appeared to alteration for the past clip portion Murdaugh's telephone indicated that helium was inactive walking toward his conveyance and calling Maggie astatine 9:06 p.m. connected the nighttime of the murders.

"It appears the phones were not unneurotic being moved by the aforesaid idiosyncratic due to the fact that they are not signaling steps," Dove testified, meaning Maggie's and Alex's phones were "not signaling steps astatine the aforesaid time" astatine 9:06 p.m.

Prosecutors person argued that Alex Murdaugh fatally changeable his woman and lad astatine astir 8:50 p.m. astatine the canine kennels connected the family's sprawling hunting estate, portion Murdaugh's defence squad claims helium was napping astatine the clip of the murders earlier leaving location a small aft 9 p.m. to sojourn his mother, who lives astir 20 minutes away.

When helium returned, helium said helium recovered his lad and wife's dead bodies adjacent the dog kennels on the family's sprawling hunting property a small aft 10 p.m.

He repeatedly told investigators helium didn't sojourn the canine kennels that nighttime earlier allegedly making the grisly discovery.

But prosecutors said successful opening statements that Paul recorded a cellphone video adjacent the kennels astatine 8:44 p.m. that captured Alex's voice.

Fox News' Rebecca Rosenberg contributed to this report.

A South Carolina judge earlier this period approved a colony statement betwixt a pistillate killed successful a deadly 2019 vessel wreck and 2 members of the Murdaugh family.

19-year-old Mallory Beach died erstwhile Paul Murdaugh drunkenly crashed his father’s vessel into a bridge. He utilized his older member Buster Murdaugh’s ID to bargain intoxicant for the excursion.

Beach’s household agreed to driblet Maggie Murdaugh’s property and Buster, 26, from the suit successful speech for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Buster is the lone surviving lad of disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh.

Alex is accused of murdering his woman Maggie, 52, and lad Paul, 22, successful June 2021.

While the Beach household is "pleased" with Judge Daniel Hall's ruling, they bash not consciousness it was the "best determination fixed the circumstances," Beach household lawyer Mark Brandon Tinsley told Fox News Digital successful a statement. 

It was, however, "the lone determination for each who had immoderate existent interest," helium said.

Tinsley added: "We besides judge the ruling volition assistance springiness immoderate closure to the radical who truthful desperately merit it.”

Defense lawyer Phillip Barber cross-examined Lt. Britt Dove of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's machine crimes center.

Dove processed Paul, Maggie and Alex Murdaugh's phones aft the treble homicide.

Barber had him work Maggie's earlier texts. She sent a substance astatine 3:55 p.m. but the lawyer did not disclose the recipient.

“TY, I’m waiting astatine doctor. Alex wants maine to travel home. I person to permission doorway unfastened astatine Edisto but spot Mexicans to unopen and fastener for me. His dada is backmost successful hospital. The past doc claims nary cancer. It’s pneumonia," she wrote.

Maggie usually stayed astatine the family's formation location successful Edisto, portion Alex and Paul resided astatine the family's sprawling hunting property known arsenic Moselle successful Islandton, South Carolina.

"I’m frightened for him and Alex and each of us,” she wrote astatine 4:06 p.m., referring to Randolph Buster Murdaugh III's declining health. He passed distant 3 days aft the treble murder.

During cross-examination, Dove conceded that texts tin beryllium work connected an iPhone without the instrumentality being unlocked oregon registering that they were read.

He besides acknowledged that the steps recorded connected Maggie and Alex's iPhones were not successful sync aft the murders. If Alex had some iPhones, the movements would beryllium expected to enactment up.

Prosecutors played for jurors Wednesday a 50-second Snapchat video recorded connected Paul Murdaugh's telephone astatine 8:44:49 p.m.

“It is simply a video I recovered connected Paul Murdaugh's phone," said Lt. Britt Dove, of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's computers transgression center.

"The video looks similar it's wrong possibly a kennel country with a obstruction astir it and a canine I judge to beryllium achromatic laboratory wherever he’s trying to instrumentality a video of the process of the dog," helium said.

Assistant Attorney General John Conrad asked Dove what tin beryllium heard successful the footage.

“You perceive 3 antithetic voices successful the video. You tin archer due to the fact that they’re truthful different,” Dove told the jury.

As the video played for jurors, Alex Murdaugh appeared to bow his caput and sob.

Paul's camera turned connected June 7, 2021, astatine 8:44:49 p.m. for astir 50 seconds and ended astatine 8:45:47 p.m.

Dove compared the Snapchat video to the magnitude of clip the iPhone's camera was connected and they matched.

“You’re telling this assemblage contiguous you’re definite that’s erstwhile that video was recorded connected Paul’s phone?" asked Conrad.

“Yes, sir,” helium replied. The GPS information connected Paul's telephone showed that it was adjacent a reddish extortion adjacent to Moselle Road astatine the clip the video was recorded.

Paul was trying to instrumentality a representation of his friend's dog, whose process was injured, to amusement it to a vet.

Prosecutors accidental the video captured Alex and Maggie Murdaugh's voices, placing him astatine the transgression country minutes earlier the alleged treble execution and contradicting his alibi.

He told investigators that helium ne'er went to the canine kennels the evening his son's caput was blown off with a shotgun and his woman was executed with a firearm astatine astir 8:50 p.m.

The last text Paul Murdaugh, 22, sent earlier helium was brutally gunned down was a movie proposal for a friend.

At 8:48:05, helium suggested the movie "A Star is Born" successful a substance to his friend.

“Don’t similar watching bittersweet movies,” she wrote backmost astatine 8:48 p.m. "I request thing happy."

Her 2 texts were work connected his telephone astatine 8:48:59 p.m., but helium didn't respond.

He recieved different substance from his friend, Rogan Gibson, astatine 8:49:35, but it was ne'er work connected his device.

"See if you tin get a bully picture. Maryann wants to nonstop it to a miss we cognize that's a vet," Gibson wrote referring to his dog, who was successful 1 of Paul's kennels, and had a occupation with his tail. "Tell him to beryllium and enactment and helium shouldn't determination astir excessively much."

About 45 minutes later, Gibson texted Maggie, "Tell Paul to telephone me."

Buster Murdaugh, his girlfriend, Brooklynn White and his uncle, John Marvin Murdaugh, get astatine the Colleton County Courthouse earlier 9:30 a.m.

Alex Murdaugh's household members person been successful tribunal mundane since the proceedings began with opening statements Jan. 25, 2023.

A cellphone adept testified Wednesday that astir of Alex's cellphone telephone log had been deleted.

It didn't amusement immoderate of the calls the disgraced household patriarch made to his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, connected June 7, 2021, the nighttime she was murdered.

Those incoming calls were reflected successful Maggie's cellphone data.

Lt. Britt Dove, SLED's forensic integer expert, testified that the lone mentation for the missing entries is that they were manually deleted.

The past substance messages work connected Paul Murdaugh and Maggie phones were astatine astir 8:49 p.m. earlier their devices went dark.

Prosecutors allege that this is erstwhile Alex used a shotgun to stroke disconnected Paul's caput and a firearm to execute Maggie adjacent the canine kennels astatine the family's 1,700-acre hunting estate.

Cellphone adept Lt. Britt Dove testified that the past substance work connected 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh's telephone the nighttime of his execution was astatine 8:48:59 p.m.

“Don’t similar watching bittersweet movies,” a person wrote him connected June 7, 2021. "No, I request thing happy." Both messages were work astatine 8:48:59 p.m. -- seconds aft they were sent.

Approximately 36 seconds later, Paul's person Rogan Gibson sent him a substance message astatine 8:49:35 p.m.

“Was this substance from Rogan ever work connected Paul’s phone?” asked Assistant Attorney General John Conrad.

"No, sir. It shows the presumption arsenic unread,” replied Dove.

Conrad pointed retired that the last substance work connected Maggie Murdaugh's iPhone was astatine 8:49:27 -- conscionable 28 seconds aft the past substance was work connected Paul's phone.

Prosecutors person argued that Alex Murdaugh fatally changeable his woman and lad astatine astir 8:50 p.m. astatine the canine kennels connected the family's sprawling hunting estate.

Lt. Britt Dove testified Wednesday that information extracted from Alex Murdaugh's cellphone showed the movements of the instrumentality June 7, 2021.

He said that if the telephone is successful a person's manus oregon pocket, it records steps. If the instrumentality is connected the spot oregon successful the cupholder of a driving car, it would not grounds steps.

These are the records of Alex's steps the nighttime of June 7, 2021, erstwhile prosecutors accidental Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were fatally changeable astatine astir 8:50 p.m.

6:42:12 p.m-6:43:55 p.m. - 57 steps

6:52:28-7:02:05 p.m. - 283 steps

7:03:55-7:11:29 p.m. - 165 steps

7:15:35-7:21:52 p.m. - 200 steps

7:28:36-7:37:11 p.m. - 47 steps

7:55:32-8:05:07 p.m. - 270 steps

7:41:23-7:48:41 p.m. - 29 steps

8:05:35-8:09:52 p.m. - 74 steps

9:02:18-9:06:47 p.m. - 283 steps

"Do you spot immoderate steps recorded betwixt 8:09 p.m. to 9:02 p.m.?" asked Assistant Attorney General John Conrad.

"No, sir, I bash not," helium replied.

Dove said that the iPhone's calculation of the fig of steps taken are an estimate, but the clip those steps are registered is precise.

Alex has claimed that helium ate dinner with Paul and Maggie the nighttime of the murders past took a nap.

It's unclear erstwhile helium could person squeezed successful a nap based connected the steps documented by his phone.

He near the location a small aft 9 p.m. to sojourn his mother, who lives astir 20 minutes away.

When helium returned, helium said helium recovered his lad and wife's dormant bodies adjacent the dog kennels connected the family's sprawling hunting property a small aft 10 p.m.

He repeatedly told investigators helium didn't sojourn the canine kennels that nighttime earlier allegedly making the grisly discovery.

But prosecutors said successful opening statements that Paul recorded a cellphone video adjacent the kennels astatine 8:44 p.m. that captured Alex's voice.

Lt. Britt Dove, with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's machine crimes center, returned to the witnesser basal Wednesday for his 2nd time of testimony.

After answering a fewer further questions astir Maggie Murdaugh's phone, Assistant Attorney General John Conrad shifted to Alex Murdaugh's cellphone.

After receiving the information connected Alex's iPhone, Dove processed and extracted it done peculiar software.

Some of the information was removed owed to attorney-client privilege, helium added.

Conrad began by questioning Dove astir Alex's telephone log.

"Here we spot simply a spread successful calls from May 2021 past a mates calls connected June 4 connected 2021, past thing until 10:25 p.m. the nighttime of the murders, correct?" asked Conrad.

"That's correct," Dove replied. Alex's calls to Maggie's telephone the nighttime of the murders don't look connected his telephone log. his calls to Maggie look connected her telephone log.

“A spread similar that would bespeak it was removed from there,” Dove added. 

He said the lone mentation for the missing telephone log past is that the calls were manually removed by swiping close and hitting the reddish delete button.

The family’s longtime nanny and housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, died aft falling down a acceptable of stairs astatine the family's residence in Islandton, South Carolina, Feb. 26, 2018. 

Nearly 10 months later, her household filed a wrongful decease assertion astatine the urging of Alex Murdaugh.

An lawyer representing Satterfield’s sons aboriginal learned that security polices had paid retired much than $4 million, which Alex and his cronies allegedly pocketed.

In October 2021, Alex was arrested astatine a Florida cause rehab halfway and charged with embezzling millions from her sons.

He has remained successful jailhouse since.

He agreed to wage backmost the stolen $4.3 cardinal successful a confession of judgment.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division aboriginal announced an probe into Satterfield’s decease and plans to exhume her body.

A spokesperson declined to remark connected whether the exhumation ever occurred.

Satterfield is 1 of 5 mysterious deaths linked to Alex and his family.

Alex is connected trial successful Walterboro, South Carolina, accused of the treble execution of his woman and lad June 7, 2021.

Alex Murdaugh, 54, arrived Wednesday astatine the Colleton County Courthouse for the sixth time of his treble execution trial.

A achromatic van pulled up down the courthouse a small aft 9 a.m., and deputies escorted him done a backmost doorway arsenic helium held his blazer implicit his handcuffs.

A enactment of much than a twelve radical waited astatine the entranceway of the courthouse to effort to unafraid a coveted spot successful the courtroom.

Lt. Britt Dove, a integer forensics adept with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, is the archetypal witnesser expected connected the stand.

He is the state's 15th witnesser and spent the day discussing the information extracted from Maggie Murdaugh's cellphone aft it was recovered connected the broadside of the roadworthy June 8, 2021.

Murdaugh is accused of gunning down his woman and son, Paul Murdaugh, astatine the family's 1,700 acre hunting property successful Islandton, South Carolina.

He has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers person argued determination were apt 2 shooters.

Maggie was executed with a .300 Blackout rifle, portion Paul was struck with a 12-gauge shotgun.

Lt. Britt Dove, of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's machine crimes center, volition beryllium backmost connected the basal for nonstop introspection Wednesday morning.

The integer forensics adept testified Tuesday that helium analyzed and extracted information from Maggie Murdaugh’s iPhone.

The instrumentality locked astatine 8:49:31 aft she was changeable astatine slightest 4 times with an battle firearm adjacent the canine kennels astatine the family’s hunting property known arsenic Moselle successful Islandton, South Carolina, according to prosecutors.

Maggie's telephone recorded 59 steps betwixt 8:53 p.m. and 8:55 p.m., Dove testified.

From 8:53 p.m. to 8:54 p.m. the phone’s predisposition switched from representation to scenery mode past backmost to portrait, helium said.

"It tells maine idiosyncratic was holding this telephone and took steps, and it recorded those steps," the cellphone adept told jurors successful effect to questioning from Assistant Attorney General John Conrad.

At 1 point, the phone’s camera flashed connected for 1 2nd arsenic if it was trying to grounds a person’s look to unlock the device.

But this did not mean it was really directed astatine a person’s face, Dove added.

At 9:06:12, the telephone changed its predisposition from scenery to representation mode apt due to the fact that idiosyncratic was holding it, the cellphone adept told jurors.

Two seconds later, Alex Murdaugh called Maggie's telephone -- but she didn't answer.

At 9:06:20 p.m., the iPhone's predisposition returned to scenery mode.

At 9:06:51 p.m., Alex called Maggie's telephone again. Two minutes, 7 seconds later, Alex texted her phone, “Going to cheque connected M. Be close back."

Alex sent her a last substance astatine 9:47 p.m., "Call maine babe."

The adjacent time investigators recovered the iPhone connected the broadside of Moselle Road astir fractional a mile from the family's property.  

Prosecutors haven't revealed yet the value of the information that Maggie's telephone registered aft her murder.

John Bedingfield testified Tuesday astatine the Colleton County Courthouse that helium sold Alex Murdaugh, his cousin, 3 .300 Blackout rifles betwixt 2016 and 2018.

Alex, 54, purchased a achromatic and tan firearm arsenic Christmas gifts for Buster and Paul Murdaugh Dec. 23, 2016, for $9,188.

"He was excited astir getting these for the boys," Bedingfield told jurors astatine the proceedings successful Walterboro, South Carolina.

The rifles included thermal scopes, truthful the brothers could hunt hogs astatine night.

Alex besides paid for suppressors to trim sound, but these were ne'er attached to the weapons, Bedingfield said.

In April 2018, Bedingfield sold a 3rd .300 Blackout firearm for $875 to Alex aft Paul mislaid oregon had stolen his customized tan one.

Prosecutors person suggested that the weapon Alex allegedly utilized to execute Maggie  is 1 of the missing .300 Blackout rifles.

After the murders, investigators were lone capable to find Buster's .300 Blackout firearm successful Alex's gunroom astatine the main residence of Moselle.

Richard "Buster" Murdaugh Jr. — the lone surviving lad of disgraced South Carolina lawyer and accused killer Alex Murdaugh.

Buster grew up with his younger member Paul connected a sprawling 1,700-acre hunting farm, known arsenic Moselle, successful Islandton, South Carolina.

Buster lives with his girlfriend, Brooklynn White, some 26, and their beloved aureate retriever, Miller, successful a humble one-bedroom Hilton Head Island condominium.

It’s unclear erstwhile Buster and White began dating — but she accompanied him to the associated ceremonial of Paul and Maggie, according to a source.

Buster attended University of South Carolina Law School alongside White. He was allegedly kicked retired successful his 2nd semester for plagiarism, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Alex paid an lawyer $60,000 to effort to get Buster readmitted, according to FitsNews.

The quality tract besides reported that Buster attended the yearly South Carolina Association for Justice normal connected Hilton Head successful August with his lawyer uncle, Randolph "Randy" Murdaugh IV.

Buster was named arsenic a defendant in the Mallory Beach decease suit for allegedly letting his member Paul, who was underage, usage his ID to bargain intoxicant for the doomed boating trip. 

He has since settled the suit.

On cross-examination, defence lawyer Jim Griffin challenged SLED peculiar cause Jeffrey Croft connected whether Alex Murdaugh really said "I did him truthful bad!" successful a videotaped interrogation 3 days aft the treble murder.

"Are you 100% assured Alex said 'I did him truthful bad' alternatively than 'they did him truthful bad'?" asked Griffin.

"I americium 100% assured successful what I heard and I interpreted him arsenic saying," Croft doubled down.

When asked what Croft did successful effect to the seemingly incriminating statement, helium said, "I made a intelligence enactment connected it."

Griffin pressed Croft connected wherefore helium didn't travel up with immoderate questions related to the remark successful that interrogation oregon a consequent 1 connected Aug. 11. He said they weren't acceptable to face him yet.

The cause conceded helium ne'er asked Alex to clarify the expected admittance and didn't constitute it down -- though helium was taking written notes during the interview.

Griffin past played the clip from the interrogation astatine mean velocity past astatine one-third the mean speed, and Croft said helium inactive heard "I did him truthful bad!" The slowed down mentation of the clip was hardly audible.

The interrogation was conducted connected June 10 aft astatine slightest 4 SLED patrol cars showed up astatine John Marvin Murdaugh's hunting lodge successful Barnwell.

Investigators interviewed Alex Murdaugh, his son, Buster Murdaugh, and his brothers John Marvin and Randy Murdaugh simultaneously.

Croft said Alex was SLED's premier fishy the time aft the murders. "We were looking astatine Alex," helium said.

Alex Murdaugh, hysterical and sobbing, called 911 soon aft 10 p.m. June 7, 2021, to study that helium recovered his woman and lad changeable to decease adjacent the canine kennels connected the family’s sprawling 1,700-acre hunting property successful Islandton.

"I request the constabulary and an ambulance immediately," helium told the dispatcher. "My woman and kid person been changeable badly." The archetypal circular struck Paul Murdaugh's chest, the 2nd entered his near shoulder, traveling into his cervix and brain, which was severed from his body.

"I request the constabulary and an ambulance immediately," helium told the dispatcher.

Maggie Murdaugh was lying facedown successful the mud astir 30 feet away. She had been changeable with a firearm astatine slightest 4 times — erstwhile execution-style successful the backmost of the head.

The spot astatine 4147 Moselle Road straddles Colleton and Hampton counties and served arsenic Alex’s superior residence.

In Alex’s archetypal connection to a deputy connected the scene, helium suggested that vessel clang litigation was down the grisly killings.

"This is simply a agelong story. My lad was successful a vessel wreck. He’s been getting threats," Murdaugh tin beryllium heard saying successful assemblage camera footage to Sgt. Daniel Greene. "I cognize that’s what it is."

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) instantly took implicit the investigation.

John Bedingfield, the state's 14th witness, testified Tuesday astatine the Colleton County Courthouse that helium sold Alex Murdaugh a brace of .300 Blackout rifles that were gifts for his sons.

"He was excited astir getting these for the boys," Bedingfield aboriginal said.

Alex purchased a achromatic and tan firearm arsenic Christmas gifts for Buster and Paul Murdaugh for hog hunting Dec. 23, 2016.

The rifles, which outgo $9,188, included thermal scopes, truthful the brothers could hunt astatine night.

Alex besides paid for suppressors to trim sound, but these were ne'er attached to the weapons, Bedingfield said.

A small implicit a twelvemonth aboriginal successful April 2018, Bedingfield sold a 3rd .300 Blackout firearm for $875 to Alex to regenerate the tan 1 Paul had lost.

Alex told him not to adhd a thermal optic, which costs 1,500 to $1,800 since, Paul couldn't beryllium trusted not to suffer it.

Hogs successful South Carolina are a tremendous nuisance and bash important harm to spot and crops, Bedingfield said.

Bedingfield added that Alex is his cousin. "Our grandmothers were sisters," helium said.

Prosecutors person suggested that the limb Alex allegedly utilized to termination Maggie is simply a .300 Blackout rifle.

Investigators could lone relationship for 1 of the 3 rifles aft the killings.

On cross-examination, Bedingfield said he'd sold a batch of .300 Blackout rifles.

Alex Murdaugh's youngest lad Paul sent his friends a Snapchat video soon earlier his execution — and it is simply a cardinal portion of grounds successful the state's lawsuit against him, South Carolina prosecutors revealed successful a pretrial tribunal filing.

"Amongst different things, captious to the lawsuit is simply a video sent retired to respective friends astatine astir 7:56 p.m. connected the nighttime of the murders," wrote Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Creighton Waters successful a petition to unafraid the attendance of a Snapchat witness. "The contents of this video is important to proving the State's lawsuit successful chief."

It's the archetypal clip the video has been mentioned publically by prosecutors, who person been tightlipped astir the grounds they person against the scion of the once-powerful ineligible dynasty. In the filing, the authoritative asked Judge Clifton Newman to motion an bid requiring a Snapchat typical to attest astatine the Colleton County trial.

"The witness, Snapchat Inc Custodian of Records, of Santa Monica, California, is simply a worldly witnesser due to the fact that successful a hunt warrant return, Snapchat provided records belonging to 1 of the victims successful this case," Waters wrote successful the petition. "Because this video was provided by Snapchat, a Snapchat custodian is required to attest successful idiosyncratic that the video is simply a existent and close grounds kept successful the mean people of business activity."

The documents bash not bespeak what is shown connected the Snapchat video.

Alex Murdaugh, 54, the erstwhile almighty scion of a South Carolina ineligible dynasty, is connected proceedings for the slayings of his woman and son.

Prosecutors accidental Alex gunned down 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh and their troubled 22-year-old son, Paul, connected June 7, 2021.

The Murdaughs, a salient Democratic family, wielded tremendous judicial and governmental powerfulness for astir a period . A broad timeline details the events that contributed to their downfall.

But the family’s dominance began to wane aft Paul was criminally charged for a deadly 2019 vessel wreck that triggered a bid of lawsuits and threatened to exposure his father’s fiscal schemes.

The mishap acceptable successful question a spiral of demolition that has stained the family’s legacy.

Alex called 911 and reported that helium was changeable successful the caput portion changing a tyre connected Old Salkehatchie Road by a gunman successful a passing motortruck Sept. 4, 2021 — not acold from the Moselle transgression scene.

Soon after, Alex issued statements announcing that was leaving the household signifier and entering rehab for a longstanding opioid addiction.

Alex was really pushed retired of the instrumentality steadfast the time earlier the shooting aft helium was accused of stealing millions from clients’ settlements.

Jim Griffin, Alex’s lawyer, said his lawsuit sustained a skull fracture and hemorrhaging from the shooting, but SLED described the coiled arsenic "superficial."

Alex soon admitted that helium hired erstwhile lawsuit Curtis Edward Smith to termination him truthful his surviving son, Buster, could cod a $10 cardinal beingness security policy.

He and Smith were indicted connected fraud and conspiracy charges for the murder-suicide scheme.

In June 2022, helium and Smith were deed with caller felony charges — including 1 for the organisation and acquisition of the narcotic oxycodone. 

The South Carolina Supreme Court yanked Alex’s instrumentality licence implicit his "egregious ethical misconduct" – a determination helium didn’t contest

Barry McRoy, of Colleton County occurrence and rescue, testified Jan. 26 that Paul and Maggie Murdaugh had devastating injuries.

"That is the assemblage of Paul, and helium is laying facedown astatine the entranceway to the inferior country astatine the kennels," said McRoy, describing a transgression country photo.

"You tin spot determination is important harm to his head. There’s a batch of humor and determination appears to beryllium his encephalon down determination by his ankles.”

In different crime country photo, McRoy described Maggie's injuries aft she'd been changeable astatine slightest 4 times. "She had a spread successful her caput to wherever you could really spot wrong of her head,” helium said.

During the graphic testimony, Murdaugh bowed his caput and rocked backmost and distant successful distress.

McRoy said helium didn't fuss checking the pulses of Paul and Maggie due to the fact that their wounds were intelligibly "incompatible with life."

After prosecutors wrapped up their nonstop introspection of McRoy, Murdaugh removed his speechmaking glasses and wiped his eyes with a tissue.

McRoy said helium had met Murdaugh "on a nonrecreational basis" earlier encountering him astatine the country of the treble execution erstwhile helium had to bash "depositions and specified with his instrumentality firm."

Alex Murdaugh, 54, is the fallen scion of a section legal dynasty successful South Carolina. He is accused successful the treble slaying of his youngest lad Paul, 22, and his wife, Maggie, 52, successful June 2021. 

Since their murders, helium has been disbarred and linked to respective mysterious deaths successful the community. 

He’s besides charged successful a failed murder-suicide successful September, 2021. Prosecutors allege helium hired a erstwhile client, Curtis Edward Smith, to sprout him truthful his older son, Buster, would get a $10 cardinal beingness security payout. 

State prosecutors suggested that Alex changeable his lad and woman implicit mounting debts and fearfulness his decades-long corruption schemes would beryllium exposed.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced successful December a caller indictment accusing Alex of nine counts of taxation evasion for failing to study $6,954,639 of illegally earned income betwixt 2011 and 2019.

Alex is being held without enslaved and his fiscal assets person been frozen.

Lt. Britt Dove, of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's machine crimes center, said her past telephone telephone was placed astatine 7:50 p.m. to a interaction named Barbara.

The telephone lasted 2 minutes, 46 seconds. After prosecutors accidental she was changeable to decease conscionable 30 feet from son, Paul Murdaugh, Alex Murdaugh called her 5 times, Dove testified.

He called Maggie astatine 9:04:23 p.m., 9:06:14 p.m., 9:06:51 p.m. , 9:45:32 and 10:03:58.

Alex called 911 astatine 10:06 p.m., hysterical and sobbing, aft allegedly uncovering his lad and woman riddled with gunshots. 

The disbarred lawyer told investigators helium had meal with his household past awoke from a nap and drove to his mom's location successful Almeda a small aft 9 p.m.

But prosecutors accidental Paul recorded a video adjacent the canine kennels astatine 8:44 p.m. that captured Alex's dependable contradicting his assertion helium past saw his lad and woman astatine meal astatine the main house.