Patrician South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to 2 consecutive life phrases in jail with out the opportunity of parole for the homicide of his spouse Maggie and son Paul on Friday. Choose Clifton Newman referred to as the proof in opposition to him “overwhelming” and handed down the longest sentence attainable.

Following a lurid six-week trial, Murdaugh was discovered responsible of 1 rely of homicide every for his spouse and son, plus two counts of possession of a weapon throughout the fee of a violent crime associated to the assault rifle and shotgun he used to shoot them. The jury took simply 45 minutes to convict him on all costs. 

Murdaugh, the scion of a robust Hampton County household, supposedly discovered Maggie and Paul Murdaugh lifeless of a number of gunshot wounds close to the kennels of the household’s searching property on June 7, 2021. Nonetheless, mobile phone video footage positioned him on the scene together with his household simply minutes earlier than they had been killed, forcing him to vary his story – one thing he would do repeatedly throughout the trial.

Prosecutors declare the lawyer killed his household to distract from the fraud schemes he had concocted through the years to pay for his opioid habit. He was confronted by the CFO of his legislation agency PMPED about lacking cash simply hours earlier than the murders, they identified.

Murdaugh continues to be going through greater than 100 different costs, most associated to the fraud that amounted to just about $8.5 million stolen from shoppers he represented in wrongful demise fits. 

Three months after killing his spouse and son, Murdaugh was fired for stealing from his shoppers. He rapidly got here up with a plan to rent a hitman to kill him and safe a hefty life insurance coverage payout for his surviving son, Buster. The disgraced lawyer paid his drug seller, Curtis Smith, to shoot him, however survived and shortly confessed to the plot, touchdown each males in jail.

An investigation has additionally been reopened into the suspicious demise of a 19-year-old boy in a 2015 roadside capturing and the 2018 slip-and-fall demise of the household housekeeper, who had labored for the Murdaugh household for 20 years earlier than her ‘accident’ resulted in a wrongful demise settlement from which Murdaugh stole $4 million. 

Whereas Murdaugh admitted he was responsible of fraud, he insisted he was harmless of homicide. His protection attorneys have vowed to attraction the decision.

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