Alex Murdaugh murder charges: Disgraced attorney indicted in death of wife, son
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was charged with murder Thursday in the deaths of his wife and younger son, who were fatally shot outside their home more than a year ago.Murdaugh is already jailed and faces dozens of criminal charges that have piled up in the months since his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, were killed.
But until now he had not been charged in connection with his wife and son's deaths.The indictments handed up by a grand jury in Colleton County, where the shootings happened, contend Murdaugh killed his wife with a rifle and his son with a shotgun.
They include no details on how police linked Murdaugh to the deaths after 13 months of investigation. More details may be released in a bond hearing, which has not been scheduled.Murdaugh, 54, has repeatedly denied any role in the deaths, saying he was visiting his mother and ailing father and discovered his son and wife slain when he returned to their estate.Murdaugh's family has dominated the legal scene in tiny, neighboring Hampton County for nearly a century.
Murdaugh’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather were the area’s elected prosecutors for 87 years straight.Alex Murdaugh arrives at his bond hearing on Tuesday, Oct.
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