![]() In the legal drama that has surrounded Murdaugh since June, including the failed orchestration of his own murder for a $10 million insurance payout for his surviving son, the scion has remain consistent that his biggest priority is finding out who killed his family. Griffin denied reports Murdaugh and his wife were having marital troubles prior to the murder, previously telling The Daily Beast that his client “loved his wife and son.” He added that he reviewed Murdaugh’s text messages with his wife and found nothing out of the ordinary. To my knowledge, they have not done that.” You would think they would come up with something to link Alex to the murders, forensically or independent evidence. You would think they would have found the murder weapons on the property. “You would think they would have searched his house and found blood somewhere. “You would think that if Alex was the one who did it, that SLED would have been able to establish that pretty easily that night,” Griffin told Fox Carolina. Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Facebook Attorney Jim Griffin, however, insisted that they were not worried about the investigation because Murdaugh has an alibi for the time of the murders and “had no motive to kill them.” Murdaugh’s lawyer did reveal in October that SLED has been investigating Murdaugh “from the get-go” as a person of interest in the double homicide. A $100,000 reward once offered by Murdaugh’s former law firm expired without any apparent takers, and no suspects have ever been publicly named. While Colleton County deputies responded to the scene, SLED quickly took over the case-and has been tight-lipped about the investigation since. ![]() ![]() It’s bad,” Murdaugh said while dogs barked in the background, later adding that he had arrived home from visiting his ill father to discover the bloodshed. In the seven-minute 911 call, Murdaugh frantically tells a dispatcher his “wife and child have been shot” and that neither of them were breathing. on June 7 after discovering the two near the dog kennels outside their 1,770-acre estate in Colleton County. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) says Murdaugh called 911 around 10:07 p.m. Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Beaufort County Sheriff's Office While the 2019 boat crash that killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach and eventually produced criminal charges against Paul Murdaugh thrust the family into the spotlight, the Murdaughs were forced on the national stage for good after Alex’s wife and son were murdered at their home. But even as police have begun to chip away at the dynasty’s armor, the saga has only spurred new questions into the strange deaths and missing funds that surround him. The allegations surrounding Murdaugh are all the more remarkable given his family’s power in South Carolina once appeared unassailable. I want to repair as many of the relationships as I can.” ![]() I want to repair as much of the damage that I’ve done as I can. “I want to deal with these charges appropriately and head-on. 13 hearing, the first time he has spoken out since the murder of his wife and son. Know something we should about the Murdaugh family? Reach out to or securely at head is on straighter, I’m thinking clearer than I have in a long, long time,” Murdaugh said during a Dec. His family has also been tied, one way or another, to at least five state investigations. “A prominent family with a long history in the area has contacts, access, and influence that most people simply don’t have.”īut Murdaugh is now facing two criminal trials, 12 state grand-jury indictments that could mean a sentence of over 500 years behind bars, and a handful of lawsuits. “After three generations as elected prosecutors, the Murdaugh family had deep connections in law enforcement, in the legal community, among political officials, and in social circles,” Stoughton added. Seth Stoughton, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Carolina Law School, told The Daily Beast that the Murdaughs have captivated America because “the story of a powerful man brought low by his own hubris is about as familiar as it gets, going back to the Greek tragedies.” From the mysterious death of a housekeeper on his property-and an alleged scheme to siphon some of the millions in settlement money to his “drug dealer”-to the unsolved murder of a 19-year-old nursing student, Murdaugh’s troubles often seem boundless.
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