Timeline of events in the Murdaugh family mystery
Timeline of events in the Murdaugh family mystery
Alex Murdaugh
Bond for Alex Murdaugh set at $20,000
A Hampton County Judge set Alex Murdaugh’s bond at $20,000 this afternoon. Murdaugh also handed his passport over to SLED.
SLED: Alex Murdaugh arrested for alleged assisted suicide plot
SLED says Alex Murdaugh was arrested Thursday, in connection with an alleged assisted suicide plot where he’s accused of hiring another man to kill him, so his son could collect life insurance money.
Lawyer says Murdaugh to turn himself in on insurance fraud
By Jeffrey Collins
A prominent South Carolina lawyer who found the bodies of his wife and son three months ago plans to turn himself in to face charges in a plot to arrange his own death that ended with the shooter only grazing him in the head, his defense attorneys said.
Bond set for man accused of shooting Alex Murdaugh
According to ABC News 4 in Charleston, bond was set this morning for Curtis Smith, who authorities say shot Alex Murdaugh after Murdaugh paid Smith to kill him.
Police: Lawyer Murdaugh arranged own death but shot grazed
By Jeffrey Collins
A prominent South Carolina lawyer who found the bodies of his wife and son three months ago tried to arrange his own death earlier this month so his son would get a $10 million life insurance payment, but the planned fatal shot only grazed his head, state police said Tuesday. The shooter, Curtis Edward Smith, was charged with assisted suicide, insurance fraud and several other counts in the Sept. 4 shooting of Alex Murdaugh
Family spokesperson denies report that Alex Murdaugh’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted
Prominent Lowcountry lawyer Alex Murdaugh says he was shot in the head on the side of the road just three months after his wife and son were murdered. A family spokesperson denies a report that says that gunshot wound was self-inflicted and is asking investigators to change their report.
SLED opens investigation into allegations of Alex Murdaugh misappropriating funds
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says it opened an investigation into allegations that Alex Murdaugh misappropriated funds in connection with his position with his law firm
Lawyer whose son and wife killed has law license suspended
By Jeffrey Collins
The South Carolina Supreme Court indefinitely suspended the law license of prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh on Wednesday, two days after his law firm said he took money from the business. Murdaugh found the bodies of his wife and son, shot multiple times, at the family’s Colleton County home on June 7. On Saturday, he told police someone shot at him as he changed a tire on the side of a rural road. A family attorney has suggested someone cut the tire before Murdaugh left. State police haven’t commented on the shooting.
Alex Murdaugh releases statement after weekend shooting
Alex Murdaugh releases statement after weekend shooting incident in Hampton County
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Alex Murdaugh, the prominent South Carolina Attorney who was injured in a shooting over the weekend, released a statement Monday. Here is the statement released to ABC Columbia News : “The murders of my wife and son have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life. I have made a lot of decisions that I truly regret….
