The Latest Breaking News from Alex Murdaugh

The 54-year-old, who belongs to one of the most prominent families in South Carolina, faces a sentence of 30 years to life in prison for each murder conviction.

The disgraced South Carolina lawyer is charged in the murders of his wife and son. His defense argued that investigators fabricated evidence. The prosecution said Murdaugh has told lie after lie.

As the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh wraps, the heaps of public attention poured on the case’s many twists and turns are hardly waning

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WALTERBORO, S.C. — Only one person had the motive and the means to murder Maggie and Paul Murdaugh the night of June 7, 2021, prosecutor Creighton Waters told the men and women of the jury who will decide whether the former South Carolina attorney is guilty of the crime.

The closely watched trial centres on Alex Murdaugh, a former South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son.

How the jury interprets details is crucial: Prosecutors want jurors to find the South Carolina man guilty beyond reasonable doubt of killing his wife and son, based on circumstantial evidence.

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Only one person had the motive and the means to murder Maggie and Paul Murdaugh the night of June 7, 2021, South Carolina prosecutor Creighton Waters told the men and women of the jury who will decide whether former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh is guilty of the…

‘After an exhaustive investigation, there is only one person that had the motive, that had the means, that had the opportunity to commit these crimes,’ Creighton Waters told the jury