The Latest Breaking News from Buster

Murdaugh will spend 45 days at Kirkland Correctional Facility while South Carolina Department of Corrections determines where he will serve time

‘Judge Newman, he is a very stringent punisher when it comes to crimes and sentences. That was never in dispute,’ attorney Jim Griffin said

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys will quickly file an appeal of their client’s double-murder conviction, they said in a press conference Friday.

Jurors took less than three hours to find him guilty of the 7 June 2021 murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh, the fourth-generation heir to a powerful South Carolina legal, law enforcement and political family, was found guilty Thursday of murdering his wife and son in a case that brought the glare of national and international media attention to a long-secluded but corrupt corner of the…

Defence attorney Jim Griffin told jurors SLED ‘failed miserably’ in its investigation into the 7 June 2021 murders and decided from the get-go to pin the crime on Alex Murdaugh

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 jury visit to the scene of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh’s murders took place under tight security, with no media present

Mr Murdaugh’s testimony comes as the defence plans to wrap up its case on Friday – a case that seeks to present the alleged killer and financial fraudster as a loving family man

In a hotly-anticipated moment, the 54-year-old took the witness stand to testify that he is innocent of the brutal slayings of his wife Maggie and son Paul Murdaugh

Watch live as Alex Murdaugh's murder trial gets underway for the 22nd day of testimony.