Alex murdaugh

Circuit Judge Clifton Newman issued the decision after hearing attorneys describe how Murdaugh used portions of $3.4 million in insurance payments to pay off his father, personal credit card bills and checks to himself.

He was being detained in his home state of South Carolina after being arrested in Florida.

Murdaugh’s attorneys released medical records they say show he was shot in the head on the side of a highway last month. But during a bond hearing 12 days after the alleged shooting, he had no bandage on his head or a visible wound.

A prominent South Carolina lawyer has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper in the latest turn in an ongoing saga.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the law license of an attorney who was a college friend of Alex Murdaugh and has been sued over his work on the disputed estate of Murdaugh’s housekeeper.

The influential Murdaugh family is at the center of an unfolding drama in the tiny South Carolina town of Hampton.

Two lawsuits say a South Carolina lawyer charged with trying to arrange his own death steered people who needed legal help to an attorney who was a family friend who didn’t have their best interests in mind.

Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer accused of trying to stage his own death in a life insurance scam, faces a new lawsuit alleging he orchestrated a “whisper campaign” to deflect blame for a fatal boat crash in 2019 from his son and put it on another passenger.