Alex murdaugh

A judge has revoked house arrest for the man who authorities say agreed to kill disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh so he could get a life insurance settlement for Murdaugh’s son but only grazed his head.

Stephanie Gosk takes a look back at the timeline leading up to the Alex Murdaugh trial in South Carolina.

Authorities have been tight-lipped about how police linked Alex Murdaugh to the deaths of his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul

Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced former attorney who was heir to a powerful legal dynasty in South Carolina, was charged with murder Thursday in the deaths of his wife and younger son, who were fatally shot outside their home more than a year ago.

A grand jury is expected to indict embattled South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh on murder charges in last year’s slayings of his wife and son, sources told NBC News on Tuesday, the latest twist in the sprawling scandal engulfing a local legal dynasty.

Russell Laffitte, who headed Palmetto State Bank until he was fired earlier this year, now faces 21 charges of fraud, conspiracy and computer crimes, state police announced Wednesday.

A longtime friend of once-prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh now faces 18 charges in an alleged scheme to help Murdaugh steal more than $3 million from the family of Murdaugh’s dead housekeeper

The wife of embattled South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh left her property to him in her will before she and their son were mysteriously killed in June, according to a copy of her last will and testament.

Speaking publicly for the first time in months, the prominent South Carolina attorney accused of a slew of mostly financial crimes after his wife and son were found shot dead blamed some of his problems on a 20-year-long opiate addiction shortly before a judge set bond at $7 million

A prominent South Carolina attorney who wife and son were gunned down six months ago in unsolved killings has been indicted on 21 more charges that he stole settlement and other money from clients.

South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was indicted Friday on 27 additional charges involving financial crimes.

The family of Gloria Satterfield, the longtime housekeeper and nanny for the Murdaugh famliy, is speaking for the first time since the mystery began to unfold.

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.