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Double killer Alex Murdaugh told cousin 'I want you to shoot me in the back of the head'

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who was addicted to painkillers, wanted to die so his son Richard could cash in his £8million life insurance policy

Daily Mirror

After Murdaugh trial 'circus,' Walterboro welcomes normality

Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial brought a business boost and frenzy of attention to a small South Carolina town

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh’s new mugshot released after double life sentencing for murder of wife and son

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

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South Carolina woman arrested for allegedly taking abortion pill to end 2021 pregnancy

The state is among just two in the US where it is illegal to self-administer abortion pills

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh trial stands out amid all the crime, animosity and death of recent years

Sneed: Twist and turns of South Carolina case are reminiscent of our on Spilotro case from the ‘70s.

Chicago Sun-Times

Murdaugh's fast conviction sealed by his testimony: experts

Prosecutors produced no direct evidence linking South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to the killings of his wife and son, yet a jury took less than three hours to convict him

The Independent UK

South Carolina woman arrested for allegedly using pills to end pregnancy

Incident took place in 2021, but warrant was issued in 2022 and she was arrested in February, police confirm

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Murdaugh judge's own legal story unfolded in South Carolina

The judge who sentenced Alex Murdaugh on Friday to life in prison for killing his wife and son has earned attention and plaudits for his even-handed demeanor throughout the trial and for his dressing-down of the once-prominent lawyer just before he sent him to prison

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh's high-profile murder trial featured a tangled web of lies, risky testimony and a bomb threat

The Murdaughs held a tight grip on a South Carolina county for more than 100 years until a double homicide and a twisted web of crimes brought the family patriarch undone.

ABC News

Scout Motors Will Build Electric Trucks And SUVs In South Carolina

The VW-backed company will invest $2 billion and create around 4,000 permanent jobs at the factory that will build next-gen electric trucks and rugged SUVs.

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S.C. man lands giant blue catfish, sets bowfishing world record

A South Carolina bow fisherman has been granted a world record after landing a nearly 85-pound blue catfish on Jan. 6 at Santee Cooper Lakes. Stuart Vandyke also established a new state record, according to the Bowfishing Assn. of America. Vandyke ...

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Lawyer Alex Murdaugh's fall from high society life to become Netflix double murderer

Alex Murdaugh has been found guilty of killing his wife and son at their sprawling countryside estate. But this story stretches back even further and includes even more bodies in South Carolina's Lowcountry, in the US

Daily Mirror

Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison in US murder trial

South Carolina judge sentences former lawyer to two consecutive life sentences for murder of wife and son.

Al Jazeera

Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison for murders of wife, son

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh, former South Carolina attorney and convicted murderer, was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life in prison Friday.

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Chicago Sun-Times

South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh gets life in prison in murder of wife, son

The once-prominent lawyer maintained his innocence. “As I tell you again, I respect this court. But I am innocent.”

Wales Online

Murdaugh Murders: Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life for killing wife and son

South Carolina lawyer has no hope of parole after being found guilty

Daily Mirror

Alex Murdaugh jailed for life without parole for shooting wife and son in double murder

Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of two counts of murder after his wife and their son were shot dead at their rural home in South Carolina, US, in a case highlighted in Netflix documentary Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

The Guardian - US

Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison for murders of his wife and son

Sentencing came little more than 12 hours after South Carolina attorney was found guilty of 2021 killings

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The Independent UK

Watch: Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in jail after being found guilty of double murder

Watch from the South Carolina courtroom as Alex Murdaugh faces sentencing after being found guilty of double murder.

The Independent UK

From million-dollar estate to a tiny cell: Where will Alex Murdaugh go to prison?

Murdaugh will be handed over to the custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections after his sentencing

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Alex Murdaugh is sentenced to 2 life terms for the double murder of his wife and son

The 54-year-old disbarred South Carolina lawyer insisted he was innocent, despite the judge pressing him to confess in open court.

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh faces 30 years to life for murder of wife, son

South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh faces 30 years to life in prison after being convicted of killing his wife and son in 2021

The Conversation

Republicans are trying to build a multiracial right – will it work?

Former Republican South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley launched her bid for president recently in a video that began by describing the racial division that marked her small hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina.

Daily Mirror

Alex Murdaugh: 5 clues that led police to killer from T-shirt to mystery phone call

Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh shot dead his wife and their son in June 2021 on the family's hunting estate in South Carolina, US, in a case highlighted in the Netflix documentary Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

Daily Mirror

Inside murderer Alex Murdaugh's abandoned $4million estate with sinister history

From the mysterious death of a housekeeper to being owned by a suspected drug smuggler, the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh are just the latest grim details in the history of Moselle estate in Islandton, South Carolina, US

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