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Who’s who in the double murder trial of disgraced legal dynasty heir Alex Murdaugh

The former Virginia football player tragically lost his life in November's campus shooting.

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…

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A juror has been removed from the jury that will soon be deliberating the fate of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh in his double murder trial because she discussed the case with other people

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.

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.

I was in South Carolina last week: scene of the trial and home of the Murdaugh dynasty. Both tell us a lot about race and power today, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

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

Former President Barack Obama is marking the retirement of the South Carolina woman credited with popularizing the chant “Fired up, ready to go!”

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.