What Really Happened the Night Alex Murdaugh Was Allegedly Shot?

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• Court strikes down controversial California law abolishing single-family zoning
• Inside the once-controversial trend that took over true crime TV
• How O.J. Simpson’s murder trial changed the TV news business
• 'You can’t have a soul to do what he did,' says sister of housekeeper who died at the Murdaugh home

There’s a mutually beneficial relationship between the live trial coverage and the various documentary projects. “Low Country,” the HBO Max series, premiered late last year, drawing interest to the trial starting in January.

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A wrongful-death suit filed by Beach’s mother named Paul Murdaugh’s father, Alex, and older brother, Buster, alleging they facilitated his underage drinking. The Murdaughs’ 57-year-old housekeeper died in a hospital three weeks after injuries suffered at their home, having never regained consciousness. The death was never reported to the coroner, and no autopsy was conducted. Alex Murdaugh reportedly told emergency responders that she had fallen down the stairs.

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“Murdaugh Murders” also delves into Satterfield’s suspicious death, which was initially attributed to a trip-and-fall accident, but has since become the target of a law enforcement investigation. Murdaugh is accused of misappropriating a multimillion-dollar settlement that was supposed to go to Satterfield’s adult sons. Murdaugh's former law firm — founded by his great-grandfather a century ago — has accused him of stealing possibly millions of dollars. But Murdaugh continues to insist he had nothing to do with their shooting deaths and regrets if his actions have hindered investigators trying to find who killed his wife, Maggie, and son Paul.

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In September 2021, the state police opened an investigation into her death. The mystery surrounding the fatal shootings at the home of a prominent South Carolina family connects to the deaths of three people and a roadside shooting. "I think that he's being set up by a person who is a drug addict who is going through horrific withdrawals, 20 years' opioids use, and I think that he is doing exactly what people with addict behavior do," McCoy told NBC's Craig Melvin. "And that is he tried to turn himself into a victim, and he tried to turn himself into a hero."

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He has 27 years is state prison for financial crime charges in state court in which he plead guilty. The 40-year sentence will run concurrently to the state sentence if not overturned on appeal. Murdaugh, 53, woke up Friday in the Orange County, Florida, jail after South Carolina state police charged him with two felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses related to insurance settlements meant for the sons of a housekeeper who died in February 2018 in what the family said was a fall at their home. A lawsuit by the sons estimates the stolen money at more than $4 million. The attorney for prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who discovered his wife and son dead at their home this summer, said Murdaugh is resigned that he will serve time in prison for stealing millions of dollars.

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Harpootlian's goal Friday was to release medical records that his lawyer said show Murdaugh was shot in the head on Sept. 4 on the side of a lonely highway after trying to arrange his own death so his surviving son could collect a $10 million insurance policy. On Thursday, Murdaugh was charged with taking insurance settlements meant for the sons of his housekeeper, who died more than two years ago. A lawsuit filed by the sons said Murdaugh took more than $4 million in that case. In addition to the double murder of Paul Murdaugh, 22, and Maggie Murdaugh, 52, the disgraced lawyer has also been convicted of stealing more than $4.3 million from the family of Gloria Satterfield after convincing them to sue his own homeowners insurance in the wake of her death in February 2018. As one of the two surviving members of the Usher family in “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Roderick is one of Poe’s character doubles, or doppelgangers. Roderick is intellectual and bookish, and his twin sister, Madeline, is ill and bedridden.

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Murdaugh, arrested at a drug rehab center in Florida, waived extradition Friday and has a bond hearing on the latest charges scheduled for Tuesday in Columbia. Murdaugh initially said he was checking a flat tire on his SUV when someone riding by shot at him, later changing his story to asking Smith to kill him, authorities said. Smith has adamantly denied being a drug dealer, saying he and Murdaugh were friends after the attorney handled his workers' compensation case. Harpootlian again Friday called Smith a drug dealer who provided Murdaugh with opioids and other drugs that led to a crippling addiction. Murdaugh helped negotiate $4.3 million in settlements for Satterfield's family after she died – then kept it for himself and never told them the case had been resolved. The inherent drama of the case has been heightened by external forces, including a bomb scare that forced the evacuation of the packed courthouse, a COVID-19 breakout that has rippled through the jury and the daily presence of Buster Murdaugh, a husky redhead with a strong resemblance to his father and late brother.

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“Immediately, when we arrived in town, we understood how much power this family held,” said Loushy. The directors faced reluctance from survivors and witnesses who were too scared to participate, or would agree to speak and then ghost them. “The heart of this piece is these young adults who had an experience one night that changed their life forever,” added Nason.

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From ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ to ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,’ true crime is ubiquitous on TV. The following week, state police said Murdaugh had confessed to hiring someone to kill him so his surviving son could collect life insurance. SparkNotes Plus subscription is $4.99/month or $24.99/year as selected above. TO CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AND AVOID BEING CHARGED, YOU MUST CANCEL BEFORE THE END OF THE FREE TRIAL PERIOD. You may cancel your subscription on your Subscription and Billing page or contact Customer Support at Your subscription will continue automatically once the free trial period is over. After the Wildcats scored one in the first, the Gamecocks sent 12 men to the plate in the bottom of the inning, scoring six runs.

A Southern Gothic tale of greed and deceit, it has also become the country’s latest true-crime obsession. Hundreds of thousands of people tune in to daily livestreams of the trial, being held in the small town of Walterboro, S.C. Two days later, he announced he had quit his law firm and was entering a rehabilitation program for treatment of opioid addiction. On the evening of Feb. 23, the 19-year-old Beach was among six friends who boarded a 17-foot boat at the Murdaugh family’s “river house” on Chechessee Creek (3) for a 25-mile run to an oyster roast on Paukie Island (4). The other passengers were Murdaugh’s girlfriend, Morgan Doughty; Beach’s boyfriend, Anthony Cook; Anthony’s cousin, Connor Cook; and Connor’s girlfriend, Miley Altman. COLUMBIA  – Kentucky scored five runs in both the fourth and fifth inning and a late University of South Carolina baseball team rally fell just short as the Gamecocks fell to the Wildcats, 15-13, Saturday afternoon (April 27) at Founders Park.

The epic downfall of Alex Murdaugh, the once-mighty South Carolina attorney currently on trial for the brutal killings of his wife and son and implicated in numerous other crimes, has prompted a slew of literary comparisons — none of which quite capture the full scope of this twisted saga. In a court appearance where Murdaugh was being arraigned on insurance fraud and other charges 12 days after the shooting, he had no bandage on his head or a visible wound. "At his sentencing hearing for the financial crimes he continued to show that his narcissistic personality prevails over contrition. He is incorrigible and beyond redemption," Bland said. "He will remain behind bars for the rest of his life and that is the only place where he belongs." “This story got national interest the minute Mallory Beach died in an accident, and then it got even more interest when Maggie and Paul were murdered,” said Sivan, adding that nobody sent true-crime crews to tell the story of Stephen Smith’s death.