Alex Murdaugh was a personal injury lawyer before being barred from practising, with a popular Netflix documentary focusing on a number of his family controversies.
Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina lawyer who murdered his wife and son, has been given two consecutive life sentences.his wife, Margaret, 52, with a rifle outside dog kennels on their rural Colleton County property in South Carolina on 7 June 2021.Prosecutors had said the lawyer carried out the killings in an effort to distract from the fact he had been stealing millions of dollars from the family firm and clients to feed his drug habit.
The court was told about the clients, friends and family members he had betrayed, as well as his failed attempt to fake his own death as part of an insurance fraud.
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