There is DNA from the victims on Alex Murdaugh's shirt, but his defense said that came from checking for signs of life when he found their bodies. 9News
didn't fight giving up his law license and said he made plenty of mistakes tied to missing client money and a financial mess that led to 100 criminal charges.
The three are talking without evidence of anger. Alex Murdaugh's lawyers said he has never denied being at his home. Prosecutors are expected to rely heavily on evidence of Murdaugh's financial problems, which they said led him to kill to buy time as he covered up his theft of settlement money from clients.
Murdaugh also faces a number of civil suits from former clients and over a boat crash in 2019 that killed a teen. Murdaugh claims he found the bodies of his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and their 22-year-old son Paul who were later buried in Hampton, South Carolina.The Murdaugh name is well known in judicial circles in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Alex Murdaugh worked for the family law firm that had been in business in tiny neighbouring Hampton County for a century, winning a number of multimillion-dollar settlements for fatal accidents and workplace injuries.
It's probably the most sensational trial in South Carolina since Susan Smith was convicted of killing her children and sentenced to life in 1995 in tiny Union County.
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