Alex Murdaugh, a disgraced lawyer who is 53 years old, is being charged with murder in the deaths of his wife and son.
He is already in jail because he stole money and lied to get it. Last summer, Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were shot and killed in an outdoor dog kennel. Pictures of the place have now been made public. Maggie, a 52-year-old housewife, and Paul, her 22-year-old son, were both found dead in their Moselle, South Carolina, home last June. It was a terrible double murder.
Murdaugh shot Maggie with a rifle and Paul with a shotgun, according to an eight-page indictment. A Colleton County grand jury charged him with two counts of murder and two counts of having a gun while committing a violent crime. The charges came out on Thursday, July 14. Now, the Daily Mail has pictures of the dog kennel where they were both killed. Now, the kennels are all by themselves and empty. The property was recently sold for $3.9 million, which the publication found out from probate records. At the time Maggie died, it was in her name.
In South Carolina, killing someone is a capital crime. Murdaugh could be put to death if he is found to be guilty. Three months ago, he told police that he “found” the bodies when he went back to his family’s 1,700-acre hunting estate in Moselle. “I need help right away from the police and an ambulance. Just now, my wife and child were badly shot, “he told an operator at 911. People in the area and online spread rumors that Murdaugh was having an affair with another lawyer.
Paul was shot twice, once in the head and once in the chest, with a shotgun. On the other hand, an assault rifle was used to shoot Maggie more than once. Reports said that their gunshot wounds looked like they were killed in a “execution-style.” Sources said that part of Paul’s body was found in one of the kennels, but Maggie’s was found a few feet away. This showed that she might have been trying to get away from her killer while he was attacking her. Murdaugh told police after the killings that he was at his dying father and mother’s house in Varnville, about 11 miles away, at the time of the crime.
But now it has come out that audio and video from Paul’s cellphone, which was found next to his body, show that Murdaugh was talking to Maggie when she died. FITSNews says that “high-velocity impact spatter” of blood found on his clothes that night shows that he was at the crime scene when at least one of the victims died. Bloodstains and other bodily fluids can show investigators how the victim and suspect were positioned at the time of a violent death. This can help them figure out what happened.
The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) started looking into the death of Gloria Satterfield, who used to work for the Murdaugh family, in 2018. This happened in September of last year. Investigators had said the day before that Alex Maurdaugh had hired a hitman to kill him as part of a failed plan to end his life after his wife and son were killed. Gloria Satterfield worked for the Murdaughs for a long time as their housekeeper. On February 26, 2018, the 57-year-old woman died “from injuries she got when she tripped and fell” in the family’s home in Hampton County.
Alex Murdaugh’s car broke down on September 4. He was taking a longer way to get to Charleston. He was out trying to change a tire when someone shot him in the head. He was soon released from the hospital, and investigators say that Murdaugh was in charge of a well-planned event. Reports say that Murdaugh set up the shooting so that his only son, Buster, would get a $10 million insurance payout if he died.
