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For 20 months, Alex Murdaugh told police he was never at the dog kennels the night his wife and son were shot there. Then a video from his dead son's phone played in court, and his own voice was on it.
In the video below, you see him on the stand admitting it.
On June 7, 2021, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and their son Paul, 22, were shot at the kennels on the family's hunting estate in South Carolina. Alex, a well-known local lawyer, called 911 and told investigators he had been napping at the house.
At 8:44 p.m., minutes before the killings, Paul filmed a dog at the kennels. In the background, a man says, "Come here, Bubba." A friend of the family told the jury he was 100% sure whose voice it was.
On February 23, 2023, Murdaugh took the stand. "Were you in fact at the kennels at 8:44 p.m.?" "I was." He blamed opioid addiction and paranoia. "I lied about being down there, and I'm so sorry that I did." Then he cried and quoted a poem. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave."
The jury deliberated less than three hours. On March 2, 2023, they found him guilty. He got two consecutive life sentences. Separately, he was sentenced to 27 years in state prison and 40 years in federal prison for stealing from his own clients.
On May 13, 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously threw out the murder convictions. The court clerk had influenced the jury. His retrial is set for April 5, 2027.
His own son's video put him at the scene. A clerk gave him a second chance. Does he deserve a new jury?
That clip is hard to watch because she’s describing terror while sitting inches from him
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When a case depends on clean procedure, even one mishandled step gives everyone an escape hatch
That’s the maddening part
If one device changed the record that much, starting over sounds less dramatic than pretending the first process was clean
That’s the kind of procedural detail that sounds small until it touches the verdict. Courts usually can’t just shrug it off
People underestimate what kids absorb when adults think they’re just in the background. A recording changes the whole story fast
Fascinating reminder that leverage risk isn’t confined to Wall Street
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Exactly. A clean process is what lets the outcome survive scrutiny
Skipping that just leaves everyone arguing over the stain
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That setup makes the trust element horrifying, because a harmless private game gave him no reason to protect himself
The heat detail is so grimly ordinary
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The detail that stays with me is his mother being the one to find it. No parent should have that image forced on them
That detail about the inner tube makes the later violence feel unbearably close, because it restores her as a person first
The feeding tube detail makes it even harder to process
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For 20 months, Alex Murdaugh told police he was never at the dog kennels the night his wife and son were shot there. Then a video from his dead son's phone played in court, and his own voice was on it.
In the video below, you see him on the stand admitting it.
On June 7, 2021, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and their son Paul, 22, were shot at the kennels on the family's hunting estate in South Carolina. Alex, a well-known local lawyer, called 911 and told investigators he had been napping at the house.
At 8:44 p.m., minutes before the killings, Paul filmed a dog at the kennels. In the background, a man says, "Come here, Bubba." A friend of the family told the jury he was 100% sure whose voice it was.
On February 23, 2023, Murdaugh took the stand. "Were you in fact at the kennels at 8:44 p.m.?" "I was." He blamed opioid addiction and paranoia. "I lied about being down there, and I'm so sorry that I did." Then he cried and quoted a poem. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave."
The jury deliberated less than three hours. On March 2, 2023, they found him guilty. He got two consecutive life sentences. Separately, he was sentenced to 27 years in state prison and 40 years in federal prison for stealing from his own clients.
On May 13, 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously threw out the murder convictions. The court clerk had influenced the jury. His retrial is set for April 5, 2027.
His own son's video put him at the scene. A clerk gave him a second chance. Does he deserve a new jury?