Almost exactly one year to the day that the Lowcountry’s “trial of the century” began, Alex Murdaugh is returning to court to try to throw out his conviction.
The disgraced legal scion was found guilty of murdering his wife Maggie and son Paul in the dog kennels of the family’s sprawling Moselle hunting estate in Islandton back in the summer of 2021.
Their violent shooting deaths sparked fear and rumours across South Carolina and beyond.
Questions grew about the Murdaugh’s family’s ties to other unexplained deaths – from a deadly teen boat wreck to a housekeeper’s fatal trip-and-fall to the body of a boy found dead on a Hampton County road.
These questions and rumours only escalated further when Murdaugh himself called 911 to claim he was shot in the head three months on from his wife and son’s murders.
It turned out to be a lie; a plot that Murdaugh himself orchestrated – and so the reputation of the heir to a prominent legal dynasty fell apart.
First came charges for the roadside shooting plot; then for a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme; and then for the murder .