PAUL & MAGGIE MURDAUGH: South Carolina vs. Alex Murdaugh for Double Homicide of wife & son *GUILTY*

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This case is being kept pretty quiet, no major details released to speak of (other than it does say there were two different guns used), but no info regarding who found them, who called 911, very little else.

Of interest, the grandfather died just a few days after these murders and it sounds as if he was ill from various articles so probably not unexpected. I think of the typical motives, did grandpa have a big estate? How big in the overall family of grandpa's on down? They sound like a pretty well known family and a powerful one in their state, more on that in the article.


www.postandcourier.com

Questions abound in SC Murdaugh killing. Among them: Should prosecutor step aside?

Several days after two members of a prominent Hampton County family were fatally shot, questions about what happened still vastly outnumber answers.
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Palmetto State Bank and its former chief executive Russell Laffitte, are facing a new lawsuit alleging they enabled the looting of trust accounts owed to a pair of sisters who lost their mother and brother in an auto accident.

The Aug. 24 lawsuit mirrors criminal charges filed against Laffitte in recent months by state and federal prosecutors. The sisters, Alaynia Spohn and Hannah Plyler, allege Laffitte and their former attorney, since-disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh, issued themselves massive personal loans at favorable interest rates from their $6 million settlement account.

Lafitte and Murdaugh later stole from their other clients’ accounts to pay back those loans, according to indictments.

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Sisters sue Palmetto State Bank, former CEO over looted trust account

Palmetto State Bank and its former chief executive Russell Laffitte, are facing a new lawsuit alleging they enabled the looting of trust accounts owed to a pair of sisters who
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There seems to be no end in sight.... It just keeps coming. And coming. And coming. All these people, all these charges. How did this all go on. The state of SC is going to be busy for years on end trying all of these things just in this huge circle. And you know somewhere in it all are probably a cop or two, other judges, maybe a person in SLED or two through the years... And that's just who they knew or was involved with it on the local and state levels and just a good guess. It seems likely whether involved or not, anyone like the Murdaughs with their influence and reach in South Carolina had occasi9ons and reasons and associations with others in office from outside their state, etc. Not saying any on that level got involved but it also wouldn't surprise me, nothing would in this case.
 
If following this case, this one is good/interesting.

Nothing earth shattering but Cory Fleming retained a decent defense attorney and interestingly enough stayed away from the Good Old Boys for attorneys unlike Alex Murdaugh. She went to bat for him as to bond but so did the prosecutor do a good job from what I have seen of the first few minutes so far.

By nature, i don't like defense attorneys but she is doing her job and I've not seen her before.

Fleming's family and friends are supportive of him and she pointed all that out but it was pointed out in response that he did not cooperate, etc. as she made it sound like and more, until the writing was on the wall, he didn't do anything, etc., etc.

The judge eventually settled on a $100,000 bond where something closer to $450,000 was wanted. Unlike Murdaugh, he has attainable bond as 10 percent would be accepted it says. So he is out of jail despite numerous charges against him.

I haven't watched it all yet and doubt I will have time to right now but I can say his attorney is representing him seriously and doing her job in stark contrast to Murdaugh's Good Old Boys' club who seem to be nothing but using antics and I guess showmanship and seem to think the corrupt good old ways will still have things going Alex's way? Remarks about his not being able to afford underwear in jail come to mind... On the other hand, his cohort in crime seems to have a serious defense attorney.

 

another case​

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Murdaugh stole his money, lawsuit says. Then, companies got his children’s millions​



Arthur Badger Jr. became a single father of six on January 28, 2011, when a UPS truck drifted across the center line on U.S. 278 in Allendale County.
In an instant, Donna Hay Badger, 35, was gone. Arthur, who was driving, remembers every moment of the collision that caused the death of his wife and partner of 12 years, but he doesn’t like to talk about it.
Arthur’s attorney, Alex Murdaugh, negotiated a multi-million dollar settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against UPS in late 2012.
Then came the betrayal. In the years following the wreck, Murdaugh, along with former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte, quietly stole more than $1.3 million from Donna Badger’s estate, where the settlement money had been placed, according to state and federal indictments.
Arthur is among a long list of former clients allegedly defrauded by Murdaugh,
Once they turned 18. In total, $4.8 million would go to the six children over several decades. But nearly all of that money is gone

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Murdaugh stole his money, lawsuit says. Then, companies got his children’s millions

Alex Murdaugh and Russell Laffitte are accused of stealing $1.3M from his late wife’s wrongful death settlement. Now, millions more are gone after companies bought his kids’ future payments for as little as 7 cents on the dollar.
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scumbags
 

Latest twists in Murdaugh murder mystery: ‘More like ‘Ozark’ every day’​


WALTERBORO, SC — Two men who are “cousins” to some of the Walterboro Cowboys, a violent Bloods-affiliated street gang that originated in the so-called “Eastside” of this small city right off I-95, are the latest characters dragged into the notorious Murdaugh murder mystery — and one said he is being “railroaded.”

Meanwhile, one member of the gang told The Post that “Alex Murdaugh runs half the drugs in this county.”

Last month, the state grand jury indicted two local men — who several Cowboy gang members told The Post are their “cousins,” or close friends — on the same day it levied yet another indictment as Murdaugh, who was arrested in July for the murders of his wife and son at the family’s hunting lodge in June 2021.

Cowboy “cousins” Jerry Rivers, 39, and his friend Spencer Anwan Roberts, 34, were indicted Aug. 19 on charges that prosecutors say involve possibly being part of Murdaugh’s alleged drug and money laundering pipeline in the Low Country.

Murdaugh now faces a total of 90 charges of financial wrongdoing, including recent allegations that he was involved in drug distribution and money laundering across several counties here.

Locals speculate that Murdaugh’s alleged drug operation was bigger than anyone realizes.

A Charleston law enforcement source familiar with the case said the Cowboys gang and other local criminals, with their proximity to I-95 — long a conduit for drugs and guns run from Miami to New York — may play a bigger role than anyone on the South Carolina coast.

“There’s still a lot more to come out and a lot more surprises, I’d bet my life on it,” the source said.

nypost.com

Latest twists in Murdaugh murder mystery: ‘More like ‘Ozark’ every day’

The Post travels to South Carolina for an inside look at the latest twists and turns in the Murdaugh murder case.
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It is. Absolutely crazy. If a movie, it would seem ludicrous.

I will apologize to good SC people right now for what I am about to say. Maybe SC should give up their statehood and beg for mercy and assistance and admit the corruption is many and runs very deep and far. That this could go on under the noses of everyone in power is laughable. AND it seems 1/2 of them at least were involved if not at least knew of it.

I think most people can tell you who the biggest drug runner or dealer is in their area, especially smaller areas... And every local KNOWS who it is but are scared to say much as the dealers have the POWER and the connections and lunch with the businessmen, the cops, the people in office... It isn't the lowlife in the shack out yonder...

Oh they are lowlifes but they live in big houses and often live a "nice" looking life...

And then this defrauding of vulnerable victims!!! This man is scum but then he likely killed his own wife who bore him two sons and spent her life with him oh but let me think he killed allegedly one of those sons too...

The guy whose wife was hit by UPS lost her out of the blue as did his six children and they took his settlement!! Already lost a wife, had to raise children alone and lose his spouse and I am sure he thought at least the children would be provided for and taken care of.

I don't even have words bad about for this man and his "buddies" in power. REPREHENSIBLE is what is coming to mind. Not a good enough word though.

I can only hope whatever underwear he had to settle for is in a twist. Evil comes in all types of packaging. And evil is in power in many places at all costs...

Where did all this sheer amount of money GOOOO?????!!!!
 

Judge reinstates Alex Murdaugh as defendant in Mallory Beach boat crash death lawsuit​



Tue, September 27, 2022 at 2:22 PM·4 min read


A South Carolina judge on Tuesday reversed a key decision he made removing disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh and his family members from the Mallory Beach boat death lawsuit.
Judge Dan Hall ruled that the trial over who’s to blame and how much damages should be paid out in Beach’s 2019 death will begin Jan. 9 in Hampton County with all defendants — the Murdaughs and convenience store magnate Greg Parker — joined together.
The reversal, sought by Beach family lawyer Mark Tinsley, potentially means a bigger jury verdict against Parker if damages are awarded. It also means the Beach family only has to endure one, not two, emotion-charged trial about their 19-year-old daughter’s untimely death

Parker and his lawyers had tried for weeks to separate their trial from that of the Murdaughs, arguing that the negative publicity surrounding the family and alleged criminal acts by the father including murder would prejudice a jury’s findings against Parker.

At first, the judge agreed with Parker, saying he would allow Parker to have a separate trial because of the notoriety of the Murdaugh name.

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Judge reinstates Alex Murdaugh as defendant in Mallory Beach boat crash death lawsuit

The ruling by Judge Dan Hall is seen as a setback to convenience store magnate Greg Parker, whose lawyer said having Parker as a joint defendant with Alex Murdaugh will prejudice a jury against the businessman.
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Guess Who said:
www.greenvilleonline.com

Latest Alex Murdaugh lawsuit names 2 more prominent Hampton attorneys

Murdaugh Murders saga: Civil action now 12th lawsuit against Alex Murdaugh, second against Russel Laffitte, but first to name other PMPED attorneys.
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Every time I see PMPED I think of the word pimped. I wonder why anyone would go with something like that. Or I guess one could think "pumped".

Anyhow, I doubt they've scratched the surface in this and it will only keep coming IF they keep digging and don't try to save anyone's butt. I think it goes deep and far and beyond their borders more than likely with a few. And already the charges are more numerous than I can keep memory of with the total.
 
Guess Who said:
Rut roh

www.thedailybeast.com

Witness Confronted Murdaugh About Cash Hours Before Murders

The stunning testimony came in a case against a banker pal of the disgraced legal patriarch—and added new fuel to the fire of a never-ending saga.
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This case(s) is so far beyond the pale even when he hear truth I feel there is sooo much more that will never see the light of day. I wouldn't even know where to start but for one I have said before and will say again I in no way believe the attempt to stage his death at a suicide was so Buster would inherit I do NOT believe. I think it was the STORY. It was (1) an attempt to save himself from murder charges and make it look as though the same person(s) that killed his wife and son were after him and/or I'm not sure how but he hoped to fake his own death,
Buster could collect and then give dad the money. Maybe if one of his LE buddies helped but something just didn't pan out. The most likely scenario IS that he was looking for sympathy though and making it look as if someone was after their family. First Maggie and Paul and then him. To AVOID murder charges and misdirect any investigation.

How is it this PMPED thing was only being looked at at that point? Wasn't he stealing for years in many cases? I don't have time to go into more but I also doubt a lot of things with his father's death and more.

He likely had some warning some of this was coming, there were so many involved and so many connections. Bpth PMPED and his own law firm were unaware all of this time or was it just that someone complained or started something (one of the families?) and things were being looked into which likely had ones that knew or had turned a blind eye or were involved running to cover their own butts or who willingly provided info as they investigated Alex.

I felt it was the husband in this one before anyhing more even came out after wife and son's deaths. Not saying it to be "right" but it just stank and even though they put dad's death down to natural causes it was no, this is just too much.

And in the case of his brothers well... There are things... And his firm? And this PMPED thing...? And we know of the banker. And then the attorney representing him....

I think in this case(s) they can cut off the head of a snake and the snake may never operate again (hopefully) but it does not mean all parts of the snake died/were arrested or ever will be.

This one runs deep. And far. And bigger than we know. Imo.

With more time and not so tired, I could say more and say it better but no surprise of this money thing now, it is what seemed likely from the start. And that includes the death of his father.
 

Russell Laffitte didn’t have SC bank approval to make Murdaugh payments, official testifies​


Jan Malinowski, an executive vice president with Palmetto State Bank, testified at a Charleston courthouse that he and other executives were “shocked and amazed” when they learned of the loans, which ultimately led to Laffitte’s firing and his indictment by a federal grand jury on bank and wire fraud charges.

Under questioning by federal prosecutor Emily Limehouse, Malinowski testified that he was unaware that Laffitte had used $680,000 in bank funds in October 2021 to make a secret payment to Murdaugh’s former law firm, now called Parker Law Group. The first he heard about it, Malinowski said, was when Laffitte notified the bank’s board that month that Murdaugh “stole” the money and that Laffitte had “made the client whole.”

“Did Russell have authority to pay the law firm on his own?” Limehouse asked.

“He did not,” Malinowski replied.
 
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Russell Laffitte didn’t have SC bank approval to make Murdaugh payments, official testifies​


Jan Malinowski, an executive vice president with Palmetto State Bank, testified at a Charleston courthouse that he and other executives were “shocked and amazed” when they learned of the loans, which ultimately led to Laffitte’s firing and his indictment by a federal grand jury on bank and wire fraud charges.

Under questioning by federal prosecutor Emily Limehouse, Malinowski testified that he was unaware that Laffitte had used $680,000 in bank funds in October 2021 to make a secret payment to Murdaugh’s former law firm, now called Parker Law Group. The first he heard about it, Malinowski said, was when Laffitte notified the bank’s board that month that Murdaugh “stole” the money and that Laffitte had “made the client whole.”

“Did Russell have authority to pay the law firm on his own?” Limehouse asked.

“He did not,” Malinowski replied.
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Sounds like a bank I know of in that are there no checks and balances in place and how can one person even do such a thing? With this LARGE of funds particularly. Shouldn't they have TWO that have to approve or something?
 
www.buzzfeednews.com

Alex Murdaugh's Lawyers Say He Has An Alibi For The Killings Of His Wife And Son

In a new court filing, Murdaugh's defense team said he was visiting his mother when the pair were shot dead.
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Alex Murdaugh was not at home when his wife and son were killed last year, his legal team told a South Carolina court in a formal alibi filing on Thursday.

The former attorney was charged with murder in July for the deaths of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh with a shotgun at their rural hunting estate in Colleton County on June 7, 2021.

Autopsies showed Paul and Maggie had each been shot multiple times between 9 and 9:30 p.m. that night.

But Murdaugh's defense attorneys say the pair were alive when he left the property shortly after 9 p.m. to drive to his mother's home. Murdaugh's 81-year-old father had been ill in a Savannah hospital and would die a few days after the killings.

On his drive, Murdaugh was said to have made telephone calls to his other son, his brother, his sister-in-law, an attorney and friend, and another person identified by the Post and Courier newspaper as his farmhand.

After visiting with his mother and her nurse for roughly 25 minutes, he drove back to the hunting lodge, speaking again via his phone with his attorney friend.

Upon his return, he was said to have discovered the pair's bodies near the lodge's dog kennels at approximately 10:05 p.m.
 
The bodies begin dropping in the summer of 2015. Stephen Smith, 19, found dead in the middle of a road in Hampton County, South Carolina, on July 8. Smith is gay, and his mother believes her son was killed in a hate crime, a newspaper will report, “by several local Hampton County youths from prestigious families.”

In 2018 Gloria Satterfield, a long-serving housekeeper for a prominent local family, is found dead while at work from “a trip-and-fall accident.” Nothing suspicious, it is called, until the proceeds from her insurance policy go not to her two surviving sons but allegedly to her lawyer.

A year later, in February 2019, a 19-year-old rich kid, drunk at the wheel of his family’s boat, plows into a bridge at 2 a.m. At his side is the beautiful 19-year-old Mallory Beach. She is thrown from the boat and instantly killed.

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In 2015 Stephen Smith, 19, is found dead on the side of a Hampton County road. The case is deemed a hit-and-run but is reopened after the 2021 murders of Margaret and Paul Murdaugh.
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The Murdaugh Murders and the Myth of the Good Family

The scion of a powerful South Carolina legal dynasty is charged with murdering his wife and son. It seems unbelievable, ghastly, and—as the news trucks roll in and Hollywood producers begin making offers—utterly familiar. Is the ideal of the “good family” broken, or have we always just propped...
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Alex Murdaugh was indicted by a South Carolina statewide grand jury on multiple counts of income tax evasion this week – with prosecutors alleging he failed to report nearly $7 million of income over a nine-year period.

According to a news release from the office of S.C. attorney general Alan Wilson, Murdaugh failed to report $6.95 million of income “earned through illegal acts” between 2011-2019. That failure deprived the state of an estimated $486,819.

In SC, it is a crime in the Palmetto State “to evade or defeat a tax or property assessment imposed by a title administered by the (state) or the payment of that tax or property assessment.”

On each felony count of willful evasion, Murdaugh faces up to five years in prison, fines of up to $10,000 as well as restitution and the cost of prosecution.

The state tax evasion charges point to yet another instance in which Murdaugh is all but assured of facing federal charges – although as of this writing, his former banker Russell Laffitte remains the only individual charged at the federal level in connection with this maze of financial fleecing.

If convicted on all charges against him now, Murdaugh could be imprisoned for a staggering 928 years – and that’s before we consider the murder charges he is facing in connection with the July 7, 2021 slayings of his wife and son.
 

South Carolina Will Not Seek The Death Penalty Against Alex Murdaugh​

Prosecutors opt against capital punishment …

Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty to both murder charges and is scheduled to stand trial beginning on January 23, 2023. He has been held without bond at the Alvin S. Glenn detention center in Columbia, S.C. since last October.

South Carolina provides for the death penalty in murder cases in which a “statutory aggravating circumstance is found beyond a reasonable doubt.” These aggravating circumstances are specifically enumerated in the S.C. Code of Laws (§ 16-3-20) – and are determined on a case-by-case basis in proceedings which are held separately from the murder trial once a guilty plea or verdict has been entered into the record.

The Palmetto State has not carried out an execution since May 6, 2011 – and recent changes to its capital punishment laws are currently tied up in court. Even if an inmate were to be condemned to death, the S.C. Department of Corrections (SCDC) has no way of carrying out the sentence. Earlier this year, the S.C. supreme court halted a pair of scheduled executions after death row inmates challenged the Palmetto State’s new law – which would have permitted executions by electrocution (or firing squad) in the event lethal injection was unavailable.

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South Carolina Will Not Seek The Death Penalty Against Alex Murdaugh - FITSNews

Prosecutors opt against capital punishment ...
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