Alex Murdaugh, a former lawyer, assistant prosecutor and scion of a powerful South Carolina legal dynasty, is on trial for the double murder of his wife, Maggie, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, on June 7, 2021.
Palmetto State Bank CEO and President Jan Malinowski testified Friday that Alex owed the bank $4.2 million as of August 2021.
He and his wife owned a home in Edisto Beach, South Carolina — an island south of Charleston — that went up for sale in 2022 and received an all-cash offer of $955,000 in April, according to The Island Packet. of his law firm, then called Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick . Laffitte plans to appeal the conviction.
The Beach family sued the Murdaughs after the fatal crash in which Paul Murdaugh drove friends around in his family's boat while drinking along the South Carolina coast before it crashed into a bridge near Parris Island.
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