On June 7, Paul, 22, and Maggie Murdaugh, 52, were found dead from gunshot wounds.
Alex Murdaugh’s son approached his legal scion father about “bags of pills” about a month before he and his mother were shot dead on the family’s South Carolina estate, jurors heard in court Friday.
“I am still in [Edisto Beach] because when you get here we have to talk,” Paul Murdaugh said in a tense voicemail to his father on May 6, 2021, seemingly referring to the Edisto Beach home where his mother, Maggie, preferred to live.One month later, on June 7, Paul, 22, and Maggie Murdaugh, 52, wereAlex Murdaugh, the scion of a storied southern legal dynasty, is now on trial for the murders.
On May 26, Maggie Murdaugh looked up “white pill 20 on one side rp” and “green gel pill p30,” which were determined by investigators to be oxycodone and chlordiazepoxide, respectively.The content of Paul Murdaugh’s voicemail also came the day after jurors learned that Alex Murdaugh’s brother reported him for suspicious behavior after a failed roadside shooting.
About two months after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed, Alex Murdaugh told first responders that he had been shot by a random man on a rural road. Though his wounds were minor, he was airlifted for treatment in Savannah, Georgia.
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