This is the first time Murdaugh has admitted legal guilt in a web of lies and violence that rocked the South Carolina Lowcountry and drew national attention.
Murdaugh pleaded guilty to 22 counts, including money laundering and bank fraud, according to court documents. The former lawyer stole money from clients, including teenagers and a quadriplegic man, to fund the family’s extravagant lifestyle and his addiction to opiate pills that forced him into a rehabilitative-care facility three times before the June 2021 slayings.
the life sentence he received in March for fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul.Murdaugh told the judge he wanted to be held accountable for stealing from his clients and do right by his surviving son Buster,
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