Web of drugs and multi-million dollar fraud that led top lawyer Alex Murdaugh to kill his family
After the double murder, Alex drove to his mother's house and returned an hour later before alerting the policeShe was said to have slipped on stairs at the family estate yet her death was recorded as natural and not reported to the coroner.
Three months after his wife and son were slain he botched an £8million life insurance scam in which his distant cousin Curtis “Eddie” Smith, 62, shot him at a roadside. That is just one of the 99 other charges against the disgraced lawyer, which also include swindling £6.6million from clients. Fisherman Boulware, who died in 2018, was charged with conspiracy to import 15 tons of marijuana in 1980 but the case was dropped after a witness was killed in a car accident.The saga has kept reporters, internet sleuths and true-crime fans rapt as his trial heard how Murdaugh was a “cunning manipulator” who hid his true self from even family.
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