Murdaugh is the scion of a long legal dynasty in South Carolina’s small Hampton County, in the state’s southern Lowlands. For three generations — over 87 years — Murdaugh men served as elected prosecutors in the area. His father, Randolph Murdaugh III, was the last in the family to hold nearby Hampton County’s top prosecutor job until 2005.
in September 2021 amid accusations that he’d misappropriated funds. At the time, a representative said he felt “regret and sorrow,” adding that Murdaugh was entering treatment for opioid addiction.accident that killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach. In the wee hours of Feb. 24, 2019, Paul, Beach, and four other young adults been drinking and joyriding on a fishing boat near Beaufort, South Carolina, when the boat crashed into a bridge, throwing Beach from the boat. It took a week to find her body. After the boat wreck, the family, they began receiving threats online.
On the night of June 7, 2021, Murdaugh called the police in hysterics. “My wife and child have been shot badly,” he said breathlessly on the. He claimed to have discovered his son Paul and his wife Maggie shot dead near the dog kennels on the family’s 1,700-acre hunting compound in Colleton County. Maggie and Paul were both found face down, recent court filings revealed; Maggie had been shot five times with an assault rifle, while Paul had been shot twice at close range with a shotgun.
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