South Carolina

Buster Murdaugh denied any involvement in the 2015 death of his high school classmate, Stephen Smith

A juror in the Alex Murdaugh trial and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson pointed to a cellphone video that placed Murdaugh at the crime scene as a key reason for his guilty verdict.

Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility of parole, for the murders of his wife and son.

South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday, a day after he was convicted of murderer in the shooting deaths of his wife and son.

The jury deliberated for less than three hours before finding Murdaugh guilty of two counts of murder at the end of a six-week trial.

A juror serving in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh was removed Thursday for engaging in “improper conversations” with individuals not involved in the case. Asked if she had belonging she needed to get from the jury room and the woman responded, “a dozen eggs.”

A juror in the double murder trial of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was removed Thursday for discussing the case with people outside the court.

A prosecutor says Alex Murdaugh’s theft of millions of dollars was about to be revealed so he killed his wife and son to buy time to figure a way out. Prosecutor Creighton Waters gave his closing argument Wednesday in the disgraced South Carolina attorney’s murder trial. He says Murdaugh was facing unbearable pressure in June 2021 and decided that killing...

More than 75 witnesses have been called and about 800 photographs, reports and exhibits have been presented as evidence. Jurors visited the crime scene Wednesday, as both sides prepared to present their closings.

Prosecutors have called their final witnesses in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial. The jury will now head Wednesday about 40 minutes from the courthouse to see the family home where authorities say Murdaugh killed his wife and son in June 2021.

The judge agreed to a defense request to let the jury visit the family property and see the crime scene for themselves before they deliberate Alex Murdaugh’s fate.

Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his own defense Thursday at his double murder trial.

Alex Murdaugh’s defense called his surviving son to the witness stand Tuesday to poke holes in evidence that prosecutors have presented in the double murder trial of the disgraced South Carolina attorney. Buster Murdaugh answered questions in a matter-of-fact tone. He explained points that prosecutors emphasized as potentially sinister, including Alex Murdaugh parking behind his mother’s home or not using...

Alex Murdaugh told a state agent that he asked a friend to fatally shoot him but that the friend failed in his attempt.

Harold C. Riley was a sophomore at South Carolina State College when he and dozens of other protesting students were shot by National Guard troops.

Also Tuesday, the chief financial officer for the law firm said she confronted Murdaugh about almost $800,000 in missing fees on the day of the killings.

Prosecutors will be allowed to show the jury evidence that Alex Murdaugh was stealing money from his car firm and clients, a central point to the alleged motive as to why prosecutors say Murdaugh killed his wife and son.

A cellphone video taken by Paul Murdaugh at the Murdaugh property’s kennel places Alex Murdaugh at the scene of the crime minutes before Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were murdered. NBC’s Catie Beck reports

A state agent testifying in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial meticulously reconstructed activity from his iPhone and the cellphones of his son and wife the night they were killed

“I did him so bad.” That’s what a South Carolina investigator testified that Alex Murdaugh had uttered between sobs during a recorded interview three days after Murdaugh’s wife and son were killed.