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UPDATE: Alex Murdaugh has been convicted for the shooting murders of his wife and son
The Murdaugh family are a prominent American legal family in South Carolina. From 1920 to 2006, three members of the family consecutively served as District Attorney in charge of prosecuting all criminal cases in the state's 14th Circuit District leading locals to call the five-county district, "Murdaugh Country." The family also founded a nationally recognized civil litigation law firm that specializes in personal injury.
Since 2014, Richard "Alex" Murdaugh and other members of the Murdaugh family have been involved in investigations involving several murders, corruption, and other alleged crimes, including insurance fraud, defrauding clients, theft of insurance payouts, and drug-related charges. In 2019, amid allegations of special treatment, Alex's son, Paul Murdaugh, and other members of the Murdaugh family were implicated in a fatal boating accident. In June 2021, Alex Murdaugh's wife and son Paul were murdered. Alex has been charged with their murders. Alex was also accused of embezzlement from his law firm, from which he resigned in September 2021. He has been incarcerated since October 2021 pending trials and has been disbarred by the state of South Carolina.
ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS
Killing of Stephen Smith
Death of Gloria Satterfield
Death of Mallory Beach
Killings of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh
Assisted suicide insurance fraud scheme
Allegations of embezzlement from the dead
Sex worker Lindsey Edwards
CHARGES AND LAWSUITS
Beach wrongful death lawsuit
Three criminal charges murder-for-hire suicide scheme
Embezzlement and other fraud
Asset custody
Physical custody
Two criminal charges for narcotics distribution
Disbarment
Four criminal charges for the murders of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh
Forge consulting lawsuit
Nine criminal charges for tax evasion
The bodies begin dropping in the summer of 2015. Stephen Smith, 19, found dead in the middle of a road in Hampton County, South Carolina, on July 8. Smith is gay, and his mother believes her son was killed in a hate crime, a newspaper will report, “by several local Hampton County youths from prestigious families.”
In 2018 Gloria Satterfield, a long-serving housekeeper for a prominent local family, is found dead while at work from “a trip-and-fall accident.” Nothing suspicious, it is called, until the proceeds from her insurance policy go not to her two surviving sons but allegedly to her lawyer.
A year later, in February 2019, a 19-year-old rich kid, drunk at the wheel of his family’s boat, plows into a bridge at 2 a.m. At his side is the beautiful 19-year-old Mallory Beach. She is thrown from the boat and instantly killed.
A name rises from the flotsam of these mysterious yet somehow connected deaths, a name that shocks the South Carolina community where the deaths occur when it is printed in headlines around the globe, bringing the eyes of justice—and the media—to this corner of what is called the Lowcountry.
It is a name that is instantly recognized by the police when, at 10:26 p.m. on June 7, 2021, Sergeant Daniel Greene drives through the stone gates of a 1,700-acre family hunting estate at 4147 Moselle Road, in Colleton County, South Carolina, to find a 52-year-old woman and her 22-year-old son “lying on the ground,” shot dead with a rifle. It is a name oft-heard by the media—never in this context, but on the other side of the law.
The name and the public nature of these two deaths is such an unlikely combination that local law enforcement look back at the deaths of Stephen Smith and Gloria Satterfield and uncover a sinister web of cascading crimes and escalating intrigue. And in the middle of it all, somehow seemingly involved in myriad cases and maybe more to come, is that name, that very famous name, the name that stops investigators and the public dead in their tracks.
New documentary.
www.wsav.com
The Murdaugh family are a prominent American legal family in South Carolina. From 1920 to 2006, three members of the family consecutively served as District Attorney in charge of prosecuting all criminal cases in the state's 14th Circuit District leading locals to call the five-county district, "Murdaugh Country." The family also founded a nationally recognized civil litigation law firm that specializes in personal injury.
Since 2014, Richard "Alex" Murdaugh and other members of the Murdaugh family have been involved in investigations involving several murders, corruption, and other alleged crimes, including insurance fraud, defrauding clients, theft of insurance payouts, and drug-related charges. In 2019, amid allegations of special treatment, Alex's son, Paul Murdaugh, and other members of the Murdaugh family were implicated in a fatal boating accident. In June 2021, Alex Murdaugh's wife and son Paul were murdered. Alex has been charged with their murders. Alex was also accused of embezzlement from his law firm, from which he resigned in September 2021. He has been incarcerated since October 2021 pending trials and has been disbarred by the state of South Carolina.
ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS
Killing of Stephen Smith
Death of Gloria Satterfield
Death of Mallory Beach
Killings of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh
Assisted suicide insurance fraud scheme
Allegations of embezzlement from the dead
Sex worker Lindsey Edwards
CHARGES AND LAWSUITS
Beach wrongful death lawsuit
Three criminal charges murder-for-hire suicide scheme
Embezzlement and other fraud
Asset custody
Physical custody
Two criminal charges for narcotics distribution
Disbarment
Four criminal charges for the murders of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh
Forge consulting lawsuit
Nine criminal charges for tax evasion
The bodies begin dropping in the summer of 2015. Stephen Smith, 19, found dead in the middle of a road in Hampton County, South Carolina, on July 8. Smith is gay, and his mother believes her son was killed in a hate crime, a newspaper will report, “by several local Hampton County youths from prestigious families.”
In 2018 Gloria Satterfield, a long-serving housekeeper for a prominent local family, is found dead while at work from “a trip-and-fall accident.” Nothing suspicious, it is called, until the proceeds from her insurance policy go not to her two surviving sons but allegedly to her lawyer.
A year later, in February 2019, a 19-year-old rich kid, drunk at the wheel of his family’s boat, plows into a bridge at 2 a.m. At his side is the beautiful 19-year-old Mallory Beach. She is thrown from the boat and instantly killed.
A name rises from the flotsam of these mysterious yet somehow connected deaths, a name that shocks the South Carolina community where the deaths occur when it is printed in headlines around the globe, bringing the eyes of justice—and the media—to this corner of what is called the Lowcountry.
It is a name that is instantly recognized by the police when, at 10:26 p.m. on June 7, 2021, Sergeant Daniel Greene drives through the stone gates of a 1,700-acre family hunting estate at 4147 Moselle Road, in Colleton County, South Carolina, to find a 52-year-old woman and her 22-year-old son “lying on the ground,” shot dead with a rifle. It is a name oft-heard by the media—never in this context, but on the other side of the law.
The name and the public nature of these two deaths is such an unlikely combination that local law enforcement look back at the deaths of Stephen Smith and Gloria Satterfield and uncover a sinister web of cascading crimes and escalating intrigue. And in the middle of it all, somehow seemingly involved in myriad cases and maybe more to come, is that name, that very famous name, the name that stops investigators and the public dead in their tracks.
New documentary.
HBO Murdaugh documentary digs deeper into history of family, privilege, crimes
COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WSAV) — It is a murder mystery, financial crime thriller and family drama all in one. By now we all know the player, Alex Murdaugh the alleged criminal. Maggie and Paul Murda…
www.wsav.com
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