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Did investigators use ALTERED FORENSIC IMAGES to secure the Murdaugh conviction? A shocking tech mystery leaves the tria...
06/18/2026

Did investigators use ALTERED FORENSIC IMAGES to secure the Murdaugh conviction? A shocking tech mystery leaves the trial's biggest question wide open—STUNNING NEW TWIST!

Nearly five years after the murders of 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh and her son, 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh — and more than three years after Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys accused prosecutors and investigators of fabricating blood spatter evidence against him — one of the most explosive motions filed before the original trial remains unresolved...

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Oh the audacity! Inside Buster Murdaugh’s lavish wedding as guests expose the disgraced family's SHOCKING NEW DEMANDThe ...
06/17/2026

Oh the audacity! Inside Buster Murdaugh’s lavish wedding as guests expose the disgraced family's SHOCKING NEW DEMAND

The only surviving son of disgraced legal scion Alex Murdaugh has tied the knot in a lavish celebration at a former hunting estate in South Carolina - and is asking for contributions to pay for his marital home as a wedding gift.
Buster Murdaugh, 32, married his long-term girlfriend Brooklynn White, 29, in an extravagant ceremony surrounded by family and friends in the heart of the Lowcountry on Saturday May 3.
The legal dynasty heir opted for a monochrome outfit, sporting a white blazer and shirt with black pants and a bow tie.
A huge ‘RMA’ was emblazoned across his cumberbund, spelling out the initials of his full name Richard Alexander Murdaugh - a name he shares with his killer father.
His bride, lawyer Brooklynn, looked radiant in a white off-the-shoulder gown with a white and blue floral bouquet.
When the night fell, the bride and groom and their guests donned white cowboy hats.
The couple chose the exclusive Coosaw Point - a luxury riverside community - for their nuptials, where a 50-person wedding will set a couple back around $26,000 for the venue costs alone.
Based on Lady’s Island - just minutes from downtown Beaufort and Hilton Head - the venue's website boasts amazing river views, vast green spaces and plenty of southern charm.

BEYOND ALL BELIEF! Did new forensic findings on Stephen Smith's horrific skull fracture just blow the 'hit-and-run' theo...
06/17/2026

BEYOND ALL BELIEF! Did new forensic findings on Stephen Smith's horrific skull fracture just blow the 'hit-and-run' theory wide open—proving his body WAS NO ACCIDENT?

Years before disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was convicted for the murders of his wife and son, there was another mystery in Murdaugh country — the death of Stephen Smith, a 19-year-old gay man whose body was found in the middle of a rural road on July 8, 2015. The medical examiner ruled it a hit and run.

For years, his mother Sandy Smith wanted a second opinion, convinced Stephen's death was no accident.
"There was no vehicle debris, no broken headlight … paint scrapes or anything," Hampton County Guardian editor Michael DeWitt Jr. tells "48 Hours."
The case went cold until the murders of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh brought it back to life.
Frustrated by a lack of answers, Sandy Smith is working with a team of lawyers and experts to find out what happened to her son. "48 Hours" has obtained exclusive access to the findings of an independent investigation into Stephen Smith's unsolved death.
"The injuries can tell us so much about what happened," says Dr. Michelle DuPre, a former investigator and forensic pathologist who oversaw the examination of Smith's body. DuPre spoke to "48 Hours" contributor and CBS News national correspondent Nikki Battiste. Just as important as what they found, DuPre says, is what they didn't find.

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CHILLING COURTROOM BOMBSHELL! What did Alex Murdaugh smuggle into his ailing mother’s home just hours after his wife and...
06/16/2026

CHILLING COURTROOM BOMBSHELL! What did Alex Murdaugh smuggle into his ailing mother’s home just hours after his wife and son were brutally executed? Caregiver’s stunning testimony exposes a SECRET NIGHTTIME VISIT that could finally shatter the disgraced legal scion’s alibi.

Former SLED technician Jamie Hall, who prepared evidence for gun residue analysis after the double murder, described Alex Murdaugh's shirt as "freshly laundered" in her notes.

Alex's green cargo shorts, tennis shoes and a white Hanes T-shirt were collected after Paul Murdaugh, 22, had his head blown off with a shotgun and Maggie Murdaugh, 52, was executed with a rifle June 7, 2021.

“It smelled freshly laundered which is not typical of the clothing in the lab, which usually smells slightly musky when we get it,” Hall told jurors in the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina.

She noted "small, reddish-brown stains" on the T-shirt but couldn't identify what these were from. Hall also prepared the poncho-style blue raincoat recovered from the home of Alex's parents on Sept. 16, 2021.

In opening statements, Assistant Attorney General Creighton Waters said the inside of the raincoat was coated in gun residue -- but prosecutors have had trouble linking the jacket directly to Alex.

Hall was the 32nd witness called by the state since the trial began.

Did his own car betray his darkest secret? Explosive new witness testimony reveals the chilling moment Alex Murdaugh exe...
06/15/2026

Did his own car betray his darkest secret? Explosive new witness testimony reveals the chilling moment Alex Murdaugh executed a SUDDEN SPEED SURGE at the exact roadside location where his slain wife's phone was found dumped

Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh accelerated when he passed the location where his slain wife's phone had been ditched on the side of the road, a witness testified Friday at his double murder trial.
The state's 61st witness, special agent Peter Rudofski, of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, plotted 4,820 GPS coordinates from Murdaugh's Chevrolet Suburban on the day of the slayings in a series of maps displayed to jurors. Rudofski also documented Murdaugh's rate of speed.
Murdaugh left his family's sprawling hunting estate in Islandton, South Carolina, at 9:06 p.m. June 7, 2021, to visit his mother in nearby Almeda.

According to prosecutors, Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were already dead – gunned near the property's dog kennels at 8:50 p.m.

On his way to Almeda, Alex Murdaugh drove 42 mph as he neared the location where Maggie's iPhone was found the next morning.
"After passing that location does the vehicle start to accelerate?" asked lead prosecutor Creighton Waters in the Colleton County Courthouse.
"It does," replied Rudofski, indicating the SUV then began driving at 45 mph.
General Motors only turned over the new data for Murdaugh's SUV last weekend after contacting prosecutors and informing them they had discovered the additional information.

What was hidden inside the blue rain jacket? Alex Murdaugh trial takes a dramatic turn as jurors are shown a potential S...
06/15/2026

What was hidden inside the blue rain jacket? Alex Murdaugh trial takes a dramatic turn as jurors are shown a potential SMOKING GUN found stashed at his mother's house...

Jurors at Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial in South Carolina heard evidence Tuesday that gunshot residue was found inside a rain jacket found at his mother’s home three months after his wife and son were killed.

A judge’s decision to allow the testimony was the second win for prosecutors in as many days. Judge Clifton Newman on Monday allowed prosecutors to call witnesses to testify that Murdaugh was stealing money from his law firm and clients and committing other financial crimes long before the killings.

Later Tuesday, once of Murdaugh’s law partners testified about how his firm found out Murdaugh was stealing money and also about trying to collect birdshot from the scene of the shootings at the Murdaugh property the day after the deaths but stopping because they were sickened by the gore still around after the crime scene agents left.

Murdaugh, 54, is standing trial in the shootings of his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, on June 7, 2021, near kennels at their home. He faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted of murder.

Defense attorneys asked the judge to prevent further testimony about the raincoat after the caretaker for Murdaugh’s ailing mother testified that she saw him bring a “blue something, looked like a tarp” into his mother’s home nine days after the killings.

State agents got a search warrant four months after the killings and found a tarp but also a blue rain jacket.

Could this erase the past? Inside the secret plans that will make the infamous Murdaugh hunting estate look COMPLETELY U...
06/15/2026

Could this erase the past? Inside the secret plans that will make the infamous Murdaugh hunting estate look COMPLETELY UNRECOGNIZABLE after a massive overhaul

Defamed South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh's Lowcountry hunting estate in Islandton has been sold to an ambitious new buyer.
Colleton County property records show Alexander Blair paid $1.16 million in May for 48 acres of land on the estate known as Moselle.

"Moselle will be a completely different looking home in a few short months," Blair posted on Facebook, along with photos of renovations currently going on at the four-bed, four-and-a-half bath home.
Blair has posted updates of ongoing construction in the main living area of the home, including a new fireplace and renovated kitchen.

Blair's purchase comes about a year and a half after two local businessmen purchased the Murdaughs' original 1,700-acre estate — including the dog kennels where Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were murdered in July 2021 — for nearly $4 million at an auction, as Realtor.com first reported.

James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley then divided the land and listed the Murdaughs' former hunting getaway home at $1.95 million.

The remaining land still belongs to the two businessmen, according to Realtor

"I am a next-door neighbor, with our home about a mile from this house," Godley explained to the real estate website. "We seek a new neighbor to enjoy this gorgeous house and land."

In March 2023, Murdaugh was sentenced to two life terms for murdering his wife and youngest son near the dog kennels on their hunting estate. He used a shotgun and a rifle to shoot both victims multiple times.
The former South Carolina legal scion appealed the decision on allegations that former Colleton County Court Clerk Becky Hill, who presided over the infamous double murder trial, tampered with the jury.
Murdaugh would later plead guilty to dozens of financial crimes for defrauding his law firm clients out of an estimated total of about $10 million. He received a 40-year prison sentence for those crimes.

WHAT A SHOCKER! Will a looming wave of secret leaks completely upend the Murdaugh verdict? Inside the sudden, high-stake...
06/14/2026

WHAT A SHOCKER! Will a looming wave of secret leaks completely upend the Murdaugh verdict? Inside the sudden, high-stakes legal showdown over HIDDEN EVIDENCE that has South Carolina on edge

A showdown between defense attorneys for disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh who say prosecutors are unfairly withholding evidence and prosecutors who want the defense to agree to secrecy rules first is heading for a courtroom next week.
In their latest court filing, defense lawyers said the secrecy rules as Murdaugh awaits a murder trial in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son are hypocritical because prosecutors are leaking evidence to media outlets, including a video the leaker said was taken not long before the killings.

Prosecutors, including South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson himself, denied the leaks last week.
A hearing about the matter is scheduled for Monday at the Colleton County courthouse, where defense attorneys want the murder trial to take place in January.
The cellphone video from Murdaugh’s son included Murdaugh talking to his wife outside the family’s Colleton County home where the killings happened, said defense lawyers, who added that they haven’t been given the video, but it was shown to Murdaugh’s family by state agents.
The leaked media reports did not include that the conversation was friendly and about dogs, the defense said. Defense lawyer Dick Harpootlian said the state contends that Murdaugh killed his wife and son “for no apparent reason” within minutes of the light-hearted conversation.

“Perhaps this crucial information was intentionally omitted from the media leak to portray Alex Murdaugh in the worst possible light,” Harpootlian wrote in his motion.
When the accusations first came up last week, Wilson said no one in his office has leaked anything and he spoke to leaders at the State Law Enforcement Division who also denied releasing information improperly. Prosecutors have not responded to the latest motion from the defense.
Court papers did not identify the media outlets.
Murdaugh, 54, remains in jail awaiting his trial. Investigators contend he killed his wife, Maggie, 52, with a rifle and his son Paul, 22, with a shotgun in June 2021. Prosecutors have not revealed what evidence linked Murdaugh to the killings and nothing about a possible motive.

An absolute nightmare! New developments in the South Carolina Murdaugh family massacre expose a father’s UNTHINKABLE DOU...
06/14/2026

An absolute nightmare! New developments in the South Carolina Murdaugh family massacre expose a father’s UNTHINKABLE DOUBLE LIFE—but what was he truly trying to hide?

On Labor Day weekend, the convoluted story of the Murdaugh Family Murders took another confounding twist when prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was shot in the head in Hampton County, South Carolina.

At first, it seemed like someone had tried to kill Murdaugh in the same way that that his wife Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh and son Paul Murdaugh were murdered three months earlier when they were gunned down on the grounds of the family's 1,770-acre hunting lodge.

But soon, more details of the shooting were released -- and it appeared that Murdaugh had orchestrated his own shooting in an attempt to get a $10 million insurance settlement for his surviving son, Buster.

Though Alex survived the gunshot, he soon announced a two-decade addiction to opioids and entered rehab at an undisclosed location out of state. At the same time, his law firm announced that he had been fired for allegedly misappropriating millions of dollars from their accounts.

By the time Murdaugh was back in South Carolina on Sept. 16—shackled at the wrists and ankles and sobbing in court—the 53-year-old, nicknamed Big Red as much for his 6'4" frame as for his domineering influence over the region's judicial system, was a shell of his former self.

What was he trying to hide? Alex Murdaugh's sister-in-law exposes STRANGE CONVERSATIONS with the defendant just days aft...
06/13/2026

What was he trying to hide? Alex Murdaugh's sister-in-law exposes STRANGE CONVERSATIONS with the defendant just days after the family murders

It was just a normal day for Marian Proctor when she got a call from her sister Maggie Murdaugh during the late afternoon of June 7, 2021. The two frequently spoke by phone.

Maggie was enjoying her beach home in Edisto and hadn’t planned to see her husband that night. But Alex Murdaugh’s father was dying and Proctor encouraged her sister to support him.

“Go be with him if he needs you,” Proctor advised.

That was the last time Proctor spoke with her sister.

Maggie and her son, Paul, were shot to death just hours later, on the family’s rural property in Hampton County. Alex Murdaugh told police he’d found the bodies of his loved ones after returning from his parents’ house in Almeda.

Proctor was surprised to hear her sister hadn’t been with him.

“That’s the whole reason she went home that night,” said Proctor.

The revelation was one of many Proctor shared with jurors Thursday in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced attorney charged with shooting Maggie and Paul to death with two different weapons: a rifle and a shotgun.

In the days following the killings, Proctor said she and her family were scared. A killer was on the run. But Alex Murdaugh didn’t seem to be afraid. She asked if he had any idea who might be responsible.

“He said he did not know who it was but felt like whoever did it had thought about it for a really long time,” Proctor testified.

“Did that strike you as odd,” asked lead prosecutor Creighton Waters.

“I just didn’t know what that meant.”

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