Alex Murdaugh: Timeline of the South Carolina lawyer's fall from grace
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A timeline of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Mudaugh's fall from grace, starting in 2015, when his son's classmate, Stephen Smith, was found dead in Hampton County.
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Most recently, on July 14, a Colleton County Grand Jury indicted Murdaugh, 64, on two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in connection to the June 7, 2021, deaths of his wife, Maggie, 52, and their son Paul, 22.
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