
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh indicted for murders of wife and son
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A Colleton County, South Carolina, grand jury has indicted Alex Murdaugh for the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
The once prominent, now disbarred, attorney was indicted Thursday morning on two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, according to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel.
Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh, 52, and their youngest son, Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found shot to death on the family's Moselle property the night of June 7, 2021. Alex Murdaugh placed the 911 call reporting the shooting, saying he had just returned home in Islandton, a small community about an hour north of Hilton Head Island, and discovered their bodies.

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