"Tim Norman sought to make $450,000 by having his nephew, Andre Montgomery, killed," said U.S. Attorney Sayler A. Fleming. "Instead, he was caught and will spend the rest of his life in prison."
Fresh off his sentencing of life in prison without parole for the fatal shootings of his wife Maggie and youngest son Paul, Alex Murdaugh was seen with a newly shaved head in a mugshot taken just hours later.
For several jurors, the Snapchat video taken by Paul Murdaugh showing his father Alex present at the scene shortly before the murders was the tipping point. They were also skeptical of Alex Murdaugh's own testimony.
“Once they got that character information that he was a thief and a liar ... this jury had to think he was a despicable human being and not to be believed. ... As a result, our options were limited,” Attorney Dick Harpootlian said of the decision to let Alex Murdaugh take the stand.
Alex Murdaugh's dramatic fall from grace ended with him being convicted of his wife Maggie and son Paul's 2021 murders, netting him a sentence of life in prison without parole.
“People keep asking me my opinion of the Alex Murdaugh trial,” O.J. Simpson opined on Twitter hours before Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and son.
Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before convicting Alex Murdaugh of murder in his wife Maggie and son Paul's shooting deaths, capping a stunning fall from grace for the prominent South Carolina attorney.
A defense lawyer for Alex Murdaugh said Thursday that authorities were so determined to convict the disgraced South Carolina attorney of killing his wife and son that they lied about or misrepresented evidence.
Before jurors began deliberations in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial Thursday afternoon, a juror was removed and replaced with an alternate earlier in the day for having improper conversations outside the courtroom.
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, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments in the disgraced lawyer’s murder trial.
