Housekeeper Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson testified that before her death, Maggie Murdaugh had tearfully confessed that she was worried about the family's finances because of an ongoing lawsuit and believed her husband may have been keeping things from her.
Attorney Mark Tinsley testified that he "didn’t believe it at all" when he was told Alex Murdaugh, a once prominent attorney, would have to struggle to come up with $1 million as part of a settlement.
Nathan Carman is also a suspect in his grandfather John Chakalos' 2013 shooting death. Federal prosecutors say getting access to Chakalos' sizable estate was the key motive in both deaths.
Everyone at the Colleton County courthouse in South Carolina was forced to evacuate after someone called in a bomb threat on on Wednesday — which was day 11 of disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's trial for the murders of his wife and son.
A jury found Andre McDonald guilty of manslaughter for killing his wife, Andreen. McDonald testified the killing was in self-defense when the couple got into a fight.
Prosecutors have argued that Alex Murdaugh's alleged financial desperation will be key to providing jurors with a sense of motive in the trial over is wife Maggie and son Paul's murders.
"I'm suspicious of Mark's suspicious behavior and fear for my early demise,” Julie Jensen wrote in a letter days before she died of ethylene glycol poisoning in 1998.
Prosecutors argued Levi killed his mother and 6-year-old brother to punish his father, who allegedly refused to let the defendant date a Black girl. The father received non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting but took his life two months later.
Ryan O'Neil Woodruff allegedly shot and killed Ty'Quez Walker at his grandmother's residence while he was out on bond for killing two family members, according to the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office.
