Family Crimes

Lawyers for parenting influencer Ruby Franke stated that Jodi Hildebrant "took advantage" of their client's belief in her "and twisted it into something heinous."

“None of us would have befriended Herb had it not been for Tim," said Candy Baker, a friend of Timothy Smith, who was allegedly killed by husband Herb Swilley. "He had a really rough personality."

After slow-cooking his wife Dawn's body to render it, chef David Viens dumped it out as kitchen waste, he confessed.

“I've really learned so much about mental health [and] why everything has affected me the way it affected me," Turpin said in a new interview.

Judge Clifton Newman has asked that a new judge preside over all future hearings involving Alex Murdaugh's request for a new murder trial.

Donna Adelson, 73, has been charged with murder, conspiracy and solicitation in the 2014 death of her son-in-law, Dan Markel, a former Florida State University law professor.

Samuel Haskell was arrested after a woman's torso was found wrapped in a bag and thrown in a garbage bin near his home. Police say they can't get ahold of his wife and her parents.

Just three days after his wife died, Connor Bowman allegedly had a girlfriend at his home and had already taken down photos of his wife, according to applications for search warrants.

“Only Alex Murdaugh could conceive of such a confounded gambit as even remotely possible,” the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office wrote in court papers in response to Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers’ accusations of jury tampering in their push for a retrial.  

Herbert Swilley previously indicated he’d only cooperate with authorities in exchange for immunity from prosecution in the March 2023 murder of his husband Timothy Smith.