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.
Maggie Murdaugh and her youngest son, Paul, were shot to death, according to police, at the Murdaugh family's compound in June 2021 in a mysterious double homicide, but as investigators began to dig deeper into the family's past, the story grew more complex.
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.
