Attorneys for Murdaugh have also asked the South Carolina supreme court to remove Judge Clifton Newman from the case, saying it would be a conflict of interest.
Joran van der Sloot was reportedly on his way back to Peru on Tuesday, after the U.S. Marshals Service said “mechanical issues with the aircraft” delayed his extradition on Monday.
"It was too much to ask of witnesses and Betsy Faria's loved ones” to travel to another county for the murder trial, Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wood said.
Betty Bowman died from an overdose of liquid colchicine, a gout medicine, according to court documents. Her husband Connor Bowman is charged with her murder.
Shanna Gardner-Fernandez was booked into Duval County Jail in Jacksonville, Florida on October 20 following her extradition from Washington, according to online jail records.
“Weldon Alexander, father to Karen Alexander and Gordon Alexander, is the sole, viable suspect in their murder,” Miller County Prosecuting Attorney Connie Mitchell said.
“He just robbed my nieces and nephews of a fantastic mom and robbed me of a sister and everybody else of their friend,” Breanne Pennington's sister, Brooke Pertile, said of her brother-in-law, Aaron Pennington.
"We identified a man that was reported missing 30 years ago whose remains were part of 10,000 remains that were burnt and crushed," the Hamilton County Coroner said after Allen Livingston's remains were identified.
Forensic genetic genealogy ultimately led authorities to Donald Douglas, who detectives identified as the now-deceased killer of Florida nurse Teresa Lee Scalf.
