Shelley M. Noreika of Pennsylvania was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for faking her young daughter's illness, prosecutors said, incurring "six-figure losses" for her insurer via medical treatments.
The 40-year-old cold case of Nancy McEvers' suspicious death has been closed, the Washington County Sheriff's Office announced after the victim's husband and detectives' prime suspect Randy McEvers died by suicide.
"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.