Alex Murdaugh told sister-in-law Marian Proctor that he didn't know who killed his wife and son but believed it was someone who “thought about it for a long time,” according to her testimony.
Dylan J. Hanger told friends and family of his estranged wife Brittany Gorman that he had no idea where she was for the nine days after her abandoned truck was found in May 2020. But he allegedly stabbed her at least four times in the chest.
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.