The South Carolina State Grand Jury and the South Carolina Attorney General's Office levied 27 new criminal charges on former S.C. attorney Richard 'Alex' Murdaugh.
Murdaugh, 53, was suspended from the practice of law by the Supreme Court of South Carolina on Sept. 8, 2021. Murdaugh was previously indicted by a Colleton County Grand Jury for offenses related to a scheme to commit suicide and defraud an insurance company and remains in custody at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Columbia.
This State Grand Jury investigation has been led by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's Office also assisted with these investigations. The case will be prosecuted by the S.C. Attorney General's Office."This is Alex Murdaugh's version of Black Friday," said Gloria Satterfield attorney Eric Bland. Murdaugh is accused of stealing roughly $4.
Murdaugh is currently at the center of numerous ongoing criminal investigations by the S.C. Attorney General's Office and the S.C. Law Enforcement Division, as well as a half dozen civil law suits. On the night of June 7, 2021, Murdaugh called 911 to report that his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, had been shot and killed in an as-yet unsolved case. Another unsolved homicide case, involving the death of Stephen Smith in Hampton County in 2015, was also opened by SLED in the process of investigating the double homicides.
In addition to a civil suit from Satterfield's sons regarding allegations of stolen insurance settlements, Murdaugh is also named in a suit by his former law partners concerning allegations of misappropriated money, as well as a wrongful death suit filed in 2019 involving his boat and his son, Paul.
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