Alex Murdaugh has been charged and is standing trial for the murders of his wife and son. He is the one who discovered their bodies and called 911. It was determined that their deaths happened between 9 and 9:30 PM. Alex Murdaugh claimed to have an alibi, he says he was with his mother and her caretaker all day.
However, the case surrounding the murders began to unravel when three months later, Murdaugh was driving when his vehicle had a flat tire.
He reportedly stopped to change the tire when a man driving by turned around and shot Murdaugh.
He sustained a minor gunshot wound to the head, and information later revealed Murtaugh had hired a man to kill him so his eldest son, Butler, would receive the $10million insurance money.
The man, identified as 61-year-old Curtis Edward Smith, was arrested on charges of assisted suicide, assault and battery, pointing and presenting a firearm, insurance fraud, and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud.
After the incident, investigators started looking more into Alex and they found some major discrepancies.
He was charged with 27 counts of indictment including breach of trust with fraudulent intent, obtaining signature or property by false pretenses, money laundering, computer crimes, and forgery.
In January he faced another 23 charges, including breach of trust with fraudulent intent and computer crimes.
The total amounts to 71 charges of fraud and theft, amounting to about $8.5million over 11 years.
Alex Murdaugh was arrested for the murders of his wife and son, Maggie and Paul, on July 14 after investigators discovered a cellphone video that links Alex to the crime. “Federal agents said the new video placed Murdaugh at the scene of the crime when the murders occurred.”
Prosecutors noted Maggie and Paul died between 8.30 and 10.06pm, although a coroner initially put their deaths to have occurred between 9 and 9.30pm.
Prosecutors revealed at an August hearing that Paul’s phone captured video and audio of his parents’ conversation shortly before their deaths at 8.44pm.
No specifics of what was found in the video have been revealed. But Prosecutor Creighton Waters says, “The evidence, in this case, is substantial. It all comes back to Alex Murdaugh.”
Source The Sun
