Walterboro, South Carolina (CNN) Disgraced former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the murders of his wife and son, who were found shot to death on the family's property in June 2021.
More than six weeks after prominent Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh reported being shot in the head off a Hampton County road, South Carolina's Law Enforcement Division has released 911 calls made that day.
Now, according to Buster's two friends who spoke with PEOPLE, the 26-year-old is not doing well and has separated himself from the outside world. The pals reportedly said that Buster recovered his things from the 1,770-acre property soon after the duo's death, and never went back.
It was 2018 when Gloria Satterfield, who served as the housekeeper and nanny for the prominent Murdaugh family for more than two decades, died following a fall at their home. But her death was never reported to the coroner. And no autopsy was performed.
Alex Murdaugh Allegedly Lured Wife to Cabin On Night She Was Killed. Alex and Maggie Murdaugh. A law enforcement source close to the investigation told PEOPLE that on the night of the murders, Alex allegedly reached out to Maggie, asking her to meet him at the family's 1,770-acre estate.
two sonsIt all began on the night of June 7, 2021, when Alex Murdaugh, a lawyer whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather all served as the top prosecutor across a wide area of the state, called 911 to report that his wife and one of their two sons had been shot to death.
Murdaugh is also a person of interest in last June's killings of his wife Maggie, 52, and son, Paul, 22, whose bodies were found at their 1,700-acre estate in Colleton County. Buster, who is in his 20s, is Alex's only surviving child.
Alex Murdaugh is estimated to be worth around $1million, according to Exact Net Worth.
“Murdaugh Family Mysteries” — A multi-part documentary series about the case is in the works for HBO Max.
As of March 2022, however, Bland and Richter said they'd recovered about $7.5 million in total for Satterfield's family through settlements from other parties sued in connection to Gloria's death.
Hakeem Pinckney was a client of the now disbarred Hampton County attorney Alex Murdaugh. He was also represented by a conservator — Murdaugh's friend Russell Laffitte, the former CEO of Palmetto State Bank.
His other son, 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh, was found shot to death a year earlier alongside his mother Margaret at a family hunting lodge on the Hampton County-Colleton County line when he arrived at the location. Alex Murdaugh told authorities at the time that he found the two there already dead.
SC Supreme Court disbars Murdaugh The South Carolina Supreme Court released an order disbarring former attorney Alex Murdaugh as he faces dozens of criminal charges. The court said disbarment is "among the most serious sanctions this Court can impose for unethical conduct committed by members of the legal profession."
Alex Murdaugh is estimated to be worth around $1million, according to Exact Net Worth. He reportedly amassed his fortune through his legal career, which earned him about $250,000 annually.
Alex Murdaugh, the prominent South Carolina lawyer whose wife and son were shot to death in June, tried to arrange his own murder so his living son could get a $10 million life insurance payment , state police said in a report released on Tuesday.
Alex Murdaugh, who resigned from his law firm and said he would check into rehab earlier this month, has not been charged.
In a sworn statement seen by Insider, a SLED agent said Murdaugh gave Smith a gun to kill him, but the bullet only grazed his head.
Murdaugh allegedly gave Smith a gun and directed Smith to kill him, documents released by investigators Tuesday stated.
Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh arranged for another man to kill him earlier this month so that his son could collect on a $10 million life insurance policy, authorities said Tuesday .
Alex Murdaugh, a personal injury attorney, called 911 at 10:07 p.m. June 7 and told a dispatcher that his wife and son were on the ground and not breathing, according to records released by authorities.
Local reports after the crash said that the Murdaugh family did not initially cooperate with law enforcement agencies' investigation and that officers never gave Paul Murdaugh, who was believed to have been driving the boat, an alcohol breath test, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, which led the investigation.
Harpootlian said Murdaugh's law team is pursuing their own investigation and said they have zeroed in at least one suspect. "The motive would be personal," he said.
LEGAL dynasty heir Alex Murdaugh allegedly hired a hitman to kill him so that his surviving son could get a $10million insurance policy, it emerged Tuesday.
His lawyer, Jim Griffin, said that he was on his way to Charleston when he ran into car problems.
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He was convicted in 1994 of participating in a criminal enterprise that transported, distributed and sold cocaine; invested proceeds from illegal drug sales in Atlanta nightclubs that Tokars incorporated; and protected its members from arrest and prosecution through kidnapping, torture and murder.
An Atlanta lawyer who masterminded the gruesome murder of his wife in 1992 has died in prison aged 67.
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Fred Tokars became one of the most infamous criminals in Atlanta history after he hired a hitman to kill his wife, Sara, in front of their two young sons.
He was held in secret custody and wasn't listed in the federal prison system due to the risk of other inmates finding out where he was and seeking revenge. Froelich had tried to get Tokars a reduced sentence in exchange for his testimony, but said his client was too infamous for that to happen.
Murdaugh gave Smith the gun to kill him and he followed Murdaugh to Old Salkehatchie Road firing one shot at the lawyer as he stood in the road, an agent said in a sworn statement.
Alex Murdaugh Allegedly Hired Man To Kill Him So His Son Could Collect Insurance Prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh is accused of trying to arrange his own death to help his son collect a $10 million life insurance payout.
The shooter, Curtis Edward Smith, was charged with assisted suicide, insurance fraud and several other counts in the Sept. 4 shooting of Alex Murdaugh on a lonely highway in Hampton County, the State Law Enforcement Division said in a statement.
Smith drove off after the shooting and disposed of the gun, authorities said.