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Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her 22-year-old son Paul were both shot several times and found outside the house near dog kennels, authorities said.
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, whose family has faced months of public scrutiny after his wife and son were slain in unsolved shootings in June, quit his job at a private law firm on Friday ...
Alex Murdaugh says he found his wife and son shot to death at their South Carolina home three months ago and that he was injured days ago when a bullet grazed his head as he was changing a tire.
The former client was arrested after Mr. Murdaugh survived being shot in the head on a rural South Carolina road. Mr. Murdaugh’s wife and son had been fatally shot in June.
A lawyer from a prominent South Carolina legal family who found his wife and son shot to death at their home three months ago and was non-fatally shot in the head this weekend was taking money ...
Alex Murdaugh, the patriarch of a powerful South Carolina legal family whose wife and son were mysteriously murdered in June, has now been shot.
Alex Murdaugh found the bodies of his wife and son after family members said he had been away checking on his mother and ailing father.
The current elected prosecutor isn't a family member, but stepped aside last month after citing developments in the case without giving any additional details.
The statement from PMPED law firm came hours after Alex Murdaugh said he was resigning and entering rehab.
The Hampton County Sheriff requested the state’s law enforcement division to investigate the shooting, according to a local report.
The state police is looking into the crash to check if someone prevented police from charging him.
Alex Murdaugh issued a statement on Monday which said he regretted the decisions he made, but did not give any details. He said this move will “rehabilitate” him and his relationships.
When investigators arrived at the scene they found John Johnson suffering from one gunshot wound to his back.
A week later, John Johnson began to physically abuse Douglas. Anthony Johnson told News 3 he believes that John Johnson began to strangle Douglas on May 1. While being strangled, Anthony Johnson said, Douglas reached for her gun and shot John Johnson once in the back.
Alex Murdaugh found the bodies of his wife and son after family members said he had been away checking on his mother and ailing father.
The current elected prosecutor isn't a family member, but stepped aside last month after citing developments in the case without giving any additional details.
The statement from PMPED law firm came hours after Alex Murdaugh said he was resigning and entering rehab.
Alex Murdaugh found the bodies of his wife and son after family members said he had been away checking on his mother and ailing father.
The current elected prosecutor isn’t a family member, but stepped aside last month after citing developments in the case without giving any additional details.
The statement from PMPED law firm came hours after Alex Murdaugh said he was resigning and entering rehab.
A police officer in Chicago shot and killed her husband after he attempted to stop her from attempting suicide during an argument at their home.
Prosecutors said that Jacqueline told police the argument was over a previous affair she had, and that she and her husband struggled for the gun. The officer reported that alcohol could be smelled on the woman's breath but she allegedly refused to submit a CPD-mandated alcohol breath test to determine her blood alcohol content, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Villasenor faces probation or three to 14 years in prison if convicted. She's due back in court on November 23.
Jacqueline Villasenor, 39, pulled out a 9-mm handgun and threatened to shoot herself with it, Cook County prosecutors said. Her husband, 44-year-old German Villasenor who also worked as a Chicago cop, tried to take the gun away from her. Here, a Chicago Police decal on a Chicago Police vehicle is on display at the 112th Annual Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois on February 6, 2020. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images
Judge Susana Ortiz heard from prosecutors that as the couple struggled over the gun, Villasenor was shot in the chest. The bullet pierced his heart and exited through his back before hitting a wall, according to prosecutors.
A day after he was forced out of his family’s law firm for misusing funds on Sept. 3, Mr. Murdaugh reported that he had been shot in the head. He soon admitted that he had actually asked a former client to kill him because he wanted to leave his son Buster with a $10 million insurance payout. Mr. Murdaugh survived.
Over the summer, Mr. Murdaugh offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who had information on the deaths of his wife and son.
Alex Murdaugh, a member of a powerful legal dynasty in South Carolina, was accused by his firm of misusing funds. A day later, Mr. Murdaugh reported that he had been shot on a rural road.
Three days after their deaths, Mr. Murdaugh’s father, Randolph Murdaugh III, the last member of the family to serve as the region’s top prosecutor, died of natural causes.
A South Carolina mystery. The unraveling of the life of Alex Murdaugh, a prominent lawyer, is at the center of a sprawling saga of mysterious deaths — including the unsolved killing of his wife and son — and allegations of multimillion-dollar swindles. Here are five things to know about the case:
Leaders of the Hampton, S.C., firm said they had discovered that Mr. Murdaugh had misappropriated money from the law office and that he had resigned on Friday. The next day, Mr. Murdaugh told the police he had been changing a tire at the side of a road in Hampton County — where members of his family have established a powerful legal dynasty over three generations — when someone in a truck pulled up and shot him in the head.
1. The “Murdaugh Murders” remain unsolved. The fatal shooting of Mr. Murdaugh’s wife Maggie and their 22-year-old son Paul rocked South Carolina’s Lowcountry region, where the Murdaugh family’s powerful legal dynasty originated. Few details have been released about the attack, and no arrests have been made.