South Carolina prosecutors say Alex Murdaugh was motivated by the possible exposure of his decade-long financial crimes in murdering his wife and son to buy himself time and sympathy.
delivered a scathing response Thursday to Alex Murdugh’s attorney’s request they provide a motive suggesting why the since-disgraced legal scion would murder his wife and their 22-year-old son on the family’s sprawling hunting estate.
In response Thursday, prosecutors ripped the request for such an"antiquated concept," but for the first time offered insight that they planned to argue Murdaugh brutally shot his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, and their younger son, Paul Murdaugh, with a rifle and shotgun respectively, due to spiraling debts and looming exposure.
From left, Buster Murdaugh, 26, his mother Maggie Murdaugh, his brother Paul Murdaugh and his father Alex Murdaugh. Alex is accused of fatally shooting Maggie, 52, and their son, Paul, 22, June 7, 2021. "Meanwhile, a motion to compel the production of Murdaugh’s personal financial records was at the same time pending in the civil litigation stemming from the fatal boat wreck, and a hearing on that motion was going to be held within a few days," the filing says."If granted as expected, that motion would have resulted in the exposure of Murdaugh’s financial records, which would itself have led to his misdeeds becoming known to others.
That’s when Murdaugh allegedly arranged for Curtis Eddie Smith to shoot and kill him so that his surviving son, Buster Murdaugh, could collect on a $10 million life insurance policy. Prosecutors offered a reason for Murdaugh’s financial spiral, blaming"a series of bad land deals[s] exacerbated by the recession permanently changed his finances" and that started him down an"incessant financial roller coaster."
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