

State Law Enforcement Division Senior Special Agent Jeff Croft testified he was “100% confident” Murdaugh said “I.” That could be interpreted as a confession from Murdaugh that he fatally shot his son Paul with a shotgun near kennels at their Colleton County home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. SLED on Friday also released several 911 calls placed after the alleged roadside botched suicide scheme, including one where a woman driving by can be told telling an emergency dispatcher she didn’t stop because it "looks like a setup.A state agent insisted today he heard a possible confession from Alex Murdaugh even after defense attorneys for the disgraced South Carolina lawyer slowed the audio down during Murdaugh’s double murder trial.Īt question is whether Murdaugh said “I did him so bad” or “They did him so bad” as he sobbed and spoke to state agents during a recorded interview three days after Murdaugh’s wife and son were killed. 4, so Buster could collect a $10 million life insurance policy. Last week, Judge Newman also ordered a psychiatric evaluation for Alex Murdaugh, who allegedly confessed to plotting his own death on Sept. Meanwhile, Bland had already reached a settlement with Murdaugh's former college roommate, Corey Fleming, and his law firm, Moss, Kuhn & Fleming, valued at about $177,000 over the mishandling Satterfield's insurance payouts.

SLED is investigating millions of dollars allegedly missing from the prominent law firm founded a century ago by Alex Murdaugh's great-grandfather. Over the weekend, a lawyer for Satterfield's estate, Eric Bland, said the housekeeper's sons reached a confidential settlement with the Hampton law firm PMPED, The State, a newspaper based in Columbia, S.C., reported. Hill, with the law firm Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A., be appointed to serve as legal counsel to the co-receivers.

as "co-receivers" tasked with locating and recovering Alex and Buster Murdaugh’s assets.

When he was killed in June, Paul Murdaugh was still facing boating under the influence charges for allegedly drunkenly crashing his father’s boat in 2019, killing Mallory Beach and seriously injuring several other passengers including, Connor Cook. Friday's filings ask the Hampton County court to appoint lawyers John T. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is still investigating the actual cause of Satterfield’s 2018 death, as Murdaugh’s longtime housekeeper and nanny suffered a head injury in an alleged trip and fall accident at their Colleton County home and never regained consciousness before dying weeks later at the hospital. The still unsolved June 7 double murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, who were shot to death on the grounds of the family’s Moselle hunting estate, also prompted SLED to open an investigation into the mysterious 2015 roadside death of 19-year-old Stephen Smith, who was once Buster Murdaugh’s classmate. Alex Murdaugh inherited assets from his father, Randolph Murdaugh III, who died on June 10, as well as assets from his wife, Maggie, and their 22-year-old son, Paul. The vacant home will be auctioned if the back taxes aren’t paid by Dec. Alex and Buster allegedly failed to pay more than $6,000 in property taxes for 2020 on their Edisto Beach property, and more than $7,000 in outstanding property taxes are owed for 2021.
