In the wooded darkness, deputies in South Carolina's coastal Lowcountry cut across the sprawling hunting lodge property known by locals as Moselle. There, on the night of June 7, they uncovered a grisly murder scene: a mother and son shot multiple times, their lifeless bodies lying on the ground near the family's dog kennels.
A frantic 911 call had been placed by Alex Murdaugh, a personal injury attorney, at 10:07 p.m. His voice quivered as he told a dispatcher that his wife, Margaret, and son, Paul, were not breathing.
"I've been gone," Alex Murdaugh said. "I just came back."
"It's bad."
The incident, later classified by state investigators as a double homicide, remains unsolved three months later. Furthermore, the unanswered questions around the slayings have only scratched the surface of a winding saga embroiling the Murdaughs, a well-connected and prominent legal family that exerted power for nearly a century in southeastern South Carolina, and put a deeper focus on scion Alex Murdaugh.
From left, Paul, Margaret and Alex Murdaugh.via Facebook
Adding to the tragedy was the death — just days after Paul and Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh were killed — of Alex Murdaugh's 81-year-old father, family patriarch Randolph Murdaugh III, a retired top prosecutor of the state's 14th Circuit.
After weeks of intrigue, the case drew fresh scrutiny on Saturday, when Alex Murdaugh called 911 to say he had been shot in a roadside attack in rural Hampton County. Another investigation was...
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