Photo: Hampton County Detention Center
More charges have been filed against Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina attorney who is is accused of a litany of financial crimes — and is a person of interest in the murders of his wife and son.
Murdaugh, 53, made national news in June when he came home and found his wife,Maggie, 52, and their son, Paul, 22,gunned downon their 1,770-acre estate in the small town of Islandton, S.C. The mother and son had been shot with two different guns and were found outside the home, near the dog kennels.
From left, Buster Murdaugh, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, Paul Murdaugh, Alex Murdaugh.Maggie Murdaugh/Facebook
After the murders, Murdaugh made news again when he allegedly tried to stage his own death so that his other son, Buster Murdaugh, 26, could benefit from a $10 million life insurance settlement. He was criminally charged in connection with the botched suicide-for-hire plot and is awaiting trial in that case.
Since October, Murdaugh has been held behind bars in connection with the allegedmisappropriation of settlement fundsthat were supposed to go to the sons of his late housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield,who died in a trip-and-fall accidentwhile working at the Murdaugh’s home.
Suspended from practicing law, Murdaugh now faces a total of 74 criminal charges. Of those charges, 71 are financial crimes from the grand jury indictments, and three are additional Colleton County charges stemming from the murder-for-hire suicide attempt.
The new indictments are for alleged schemes to defraud clients who he had represented. He has not yet entered a plea in the new charges and his attorney did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
