Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh indicted on murder charges in deaths of wife, son

A disgraced South Carolina attorney who only days earlier had been disbarred due to a number of financial crime charges against him has now been charged with the 2021 death of his wife and one son. Alex Murdaugh was indicted on Thursday by a Colleton County grand jury following months of
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Disbarred South Carolina attorney Richard "Alex" Murdaugh was indicted on murder charges in the double homicide killings of his wife and son, the state's attorney general's office announced Thursday.

The disgraced former attorney, whose family dominated the legal scene in the small Hampton County community for nearly a century, is already jailed and faces dozens of criminal charges that have piled up in the months since his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, were killed last June. But until now, he had not been charged in connection with the deaths.

The Colleton County Grand Jury charged Murdaugh with two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.