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Alex Murdaugh is sentenced to 27 years in prison for nearly 2 dozen state financial crimes

Dianne Gallagher, Dakin Andone and Wesley Bruer, CNN • November 28, 2023

CNN -- Alex Murdaugh – the disgraced former South Carolina attorney serving two life sentences for the murders of his wife and son – was sentenced to another 27 years in prison on Tuesday after pleading...

Alex Murdaugh pleads guilty to state financial charges

Dianne Gallagher, CNN • November 17, 2023

CNN -- Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who has been convicted of murdering his wife and son, entered a guilty plea Friday to state financial charges against him. A...

Stephen Smith’s body will be exhumed for private autopsy, family says, almost 2 years after Murdaugh case prompted renewed scrutiny

Michelle Watson, Paradise Afshar and Dakin Andone, CNN • March 19, 2023

CNN — The body of a 19-year-old found dead in the middle of a South Carolina road in 2015 will be exhumed, his family announced last week, almost two years after state authorities reopened...

Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murdering his wife and son

Eric Levenson and Alta Spells, CNN • March 2, 2023

(CNN) -- The jury in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, which deliberated for less than three hours, has found him guilty of murdering his wife and son, the grisliest and most severe of the allegations...