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The Murdaugh mysteries refer to a series of inter‑linked tragedies surrounding disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh and his powerful family. Beginning with the 2019 boat crash that killed 19‑year‑old Mallory Beach—an incident in which Paul Murdaugh was allegedly driving while intoxicated—the saga expanded to include the 2021 shooting of Alex’s wife Maggie and son Paul on the family estate, Alex’s own alleged “suicide‑by‑murder” plot involving handyman Curtis Smith, accusations that Alex stole millions from his own law firm and staged the death of longtime housekeeper Gloria Satterfield for insurance fraud, and the reopening of the 2015 unsolved homicide of Stephen Smith, a case many locals suspect also involves the Murdaughs. After a 2023 jury found Alex guilty of the double murder and weapon possession, he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms, but in May 2026 the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned those convictions on procedural grounds, granting him a new trial, leaving the community still awaiting full accountability for the cascade of deaths and alleged crimes tied to the Murdaugh dynasty.
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The Murdaugh mysteries: Five deaths with a connection to disgraced S.C. attorney, family, under investigation
A young woman dead in a boating crash, a mother and her son killed in a double homicide, and two other mysterious deaths – all with a connection to one family.
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