Alex Murdaugh

The 54-year-old disbarred South Carolina lawyer insisted he was innocent, despite the judge pressing him to confess in open court.

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murder Thursday in the shooting deaths of his wife and son in a case that chronicled the unraveling of a powerful Southern family with tales of privilege, greed and addiction.

How the jury interpreted details is crucial: Prosecutors asked them to find the South Carolina man guilty beyond reasonable doubt of killing his wife and son, based on circumstantial evidence.

The defense also used their experts to suggest there were two shooters on the South Carolina property, based in part on the fact that the victims stopped using their cellphones within seconds of each other. Both Paul and Maggie Murdaugh appeared to be surprised with their hands down.

Prosecutors told the judge that they didn't want the jury to visit the South Carolina property because it has been 20 months since the killings and it looks different.

Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh want a judge to stop a lawyer suing him from publicly speaking about the massive legal entanglement Murdaugh finds himself in and recommend a panel that disciplines attorneys look into the matter.

South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was indicted Friday on 27 additional charges involving financial crimes. Prosecutors say Murdaugh stole nearly $5 million in settlement money he had obtained for his dead housekeeper, an injured state trooper and other people as well as fees meant for his law firm.

A South Carolina judge has frozen the assets of prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh as he sits in jail being held without bond. Judge Daniel Hall on Tuesday sided with an attorney suing Murdaugh on behalf of the family of a 19-year-old woman killed in a crash on Murdaugh’s boat which prosecutors said his late son was driving.

Authorities have released 911 calls made by prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh and two motorists after a Sept. 4 roadside shooting in which a bullet grazed Murdaugh's head. A woman passerby says on one call she saw a man bloodied and waving his hands on the roadside but she didn’t stop because it looked — in her words — “like a setup.”

Prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper.