Why did Alex Murdaugh allegedly kill wife and son? Prosecutors reveal MOTIVE in brutal double murder case
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA: Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, a disbarred lawyer who had previously worked for the same prosecutor's office that his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father had successively run for nearly a century, killed his wife and youngest son due to impending "personal, legal, and financial ruin," authorities in South Carolina said on Thursday, December 8. The South Carolina Attorney General's Office filed a hypothesis of motive on December 8, 2022, claiming that the 54-year-old was "going to lose everything and that everyone was about to find out."
Murdaugh claimed to have discovered his wife, Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh, 52, and son Paul Murdaugh, 22, shot to death on the family's property, an opulent 1,770-acre hunting lodge they called "Moselle," in the midsummer months prior to that roadside shooting.