Alex Murdaugh's murder trial begins in the shooting deaths of his wife and son
Alex Murdaugh's murder trial is now under way in South Carolina, with the scion of a well-connected family facing charges that he shot and killed his wife and son in June of 2021.
Murdaugh, 54, is being tried at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., where the jury selection process began on Monday. Throngs of journalists and true-crime followers have descended on the small town for the trial.
The trial is taking place in what for decades was the Murdaugh family's seat of power, heading the prosecutor's office for the five-county Fourteenth Circuit. After Murdaugh's great-grandfather, Randolph Murdaugh Sr., was elected to that post in 1920, the family controlled it for 86 years. In addition, the Murdaughs also ran a profitable private practice.
"Murdaugh will not be reports. "He faces life behind bars if convicted. Meantime, a portrait of his grandfather that hangs in the courtroom will be taken down."
