Alex Murdaugh returns to court in bid to toss murder conviction one year after trial
Almost exactly one year to the day that the Lowcountry’s “trial of the century” began, Alex Murdaugh is returning to court to try to throw out his conviction.
The disgraced legal scion was found guilty of murdering his wife Maggie and son Paul in the dog kennels of the family’s sprawling Moselle hunting estate in Islandton back in the summer of 2021.
Their violent shooting deaths sparked fear and rumours across South Carolina and beyond.
Questions grew about the Murdaugh’s family’s ties to other unexplained deaths – from a deadly teen boat wreck to a housekeeper’s
