Prosecutors said Paul Murdaugh was drunk and driving the boat. Hall was hearing just one case Friday - a lawsuit by the family of Mallory Beach, a 19-year-old woman killed in a 2019 boat crash. Since the June shootings of his wife and son, state police have opened six investigations into Murdaugh and his family ranging from stolen money to insurance fraud for trying to arrange his own death. The family’s law firm has won multimillion-dollar verdicts over the past century. Murdaugh’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all elected prosecutors in the area.
They also said because Murdaugh has been part of a legal empire in tiny Hampton County, South Carolina, he could have other money coming in from any number of sources. The lawyers said Alex Murdaugh could be hiding inheritance from the deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, in an unsolved shooting at the family’s home in June or from his father’s death from natural causes a few days later. Alex Murdaugh remains in the Richland County jail without bond, and Buster Murdaugh was not in the courtroom. “They are long in facts and innuendo but they are short on the law,” Tiller said during a hearing in a Chesterfield County courthouse.Ĭircuit Judge Daniel Hall said he would rule sometime around the middle of next week. Attorney John Tiller added that if Murdaugh loses control of his assets, that would open the door for similar things to happen in countless other cases if the person who sues thinks the defendant doesn't have enough insurance. Murdaugh's lawyer said he hasn't been found responsible in any of the civil suits and has insurance to cover if he is required to pay damages. They said he could shift money between unknown accounts and potentially sell off property and a boat after he turned all his affairs over to his surviving son, Buster Murdaugh. (AP) - A South Carolina lawyer involved in a half-dozen state police investigations has been cagey about his assets and should have to hand over control of his money to independent representatives so that he does not engage in further fraud, an attorney told a judge Friday.Īttorneys in three different civil cases have said they fear Alex Murdaugh is trying to hide millions of dollars they could possibly collect in their lawsuits. When reached recently by The State, Kemmerlin said that ten years ago he might have talked all about it, but he no longer had any desire to discuss the events surrounding his firing.CHESTERFIELD, S.C. The Hampton County Guardian, the town’s local paper, reported “unconfirmed rumors of backroom dealings and nepotism,” which the district and Libby Murdaugh denied at the time. Buster’s grandmother, Libby, was chairwoman of the school board at the time.
In the fall of that year, the school district announced that Wade Hampton High School’s much loved baseball coach and athletic director, Steve Kemmerlin, was being terminated.
The Murdaugh name carried weight, and the family was not shy about wielding it, even, as one story goes, on something as mundane as their son’s high school baseball team.īuster failed to make the varsity team at Wade Hampton High School in 2011. Before everything fell apart, it was local lore that the Murdaughs always got their way and that those who crossed them did so at their own risk.
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