COLLETON CO, SC. (WTOC) - In the early morning hours of June 7th, 2021 a call came into 9-1-1 dispatch.
“This is Alex Murdaugh at 4147 Mosel Rd. I need the police and an ambulance immediately! My wife and child have been shot badly!”
Alex Murdaugh, the former South Carolina attorney, made that 9-1-1 call from his family’s Colleton County hunting property. His wife Maggie and younger son Paul were dead.
Murdaugh has since been convicted of being the one who shot his loved ones.
Both his wife Maggie and son Paul died that night.
In 2023 came their opportunity for justice in the eyes of South Carolina. Murdaugh’s double murder trial included hundreds of pieces of evidence, just like that initial 9-1-1 call.
Murdaugh himself even took the stand, sticking to his story of innocence from th