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Alex Murdaugh is serving two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years behind bars at a maximum-security prison in South Carolina
The former attorney was convicted of killing his wife and son and 22 financial crimes
His story was adapted for the Hulu limited series, Murdaugh: Death in the Family , which premiered on Oct. 15
Alex Murdaugh was a well-known attorney in South Carolina from one of the state's most prominent legal families.
However, he had to answer for his secretive, crime-ridden ways after he was charged with killing his wife and college sweetheart, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh , and son Paul Terry Murdaugh . On June 7, 2021, Alex called 911 and claimed that he had found Maggie and Paul shot to death near the dog kennels on one of their expansive proper