The Murdaugh Murders: The South Carolina Supreme Court Weighs in on Financial Crimes
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
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OnJune 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife Maggie and his son Paul at the family's Moselle hunting lodge in Colleton County, South Carolina. In 2023, a jury convicted him of that crime. The state introduced evidence of Murdaugh's many financial crimes at the trial. After overturning Murdaugh's conviction based on jury tampering concerns, the South Carolina Supreme Court also weighed in on the trial court's decision to allow the jury to hear evidence of Murdaugh's financial crimes.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anya, and today we're going to be delving deeper into the Murdoch murders case, specifically |
| 0:05.6 | the financial crimes. Content warning, this episode contains discussion of murder. |
| 0:12.7 | So, Kevin, today is May 25th, 26. Recently, some pretty bombshell developments occurred in the case of the Murdoch murders. |
| 0:22.3 | This is kind of what is, you know, popularly called the Murdoch murders. |
| 0:26.5 | It is the double homicide of Maggie and Paul Murdoch. |
| 0:32.3 | Maggie or Margaret was 52 years old. |
| 0:35.9 | Paul was 22, her son. And these two were both murdered on June 7th, |
| 0:42.0 | 2021 at the family's hunting property, Moselle, near Eilinton in South Carolina. So what this is |
| 0:52.0 | obviously, I mean, this I think was one of the trials of kind of the modern era in true crime. |
| 0:59.5 | When we're looking at cases that attracted a lot of attention, a lot of media, and really when you look at the facts, it's not super hard to understand why that is. |
| 1:09.5 | This centered around the father of Paul and the husband of Maggie, |
| 1:16.0 | Alec Murdoch, and he was a sort of disgraced attorney who came from this really powerful |
| 1:24.0 | family in the area. And these are folks who had acted as like the county solicitor |
| 1:28.8 | in, um, and basically accrued a lot of power, accrued wealth over the years, but it all sort of |
| 1:35.4 | came crashing down as the result of a series of kind of different things going on. Um, you know, |
| 1:41.9 | Paul Murdoch was responsible or at the very least appeared responsible for |
| 1:46.2 | a boat crash that killed a young woman. That was prompt, that prompted lawsuits, that prompted |
| 1:52.7 | investigations. Then you had, with Alec Murdoch, it came out that he had been stealing from people |
| 1:59.7 | through his law firm. |
| 2:01.3 | He had actually been doing financial crimes. |
| 2:03.7 | So all of this went toward the state's motive for saying, why are we saying this husband and |
| 2:10.6 | father killed these members of his own family? |
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