Alex Murdaugh Admits on Stand to Lying to Police After Murders of Wife, Son: 'What a Tangled Web We Weave'

On Thursday,disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaughtook the stand in his own defense during his ongoing murder trial in the 2021 deaths of his wife and son.During the weeks-long trial, prosecutors revealed evidence that seemingly proved Murdaugh repeatedly lied about his whereabouts on the day his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, were killed.When his own defense attorneys began questioning Murdaugh on the stand, they asked him directly if he lied to law enforcement about his whereabouts on the night of the murders — and Murdaugh answered that he had.

Alex Murdaugh Admits to Taking Up to 60 Pills of Oxycodone a Day Before Murders of Wife and Son

Alex Murdaugh on Jan. 27, 2023.Photo: Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP Alex Murdaughwas so addicted to opioids that he admitted to taking more than 2,000 milligrams of pain killers a day in the months before the 2021 shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul. “There were days where I took more than that,” Murdaugh told South Carolina prosecutor Creighton Waters in court Friday, adding that sometimes he took “less than that.

Alex Murdaugh Allegedly Lured Wife to Cabin on Night She Was Killed — and She Texted Friend It Seemed 'Fishy'

On the evening of June 7, 2021,Alex Murdaughallegedly reached out to his wifeMaggie, asking her to meet him at the family’s 1,770-acre estate in the small town of Islandton, S.C. According to a law enforcement source close to the investigation, Alex told Maggie that his 81-year-old father, Randolph Murdaugh III, was in failing health and that she needed to see him before he died. According to several sources, Maggie and Alex hadhit a rough patch in their marriage, and she was staying at the family’s beach house on Edisto Island, approximately an hour away from the family’s estate.

Alex Murdaugh Allegedly Told Sister-in-Law that Wife, Son Didn't Suffer During Killings, But Denied Murder

Maggie, Paul and Alex Murdaugh.Alex Murdaughallegedly reassured his sister-in-law that his wife and son did not suffer when they were killed, reports say.Weeks into the trial of the once powerful and prominent South Carolina attorney, the prosecution called Murdaugh’s sister-in-law, Marian Proctor, to the stand Tuesday, where she testified that she asked Murdaugh if her sister “had suffered” when she was shot to death.“He assured me that she had not,” Proctor said,The Statereports.

Alex Murdaugh Arrested, Accused of Stealing $4.3M of Late Housekeeper's Insurance Settlement

Alex Murdaughhas been arrested and charged with misappropriating insurance settlement funds in the wrongful death suit that followed the mysterious trip and fall death of his longtime housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, authorities announced. On Thursday morning, agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement took the longtime attorney, 52, into custody as he left a drug rehabilitation facility in Orlando, Fla., SLED wrote in a release.