NBC News reported that within days, authorities determined that Alex Murdaugh had hired a hit man to kill him during a fake roadside breakdown so his older son, Buster, could collect on a $10 million life insurance policy. On September 16, 2021, Alex turned himself in and was charged with insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, and filing a false police report. He was granted bond and allowed to return to a rehab facility. He was arrested after his release in October and charged with two more crimes, these ones related to obtaining property by false pretenses following an investigation into millions missing from a settlement involving the 2018 death of Gloria Satterfield, a woman who worked as a housekeeper for the Murdaugh family. In July 2022, Alex was both officially disbarred and charged with the murder of his wife and son. He pleaded not guilty. By December, Alex had been charged with over 100 finance-related crimes, and prosecutors announced they would seek a sentence of life without parole for the double murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.
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Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial began on January 23, 2023, and has followed the same line of general mayhem that has been in place for the Murdaugh saga for years. The latest bizarre string of events all took place within one week’s time, per The Independent. On February 8, just after 12:30 p.m., someone called in a bomb threat to the Colleton County Courthouse, leading to an evacuation of the entire building.
