Pre-conviction telephone conversations between Alex Murdaugh and his son provide insight into Buster Murdaugh’s life then and now, and depict a surprisingly typical father-son relationship. In a November 2021 conversation, per The Post and Courier, Alex doles out advice about Buster’s law studies at the University of South Carolina, saying, “You need to get ready for this law school, now okay. I mean, you’ve got to really buckle down. You’ve got to treat it like a job. You’re going to have to read these cases two and three times if you don’t fully understand them … Because you know there’s not going to be another chance … I mean, no way shape or form is there going to be another chance. You do truly understand that?”
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Alex’s reference to the lack of another chance assumedly refers to how he paid $60,000 to get Buster back into school following poor grades and a plagiarism incident, per The State. Now, Alex’s words seem doubly related to his own inability to ever again intervene on his son’s behalf, and his son’s ability to outlive his father’s deeds. And indeed, in September 2022, Murdaugh’s lawyer Butch Bowers told The Post and Courier of Buster, “He has put his desire to go to law school on hold for now. There is no plan for him to start school in the fall or in the spring.” According to The State, Buster was not enrolled in law school in September 2023.
