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Alex Murdaugh Called Wife’s Cell After He Killed Her, Prosecutors Say

‘THEY DIDN’T SEE A THREAT COMING’

Alex Murdaugh’s defense insisted, however, that the former lawyer did not brutally “butcher” two of his family members in June 2021.

Pilar Melendez
Pilar Melendez 

Senior National Reporter

Alex Murdaugh sits in the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, as his attorneys discuss motions in front of Judge Clifton Newman.
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Pilar Melendez

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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