Buster Murdaugh

Where is Buster Murdaugh, son of Alex Murdaugh, now? · Buster Murdaugh listens during Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in ...

21 his father was barely able to speak the first time he saw him after the killings. Murdaugh turned himself in to authorities on Sept. [NBC News reported](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bail-set-55-000-alleged-hit-man-accused-attempting-stage-n1279342). Before getting into the boat, Paul Murdaugh used his older's ID to purchase alcohol for the night, as shown in footage played during the first episode of "Murdaugh Murders." Investigators reopened the case into Smith's death after the deaths of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, S.C. [NBC News reported](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-man-charged-assisted-suicide-shooting-alex-murdaugh-n1279208). "Murdaugh Murders" also mentions the mysterious 2015 death of Buster Murdaugh's friend from high school, Stephen Smith, which remains unsolved. [NBC News reported](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-lawyer-alex-murdaugh-suffered-superficial-injuries-shooting-authorities-n1278550). [The South Carolina Attorney General's Office](https://www.scag.gov/about-the-office/news/attorney-general-alan-wilson-announces-state-grand-jury-issues-a-new-round-of-indictments-against-richard-alexander-murdaugh-for-breach-of-trust-money-laundering-computer-crimes-and-forgery/) alleges Alex Murdaugh stole nearly $8.5 million from his clients at his law firm over 11 years, accounting for 99 charges across more than a dozen indictments. "He has put his desire to go to law school on hold for now," Griffin said. [NBC News reported](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-lawyer-alex-murdaugh-shot-three-months-after-wife-n1278523). You’ve got to treat it like a job.

Buster Murdaugh, the surviving son of Alex Murdaugh — convicted of killing wife Maggie and son Paul — faces a tough future in South Carolina.

Local outlet, [The Post and Courier](https://www.postandcourier.com/murdaugh-updates/alex-murdaughs-jailhouse-tapes-have-dried-up-what-did-they-tell-us/article_e103cea8-3061-11ed-a207-57bb967ad471.html) reported that “the family had paid a well-connected Columbia lawyer, Butch Bowers, some $60,000 to help secure Buster’s readmittance.” Buster had been a law student there as well until he was expelled, allegedly over a plagiarism incident, the Said another family acquaintance: “I didn’t know Buster well but he always put on good manners for me. “He asked me if I was sitting down, and I was like, ‘Yeah,'” Buster testified. Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, were [ shot dead at the kennels of the family’s hunting estate ](https://nypost.com/2023/01/20/murdaugh-murders-forensic-report-reveals-gruesome-details-about-paul-maggie/)in South Carolina’s Lowcountry on the night of June 7, 2021. Buster showed none of that emotion when he was grilled by defense attorney Jim Griffin, an old Murdaugh family friend. “Then he sounded odd and then he told me that my mom and brother had been shot. I was in shock.” “I think [Buster] will stick with his uncles and stay out on Hilton Head. “No person with a heart and soul cannot feel sympathy for that young man,” Columbia, SC, attorney Joseph M. I’m glad he has a girlfriend who seems so supportive.” McCulloch Jr., a Murdaugh family friend, told The Post.

Buster Murdaugh, 26, is the only surviving son of Alex and Maggie Murdaugh after his brother Paul and mom were brutally murdered in June 2021.

Prosecutor John Meadors asked gentle questions of Buster Murdaugh in his cross examination, clarifying and emphasizing a few discrepancies in the testimony. Her cause of death was blunt force trauma and drowning. Neither gun used in the killings has been found. At the time of Maggie's death Moselle was no longer a home for her, it was an asset. 'He has put his desire to go to law school on hold for now,' the Murdaugh's lawyer told The Post and Courier. Investigators have suggested he parked behind the house to get rid of evidence that has never been found, like both guns or bloody clothing. Murdaugh's brother John Marvin and surviving son Buster sat behind him in the courtroom every day. Her body was found five days later. Prosecutors have suggested Alex Murdaugh left the device behind so it wouldn't be where the killings took place. He has really closed off and built walls around himself,' the friend added. He was heartbroken. It is unknown if the college graduate is working at this time or receiving any kind of income.

On the evening of July 18, 1940, Randolph Murdaugh Sr. was on his way home from a friend's home when his car mysteriously stopped on a railroad track.

However, in 2021, several months after the murders of Maggie and Paul, authorities announced they were reopening the investigation into Satterfield's death. Murdaugh still faces dozens of charges for alleged financial crimes, including misappropriating money from his law firm, defrauding clients of funds and computer crimes. The case was privately settled and Murdaugh Jr. He was sentenced to two life sentences. Before he could attend his trial, Paul, 22, was shot to death along with his mother Maggie, 52, at their hunting lodge in Islandton, S.C. detailed what he has learned about the eerie death of Randolph Murdaugh Sr., in 1940, after his firm became preeminent in the state's Lowcountry region. Then, three months after the murders, on Sept. The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours. Four generations later, untimely deaths still surrounded the Murdaugh family. A decade after the firm's founding, Murdaugh Sr. waved at the train as it was speeding toward him. Around 1 a.m., when he was returning home, his car mysteriously stopped at a railroad crossing and within minutes, a freight train slammed into his car, killing him instantly.