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After months of speculation, South Carolina prosecutors are showing how they plan to prove that Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife and child last June—a crime they say was a deliberate attempt to turn the spotlight away from his financial ruin.
Part of a motion filed Thursday by the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office doubled down on what was already known: That the former attorney allegedly engaged in a 15-year scheme to swindle upwards of $8.7 million away from his clients and law firm in an attempt to maintain his “fantasy persona of wealth, respectability, and prominence alive.”
But the document went on to connect the dots in a sprawling family and community murder saga for the first time.