Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought against him by the mother of a 19-year-old woman killed when his drunken son drove his boat into a bridge piling in February 2019.

According to WCSC, Murdaugh’s insurance company agreed to a $500,000 payout for the family of Mallory Beach on the condition that Murdaugh was dropped from the lawsuit, and the judge approved it.

Beach was among several young people on the boat that night. Her body was thrown into the water and not found for a week, as CrimeOnline reported.

The crash came two and a half years before Paul Murdaugh and his mother Maggie Murdaugh were gunned down on the family’s Colleton County hunting estate. Alex Murdaugh, the disbarred scion of the South Carolina legal family, was convicted of their murders last year and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.

Paul Murdaugh was charged in the accident, but the charges were dropped after his murder.

Renee Beach, Mallory’s mother, filed suit against Alex Murdaugh, his wife, their older son Buster Murdaugh, and Greg Parker and his Parker Corporation — which owned the convenience store where Paul bought his alcohol — for monetary damages.

Parker and his company settled with the family for $15 million in July 2023. The family also settled with Buster Murdaugh and his mother’s estate earlier in the year.

In addition to the life sentences for the murder charges, Murdaugh is serving 40 years after pleading guilty to stealing millions of dollars from his former clients and his former law firm.

His attorneys are appealing the convictions on the murder charges.

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[Featured image: Mallory Beach/Facebook and Alex Murdaugh/South Carolina Department of Corrections]