Alex Murdaugh testified on Friday that he took 2,000 mg of oxycontin in the months leading up to Paul and Maggie’s 2021 murders. Alex also stated that there were instances in which he took more than 60 pills a day, though it depended on the strength of the pill. He explained that the oxycodone pills …
Alex Murdaugh testified on Friday that he still believes the deadly 2019 boat crash involving Paul played a role in Paul and Maggie’s 2021 murders. Alex said that he believes social media posts regarding Paul’s alleged drunk boating incident may have emboldened someone to kill him and Maggie. Alex noted that he believed this immediately …
On Friday, a Georgia grand jury indicted a suspect in last year’s slaying of an elderly woman who was found fatally stabbed in her garage. Eleanor Bowles’ son said Antonio Brown, 23, was formally charged with 11 counts, including first-degree murder. Bowles’ son discovered the 77-year-old’s body at her Buckhead home on December 10 while …
An inmate in South Carolina’s Ridgeland Correctional Institute is being charged with making the bomb threat that temporarily halted Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial earlier this month. The Colleton County courthouse was evacuated on February 8 after courthouse personnel received the bomb threat, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The trial was halted until about 2:30 p.m. while …
Days before a preliminary hearing in the involuntary manslaughter case against actor Alex Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the Santa Fe district attorney has added two names to her already extensive witness list — “Rust” movie assistant director David Halls and Matt Hutchins, husband of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was shot dead during a …
Prosecutors rested their case Friday against disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, wrapping up the state’s testimony with a final witness to tie up phone and GPS information that had been given to jurors over the past two weeks of trial. A new piece of information: Paul and Maggie Murdaugh apparently uncovered Alex Murdaugh’s drug …
Prosecutors in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial put a witness on the stand Thursday to testify about the disgraced former lawyer’s botched “suicide for hire” scheme, which played out a day after his family’s storied law firm kicked him out and three months after his wife and son were shot to death on the family’s …
The Idaho counties of Kootenai and Latah have agreed on a $200 per hour payment for the public defender appointed to represent college murders suspect Bryan Kohberger. KREM obtained a copy of the agreement through a public records request with Kootenai County, where public defender Anne Taylor is employed. She was appointed to represent Kohberger …
Judge Clifton Newman, who earlier had barred testimony about Alex Murdaugh’s alleged ‘suicide for hire’ plot, reversed his ruling Wednesday afternoon.
A Wisconsin woman who allegedly strangled her lover with a chain and then dismembered his body attacked her attorney in court on Tuesday, all of it caught on camera. Taylor Schabusiness, 25, was sitting at the defense table along with lawyer Quinn Jolly when she suddenly stood up and began striking Jolly with her handcuffed …
Alex Murdaugh’s legal team is reportedly considering having him take the stand in his own defense during his ongoing double murder trial. A source close to the defense team told WCBD that if Alex does testify, it would happen in the next week or two. The prosecution is currently presenting evidence and witnesses but they …
A Georgia judge has ruled that court proceedings in Leilani Simon’s trial for the murder of her 20-month-old son Quinton Simon will not be livestreamed. Prosecutors had asked the Judge Tammy Stokes bar cameras from the courtroom, citing privacy concerns for Quinton’s surviving siblings, while defense attorneys had said they were concerned about their mother’s …
