For years, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh looked his anguished clients in the eyes and promised to help them with their medical bills, their suffering or simply to survive. Then he stole some,

The judge that presided over Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial has agreed to step aside as the former lawyer convicted of killing his wife and younger son seeks a new trial because of alleged jury tamperin

Murdaugh, who faced scores of charges, pleaded guilty on Nov. 17 in a plea agreement prosecutor Creighton Waters said covered multiple charges across multiple indictments from multiple counties.

Judge Clifton Newman will not hear Alex Murdaugh’s request for a new murder trial, according to the S.C. Supreme Court, but the judge will still preside over the disbarred attorney’s

Ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been confronted in court by his fraud victims, with one telling him: "You chose to break the law that you swore to uphold." As his victims spoke, he appeared to listen closely as he sat in the courtroom in an orange jumpsuit.

"You lied, you cheated, you stole," a son of Murdaugh's late housekeeper said at the sentencing hearing. "You betrayed me and my family and everybody else."

Sentencing marks only the latest chapter in the Murdaugh saga, as he continues to fight his conviction over the June 2021 murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul

Convicted killer and disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was sentenced on Tuesday to 27 years for financial crimes he committed against his clients over the course of a decade.