Murdaugh, 55, convicted of murder of wife and son in 2021, says county clerk swayed jurors before they delivered guilty verdict
The saga of the South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, convicted of the murder of his wife and son, has taken a startling new twist with a hearing on possible jury tampering that he alleges resulted in a guilty verdict.
The Murdaugh killings in 2021 have gripped much of the US – and beyond – with their southern Gothic story of violence, corruption and twisted family dynamics playing out in a small South Carolina town. They have become the subject of fevered media attention, true crime podcasts and numerous television documentaries.