A South Carolina jury found former attorney Richard “Alex” Murdaugh guilty of killing his wife and son on Thursday after merely three hours of deliberation, closing the six-week trial and one of the most high-profile criminal cases in the history of South Carolina.
The 12-person jury declared Murdaugh, 54, guilty on two counts of murdering his wife, Maggie, 52, and their youngest son, Paul, 22. Murdaugh had pleaded not guilty.
“The circumstantial evidence, direct evidence—all of the evidence pointed to one conclusion, and that’s the conclusion that you all reached,” Clifton Newman, the judge overseeing the case, told jurors after the verdict was announced….