Tales of intrigue and gossip encircling the Murdaugh dynasty continue to unfold in South Carolina’s low country where only six months ago, after a lengthy trial culminating in barely three hours of deliberations, jurors handed down guilty verdicts to Alex Murdaugh in the killings of his wife and son.
The speed of those jury deliberations, and what may have moved jurors to swiftly decide the six-week case, now lies at the heart of the most shocking twist in the saga yet – a claim of jury tampering brought by Murdaugh’s defense team against the court clerk.