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00:00 Where is Alex Murdaugh today?
00:02 The new season of Netflix's Murdaugh Murders
00:04 reveals what happened after he was accused of murdering his wife and son.
00:08 Netflix docuseries Murdaugh Murders.
00:10 A southern scandal focuses on the tragedies in the Murdaugh family.
00:14 On June 7, 2021, Maggie Murdaugh and her son Paul were killed on their property in South Carolina.
00:20 Season 2 of the series focuses on the aftermath of their deaths and patriarch Alex Murdaugh's trial.
00:25 Season 1 of Netflix's true crime docuseries Murdaugh Murders.
00:28 A southern scandal introduced viewers to the Murdaugh family,
00:31 a wealthy, powerful family from Hampton County, South Carolina.
00:34 A number of suspicious deaths have been connected to the family over the years,
00:38 including the February 2018 death of their longtime family housekeeper, 57-year-old Gloria Satterfield.
00:44 The first season of Murdaugh Murders focused largely on the Murdaugh's youngest son Paul Murdaugh's involvement
00:50 in the 2019 boat crash that led to the death of 19-year-old Mallory Beach.
00:55 According to a wrongful death suit filed by Beach's mother,
00:58 Paul was drunk and driving the boat at the time of the crash.
01:01 Paul Murdaugh was charged with three felony counts related to the crash in April 2019
01:06 and pleaded not guilty to all charges.
01:08 But Paul, who was out on bail at the time, never had the chance to make it to trial.
01:12 The young man and his mother, Maggie Murdaugh, were shot dead on their property in Islington, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021.
01:20 The charges against Paul were formally dropped months after his death in August 2021.
01:25 The elder Murdaugh, who made the 911 call to inform authorities that his wife and son had been shot,
01:31 was ultimately identified as a person of interest in their murders.
01:34 But he was also separately indicted on other fraud and conspiracy charges,
01:38 some of which were related to the housekeeper Satterfield's death.
01:41 So, where is Alex Murdaugh today?
01:43 Here's what we know about what happened to him after the 2021 deaths of his wife Maggie and son Paul.
01:48 Murdaugh was found guilty of killing Maggie and Paul in March 2023.
01:52 In July 2022, Murdaugh was arrested and indicted on two counts of murder for the deaths of Maggie and Paul.
01:59 As reported by insiders Ashley Coleman and Lloyd Lee,
02:02 Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife Maggie and youngest son Paul in March 2023.
02:07 He was sentenced to one life sentence for each of the murders.
02:10 He's currently serving his time at an undisclosed maximum security prison in South Carolina, per CBS News.
02:16 In September 2021, prior to being indicted for the murders,
02:19 Murdaugh was arrested and charged with conspiracy and fraud for his involvement in an assisted suicide scheme in September 2021.
02:27 According to the New York Times, Murdaugh admitted days before his arrest to asking a former client named Curtis Edward Smith
02:33 to shoot and kill him so that his surviving son Richard Buster Murdaugh could collect insurance money.
02:38 He was shot in the head, but survived.
02:40 Murdaugh was also charged with crimes in the aftermath of Gloria Satterfield's death.
02:44 Upon Murdaugh's release from a drug detoxification center in Florida in October 2021,
02:49 he was arrested and charged with fraudulent activity for misleading his former housekeeper Gloria Satterfield's sons after her death.
02:56 Satterfield died in February 2018 after she was reported to have fallen down the stairs of the family's hunting estate.
03:02 Murdaugh reportedly told Satterfield's sons he was responsible for her death
03:06 and was going to sue himself so that her family would be financially taken care of.
03:10 Satterfield's sons said they never received any money.
03:13 Satterfield's death investigation was not reopened.
03:16 Murdaugh was indicted on 22 fraud-related charges in May 2023 for cheating Satterfield's estate and insurance providers out of $3.5 million.
03:24 In September 2023, he agreed to plead guilty to all 22 counts.
03:29 While his plea agreement does not have a formal sentence recommendation,
03:32 it notes that if Murdaugh complies with the terms of his plea agreement,
03:36 government attorneys will recommend that any federal sentence be served concurrent to any state sentence served for the same conduct.
03:42 His disturbing docuseries is the top show on Netflix right now.
03:46 Murdaugh Murders
03:47 A Southern Scandal is currently the most popular show on Netflix, according to the streaming service's public ranking system.
03:53 The true crime docuseries covers a prominent South Carolina family connected with multiple horrific deaths,
03:59 including the drunken boating accident that killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach and the shooting of matriarch Maggie Murdaugh and her 22-year-old son Paul.
04:08 While the first three-part season of Murdaugh Murders was released on February 22,
04:13 the second season premiered on September 20 and covers Alex Murdaugh's murder trial,
04:17 which ended on March 2 with a guilty verdict and two consecutive life sentences.
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05:14 The series stars Theresa Palmer as a reluctant witch who must team up with a vampire, played by Matthew Goode, to ward off threats from magical creatures.
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05:28 The Morning Show, which depicts the on- and off-camera happenings around a fictional broadcast news program.
05:33 The third season premiered on September 13, just a few months after Apple renewed the series for a fourth season.
05:39 As the title suggests, this Amazon Prime Video show is based on the 2011 young adult novel Shelter by novelist Harlan Coben.
05:46 The mystery drama premiered on August 18, with the final dropping on September 22.
05:51 Jaden Michaels stars as a teen who finds himself caught up in the disappearance of a classmate at his new school in suburban New Jersey following the death of his father.
05:59 Prosecutor Murdaugh's defense lawyers are newest stars in America's true crime scene.
06:04 Last year at this time, few outside South Carolina knew the names of the key lawyers in the Alex Murdaugh murder saga.
06:10 But due to national television coverage of the six-week Murdaugh murder trial last winter,
06:14 Prosecutor Cregan Waters of the S.C. Attorney General's Office and defense attorneys Dick Harputlian and Jim Griffin have transcended the courtroom,
06:22 catapulted into the public eye, and become the newest stars in the dark galaxy of American true crime.
06:27 The crime in question, of course, is the still-mysterious and ultra-violent killings of Murdaugh's wife, Maggie,
06:33 and son Paul on the family's remote 1,770-acre estate in Royal Colleton County, South Carolina, on June 6, 2021.
06:42 The two death weapons, a shotgun and an assault rifle, have never been found.
06:47 At Murdaugh's trial, Waters and his team of prosecutors and investigators used reams of circumstantial evidence to convince a jury of his guilt.
06:55 Murdaugh, 55, is now serving two life without parole sentences.
06:59 Harputlian and Griffin, vanquished in the courtroom, are appealing and content he is innocent.
07:04 On Saturday afternoon, at this year's annual CrimeCon conference in Orlando, more than 2,000 attended a panel called "The Fall of a Southern Giant."
07:12 Inside the prosecution of Alex Murdaugh, held in a huge auditorium with Waters as the only speaker, two court TV journalists, Julie Grant and Matt Johnson, moderated.
07:22 Waters' remarks were frequently applauded. Giant television screens brought his image home to the far reaches of the Great Hall.
07:28 Waters told the audience he was not there to advocate a position, but wanted to explain his thinking about some parts of the trial and tell anecdotes about his team and how we survived that six weeks.
07:38 He also said people should not forget this, this was a terrible tragedy and we have to remember what the basis for this is.
07:44 "Ultimately, our job is to do justice," Waters said.
07:47 Harputlian and Griffin appeared later, on a separate panel in the same hall with ABC correspondent Eva Pilgrim doing the questioning.
07:54 It attracted a slightly more skeptical crowd of some 1,300 plus.
07:58 In an hour-long session, they contended the Murdaughs were a loving family, the state's case was flawed, that Murdaugh was innocent, and, in an allegation they have made in court appeals seeking a new trial, that Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill had improperly influenced the jury to vote for a guilty verdict.
08:14 Harputlian described her as a "dead mother" who crossed a line with great behind-the-scenes influence over the jury.
08:20 Hill has not commented, but supporters say she didn't act improperly.
08:24 "The law will not permit this verdict to stand," said Griffin, explaining that the defense team's potential appeals include going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
08:31 Harputlian said he and Griffin are seeking a hearing where all the jurors will testify under oath about what Hill told them.
08:37 If they win a new trial, it will be held in a different county from Colleton and all jurors will be sequestered for the trial's duration to produce a jury that is not precooked.
08:46 Harputlian said, "Have you sleep at night?"
08:48 One man asked Harputlian after the lawyers said he had defended killers he knew were guilty.
08:53 "I'm doing my job," Harputlian told him, "and as long as I'm doing my job with integrity, the state has the burden of proving its case. That's how the system works," he said.
09:02 More than 5,000 people paid to attend the weekend's CrimeCon 2023 convention, an immersive, weekend-long event dedicated to all things true crime and mystery, organizers said.
09:12 "The gathering of so many crime-obsessed people to attend sessions on America's most horrific crimes is an event, like Woodstock in the 1960s, that somehow catches the spirit of our age with its macabre background soundtrack of terrifying murders, mysterious disappearances, stranger abductions, and serial killers.
09:29 I used to read Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys when I was younger. From that point on, I was just a true crime junkie," said Lynn Street Phillips, 72, retired postmaster from Syracuse, New York, with her friend, Marion Garlip, 58, an information technology specialist.
09:45 Most attendees are female. Women are especially attracted to true crime because they feel vulnerable for themselves and their children.
09:51 True crime celebrity television personality Nancy Grace explained to an audience of more than 1,500 Friday night. "They sense that a knowledge of the world's evils can prepare them to better protect themselves," she said.
10:03 The convention was at the 2,000-plus-room, 28-story Orlando World Center Marriott, a sprawling hotel complex in central Florida's marshy lowlands near Disney World.
10:13 Sessions were held in auditoriums large enough to hold simultaneous gatherings of more than 1,000 people each.
10:19 More than 80 panels featured police, prosecutors, profilers, podcasters, defense lawyers, victims, and writers who held forth on every crime on evil's spectrum.
10:28 Topics included the latest on the Idaho killer, the Pulse nightclub shooting, the Long Island serial killer, the Golden State serial killer, and forums on bloodstains and DNA, to name a few.
10:38 Nonviolent, white-collar financial crimes are not part of the mix. Attendees got chances to mix and mingle, albeit briefly, with the speakers.
10:46 Afterwaters, Harputlian, and Griffin spoke. They attended meet-and-greets, where people took selfies with them and sometimes got their autographs.
10:54 Harputlian said, "I was surprised at how knowledgeable these people are. They know details I didn't know."
10:59 CrimCon costs
11:00 CrimCon is not cheap. A standard wear-around-the-neck pass that gets you into most of the 90-plus sessions costs $349. A gold pass that secures up-front seating and other perks in popular sessions is $799.
11:14 And a platinum pass that offers perks and access to featured speakers costs $1,499.
11:20 None of the tickets include meals or hotel room, but do come with a free CrimCon 2023 t-shirt. Platinum passes got their bearers into a special non-publicized 3 p.m. Saturday session with Harputlian and Griffin.
11:32 "I wouldn't pay that much to see me," quit Harputlian.
11:34 Unlike another, similarly named convention, ComicCon, CrimCon does not allow attendees to wear costumes of, say, serial killers.
11:42 "Cosplay, dressing up in theme or as a character, is prohibited as creating an environment of respect and learning is paramount," says a ComicCon behavior guideline.
11:50 But there's plenty of CrimCon atmosphere.
11:52 People who paid for tickets got black tote bags with the word "EVIDNC" in big white letters on them.
11:58 T-shirts and sweatshirts with messages like "Oh that pesky DNA" in them are only here for an alibi and "Solve the case" abounded.
12:05 A cup for sale read "Talk motive to me."
12:07 Dozens of true crime books were on sale, including everything from "Trail of the Lost" about missing hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail to Ann Rule's classic about serial killer Ted Bundy, "The Stranger Beside Me."
12:18 Waters, Harputlian, and Griffin said they were only paid for expenses, airfare, and lodging.
12:23 They said they came to talk about their role in one of today's most publicized stories in the world of justice and true crime.
12:29 "I'm not paid to speak. I'm a public servant," Waters said, explaining he checked out CrimCon before agreeing to attend to see that it was respectful.
12:36 Once that happened, it seemed like it would be an interesting event.
12:39 As Waters made clear to his huge Saturday audience, "I just try to focus on the process of the trial and tell a few behind-the-scenes anecdotes. I wasn't there to advocate a position," he said.
12:49 Harputlian said he came because "Jim and I have a story to tell."
12:52 Waters, besides being a top prosecutor, is also a formidable musician and the lead bass guitarist in a Columbia rock band, The Soul Purpose.
13:00 On Thursday night, he and his band held a pre-convention concert for CrimCon-goers, playing classic rock hits from the '60s, '70s, and '80s, including hits by groups like The Rolling Stone and Leinard Skynard.
13:12 He distributed a few plastic guitar picks, as is the custom at such events.
13:16 "You jam on stage, and you jam in the courtroom," court TV moderator Matt Johnson gushed to Waters at his Saturday panel.
13:22 Stephen Smith, Kenny Kinsey, the crime scene investigator given credit for being a key prosecution witness at the Murdau trial for testimony that undermined the defense's two-shooter version of how Paul and Maggie were killed, was also a speaker at CrimCon.
13:37 On Friday, Kinsey held forth to a rapt audience of more than 1,000 who interrupted his talk with applause dozens of times.
13:44 At one point, when Kinsey mentioned the name of Prosecutor Waters, who was not in attendance at that event, the crowd erupted in applause, a measure of how well-known Waters has become in the true crime world.
13:54 Kinsey was asked about the mysterious death of Stephen Smith, the 19-year-old Hampton County man whose body was found on a rural road in 2015.
14:02 Various conspiracy theories publicized on social media have linked Smith's death to various members of the Murdau family, but no evidence has ever been found supporting those claims.
14:12 Kinsey, who was hired by lawyers for Smith's mother, said he knows the results of a second recent autopsy of Smith, but was not at liberty to share them.
14:20 Kinsey predicted the results will be made public soon.
14:22 Audience member Savannah Montgomery, 31, an event planner, and her husband, Ben, 33, an office manager from Atlanta, have been following the Murdau case since the beginning and were interested in what Kinsey had to say.
14:35 "He came across as very honest. I thought he used humor to talk about sensitive subjects, which helped it be more digestible and less traumatic," said Savannah.
14:43 "There are so many layers. There is so much that has been said about it, and so much that is unknown about it," said Ben.
14:49 "I wish we knew more about Stephen Smith. Maybe we'll get that soon," said Savannah.
14:53 Other major players in South Carolina's Murdau saga were not in Orlando.
14:57 They include Carlton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill, who was one of the first people out with a book after the trial and who has been accused of unlawful jury tampering that allegedly got the jury to rush to a guilty verdict.
15:08 Other non-attendees, State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel, Attorney General Alan Wilson, and State Judge Clifton Newman.
15:15 Griffin said, "It was an eye-opening experience. I did not know that anything like this existed. I'm amazed at the public interest in the genre of true crime. Whether it's a fad or here to stay, I don't know the answer to that."
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