re: Investigators When they KNEW Murdaugh lied (Page 112)

Lol. Guilty verdict on all counts within 3 hours!

AM & cousin Eddie were accused of a drug and money laudering ring.

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A new prison cell

Murdaugh was handed two consecutive life terms at his sentencing on 3 March, hours after the guilty verdict came down. The sentence will be served at one of the state’s seven maximum security prisons, which only house violent criminals.

Upon leaving the court, he was to be handed over to the custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDOC) and taken to the Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia.

All male inmates are originally taken to this facility after sentencing, which is one of the state’s maximum security prisons.

Once there, he is expected to have a two-month evaluation including mental and physical health checks.

This evaluation – together with the inmate classification system – will be used to determine which of South Carolina’s highest-security prisons Murdaugh will be sent to spend the duration of his sentence.

The evaluation process takes about 45 days, the SCDOC said in a statement following Murdaugh’s sentencing.

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700 years for financial crimes

Separate to the murder case, Murdaugh is facing a staggering 99 charges from 19 separate indictments for a string of financial fraud schemes.

He is accused of stealing at least $8.7m from settlements from dozens of legal clients he represented through his law firm PMPED.

Part of the plots involved Murdaugh negotiating wrongful death and other settlements for his clients and then stealing the money for himself, according to prosecutors.

The alleged schemes date back as far as 2011 but were on the brink of being exposed at the time of the murders.

During his trial, prosecutors said that Murdaugh killed his wife and son to distract from his financial crimes.

Among the slew of charges are counts of: fraud, attempted tax evasion, money laundering, embezzlement, obtaining signature or property by false pretenses, forgery, insurance fraud, and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud.

Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

But, in court during his murder trial, he confessed under oath to stealing from PMPED and at least 18 law firm clients.

Among the victims are the family of Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh family housekeeper who died in a mysterious trip and fall death back in 2018.

He faces up to 700 years in prison on these financial fraud charges.

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Charges over botched hitman plot

Murdaugh is also facing charges over a bizarre September 2021 botched hitman plot.

On 4 September 2021 – three months on from the murders and one day after he was ousted from his law firm for stealing funds – Murdaugh was shot on the side of a road in Hampton County.

He survived and called 911, claiming he was ambushed in a drive-by shooting while changing a tire on his vehicle.

He was treated at a hospital for what police called a “superficial gunshot wound to the head,” but his story quickly unravelled.

Mr Murdaugh’s version of events rapidly fell apart and he confessed to asking Curtis Eddie Smith to shoot and kill him in an assisted suicide plot so that his surviving son Buster could get a $12m life insurance windfall.

Mr Smith, 62, is Mr Murdaugh’s alleged drug dealer, distant cousin and former law firm client.

Both men were arrested and charged over the incident and are currently awaiting trial on the charges.

They were both later hit with fresh charges of narcotics and criminal conspiracy over an alleged drug and $2.4m money laundering ring.

More crimes including details of his housekeepers death and the Smith boy on the side of the road

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Did AM make history? Has anyone ever been convicted to 700 years plus TWO life sentences?

I realize the financial crimes of up to 700 years are moot now. But damn.

In the "Obsessed Ex-Boyfriend" trial in Kenosha, they found blood of the victim in the back of the defandants van. And residue of bleach.

It appears so

What was the big deal about this particular murder that takes up all of the news?

That Watts deal had some marital issues involved with it if I'm not mistaken...old boy got caught cheating and the wife was about to leave his arse and take all the kids.

It's possible Murdaugh had the same I reckon....BUT I suspect that if it were the prosecution would have focused on that rather than telling me that he murdered his wife and son to take attention away from a fraud case even if it was a 9+ million dollar fraud.

I mean nobody smart says, "I'm going to kill my wife and son to take attention away from my fraud case even though at some point I'll probably be a prime suspect in their murder!!!"

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But he will be in a state prison where most will have no idea who he is and who his family are

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News travels quickly in prison.

You'll be hard pressed to find anyone in the prison where he ends up that doesn't at least know the new guy is former attorney from a very wealthy family who killed his wife and son.

I wasn't saying the situations were analogous really, just throwing in an example I came across of an otherwise normal situation where a parent just snaps and commits horrible acts against their family.

He will be at Kirkland Correctional Institution-State Prison for 45 days. For his charges what prison do you think they will send him to for life?

They have black markets in prison to buy ramen noodles, good food, meth, drugs. Will Randy send him money so he can bribe people and take over the prison yard?

ETA added other things he could also buy before the Ohio guy pounces