(NEW YORK) — Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., was interviewed by U.S. Secret Service agents in 2017 as part of an ATM fraud investigation that targeted a friend of his, sources familiar with the case told ABC News.
According to the sources, the case began when police in Seattle spotted an individual removing a device from a bank ATM known as a card skimmer, which is used to secretly steal users’ ATM card information.
That individual, Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, had been living in a Seattle hotel where authorities subsequently found multiple card-skimming devices, sources said.
The shipping address on the packaging for some of those items was the same address where Santos lived in Florida, the sources said.
It’s not known whether Santos was ever pursued as a target of the investigation, but Secret Service agents based in Orlando, Florida ended up interviewing him as part of the case, the sources said, confirming a development first reported by CBS News.
Trelha was ultimately convicted and sentenced on charges related to ATM-skimming and turned over to immigration authorities for deportation to Brazil — but not before Santos appeared in a Seattle courtroom on his friend’s behalf.
According to Politico, which first obtained audio of the hearing, Santos told the judge that he worked for Goldman Sachs in New York.
“I am an aspiring politician and I work for Goldman Sachs,” Santos said, according to the audio recording.
“You work for Goldman Sachs in New York?” the judge asked.
“Yup,” Santos responded.
As ABC News has previously reported, Santos did not work for the firm, as he later conceded in an interview with the New York Post. Instead, he claimed that a firm where he did work had partnerships with Goldman Sachs.
On Friday, Santos that he will comply “100%” with a House Ethics Committee investigation into numerous allegations against the freshman Republican. He did not address the ATM probe.
Travis Scott will reportedly turn himself in for questioning following allegations he punched a sound engineer in a New York City nightclub. According to New York Post, police sources say the rapper will fly to New York and speak to New York Police Department detectives as soon as Tuesday. He may be charged with assault, according to a police source.
The paper reports Scott is hoping to resolve things with the police, as his lawyer says this is a misunderstanding.
“While this is clearly a misunderstanding being blown out of proportion by clickbait and misinformation, we are actively working with the venue and law enforcement to resolve and set the record straight,” Scott’s lawyer Mitchell Schuster said in a statement. “We are confident our client will be cleared of any wrongdoing.”
As previously reported, Travis has been accused of punching a man named Mark at Don Toliver‘s Club Nebula after-party. Per The Post, sources say he climbed into the DJ booth during Don’s performance and got upset when the engineer started lowering the music. He allegedly caused $12,000 worth of damages, breaking an audio speaker and a video screen.
Mark tells The Post he went to a medical center in Jersey and was later discharged. He said he’s “just really sore” and has been cleared to work again, noting he “can’t lift anything over five pounds.”
Mark failed to disclose whether or not he plans to sue or press charges against Travis.
Universal’s hit killer doll movie M3GAN is a hit on streaming, too.
The thriller starring Allison Williams, Amie Donald, Jenna Davis and Violet McGraw debuted February 24 on Peacock and was the most-streamed movie in the States last week, according to data published by The Wrap.
The movie, which is available in both theatrical and unrated versions, knocked Netflix’s Your Place or Mine from the #1 slot.
Made for just $12 million, M3GAN scared up nearly $173 million worldwide. A sequel, M3GAN 2.0, has been slated for a January 17, 2025, release.
Col. Paris Davis speaks with ABC News on the day before his Medal of Honor ceremony. President Joe Biden is scheduled to award Davis with the Medal honor March 3, 2023. — ABC News
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to a Black Army Special Forces hero from the Vietnam War who has waited close to 60 years to receive the nation’s top award for valor after the Army said the paperwork couldn’t be found.
Then a 26-year-old captain, Paris Davis, now 83, led a company tearing through a larger enemy force, pushing the attack despite being shot, absorbing shrapnel and another bullet to get wounded comrades to safety, refusing to join them on the evacuation helicopter, choosing rather to stay and continue destroying the remaining adversaries.
At a White House ceremony, Biden called Davis “an incredible man.”
Picking up the story, Biden continued, “And although the men who were with him on that June day immediately nominated Captain Davis to receive the Medal of Honor, somehow the paper — the paperwork was never processed, not just once, but twice. But, you know what Captain Davis said after learning that he would finally receive the Medal of Honor? Quote, ‘America was behind me.'”
A colonel by the time he retired from the Army, Davis’ first name “Paris” is inspired by the mythological figure featured in Homer’s epic war poem “The Iliad.”
In 1965, already having served in Korea and Vietnam, Davis was told by his company commander he was destined for the treacherous Binh Dinh province.
“He said that it was overrun by the Viet Cong. He thought through my training and the way that I handled myself that I could handle being in a situation where there were more enemies than there were friends,” Davis told ABC News during an interview Thursday.
In the summer, Davis led three other Green Berets and what the Army calls “an inexperienced company of the 883rd South Vietnamese Regional Force” on an audacious raid against a North Vietnamese base.
Davis personally captured two enemy combatants.
“We caught the guards that were sleeping,” Davis said. “They gave us some information — exactly where the preponderance of the troops were.”
According to the Army, “he learned [from the captives] that a vastly larger enemy force was operating in the area.”
Not that Davis was surprised, he said.
“We knew that we were going to run into a hornet’s nest,” he recalled.
Davis took this not as a warning to withdraw, but as an opportunity to attack. On the night of June 17, he readied his men for a surprise raid, and at dawn led them through what would stretch into a grinding 19-hour battle.
“Davis was wounded leading the initial assault, but continued moving forward, personally engaging the enemy in hand-to-hand combat and killing several enemy soldiers,” the Army said in a release.
When the noncompliant enemy rallied with a counteroffensive, a bleeding Davis led a small team onward, destroying gun emplacements and earning more captives, the Army said.
He then consolidated his men to pull back and, while calling for artillery and aircraft attacks against the defenders, was hit by automatic weapons fire.
Davis was wounded again when an enemy soldier “engaged him at close range with his rifle,” the Army said. Davis tackled the enemy and “defeated” him — as the Army euphemistically puts it — with his bare hands.
Now injured several times over, Davis saw two American comrades seriously hurt, but across enemy lanes of fire.
“Davis made it to the first soldier under a hail of enemy fire and was shot once again. Despite his grievous wounds and with no regard for his own safety, Davis saved the soldier and returned him to the company’s perimeter. Davis again broke cover, braving enemy fire, to retrieve the second soldier. Crawling nearly 150 yards and wounded by enemy grenade fragments, he rescued the soldier and returned him to the company perimeter,” according to the Army.
At one point during the battle, Davis said he recalled a general observing the fight from a helicopter ordering him to leave before one of the wounded soldiers was flown out. He refused.
“He said, ‘You know you’re disobeying an order?’ And I said, ‘Yes, sir, I understand that. But I’m not leaving,'” Davis told ABC News.
Davis described a war of words with the senior officer.
“The general said … ‘If I was down there, I’d probably kick your ass.’ And I said, ‘You know what, general, there’s a lot of room down here.’ And that was the end of the conversation. He never landed, and never kicked his ass,” Davis said.
ABC News asked Davis what would have happened had he obeyed.
“If we had obeyed that order, there would have been soldiers that would have been just mutilated, because there [were] no other free forces available,” he said.
The Army credits Davis for having saved three men from enemy capture: Robert Brown, John Reinberg and Billy Waugh.
For his actions, he was awarded the nation’s third-highest military decoration, the Silver Star. But according to Davis, requests for his award to be upgraded to a Medal of Honor were inexplicably lost by the Army twice over the years.
Davis has speculated that his race could have played a factor.
“I wish I could say that this story of Paris’ sacrifice on that day in 1965, was fully recognized and rewarded immediately,” Biden said. “But sadly, we know they weren’t. At the time Captain Davis returned from war, the country is still battling segregation. He returned from Vietnam to experience some of his fellow soldiers crossing to the other side of the street when they saw him in America.”
Army officials said they cannot determine whether any records were lost, or under what circumstances.
“Due to lack of records, we cannot say for sure, but we are pleased that the president will soon bestow this overdue honor to Col. Paris Davis and his family,” Army spokeswoman Madison Bonzo told ABC News on Wednesday.
Davis credits a group of friends and comrades for refusing to let the Army forget his case.
Davis, his first name inspired by the ancients, alluded to Greek tragedy when explaining the resolution to his decadeslong trial.
“The soldiers that you served with, the soldiers you were in the war with, become that Greek chorus. They pick up the voice of saying ‘We aren’t gonna let this rest, we are going to keep after it until we get it done.’ And that’s the saving grace I’m so thankful for,” he said.
The Cranberries have released a new Dolby Atmos Music mix of the band’s 1993 debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, in honor of its 30th anniversary.
“The Atmos remixes are a whole different listening experience for us,” says drummer Fergal Lawler. “It feels more like being onstage at a concert, being surrounded by the band. There are certain intricate parts that subtly pop out every now and then, causing you to feel more immersed in the songs.”
You can listen to the Dolby Atmos Music mix now via digital outlets.
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? was first released March 1, 1993. The album’s been certified five-times Platinum by the RIAA, and spawned the hits “Dreams” and “Linger.”
The Cranberries followed Everybody Else with the seven-times Platinum No Need to Argue in 1994, which includes the single “Zombie.”
The latest — and final — Cranberries album is 2019’s In the End, which features the last vocal recordings of late frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan, who passed away in 2018.
(WASHINGTON) — Embattled New York Rep. George Santos said Friday that he will comply “100%” with the House Ethics Committee, which is probing numerous allegations against the freshman Republican.
The committee voted unanimously Thursday to establish an “Investigative Subcommittee” to look into the claims made against Santos, which is the panel’s first move toward formally investigating him.
Among the accusations the subcommittee will look at are whether Santos “engaged in unlawful activity with respect to his 2022 congressional campaign; failed to properly disclose required information on statements filed with the House; violated federal conflict of interest laws in connection with his role in a firm providing fiduciary services; and/or engaged in sexual misconduct towards an individual seeking employment in his congressional office,” according to a news release from the House Ethics Committee.
“I’m going to comply 100% with them,” Santos told ABC’s Gabe Ferris on Capitol Hill Friday, though he declined to answer a question about any information he may have already supplied to the committee.
Rep. David Joyce, R-Ohio, will serve as chair of the subcommittee, and Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., will serve as the ranking member.
In a brief statement on Twitter, Santos wrote that he was cooperating and that “there will be no further comment made at this time.”
Santos has previously acknowledged lying about some parts of his background, specifically about graduating from college — which he did not — but he has insisted his behavior was similar to routine resume embellishment.
He has denied any criminal wrongdoing, and he vowed before he took office that he would be “effective” for his constituents.
“If for some way when we go through Ethics [Committee] that he has broken the law, then we will remove him, but it’s not my role,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said in January. “I believe in the rule of law. A person’s innocent until proven guilty.”
If a majority of the Ethics Committee determines Santos has done something wrong, they can then file a recommendation to the full House for one or more punishments, including: expulsion, censure, reprimand, fine, denial of various responsibilities or any other sanction determined to be appropriate.
She’s scored an Oscar nomination and is filming a new movie, but Lady Gaga‘s still been out of the spotlight lately — and apparently that’s the way she wants it to be going forward.
Speaking with Wallpapermagazine in connection to her latest campaign for Dom Pérignon champagne, Gaga explains, “I’m actually really interested in living more of a life of solitude. It’s really nice to just have time to be alone, and be expansive, and know that you’re enough.”
“I wish I could tell my younger self that,” she adds. “When I was younger, I spent a lot of time alone writing music. But the more successful I became, the more I felt like I needed other people to tell me I was great.”
And contrary to what we might believe, Gaga claims, “I actually don’t spend a lot of time in Hollywood. I might look like I do, because sometimes award season happens and you see me on red carpets. But I’m very much at home working — that’s the thing that really makes me happy.”
The idea of creating in solitude is what inspired her new short film for Dom Pérignon, which through movement, music and dance draws a parallel between the process of creating music and the long process of crafting champagne.
She reveals, “I actually have [a bottle of Dom Pérignon] champagne in my house. It sounds silly, but it has a Post-it note on it and it says ‘For my next win.’ So I’m not allowed to drink it unless we have won something.”
Later this month, Gaga may have occasion to pop the cork: Her Top Gun: Maverick track “Hold My Hand” is nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars, which air March 12 on ABC.
Rush is celebrating another milestone anniversary with the release of Signals – 40th Anniversary, the latest edition to their 40th anniversary album series. Dropping April 28, Signals – 40th Anniversary will be available in three configurations, including a one-LP picture disc edition and a Dolby Atmos digital edition.
There will also be a super deluxe edition that includes one CD, one Blu-ray audio and one black-vinyl LP with new artwork from original album designer Hugh Syme. It will also include four 7-inch singles, “Subdivisions,” “Countdown,” “New World Man” and “The Weapon (Single Edit),” all with new artwork.
In addition, the super deluxe edition comes with a 40-page hardcover book, featuring song illustrations and new artwork from Syme, as well as unreleased photos from the Signals Tour. There’s also a double-sided 24-inch by 24-inch poster featuring Syme’s new Signals artwork and an outtake photo of the original album cover, plus a lot more.
The official Rush online store will also be selling a limited edition super deluxe box that comes with eight lithographs of the late Neil Peart’s original hand-drawn lyrics for each song on Signals.
Originally released in September 1982, Signals was Rush’s ninth studio album. It peaked at 10 in the U.S. and went on to be certified Platinum by the Recording Industry of America.
(WALTERBORO, S.C.) — Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was sentenced Friday to life in prison after being convicted of murdering his wife and their youngest son.
Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, 52, and Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found dead from multiple gunshot wounds near the dog kennels at the family’s estate in June 2021, authorities said.
Alex Murdaugh, 54, was found guilty Thursday on all charges — two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon in the commitment of a violent crime.
Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:
Mar 03, 10:12 AM EST
’You have to see Paul and Maggie during the night,’ judge says
Before imposing the sentence of life in prison, Judge Clifton Newman said, “This has been perhaps one of the most troubling cases, not just for me as a judge, for the state, for the defense team, but for all of the citizens in this community, all citizens in this state.”
“A person from a respected family who has controlled justice in this community for over a century. A person whose grandfather’s portrait hanging at the back of the courthouse that I had to have ordered removed in order to ensure that a fair trial was held by both the state and the defense,” he said.
To the convicted attorney, Newman said, “As a member of the legal community and a well-known member of the legal community, you’ve practiced law before me, and we’ve seen each other at various occasions throughout the years. And that was especially heartbreaking for me to see you go in the media from being a grieving father who lost a wife and a son to being the person indicted and convicted of killing them.”
“I know you have to see Paul and Maggie during the night when you are attempting to go to sleep,” the judge said. “I’m sure they come and visit you.”
“This case qualifies under our death penalty statute,” the judge said. “I don’t question at all the decision of the state not to pursue the death penalty. But as I sit here in this courtroom and look around the many portraits of judges and other court officials, and reflect on the fact that over the past century, your family, including you, have been prosecuting people here in this courtroom, and many have received the death penalty, probably for lesser conduct. … The question is, when will it end? When will it end? And it’s ended already for the jury, because they’ve concluded that you continue to lie and lied throughout your testimony.”
Mar 03, 10:10 AM EST
Alex Murdaugh gets life in prison
Alex Murdaugh was sentenced Friday to life in prison after being convicted of murdering his wife and their youngest son.
Before the judge imposed the sentence, Murdaugh said, “I’ll tell you again. I respect this court. But I am innocent, and I would never under any circumstances hurt my wife, Maggie, and I would never under any circumstances hurt my son, Paul.”
Mar 03, 10:03 AM EST
Prosecutor asks for consecutive life sentences
Before the sentence was announced, prosecutor Creighton Waters asked the judge to impose a maximum of consecutive life sentences.
Waters called Alex Murdaugh “a cunning manipulator, a man who placed himself above all others, including his family, a man who violated the trust of so many, including his friends, his family, his partners, his profession. But most of all, Maggie and Paul.”
“Both of them, like everyone else, was unaware of who he really was,” he said.
“I’ve looked at his eyes. And he liked to stare me down as he would walk by me during this trial. And I could see the real Alex Murdaugh when he looked at me,” Waters said. “The depravity, the callousness, the selfishness of these crimes are stunning. The lack of remorse and the effortless way in which he lies, including here sitting right over there, in this witness stand. Your honor, a man like that, a man like this man, should never be allowed to be among free, law-abiding citizens again.”
Mar 03, 9:56 AM EST
‘I’m innocent’
Alex Murdaugh gave a brief statement to the judge before sentencing, saying, “I’m innocent. I would never hurt my wife, Maggie, and I would never hurt my son, Paw-Paw.”
Mar 03, 9:29 AM EST
South Carolina attorney general speaks out ahead of sentencing
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said he hopes no one forgets the victims at the center of Alex Murdaugh’s trial, even as the case became “sensational” and “grabbed the attention of the world.”
“At the end of the day, two people were brutally murdered, they lost their lives, a family was destroyed, a legacy was torn asunder and there’s been a wake of victims going back decades, and we want to put the attention on them and let them know that their voice can be heard,” Wilson told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview Friday on Good Morning America.
Wilson said the disgraced lawyer has “been weaving a tangled web of lies for decades,” which the South Carolina attorney general said was evident when Murdaugh took the stand to testify in his own trial, after cellphone video had placed him at the scene minutes before the crime occurred.
“For so long, he’s been able to manipulate people and bend them to his will because he’s so good at what he does,” Wilson said. “He was a master at manipulating and communicating with juries and I believe when he took the stand, that was his last closing argument. He had done this for so long, he believed that he could get what he wanted out of this jury. And I think when he took the stand, he confirmed for many of those jurors what they had heard in that video — that he was a liar.”
Wilson said he was “pleasantly surprised” when he learned that the jury had returned a verdict in less than three hours and hoped it was a good sign.
“I didn’t know what to think,” he recalled. “I respect the process too much to be that confident, but I was guardedly optimistic when they came back as quickly as they did.”
Wilson said the guilty verdict sends a message to those “who question the criminal justice system” and who think “it doesn’t apply fairly and equally to all people.”
“We are here to say that it does, that no one is above the law in South Carolina and when you brutally murder your wife and son, you will be held accountable no matter who you are,” he added.
The South Carolina attorney general thanked the authorities, investigators and prosecutors behind the case, saying: “They made this conviction possible.”
Mar 03, 8:16 AM EST
ABC News chief legal analyst talks trial, sentencing
ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams said he expects Alex Murdaugh will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, since prosecutors have said they will not seek the death penalty.
“I’m not expecting there to be much debate,” Abrams said Friday on Good Morning America.
“He’s now in a tough spot, because he can’t really now accept responsibility just after testifying for all these days and talking about how he didn’t do it,” Abrams noted. “What he could say is similar to what he said on the stand, which is: I regret, I did bad things to people, I’m sorry about that, I hurt people that I cared about, with sort of these broad allusions to the financial crimes without actually admitting anything with regard to the murders.”
Abrams said he thinks it was a mistake on the defense team’s part for Murdaugh to testify.
“To some degree, you could argue he had to take the stand,” he explained. “Suddenly, there’s evidence that he’s there at the crime scene despite the fact that he’s saying he wasn’t there.”
“So now it doesn’t have to be him per se, but somebody’s got to explain what he was doing there minutes before the crime occurs,” he continued. “In retrospect, was it a mistake? Sure, because if he hadn’t taken the stand, he might’ve been better off. I said at the time I thought it was a mistake for him to take the stand. But they did have to do something to explain why his voice was clearly there at the crime scene minutes before Maggie and Paul were killed.”
Mar 03, 7:53 AM EST
Lead prosecutor discusses what made the case so ‘compelling’
Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters said he believes Alex Murdaugh’s lie about being at the scene of the crime just minutes before his wife and son were murdered was part of what made such a “compelling” case against him.
“It’s not just being a liar. In this case, it was him being a liar about being at the scene with the victims just minutes before their cellphones went silent forever,” Waters told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview Friday on Good Morning America.
“I made the argument to the jury and the team did — this was obviously a team effort — that, you know, what kind of reasonable father or husband would lie to law enforcement about such a crucial fact in that moment, and only one who really knew what had happened?” he said. “When you lie about being at the scene with the victims just minutes before the crime happened, that’s pretty compelling evidence.”
Waters said he thinks the cellphone video placing Murdaugh at the scene minutes before the crime “absolutely” made a difference in guilty verdict.
“That was something that the defendant could never account for and I think, though, he was still hoping that that evidence wouldn’t be as strong as it was,” Waters noted. “He initially claimed — because there was one young man who thought he heard him on the phone and he said, well, he’s got to be mistaken. I think he thought he could get around that.”
“But as we continued to put up family and friends, people who were very close to him, none of whom knew who he really was, it became very compelling,” Waters said. “And I think that’s what motivated him to try to take the stand and see if he could give one last closing argument to these jurors.”
The lead prosecutor said he was not surprised when Murdaugh decided to testify.
“I thought that he would do it all along,” he added. “In this community, he’s been able to talk his way out of accountability his entire life and people like that are convinced in their own ability to do so.”
When cross-examining Murdaugh, the prosecution team’s strategy was to “establish who he was,” according to Waters.
“I thought it was very interesting that he would not even concede to these jurors that he was wealthy,” Waters said. “And that was sort of the idea, was to get him talking about himself and about his life but then to, first of all, hammer home the financial aspects of this case and the many lies that he had told to people that trusted him and then move into the specifics of his new story that he was now telling the world for the first time, at least publicly. And I think that’s very compelling and ultimately was convincing to the jury.”
When asked about the jury only taking three hours to reach a verdict, Waters said: “We presented a very compelling and strong case, and I think that it didn’t take them long to figure this out.”
“They looked him in his eyes, as much as I’ve had the chance to do, and realized who this person really was.” he added. “And I think that really was the final thing that led this jury to come to the right conclusion.”
Waters said he hopes to see a “just sentence from the judge” on Friday morning.
“I do think that, in the end, we will have a just result for Maggie and Paul, who again we cannot forget in all of this,” he said. “That’s what this is really about and, thankfully, they had a voice yesterday when the jurors spoke.”
Mar 03, 6:00 AM EST
ABC News exclusive: Juror says cellphone video sealed Murdaugh’s fate
A juror who convicted Alex Murdaugh on Thursday told ABC News in an exclusive interview that the piece of evidence which convinced him the disgraced lawyer was guilty, was the cellphone video placing him at the scene minutes before the murders of his wife and youngest son.
“I was certain it was [Murdaugh’s] voice,” Craig Moyer, a carpenter, said as he recalled the background voice he heard during his first watch of the video captured by Murdaugh’s son. The video was taken at the family’s dog kennels by Paul Murdaugh, 22, who later that night was brutally murdered along with his mother Margaret, 52.
“Everybody else could hear [Murdaugh’s voice] too,” Moyer said, referring to the other jurors.
Moyer’s comments to ABC News’ Eva Pilgrim came just hours after he voted to convict Murdaugh, concluding the small-town South Carolina saga which documented the downfall of a powerful attorney from a family which for generations exuded power over the state’s Lowcountry region.
After nearly three hours of deliberations, a jury reached a guilty verdict Thursday in the double murder trial Alex Murdaugh, a disgraced South Carolina attorney who was charged with the murders of his wife and their younger son at their rural hunting estate in June 2021.
The bodies of Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, 52, and Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found dead from multiple gunshot wounds near the dog kennels at the family’s estate in June 2021, authorities said. Alex Murdaugh, 54, who called 911 to report the discovery, was charged with their murders 13 months later.
Jurors — and the packed gallery — heard testimony from dozens of witnesses since the trial started on Jan. 23 in the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina.
A string of bloody killings and mysteries involving a prominent South Carolina family has been filled with a wild chase full of twists and turns — culminating in a murder conviction against the family’s patriarch.
At the center of it is Alex Murdaugh, 54, a former lawyer who comes from a legacy of prominent attorneys in South Carolina, where three generations of the family had been state prosecutors in the Hampton County area for more than a century.
The saga began when his youngest son, Paul, was involved in a fatal boat crash in 2019. A year and a half later, Murdaugh’s wife, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, 52, and Paul, 22, were found fatally shot on the family’s rural hunting estate.
Since then, there have been curveballs in the investigation — including Alex Murdaugh’s alleged money misuse that led to his disbarment, an admitted opioid addiction, an assisted-suicide attempt involving an alleged $10 million insurance fraud scheme and a high-profile murder trial.
Here’s a timeline of the key events in the Murdaugh murders and scandals.
