Everything to Know About the Murdaugh Family Murders, Including Alex's Conviction

June 7, 2021: Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh found dead at the family hunting lodge

On June 7, 2021, agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division responded to a late-night 911 call saying that two people were dead at a residence in Islandton, S.C.

Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh, 52, and her son, Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found dead on the 1,770-acre property, where the family has a hunting lodge.

The two were survived by Maggie's husband, Alex Murdaugh, then 53, and son Richard, aka Buster, both members of the powerful Murdaugh family, who have been practicing law in South Carolina since 1910. Three generations of the family have also served as solicitors of the 14th Judicial Circuit for more than 86 years.

Paul was awaiting trial in connection to a 2019 boat crash that left a 19-year-old woman dead, police said.

In April that year, Paul, then 20, was arrested and later indicted on charges of one count of boating under the influence (BUI) causing death and two counts of causing significant bodily injury, online records show.

After attending a gathering on Parris Island that February, Paul, who had allegedly been drinking, got behind the wheel of a boat with five passengers that crashed into a bridge piling at about 2 a.m., court records show, WSAV reported. Mallory Beach, 19, was thrown from the boat. Her body was found a week later.

In May 2019, Paul pleaded not guilty. He was released on a $50,000 bond. No trial date had been set.

Days after the murders, Alex's brothers appeared on Good Morning America, insinuating that Paul was threatened online before his murder and insisting Alex didn't have anything to do with the deaths of his wife and son.

June 10, 2021: Randolph Murdaugh III dies at 81

Tragedy struck the family again three days after Maggie and Paul's deaths, when the family patriarch, well-known local prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh III, 81, died, according to his now-defunct law firm, Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick (PMPED).

Sept. 4, 2021: Alex Murdaugh is shot and survives

On Sept. 4, 2021, news broke that Alex had been shot Hampton County, S.C.

"He was shot in the head while he was changing a tire," Alex's attorney Jim Griffin confirmed to PEOPLE. "He is conscious and talking, which is a very good sign."

An unidentified good Samaritan reportedly drove him to an ambulance, where EMTs began treatment and called in a helicopter to airlift Alex to a hospital.

Griffin told PEOPLE that Alex suffered "an entry and exit wound, a skull fracture, and minor brain bleeding in two places." At the time, he also said that the gunshot wound was not self-inflicted.

SLED (South Carolina Law Enforcement Division) spokesperson Tommy Crosby added to PEOPLE, "agents are actively investigating the incident," and local authorities classified it as an "attempted murder."

Two days later, Alex — whose wounds were "superficial," the SLED told PEOPLE — released a statement saying he was leaving his job at Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick and entering treatment once he left the hospital.

"The murders of my wife and son have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life," he said in the statement, which was obtained by The Island Packet. "I have made a lot of decisions that I truly regret. I'm resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle that has been exacerbated by these murders."

"I am immensely sorry to everyone I've hurt, including my family, friends and colleagues," he continued. "I ask for prayers as I rehabilitate myself and my relationships."

Sept. 7, 2021: Alex Murdaugh accused of stealing $1 million from law firm

The case took another turn on Sept. 7, 2021, when PEOPLE reported that members of Alex's law firm had confronted him about missing money on Sept. 3 before notifying law enforcement and the South Carolina Bar Association, The Island Packet reported. A source told the outlet that more than $1 million was missing, and after being confronted, Alex told his lawyer that he would resign.

The next day, Alex was shot, and members of his law firm went to the scene to report details of the missing money to authorities.

"This is disappointing news for all of us," PMPED said in a statement obtained by the Island Packet, noting that the firm had cut all ties with Alex. "Rest assured that our firm will deal with this in a straightforward manner. There's no place in our firm for such behavior."

In a statement, Attorney Jim Griffin told PEOPLE that "Alex resigned from the firm after being accused of diverting lawyer fees. These allegations prompted him to confront his dependency and he voluntarily checked into an in-patient substance abuse rehab facility after being discharged from the hospital Monday."

On Sept. 8, Alex's law license was temporarily suspended by the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Less than one week later, on Sept. 13, the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division announced that it opened an investigation into allegations that Alex stole funds from his law firm.

Sept. 8, 2021: Randolph "Randy" Murdaugh IV releases a statement

Amid the news, Alex's older brother Randolph "Randy" Murdaugh IV came forward in September 2021 to denounce the alleged criminal actions of his brother.

Speaking out for the first time since Alex resigned from PMPED due to partners accusing him of misappropriating funds, Randy said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE: "I was shocked, just as the rest of my PMPED family, to learn of my brother, Alex's, drug addiction and stealing of money."

"I love my law firm, family, and also love Alex as my brother," Randy wrote. "While I will support him in his recovery, I do not support, condone, or excuse his conduct in stealing by manipulating his most trusted relationships."

Sept. 15, 2021: Authorities reveal Alex Murdaugh arranged his own shooting

On Sept. 15, 2021, there was a surprising break in Alex's shooting case. Authorities alleged he attempted to arrange his shooting death for his surviving son to receive $10 million in life insurance.

Curtis Edward Smith (pictured), the man Alex allegedly hired to kill him, was arrested by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division on Sept. 15, 2021, and charged with assisted suicide, assault, and battery of a highly aggravated nature, pointing and presenting a firearm, insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud.

According to Smith's arrest affidavit, which PEOPLE obtained, Alex conspired with Smith, then 61, in a scheme to shoot him. He allegedly provided Smith with a firearm and directed him to shoot him in the head.

Alex admitted to the scheme on Sept. 13, 2021, and Smith admitted to his role the day after. Alex's lawyer Dick Harpootlian confirmed the news on Today on Sept. 15, saying Alex's addiction to opioids and his depression following the June 2021 murders of his wife and son drove him to concoct the scheme.

Alex "clearly knew what he's done was wrong," Harpootlian told Today. Harpootlian added that at the time of the Sept. 4, 2021, shooting, Alex was in "a massive depression" and was in withdrawal from opioids.

Harpootlian told Today his client wanted his son to claim life insurance monies but "believed that $10 million policy had a suicide exclusion," not realizing the exclusion had expired.

"It was an attempt on his part to do something to protect his child," Harpootlian continued.

Later on Sept. 15, Alex's lawyers released a statement claiming Smith exploited Alex's drug addiction and mental illness.

"On Sept. 4, it became clear Alex believed that ending his life was his only option. Today, he knows that's not true. For the last 20 years, there have been many people feeding his addiction to opioids," read the statement obtained by PEOPLE.

"During that time, these individuals took advantage of his addiction and his ability to pay substantial funds for illegal drugs. One of those individuals," the statement alleged, "took advantage of his mental illness and agreed to take Alex's life by shooting him in the head."

Sept. 15, 2021: Alex Murdaugh arrested in his own shooting

Alex's attorneys say they learned of a warrant for his arrest and that he planned to surrender to authorities the next day.

On Sept. 16, 2021, as promised, Alex pulled up to the Hampton County Law Enforcement Center in an SUV and turned himself in.

Soon after, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division announced that it had arrested Alex "in connection to a shooting incident on Sept. 4 in which he conspired with Curtis Edward Smith to assist him in committing suicide for the explicit purpose of allowing a beneficiary to collect life insurance," the state's highest law enforcement agency said in a news release.

Alex was charged with insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, and filing a false police report.
"I can assure you that SLED agents will continue working to bring justice to anyone involved with any criminal act associated with these ongoing investigations," said SLED Chief Mark Keel in the release. "The arrests in this case are only the first step in that process."

Sept. 15, 2021: The 2018 death of housekeeper Gloria Satterfield is investigated

Amid Alex's legal troubles, a new twist entered the case.

On Sept. 15, 2021, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division announced that it was opening an investigation into the 2018 death of the Murdaughs' housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who died after what was purported at the time to be a trip-and-fall accident at the family's home in Hampton, South Carolina which they have since sold.

SLED officials stated that a coroner had found inconsistencies surrounding Satterfield's death. The discrepancies were not reported to the coroner in 2018, and no autopsy was performed.

Details of Satterfield's purported fall have not been disclosed, save for a 911 call released two months later.

On Sept. 15, 2021, Satterfield's sons filed a civil lawsuit against Alex and others, claiming they never received an insurance payout concerning their mother's death, court documents obtained by PEOPLE show.

In the lawsuit, sons Michael "Tony" Satterfield and Brian Harriott allege that Alex approached them after their mother died. They claim that Alex told them to sue him.

According to the lawsuit, Alex personally introduced the sons to attorney Cory Fleming and recommended that he should represent them in the case.

Alex did not disclose at the time that Fleming had been his college roommate and was the godfather to one of his sons, the lawsuit alleges.

According to the complaint, Alex's insurance company agreed to a partial settlement of the claims associated with Gloria Satterfield's death of $505,000 to her sons.

But the sons claim that they never received their money. They hired new attorneys.

While the civil suit continues, police announced they would investigate Satterfield's death for any criminal liability.

In June 2022, it was announced that investigators would exhume Satterfield's body.

In an announcement, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) spokesperson Renee Wunderlich said that Satterfield's family agreed to the exhumation. "This is a complex process that will take weeks, not days," Wunderlich said.

Sept. 16, 2021: Alex Murdaugh appears in court

Shortly after his arrest, Alex appeared in the Hampton County magistrate court in Varnville, S.C., for his arraignment and bond hearing.

During the hearing, Alex's attorney Dick Harpootlian acknowledged to the Hampton County judge that Alex "has fallen from grace" but argued that "before any of that falling happened, his wife and son were brutally murdered, and that has had an extraordinary effect on him."

Standing beside a tearful Alex, Harpootlian said, "We'd ask you to allow him to go and help heal himself."

The judge said that she did not believe Alex was a threat to the community and issued him a $20,000 bond — $10,000 for insurance fraud, $5,000 for conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, and $5,000 for filing a false police report.

Alex surrendered his passport to authorities and was released back into rehab.

Oct. 13, 2021: Alex Murdaugh is revealed to be a person of interest in murders of his wife and son

One of Alex's lawyers, Jim Griffin, revealed in an interview with Fox Carolina News that the once-prominent attorney had long been considered a person of interest in his wife and son's murders.

"SLED has said from the get-go that Alex was a person of interest," Griffin told the station.

Despite the revelation, Griffin insisted to Fox Carolina that his client was visiting his mother, who has dementia, at the time of the murders. "He had no motive to kill them," Griffin told the station.

"You would think that if Alex was the one who did it, that SLED would have been able to establish that pretty easily that night," Griffin continued. "You would think they would have searched his house and found blood somewhere. You would think they would have found the murder weapons on the property. You would think they would come up with something to link Alex to the murders, forensically or independent evidence. To my knowledge, they have not done that."

Oct. 14, 2021: Alex Murdaugh is arrested on new charges

On Oct. 14, 2021, Alex was arrested again and charged with misappropriating insurance settlement funds in the wrongful death suit that followed the alleged trip-and-fall death of his longtime housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, authorities announced.

Agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement took Alex into custody as he left a drug rehabilitation facility in Orlando, Fla.

He was charged with two felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses.

"Alex intends to fully cooperate with this investigation, as he has with the investigation into the murder of his wife and son," his attorneys, Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin said in a statement to PEOPLE. "He deeply regrets that his actions have distracted from the efforts to solve their murders."

Oct. 14, 2021: Medical records disprove Alex Murdaugh was struck by bullet

On Oct. 14, 2021, the same day of Alex's second arrest, Curtis Smith, the man accused of assisting with his botched suicide plot, claimed that Alex was never actually struck by a bullet.

Smith went on Today to say that he "didn't shoot" Alex on Labor Day weekend.

Smith alleged that on Sept. 4, 2021, Alex had asked him to meet on a rural road in Hampton.

He claimed that when he got there, Alex was holding a gun. "[Alex] said, 'You gonna shoot me?' I said, 'No,'" Smith said. "He said, 'Well, you've got to do it.' And he made this move like this, and I just grabbed his arm.

"I shoved [the gun] up behind him, between me and him. And it went off."

Smith then said he was "1,000%" sure that the bullet did not hit either of them.

In response to Smith's claims, Alex released medical records that show he was, in fact, shot in the back of the head — but just peripherally.

A "head-to-toe examination" at Memorial Health in Savannah, GA., on Sept. 4, 2021, at 5:34 p.m., where Alex was admitted to the ICU on the trauma list, "revealed two superficial appearing bullet wounds to the posterior scalp with no active hemorrhage," the chief resident in the Department of General Surgery wrote in an addendum.

By the time Alex was airlifted from Hampton, S.C., where the shooting had occurred, to Savannah, GA., the bleeding from "two wounds to the back of the patient's head" was "controlled," the Hampton County EMS wrote in another of the documents.

In an email regarding the documents on Oct. 15, 2021, Alex's spokesperson said, "Other than providing these records, we will not be offering any other comments at this time."

Nov. 18, 2021: Grand jury charges Alex Murdaugh with 27 counts of financial misconduct

On Nov. 18, 2021, a grand jury issued five indictments charging Alex with 27 counts of financial misconduct.

The November indictments alleged that Alex stole money from his clients, other lawyers and the family of his late housekeeper.

On Dec. 9, 2021, one day before the judge decided whether to set bond on the charges, the grand jury issued seven more indictments accusing him of financial crimes, adding up to 21 counts.

His 48 charges at the time included forgery, money laundering, computer crimes, breach of trust with fraudulent intent, and obtaining signature or property by false pretenses.

The South Carolina attorney general said that Alex had stolen more than $6.2 million from his alleged victims.

Jan. 21, 2022: Alex Murdaugh faces more charges

On Jan. 21, 2022, a South Carolina State Grand Jury issued four indictments consisting of 23 new charges against Alex, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced.

Those indictments charged him with 19 counts of breach of trust with fraudulent intent and four counts of computer crimes.

In February 2022, Moselle, the Murdaugh estate where the double homicide took place, was put up for sale for $3.9 million.

June 29, 2022: Alex Murdaugh indicted on money laundering charges

In June 2022, Alex was indicted again in connection with an alleged eight-year money laundering and painkiller ring with the former client, who is accused of trying to help him commit suicide. By that point, he faced 81 total charges.

July 14, 2022: Alex Murdaugh indicted for murders of wife and son

A grand jury in Colleton County, S.C., indicted Alex in connection with the 2021 murders of his wife and son.

Alex was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

After the charges were handed down, Alex's lawyers —Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin — maintained their client's innocence in a statement to PEOPLE.

"Alex wants his family, friends and everyone to know that he did not have anything to do with the murders of Maggie and Paul. He loved them more than anything in the world," their statement read.

"It was very clear from day one that law enforcement and the Attorney General prematurely concluded that Alex was responsible for the murder of his wife and son."

July 15, 2022: PEOPLE reports Alex Murdaugh lured wife to cabin on night she was killed

A law enforcement source close to the investigation told PEOPLE that on the night of the murders, Alex reached out to Maggie, asking her to meet him at the family's 1,770-acre estate.

According to the source, Alex told Maggie that his 81-year-old father was in failing health and that she needed to see him before he died.

According to several sources, Maggie and Alex had hit a rough patch in their marriage. She was staying at the family's beach house on Edisto Island, approximately an hour from the family's estate.

The law enforcement source told PEOPLE that Maggie initially declined to meet Alex at the family home, suggesting that they meet at the hospital instead. Ultimately, she consented to meet at the property, planning to follow Alex to the hospital in her own vehicle.

On her way to the house, Maggie allegedly messaged a friend, saying that something about her husband's behavior felt "fishy," the law enforcement source says. "He's up to something," Maggie allegedly wrote to her friend.

Not long after that, Maggie and Paul were killed.

Jan. 23, 2023: Murdaugh trial begins

On Jan. 23, 2023, Alex's trial began 17 months after Maggie and Paul's murder.

Selecting impartial jurors proved difficult due to mass media coverage of the murders and the prominence of the Murdaugh family in Colleton County, where the trial is being held.

The jurors were shown a slew of evidence, including a Snapchat video that Paul sent to "several friends" on the night of his and his mother's death, as revealed in court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. The videos were described by Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Creighton Waters as "critical to the case."

Waters asked the court to require a representative from Snapchat to testify at the trial, which was expected to last for three weeks, according to the filing.

Judge Clifton Newman approved Waters' request for testimony from a Snapchat representative. Newman ruled that the representative must appear from the start of the trial "until the witness testifies or the case is disposed of."

Days before the start of the trial, Alex's defense team petitioned the court to prevent prosecutors from using any bloodstain pattern analysis from expert Tom Bevel regarding splatter found on Alex's shirt the night of the murders.

Jan. 25, 2023: Prosecutors detail how Alex Murdaugh's son's cell phone placed him at murder scene

Opening statements began on Jan. 25, 2022, during which prosecutor Creighton Waters revealed cell phone evidence would be key in the trial. He went on to explain that Paul had taken a cell phone video near the dog kennels on the ranch at 8:44:55 p.m. on the night of June 7, 2021.

The video features the voices of Paul, Maggie and Alex. The prosecution said that three minutes later, at approximately 8:49 p.m., Alex killed his wife and son, called his wife's phone to create an alibi. Alex had initially denied being near the dog kennels on the night of the murders.

Alex's defense team claims that the timeline provided by the prosecution is false.

Feb. 1, 2023: Alex Murdaugh's last text to wife revealed in court

On the night of Maggie's murder, she received a text from Alex that read, "Call me, babe." According to court testimony, Alex sent the text at 9:47 p.m. on June 7, 2021, after Maggie and Paul were already slain.

However, at approximately 9:06 p.m., after prosecutors believe she was dead, her cell phone camera was briefly activated. Britt Dove, an employee of the computer crimes unit for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, offered an explanation.

"It appears the phone's being moved, and the camera's activating in the background to see if it would recognize somebody's face that would unlock it," Dove stated. A change in the phone's orientation also suggested someone had picked it up.

Feb. 2, 2023: Prosecutors show video of Alex Murdaugh wearing 2 different shirts on night of murders

On Feb. 2, 2023, the jury learned that Alex wore two different shirts the night of his wife and son's deaths — one before and one after their murder. The evidence was revealed in the aforementioned Snapchat video, where Alex is wearing a blue polo shirt and khakis, and in police footage from later in the night, where he is wearing a white t-shirt and shorts.

Feb. 6, 2023: Alex's mother's caregiver testifies at trial

A tearful Mushelle "Shelley" Smith, the caregiver of Alex's elderly mother, testified that Alex arrived for a brief visit the night of the murders. Smith said he was carrying a blue tarp under his arm and acting "fidgety."

Smith also testified that Alex's visit lasted approximately 15-20 minutes, though he insisted he had stayed longer. Smith said Alex attempted to explain the encounter's timeline to her, his estimation of the visit being 30-40 minutes long.

The prosecution said that Alex visited his mother to create an alibi. Still, if his visit to his mother's home only lasted 15-20 minutes, as Smith testified, prosecutors say he would have had the time to murder his wife and son.

Feb. 8, 2023: The trial is interrupted by a bomb threat

In the early afternoon, Judge Clifton Newman addressed his Colleton County courtroom, saying, "We have to evacuate the building at this time. We'll be in recess until we discover what's going on."

Officials later confirmed that the courthouse had received a bomb threat. "This is very serious," a Colleton County police officer told PEOPLE. "Until we know what's going on, everyone needs to stay a safe distance away."

Feb. 15, 2023: Murdaugh's sister-in-law testifies

Maggie's sister, Marian Proctor, testified that she asked Alex if Maggie "had suffered" when she was shot to death.

"He assured me that she had not," said Proctor. "Now, I don't know that I think that was true."

The following day, jurors learned details about Alex's opioid addiction, including the claim that he spent $50,000 a week on drugs, which the defense claims could have been a motive for someone else to kill Maggie and Paul.

Alex's attorney Jim Griffin claimed that Murdaugh purchased the drugs from his cousin, Curtis "Eddie" Smith (the same cousin who is accused of being involved in the murder-for-hire plot in which he allegedly shot Alex in the head).

While cross-examining SLED special agent David Owen, who is the lead investigator in the murder case, Griffin asked Owen why authorities didn't treat Smith and alleged members of his gang as suspects in the slayings of Maggie and Paul. Owen reiterated that Alex has always been the only suspect in the case, but the line of questioning prompted the judge to rule that details about the alleged murder-for-hire plot could now be brought into testimony. Previously, judge Clifton Newman ruled that the alleged plot was inadmissible, but now said that Alex's lawyers had "opened the door" to allowing the testimony.

Feb. 21, 2023: Buster Murdaugh testifies about murders of mother and brother

Alex's son, Buster Murdaugh, shed a few tears on the stand while talking about the moment he learned that his mother and brother had been murdered.

"He said, 'Are you sitting down?' " Buster recalled, referring to his father. "He sounded odd, and then he told me that my mom and my brother had been shot."

Following the news, the eldest Murdaugh brother and his girlfriend drove to the family estate from her home in Rock Hill, S.C. — approximately 200 miles away.

"He was heartbroken," Buster testified about his father's reaction when he arrived that night. "I walked in the door and saw him, gave him a hug. He was destroyed."

Buster also claimed that he "knew a little bit" about his father's drug use, pointing out that his mother and brother had confronted Alex when they found pills.

"I thought that he had handled it," he said, though admitting that there were "a couple of more times" that his father had relapsed.

Feb. 23, 2023: Alex Murdaugh Takes the Stand in His Own Defense

On Thursday, disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his own defense during his ongoing murder trial in the 2021 deaths of his wife and son.

While on the stand, Murdaugh admitted to lying to law enforcement about his whereabout on the day his wife and son were killed.

"As my addiction evolved over time I would get in these situations or circumstances where I would get paranoid," Murdaugh said on the stand. "I'm sorry I lied."

Murdaugh also apologized to his surviving son Buster and additional family members for lying about the last time he saw Maggie and Paul.

"What a tangled web we weave," Murdaugh said on the stand. "Once I told a lie — then I told my family — I had to keep lying."

Although he admitted to lying, Murdaugh adamantly denied killing Maggie and Paul.

"I could never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them," Murdaugh testified. "Not ever."

Feb. 24, 2023: Alex Murdaugh Admits to Taking Up to 60 Pills of Oxycodone a Day

Alex Murdaugh was so addicted to opioids that he admitted to taking more than 2,000 milligrams of Oxycodone and OxyContin a day in the months before the 2021 shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul.

"There were days where I took more than that," Murdaugh told South Carolina prosecutor Creighton Waters in court on Feb. 24.

During cross-examination, Murdaugh, 54, admitted he even had "a pocket full of pills" when he was speaking to members of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) about the murders.

Murdaugh testified that he was taking "30-milligram pills instant-release oxycodone, probably mixed in with some OxyContin, which is made of oxycodone — it's just time release."

Prosecutor Creighton Waters asked him if that meant he was taking 60 pills a day or so in the months between January and June 2021. Murdaugh replied that sometimes he took more than that and sometimes he took less.

Feb. 27, 2023: Alex Murdaugh's Brother Recounts Cleaning up Nephew's Remains After Murders as Defense Team's Final Witness

Alex Murdaugh's younger brother John Marvin Murdaugh tearfully told jurors how he took it upon himself to clean up the remains of his nephew's body at the crime scene, saying it was "the hardest thing" he had ever done.

'I saw blood, I saw brains, I saw pieces of skull, I saw tissue," he testified Feb. 27. "And when I say brains it could just be tissue. I don't know what I saw, it was just terrible."

John Marvin was the defense team's final witness before it rested its case on Feb. 27.

John Marvin also said he vowed to find his nephew's killer that day.

"I told Paul I loved him, and I promised him I'd find out who did this," he testified.

When defense attorney Jim Griffin asked him if he had found the killer, he replied, "I have not."

March 2, 2023: Murdaugh Convicted of Murdering Wife and Son

After weeks of testimony from more than 75 witnesses who took the stand, disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was found guilty on March 2, 2023, of murdering his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul.

March 3, 2023: Alex Murdaugh Gets 2 Life Sentences

Alex Murdaugh was sentenced on the morning of March 3 to two life sentences in prison, and the sentences will run consecutively.

March 9, 2023: Alex Murdaugh's Lawyer Announce They Will Appeal His Conviction

One week after Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murdering his wife and son, his lawyers announced they are appealing the conviction as well as his prison sentences.

Murdaugh's defense attorney Dick Harpootlian announced on Twitter that he and Jim Griffin have filed a notice of appeal.

The Notice of Appeal, which was obtained by PEOPLE, reads: "Richard Alexander Murdaugh appeals his convictions and sentences in the cases referenced above. The sentences were imposed by The Honorable Clifton Newman on March 3, 2023."

It was submitted by Harpootlian, Griffin, Phillip D. Barber and Margaret N. Fox, the attorneys for Murdaugh.