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“He was one of my best friends, I thought he was, and I thought he felt the same way about me,” he testified, his voice cracking.

Mr Wilson, also an attorney, told the court that he and Mr Murdaugh first met in high school but became close when they went to the same law school and lived together. Judge Newman said he would hear testimony about the alleged financial crimes in the absence of the jury to determine what evidence – if any – will be allowed. The defence is asking the judge to throw evidence of Mr Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes out of the murder trial. The attorney, who has since been disbarred, represented the clients in wrongful death lawsuits before allegedly pocketing the settlement money for himself. In total, he is accused of stealing almost $8.5m from clients in fraud schemes dating back around a decade to 2011. Now, separate from his murder trial, Mr Murdaugh is currently facing a slew of around 100 charges from multiple indictments for embezzling millions of dollars from clients at PMPED.

It was postponed following Maggie and Paul’s murders. Paul was charged with multiple felonies over the boat wreck and was facing 25 years in prison at the time of his murder.Ī hearing for the boat crash lawsuit was also scheduled for the week of the murders.

Paul was allegedly drunk driving the boat at the time and crashed it, throwing Beach overboard. His finances were also coming under intense scrutiny in a lawsuit brought by the family of Mallory Beach – a 19-year-old woman who died in a 2019 crash in the Murdaugh family boat. Prosecutors claim that Mr Murdaugh murdered his wife and son in an attempt to distract from his financial crimes which were catching up with him.Īt the time of the murders, Mr Murdaugh’s law firm PMPED was closing in on his alleged multi-million-dollar fraud scheme, with a colleague confronting him about it on the morning of the killings.