Maggie Murdaugh Facebook. She had been shot both in the back of her head and her forehead. Disclosure: Mathias Dpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member. The high-profile family is linked to five deaths, two of which patriarch Alex is on trial over. Its just what it is.". The boys left in the morning but picked them up around noon in a green pickup truck and with a bunch of cash. The bodies of Margaret Murdaugh, 52, and Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found dead from multiple gunshot wounds near the dog kennels at the family's home near Islandton, South Carolina, in June 2021, authorities said. Rogan Gibson, who said he was a close friend of Paul's and the Murdaughs were like a second family to him, told investigators shortly after the killings he was 99% sure he heard Alex Murdaugh's. "I didnt shoot my wife or my son any time, ever.". [11] On October 25, 2013, Gibson was found guilty in Whitis' murder at a jury trial, with the jurors taking less than 20 minutes to find him guilty on all charges. Netflix's popular true-crime series Unsolved Mysteries has covered over 1,000 mysteries since it started airing (originally on television.) On June 11, 1997, police were contacted by a farmer and landlord, Joe Hollop, in the town of What Cheer, Iowa. Parole officials did not object to a recommendation by the public defender to sentence Gibson to time served plus 18 months probation. "I have never believed in coincidences and having one homicide in a small rural area in a five-year period is unusual," said Berrier. When Michelle and Alysa returned home, they aided the other three in destroying evidence. He said they'd arrived in a gray station wagon, but the boys came back to pick up the girls in a green pickup truck. Of the parade of SLED agents and affiliated professionals who testified over the course of the prosecution's month-long case, the defense attorneys poked holes in each testimony, in particular highlighting errors in securing the crime scene early on and collecting evidence. Crime scene photos obtained by FITSNews are horrific Stephen's entire face was covered in blood that cascaded from a 7.25-inch . During the trial, which began last month, prosecutors have presented more than 60 witnesses and evidence, including body camera footage of police arriving at home following the murders and an interview Alex Murdaugh gave to police two months later, in which he denied killing his wife and son. This is a complete shock to the rest of the family, Amber McGonagill, 23, Steven Gibsons stepdaughter, tells PEOPLE. Secondly, the Murdaughs' housekeeper Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson testified that on September 4, Murdaugh asked her to send him a photo of his medical insurance card, telling her he was trying to schedule some routine medical checks. Officials concluded this after a month . Subsequent text messages indicated she was concerned about Murdaugh's wellbeing when she decided to return to the Moselle property. However, Bailey left him in 2000 due to Gibson's worsening drug habits. Mahaska County seems like a peaceful, quiet place. This narrative is corroborated in part by reporting by Mandy Matney, a local journalist who was one of the first to begin investigating the incident and whose podcast about the family has been credited with bringing the story to the masses. "You've been able to lie quickly and easily and convincingly if you think it'll save your skin for well over a decade. [4] While Gibson complained of frequent headaches, stomachaches, insomnia and hypochondriasis, Howerton and the prison's mental therapist concluded that he suffered from mild anxiety and had indications of anti-social behavior, but was otherwise sane. The latter had always supported Gibson and even gave him money. Firstly, Murdaugh's former close friend Chris Wilson testified that on September 3, he had been told by Murdaugh's law firm partners that Murdaugh had been stealing money. But the cloud of suspicion over the Murdaughs didn't begin with the murders of Maggie and Paul. "He says that hes a hitchhiker, got picked up, theyd been doing copious amount of drugs, alcohol, and just having a party," Quinn explained. "I did lie to them," he said, and confirmed he was in the video the night of their murders on June 7, 2021. Investigators found .22 caliber shell casings nearby and noted her green Ford pickup truck was missing. Gibson eventually stopped attending church altogether in late August 2011, when his mother was admitted into a nursing home. (The defense argued during the trial that this was a result of him mistyping in shock.). Secondly, Seckinger testified that the conversation was cut short when Murdaugh received a phone call telling him his father, who was in hospital, was terminal. William Clyde Gibson III (born October 10, 1957) is an American serial killer and rapist who is currently on Indiana 's death row for the sexually-motivated murders of two women in 2002 and 2012, in addition to serving a 65-year sentence for a third murder committed in 2012. The defense is expected to have four more witnesses before the state is allowed its rebuttal. They took Garber's pickup, but then, according to Kauffman, McMahan decided he wanted to keep it after the robbery, so they needed another car. "I never manufactured any alibi in any way shape or form, because I did not and would not hurt my wife and my child.". Other witnesses corroborated the story that Murdaugh learned of his father's condition the same day Maggie and Paul were murdered. It was a crime that "almost slipped through our fingers," Los Angeles police said--an 84-year-old . She passed away at Floyd Memorial Hospital on January 18, 2012, with some neighbors suspecting that her death greatly impacted Gibson's psyche. ", "All those reasons that you just gave this jury, about the most important part of your testimony, was a lie, too, isn't that true, Mr. Christine Gibson . Trial continued Wednesday in a crime that ripped a Peoria family asunder by putting a father in his grave, a son in prison and a daughter and mother in court facing felony charges. It was tragic, the way we lost them., He told Dateline that, Cody was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.. 2. During the cross-examination on Friday, Waters later asked Alex Murdough about family, friends and colleagues he has lied to over the past decade. Firstly, Owen acknowledged that a detailed search wasn't undertaken in the area between Moselle, where the murders occurred, and Murdaugh's parents' house, where he went that evening. [2] This continued outside of school, with a childhood friend, Melodie Schultz, claiming that Gibson had shot another child in the eye with a pellet gun. [5], At this final murder trial, Gibson unexpectedly pleaded guilty again, waiving his right to a jury trial. Famous Alabama Murders Some of the most famous Alabama murders over the years include the 2005 murder of Charles Newman, who was killed on Halloween night by Andrew Lackey, later named the "Halloween Killer;" the 1941 Gibson Family Murders; and the 2001 unsolved murder of Shannon Paulk. Harsent was six months pregnant at the time of her death. McAbee pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and agreed to testify against Michelle. But in 1997, a vicious crime spree proved things aren't always "Iowa nice" here. [5] Hodella's badly decomposed body was found on January 7, 2003, and identified via thumbprints from a previous arrest. After his release from the hospital, he was sent to serve the rest of his sentence at the Floyd County Jail, where he remained until his discharge on March 12, 2002.[4]. He attacked his wife, Mary Gibson, 31, with a chair and eventually knocked her out. [17] These appeals were rejected by the Indiana Supreme Court, which reaffirmed all of his convictions. [3] At the subsequent trial for this case, his lawyer claimed that he was mentally ill and requested a competency evaluation, which the court granted. His employee-tenant, Barb Garber, 52, had unusually for her not shown up for work that morning. Local News Everett. He did, he said. Smith was found dead just before 4:00 a.m. EDT on July 8, 2015. They found him in possession of a revolver. Linda Gibson and Cody Garrett were found murdered in a field outside of Somerset, Kentucky, on July 7, 1994. Wilson had worked with Murdaugh on various cases in which Murdaugh has been accused of misappropriating funds. In interviews with police, the teenage girls said that they had "partied" with McMahan and Kauffman at the hotel on the night of June 10. The Murdaugh family legacy is now coming crashing down as 54-year-old Richard Alexander Murdaugh (known as Alex, pronounced "Alec") stands trial accused of shooting his wife Maggie and adult son Paul to death on June 7, 2021. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. He said Murdaugh broke down and told him he had been addicted to opioids for 20 years, and admitted to stealing from a client they had jointly represented. But by weighting it so heavily within the series, the murders that many assumed would be central to the docuseries are largely lost in the story. Keith Gibbson 15) Tony von Carruthers: In February of 1994, Tony shot his mother, her teenage associate, and his drug dealer in the Memphis area. "This is rural Iowa," Michael Berrier, an officer with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, told "Killer Siblings,"airing Fridays at 8/7c on Oxygen. Fox's "America's Most Wanted" did a segment on the boys in late June 1997 it aired twice, according to the Tampa Bay Times which resulted in a tip on June 30 from a woman in Pensacola who recognized the truck. Follow the links to read about more marital discord that ended in murder. NBC10's Danny Freeman has the details. [12] At his sentencing the following month, Gibson was subsequently handed a death sentence, to which he told the sentencing judge that it was "no big deal" and that he deserved what he was getting. "But both of them were in bad places and it was really just a recipe for disaster.". Here are seven of the key pieces of information we've learned from the trial so far. Clayton told Dateline that in the weeks and months leading up to July 3, his sister had told him and their father that she thought someone was going to hurt her. Authorities are investigating whether he was responsible for six . Harvey M. Robinson is one of the youngest serial killers in American history and the only serial killer from Allentown, PA. From 1992 to 1993, he raped and killed three women in the city, who ranged in age from 15 to 47. Alex Murdaugh detailed on the stand a 20-year addiction to opioids, noting that he has been clean for 535 days. Clayton said that on July 3, 1994, Linda had been watching her younger half-brother, Cody Garrett. At 11:47 p.m., the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, known as SLED, arrived on the scene, and Murdaugh was interviewed by agents in a car. "All kids that I knew in the town of Oskaloosa were either on it, making it, selling it. Donna Thorngren shot her husband, Curtis Curt Thorngren, Dr. Mark Wangler killed his wife, Kathy Wangler. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. Alex Murdaugh, right, speaks with defense attorney Jim Griffin during a break in his trial for murder at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Feb. 15, 2023. McMahan did not: In November 2017, 20 years after his conviction, Jamie McMahan killed himself in his cell at a federal prison in Florence, Colorado, according to the Oskaloosa News. Without objection from probation and parole officials, the judge accepted the public defender's recommendation for time served and placed him on 18 months of probation, Miller said. After seven minutes, Murdaugh hangs up the 911 call saying he needs to call family and, according to cell phone records, calls his brothers Randy and John Marvin, and tries to call Paul's friend Rogan Gibson, with whom Paul was in communication around the time of his death, multiple times. [4] Despite these diagnostics and his refusal to complete the rehabilitation program, he was deemed unlikely to re-offend. The examining psychologist, J. Robert Noonan, concluded that Gibson had an IQ of 79 and refused to take responsibility for his actions, which he blamed on his alcoholism, but did not suffer from any mental illnesses that impaired his judgment. Alex Murdaugh is accused of killing his wife and son. It's hard to tell whether the show expects viewers to care about the murders because two people lost their lives, or feel that some type of karmic justice has been served. He told Dateline that in 1994, Linda lived with her 4-year-old daughter, Stephanie, not too far from the family. Murdaugh also denied the murders, emphatically responding "no" to Griffin's explosive opening questions delivered while waving guns in the courtroom that outright asked him whether he shot his wife and son to death. When asked how she interpreted the conversation, Turrubiate-Simpson said, "I know what he was wearing the day he left the house and I was basically confused. Sentencing was delayed by two weeks to provide the defense time. He said that being asked about his relationship with his wife and getting tested for gunshot residue following the murders triggered his paranoia. Rufus . Police found Gibson had violated probation, but they did not recover a gun, and video didnt show him at the location of his moms murder, meaning any evidence linking Gibson was only circumstantial, Vanore said. [13] In regards to his upcoming murder trials, he changed his plea and waived his right to a speedy trial, choosing to plead guilty to Hodella's murder instead. The show highlights that the family was under immense pressure due to the fallout from the boat crash, which led to Paul being criminally charged and the family being sued for millions of dollars, leading in part to Murdaugh's financial situation getting closer to becoming public. Since the murders, Murdaugh who says he was living with a decades-long opioid addiction has been disbarred and faces more than 100 further charges in which he's accused of financial crimes, including stealing millions of dollars from clients. "I saw what yall have seen pictures of," he told the jurors, crying. Crucial testimony also established that Murdaugh's father was in terminal condition (he later died three days after the murders on June 10, 2021), which the defense has argued would cause enough sympathy and distraction from the financial matters. Crime scene specialist Kenneth Kinsey, right, shows where he believes a shotgun round entered Paul Murdaugh during Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse, Feb. 16, 2023, in Walterboro, S.C. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Owen's cross-examination also revealed multiple inaccuracies in his prior testimony to the state's grand jury, which some onlookers may interpret as a sign that Murdaugh never should have been indicted for the murders in the first place all of which was absent from the Netflix documentary. Upon learning of his conviction, his wife divorced him. Asked if the Gibsons 16-year-old daughter would be implicated in the plot, Jacinto added, More arrests could occur depending on how the investigation plays out. The narrative presented in the show relies heavily on heartwrenching interviews with Beach's family and friends, including Morgan Doughty, who was dating Paul Murdaugh, and who describes him as a troubled and entitled young man, prone to extreme intoxication and abusive behavior. The Pensacola police found it parked behind a hotel, and hotel staff confirmed the boys were there with a new third person. When police went to her home shortly after 9:30 a.m., they found the door unlocked and Garber, sitting in a chair with her breakfast in reach, shot twice in the head and twice in the chest. Police found $29,000 in cash less than half of what they'd stolen 19 days before and a .22 caliber handgun. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more. At the time, Paul Murdaugh was awaiting trial on a charge of allegedly boating under the influence after a crash in February 2019 that killed a 19-year-old woman, Mallory Beach of South Carolina. The narrative jumps from speculation about the stress the family was under following the boat crash, to a ghoulish reconstruction of Murdaugh walking around the bodies of his wife and son, overlaid with the audio from his 911 call. The boys grew up together inOskaloosa, Iowa a city of then about 10,000 people around 25 miles from the aforementioned crimes. Gibson then doused his home with kerosene and set. The reputable South Carolina family first made headlines in 2019, when the then-teenage son Paul Murdaugh was involved in a boating accident that killed 19-year-old Mallory.. Last summer, Paul and his mother Maggie Murdaugh were both shot and murdered - and discovered by the family . According to Clayton, the Gibson family had always lived in the Somerset, Kentucky, area. The three-part series centers around the Murdaugh family, which has dominated the legal system in the local area for nearly 100 years with generations of lawyers who not only founded one of the most prominent civil law firms in the area but also worked with prosecutors in a role known locally as "solicitors," affording them connections to law enforcement. When asked by his lawyer about those prior statements, Alex Murdaugh admitted to lying to investigators. Episode two of the Netflix series is titled "Murders at Moselle," but it's of the way through the episode before they're mentioned. The officer requested that Gibsons probation be revoked and that he be given a maximum sentence. In a frantic 911 call on March 1, Michelle Gibson tearfully told police about a grisly discovery she made at 2 a.m. in the familys Peoria, Ariz., home. Updated: Dec. 10, 2020 at 7:42 PM PST. [9] He also willingly led them to the location where he had buried her body, and on April 27, authorities dug up her body from his backyard. However, in February, around the time of his mothers death, Philadelphia police arrested him, though they could only find that he was violating probation by being in the city. [2] Due to this, he was found competent to stand trial and accepted an Alford plea, for which he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange. He thought of Island Schultz and the two drove over there. He often got in trouble for fighting, talking in class, and not following directions. At this point, we knew we were dealing with the same people.". UPATOI, Ga. (WTVM) - One of the three men charged in the murder of three Upatoi family members in 2016 is motioning for a retrial. NBC10's Tim Furlong and Hannah Gross contributed to this story. 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