Alex Murdaugh sobs in front of surviving son during murder trial opening statements

News Accused killer Alex Murdaugh broke down in tears in a South Carolina courtroom on Wednesday during the opening statements of his murder trial. The disgraced 54-year-old scion of a powerful legal dynasty, charged with killing his wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, began sobbing as his attorney Dick Harpootlian described the macabre double-murder scene at the family’s Islandton hunting lodge in June 2021. Murdaugh and his wife’s sole surviving son, 26-year-old Buster, sat stoically behind his father in the …