Maggie and Paul Murdaugh: Footnotes and Source Record

Dates below identify publication, filing, or decision dates where verified. Original court records establish what the court decided. News reports are separately attributed, and family obituaries supply personal remembrance.

Primary Legal Sources

• South Carolina Attorney General, July 14, 2022: charging announcement · Identifies the victims and four charges.
• South Carolina Attorney General: indictment PDFs · Charging documents; not verdicts.
• South Carolina Supreme Court, July 12, 2022: disbarment order · Separate professional discipline.
• South Carolina Supreme Court, May 13, 2026: Opinion 28329 · New-trial holding, juror-contact analysis, and guidance on financial evidence.
• South Carolina Supreme Court, June 8, 2026: assignment order · Confirms that the case returned to the trial court and assigns Judge McCaslin.
• South Carolina appellate case docket · Appellate case identifiers and procedural entries.
• U.S. Department of Justice, April 1, 2024: federal financial sentence · Separate criminal judgment reported by the prosecuting authority.
• South Carolina Judicial Branch: February 11, 2026 argument notice and official February video archive · Argument date and recording route.

Personal Remembrance

• Peeples-Rhoden Funeral Home: Maggie Murdaugh obituary · Family-supplied biography and life dates.
• Peeples-Rhoden Funeral Home: Paul Murdaugh obituary · Family-supplied biography and life dates.

Documents Available Through a Newsroom

• September 8, 2026 venue-order copy · FITSNews host; full text not independently reviewed here.
• October 30, 2026 defense dismissal memorandum · FITSNews host; advocacy by the defense.
• November 6, 2026 prosecution response · FITSNews host; full file not independently reviewed here.

Reporting and Media

• ABC News, September 8, 2026: retrial venue · Meredith Deliso’s report.
• WCSC, October 16, 2026: evidence rulings · Caroline Spikes’s courtroom report.
• South Carolina Public Radio, November 4, 2026: dismissal request and court dates · Kristina Thacker’s report.
• WCSC/WMBF, November 9, 2026: prosecution response · Emily Johnson’s report.
• WCSC/WIS, November 10, 2026: latest dismissal filings · Live 5 Web Staff report.
• NPR / South Carolina Public Radio, May 13, 2026: case chronology · Historical reporting, including testimony.
• The Island Packet, August 6, 2021: Paul’s charges dropped after death · Separate boating prosecution.
• Faces in the Footnotes, October 16, 2026: original hearing coverage · Existing article retained at its original address.
• Netflix: Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal · Official documentary title page; an edited media account.

New-Trial Statement and First-Trial Sources

• Attorney General, May 13, 2026: statement on retrying the case · Official prosecution statement, separate from the court’s opinion.
• Official Record on Appeal, Volume XV · Court-file source. The jury charge, deliberation timing, verdict and polling were checked directly on PDF pages 439–461 (record pages 7137–7159; reporter pages 5852–5874). Preserved PDF copy. Recorded start and return times appear on PDF pages 456–457; the four verdicts follow on page 458.
• Independent reproduction of the March 2, 2023 jury charge · An accessible transcript reproduction; provenance is stated by the archive.
• FITSNews, March 2, 2023: live courtroom report · Contemporary reporting that separately describes the jury instructions.
• ABC News, March 3, 2023: Craig Moyer interview · A juror’s public account of his own decision.
• Court TV, March 7, 2023: James McDowell interview · Original interview page; the complete video has not been reviewed here.
• TODAY, March 6, 2023: three jurors interviewed · Original interview listing; the complete dialogue has not been reviewed here.
• Associated Press, November 13, 2026: pre-hearing report · Reports an upcoming hearing; it does not report a result.

Official Media and Creator Pages

• Penguin Random House: The Devil at His Elbow · Valerie Bauerlein; publisher’s edition and release details.
• Macmillan: Tangled Vines · John Glatt; linked June 25, 2024 edition.
• Luna Shark Media: Blood on Their Hands · Mandy Matney’s official book page, identifying Carolyn Murnick as her collaborator.
• Hulu: Murdaugh: Death in the Family · Official details for the scripted series that premiered October 15, 2025.
• Hulu: the official companion podcast · Mandy Matney’s 2025 interviews about the making of the drama.
• True Sunlight: official podcast feed · Luna Shark’s feed, formerly Murdaugh Murders Podcast.
• Luna Shark Media: podcast archive · Producer’s archive of original episode titles and dates.
• Emily D. Baker, January 18, 2023: pretrial motions · Original episode page, with the creator’s related Murdaugh coverage.
• Netflix: the case and series timeline · Confirms the September 20, 2023 second-season release.

Limits and Corrections

The full certified trial transcript, all forensic reports, signed October evidence orders, and complete November motion exchange have not all been independently reviewed. The jury-charge, timing and verdict passages were checked directly in the filed Volume XV; the labeled reproduction and contemporary reporting remain linked for comparison. No result from the November 13 hearing is stated. This record does not claim exhaustive access to sealed materials or complete discovery. Factual gaps are identified where they affect a conclusion. The source dates help distinguish what was known earlier from what changed later.

Why It Matters

Readers should be able to follow a statement back to its source. Court documents, news reports, and family memories answer different questions and should stay clearly identified.

What Happens Next

The next sources to watch are a ruling or transcript from the November 13 hearing and any released testing reports. Earlier records remain useful for showing what changed.

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