More than three weeks have handed for the reason that begin of the Murdaugh trial, for ever and ever. Alex Murdaugh is at present on trial for the double homicide of his spouse Maggie and son Paul, together with different backlogged expenses together with tax evasion, misappropriation of settlement funds from significantly injured shoppers and cash laundering. Early within the trial, the decide dominated to permit prosecutors to current proof of Murdo’s different felony actions. It contains particulars of a tragic boating accident involving his late son Paul.
In 2019, Paul Murdaugh crashed his household’s boat in a horrific accident that killed his 19-year-old buddy Mallory Beach. Two years later, Mallory’s buddy Anthony Cook, who was additionally on the boat that evening, filed a lawsuit in opposition to Alex Murdo over his son’s actions that evening. Here’s the whole lot we find out about Anthony. Anthony, who appeared in Netflix’s Murdo Murdo: A Scandal within the South, started courting Mallory on New Year’s Eve 2019. While their romantic relationship sadly ended, the 2 have been greatest mates since childhood.
On the evening of February 23, 2019, they attended an oyster roast with Anthony’s cousin Connor Cook and girlfriend Miley Altman. They had been joined by Paul Murdaugh and his then-girlfriend Morgan Doughty. For the occasion, Paul Murdaugh took all of them aboard his household’s boat. Even although the group was underage, there was loads of ingesting that evening.
In the early morning of February 24, they assembled on board and returned residence. Unfortunately, not all of them succeed. “He was completely drunk,” Anthony recalled to Paul Murdo within the documentary sequence. But sadly, the latter teenager is eager to drive regardless of his mates begging him to not. “I heard a scream and I went out,” Anthony stated of the crash. He defined that when he lastly got here to, he realized Mallory wasn’t with him and continued to dive in and out of the water on the lookout for her, however it was too late.
Following the crash, Paul Murdaugh was charged with three felony counts of DUI in reference to the crash. He pleaded not responsible to all expenses and was awaiting trial on the time of his dying, Greenville News. But after his dying, all expenses had been dropped. In 2021, Anthony filed a separate civil lawsuit in opposition to Alex Murdaugh, Paul Murdaugh, a grocery store clerk who bought alcohol and a clerk who bought alcohol WSAV. In that lawsuit, Anthony alleges that Alex Murdaugh knew his underage son was shopping for alcohol illegally and that he knew his son was intoxicated when he went out on a ship on Feb. 23, 2019.
