By Thad Moore and Jocelyn Grzeszczak
The Post And Courier
The story of Alex Murdaugh’s fall from grace has snaked all over South Carolina.
It played out in courtrooms in Charleston, Columbia, Walterboro and York. It touched fraud victims in Allendale, Bamberg and Orangeburg. It centered on violence at his home in Islandton and deceit at his law office in Hampton.
But it was in Beaufort that his downfall — from scion of a prominent family of lawyers to state inmate No. 00390394 — was finally cemented, just a mile from the Lowcountry waterfront where the first domino fell.
Judge Clifton Newman formally sentenced Murdaugh to 27 years in state prison Tuesday, Nov. 28 for an extraordinary series of financial crimes that included the theft of millions from a litany of people who trusted him in their most desperate moments.
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