A mother and son — members of one of South Carolina’s most prominent families — were found shot dead on their property this week, police said.
The bodies of Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her 22-year-old son Paul Murdaugh — who was facing trial in the boating death of a teenage girl — were found Monday evening with several gunshot wounds near a dog kennel at their home on Moselle Road in Islandton, a small town with only about 70 residents in central South Carolina, police said.
Few details of the investigation have been made public, and as of Friday, no arrests had been made.
The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that it is probing the deaths as a double homicide and said it has turned the case over to the state’s Law Enforcement Division.
Paul Murdaugh was facing trial in the death of 19-year-old Mallory Beach, a University of South Carolina student who was killed in a boat crash in the waters north of Hilton Head Island in 2019. Paul had been allegedly operating the…