Two years following Alex Murdaugh’s conviction for murder, his defense attorney, Dick Harpootlian, continues to assert Murdaugh’s innocence in the deaths of his wife and youngest son.
Murdaugh, 56, is currently serving a life sentence for the fatal shootings of his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, which occurred in June 2021 at their family’s hunting estate in Colleton County, South Carolina.
“Do I believe he did it? No,” Harpootlian stated to Fox News Digital. “I was brought on board when Paul was charged in the boat incident a year before the murders. In the office where I sit now, Alex, Maggie, and Paul would come by at least bi-weekly. We would meet to discuss the case and any developments. Every time Maggie and Alex left, they were hand in hand. Paul was his pride and joy. There’s no way he could have done that to his child.”
Prosecutors argued that their murders were an attempt to distract from Murdaugh’s mounting financial crimes, which were beginning to come to light around that time, and which Harpootlian wholeheartedly believes Alex is guilty of committing. The disgraced South Carolina lawyer was also sentenced to 27 years for his financial crimes in a state case in November 2023.
Harpootlian discusses what he described as that “moral dilemma” in his new book, which he said was “cathartic” to write. The book comes out on Dec. 16 but is currently available for pre-order.
