WASHINGTON, March 3, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - A US jury on Thursday found prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son on their hunting estate in a trial that has drawn global attention.
 
   Scion of an elite family of judges and attorneys, Murdaugh, 54, was found guilty of shooting his son Paul with a shotgun and his wife Maggie with the assault rifle Paul used for hunting wild pigs on the family's sprawling property.
 
"The evidence of guilt is overwhelming," Judge Clifton Newman said after the jury's guilty verdict was read.