SC prison agency settles for $300K for Perry inmate murder | Greenville News
Five years after a Perry Correctional inmate was killed by his cellmate, the S.C. Department of Corrections has settled a suit with his mother for $300,000.
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Five years after a Perry Correctional inmate was killed by his cellmate, the S.C. Department of Corrections has settled a suit with his mother for $300,000.
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesThe Colleton County Clerk of Court was listening in on Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial when she noticed her security chief quickly slip into the packed courtroom.Prosecutors had just begun to question a forensic data analyst about information extracted from Murdaugh’s Chevy Suburban in the moments after his wife and son’s June 2021 murder. But clerk Rebecca “Becky” Hill was instead intently watching her security chief as he leaned down
In the middle of the trial of the century, an inmate from a South Carolina jail made a very dangerous call.
In six weeks of bombshell testimony, the courtroom has been rocked by not just the evidence, but the antics of lawyers, jurors, witnesses and the Murdaugh clan.
An inmate in South Carolina’s Ridgeland Correctional Institute is being charged with making the bomb threat that temporarily halted Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial earlier this month. The Colleton…