Key names to know as Murdaugh double-murder case gets stunning reset

The stranger-than-fiction saga of the Murdaugh family — the Southern legal dynasty unraveled by double murder and massive financial fraud — is heading back to the courtroom for a high-stakes do-over.

Alex Murdaugh, the once-powerful South Carolina attorney whose family name carried courthouse weight for generations, was convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife, Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh, and younger son, Paul Murdaugh, at the family’s Moselle hunting estate in June 2021.

But on May 13...