I thought I would share all of my notes. This is not a complete list of events. When I came across something and if I had time I took notes. If anyone wants to add to it or use it please have at it. I wish I had more time to add everything, but life is just too busy for me to commit to it right now.
Jan 24, 1980 - Coast Guard spotted fishing boats, Miss Cathy and Waterworld. One of the boats was in distress and taking on water. The Waterworld was Boulware’s boat. Eleven undocumented men who were from Miami. They said they were on that boat because their original boat, Island City which had been tied to smuggling in the past, allegedly sank. Most people came to the conclusion that the eleven men were smuggling drugs and when they saw the Coast Guard they move the drugs from one boat to another and sank it. None of them were arrested or questioned they were just sent back to Miami.
Feb 1983 - Shrimping boat, Jeannine Ann was spotted by US Coast Guard seized 17 tons of marijuana and $33k from Boulware’s boat. US Coast Guard allowed the boat to arrive at it’s Beaufort, SC destination and arrested both Barrett and his father. The captain of the boat, Franklin C Branch was the star witness. April 1983, Franklin walked out of a bar and into an oncoming vehicle and passed away two weeks before the trial began. June 1983, all charges were dropped against Barrett his father.
1986 - The operator of Miss Cathy was caught smuggling drugs 6 years later in a “Operation Cancer” drug bust n Florida.
1988 - Barrett and his wife were sitting in the backseat of a car in Georgia while on a trip from NC to Florida she had rented. They were stopped for speeding on the Georgia and SC boarder, in Savannah. The trooper asked to check the car, the driver said he had no objections. The front seat passenger pressed the button to open the trunk. The trooper found 7 pounds of marijuana and 28 grams of cocaine. Barrett was convicted of trafficking cocaine and possession of marijuana and his wife was convicted of possession of marijuana.
1998 - AM and B Boulware became business partners. Murdaugh Holdings and B Boulware purchased a stretch of remote waterfront property on the St Helena Island for $115k.
2000 - AM and MM built their Hampton residence
2002 - AM and MM purchased Edisto property for $415K
2003 - AM and B Boulware purchased additional property on St Helena Island
2004- AM and B Boulware purchased additional property on St Helena Island
2006 - AM represented Barrett in a civil case against South Attachie Closings
Aug 2009 - Hakeem Pinckney, was paralyzed in a car accident, He died two years later at 21 years old of cardiac arrest after his ventilator was unplugged for more than 30 minutes at his nursing home. AM earned $4.1 million in fees and allegedly stole another $1 million owed to that client, in particular, having been accused of using some of the funds to charter a private jet to a baseball game
Unknown Date - Jenkins Creek Marine and Charters, LLC - AM and R Crosby are the owners of this LLC. There were 7 total property transactions under this LLC between 2010 and 2021, Jenkins Creek Charters and Property Management is an additional entity.
Unknown Date - R Crosby took out a mortgage for a little over $150K for a piece of property that B Boulware was selling to a company called, Jenkins Creek Marine and Charters, LLC
Unknown Date - A year and a half later Crosby took out another mortgage for a little over $150K being sold by Barrett to a company called, Jenkins Creek Charters and Property Management
Unknown Date - AM and R Crosby owned 2 docks that were off loading Jellyfish from a company called Millenary. The Jellyfish were being processed at a facility, Williams Farm. M Ball was the registered agent for Williams Farms and Mark also worked at PMPED Law Office.
There are also transactions between B Boulware and R Crosby in other counties.
2014 - The Jellyfish company dissolved after the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control halted operations due to health code violations
2014 - AM purchased the Moselle property from B Boulware’s wife, J Boulware for $5 for the property. On the deed it states the exchange in the like kind of replacement property in the amount of $735K. (This is common to avoid paying taxes on capital gains)
July 8, 2015 - Stephen Smith found dead on Sandy Run Road, Hampton County, SC
Aug 2016 - Buckner led Collerton County deputies on a high speed chase. Found crack cocaine, molly pills and $7500 in cash. Buckner was identified as a known gang member known for drug activity. AM worked on this case as a solicitor. It’s the only case AM has ever worked on as a solicitor. No verdict was met and the case ended in a mistrial.
2016 - AM transferred Moselle property to MM
2018 -2021 - AM and C Fleming arranged $4.3 million in settlements from insurance companies, but the sons never saw a dime and didn’t know about most of the money, according to their lawsuit. The money was supposed to go to a company called Forge Consulting, which handled the law firms settlements. Instead, AM created a bank account called, Alexander Murdaugh d/b/a Forge and had the checks made out to “Forge” and deposited them into his fraudulent account.
2018 - AM accused of stealing $750K from B Boulware in insurance money when he was dying of colon cancer.
2018 - AM and MM moved to Moselle property
Feb 2, 2018 - GS fell at Moselle property
Feb 26, 2018 - GS died
Feb 24 2019 - Mallory Beach boat accident
April 18, 2019 - PM was indicted and charged with three felony counts of boating under the influence, including causing the death of MB and seriously injuring two other passengers. PM pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was out on bond awaiting trial.
2020 - AM funded the purchase of a funeral home in Brunswick, Georgia,
April 2021 - State GJ asked for AM financials records. AM loaned more than $110,000 to a client and a friend, John H. Martin, owner of Martin's Funeral Home in Estill, for the purchase of a second funeral home in Georgia. The buyer says that the transaction was a friendly loan that has been repaid in full.
May 19, 2021 - Paralegal at PMPED contacted the law office of Chris Wilson to ask him about the $792K fee that was supposed to go to PMPED
June 7, 2021 - MM and PM Murdered
June 2021 - Edisto home had a $200K balance remaining on the mortgage. It was also being used as collateral and other wheelings by AM with Palmetto Bank.
Aug 2021 - SC Association for Justice Conference, Hilton Head, SC AM and Buster attended, AM didn’t attend any workshops and was just there to party. After the conference ended SLED officers approached bars asking about AM and Duffy and if they had any security footage of them.
Aug 9, 2021 - Palmetto Bank board member asked for total exposer of AM’s records from the bank
Aug 11, 2021 - Duffy recused himself as Solicitor.
Aug 2021 - AG was presenting MM and PM’s murder case to the GJ.
Sept 2021 - AM suicide for hire
Sept 2021 - AM entered rehab
Sept 2021 - AM Solicitor badge revoked
Sept 2021 - all 7 properties were transferred to R Crosby for $5 when Jenkins Creek Marine and Charters, LLC was dissolved and liquidated. There was wording in the sale of the properties that R Crosby wouldn’t sue AM. However, PMPED filed a lawsuit against AM that same month.
Feb 2022 - Moselle property listed for sale (under new name of Cross Swamp Farm, it was later changed back to Moselle Farm)
April 2022 - Satterfield Estate brought suit against AM over AM’s embezzlement of $4.3 million settlement that was supposed to go to the Satterfields.
April 2022 - Nautilus Insurance Company brought suit against AM for defrauding the company.
April 9 2022 - Buckner Roberts Construction LLC was created by Roberts. Emmanuel Buckner co-founded the company with Roberts.
April 2022 - Trail of checks written by AM to Spencer Roberts.
June 2022 - SC Grand Jury indicted AM on two criminal conspiracy counts, including a narcotics count related to Oxycodone, for alleged narcotics related crimes in a multi county area.
June 2022 - Offer made on the Moselle property. The offer was put on hold after courts froze AM’s assets. ($3.9 million offer is pending on the home)
June 2022 - SLED got family’s permission to exhume GS’s body
July 15, 2022 - AM changed with murder
July 2022 - 3606 Big Bay Dr., Edisto, SC. The “buyer” added an additional $35k onto of the asking price. Now on the market for 1.1 million
March 2, 2023 - AM Found Guilty
March 3, 2023 - AM Sentencing, 2 life sentences, Judge Clifton B Newman