Accused Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger ‘never slept’: neighbor

PULLMAN, Wash. — Bryan Kohberger’s downstairs neighbor said the alleged quadruple slayer “never slept” — and looked too weak to kill.

The neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post Sunday that Kohberger usually kept to himself but could always be heard at odd hours.

“He’s normally a very late night person, going to the bathroom and vacuuming at 1 or 12 in the morning,” she said “I have kids, so sometimes I thought of speaking to him or complaining, but never did. 

“It seemed like he never slept because he was always doing something all night.”

She and her husband were in complete shock when their upstairs neighbor was named as the suspect in the brutal University of Idaho murders that rocked the community. 

“I don’t know how he could’ve killed people because he doesn’t look that tough,” she said. “We are all Ph.D students here so it takes a lot of hard work and smarts to get to this point. You don’t think someone like that could do something like this.”

Kohberger, who was studying criminology at Washington State University Pullman, was living in student housing that was usually meant for Ph.D students with families. He moved there in August, the neighbor said. 

“At first he moved in by himself and we thought his family would come later, but he lived there alone,” she recalled. 

She said she once saw someone who looked like another young female student get out of Kohberger’s white car, but they parted ways and went to their own apartments.

The neighbor, also a graduate student, said she and the accused killer would say hello to each other in passing, and she once heard Kohberger bring a woman home. She didn’t see the woman, but the walls are thin so she heard Kohberger and the woman talking. 

The State Police Forensics Unit left with bags of evidence on Friday from the Washington State University dorm where suspect Bryan Kohberger lived.
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State Police Forensics Unit leave with bags of evidence from the dorm room at apartment 201 at the G building in Washington State university at Steptot Village, where the suspect Bryan Koehberger lived, who is accused of murdering four University of Idaho students on November 13th..Idaho (nypostinhouse (Kevin C. Downs for The New York Post ), December 30 2022
A neighbor at the apartment complex said Kohberger never seemed to sleep.
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Some residents who lived nearby told Fox News he kept a low-profile. 

“I’d see him go check his mail, that was it. Other than that, I’ve only seen him like twice the whole time, and I’ve lived here since July 2021,” Justin Williams, a 34-year-old employee at WSU who lives in an adjacent building to Kohberger told Fox News

Police believe the accused murderer acted alone, but details about what led law enforcement to him remain scant. 

Kohberger is currently in Pennsylvania jail after his Friday arrest at this parent’s home. 

Once he appears in Idaho court, officials can legally release Kohberger’s probable cause affidavit, which should shed some light on how he was nabbed nearly seven weeks after the shock slayings.

Kohberger “is eager to be exonerated of these charges and looks forward to resolving these matters as promptly as possible,” his public defender Jason LaBar said in a statement.

Final photo of the victims, pictured just hours before their untimely deaths: Madison Mogen, 21, top left, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, bottom left, Ethan Chapin, 20, center, and Xana Kernodle, 20, right.

His family on Sunday in a statement released by LaBar that they are standing by their son in an effort to “promote his presumption of innocence.”

Kohberger is accused of fatally stabbing students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on Nov. 13. Police said they have yet to locate a murder weapon. 

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Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger likely acted alone

The suspect in the murder of four University of Idaho students is believed to have acted alone, authorities said Saturday.

“We truly believe we have the individual that committed these crimes,” James Fry, the police chief in Moscow, Idaho, told Fox News Saturday.

Fry said police were still looking at connections between suspect Bryan Kohberger, a student at nearby Washington State University in Pullman, and the victims.

Kohberger, 28, was arrested in Pennsylvania Friday and charged with murder in the Nov. 13 deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20. They were stabbed to death in their beds as they slept in their off-campus home.

Police are still looking for the murder weapon which has been described as a long-blade knife.

As of Friday night, Kohberger was planning to waive his right to an extradition hearing to expedite his move to Idaho, said his lawyer, Jason Labar, the chief public defender in Monroe County, Pa.

Labar said he was not surprised by the decision, describing the hearing as a “formality” and noting that Pennsylvania only needs to show that Kohberger is, or resembles, the person in the arrest warrant.

(Clockwise from top left) Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Ethan Chapin were found stabbed to death.

Kohberger is a student at Washington State University.


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Law enforcement is still looking for the murder weapon.

The students were allegedly killed by Bryan Kohberger on November 13.


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“He was around the area at the time of the offense, I’m assuming they have his cell phone tracking data. That’s a pretty good assumption in today’s world,” he added. “On the 12th or 13th [November], they certainly have him in or around Pullman or Moscow.”


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Labar said that he spoke with Kohberger Friday in an hour-long conversation, in which he appeared “calm and shocked about everything.”

“He’s a very intelligent man, I think everyone’s aware of that,” he said, adding that Kohberger “is aware of situation and apparently he’s spoken to police also. I believe Idaho state troopers as well as Pennsylvania state police.” 

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Bryan Kohberger kept low profile living at WSU housing complex

The man suspected of slaughtering four University of Idaho students reportedly kept a low profile at his Washington State University apartment complex with some neighbors not even realizing the accused killer lived among them.

Bryan Kohberger, 28, who was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, returned to college following the slayings and finished off his first semester as a doctoral student studying criminal justice, the school confirmed in a statement.

Justin Williams, a 34-year-old employee at WSU who lives in an adjacent building to Kohberger, told Fox News Digital that he rarely saw the alleged murderer.

“I’d see him go check his mail, that was it. Other than that, I’ve only seen him like twice the whole time, and I’ve lived here since July 2021,” Williams said, who added he noted “nothing unusual” in Kohberger’s behavior.

Bryan Kohberger when he was a student at DeSales University.
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Neighbors told the news outlet the Steptoe Village building is part of a WSU housing complex, which is mostly inhabited by graduate or PhD students and is a “quiet” area in the typically safe city of Pullman — about a 15-minute drive across the Idaho border to Moscow, where the four students were slain.

Andrew Chua, a 28-year-old graduate student who lives just steps from Kohberger’s building, said in the nearly seven weeks since the murders, he hadn’t noticed anything “at all” unusual in the neighborhood.

“I didn’t know about this issue, it’s a very quiet, very nice place to live,” said Chua, who did not recognize Kohberger’s photo. “Now, I’m like, ‘Maybe I should stay home.’”

Bryan Kohberger was arrested in Monroe County, Pennsylvania on Friday, Dec. 30.
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Shawn Domgaard, a 36-year-old PhD student at WSU, said the news of the arrest just a stone’s throw from his home is “hard to process.” 

“It’s just so, like I said, a high contrast to what we’re used to,” said the Utah native and father of three young kids told Fox. “It feels like it’s happening far away even though it’s literally in my backyard.” 

Kohberger has been charged with murdering Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, who were found stabbed to death in their beds in their off-campus home on Nov. 13.

State Police Forensics Unit leave with bags of evidence from the dorm room at Washington State University, where Bryan Koehberger lived.

Neighbors recalled only seeing Bryan Koehberger on a few instances.


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Bryan Koehberger returned to Washington State to finish his semester following the slayings.



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More information on the murders and the investigation that led to Kohberger’s arrest will remain sealed in a probable cause affidavit until he’s extradited back to Idaho, Prosecutor Thompson told reporters at a press conference Friday, citing Idaho state law.

Kohberger is being held without bond in Monroe County, Pa. He has an extradition hearing on Jan. 3.

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One dead, three injured in NYC shooting

One person was killed and three others injured when a gunman opened fire in The Bronx on Wednesday night, sources said.

The four victims were shot at Southern Boulevard and East Tremont Avenue in Crotona at around 6:30 p.m., according to police.

A man was killed and three other injured after a shooting in the Bronx.
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The 911 caller reported that the shooting happened in front of a chicken shop, though officials erected police tape outside a Gourmet Deli on the corner of the two major streets.

A man was pronounced dead on arrival. The other three victims are expected to survive, sources said.

Police have not disclosed information on the gunman. It was not immediately clear what sparked the shooting.

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Damien Bendall sentenced to life in prison after confessing to Killamarsh murders.

A UK man sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for a quadruple homicide was captured on chilling police bodycam footage casually admitting to the slayings.

Damien Bendall made the cold-blooded confession shortly after he killed his partner Terri Harris, 35, her two children John-Paul Bennett, 13 and Lacey Bennett, 11, and her close friend 11-year-old Connie Gent inside a home in the English town of Killamarsh last year, according to the footage released Wednesday by the Derbyshire Constabulary.

“I know what’s going to happen. I’m going to go to prison, obviously, again,” Bendall told one of the officers outside the house where the crimes occurred.

When the officer asked why, he calmly replied, “I’ve murdered four people.”

Bendall pleaded guilty to the four murders and also to raping Gent, according to Derbyshire Constabulary. He was hit with five life sentences for the heinous crimes.

Bendall’s confession to the murders was caught on the cops’ body cameras.
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Before the shocking caught-on-camera confession to police, Bendall also admitted to the crime when he alerted a dispatcher over the phone to the bloody scene, according to audio of a call that was released.

“I need the police and the ambulance here now because I’ve killed four people,” he said.

Bendall, 32, was in a relationship with Harris and the two were living together with her two kids, the police force said. Gent, the 11-year-old friend, was sleeping over at the time of the Bendall’s attack.

Bendall talking to the cops right before confessing to the murder.

Part of Bendall’s phone call to the police was recorded and shared by the Derbyshire Constabulary.


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Harris was pregnant at the time of the murders, the BBC and other outlets reported.

Lord Justice Nigel Sweeny blasted Bendall as he sentenced him to five life prison terms for the September 2021 murders he carried out with a claw hammer.

“You began a relationship with Terri Harris in April 2020. During the course of that you were abusive and controlling. You took various drugs and were violent and unstable. On the evening of Saturday 18 September while with Terri and the three children you were under the influence of cocaine and cannabis,” Sweeny said, according to the Derbyshire Constabulary.

“You carried out a brutal and vicious attack on a (defenseless) woman and three children during which you went around the house attacking them, hitting them multiple times about the head and upper body with a claw hammer.”

Damien Bendall called the cops on himself after the murders.
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Detective Inspector Mark Shaw, who spearheaded the probe, said in a statement the level of force and violence used by Bendall proves he wanted them all dead.

“They had all, by the nature of their relationship, come to trust Bendall and he took the opportunity to shatter that trust and carry out the horrendous acts,” Shaw said. “The force and weapon he used would have meant they were very quickly left incapacitated.”

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3 California gang members charged with baby Jasper Wu’s murder

Three California gang members were hit with murder charges Thursday in the stray bullet shooting death of a 23-month-old baby last year, prosecutors announced.

Baby Jasper Wu had been sleeping in his car seat of his family’s white Lexus when he was struck and killed by a stray bullet Nov. 6, 2021.

The bullet was fired by either Trevor Green or Ivory Bivins, who were chasing down Johnny Jackson and Keison Lee in an alleged “rolling gun battle” that spilled onto the Oakland interstate, the Alameda County District Attorney’s office said.

“This horrific tragedy is a parent’s worst nightmare: An innocent child struck by gunfire while riding in the car,” said DA O’Malley in a statement.

The two groups of gang members were allegedly shooting one another from their cars on the northbound side of Interstate 880 around 2 p.m. that afternoon. A bullet from Green and Bivins’ car missed the Nissan Altima carrying Jackson and Lee and traveled across the highway into oncoming southbound traffic

The bullet smashed through the windshield and struck Jasper in the head.

Jasper Wu was sleeping in his family’s car when he was struck by a bullet.

Jasper was 23 months old when he was killed.


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The bullet smashed through the car windshield and through Jasper’s head.


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His mother, Cherry An, had been driving the car home to Fremont from San Francisco at the time of the shooting. Jasper’s aunt and two cousins were also in the car, but were not hurt.

Jasper was rushed to a nearby children’s hospital and pronounced dead just a few weeks shy of his second birthday.

Authorities found the bullet lodged in the seat behind the toddler’s car seat when they arrived, KTVU reported.

Johnny Jackson was one of the three gang members charged in Jasper’s murder.
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Green and Bivins were arrested in March 2022, while Jackson was arrested Wednesday, O’Malley said. Lee was shot and killed in a separate, drive-by shooting last month, KTVU said.

Green, Bivins and Jackson were charged with murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle, and possession of a firearm by a felon. Green and Bivins also face additional charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and criminal street gang conspiracy.

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Antonio Brown, suspect in murder of Atlanta grandmother, allegedly stole vodka before home break-in

The man accused of stabbing a 77-year-old woman to death inside her Atlanta home was reportedly intoxicated and stole a bottle of vodka from a liquor store before the killing.

Antonio Brown, 23, allegedly walked out of a nearby package store with a bottle of vodka before hopping the fence into the affluent gated community in Buckhead where police say he slaughtered Eleanor Bowles in a botched carjacking Saturday.

Brown tried to buy a $20 bottle of Absolut Vodka from Buckhead’s Best Wine & Spirits around 11:30 a.m., but was turned away because “he was already intoxicated,” according to a police report obtained by The Post.

A store employee told police that he then “snatched” the bottle and walked out of the store on Northside Parkway NW. She said staffers tried to stop him, but he was acting “aggressive.”

The employee said Brown was known by locals and was “always under the influence.” She said she and others believed he was homeless, according to the report.

Antonio Brown was arrested Monday and charged with murder, aggravated battery, possession of a knife, elder abuse and hijacking a motor vehicle.
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Brown was arrested on a lengthy list of charges, including murder and elder abuse.
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About a half hour after the shoplifting, Brown entered the community where Bowles lived, broke into her home and allegedly stabbed the grandmother multiple times in the garage, officials said.

Brown was trying to steal Bowles’ 2021 Lexus RS350 when she interrupted, police believe.

He is accused of stabbing her to death and taking off in the car, which was recovered later that night.

Bowles’ lifeless body was found in her garage by her son several hours later around 5:30 p.m., police said.

He was coming to visit his mother for the holidays when he made the heartbreaking discovery.

Eleanor Bowles, 77, was found hours after the slaying by her son.
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“I was on my way to visit her for the holidays and got to her a few hours too late,” Michael Bowles told FOX 5. “Finding her like that is something that will be with me forever. What happened to her was her worst nightmare. It’s most people’s worst nightmare.”

Brown was arrested Monday and charged with murder, aggravated battery, possession of a knife, elder abuse and hijacking a motor vehicle. He was booked into Fulton County jail.

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Leila Al Raheel found decapitated in her Philadelphia home: cops

A Philadelphia man is facing murder charges after investigators say a woman was found decapitated inside her home on Tuesday.

Philadelphia police discovered the body of Leila Al Raheel on the floor of her home on Magee Avenue around 12:45 p.m., the Philly Voice reported. They were initially called to the scene for a domestic incident.

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office later confirmed that Ahmad Shareef, 34, had been arrested on charges of murder, possession of an instrument of a crime, and abuse of a corpse. He remains in custody and is not eligible for bail.

Neighbors told FOX29 that Shareef, who is believed to have been Al Raheel’s romantic partner, was known for peculiar, sometimes troubling behavior.

“The older I got, the more I could see something was wrong in that house,” resident Gabriel Ramirez told the outlet. “There are young girls in that house and I don’t know what they’ve had to endure their whole lives.”

Police said that no children were home at the time of the confrontation. 

Philadelphia police discovered the body of Leila Al Raheel on the floor of her home.
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Philadelphia PD Inspector Michael McCarrick speaks to local media about the case.
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Inspector Michael McCarrick told CBS3 that they identified Shareef as a person of interest with the help of a witness. Shareef was reportedly covered in blood when he was arrested while cowering behind bushes just a few blocks away from the scene.

“Constant, constant drama for this house,” neighbor Nyjha Richardson told the network. “[Shareef] is unhinged and he’s terrifying and I’m very happy that now he’s not around but I’m disgusted it took this much.”

The Philadelphia Police Department and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment.

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Bronx mom Dimone Fleming charged after 2 children found dead

The mother of two young boys whose bodies were found in the bathtub of their Bronx home has been charged with murder in their stabbing deaths — after she shared a quote on Facebook about wanting kids to know they’re always safe at home.

Dimone Fleming, 22, was charged at the 46th Precinct late Sunday with two counts each of murder, intention to commit murder and murder: depraved indifference to a person less than 11-years-old.

Her sons – 11-month-old Octavius Canada and 3-year-old DeShawn Fleming – were found dead Saturday night in their apartment at a homeless shelter at 246 Echo Place in Mount Hope.

The boys each had “multiple stab wounds” to the neck and torso, Deputy Chief Louis Deceglie told reporters.

Just hours before the boys were found, Fleming shared a quote on social media about parents wanting to protect their children.

Dimone Fleming shared a post on Facebook about how children should feel safe at home.
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“I want my children to always know … if the relationship ain’t working COME HOME! If the bills become overwhelming COME HOME! If you feel unsafe COME HOME! If something don’t feel right COME HOME!” the post, originally written by another Facebook user and shared by the mom Saturday morning, said.

“I want my kids to always know they can come home … I never believed in the saying ‘they 18 they grown,’” the post continues.

DeShawn Fleming and Octavius Canada were found dead in a bathtub.

Fleming had been taken into custody as a person of interest before the children were found after cops responded to the apartment on a report of a woman “acting irrationally” and igniting things in the kitchen.

She was found naked on the third floor, police said.

However, cops didn’t notice the slain boys buried under a pile of clothes in the bathtub when they took her away.

The young victims had “multiple stab wounds” to their necks and torsos, Deputy Chief Louis Deceglie said.

A neighbor had told police that the kids’ dad had them, authorities said.

Police returned to the shelter about 8 p.m. after a 911 call from the frantic dad, Columbus Canada, 31, who found his sons’ lifeless bodies.

On Sunday, law enforcement sources told The Post that Fleming may have killed her sons because she believed they were possessed.

“She made statements about the devil — unusual statements,” a police source said.

Mourners gather at a memorial for the slain young brothers outside a Bronx shelter.

In an earlier Facebook post, the mom also chillingly wrote:  “It’s only one true God and I repent from all wrong doings and negative influence. Leaving all things that’s no longer serves me…… Thank you for your mercy.”

The woman was previously investigated by the Administration for Children’s Services after DeShawn was born, according to sources, who said she was suspected of improperly caring for the boy.

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Shirt Alex Murdaugh wore night his wife and son were murdered ‘destroyed’: defense

South Carolina officials destroyed the T-shirt Alex Murdaugh wore the night his wife and son were gunned down — making it impossible to challenge claims that it links him to the murders, according to his attorneys.

The disgraced 54-year-old legal scion’s legal team claimed in a 96-page filing Wednesday that contradictory claims about the shirt are at the heart of a “campaign of selective and deceptive leaks to convince the public that Murdaugh is guilty before he is tried.”

Prosecutors hired an unqualified expert, ex-cop Tom Bevel, “to opine that the white cotton T-shirt Mr. Murdaugh wore the night Maggie and Paul were murdered is stained with high-velocity blood spatter, most likely resulting from shooting Paul,” the filing states.

But Bevel’s first report “emphatically said the shirt contained no stains consistent with back spatter resulting from a gunshot,” attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin wrote.

The T-shirt Alex Murdaugh wore the night his wife and son were murdered has been “destroyed,” his lawyers said.
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“Yet for some reason, without any additional evidence he changed his opinion entirely after an in-person visit from lead [South Carolina Law Enforcement Division] SLED investigator David Owen,” they wrote.

After that, Bevel suddenly claimed “that the shirt has over 100 stains consistent with back spatter from a gunshot,” the filing said.

Murdaugh’s attorneys asked earlier this month to get the shirt for further testing at “an outside laboratory” — just to be told 13 days later that it was “destroyed,” the filing said.

Photos of the T-shirt showed it now almost completely blue, with sections also cut out.

“SLED elected to conduct its tests in a manner that would prevent anyone else from conducting subsequent tests,” they insisted — which “may well have happened in bad faith, but it could also be mere gross negligence.”

Either way, “neither the defense nor Mr. Bevel have been able to perform any tests on the shirt because the State destroyed it.”

Murdaugh’s lawyers say the shirt is at the heart of a “campaign of selective and deceptive leaks to convince the public that Murdaugh is guilty before he is tried.”
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Murdaugh’s legal team also noted that the disgraced lawyer had been the one to find his wife and son murdered near a dog kennel outside one of their homes on June 7 last year.

“The murder scene was gruesome; there was a large amount of blood on and around their bodies which transferred onto Mr. Murdaugh’s hands and clothing when he frantically checked them for signs of life,” they wrote of the high likelihood he would have blood or DNA on him.

“But the State needs blood spatter evidence because it is exceedingly difficult to explain how Mr. Murdaugh could have murdered Paul with multiple 12-gauge shotgun blasts at pointblank range in a small closet without getting at least some blood spattered on his shirt.

“After all, blood was spattered all over the closet door, walls and ceiling. So instead of accepting an honest exculpatory report, the State changed it to a false inculpatory report,” the filing said.

SLED Chief Mark Keel told The Post and Courier that his force was “reviewing the motion and will respond at the appropriate time.”

“The murder seen was gruesome,” the filing said of the night in June last year when Alex’s wife and son were found murdered outside one of their homes.
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South Carolina Attorney General’s Office spokesman Robert Kittle told the outlet that prosecutors would respond in a court filing next week.

Murdaugh — a fourth-generation lawyer from a powerful Southern legal family — has pleaded not guilty to the slayings. His trial is set to start on Jan. 23.

As well as the double murders, he faces nearly 100 other charges ranging from money laundering to drug offenses to stealing from clients and trying to arrange his own death to get his surviving son a $10 million life insurance benefit.

Focus on the case quickly led to his shocking downfall, with him admitting to years-long drug addiction and stealing from his family law firm.

On Tuesday, a banker charged with helping Murdaugh take money from the legal settlements of clients was found guilty of wire and bank fraud charges in South Carolina.

Former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte was allowed to remain free on bail as he awaits sentencing at a later date. Each of the six charges he was convicted of in federal court carry a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison.

“None of this would have happened without Alex Murdaugh,” prosecutor Emily Limehouse had said in her closing statement.

SLED Chief Mark Keel told The Post and Courier that his force was “reviewing the motion and will respond at the appropriate time.”

South Carolina Attorney General’s Office spokesman Robert Kittle told the outlet that prosecutors would respond in a court filing next week.

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