Maggie Murdaugh’s friends break silence for first time after husband Alex was convicted of murder
The IndependentThe latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Friends of slain South Carolina mother-of-two Maggie Murdaugh have broken their silence for the first time after her husband Alex was convicted of her brutal murder. “You know, she’s not ‘the wife that was murdered.’ I mean, we don’t want her to be remembered that way.” Maggie became a household name across America back in the summer of 2021 when she and her son Paul, 22, were murdered on the affluent family’s 1,700-acre Moselle estate in Islandton, South Carolina. open image in gallery Maggie Murdaugh’s friends speak out for first time While Murdaugh was “larger than life”, Maggie “’wasn’t flashy at all”, said Ms Price. “She wasn’t the type of person that would stand out in a crowd, but she was always there, you know, to back everybody up.” The friends described how she doted on Paul and Buster – Alex and Maggie’s surviving son – joking that she doted on them “almost too much”.