About This Archive

What this is

The Alex Murdaugh Case Archive is a searchable edition of the 2023 South Carolina murder-trial record. The archive covers January 23 through March 3, 2023: 29 trial days, 348 proceedings, and 65,804 transcript lines.

The South Carolina Supreme Court ordered a new trial in May 2026. The site also tracks the retrial schedule, venue, major rulings, and source documents.

Primary source

Transcript text comes from the court-reporter-certified trial transcript filed in the South Carolina Supreme Court's Record on Appeal in State v. Richard Alexander Murdaugh, Appellate Case No. 2023-000392. The trial transcript spans Record on Appeal Volumes III through XV.

Reporter page and line numbers accompany the HTML transcript so readers can check passages against the filed PDFs.

Supporting material

Summaries, profiles, timelines, and other guides are separate from the transcript. Some are produced with AI assistance and may contain errors or miss important context; use the transcript and cited records for important questions.

Video synchronization

Public courtroom video is available where a reliable source exists. Play controls open the recording near the corresponding passage. Timing is approximate and may drift during recesses, off-microphone speech, or edits in the public recording. The certified transcript remains the text authority.

Accuracy and corrections

• The HTML transcript and editorial guides may contain errors.
• The public source omits sealed material and may itself contain reporter corrections or imperfections.
• Retrial updates identify the court record, official statement, or cited report that supports them.

The full statement, including corrections, removal requests, and reuse, is on the Terms of Use page.

How to cite

Cite the underlying court record first, then include the archive URL as the retrieval location.

Select a line number to link to a passage; Shift-click another to select a range. Copy the address to share your selection. Hover over a line number for the original court reporter page and line references, where available.

Independence

This independent archive is not affiliated with a party, attorney, court, law-enforcement agency, or news organization involved in the case. It is published by Court Daemon and built by Trice Digital.

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