charges coming for wife and son’s slaying

Disgraced South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh will be charged this week with the double slaying of his wife and son, his brother confirmed Tuesday.

Investigators from the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) visited Murdaugh’s younger brother, John Marvin Murdaugh, at home Tuesday to break the news, journalist and true crime author Vicky Ward revealed.

Officers “told the Murdaugh family that Alex Murdaugh would be charged this week with the murder of his wife and son,” Ward tweeted.

Murdaugh’s brother soon confirmed to the Post and Courier that officers visited him for 30 minutes to prepare him for the criminal charges over the shocking double slaying in June last year.

He stressed that officers made no mention of suspects other than his brother, who is already behind bars facing more than 70 charges.

Sources also told Fitsnews — a local site behind the podcast “Murdaugh Murders” — that charges would be presented to a grand jury on Thursday.

SLED spokeswoman Renee Wunderlich declined to comment to the Post and Courier, beyond saying the agency’s investigation remains “active and ongoing.”

Murdaugh, a member of one of the Palmetto State’s most prominent legal families, had been the one to first call 911 when his wife, Maggie, 52, and troubled 22-year-old son Paul were found blasted to death outside their hunting property in Colleton County in June last year.

Investigators immediately said the public was not in danger even without naming any suspects.

Murdaugh’s own lawyer, Jim Griffin, later admitted in interviews in October that “SLED identified Alex as a person of interest. They’ve never eliminated him as a person of interest.”

While he has not been charged with the double slaying, the focus on him quickly exposed a series of shocking financial crimes — as well as a secret drug addiction. He has been behind bars since last October.