Alex Murdaugh Defense Demands Murder Charge Dismissal | Crime Alert 08.12.26
Alex Murdaugh Defense Demands Murder Charge Dismissal | Crime Alert 08.12.26  
Podcast: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Published On: Wed Aug 12 2026
Description: Alex Murdaugh is asking a South Carolina judge to dismiss his murder indictments, alleging the lead state investigator gave perjurious testimony and presented fabricated physical evidence to the grand jury. In Ohio, a mother and her two co-parents face murder charges after a seven-year-old boy was found bound and dead inside a closet following months of severe abuse uncovered by a private investigator. An international manhunt ended in Berlin after a former exchange student was captured for the alleged breakup-related strangulation murder of a University of Arizona student in her apartment. Sydney Silvagni reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.