In a magnificent Lowcountry ceremony on May 3, Alex Murdaugh’s surviving eldest son, Buster Murdaugh, wed Brooklynn White.
Following Alex Murdaugh’s conviction in the 2021 murders of his younger son, Paul, and wife, Maggie, the couple married at Coosaw Point, a former private hunting preserve-turned event site, in Beaufort, South Carolina —where Alex Murdaugh was convicted for financial crimes.
Images uploaded to Instagram depict what looked to be a beautiful event taking place under a sailcloth tent with view of wetlands on Coosaw Point property. Green and white cloths covered tables; floral arrangements comprised blue and white hydrangeas and other foliage.
While Buster donned a white jacket, black bow tie and black formal pants with a monogrammed belt, White wore an off-the-shoulder dress with her hair in an elegant updo.
The couple presented a white, four-tiered wedding cake with understated flower motifs.
White stayed at Buster’s side through his father’s murder and financial crimes trials in 2023.
On their family’s Colleton County hunting estate in June 2021, 56-year-old Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and younger son, earning a life sentence.
Prosecutors said that their deaths were meant to deflect attention from his growing financial misbehaviour, which was starting to surface about that time.
In a 2023 FOX Nation-exclusive series, “The Fall of the House of Murdaugh,” Buster sat down with FOX News anchor Martha MacCallum to uncover the alleged truth behind his father’s controversial conviction for the murders, nailing down his argument that there are “always two sides of the story.”
“I do not believe it was fair,” he told MacCallum of his father’s murder trial. “I was there for six weeks studying it, and I think it was a tilted table from the beginning. And I think, unfortunately, a lot of the jurors felt that way prior to when they had to deliberate. It was predetermined in their minds, prior to when they ever heard any shred of evidence that was given in that room.”
Given the enormous media coverage the case was attracting, Buster contended that law enforcement was under great need to identify a culprit. Knowing Alex was the person who found the bodies, he thinks the police hurried to judgement.
“My biggest thing that I want people to realize that there are always two sides of the story. Now they can pick which one they want to believe, but I think there’s a heck of a lot that still needs to be answered about what happened.”
When questioned whether he thought the term “psychopath” was a fair evaluation of his father, Buster told McCallum he believes “there are characteristics where you look at the manipulation and the lies and the carrying out of that such, and I think that is a fair assessment.”
In a state case in November of last year, the discredited South Carolina attorney was also sentenced to 27 years for his financial transgressions.
Federal prosecutors advised a sentence of 17 to 22 years in prison for the almost two-dozen crimes, including bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, resulting from his plans to steal millions from his clients and the company where he served as partner.
