Prosecutor lays out timeline of Alex Murdaugh's phone calls the night his wife was killed https://ift.tt/PO8tBxa Opening statements are expected to begin Wednesday afternoon in Walterboro, South Carolina, in the trial of Alex Murdaugh, who has been charged with the 2021 murders of his wife and youngest son -- the most serious and the grisliest of allegations faced by the once prominent, but now disbarred, attorney.