Alex and Buster Murdaugh got really drunk at a South Carolina justice convention just two months after the patriarch massacred half their family, witnesses said.
Buster, 26, remained silent during the trial in which father Alex was found guilty of killing Maggie and Paul Murdaugh on June 7, 2021.
Sources say surviving family members showed up drunk ‘en masse’ to the convention in August 2021, prompting guests to leave the room amid concerns they’d ‘end up in a fight under a pile’. of Murdaughs’.
Randolph ‘Randy’ Murdaugh, Alex’s brother and Buster’s uncle, was also in attendance.
The revelations come after Buster was said to have broken down in tears as jurors unanimously convicted his father on Thursday.
Alex (left) and Buster (right) got “very drunk” during a raucous night just two months after the patriarch massacred Maggie and Paul.
Alex was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Maggie and Paul on June 7, 2021. The family is pictured in this Father’s Day 2020 photo
Randal ‘Randy’ Murdaugh also attended the raucous night out. He is pictured attending his brother’s trial in Colleton County Court on February 27.
It marked a rare outburst for the youngest son who told the Daily Mail he did not “want to see it written anywhere that I am supporting my father” in November 2022.
Speaking about the party, a source told the New York outletyou: ‘They showed up en masse, and many of them got very drunk, including Buster.
‘It got bad enough that some of us had to leave and go upstairs to get away from them. We didn’t want to end up in a fight under a bunch of Murdaughs.
It had previously been reported that Randy and Buster were at the event, but Alex’s presence is new information.
“It was kind of amazing to see,” the source said.
‘Your whole family has just been slaughtered and you should be worried about murderers lurking around every corner, but instead you’re getting drunk and drinking.’
Members of Alex’s old law firm, PMPED, were also reportedly with the couple that night.
The event was in aid of the South Carolina Association for Justice, of which Alex was president in 2016.
Buster came to light Saturday when photos surfaced of him walking his dog with his girlfriend Brooklynn White in South Carolina.
He had a tense look on his face as he wandered through the Hilton Head neighborhood.
He and White share a modest $180,000 one-bedroom condo in the area, which is about an hour away from where the brutal murders occurred.
Buster’s antics after the deaths of his mother and brother have repeatedly aroused suspicion.
In October 2021, he was photographed at a Las Vegas gambling table with his uncle John Marvin Murdaugh.
Buster was seen wearing a Vineyard Vines T-shirt, shorts and cap while walking his dogs on a sunny Saturday in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Murdaugh’s only surviving son flashes a half smile as he walks his dogs in Hilton Head on Saturday morning.
Buster’s future remains uncertain after his father’s trial opened a can of worms for the Murdaugh family, which is linked to a series of criminal charges.
Buster and his girlfriend Brooklyn White walk through their neighborhood with their two dogs
It is understood that she complained to her father in a call from prison about the photos, at which point Alex advised her to start “wearing a hat” in public.
Buster’s future appears uncertain following the scandal, which has opened a can of worms for the Murdaugh family, exposing a series of criminal charges in his name.
It shed new light on the 2015 death of Stephen Smith, whose body was found on the side of Hampton County Road.
His skull was partially crushed, he had a hole in his forehead and his shoulder had been dislocated, according to case documents and photos seen by his mother Sandy.
Sandy has repeatedly insisted that the Murdaughs had something to do with their son’s death and that Buster’s name was mentioned multiple times in the investigation.
A bystander at Alex’s sentencing Friday morning was heard yelling: ‘Buster’s next…your son’s next, Alex!’
Buster Murdaugh, 26, held up pretty well after his father, Alex Murdaugh, was convicted of murder, but a source says he later broke down in tears in front of a South Carolina court.
Murdaugh appears in a new mugshot with a shaved head and wearing a yellow jumpsuit after being booked into South Carolina’s Kirkland Reception and Assessment Center on Friday.
He had been pursuing a law degree at the University of South Carolina.
Reports indicated that he had been expelled for a plagiarism incident, but his family paid a well-connected Colombian lawyer to secure his reinstatement.
At one point, Buster is also said to have worked for his father’s law firm.