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Fox News
20-06-2025
- Fox News
Fox News True Crime Newsletter: Karen Read's verdict, Travis Decker's search, Bryan Kohberger's warning
FLIPPING THE SCRIPT: Cleared of murder charges, Karen Read could eye legal payback against investigators who cost her ON THE RUN: Military-trained dad accused of killing daughters believed to be alive, evading capture: police BENCH PRESS: Idaho judge tells Bryan Kohberger to prepare for summer courtroom showdown after last-minute effort 'A REAL VICTORY:' Buster Murdaugh scores legal win in defamation fight over documentary's murder implications: former state AG LOOSE ENDS: Second Karen Read juror faults 'sloppy police investigation' in John O'Keefe murder case 'RIDICULOUS:' Michael Proctor laughs at Karen Read corruption allegations as he fights to get job back 'SNAPPED:' California nudist accused of killing neighbors and drowning their dog over hot dog 'jab' JUDGMENT DAY: Karen Read murder case verdict reached after deadlocked first trial SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER EVADING CAPTURE: New flyer shows suspected killer dad may have changed appearance in wilderness manhunt: police 'RIGHT NEXT TO HIM:' Surprise witness in Idaho student murders says she 'saw Bryan there' on deadly night DEJA VU: Karen Read jury questions suggest same legal dilemma as last year's mistrial MISSED WARNING: Fugitive dad Travis Decker heard in new audio before allegedly murdering 3 daughters VERDICT WATCH: Karen Read's defense wants verdict slip simplified as jurors deliberate murder charge JUSTICE ON THE LINE: Experts weigh in on key moments that could decide Karen Read's fate in murder trial
Daily Mail
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Buster Murdaugh gets first victory in defamation case against Warner Bros. over murder documentary
Buster Murdaugh was handed his first win in court as a judge ruled his defamation case against Warner Brothers could proceed. The only surviving son of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh - who is serving two life sentences for murdering his wife and youngest son in 2021 - claimed the production company implied that he 'murdered a 19-year-old Hampton County man named Stephen Smith.' Details of Smith's death along with rumors of links to the Murdaugh family were broadcast in a documentary detailing the downfall of the once prominent legal dynasty. The 28-year-old has never been accused of, or faced charges relating to, Smith's death. In 2023, he publicly denied involvement in the tragedy and shut down persistent rumors the pair had been romantically linked. Smith was a classmate of Buster and was found dead on a rural road in the summer of 2015. An autopsy determined he was fatally struck in a hit-and-run. Former South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon told Fox News that the basis of the lawsuit is 'something called defamation by implication. 'There were rumors … Buster Murdaugh was somehow involved in his death. They would take interviews of people living in that area that would, in effect, repeat these rumors about Buster Murdaugh being involved in this murder. 'The lawsuit claims that they just simply aired these interviews of rumors … and would juxtapose those interviews with actual law enforcement documents and related information.' Condon said he does believe Buster's reputation was 'severely damaged by the reporting that went on.' Warner Brothers had attempted to have the defamation suit dismissed, but a judge ruled it could proceed. In the lawsuit, Buster noted the 'defamatory and false' insinuations made in the documentary were 'published to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of viewers who watched the show, including viewers in South Carolina.' He said by airing details of Smith's death in a documentary about his father's crimes, the showrunners implied he, too, had 'committed a crime or moral turpitude.' In 2016, a year after her son's death, Smith's mother Sandy wrote a letter to the FBI stating that she believed the Murdaughs were somehow involved. 'The first call my family received after the murder was from authorities notifying us of Stephen's death,' she wrote. 'The second came very quickly the same morning from Solicitor Randolph Murdaugh.' Sandy claimed to CBS authorities initially told her her son had been shot, but that within hours they said it was actually a hit-and-run. There was no evidence of vehicle debris, skid marks or injuries consistent with someone being hit by a car and they were convinced that the victim had a gunshot wound above his right eye, according to the original incident report. Sandy feared her son had been the victim of a hate crime. Rumors swirled in the small town that Buster may have been romantically linked to Smith prior to his death, but these claims were never substantiated and Buster himself vehemently denied them. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division launched a homicide investigation into Smith's death almost two weeks after Alex Murdaugh shot his wife Maggie and son, Paul in June 2021. He was convicted over the killings in 2023 and is serving two consecutive life terms without possibility of parole. Smith's family raised more than $60,000 after Alex's conviction to have his body exhumed for a private autopsy. Murdaugh, a high-profile attorney in South Carolina's Low Country, called 911 to report that he had found the bodies of his wife and son on their sprawling Moselle estate in rural Colleton County. Police arrived to find Maggie and Paul shot dead. Investigators determined that two firearms had been used. Although Murdaugh initially denied involvement, officers soon began to unravel a web of financial mismanagement, embezzlement, fraud and drug abuse. Three months later, Murdaugh - while under suspension for the alleged murders - was shot in the head as he changed a tire on his black Mercedes-Benz SUV. Authorities soon alleged that he had arranged the shooting himself by hiring distant relative Curtis Edward Smith in a failed suicide-for-hire plot so that Buster could receive a $10 million life insurance payout. Murdaugh was ultimately also convicted of dozens of financial crimes ranging from embezzlement to money laundering. In addition to his life sentences, Murdaugh was sentenced in federal court in April 2024 to 40 years for financial crimes involving millions stolen from clients and colleagues - a sentence that was to run concurrently with his state prison terms. A source close to Buster recently told that, though he believes his father to be innocent of the murders, he is 'really angry' at the sweeping financial crimes that Murdaugh was subsequently convicted of. 'He's living his life but he doesn't really have too much going on,' a member of his inner circle said. 'He's pretty directionless, but he's figuring it out.' But last month Buster married his long-term girlfrien d Brooklynn White, 29, in an extravagant ceremony surrounded by family and friends. The couple chose the exclusive Coosaw Point - a luxury riverside community - for their nuptials, where a 50-person wedding will set a couple back around $26,000 for the venue costs alone.
Fox News
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Buster Murdaugh scores legal win in defamation fight over documentary's murder implications: former state AG
Alex Murdaugh's surviving son, Buster Murdaugh, was granted a "victory" this week when a federal judge decided to allow his defamation suit against CNN parent company Warner Bros. to proceed, former South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon told Fox News Digital. Court documents filed in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina on June 9 detail Judge Richard Mark Gergel's order denying Warner Bros' and Blackfin Inc.'s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which alleges that the media conglomerates "insinuated and implied" in their respective Murdaugh documentary that Buster, now 28, "had murdered a 19-year-old Hampton County man named Stephen Smith." Smith — Buster's former classmate — was found dead on a rural road in Hampton County, where the Murdaugh family is from, in the summer of 2015. An autopsy later determined that he had been fatally struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run while he was walking along the run after running out of gas. "[T]here were rumors … Buster Murdaugh was somehow involved in his death, and the basis of the lawsuit is that these media companies — the main claim being something called defamation by implication — that they would take interviews of people living in that area that would, in effect, repeat these rumors about Buster Murdaugh being involved in this murder," Condon said. "And the lawsuit claims that they just simply aired these interviews of rumors … and would juxtapose those interviews with actual law enforcement documents and related information." "I do think that [Buster's] reputation has been severely damaged by the reporting that went on." The defamation suit alleges that Warner Bros and Blackfin, which produced the Warner Bros documentary, implicated Buster in Smith's death. The media companies tried early on to dismiss it. Fox News Digital has reached out to attorneys for both media companies. Buster is arguing that statements regarding Smith's death made in the documentary about his father's crimes "are defamatory and falsely accuse the Plaintiff of committing a crime or moral turpitude," an amended complaint states. "The claims have been published to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of viewers who watched the show, including viewers in South Carolina, and the defamatory statements continue to be republished as of the filing of this action on a broad array of streaming platforms and channels owned by Defendant Warner Bros." Warner Bros and Blackfin filed a motion to dismiss on multiple grounds, including the First Amendment, court filings show. "Plaintiff's Amended Complaint necessitates dismissal for multiple independent reasons. Plaintiff fails to sufficiently identify the allegedly defamatory content, as the Rules require. … Leaving aside the lack of requisite specificity, the First Amendment bars Plaintiff's claims as to the Blackfin Documentary because it does not state as a fact that he is 'the murderer of Stephen Smith' (which is the only alleged defamation)," attorneys for the two media companies said in their motion to dismiss, among other reasons to dismiss. Investigators began probing possible links between Smith's death and the Murdaugh family after Buster's mother and brother were both shot to death just miles from the clan's South Carolina estate in June 2021 but did not find any kind of link between the Murdaughs and Smith's death. Gergel ultimately sided with Buster. "Here, the Court need not decide at this stage which state's privilege law applies because Plaintiff's theory of liability does not rest solely on the reporting or republication of law enforcement reports. Rather, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants' selective juxtaposition of law enforcement interviews with interviews of individuals within Hampton County and reports regarding the Murdaugh family, in tandem, create the defamatory implication that Plaintiff is responsible for Stephen Smith's death," the judge wrote in his order. "The Court finds that the fair report privilege does not bar Plaintiff's lawsuit." READ THE OTHE ORDER: Condon called the decision "a real victory for Buster Murdaugh and his legal team that they were able to keep the case alive." "A real victory for Buster Murdaugh and his legal team." "We'll see where it goes with discovery," he said. …I was at the Murdaugh trial for every day for six weeks, and I must say, after that case ended and when these different media companies had different stories circulating about the case and related matters, including the Stephen Smith murder, I wouldn't know just personally. There were numbers of people that would routinely ask me about Buster Murdaugh being investigated for the murder of Stephen Smith. They would speculate that he's going to be arrested soon." Condon added that the fact that the suit "survived this early stage … is really significant in terms of where this case might head." "I do know Judge Gergel would apply the law very rigorously, and the fact that he's letting these cases go forward tells me that, again, at this very early stage, these cases appear to have merit." Condon said. GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) opened a homicide investigation into Smith's death June 23, 2021 — about two weeks after Alex Murdaugh fatally shot his wife Maggie, 52, and his son, Paul, 22. Alex Murdaugh was convicted in Maggie and Paul's murders in March 2023 and was sentenced to life in prison. The disgraced South Carolina legal scion also pleaded guilty to dozens of financial crimes tied to his family's personal injury law firm. Prosecutors said Alex murdered his wife and youngest son to distract from his financial crimes. The now-56-year-old took in clients who had suffered injuries in various accidents and helped them get millions of dollars in damages, most of which he would keep for himself without telling the victims. Smith's mother wrote a letter to the FBI in 2016 implicating the Murdaughs in her son's death, explaining her belief that the Murdaugh family staged the accident in an effort to steal more money. "The first call my family received after the murder was from authorities notifying us of Stephen's death," she wrote at the time. "The second came very quickly the same morning from Solicitor Randolph Murdaugh." The retired solicitor, who had served as the region's top prosecutor before retiring in 2005, is the late father of Alex Murdaugh. He allegedly told Smith's mother he was willing to work pro bono as a liaison between the family and investigators but soon stopped returning their calls, the letter says. An attorney for the Smith family did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Buster issued a statement in 2023 through his attorney denying any role in Smith's death: "These baseless rumors of my involvement in Stephen's death are false," he said. "My heart goes out to the Smith family." Fox News Digital reached out to Buster's attorneys for comment regarding Gergel's order this week.
Daily Mail
12-06-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Alex Murdaugh's son Buster's 'bitter' life in isolation and the source of fury at his father that has nothing to do with the murders
Double murderer Alex Murdaugh 's only surviving son is bitter and struggling to escape the stain of his killer father's legacy, the Daily Mail can reveal. Four years after his mother Maggie, 52, and brother Paul, 22, were shot and killed by the disgraced legal scion, the 32-year-old still hasn't adapted to his bleak new reality. Buster Murdaugh grew up as a member of one of South Carolina's most distinguished families but the gruesome slayings carried out by his father and the publicity of the trial that followed have left him without many career opportunities. A source close to him has told the Daily Mail that, though he believes his father to be innocent of the murders, Buster is 'really angry' at the sweeping financial crimes that Murdaugh was subsequently convicted of. 'He's living his life but he doesn't really have too much going on,' a member of his inner circle said. 'He's pretty directionless, but he's figuring it out.' Buster and his family found themselves in the middle of a media firestorm in June 2021 when the elder Murdaugh, a high-profile attorney in South Carolina's Low Country, called 911 to report that he had found the bodies of his wife and son on their sprawling Moselle estate in rural Colleton County. Police arrived to find Maggie and Paul shot dead. Investigators determined that two firearms had been used. Although Murdaugh initially denied involvement, officers soon began to unravel a web of financial mismanagement, embezzlement, fraud and drug abuse. Three months later, Murdaugh - while under suspension for the alleged murders - was shot in the head as he changed a tire on his black Mercedes-Benz SUV. Authorities soon alleged that he had arranged the shooting himself by hiring distant relative Curtis Edward Smith in a failed suicide-for-hire plot so that Buster could receive a $10 million life insurance payout. 'That was a really stressful time for Buster,' the source said. 'He felt like things went from s*** to s***tier. And they keep getting worse.' The ensuing scandal ended one of South Carolina's most dominant family dynasties. A member of the Murdaugh family had served as solicitor of the 14th Judicial Circuit for 86 years, and most family members were prominent attorneys and judges. Murdaugh was ultimately charged with more than 90 financial crimes, ranging from embezzlement to money laundering - and two counts of murder. In March 2023, he was convicted after a highly publicized trial to two consecutive life terms without possibility of parole for killing his wife and son by the dog kennels of the family's hunting lodge in Islandton. He was also sentenced in federal court in April 2024 to 40 years for financial crimes involving millions stolen from clients and colleagues - a sentence that was to run concurrently with his state prison terms. He is being held in protective custody at McCormick Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison where it's likely that he will die. He continues to deny responsibility for the murders. The deaths have spawned multiple documentaries and a motion picture film is in production, with actor Jason Clarke playing Murdaugh. Buster has been trying to get back on his feet with his former long-term girlfriend and now new wife Brooklynn White, an attorney, after he dropped out of law school. The couple moved into a modest three-bedroom home in Bluffton, an hour away from the South Carolina low country estate where Buster was raised. The fallout in the two years since what local media called the 'trial of the century' has taken its toll on Buster, who is frequently confronted by angry members of the public whenever he goes near his hometown. 'You don't run into any of these people in public,' Buster once told his father on a jailhouse phone call. 'But I get stopped and yelled at all the time. I got cussed at in the gas station the other day.' Still, Buster stands by his father, insisting that he would never have murdered his wife and son. In his first and only interview since the murder trial, Buster told the Fox Nation documentary The Fall of the House of Murdaugh: 'I do not think that he could be affiliated with endangering my mother and brother. 'I think that I hold a very unique perspective that nobody else in that courtroom ever held. And I know the love that I have witnessed.' Despite this, the two rarely speak. When they do, the calls are always short and initiated by the elder Murdaugh, now 57, from behind bars. 'I don't think he's got a lot to say to his dad at the moment,' the source added. 'I mean, what's there to talk about'.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Yahoo
Where Is Buster Murdaugh Now? What to Know About His Life After Dad Alex Murdaugh's Conviction
Buster Murdaugh was born to parents Alex and Maggie Murdaugh Buster was thrust into the spotlight when his dad was convicted of murdering Maggie and their other son, Paul Buster has also dealt with his own legal troubles, including a 2019 wrongful death lawsuit concerning Mallory BeachBuster Murdaugh and his family were prominent members of their South Carolina community — but the Murdaughs gained national notoriety in the summer of 2021, after the murders of Buster's mother, Margaret 'Maggie' Murdaugh, and brother, Paul Murdaugh. Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, were shot and killed on June 7, 2021, at Moselle, their family's 1,770-acre property in the low country of South Carolina. At the time of their deaths, Paul was awaiting trial in connection with the 2019 boating death of 19-year-old Mallory Beach. The double murder sent shockwaves through their small South Carolina town of Hampton, where the powerful Murdaugh family had been practicing law since 1910. Adding to the local drama was the fact that Buster's father, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, found himself at the epicenter of the shocking slayings. Alex's attorney, Jim Griffin, revealed that the grieving husband and father was considered a person of interest from the onset of the authorities' investigation into the murders. The charges against Alex continued to mount throughout early 2022, but he wasn't officially linked to the killings of his wife and son until July 2022 — when a South Carolina grand jury indicted the disgraced attorney in the double murder. Prosecutors alleged that, on the evening of June 7, 2021, Alex lured his estranged wife Maggie from their family's beach house (where she had been staying) to their hunting estate, where he then shot and killed her and Paul execution style near the dog kennels on the property. Despite the 'mountain of evidence' presented against Alex during his 2023 murder trial, Buster stood by his father's side, maintaining his innocence and testifying in his defense. But the fallout from the deaths of his mother and brother — and his father's March 2023 double murder conviction — was devastating for Buster. 'Buster is collateral damage to his father's situation,' a childhood friend of Buster's told PEOPLE in 2022. 'I think he's developed this attitude of 'I'm gonna shut people out before they shut me out.' His circle of friends got really small really fast.' So where is Buster Murdaugh today? Here is a look at Buster's life before, during and after the tragic deaths of his mother and brother — and his father's conviction. Richard Alexander Murdaugh Jr., otherwise known as Buster, was the eldest son of Alex Murdaugh and his wife, Margaret 'Maggie' Murdaugh. Buster and his younger brother Paul were born into one of the most prominent families in Hampton County, South Carolina. They earned recognition from the family law firm, Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick (or PMPED), which was founded in 1910 by Buster's great-great-grandfather, Randolph Murdaugh Sr., The Greenville News reported. Over the next century, the law firm grew into a multimillion-dollar practice that employed several generations of Murdaughs — including Buster's father, Alex. Randolph Sr. was also the first member of the family to serve as Solicitor in the 14th Judicial Circuit, where he prosecuted criminal cases in four South Carolina counties, according to its website. The Murdaugh family would go on to hold the office continuously from 1920 to 2006. 'For over a century, the Murdaughs were law and order here in the 14th circuit,' The Hampton County Guardian reporter Michael Dewitt said in the Netflix docuseries Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal. 'They ran both sides of the legal ledger, from civil cases to criminal cases.' Dewitt continued, 'They were the law in this area — and, at times, they were above the law.' Buster and his family first made national news after his mother, Maggie, and younger brother Paul were found shot to death at Moselle, the family's 1,770-acre hunting estate in South Carolina. The headlines following their murders primarily centered on Buster's father, Alex. The once-wealthy and powerful attorney quickly became disgraced in the months following the murders, as a result of his alleged involvement in illegal drug distribution, money laundering, theft, embezzlement and perjury, PEOPLE previously confirmed. In addition to the almost 90 charges brought against Alex, he was also charged with murdering Maggie and Paul after a grand jury indictment in July 2022. Buster found his name entangled in his father's legal turmoil in September 2021, when Alex was reportedly 'shot in the head while changing a tire' in Hampton County, South Carolina. However, less than two weeks later, South Carolina law enforcement revealed that Alex allegedly arranged the shooting himself — hiring Curtis Edward Smith to shoot him in the head so that Buster could receive $10 million in a life insurance payout after his death. Buster also made headlines when he testified for the defense at his father's double murder trial. Buster told the jury he 'knew a little bit' about his father's drug use (which at one point had Alex allegedly spending $50,000 a week on opioids and taking up to 60 pills a day). Buster also claimed on the stand that his father was 'heartbroken' following the deaths of Maggie and Paul. After a highly publicized six-week trial in early 2023, Buster's father, Alex, was found guilty of murdering his wife and son. Buster, Alex's only surviving child, was in the courtroom as the verdicts were read. Alex's defense team moved for a mistrial after the guilty verdicts were handed down, but the motion was quickly denied by the judge. 'The evidence of guilt is overwhelming, and I deny the motion,' state Circuit Judge Clifton Newman said, per Good Morning America. The following day, Alex was sentenced to two life sentences for the murders of Maggie and Paul. Alex, however, maintained his innocence when he addressed the judge at his sentencing hearing. 'I'm innocent. I would never hurt my wife Maggie. And I would never hurt my son 'Paul Paul,' ' he told Judge Newman. Buster has stood by his father, maintaining his innocence during and after his trial. In an interview with Fox Nation in August 2023, Buster doubled down on his stance that his father was innocent and did not belong in prison. 'I do not think that he could be affiliated with endangering my mother and brother,' Buster said in Fox Nation's The Fall of the House of Murdaugh. 'We have been here for a while now and that's been my stance.' Buster added that he believed his father's trial was 'not fair' and that pretrial publicity led the jury to form predetermined opinions about the former South Carolina attorney. 'I think that I hold a very unique perspective that nobody else in that courtroom ever held. And I know the love that I have witnessed,' Buster said, referencing his father's 'loving' relationship with his family. Buster also told Fox Nation that he believes the killer is still on the loose — and that his safety is at risk as a result. 'I think I set myself up to be safe but yes, when I go to bed at night I have a fear that there is somebody that is still out there,' he shared. Though Buster faced no charges in relation to the deaths of his mother and brother, he was not without his own legal troubles. Buster's name was mentioned more than 40 times during the investigation into the mysterious 2015 death of 19-year-old nursing student Stephen Smith. Smith — who was a classmate of Buster's — was found dead on a dark Hampton County road not far from the Murdaugh family estate during the early morning hours of July 8, 2015. Authorities initially ruled Smith's death a hit-and-run — before reopening the case in June 2021, following the murders of Maggie and Paul. Authorities revealed that, while investigating the murders of Maggie and Paul, new evidence connected to Smith's death surfaced, which led to them reopening the case. Shortly after Alex's conviction in March 2023, Smith's death was officially ruled a homicide. Buster has never been charged — or even questioned — in connection with Smith's death, however. He vehemently denied any involvement in a public statement released shortly after his father's conviction in March 2023. 'I have tried my best to ignore the vicious rumors about my involvement in Stephen Smith's tragic death that continue to be published in the media as I grieve over the brutal murders of my mother and brother,' the statement read. 'I haven't spoken up until now because I want to live in private while I cope with their deaths and my father's incarceration ... This has gone on far too long.' It continued, 'These baseless rumors of my involvement with Stephen and his death are false. I unequivocally deny any involvement in his death, and my heart goes out to the Smith family. I am requesting that the media immediately stop publishing these defamatory comments and rumors about me.' Buster was also named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in 2019 by the mother of Mallory Beach, a 19-year-old who was killed in February 2019 after a boat driven by an allegedly intoxicated Paul crashed into a bridge. Alex, Maggie and Buster were all named in the lawsuit, as Alex was the owner of the boat and Maggie's credit card and Buster's ID were allegedly used by Paul to illegally purchase alcohol prior to the crash, Fox News reports. Beach's family and three of the other boat crash victims settled with Buster and the estate of Maggie in January 2023 for an undisclosed but 'significant' amount, an ABC affiliate station in South Carolina reported. Buster went from being a member of one of South Carolina's most well-known families to living a life in near isolation — cutting off contact from most of his social circle following his mother and brother's deaths. 'He really withdrew after everything happened,' a former college classmate told PEOPLE in 2022. 'He has really closed off and built walls around himself.' Buster has never returned to Moselle, his family's estate where his mother and brother were murdered, or his family's beach house on Edisto Island, S.C., where his mother was staying before her death. He also avoids his hometown of Hampton, where his family went from revered to reviled. 'I get stopped and yelled at all the time. I got cussed at in the gas station the other day,' Buster told his father in a taped jailhouse phone call, according to the University of South Carolina's newspaper The State. To escape, Buster moved into his girlfriend, Brooklynn White's, Hilton Head Island, S.C. condo, FITS News reported. The longtime couple went on to purchase a home together in Bluffton, S.C., in May 2023. They also share a golden retriever named Miller. White is currently an attorney at Olivetti McCray & Withrow, an all-female law firm in Hilton Head. She graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law — the same law school Buster attended before he was kicked out in 2019 for low grades and alleged plagiarism, according to The State. Jailhouse recordings revealed that Alex paid $60,000 to prominent lawyer Butch Bowers to help get Buster back into law school. Buster was reportedly readmitted and due to resume classes in January 2022, but 'it was mutually agreed that delaying readmission to law school would be best for him and for the law school,' Alex's attorney Jim Griffin told The State. Buster has yet to return to law school. It is not known whether he is currently employed. Read the original article on People
