Newly released body camera footage shows police removing personal items including Benadryl and chewing tobacco from the pockets of handcuffed Alex Murdaugh as he begs for prescription drugs outside a Florida rehab facility. is reflected.
The partially edited footage was obtained by Fox News Digital from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and was filmed on October 14, 2021, at approximately 11 a.m.
About a month ago, the disgraced legal heir left his law firm and was shot to death on a rural South Carolina road in a failed assisted suicide attempt. Months earlier, Murdaugh’s wife and son had been murdered outside the family’s hunting lodge. Last March, Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison for their deaths.
According to arrest documents obtained by Fox News Digital, newly released body camera footage shows Orange County deputies showing Murdaugh’s late housekeeper, Gloria Sutter, who died on Murdaugh’s property in 2018. He was acting on two felony warrants related to the loss of life insurance settlement proceeds from Mr. Field.
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Alex Murdaugh is arrested outside a rehab facility in Orlando, Florida, on October 14, 2021. (Orange County Sheriff)
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Body camera footage shows Murdaugh taking a long drink from a water bottle before being handcuffed. When the officer asked if he was armed, the detained Murdaugh replied, “I have chapstick and cigarettes.”
In the video, the officer can be heard counting out the $39 he took from Murdaugh before placing him vertically in the back seat of his patrol car.
Murdaugh can be seen taking several long gulps from his water bottle before reaching out to handcuff him. (Orange County Sheriff)
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When Murdaugh asked for prescription medication (a blue pill for “stomach problems”), the officer shook the pill into the cap of a pill bottle, poured it into Murdaugh’s mouth, and gave him a drink of water.
One of Murdaugh’s attorneys, Jim Griffin, told ABC 4 he believes the drug helped Murdaugh deal with the side effects of opioid withdrawal. ”[Murdaugh] “He had a serious diarrhea problem, and I think that’s what the medicine was for,” Griffin said.
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Griffin said the October arrest came as a surprise because Murdaugh’s defense team had already been cooperating with prosecutors.
“I had previously scheduled a conference call with people from the U.S. Attorney’s Office regarding the financial investigation and we were discussing how that would proceed,” Griffin told ABC 4. told. The FBI took the lead, and when the U.S. attorney general intervened, even the U.S. attorney general was surprised. ”
The officers took Benadryl and chewing tobacco from Murdaugh’s pockets and placed him in the back seat of their patrol car. (Orange County Sheriff)
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Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty in 2023 to 22 of about 100 charges, accusing him of murdering his wife and son and stealing up to $10 million from various organizations and victims.
Earlier this month, Murdaugh was ordered to pay $1.8 million to 16 parties, including victims of his son’s fatal boating accident at Mallory Beach in 2019 and victims of his former lawyer’s financial crimes.
Murdaugh’s defense team also requested a new murder trial, alleging that Colleton County Court Clerk Becky Hill tampered with the jury’s request for a new trial. Judge Jean Tolle denied that request last month.
