Randolph Murdaugh IV
Randolph Murdaugh IV is the oldest brother of accused murderer Alex Murdaugh. Known as Randy, he was born and raised in Hampton, South Carolina, Randy graduated from the University of South Carolina Law School in 1991. Randy and his wife, Christy, live in Hampton with their two daughters.
Randy practices law at the Parker Law Group (formerly known as PMPED) and focuses his practice on large trucking cases, railroad cases, products liability cases, as well as automobile wreck cases.
Ten days after the murders of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh on June 7, 2021, Randy and his younger brother, John Marvin Murdaugh appeared on Good Morning America in a public show of support for their brother. In their appearance they asked for the public’s help in finding the perpetrators of the crime.
“The person who did this is out there and there’s information, however big or or however small it is,” Randy Murdaugh said.
Randy Murdaugh continued by saying his brother Alex was “just distraught.” He said he didn’t know of any family enemies.
“I don’t really know of any enemies,” Randy Murdaugh said. “You hear all of this talk on social media with regard to Paul, but I don’t know of anybody that would truly be an enemy and would truly want to harm them.”
As the personal representatives for Paul’s estate, Randy Murdaugh was named as a party in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Mallory Beach’s family.
The lawsuit stems from a Feb. 24, 2019, boat crash that included Alex’s son Paul and five of his friends. Paul, who was 19 at the time of the crash, was later charged with three felony counts of Boating Under the Influence.
The charges were dismissed shortly after he and his mother were found murdered at the family’s hunting grounds this past summer.
On Randy Murdaugh, October 28, 2021, Randy Murdaugh IV filed a lawsuit against his brother for a total of $90,000 of unpaid debt in money and equipment, the disgraced South Carolina attorney confessed judgment in the lawsuit. Less than 24 hours after the lawsuit was filed, Murdaugh confessed judgement which essentially prioritized Murdaugh’s debt to his brother ahead of a long line of alleged victims currently suing the man whose wife and son were murdered in June.
The “confession of judgment” was signed just hours after attorney Mark Tinsley, who is representing the Beach family, presented his arguments for a temporary injunction over Alex Murdaugh’s assets and to appoint two outside parties — attorney John T. Lay Jr. and former U.S. attorney Peter M. McCoy Jr. — to have control over Alex and Buster Murdaugh’s assets, which is known as “receivership” in court.
S.C. circuit court judge Daniel Hall appointed Lay and McCoy as Alex Murdaugh’s receivers (i.e. the people in charge of his assets while he remains the focus of multiple criminal inquiries and civil suits) shortly after these moves were made.
When Murdaugh attempted his backdoor move to “confess” judgments totaling $567,000 to his brother and former law partner, Lay and McCoy sprang into action.
In a terse, three-page motion Lay and McCoy asked Hall to issue an “emergency order” which would block the enforcement of the backdoor legal move.
In recent months, Randy has remained mostly silent regarding the legal issues his brother is facing.
Quick Facts
- Oldest brother of Alex Murdaugh
- Born and raised in Hampton, South Carolina
- Married to Christy Murdaugh with whom he has two daughters
- Graduated from the University of South Carolina Law School (1991)
- Practices law at the Parker Law Group (formerly known as PMPED)