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NEW: Alex Murdaugh's housekeeper hits out at his 'pure ego' for dragging the family through a second murder trial - and reveals her touching tribute to slain wife and son dailymail.com/crime-desk/art…

Could Alex Murdaugh's second trial end in an acquittal? We spoke to legal experts to get their take: dailymail.com/crime-desk/art…

This development comes after @JoshTBoswell and I revealed in a world exclusive in December how cold case consultant Alex Baber had connected a suspect, Marvin Margolis, to both unsolved cases. dailymail.com/news/crime-des…

NEW: The LAPD has received fingerprints belonging to a suspect in the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings. These prints, the Daily Mail has learned, will be compared to evidence on file in the Black Dahlia murder of Elizabeth Short. dailymail.com/crime-desk/art…

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Now it looks like we are heading towards a second murder trial. However, despite today's decision, Murdaugh will not walk free from prison as he is serving decade-long sentences on a slew of financial crimes.

BREAKING: Alex Murdaugh’s murder conviction sensationally OVERTURNED: Disgraced legal scion faces retrial for killing wife and son after judges’ bombshell ruling dailymail.com/crime-desk/art…

During the victim impact statements from the boys as well as Eric's family members, Richins was seen repeatedly pulling faces and rolling her eyes.

Earlier, therapists for the Richins's three young sons - aged 13, 11 and 9 - delivered heartbreaking statements in the boys' own words. They said they were scared of their mom and revealed that she locked them in rooms and threatened to kill their pets after their dad's murder.

NEW: Grief author Kouri Richins gives 40-minute speech about love and calls husband's poisoning murder a 'tragedy' as she learns fate in Moscow Mule slaying dailymail.com/crime-desk/art…

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Richins, 35, is facing up to life in prison on the aggravated murder charge.

Today should have been Eric Richins's 44th birthday. Instead it is the day that his wife Kouri Richins will be sentenced for his murder after she poisoned him with a fentanyl-laced Moscow Mule cocktail in March 2022.