Buster Murdaugh looks strained as he walks dogs with girlfriend

Buster Murdaugh looks strained as he breaks cover to walk his dogs with long-time girlfriend Brooklyn just one day after his father was sentenced to life in prison for brutally executing his wife Maggie and youngest son Paul

• Buster Murdaugh, 26, and his girlfriend Brooklynn White, were spotted walking their dogs in Hilton Head, South Carolina neighborhood on Saturday
• Buster’s father Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the June 2021 murders of his wife Maggie and youngest son Paul 
• Buster has refused to return to the Moselle where they were killed and now lives in a modest $180,000 one-bedroom condo in Hilton Head with his girlfriend

A withdrawn Buster Murdaugh emerged to walk his dogs with his girlfriend around their Hilton Head neighborhood on Saturday, the morning after his father Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to  life in prison for murdering his mother and brother. 

The 26-year-old had a strained look on his face and kept his mouth in a tight-lipped frown as he and girlfriend Brooklynn White walked in the South Carolina sunshine. 

The surviving son of Alex and Maggie Murdaugh has refused to return to the Moselle hunting estate in Islandton, where his mother and brother Paul were executed on June 7, 2021. 

He now lives with his girlfriend in a modest $180,000 one-bedroom condo in Hilton Head, which is about an hour away from where the brutal murders took place.

Buster Murdaugh, 23, emerged to walk his dogs with girlfriend in their Hilton Head, South Carolina neighborhood, a day after his father Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison 

He had strained look on his face and kept his mouth in a tight frown as he and girlfriend Brooklynn White, walked in the South Carolina sunshine

The surviving son of Alex and Maggie Murdaugh  now lives in a modest $180,000 one-bedroom condo in Hilton Head with his girlfriend

Buster had planned to follow in his father’s footsteps as an attorney, the fifth generation in the family business. But instead, he watched as his last remaining immediate family member was hauled off in handcuffs. 

For six weeks, Buster sat in the courtroom listening to harrowing testimony about how his brother Paul’s brains were blasted out of his head and how his mother Maggie was gunned down as she tried to flee the rampage that unfolded at the family’s Moselle estate in June 2021. 

Buster, who has refused to return to the hunting estate, now lives in a modest $180,000 one-bedroom condo in Hilton Head with girlfriend. 

He is a graduate of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and had been pursuing his law degree at the University of South Carolina. 

While Buster at one point worked at his father’s law firm, it is unclear if the college graduate does anything now for work.  

Last month, it was revealed that his mother’s estate was settled and with the sale of the Moselle property, Buster’s share will be $530,000. It is unknown if the college graduate is working at this time or receiving any kind of income. 

 Buster was spotted wearing a Vineyard Vines t-shirt, shorts and a ball cap as he walked his dogs on a sunny Saturday in Hilton Head, South Carolina 

Buster wearing slippers, a baseball cap and a Rolex walks his dogs with girlfriend

Buster had planned to follow in his father’s footsteps as an attorney. At one point, he worked for his father’s firm, but it is unknown what he does now for work

Last month, it was revealed that his mother’s estate was settled and with the sale of the Moselle property, Buster’s share will be $530,000

Buster and girlfriend White walk around their neighborhood with their two dogs

Buster strains a half smile while walking his dogs in Hilton Head on Saturday morning

Last month, it was revealed that after close to two years of legal wrangling, Buster’s mother’s estate had finally been settled in a complex deal that will see Moselle sold and millions divided between those victims and creditors as well as surviving son, Buster.

Buster will get $530,000, a sum augmented by his uncle John Marvin’s decision to waive the percentage he could have claimed as representative, while Marvin will be reimbursed $12,305.28 for personal funds advanced on behalf of the Estate. 

Meanwhile, Buster remains at the Hilton Head condo – which is about an hour away from the Moselle property. The condo is located in a complex with a communal pool, a tennis court and a gym.

His girlfriend White, who is originally from Rocky Hill, South Carolina, bought the condo in July 2021, records show, after landing her first job out of law school at Olivetti McCray and Withrow, where she specializes in probate and estate planning.

It is not clear how long the pair have been dating, but they both attended the University of South Carolina Law School.

White has been with Buster throughout his father’s six-week murder trial and was recently seen comforting him as he visit the gravesites of his mother and brother at the Hampton Cemetery in South Carolina.

The pair were walking their dogs while wearing slippers on Saturday. It is not clear how long they have been dating, but they attended University of South Carolina Law School

Buster and White live at the Hilton Head condo, which is located in a complex with a communal pool, a tennis court and a gym

Buster’s girlfriend has been with him in court nearly every day of his father’s six-week murder trial. The pair were also seen visiting the gravesites of his mother Maggie and brother Paul

The one-bedroom condo on Hilton Head Island is located in a complex with a communal pool, a tennis court and a gym in a ‘quiet’ neighborhood

Buster and his girlfriend seen in court on Thursday when his father is found guilty of murder 

On Friday, Murdaugh was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, in Moselle on June 7, 2021.

He will spend the next few weeks at the R&E facility where he faces rigorous testing before he will be assigned to a permanent state prison. As he is a double murderer, he will be housed with the state’s most brutal and violent inmates.

The life he faces is a far cry from the privileged world of multi-million dollar homes from the coast to the hunting lands of the Lowcountry to which he has grown accustomed in his 54 years.

Through more than 75 witnesses and nearly 800 pieces of evidence, jurors heard about betrayed friends and clients, Murdaugh’s failed attempt to stage his own death in an insurance fraud scheme, a fatal boat crash in which his son was implicated, the housekeeper who died in a fall in the Murdaugh home and the grisly scene of the killings. 

On Friday, Murdaugh was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, in Moselle on June 7, 2021 

Buster, Paul, Maggie and Alex Murdaugh at the Moselle estate in a picture uploaded on Maggie’s Facebook to mark Father’s Day 2020

Prosecutors didn’t have the weapons used to kill the Murdaughs or other direct evidence like confessions or blood spatter. 

But they had a mountain of circumstantial evidence, including the video putting Murdaugh at the scene of the killings five minutes before his wife and son stopped using their cellphones forever. 

The now-disbarred attorney admitted stealing millions of dollars from the family firm and clients, saying he needed the money to fund his drug habit. 

Before he was charged with murder, Murdaugh was in jail awaiting trial on about 100 other charges ranging from insurance fraud to tax evasion.

Defense attorneys said they will appeal, based largely on the judge allowing the evidence of crimes that Murdaugh has not been convicted of, which they say smeared his reputation.

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