Buster Murdaugh’s girlfriend files a second police report alleging media harassment

The girlfriend of Alex Murdaugh’s only surviving son has complained to police about alleged media harassment after the disgraced lawyer’s bombshell double murder trial.

Buster Murdaugh and his girlfriend, Brooklyn White, filed a total of three reports with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office of “the ongoing intrusions into.” [their] Lives of reporters”, news channel WTOC reports.

The couple, who reside in a Hilton Head condo, were seen frequenting the gallery each day during the six-week trial that led to Murdaugh’s conviction in the 2021 murders of his son Paul and wife Maggie. But even after the high-profile trial ended, Buster and Ms. White say the press continues to stalk them and invade their privacy.

According to an incident report filed this week, Ms White told police she saw a reporter looking in the windows of her car as she left her home on March 6. She claimed she recognized the reporter because he allegedly stalked her and Buster for weeks at the Colleton County Court House in Walterboro.

Ms White reportedly told law enforcement officers that the ordeal “increasingly worried and frightened her”.

Ms White, who works as a lawyer for Olivetti McCray and Withrow, said the reporter in question kept a video account where she said he had posted footage of him reportedly molesting Buster and asking him questions .

She also claimed that after the trial she saw several reporters photographing her and following her as she walked her dogs in her neighborhood.

Buster and Ms. White had previously filed a complaint New York Post published an article with photos showing his face through a crack in the blinds of their apartment. Buster also showed police camera footage of a Dodge Challenger car parked in front of the house.

Law enforcement told him more patrols would be deployed in the area. However, the couple called the police again when another driver, who they believed was a member of the media, followed them on a walk.

The driver was stopped and let go with a warning, but MPs noted in an incident report obtained by WTOC that he had a camera bag in the passenger seat.

While some members of the Murdaugh family have spoken out following Alex Murdaugh’s life sentence, Buster and Ms. White have remained silent on the jury’s sentencing.

Last week, Murdaugh’s attorneys said they decided not to let Buster beg leniency during Murdaugh’s sentencing to avoid needlessly traumatizing him after he “experienced more than anyone we can imagine has ever endured.”

“We could have let Mother Teresa speak for Alex at sentencing, but he got a double life sentence. That was expected,” attorney Jim Griffin told reporters, per FoxNews.

“Judge Newman, he is a very severe punisher when it comes to crimes and convictions. That was never in dispute.”

Following family tradition, Buster had worked at his father’s now-defunct firm while attending South Carolina Law School, but was later expelled for a plagiarism incident Wall Street Journal.

His friend, Ms. White, earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Alabama before graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2021. She has since worked at the law firm of Olivetti McCray and Withrow as an estate planning attorney.

On Thursday, Alex Murdaugh’s legal team announced that they had filed an appeal. The double killer had 10 days after his conviction to appeal.

“Today Jim Griffin and I filed our appeal for Alex Murdaugh,” tweeted Dick Harpootlian, one of Murdaugh’s attorneys. “This is the next step in the legal process to fight for Alex’s constitutional right to a fair trial.”