His company owns a funeral home in Estill, South Carolina, located in Hampton County, where Murdaugh’s great-grandfather founded a personal injury law firm more than a century ago in 1910.

Bruce Trezevant, who owns a funeral home and crematorium in Columbia, said he got fined $1,000 for advertising that he had taken over the family business after his father's death in 2014.

Cade Coulter Williamson, the 41-year-old president of Legacy Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Soddy Daisy, is facing 14 felony counts of tax evasion, according to an announcement Wednesday ...