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U.S. cases, plus the Bernardo–Homolka case in Canada.
2021
Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot and killed at the family’s South Carolina property in June 2021. Alex Murdaugh was convicted in 2023. On May 13, 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court ordered a new trial because of improper external influence on the jury. The court’s opinion and subsequent retrial-assignment order are linked in the court-records section.
1994
Susan Smith told police that a carjacker had driven away with her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alex. After nine days of televised appeals in 1994, she admitted letting her car roll into a South Carolina lake with the boys inside. Both children drowned. She was convicted of their murders.
2006
Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf was abducted in South Carolina in 2006 by Vinson Filyaw, who posed as a police officer. While held in an underground enclosure, she obtained access to his phone and contacted her family. Her messages helped bring about her rescue.
1961
Interracial groups rode buses through the South to challenge segregation in interstate travel. Riders endured mob attacks, arrests and imprisonment while demanding enforcement of existing court rulings. The campaign helped force federal action against segregated interstate bus facilities.
1951–1954
Families and NAACP lawyers challenged segregated public schooling through cases that reached the Supreme Court together. Brown v. Board of Education rejected racial segregation in public schools in 1954. Simple Justice follows the legal strategy and the people behind that constitutional decision.
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