Mallory Beach.Photo:Mallory Madison Beach/FacebookFive years afterMallory Beachwas killed in a boat crash in South Carolina, her mother remembers “how full of life she was.”“I miss that,” Mallory’s mother Renee Beach tells PEOPLE. “I just take one day at a time. I have my good days and my bad days, and I guess over time you just kind of get used to it, but it doesn’t make it easier.”The animal lover and former college student “loved to joke around,” says Renee. “She was always fun and happy. She always had us laughing.”At the time of her death, Mallory was living with her mother and working full-time at Retail Therapy, a clothing store in Beaufort.“That was her passion, just clothes and shoes,” says Renee, who says her daughter was also a fan of interior decorating.“I could go to bed, wake up the next day, and she would have painted her room a different color,” she says. “There were so many layers of paint on her wall.”She would paint her bedroom walls at least once a year.“She would need, of course, different bedspreads or curtains, because she’d painted her room,” she says. “But she would do it, and then she would get tired of it or see something else, and she would go buy the paint, she would come and do it all over the wall.”Her daughter also liked watching home improvement shows.“We would sit there and watch, and that’s kind of what she was talking about, real estate, so she could purchase something, fix it up and I guess flip it,” she says, “That was something that she had started talking about.”Mallory Beach.Mallory Madison Beach/FacebookFive years ago, after a night of heavy drinking,Paul Murdaugh, 20, got behind the wheel of his father’s boat with five passengers including Mallory.Around 2 a.m., on Feb. 24, 2019, the boat crashed into the pilings of the Archer’s Creek Bridge in Beaufort County, S.C.Mallory was thrown from the boat. Her body was found about a week later, aproximately five miles from the crash site.After the crash, authorities learned that Paul, who was three times over the legal limit, had used his mother Maggie Murdaugh’s credit card and his brother Buster Murdaugh’s ID to illegally buy alcohol from a local convenience store earlier that day.Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.Maggie Murdaugh/FacebookMallory’s death devastated many in the Lowcountry community, where the Murdaughs were a powerful legal dynasty.At the visitation, Mallory’s family “stood in line for over four hours receiving friends in a line before the funeral,” Beach family attorney Mark Tinsley previously told PEOPLE.Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’sfree True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.In March 2019, Mallory’s family filed a wrongful death suit against Paul’s father Alex Murdaugh, a formerly successful lawyer who owned the boat, his brother Buster, his mother Maggie Murdaugh and Parker’s, the convenience store that sold Paul the alcohol.The lawsuit put the national spotlight on the Murdaughs, including Paul who was charged with boating under the influence (BUI) causing death and causing great bodily injury, as well as his father Alex Murdaugh — and his financial crimes against his clients and law firm.Alex Murdaugh.Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via APWhile awaiting trial for the charges he was facing in connection with the deadly crash, Paul and his 52-year-old mother Maggie were shot and killed on their Islandton, S.C., property in June 2021.“I just broke down and started crying,” says Renee when she heard the news. “I wanted him to own up to what he had done, and I never wanted anything like this to happen to him or Maggie. That was the last thing ever that I would want. I was hoping that he would change, just admit that he had done wrong and change his life, and it upset me a lot.”In a startling turn, after months of investigating, Alex was charged with the murders of his wife and youngest son. He was found guilty of their murders in March 2023 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.In November,the disgraced lawyer pleaded guilty to 22 financial crimes, including wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank fraud and other crimes, the South Carolina Attorney General’s office.The Beach family settled with Buster and the estate of Maggie Murdaugh and reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the convenience store chain.For the Beach family, it was never about the money. It was about “hoping that this would not happen to someone else,” says Renee.On past anniversaries, Renee, a semi-retired nurse, says she has worked to keep her mind off what happened to her daughter that terrible night, but she says this year she might spend the day with her family, including her 2-year-old grandson, Bowman.“Just to be with them,” she says. “I feel like I need to, and Bowman will be with them, and we can just all spend time together.”
Mallory Beach.Photo:Mallory Madison Beach/Facebook
Mallory Madison Beach/Facebook
Five years afterMallory Beachwas killed in a boat crash in South Carolina, her mother remembers “how full of life she was.”“I miss that,” Mallory’s mother Renee Beach tells PEOPLE. “I just take one day at a time. I have my good days and my bad days, and I guess over time you just kind of get used to it, but it doesn’t make it easier.”The animal lover and former college student “loved to joke around,” says Renee. “She was always fun and happy. She always had us laughing.”At the time of her death, Mallory was living with her mother and working full-time at Retail Therapy, a clothing store in Beaufort.“That was her passion, just clothes and shoes,” says Renee, who says her daughter was also a fan of interior decorating.“I could go to bed, wake up the next day, and she would have painted her room a different color,” she says. “There were so many layers of paint on her wall.”She would paint her bedroom walls at least once a year.“She would need, of course, different bedspreads or curtains, because she’d painted her room,” she says. “But she would do it, and then she would get tired of it or see something else, and she would go buy the paint, she would come and do it all over the wall.”Her daughter also liked watching home improvement shows.“We would sit there and watch, and that’s kind of what she was talking about, real estate, so she could purchase something, fix it up and I guess flip it,” she says, “That was something that she had started talking about.”Mallory Beach.Mallory Madison Beach/FacebookFive years ago, after a night of heavy drinking,Paul Murdaugh, 20, got behind the wheel of his father’s boat with five passengers including Mallory.Around 2 a.m., on Feb. 24, 2019, the boat crashed into the pilings of the Archer’s Creek Bridge in Beaufort County, S.C.Mallory was thrown from the boat. Her body was found about a week later, aproximately five miles from the crash site.After the crash, authorities learned that Paul, who was three times over the legal limit, had used his mother Maggie Murdaugh’s credit card and his brother Buster Murdaugh’s ID to illegally buy alcohol from a local convenience store earlier that day.Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.Maggie Murdaugh/FacebookMallory’s death devastated many in the Lowcountry community, where the Murdaughs were a powerful legal dynasty.At the visitation, Mallory’s family “stood in line for over four hours receiving friends in a line before the funeral,” Beach family attorney Mark Tinsley previously told PEOPLE.Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’sfree True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.In March 2019, Mallory’s family filed a wrongful death suit against Paul’s father Alex Murdaugh, a formerly successful lawyer who owned the boat, his brother Buster, his mother Maggie Murdaugh and Parker’s, the convenience store that sold Paul the alcohol.The lawsuit put the national spotlight on the Murdaughs, including Paul who was charged with boating under the influence (BUI) causing death and causing great bodily injury, as well as his father Alex Murdaugh — and his financial crimes against his clients and law firm.Alex Murdaugh.Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via APWhile awaiting trial for the charges he was facing in connection with the deadly crash, Paul and his 52-year-old mother Maggie were shot and killed on their Islandton, S.C., property in June 2021.“I just broke down and started crying,” says Renee when she heard the news. “I wanted him to own up to what he had done, and I never wanted anything like this to happen to him or Maggie. That was the last thing ever that I would want. I was hoping that he would change, just admit that he had done wrong and change his life, and it upset me a lot.”In a startling turn, after months of investigating, Alex was charged with the murders of his wife and youngest son. He was found guilty of their murders in March 2023 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.In November,the disgraced lawyer pleaded guilty to 22 financial crimes, including wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank fraud and other crimes, the South Carolina Attorney General’s office.The Beach family settled with Buster and the estate of Maggie Murdaugh and reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the convenience store chain.For the Beach family, it was never about the money. It was about “hoping that this would not happen to someone else,” says Renee.On past anniversaries, Renee, a semi-retired nurse, says she has worked to keep her mind off what happened to her daughter that terrible night, but she says this year she might spend the day with her family, including her 2-year-old grandson, Bowman.“Just to be with them,” she says. “I feel like I need to, and Bowman will be with them, and we can just all spend time together.”
Five years afterMallory Beachwas killed in a boat crash in South Carolina, her mother remembers “how full of life she was.”
“I miss that,” Mallory’s mother Renee Beach tells PEOPLE. “I just take one day at a time. I have my good days and my bad days, and I guess over time you just kind of get used to it, but it doesn’t make it easier.”
The animal lover and former college student “loved to joke around,” says Renee. “She was always fun and happy. She always had us laughing.”
At the time of her death, Mallory was living with her mother and working full-time at Retail Therapy, a clothing store in Beaufort.
“That was her passion, just clothes and shoes,” says Renee, who says her daughter was also a fan of interior decorating.
“I could go to bed, wake up the next day, and she would have painted her room a different color,” she says. “There were so many layers of paint on her wall.”
She would paint her bedroom walls at least once a year.
“She would need, of course, different bedspreads or curtains, because she’d painted her room,” she says. “But she would do it, and then she would get tired of it or see something else, and she would go buy the paint, she would come and do it all over the wall.”
Her daughter also liked watching home improvement shows.
“We would sit there and watch, and that’s kind of what she was talking about, real estate, so she could purchase something, fix it up and I guess flip it,” she says, “That was something that she had started talking about.”
Mallory Beach.Mallory Madison Beach/Facebook
Five years ago, after a night of heavy drinking,Paul Murdaugh, 20, got behind the wheel of his father’s boat with five passengers including Mallory.
Around 2 a.m., on Feb. 24, 2019, the boat crashed into the pilings of the Archer’s Creek Bridge in Beaufort County, S.C.
Mallory was thrown from the boat. Her body was found about a week later, aproximately five miles from the crash site.
After the crash, authorities learned that Paul, who was three times over the legal limit, had used his mother Maggie Murdaugh’s credit card and his brother Buster Murdaugh’s ID to illegally buy alcohol from a local convenience store earlier that day.
Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.Maggie Murdaugh/Facebook
Maggie Murdaugh/Facebook
Mallory’s death devastated many in the Lowcountry community, where the Murdaughs were a powerful legal dynasty.
At the visitation, Mallory’s family “stood in line for over four hours receiving friends in a line before the funeral,” Beach family attorney Mark Tinsley previously told PEOPLE.
Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’sfree True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.
In March 2019, Mallory’s family filed a wrongful death suit against Paul’s father Alex Murdaugh, a formerly successful lawyer who owned the boat, his brother Buster, his mother Maggie Murdaugh and Parker’s, the convenience store that sold Paul the alcohol.
The lawsuit put the national spotlight on the Murdaughs, including Paul who was charged with boating under the influence (BUI) causing death and causing great bodily injury, as well as his father Alex Murdaugh — and his financial crimes against his clients and law firm.
Alex Murdaugh.Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP
Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP
While awaiting trial for the charges he was facing in connection with the deadly crash, Paul and his 52-year-old mother Maggie were shot and killed on their Islandton, S.C., property in June 2021.
“I just broke down and started crying,” says Renee when she heard the news. “I wanted him to own up to what he had done, and I never wanted anything like this to happen to him or Maggie. That was the last thing ever that I would want. I was hoping that he would change, just admit that he had done wrong and change his life, and it upset me a lot.”
In a startling turn, after months of investigating, Alex was charged with the murders of his wife and youngest son. He was found guilty of their murders in March 2023 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
In November,the disgraced lawyer pleaded guilty to 22 financial crimes, including wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank fraud and other crimes, the South Carolina Attorney General’s office.
The Beach family settled with Buster and the estate of Maggie Murdaugh and reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the convenience store chain.
For the Beach family, it was never about the money. It was about “hoping that this would not happen to someone else,” says Renee.
On past anniversaries, Renee, a semi-retired nurse, says she has worked to keep her mind off what happened to her daughter that terrible night, but she says this year she might spend the day with her family, including her 2-year-old grandson, Bowman.
“Just to be with them,” she says. “I feel like I need to, and Bowman will be with them, and we can just all spend time together.”
source: people.com
