Two years after Alex Murdaugh’s murder conviction, defense attorney Dick Harpootlian still believes the disgraced lawyer is innocent in the murders of his wife and youngest son.

Murdaugh, 56, is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, in June 2021 on their family’s hunting estate in Colleton County, South Carolina.

“Do I believe he did it? No,” Harpootlian told Fox News Digital. “I got hired when Paul was charged with the boat case a year before the murders. And in the office I’m sitting in right now, at least once every two weeks, Alex and Maggie and Paul would come and we’d meet and talk about the case and what was going on and what we needed. Every time Maggie and Alex left this office, they were holding hands. Paul was the apple of his eye. There’s no way in hell that he would have executed that kid.”

Prosecutors argued that their murders were an attempt to distract from Murdaugh’s mounting financial crimes, which were beginning to come to light around that time, and which Harpootlian wholeheartedly believes Alex is guilty of committing. The disgraced South Carolina lawyer was also sentenced to 27 years for his financial crimes in a state case in November 2023.

Harpootlian discusses what he described as that “moral dilemma” in his new book, which he said was “cathartic” to write. The book comes out on Dec. 16 but is currently available for pre-order.