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Thursday, June 25, 2026

Parker's CEO conspired to use fake social media posts and photos of Mallory Beach's dead body to harass family, new lawsuit claims - FITSNews

Days after FITSNews’ shocking report that photos of Mallory Beach’s dead body were being used to promote a “tasteless and completely obscene” documentary about the Murdaugh family, Beach’s family has filed a new lawsuit against those they say are responsible.

The suit, filed Friday in Hampton County Courthouse, accuses Gregory Parker, owner of Parker’s gas stations and an aspiring local billionaire, of conspiring with a reporter to publicly release confidential court files and of hiring “knife fighters” to create fake social media posts in an effort to bully the Beach family out of pursuing their ongoing wrongful death claim against him.

Mallory Beach, 19, was killed Feb. 24, 2019, in Beaufort County when she was thrown from a boat being driven by Paul Murdaugh, the son of disgraced legal scion Alex Murdaugh, who is at the center of several criminal investigations and a person of interest in the murders of Paul and his mother this past summer.

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Paul Murdaugh, who was not of legal drinking age at the time of the crash, was facing three felony Boating Under the Influence charges at the time of his death. Prior to the crash, he had purchased alcohol at a Parker’s Kitchen near his family’s Callawassie River home using his older brother’s ID, according to the investigation case file.

Shortly after the crash, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Mallory Beach’s estate against several parties they believed to have contributed to her death,...



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