‘Middle ground’: Murphy pleads guilty to girlfriend slaying


Xavier Murphy is the son of Trina Murphy, who became an advocate for Help Save the Next Girl after Randy Taylor was convicted of killing her niece, Alexis Murphy. That her son was charged with a woman’s death she called “an all too familiar story in my timeline” in a statement after his arrest.
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