A juror on the Alex Murdaugh case has come forward, revealing it took less than an hour to reach a verdict – and cast doubt on the patriarch’s emotional display on the stand. “[Murdaugh is] a…
“You start deliberating, going through the evidence and everybody was pretty much talking,” he said of the initial deliberations, at which point two jurors held out not guilty and a third was undecided.
Murdaugh was notably emotionless when the damning verdict was read. His surviving son, Buster, was also quiet, and but his head in his hands. Moyer also told Pilgrim that the jury did not buy the defense’s argument that Murdaugh did not have enough time to kill Maggie and Paul, clean up or stage the scene, visit his ailing mother, and return within a little over an hour, when he finally called the police.Maggie and Paul, center, were gunned down in June 2021.
Wilson theorized that Murdaugh’s storied family legacy and “lifestyle of privilege” probably warped his personality and detached him slightly from his actions.
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