Alex Murdaugh's defense team is expected to rest Monday afternoon after the disbarred lawyer testified last week at his double murder trial in Walterboro, South Carolina.
During the nine-hour grilling that ended Friday afternoon, Waters portrayed Murdaugh as a pill-addled, serial liar who was on the verge of a devastating financial reckoning.
Prosecutors have argued that Murdaugh, in an act of ruthless self-preservation, killed his wife and son to deflect from his theft of nearly $9 million from his law firm and clients to fuel a lavish lifestyle. Murdaugh only came clean after cellphone video recovered from Paul's phone in 2022 placed him at the crime scene minutes before the fatal shootings.
The video, recorded at 8:45 p.m., captured Murdaugh and his wife talking in the background. Prosecutors say he executed his wife and son at about 8:49 p.m. when the victims' phones locked for the last time.
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