Prosecutors are scheduled to call at least four witness in their rebuttal case Tuesday at Alex Murdaugh's double-murder trial in Walterboro, South Carolina.
Alex Murdaugh is led out of the Colleton County courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023.
Prosecutors say the disbarred attorney used a shotgun to blow off his son's head and a rifle to execute his wife at about 8:50 p.m. June 7, 2021. The livestreamed trial has chronicled Murdaugh's spectacular downfall from the wealthy scion of a respected and powerful legal dynasty to an admitted pill-popper and thief who is alleged to haveThe defense, which launched its case last week, called 14 witnesses – including Murdaugh himself.Murdaugh repeatedly told Colleton County jurors that he had nothing to do with the slayings of his wife and son when he took the stand in his own defense on Thursday.
Buster Murdaugh, left, his mother, Maggie, his brother, Paul, and his father, Alex. Alex is accused of fatally shooting Maggie and Paul on June 7, 2021.in 2022 placed him at the crime scene with the victims four minutes before the slayings.
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