Craig Moyer said a cellphone video placing Murdaugh at the crime scene was what sealed the guilty verdict.
captured by Murdaugh’s son, Paul. In the video shot near the family’s dog kennels, where the bodies were found shortly after the recording, Murdaugh’s voice could be heard in the background.South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson oversaw the prosecution of the case. In an“It was basically Paul speaking from beyond the grave that yes, Alex Murdaugh was there, just moments before Maggie and Paul were brutally murdered,” Wilson said.
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his own defense at his double murder trial Thursday to deny killing his wife and son but admitted lying about when he last saw them. News 4's Myles Miller reports. , blaming it on a paranoid distrust of law enforcement due to an opioid addiction that clouded his thinking.
“I think that was fatal for him ultimately,” he said. “Obviously, he had created a web of lies for over a decade that led to this culminating point in this trial. Obviously, he had lied,” Wilson said. “He had been lying his way out of things for so long he had forgotten what it was like to tell the truth.”
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