The state on Friday entered into evidence the transcript of a voicemail Paul Murdaugh left his father roughly a month before the killings.
-- son of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh -- confronted his father about pills about one month before both he and his mother were found fatally shot.
Cell phone records showed that on the same day, Maggie Murdaugh searched on Google "white pill 30 on one side rp," prosecutors said. The description matches a 30 mg Oxycodone Hydrochloride pill. Maggie then deleted her searches for the pills, the prosecution said.Defense attorney Phillip Barber showed a text Alex Murdaugh sent to his wife the following day, on May 7, 2021, which read: "I am very sorry that I do this to all of you. I love you.
Prosecutors have tried to convince the court Murdaugh killed his wife and son to distract from a slew of alleged financial crimes he had committed and stave off when those alleged crimes might come to light. The defense on Friday called to the stand its first two witnesses, including Colleton County Coroner Richard Harvey who said he estimated the time of death for Paul and Maggie to be around 9 p.m. that night, based on armpit checks he conducted. When questioned by the defense whether Maggie or Paul could have been shot at 8 p.m. or 10 p.m. or any time in between, Harvey said yes.
The video, just short of a minute long, was filmed on Paul Murdaugh's phone starting at 8:44 p.m. the night of the killings, a law enforcement witness testified earlier in the trial. Three different voices could be heard in the footage, which appeared to have been recorded around the Murdaugh family's kennels, according to that earlier testimony.
Murdaugh has claimed he last saw Maggie and Paul earlier in the evening that day. They ate dinner together before Murdaugh took a nap and then drove to Almeda, to visit his mother, he has said. He told authorities that when he came back to the family's property in Moselle, he discovered the bodies of his wife and son and called 911.
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