Jurors at Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial in South Carolina heard evidence that gunshot residue was found inside a rain jacket found at his mother's home three months after his wife and son were killed.
Defense attorneys said prosecutors didn't connect the jacket to Murdaugh through the caretaker's confusing testimony and that it would be unfair and harmful to his case to let state agents testify about what the testing on the jacket found. Witnesses have testified the Murdaugh family often shot guns and hunted on their property and the defense said residue can't be linked to a specific weapon.
The extra witnesses will extend a trial that reached its 12th day on Tuesday with no end to the prosecution's case in sight.A cellphone video taken by Paul Murdaugh at the Murdaugh property's kennel places Alex Murdaugh at the scene of the crime minutes before Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were murdered. NBC's Catie Beck reports
On cross-examinaton, Crosby said he arrived at the Murdaugh home about an hour after the bodies were found the night of the killings. He got close enough to the bodies to know what kind of ammunition was fired and said it never looked like state agents searched the Murdaugh home. Tuesday's testimony started with Jeanne Seckinger, an accountant who is the office manager and chief financial officer for the law firm Murdaugh's family founded more than a century ago.
"We weren't going to to go there and harass him about the money when we were worried about his mental state," Seckinger said.After an extensive investigation, the firm determined that Murdaugh took more than $5 million from clients, and it is in the process of paying them everything they were owed, Seckinger said.
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