WATCH LIVE: Alex Murdaugh is set to be sentenced a day after being found guilty of murdering his wife and son
WALTERBORO, S.C. --
Murdaugh's wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, were found fatally shot on the family's Islandton property on June 7, 2021. Murdaugh, who took the stand in his own defense last week, maintained he found the bodies after returning from a brief visit to his sick mother that night. The video, recorded by Paul near the family's dog kennels shortly before the time prosecutors say they were killed, captured Alex Murdaugh's voice in the background, nearly a dozen friends and family members testified. Murdaugh then testified the voice was his -- and that he'd lied to investigators about his whereabouts because he grew paranoid, which he blamed on his addiction to opioid painkillers.
The case brought national attention -- including Netflix and HBO Max documentaries -- to Murdaugh, the former personal injury attorney whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather served as a prosecutor for a portion of southern South Carolina from 1920 to 2006. Legal experts told CNN Murdaugh's testimony likely was a decisive point for the group and a double-edged sword. It was an opportunity for jurors to empathize with him while he appeared to put it all on the line, confessing to his drug addiction and repeated lies during financial schemes and the murder investigation, the experts said. But the verdict shows jurors did not believe Murdaugh was credible, the experts said.
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