Every Bombshell From Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Trial Testimony

The defendant asserted that he left his spouse and son by the kennels instantly after Paul shot his Snapchat video, which ended at 8:45 p.m. Requested if he might have left as late as 8:47 p.m., Murdaugh stated it was attainable, however he thinks it was sooner and he was again on the home by 8:49 p.m.

(The prosecution has alleged that Maggie and Paul had been killed at round 8:49 p.m., after which, investigators say, energetic use of their telephones ceased. A SLED cellphone knowledgeable testified Jan. 31 that knowledge prompt somebody held Maggie’s cellphone, which was discovered mendacity beside the highway greater than a quarter-mile away from the home, at 8:54 p.m. and once more at 9:06 p.m., however did not unlock it. The cellphone confirmed 5 missed calls from her husband between 9:04 p.m. and 10:03 p.m.)

Murdaugh’s Suburban knowledge indicated he left for his mom’s home in Armeda at 9:02 p.m. Requested if he heard “something in any respect” earlier than he drove away, Murdaugh stated he didn’t.

Waters referred to Murdaugh’s earlier assertion to an investigator that he thought he heard Maggie and Paul driving as much as the primary home as he was leaving, including, “You are saying you could not hear Blackout photographs, supposedly, however you can hear that.”

Waters once more questioned simply how cooperative Murdaugh actually was with investigators.

“Different then mendacity to them about going to the kennel, I used to be cooperative in each side of this investigation,” the defendant stated.

To which the prosecutor responded, “Very cooperative, aside from possibly an important reality of all, that you simply had been on the homicide scene with the victims simply minutes earlier than they died.”

Waters performed a video of Murdaugh being interviewed by investigators on June 8, 2021, throughout which he stated that he had been on the home whereas his spouse was on the kennels. Requested when it was that he determined to lie, Murdaugh stated that not mentioning that he, too, was on the kennels with Maggie and Paul was not a acutely aware lie. He reiterated his earlier clarification, that drug abuse had made him paranoid and he did not belief SLED.