After 19 months of speculation, prosecutors finally laid out their evidence and opened the double murder trial for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who is accused of killing his wife and son.
so his surviving son could collect a $10 million life insurance policy. He was being held in jail without bail on those counts before he was charged with murder.about their case before Wednesday. In an opening statement, they sketched out a timeline of what they think happened at the Murdaughs’ house and near the dog kennels on their 1,300-acre hunting property June 7, 2021.
The prosecution said ammunition cartridges found around Maggie Murdaugh’s body had markings that matched other cartridges fired at a range on the property and other locations. The cartridges were used in a type of automatic rifle that Alex Murdaugh bought but can’t be accounted for, Waters said. Harpootlian said all this was grasping at whatever evidence might make Murdaugh look guilty and ignoring what didn’t fit the theory that he did it.The residue came when Murdaugh picked up a shotgun after checking his wife and son for signs of life and calling 911 in case their killers were still on his property, Harpootlian said.
Harpootlian told the jury he would love to be able to tell them why someone so brutally killed Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, but investigators ignored all other suspects and scenarios.
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