where he was the night of the murders, but he has fervently denied he committed the killings. murdaugh s defense attorney said today in closing arguments that he could not have committed these murders, but the prosecution pushed back reminding the jury about mur murdaugh s lies. alec would not have killed the people he loved the most in the world. but you don t lie and misremember being at the scene of a murder. cnn s randi kaye was inside the courtroom and in walterboro, south carolina, today and has been following this case closely really for years now. randi, before the defense gave their closing arguments there was a juror dismissed. what happened? well, john, this juror was dismissed for speaking with other people about the case, not fellow jurors but just other people and every day in the court the judge reiterates to the jury to not discuss the case. he spoke with the lawyers about it and law enforcement
that indicates there s any strife, any conflict, any anger, any planning, anybody being afraid, anybody running, anybody scurrying, nothing. maggie, paul, and alec down at the kennel. that s it. he lied because that s what addicts do. addicts lie. he lied because he had a closet full of skeletons that he didn t want any more scrutiny on him. can you imagine not telling law enforcement lying that i was down there and i saw them? i was right there? why wouldn t you tell them that? maybe get some more evidence. did you hear somebody? and in closing today the
somebody he adored, correct? exactly, yes, sir. this was her testimony from the witness stand, and then in every trial there s you hope you find, you know, some very authentic witness, part of the fabric of america that comes in the courtroom, and we had in this case, and it s dale davis, and i want you to remember what dale testified about alec s relationship with his family. can we play davis s lovie dovey about alex and maggie, what did that mean? it means they loved each other. i mean, you described them as being lovey dovey, didn t you? yes. tell the jury what you meant by that. every time i was over there, you know, i ve never seen that man even raise his voice at his
dead. you ve heard testimony from a lot of witnesses. i would say practically every witness who took the stand who actually knew alec and maggie and paul and buster testified under oath how much alec adored maggie, how she was his all, some people describe paul as alec s best friend, his relationship with him was awesome. that was unanimous, unanimous. i want to play just briefly a clip from blanca s testimony about alec s relationship with maggie. you also i think in multiple interviews with s.l.e.d. and other folks describe, i think the words were
afraid, anybody running, anybody scurrying, nothing. it s maggie, paul, and alec down at the kennel. that s it, and their time line is based on the fact that this automatic thing kind of messed me up, but i was going to open this up and say, you know, under their theory, if your phone s not moving for some period of time, you re dead right then. you could be run over in traffic two hours later, but if you re not answering a text two minutes after you receive it, you re dead at that point, and that s their case. that is their case on time of death. is phone stopped moving, you re