wealth and local stature of defendant disgraced south carolina attorney alex murdaugh, and the depravity of his crimes, slaughtering his wife and son. the trial ended with murdaugh in cuffs, taken back to jail with sentencing tomorrow after a remarkably speedy verdict, three hours of deliberation. then this. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. guilty on all four counts, including two counts of murder. prosecutors, including south carolina s attorney general, spoke to reporters. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is. it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think, how prominent you are. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina. creighton waters, the prosecutor. what took three hours was a long time in coming. before we talk about details of the testimony and the verdict and what comes next, our randi kaye has
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wealth and local stature of defendant disgraced south carolina attorney alex murdaugh, and the depravity of his crimes, slaughtering his wife and son. the trial ended with murdaugh in cuffs, taken back to jail with sentencing tomorrow after a remarkably speedy verdict, three hours of deliberation. then this. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. guilty on all four counts, including two counts of murder. prosecutors, including south carolina s attorney general, spoke to reporters. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is. it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think, how prominent you are. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina. creighton waters, the
horrendous. horrible. butchering. reporter: both were murdered near the dog pennels on the family s property not far from the main house where alex murdaugh said he d been napping at the time. that was a lie. was that you? on the kennel video at 8:44 p.m. on june 7th, the night maggie and paul were murdered? it is. reporter: murdaugh was backed into a corner. investigators had found this video on paul murdaugh s cell phone after his death. it was recorded at 8:44 p.m., just a few minutes before prosecutors say the murders occurred. alex murdaugh can be heard talking in the background. i was nowhere near paul and maggie when they got shot. reporter: despite his denials, prosecutors say murdaugh killed them to distract from his alleged financial schemes that were coming to light. he d been confronted about missing funds at his law firm and his personal finances were about to be exposed at an upcoming court hearing. there were plenty of times
is saying, when murdaugh took the stand himself in emotional and crying and finding his son s body and what dave is saying there were jurors who appear to be emotional along with him. the zach context surprised when you consider the quickness in which they reach this verdict? you have to think when alex murdaugh testified you saw two different alex murdaugh s. you saw one with the direct examination where he was able to give you the tears and able to give you this not in the crocodile tears and make it seem so genuine great however, once a cross-examination began it was a different story. more importantly just like dave said a different story on friday during the second day of cross-examination you saw different version of alex murdaugh. one thing that the prosecution emphasized this show that alex murdaugh put on for you he s trying to put on a show like that because he s a civil litigator he is a trial attorney and he s investigated and done criminal trials and aside from that at t