more than $4 million from his insurance company. they didn t learn of it until after the murders. had he ever told you there was an umbrella policy for $5 million? no. did you give him permission to steal your money? no. reporter: the ballistics expert did testify that old shell casings found on the family s property matched the markings of those found near one of the missing murder that - weapons had been fired on the property before. david? eva pilgrim tonight, thank you. when we come back here, news coming in from the tyre nichols investigation. what we learned about one of officers seen on that video. and news involving the dallas zoo and the owl in new york city. could be a sign that your digestive system isn t at its best. but a little metamucil everyday can help. metamucil s psyllium fiber gels to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down and also helps lower cholesterol and slows sugar absorption to promote healthy blood sugar levels.
knew about an insurance payout of more than $4 million. here s eva pilgrim. reporter: at the alex murdaugh trial today, the defense team pushing a ballistics expert to admit the state doesn t have the murder weapons. you cannot and you did not and you are not offering an opinion that item 22 shot gun was used to murder paul murdaugh, correct? you mean, what that ultimately means is that i m not able to determine that. reporter: it comes as the judge decides whether the jury should hear evidence of murdaugh s financial crimes at work and about his greed at home. the judge hearing what the prosecutors consider a stunning betrayal. murdaugh s own longtime housekeeper gloria satterfield died after a fall at the family s home in 2018. murdaugh telling her sons to sue him for the insurance money. did you trust mr. murdaugh? yes. reporter: the housekeeper s son testifying murdaugh offered her children about $100,000 each. they had no idea he got
his wife and youngest son. joined by randi kaye who has been following this case from the beginning. the two side argued other ballistics evidence. what was it about? reporter: well this ballistics expert is someone that the state would like to have testify. so they had a hearing about him and his testimony in court today. this expert has said that shotgun shell casings at the murder scene and along the murdaugh s hunting estate on the property there seemed to have come from the same gun and that would be alex murdaugh s shotgun. the defense says that s impossible to know because shotgun shell casings are not u feek niek like fingerprints. they say there is no study to back up this expert s findings. in the end, the judge did say that this expert can testify at trial. but, anderson, this is just the beginning. as you know, once alex murdaugh faces this murder trial and is done with it, he is also having to answer to a slew of alleged financial crimes and mysterious
they don t have the weapon. they acknowledge they do not have weapon, although the judge did tell them they could use a ballistics expert this was a pretrial motion, who said that the casings that were founder in those around the crime scene and on the hunting property in the firing range area, do match in missing weapon that is sort of at the, the center of all of this. now, again, there s some discrepancy between what the defense claims want they claim as well, something we re going to see continue on, of course, in the coming days, this could go up to three weeks, we re told. it s interesting how both sides tried to spin whatever the evidence is in their favor, the 911 call, prosecutors say listen to think listen closely defense attorney said i want you to listen to that. also emphasizing the role he played in opening the phone for police and that he called maggie s phone several times after she was killed, and you know, the prosecutor is saying he was trying to create an