this is not what was supposed to happen. the note was under her blanket. i saw it sticking out and i grabbed it. their daughter was a runaway. i am frantic! because i did not know how to find her. they called police, they searched, and then, a jogger found a red shoe and a pool of blood. here they are, three people at the door. i just started sobbing. they had found her daughter, but not the boy she was with. it was if he had never existed. we couldn t find anything about. months went by, still no trace of lj. and then, a rookie took the case. how did you feel about it? that this was not gonna be your case? i didn t think i was capable of doing this. i cried the first few hours. a teen found dead. we still don t have an answer. a mysterious answer and the missing suspect. they say, lj has killed someone before. and hurts to solve. i have the feeling, you are learning how to become a detective as you go. this is the case that taught me.
courtroom what he found in data taken from murdaugh s phone and could raise questions about the defendant s timeline for the night his wife and son were killed. jonathan is live, he has the latest on today s court proceedings. what are the discrepancies they are talking about here. john, you may remember alec murdaugh told authorities he will not seen his wife maggie for nearly an hour before he went to check on his mom the night of the murders, but the prosecution is challenging the timeline with a video that murdaugh s son paul shot on his iphone just minutes before he and his mother were shot. murdaugh wept in court as the video played out, it shows a dog in the family kennel, but you hear human voices speaking in the background. although a forensic cell phone expert testified he was not personally familiar with the voices, they suggest maggie and paul were not alone. you hear three different voices in the video.
show paul took that video right after that call. minutes later, he and his mother were dead. did you ever get that video? i did not. reporter: police later showed gibson that video from inside the kennel. and what voices did you hear? paul s, ms. maggie, mr. alex. how sure are you now? positive. 100%? that s correct. reporter: prosecutors playing that video for him again in court. can you point out alex murdaugh, the person whose voice you recognize in this video in this courtroom? please. let the record reflect he s identified the defendant. reporter: but the defense pushing back, painting a portrait of a happy family. they were loving to each other and to paul and buster and their friends, correct? that s correct. can you think of any circumstance, knowing them as you do, where alex would brutally murder paul and maggie? not that i can think of. reporter: and today, a cell phone expert testified it appeared alex murdaugh deleted call logs from his
did not test every spot to see if it belong to any. they also had not tested the bottom of his shoes. so what do you do? at that point, i met with a private lab to test the shoes for their. it appeared the bottom of both shoes were stoking wet. it seem like damning evidence. but after testing that blood further. it came back with two males and two females. again, nothing you can take to the jury. right. six months past and more dead ends. it had now been two years since andy s murder. i was starting to think that maybe we were not going to actually solve this case. but jacqueline was tenacious. she enlisted the help of a cell phone expert, former homicide detective nate. with cases like this case, when you hear the details and understand what s going on. and see that the agency is having challenges. how do you not get involved? he reviewed 35,000 of chris s calls and texts. one call stood out.
you but did he have a particular way of referring to a part of your anatomy? yes ma am. in what way? what did he say? ownership. it was his. he must have been stretched so thin, to be attentive to 15 women? that is one of the reasons that the prosecution said he broke. and now, here is this baby and britney s is saying i m gonna take you to court. next the prosecution establish a timeline to place norman at britney s apartment when she was killed. here s britney leaving work at it 5 pm, the medical examiner estimated her time of death as early as a 30, an fbi cell phone expert testify that clark s phone pingel tower nearby britain s apartment at a 28. and again at 9:05. we know where his phone was. it was in britney elder a cell