life. she had a sore throat. her stomach had been bothering her during the day. she was still feeling crummy later that evening when she spoke to a friend. she had a headache and the back of her neck was hurting. she sounded tired and she did it sound like she felt very good. sarah turning off the day a retreating to her bathtub. that sounded just like the sarah they knew. she would always leave our house and say she had to get home because she had to take her bat. and sarah dozing off in the tub was a as a friend from childhood days was very familiar days. she had fallen asleep in the back to before. we had talked about that because i had fallen asleep in the bathtub before, to. the sleeping habits. the headaches. the defense claim they could very well have been the symptoms of an underlying and potentially fatal condition that went undetected. something and otherwise healthy young woman wouldn t take all that serious. and even with all their
courthouse in walter borough, south carolina. what can you tell us about the prosecution s strategy today? reporter: well, wolf, the strategy was certainly to try and dispute some of the defense testimony that we heard over the last week or so. and they brought in a couple of rebuttal witnesses, about a handful of rebuttal witnesses to really do so, but two key witnesses. one was a pathologist, and she testified today dispute a defense witness claim that paul m murdaugh s fatal shot was a down facing contact wound which means the barrel would have been up against his head. and she said that would have been impossible because his eyes were still in place, his face was still in place. they also brought in dr. kenneth kingsy an expert in crime scene re-creation. and he also refuted a defense claim. alex murdaugh is about 6 4 or
mentioned the governor firstcaug in the informants. the defense said it s the informants that egged them on and pushed them into specific acts that the men would never have been able to do on their own. and apparently it s the defense claim that the jurors agreed with. pete, stand by for a second because danny, these are strong words from the governor s office. right? the normalization of political violence. pete has laid out sort of how we got here. what are the options moving forward? like where does this go next? for the ones who were acquitted the options were zero for the government. the defendants walk. they walk out of the courthouse and move on with their lives. there are no comebacks from an acquittal. but at least as to the mistrial, to the ones that were deadlocked, the government has the option of bringing these charges again. and that decision is ultimately a political one. they have to decide whether or not they re going to use the resources of the federal government
do you remember that message? the numbers not on one. simply, she suggested, scotts ways to suggested that she was under duress. the phone call at 10 am, seen on the surveillance video, was henderson said, more of the same. just checking in on each other. did scott ever indicate to you that he was responsible for lisa s death? no. as for the divorce, maybe it was just as the scot until the cops. a retainer fee for leases attorney, had been returned to her bank account. and about scott being taking offer insurance policy, the defense claim, scott knew nothing of that, until his son, dylan, told him hours after lisa had died. he wasn t being husband of the year with any evidence, but not that he was? killer not to his killer. if you re the defense, would you do about the weight bench? the defense team maintain that
were falsely imprisoned during those police interviews. a federal court said that in regard of emotional defense claim, but allow the case to move forward on all other counts. the lovelace family has moved out of quincy, and curtis has opened a new law office in champagne, illinois. i would request we go ahead and he and christine started an exoneration organization. they said they wanted to help others, wrongfully accused, or convicted. christine, what happened you guys in this whole thing. i don t know what happened to us, dennis. we re still figure not oust. these kinds of things happen across our country every day. and now, i think, we have an obligation to stare the story, and to help other people. your goal was to leave that house an innocent man. i believe, looking in the eyes that jury, seeing the tears from some of them, how quickly they came back, but they were declaring to me and