we are going to give you the quick overview of just how we get here. let s go live to right randi kaye has been following every twist and turn, randy? laura, his all started nearly two years ago. with a double murder not far from this courthouse on a property known as moselle. ever since then, it has turned into a twisted tale of greed, lies, and more lies and the state says that there is one man orchestrating all of it and that was alex murdaugh. [inaudible] my wife and child [inaudible]. june 7th, 2021, alec murdaugh says that he called 9-1-1 after finding his wife and youngest son debt other hunting property known as moselle. did you touch maggie at all? i did. i touched them both. i mean, i try to do it as limited as possible. but i tried to take their pulse on both of them. 52-year-old maggie murdoch has been shot four or five times with a black out rifle.
the trials studies, in this primetime special. good evening everyone, i am laura coats, the closing argument today in the alex murdaugh double murder trial will resume tomorrow. they come after five weeks of intense, emotional, and graphic moments. as a jury of 12 in south carolina will soon decide alex murdaugh s face, and for the very first time today they visited the scene of the murders of maggie and paul murdoch, traveling to the families hunting property. we also got to look at the crime scene of close we have video released today. here is how tonight is going to work. we have assembled some of the nation s most prominent trial and jury veterans to analyze the key pieces of evidence. and
just before closing arguments, the jury visited those kennels, the crime scene, up close for the first time. video of the scene, not the jurors, was allowed to be recorded by the media. the jury small saw this small feed room where this model which just as out put down a shotgun to pick up the blackout, and startled by paul, and that s why the angle is like that. he catches paul like that. he goes up into the ceiling, as you ve heard the testimony from kimze. and he blows his brains out. paul fell to the concrete after the second fatal shot. his brain, hitting the pavement. as the jury could see at the scene, all of that was within sight of where maggie murdoch s body was found on the grass, near the shed. the pool reporter measured the two shootings, just about 12 steps apart.
was going on on the financial side that was being covered up and it was all going to be exposed. it was going to tear down his family legacy and that was part of the reason why. it is more of the motive. but the reason why we don t have to prove motive is because there is no rational motive for murder. we are never going to understand that a person s motive is. we were also told that there was a rocky patch in their marriage. and i both paul and maggie were starting to give them a hard time about the opioid addiction. and does a lot of bad things to people, unfortunately we have seen that. so a lot of us don t go around murdering other people. it goes towards the guilt when you put it towards the content of all the other people. by the context, the motive, we still don t have direct evidence. but we have conversations and testimony throughout, about what he was wearing. so teasing about discussions about the blue jacket, was it a tarp? was it not? the change of clothes, why
evidence in this case, back with our experts right now, i want to hear from you guys. what is the impact that they do not have any of the guns or the evidence, what do you say? i don t think it should be any because in most homicides they don t have the murder weapon, you know what happened and here they have great evidence. they have the fact that the rifle, the cases that were found nearby, they said conclusively matched. even though they don t have the gun but they know that paul had a gun like that, that was replaced year before, that is, lo and behold missing. then you go to the shotgun and they talk about, while they could not conclusively match anything, there are certain guns from that home that could have caused those injuries like, what they recovered from maggie, again, missing. for someone who likes to talk and explain this, because its favorite line should be that i look at him as