it puts the shooter or whoever fired the weapon, if they were that tall, it puts them in an unrealistic shooting position. now you have been up to speed. i want to go right to the evidence. it comes down to two things that every single prosecutor has to contend with. we are talking motive, and opportunity. and without direct evidence, or eyewitnesses, or even the weapons themselves, the prosecution is going to have to prove the latter. opportunity, better known as time. let s focus first on the timeline. the prosecution is laid out and the big question, did murdaugh has time to commit murder, get rid of the guns, clean himself up, leave, and return in about an hour and 17 minutes? or, is there reasonable doubt? let s drill down on that key kennel video that was mentioned. i want to turn to the prosecution first because listen, he is emitting now that he is on the scene of the crime, moments before the murders. is that enough? with everything else, yes. it is not cell phone that i
so this time line begins roughly when? around 6 pm. on what? day june 7th 2020. one cell phone in gps data for murdaugh s our cv pinpoint when he had left his home. the data shows driving faster around the location where maggie murdoch s phone was located at the roadside. just 16 minutes after the time of death. with that top speed higher than any speed you achieved when you went to work earlier that day? that is. correct testimony also revealing murdaugh was at his mother s property for 20 minutes while he had previously given different accounts of how much time he had spent their. telling investigator, he d been there for 45 minutes to an hour. cell phone data also showing he dialed 9-1-1 less than 20 seconds after he arrived at the kennels. where the bodies of his wife and son were. despite telling investigators he had to turn them over to check for signs of life. how many seconds of that from the time the suburban
arrives until he calls 9-1-1? roughly 20. seconds friday, the prosecution resting their case. the state of south carolina russ. but not before introducing more on a potential motive for the double homicide. that the two victims, maggie and paul murdoch, had discovered bags of pills in alex s bag a month before their killings. on may 2021 voice mail message from paul to alec was read in court. when you get, here we need to talk. mom found several bags of pills in your computer bag. this is again from paul to alex. on may 6th. this, the polls during the states argument that the perfect storm was approaching the once prominent south carolina attorney. who s other alleged crimes ranging from money laundering, to selling painkillers, to insurance fraud, have now taken center stage. the defense, pushing back saying the states case lacks hard evidence. like an eyewitness, video, or
fingerprints such showed alec murdaugh pulled the trigger that night. there is no direct, and frankly circumstantial evidence presented that the defendant shot and killed his wife maggie or son paul. for the murder of his son paul, there was no dna from paul in his clothing in the area where you d expect to find it. the defense will now call their witnesses, which could include murdaugh s surviving son, faster. as they fight to prove his innocence. katie, back nbc news. thank you, katie back, for. that we are following some breaking news involving former president jimmy carter. nbc news correspondent has the latest details on this. monika, what are we learning? yasmin. we have just learned about this information through the carter center. i want to read you a statement on the current condition of the former president and some very difficult decisions that have been made here now for the 28 year old. we are learning that after a series of short hospital stays,
around the time of the murders. on the body cam video, we also see for the first time this bizarre exchange between alec and deputy buford mcdowell who arrives on the scene. in the middle of talking to sergeant greene about his wife he pauses to greet the deputy. maggie murdoch, how you do? i m okay. alec also asked the deputies several times of his family are dead. did you check? and i ve got medical guys, that s what they re gonna do okay? check in the third dead. they are dead aren t there? yes sir, that s what it looks like. on some of the body cam video, alec murdoch is seen pacing around the property. he s making phone calls including 1 to 1 of his