judge that is likely to hurt his defense. here is david lee miller. reporter: accused double murderer alex murdoch s defense suffered a setback in court monday. a ruling by the judge will allow prosecutors to present evidence to support their theory he murdered his wife and son to divert attention from his money troubles. with the jury away from the courtroom, eight witnesses tabefied murdoch s financial woes. judge clifton newman then ruled jurors could hear about the possible motive. i find that the jury s entitled to consider whether the apparent desperation of mr. murdoch because of his dire financial situation, threat of being exposed for committing the crimes which he was later
l.a. committed murder trial are not allowed to hurt the prosecution s entire case, but that could soon change. as we have been reporting, murdoch is a disgraced former attorney charged with killing his attorney weapons on more than enough, go the alleged murder huge money troubles, some of them whisper that today in the courtroom, in walterboro south carolina. our randi kaye was there for, that a new information the jury is getting about a key piece of evidence, social media video. i work for snap incorporated. this employee from snapchat was called on to testify for the state, so she conduct them to get this video, if it was extracted from paul murdoch s phone after he and his mother maggie were killed. the username listed here as paul 9499. you do not see people on the, video but you hear him laughing and his father alex murdoch. do you determine a review of the records, whether that account sent off that particular video?