wealth and local stature of defendant disgraced south carolina attorney alex murdaugh, and the depravity of his crimes, slaughtering his wife and son. the trial ended with murdaugh in cuffs, taken back to jail with sentencing tomorrow after a remarkably speedy verdict, three hours of deliberation. then this. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. guilty on all four counts, including two counts of murder. prosecutors, including south carolina s attorney general, spoke to reporters. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is. it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think, how prominent you are. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina. creighton waters, the prosecutor. what took three hours was a long time in coming. before we talk about details of the testimony and the verdict and what comes next, our randi kaye has
national tension for the local stature of the defendant gets grazed south carolina tierney murdaugh and the depravity of his from slaughtering his wife and son. the trial ended, as you see, they re with murdaugh in cuffs taken back to jail with sentencing tomorrow after a remarkably speedy verdict, just three hours of deliberation. then this. guilty verdict. a verdict, guilty, verdict, guilty, verdict guilty. guilty on all four counts, including two counts of murder, in just a short time ago prosecutors including south carolina s attorney general spoke to reporters. justice was done today, it doesn t matter who your family is, it does not matter how much money you have, or people think you have. it does not matter what you think, how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, justice will be done and south carolina. kristen waters, the prosecutor about three hours was coming. now before we talk about details of the testimony, and what com
would the jury believe that was such a compelling motive that he would do what seems to be unthinkable? which is, point blank, point a shotgun and a rifle at your son and wife and pull the trigger repeatedly. i thought that was a really interesting part of the prosecution s rebuttal. the prosecutor said toward the end of it, we don t have to prove motive. i think i ve proved motive, i think i know why he did it, which is he loved alex more than he loved paul and maggie. so this may have not forever solved his problems but put it off for a while, so he did what he needed to do for alex. i thought that was interesting. an acknowledgement that maybe the state s theory of motive wasn t perfect, but it was the best they could come up with, and at the end of the day they didn t have to prove motive. in this hbo max documentary, they have the prison phone calls between alex murdaugh and buster after he s incarcerated, obviously. and they are just pathetically sad. just the long silences.
trying to cover-up this financial crime. that was always a question, with the jury believe that was such a compelling motive that he would do what seems to be unthinkable? which is point blank, point a shotgun and a rifle at your son and wife and pull the trigger repeatedly. i thought that was really interesting part of the prosecution s rebuttal. the prosecutor said, toward the end of it, we don t have to prove motive. i think i prove motive, i think i know why he did it. which is, he loved alex. he loved alex more than he loved paul and maggie. so, this may have not forever solved his problems. it put it off for a while. he did what he needed to do in that moment for alex. i thought that was really interesting, it was an acknowledgment that maybe the states theory of motive wasn t perfect, but it was the best they can come up with. and at the end of the day, they didn t have to prove motive. in this hbo max documentary, they have the prison phone calls between alex murdaugh and b