this is america s newsroom. so finally the prosecution will rest its case. after the jury took a field trip to the crime scene. they toured the kennels where they say alex murdered his son and wife. he told investigators he wasn t near there. he had to reverse that story on the hand. they paint him as a serial liar with the means, motive and opportunity. this defendant, on the other hand, has fooled everyone everyone, everyone who thought they were close to him and everyone who thought they knew who he was. he has fooled them all. and he fooled maggie and paul, too. and they paid for it with their lives. dana: team fox coverage. nancy grace is here with analysis. let s begin with jonathan serrie in atlanta to set the scene for us. good morning, dana and bill. in their closing arguments, the defense for alex murdaugh are expected to push their theory that perhaps two shooters were involved with the murders of maggie and paul murdaugh and that the initial crime scen
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have to be consistent with each other and have to point conclusively to the guilt of alex murdaugh, beyond a reasonable doubt. these circumstances just raise more questions, ladies and gentlemen. raise more questions that we wouldn t have to be dealing with if they had just simply secured mag maggie s phone on june 8th when they got it. we wouldn t be here. we do know from the time line that alex left the property at 9:07. were they killed before he left? i don t know the answer to that. i don t know the answer to that. we do know that if he was in the house when the shots were made down at the kennel that he would not have heard them. we had testing from mr. sutton. they were angry with mr. sutton s not angry, but they challenged his conclusions on a lot of things. they didn t touch his acoustic testing. didn t doubt that. haven t challenged that. if he is in the house and shots are down at the kennel, he doesn t hear it. they say that sometime after 8:44 they peg it 8:4
infamous snapchat video taken by paul murdaugh that puts alec at the scene of the crime that night. despite his denial that he had been there. four minutes later the state would have you believe that alec murdaugh up and blew his son s brains out of his head and murders his wife, after having that conversation about bubba having a chicken. there s nothing on that tape that indicates there s any strife, any conflict, any anger, any planning, anybody being afraid, anybody running, anybody scurrying. nothing. maggie, paul, and alec down at the kennel. that s it. and john stood up after the defense to offer the rebuttal, meadors was brought on my the south carolina attorney general s office. maybe he got angry at paul. maybe he got angry, he started all of this. and maybe he just lost it. maybe he just lost it. maybe it looked like a suicide, and then maggie came and he had to shoot her. maybe he just lost it. the jury set to begin deliberations any moment. as judge clifton