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
listening to all that testimony, he figured he better get on that stand and say, okay, that s me. i think also that 911 call was really important. we heard a clip of it in that story. and that s important because mark ball, a longtime law partner of alex murdaugh s, you hear him on the 911 call, alex murdaugh saying, i checked them both, i checked their pulse. he says that later to investigators. mark ball, a friend, a fellow law partner, testified murdaugh kept changing his story. one day he checked magfy girs, another day he checked paul first. that was critical because there were inconsistencies. the gps data that came in, gm onstar data being given to the prosecution late in their case showed that alex murdaugh arrived at the kennels just 20 seconds before calling 911. so the question is if he checked, ran to paul, ran to maggie, he tried to turn paul over a couple of times as he told the 911 operator, and later investigators, could he have done all of that in 20 seconds?