did you murder paul? i would never hurt paul. court adjourned late today capping a stunning week by my measure. so what was it like in court today? well anderson, this was the first time we got to see the prosecutor question alex murdaugh about the night of the murders. he asked him what time he got to the kennels where the murder took place. and he asked them these questions repeatedly presumably to try to trip him up. but he kept coming back to the same theme. don t believe what alex murdaugh tells you. i have lied well over a decade. reporter: that is what he was trying to propose on the stand. i told a lie about being down there and got myself wed to that. reporter: waters tried to box murdaugh into a corner using cell phone data and time line evidence from the night of the murders. i m still not absolutely certain how they ended up at the kennel. reporter: murdaugh told the jury he drove his golf cart to meet his wife and son at the kennels. he said t
to that. reporter: waters tried to box murdaugh into a corner using cell phone data and time line evidence from the night of the murders. i m still not absolutely certain how they ended up at the kennel. reporter: murdaugh told the jury he drove his golf cart to meet his wife and son at the kennels. he said that was just before paul murdaugh recorded this kennel video. murdaugh could be heard talking in the background. murdaugh estimated it is about a two-minute drive on the golf cart putting him there at 8:49 p.m. the same time prosecutors said maggie and paul s phones ceased all activity suggesting they were dead. once back at the house. you laid down on the couch? direct. reporter: keep in mind, murdaugh s phone showed no activity from 8:09 to 9:02. he says he left it at the house when he went down to the
have happened, it doesn t really make any sense. right. it is a very narrow time frame now that the defendant has admitted that was him at the kennels. he talked about the dogs not barking which reminded me of the famous sherlock holmes story. the motion that somebody would have shown up at exactly the right window when murdaugh himself would have left unarmed, knowing there would be guns available. driven out the way he did and left the wife s phone in that route. it does seem really implausible. on the other hand, right, is there possible reasonable doubt there given that it is a circumstantial case? do you think the idea of just because somebody, the fact that he has lied so repeatedly and so effectively for decades. he said he wouldn t do anything to hurt his wife and son. he has been a drug addict
actually dead? i think he was effective at times. it is kind of misleading when you play the clips you played but what they don t know is between all those great moments was fat. like a fatty steak. i like a lean filet mignon. on a cross-examination. you hit the high points and carefully craft every question you will ask that question. you get in and you get out. i think that murdaugh is now smiling. he is happier than five guys on a ski trip because he knows that while the prosecutor approached his jugular, he just squeezed it and never made it clear for the jurors 100% that this guy is void of credibility. it is still circumstantial. it is a big problem for the prosecution. but i think the prosecutor was effective in narrowing the time line showing how implausible it is. when he ticks off all the things that would have had to
cannels. you agree that your phone comes to life and starts showing a lot of steps. far more steps in a shorter time period than any time prior as you have seen from the testimony in this case. so what were you so busy doing? going to the bathroom? no. i didn t get on the treadmill. jog in place? no. i didn t jog in place. what i wasn t doing is doing anything as i believe you have implied i was washing off guns, putting guns in the raincoat. i can promise you i wasn t doing any of that. reporter: along with steps murdaugh took, data presented in court shows he made a flurry of phone calls. finally having your phone in your hand, moving around, making all these phone calls to manufacture an alibi. is that not true? absolutely incorrect. reporter: meanwhile, murdaugh s attempt to show he had been trying to cooperate