watch. murdaugh spent hours, as trace pointed out, on the stand answering questions about his opioid addiction, his finances, stealing millions from clients, even being disbarred, but he denied he was desperate enough to kill. did you shoot a 300 black out into her head, causing her de death? i didn t shoot my wife or my son any time, ever. the disgrace south carolina lawyer on trial for allegedly killing 52-year-old maggie murdaugh in their 22-year-old son, paul, or paw-paw, as he kept coming in for some reason, back into a 21. murdaugh admitted to lying to cops about being at the estate kennels earlier in the evening on june 7th, the day the bodies were later found. i lied about being down th there. and i m so sorry that i did. most of all, i m sorry to mags and paw-paw. i would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. boy, it does not look good for him. he also said that he initially lied about being at the dog kennels because of his years lon
in his own double murder trial, accused of fatally shooting his wife and his youngest son in june of 2020 one murder blew upi his entire alibi today when here said that he lied aboutalive. the last time he saw them alive. duive. investigators he was sleeping duringri the time of the murders and further that he hadn t been to the family s dog kennelbe where the bodies of wife maggie and son paul were found. but a video that that was then recovered from his son s phone n taken just minutes before the murder a s, placed murdoch at scene the scene.. mr. murdaugh, is that you on the kendall video at eight forty four8:44 p.m p.m. oe seven , the night maddie, maggie and paul were murderewer it is . were yo were you, in fact, att the kennels at eight forty four pm on the night maggie and paul were murdered? i was. wermurdered? why did you say to own agent kroloff and deputy rutlandw ma about the last time you sawwpa maggie and paul asul my addictin evolved over time, i wouldation
overcome and inspiring a new generation announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. for the defense, accused murderer alex murdaugh taking the witness stand today in south carolina dramatic and at times tearful testimony from the man at the center of the country s most closely followed criminal trial murdaugh under questioning from his lawyers saying i didn t shoot my wife or son and addressing what has appeared to be some of the prosecution s strongest evidence murdaugh from the witness box admitting he lied about his whereabouts the night his wife and 22-year-old son were shot to death. chalking up the lies to opioid addiction and paranoia under cross-examination, murdaugh, a former lawyer, also admitted to stealing from clients. the prosecution has maintained the murders were part of murdaugh s attempt to escape accountability for financial misdeeds we begin tonight with catie beck reporting from walterboro, south carolina. reporter: after ne
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across the country. now a second storm that will cross the nation right behind it. 25 states o alt, t west to the t t tonight, from minnesota to michigan to massachusetts, dealing with this first storm. and in california, the pileup. some areas with the first blizzard warning ever as the second storm is set to hit. rob marciano timing all of this out. the young up and coming tv reporter shot and killed. a 9-year-old girl shot andng fi people shot in a shooting spree in orlando. tonight here, the body camera video showing the arrest of the suspect. the toxic train derailment, and the major news from federal. the ntsb on what caused that train to derail. what they know already, what three sensors picked up before the toxic derailment. and transportation secretary pete buttigieg and the scene take, taking tough questions about why he didn t come sooner. how he answered. the war in ukraine, and tonight, on the eve of the one-year mark tomorrow, the russian invasion of ukrai