verdict in the alex murdaugh double murder trial. guilty verdict. verdict, guilty. verdict, guilty. verdict, guilty. convictions on all four charges against him including two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of his wife margaret and his son paul in july 2021. you see him being led away there, put in a van. taken from the courthouse. moments ago, that occurred. we re waiting for a conscience ever conference with the prosecution. it s extraordinary how quickly the jury came to this verdict. what was it like in the courtroom when the verdicts were read? reporter: yeah, it took them just about three and a half hours or so to find alex murdaugh guilty on all four counts. you try to read the jury as they file back into the courtroom. none of them looked to the right where murdaugh sat and the family sat. they all had their heads down as they walked into the courtroom. also, anderson, you could see alex murdaugh we have this presser that is just about to start h
1700 acre farm that doesn t have security cameras everywhere, where the cell phone evidence was presented, but it was confusing and spotty, you ve got a really circumstantial case. i think the defense struggled. i mean, that last scene we just looked at where they re taking apart the defense s kind of tortured theory by demonstrating it looks almost impossible if you try to reenact it that way is on top of the idea that both guns came from the property. why would the killers not bring their own guns? why would the killers have the ability to know that the mom and the sun would be at that spot at that time? how would they know that? if the idea was that the killers showed up because they knew they could access weapons from the property because those weapons wouldn t be traced to them, why were the weapons missing after the fact if you didn t want them traced to you. there was just so much in terms of the pile on things that one
angle the gun that was used. correct. they would have had to have it it would be overly low. it would be unsustainable, and it couldn t happen. so at issue was whether or not, of course, the defense was trying to exclude the notion that a person of the height of alex murdaugh would have committed this crime. and then of course this was the comeback. and the comeback of the prosecution was nonsense. and essentially, that expert pretty much said it s preposterous what they re suggesting, they being the defense, that it would be this 5 2 person. too many variables. i thought absolutely that was effective at demonstrating to the jury that the notion that the defense had with respect to the height of the shooter was just nonsensical. i agree. i think that was a measurement where the defense just lost a lot of credibility because their forensic theory of why it would have been a shooter of a different height or two shooters really sort of went down the drain at that point. you heard t
they all had their heads down as they walked into the courtroom. also, anderson, you could see alex murdaugh we have this presser that is just about to start hear. that would be the, that s the south carolina attorney general, allen wilson, at the podium. he actually questioned one of the last witnesses, anderson, because that was a very important witness. a key witness. he was speaking to how the crime scene, how it all happened. he was a crime scene expert on the re-creation of the crime scene and able to help the jury understand how the defense s theory could not have worked. so we can listen in here. i want to thank every one of you for being here tonight. there is a lot of emotion at this courthouse. a year and a half, nearly two years of blood, sweat and tears. a lot of hard work for so many people. if you will just bear with me, a couple not a couple.
walked toward the door. okay. and what does the shooter do? the shooter is coming in the door. and then what does the shooter do? he shoots paul in the back of the head after he passes him. okay. and then shoots paul in the back of the head like this. and where does the blood spatter go? the blood spatter, the pellet defects, and one that i didn t know about that the expert collected was in the door frame at the top of the door. now i understand this is a little different than the feed room door. that s the best we can do. so what did you find odd about the theory, first of all? i think the theory is preposterous in my opinion. mark o mara, that is probably among the most effective parts of the prosecution s presentation, wasn t it? well, it really is for a number of reasons. don t forget we as people, certainly jurors, we learn by