is. i can promise you i would hurt myself before i would hurt one of them. the alex murdaugh trial in the deep south captivating the nation. there are a lot of conversations i had where i misled my clients and i stole their money. reporter: a case of weltd, po wealth, power, privilege, and murder. once i lied i continued to lie. reporter: but is there enough evidence to convict the man at the center of it all. i didn t shoot my wife or my son anytime ever. reporter: tonight we lay out the facts, the mysterious clues, and the trial s stunning turns in this cnn prime time special. good evening, everyone, i m laura coates and closing arguments today in the double murder trial, and they will resume tomorrow and come after five weeks of tense, emotional, and graphic moments. as the jury of 12 in walterboro, south carolina, will soon decide alex murdaugh s fate. for the very first time today, they visited the scene of the murders of maggie and paul murdaugh trav
waech away. when i first started looking at this and what they don t know out there in tv land, we don t coordinate these thoughts. we ve all looked at this independently. when i first looked at it, the motive jumped out at me. it does not make sense that a guy s going to murder his wife and his son to distract from a financial crimes investigation? i mean, this guy s a lawyer he d take the hit on the financial crimes. it s a much more defensive scenario in a white collar case. as you re talking about it. i haven t even gotten to the point yet, the real point. i want to tell you something as the prosecution team and the defense, talk to me about this. what s jumping out to this jury is the motive issue. what s jumping out is the financial fraud trial that was in the middle of all of this and the idea of minutia, the devil being in the details. is the devil in the details helpful to this case? and i think it is because this is someone, all the experts have told us that is a true