let s continue on. mr. waters i can t tell you exactly when that decision occurred. you can t describe to the jury the moment you decided to lie about your wife and son s murder? i can t tell you exactly when that moment occurred. you did say earlier when they asked you about your relationships that was a trigger point, correct? well, that was certainly one of the things that contributed or made me paranoid. okay. now, you know, there were already things that had gone on that that occurred as i said that put me in that mind set. yeah. but exactly when i decided to lie about that, i can t tell you. so the things, again, you
i did. here s a new one you just mentioned to us, correct? that s not a new one. the circumstances are new. that s fairly specific, don t you think? no, sir. i mean, the story keeps evolving, keep going. you asked about me this, mr. owen. mr. waters. part of this whole process involved my distrust for sled. that was a big part of my distrust for sled. we can see it on your face in this interview, can t we? i don t know. all right. but you said when what you just said a little bit ago, that wasn t a conscious decision yet. i m saying i don t believe it was. i don t know exactly when i made the decision to lie about that. if you see it, let me know. just a little while, texted
wonderful marriage, wonderful relationship. and yours and paul s relationship? as good as it could be. how old was paul? 22. right here, that line of questioning, just asking some very general questions about your relationship, you mentioned that before, mr. murdaugh, is that the moment right there, is that the look on your face when you decided to lie about an important fact in your wife and son s murder? i don t know, as i said, mr. waters, i don t know the exact point that i made that decision. you specifically earlier mentioned that exchange was somehow triggering you to lie about the last time you saw them alive. now, i m not saying that that s what made me lie. i m saying this whole set of circumstances caused me to be in a state where i had paranoid
evidence? i know you said the phone fell out of the pocket, but did you see anything else that didn t belong or shouldn t belong or that wasn t part of paul? no, sir, no. no, sir. how about maggie? no, sir. you didn t see anything around them? what made you come out here tonight? my mom s late stage alzheimer s patient, my dad s in the hospital. my mom gets anxious. i went to check on them and maggie, maggie s a dog lover and she fools with the dogs, and i knew she d gone to the kennel. i was at the house. just to be clear, you say you hadn t made the conscious decision to start lying about your wife and son s murder right there, correct? i don t believe so.
in that where, you know, buster nor paul had anything to do with what i m talking about. and sled never said that. you know, they told their lawyer that, they never say that. and there had been another incident where sled had charged greg alexander, my friend in this case, they charged him and in fact, i thought the agent that was involved in that was david owen. the charges against greg alexander were so they were so wrong that my dad and i made a conscious decision, even though he was a career prosecutor, made a decision to go to the courthouse and sit with greg alexander while his trial went on because it was a while back.