wealth and local stature of defendant disgraced south carolina attorney alex murdaugh, and the depravity of his crimes, slaughtering his wife and son. the trial ended with murdaugh in cuffs, taken back to jail with sentencing tomorrow after a remarkably speedy verdict, three hours of deliberation. then this. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. guilty on all four counts, including two counts of murder. prosecutors, including south carolina s attorney general, spoke to reporters. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is. it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think, how prominent you are. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina. creighton waters, the prosecutor. what took three hours was a long time in coming. before we talk about details of the testimony and the verdict and what comes next, our randi kaye has
relatively short period of time, i mean, the housekeeper allegedly tripping down the stairs over the dog. alex murdaugh cheating the housekeeper s family out of an insurance payment of millions of dollars. cheating untold numbers of families, poor families who got $10,000 here, $20,000 settlements in insurance cases. he stole their money, too. a dead young man found in the middle of the road, made to seemingly, based on what i saw in your documentary it raises questions about whether it was just made to look like it was a traffic accident when it wasn t a traffic accident, he may have been dumped there. i mean, it s stunning. truly. and, you know, every time we d uncover anything, it just kind of blew our mind. and, you know, this man, there was nothing that was out of bounds for him. i mean, conning the family