alex, we just heard you say i should have known. what are you referring to? i said, paul, paul, i should have known. what were you referring to? i was referring to paul got so many threats. he didn t take serious. i was just telling him, paul, paul, i should have known. i don t specifically remember saying that, but i can clearly hear myself say that. what kind of threats did you understand paul was receiving? paul got the most vile threats, the stuff that was on social media. you couldn t believe it. you couldn t believe it. it was so over the top, truthfully, we didn t think anything about it. it was just so crazy. people talking about what he was going to get and how they were going to do this and get him and it s stuff you really disr disregarded it because it s so over the top. thought it was so over the top. keep going please . when was the last time you talked to maggie? probably two hours ago. okay, you said about two hours ago you talked to them?
that s something that alex murdaugh told investigators multiple times, including on the initial 911 call. the first responder on the scene actually testified that it was the first thing that alex murdaugh said to him when he arrived there on june 7th, 2021. but look, we are watching the defense try and take the state s case point by point with alex murdaugh through it. and the biggest red flag, if you will, that s been hanging over alex murdaugh throughout this case is a video that was discovered on paul s phone in march of 2022. so nobody really knew about this for awhile. they weren t able to get into paul s phone. it was taken at the kennel in the moments before paul and maggie murdaugh were shot and killed. and up until today, alex murdaugh would tell anybody who could listen, ask we have heard testimony after testimony on this, he never went to the kennels, and he did not see
verdict coming back after a day and a half after a month-long evidence that in their view this man is responsible in some way and some measure for the death of those four individuals, and now she has to engage in the entirely different dialogue and that is what is a just and appropriate penalty. and so the juror has taken the oath that they will consider the aggravating factors and the mitigating factors and balance them carefully and then they will make the individual judgment as to whether or not death is the appropriate punish ment in this case. the defense try and they failed to have the trial moved tot another venue alleging that the jury pool would be tainted in the boston area, but might it be to the advantage to defense that they lost that fight? well, indeed. of all of the states in the united states, and we remember the coverage when the incident happened, massachusetts does not have a death penalty. she is in a courtroom where there s a community, and this jury speaks fo
the oscar pistorius trial. we heard a series of witnesses who tried to paint a picture of oscar pistorius as perhaps trigger happy and irresponsible all relating to one incident. it was a johannesburg restaurant where pistorius was allegedly handed a loaded gun. it then went off. according to the state, pistorius then tried to get a friend to take the rap for him. he said, please take the gun from me. there s too much media around me. just take the gun from me. and when the restaurant owner came up, darren took the blame. reporter: also, the defense continued to raise doubts about the credibility of the testimony of a married couple, neighbors of oscar pistorius. witness one and witness three. now, over and over again, we heard pistorius defense try and build a picture of the fact that this married couple had perhaps