was and what he was doing, and he told attorneys today he told prosecutors, he was not trying to manufacture an alibi when he now admittedly lied to investigators around that time. here with me is cnn s jean casarez who has been watching so much of this trial and what jumped out to you at the end here, particularly the dramatic finish of that cross-examination? he went through every single name of his partners, the people that should have gotten millions of dollars from the law firm, his family, everyone for decades he had lied to over and over and over again. then he lied about not being down where the murders happened with his wife and his son. so close in time to when their phones locked forever, meaning they never were on them again because they had been murdered. trying to show this jury, you can t believe today anything he says on that sand because he s a liar and always will be. let me dig into that a little bit more, the specific moment, now that murdaugh admits t
maggie and paul? he s hoping none of that makes sense to the jury, and he actually asked alex murdaugh on the stand, were the dogs acting up and sense there was something on the property and alex murdaugh answered him nobody else was around. there was no one else there. randi kaye, stand by if you will. here to discuss, both criminal defense attorneys and former prosecutors. bernardo, let s start in a bigger sense. how would you assess how this has gone so far for alex murdaugh on the stand? john, this has been completely the alex murdaugh show. he took control of the complete direct examination, which we expected, but also of the cross-examination. it has all been about alex murdaugh, and he has controlled the answers that even the questions in this case and he s the witness on the stand. he s not even the attorney who is asking the questions. this just goes to show you, when
partners about financial dealings and perhaps your addiction? yes. and you ve lied to law enforcement about not going down to the kennels after dinner. but eating dinner and taking a nap, did you not? i did. alex, did you murder maggie? i would never hurt maggie. did you murder paul? i would never hurt paul. if i was under the pressure that they re talking about here, i can promise you i would hurt myself before i would hurt one of them.
page 46. highlight and blow out the 90218 alex murdaugh s iphone shows. now do you remember being asked about these steps, 283 steps, traveled during this period of time? i do. and i think you testified your belief was you were just getting ready to leave to go to your mom s house, is that right? that s correct. i mean that would have been the time i left to go there. and you were like you had made some phone calls during this period of time, correct? yes. the records show. alex, did you have maggie s phone with you at any time
half a mile or more, is that right? yeah. i knew where her phone had been located. why was it important to you to get that information? because i knew that whoever had done this to them, had maggie s phone and i knew that my phone and maggie s phone and my car were never together. at point in time. now, you had given inaccurate times in many statements to law enforcement in this case, have you not? i did. we reviewed some of those in your direct examination. one was, paul getting to mosel around 5:00 p.m. do you remember that? i do.