he s back in delaware for another weekend of rest and relaxation. we have full coverage of his latest cognitive malfunction. it was pretty bad. that s coming up tonight. also, england s own piers morgan will weigh in on meghan and harry. [applause] the royal couple are reportedly struggling to cope with a cartoon that made fun of them. these are people who say they want privacy, but they show up on oprah, on netflix, they write books. didn t want privacy, they want money. they are just lying to us. anyway, first we begin tonight with something really deadly serious, and america is now suffering from what is a severe violence and murder crisis. in fact, countrywide, the murder rate is at the highest point in more than 20 years and it s going higher, it seems, every day, with a 4.3% increase in 2021 alone. now, of course, you won t see any of these statistics on other networks, because they hide for example, in 2020 we had 574 riots, and they refused to call riots riots. we h
overcome and inspiring a new generation announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. for the defense, accused murderer alex murdaugh taking the witness stand today in south carolina dramatic and at times tearful testimony from the man at the center of the country s most closely followed criminal trial murdaugh under questioning from his lawyers saying i didn t shoot my wife or son and addressing what has appeared to be some of the prosecution s strongest evidence murdaugh from the witness box admitting he lied about his whereabouts the night his wife and 22-year-old son were shot to death. chalking up the lies to opioid addiction and paranoia under cross-examination, murdaugh, a former lawyer, also admitted to stealing from clients. the prosecution has maintained the murders were part of murdaugh s attempt to escape accountability for financial misdeeds we begin tonight with catie beck reporting from walterboro, south carolina. reporter: after ne
She hadnt answered her phone call, she had answered her Text Messages. Valentines day the started with roses entered in a different shade of red. Everything stopped. I was in shock. She was a wife, mother, missionary. Denise sounds like a saint, but something had been happening behind closed doors. There is nothing more important to me than you in this relationship. Was it love . Or hate . One shot to the head. What was the motive for valentines day murder . We had a note that she had written. She was speaking from the grave and away . That note was powerful. It happened on the least likely day imaginable, a day devoted to love and affection. Valentines day, and it happened to the last people on earth you would expect, a religious family dedicated to god and making the world a better place. Is it going on right now . My world had just been shattered. There Perfect World broken by an act so evil, it tore a family apart. The worst day of my life. And, put an entire town on edge. Be extra
i m telling you he she is dead. prosecutors played the interview for the jurors hoping they would see what they saw. when the police gave us the case, watched his video statement, and five minutes and i knew he was guilty. his demeanor and attitude. he tried to take over the conversation. not a single tear was shed. they presented evidence the shell casing was from a glock 40. the kind of gun nathan owned. the only firearm that can generate those marks would be a glock. are you able to say that within a reasonable degree of scientific? has. police never did find the murder weapon. did you worry that was a factor? it was a concern. in a murder case if you don t have the weapon, it s an uphill battle. the jury once the smoking gun and we did not have it.
Murderers final statement. i know i hurt people and i was young. i really messed up. but i know ron desantis has done a lot worse. i doubt he killed people. keep in mind, florida s crime rate has dropped to a 50-year low with murder down 14%, and of course no state is immune from any crime, but take a look at your screen. look at flagler county florida. a 6 6 , 270 found high school student. look at this. viciously beating a teacher s assistant, striking her 15 times, knocking her unconscious. and in orange county, a violent gang member named keith moses is accused of murdering three people, according to reports. armed with a glock 40, allegedly fatally shot a woman around 11:00 a.m., return to the scene hours later, an open fire on a tv reporter and a photojournalist before entering