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
national tension for the local stature of the defendant gets grazed south carolina tierney murdaugh and the depravity of his from slaughtering his wife and son. the trial ended, as you see, they re with murdaugh in cuffs taken back to jail with sentencing tomorrow after a remarkably speedy verdict, just three hours of deliberation. then this. guilty verdict. a verdict, guilty, verdict, guilty, verdict guilty. guilty on all four counts, including two counts of murder, in just a short time ago prosecutors including south carolina s attorney general spoke to reporters. justice was done today, it doesn t matter who your family is, it does not matter how much money you have, or people think you have. it does not matter what you think, how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, justice will be done and south carolina. kristen waters, the prosecutor about three hours was coming. now before we talk about details of the testimony, and what com
would the jury believe that was such a compelling motive that he would do what seems to be unthinkable? which is, point blank, point a shotgun and a rifle at your son and wife and pull the trigger repeatedly. i thought that was a really interesting part of the prosecution s rebuttal. the prosecutor said toward the end of it, we don t have to prove motive. i think i ve proved motive, i think i know why he did it, which is he loved alex more than he loved paul and maggie. so this may have not forever solved his problems but put it off for a while, so he did what he needed to do for alex. i thought that was interesting. an acknowledgement that maybe the state s theory of motive wasn t perfect, but it was the best they could come up with, and at the end of the day they didn t have to prove motive. in this hbo max documentary, they have the prison phone calls between alex murdaugh and buster after he s incarcerated, obviously. and they are just pathetically sad. just the long silences.
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
the same report, his great grandfather, his grandfather, his father, all were the prosecutors in this area of south carolina. i m joined now by the series executive producer. i ve been obsessed with this documentary, i ve talked to people endlessly in my office about it. nobody wants to hear from me about it anymore. you ve done an extraordinary job of this, we just saw video from the docuseries what i m about to show about the boat crash involving paul murdaugh. do we have that video? let s show that and then let s talk about. paul was being really mean, slapping her, spitting interface. paul starts he s just doing stupid stuff, starts driving the boat around in circles. this had ceased to be a joyride, now, it became a very