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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rachel Sharp

Alex Murdaugh prosecutors rest case after pathologist stands by brutal account of Paul and Maggie’s murders

Jeff Blake

The prosecution has rested its case in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial, after calling multiple rebuttal witnesses to the stand to dispute the defence’s expert witnesses and show jurors that the disgraced attorney continued to lie on the witness stand.

The forensic pathologist who carried out the autopsies on Alex Murdaugh’s wife Maggie and son Paul returned to the witness stand in Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, on Tuesday where she pushed back against testimony from two defence witnesses who argued that Paul had been shot in the head at point blank range.

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