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Rachel Sharp

Alex Murdaugh’s calls to wife on night of murders were mysteriously ‘deleted’ from his cellphone

The Post And Courier/AP/Colleton County Court/Law & Crime

Calls Alex Murdaugh made to his wife on the night he allegedly murdered her and their son were mysteriously later deleted from his cellphone, according to dramatic courtroom testimony.

SLED Lt. Britt Dove, who works in the computer crimes centre at the state agency, testified in Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, on Wednesday that he had processed the three cellphones belonging to Mr Murdaugh, his wife Maggie and son Paul in the aftermath of the brutal murders.

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