COLUMBIA, S.C. — The attorneys of accused double murderer Alex Murdaugh will get access to documents that could challenge a key piece of evidence South Carolina prosecutors will use in its attempt to prove the once-prominent Lowcountry attorney brutally murdered his wife and son.
Judge Clifton Newman on Monday ordered the state to turn over to Murdaugh’s defense team any communications prosecutors had with Tom Bevel, an expert witness who examined the shirt Murdaugh was wearing the night of June 7, 2021, when his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, were shot and killed on the family’s Colleton County estate.
The judge’s order also covers any documents produced by Bevel for the case, including the Photoshop files relating to the white T-shirt Murdaugh was wearing on the night of the murders.
