WALTERBORO, S.C. — Maggie Murdaugh’s cellphone was active early in the evening on the night she was killed at the family’s 1,700-acre rural estate, receiving texts, recording screen orientation changes and logging bursts of steps, a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division cellphone specialist testified Tuesday.
But then her phone went silent and still, SLED agent Britt Dove testified. He was in the middle of reciting a list of Maggie’s various cellphone data on the night of the killings — including the exact, to-the-second time Maggie’s phone was receiving texts and phone calls — when Judge Clifton Newman adjourned court shortly before 6 p.m.
Adding to the mystery is that when Maggie’s phone was locked, it was moved, he testified. Eventually, it was found about a half-mile away, according to testimony.
