WALTERBORO, S.C. — The South Carolina pathologist who performed autopsies on Paul and Maggie Murdaugh after their murders disputed defense witnesses on Tuesday who said her conclusions about how the son and mother died were incorrect.
As the double-murder trial of Alex Murdaugh winds down at the Colleton County Courthouse, both sides clashed Tuesday over just how much rebuttal the state will offer to the defense’s case, and the first in-court action by the state’s attorney general as he questioned the state’s last witness.
Murdaugh’s defense attorneys formally rested their case Monday after presenting 14 witnesses over six days to try to undermine prosecutors’ case that Murdaugh is the one responsible for the June 7, 2021, deaths of his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul.
