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Cellphone video played in court could put Alex Murdaugh at scene of 2 murders

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Two childhood friends of Paul Murdaugh’s each took the witness stand Wednesday to tell a jury that a third voice heard on a cellphone video, recorded minutes before Paul and his mother, Maggie, were murdered, is the voice of his father, Alex Murdaugh.

Tribune News Service · Feb 2, 2023

Maggie Murdaugh’s cellphone was active the night she was murdered. Then it went silent

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.

Tribune News Service · Feb 1, 2023

First week of Murdaugh’s trial a showcase of shocking violence, evidence and emotion

WALTERBORO, S.C. — As the first week of the long-awaited double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh wrapped up Friday, a jury of eight women and four men, the state of South Carolina and the nation have borne witness to an evolving courtroom drama and disquieting disclosures from the witness stand.

Tribune News Service · Jan 28, 2023

Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys ask SC judge to bar testimony about blood spatter at trial

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for accused double murderer Alex Murdaugh have asked a South Carolina judge to bar a key prosecution trial witness from discussing blood spatter evidence they describe in a new court motion as merely a flawed “science fair” effort.

Tribune News Service · Jan 19, 2023

Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh to get documents that could challenge T-shirt evidence in South Carolina murder trial

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.

Tribune News Service · Dec 19, 2022

Don’t make former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh wear shackles in court, defense asks in new motion

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys have filed a motion asking the court not to shackle the accused double murderer during upcoming court proceedings.

Tribune News Service · Dec 1, 2022

Alex Murdaugh attorneys claim associate’s ‘failed’ lie detector test exonerates him in wife and son’s murders

Murdaugh’s attorneys allege the prosecution is withholding results of Eddie Smith’s failed polygraph test

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022

Alex Murdaugh's attorneys, South Carolina prosecutors battle over leaks and evidence in double murder case

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys on both sides of the Alex Murdaugh case got some of what they asked for from a South Carolina judge Monday after a few fiery courtroom clashes.

Tribune News Service · Aug 30, 2022

Alex Murdaugh: Judge vows to stop courtroom ‘carnival’ in fiery hearing as legal heir tries to subpoena agents

Attorneys for the disgraced legal heir and state prosecutors clashed in a heated hearing on Monday morning over the handling of evidence in the double murder case

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2022

Prosecutors in Alex Murdaugh murder case leaked confidential information to media, his lawyers say

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prosecutors from the South Carolina attorney general’s office have leaked derogatory confidential information to news outlets calculated to hurt disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh in his upcoming trial for the 2021 killings of his wife and son, Murdaugh’s lawyers alleged in a court filing Monday.

Tribune News Service · Aug 22, 2022