Defense takes law enforcement to task over Murdaugh’s clothes
The defense dedicated a line of questioning to what clothes Murdaugh was wearing, which has been a focus for authorities in the aftermath of the murder and in the trial.
Murdaugh said that members of law enforcement showed him a SnapChat video his son Paul made prior to the murders. In the video, Murdaugh appeared to be wearing a different set of clothes than he was found in after he said he discovered the bodies of his wife and son.
“I’m well aware that my clothes never became an issue in this case until my lawyers proved that this blood spatter that they said I had on my shirt from my wife and my son was a lie,” Murdaugh said.
Murdaugh says he ‘never spent another night’ at the house where his wife and son were killed
Murdaugh he never spent another night at the family’s vast hunting lodge Moselle after the Jun. 7 fatal shootings of his wife and son.
When defense attorney Jim Griffin asked why, Murdaugh paused for a bit, shaking his head and rocking side-to-side before answering.
“I couldn’t,” he replied.
The trial breaks for lunch
The judge called for a lunch break just before 1:30 p.m. ET with Murdaugh still on the stand. The trial will resume with Murdaugh’s continued testimony around 2:40 p.m. ET.
Why the defense keeps asking about Margaret’s cellphone
The defense has repeatedly asked Murdaugh to talk about his wife’s cellphone. He said he believed it would have GPS data and “it was very important for me to find that.”
The defense is trying to highlight the fact that Murdaugh wanted to get the GPS data off Margaret’s phone to clear his name, but we’ve heard from a prior defense witness that it was unavailable because investigators failed to preserve it.
Back on the stand, Murdaugh says he wasn’t near his wife and son when they were shot
After a short break, court has resumed with Murdaugh explaining that he got blood on his fingers when he checked the bodies of Paul and Margaret.
However, the former…
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