It was one of the quickest verdicts and shortest deliberations of any public murder trial in memory. At 6.41 p.m.

After almost three hours of deliberation, the Colleton County jury reached a verdict.

Alec Murdoch, guilty. He's been convicted of murdering his wife and son in June 2021.

The former attorney was found guilty on all four counts. Judge Clifton Newman

handed down two consecutive life sentences. Alec will be spending every waking second of the rest of his

life in prison. This conviction marks the end of what has been deemed the trial of the century.

A quick verdict like this means the jury didn't seem to trust a word that Alex said when he took

the stand. They found him to be not only a liar, but a murderer.

Alex's carefully choreographed testimony didn't seem to help his case, quite the opposite, actually.

As numerous jurors have since come and spoken out, and they all

share a similar opinion, they weren't buying what he was selling. In the jury's eyes, the prosecution

seemed to show enough evidence that Alec, in an attempt to garner sympathy and stave off questioning

into his finances, planned and murdered his wife Maggie and son Paul

with two different weapons to make it appear as a heinous two-shooter crime.

And in the midst of it all, Alex's opioid addiction,

driving much of the insanity.

In his closing arguments, prosecutor Creighton Waters said, quote, the pressures on

this man were unbearable, and they were all reaching a crescendo on the day his wife and son were

murdered by him. Those pressures mount and that person becomes a family annihilator, end quote.

So what is a family annihilator? We'll dive into that in a bit.

So with the trial concluding and Alec being convicted, you'd think this is the end.

But to be honest, I don't believe it is.

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