Car Data Tracks Murdaugh’s Moves, DESTROYS DEFENSE TIMELINE

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

After 61 witnesses, prosecutors in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial have rested their case.

Once the long holiday weekend is over, the defense will continue to call its witnesses. Murdaugh's attorneys called two witnesses after the lunch break. Attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin say they expect their case to take about a week.

Key testimony today before the prosecution rested included new phone data information, including the fact that Alex Murdaugh called 911 roughly 14 seconds after allegedly discovering his wife and son's bodies.

The data also showed Maggie Murdaugh's phone moving at the same time as her husband's vehicle. The data indicated that Murdaugh's vehicle sped up quickly, and away from the location where Maggie Murdaugh's phone was found.

Prosecutors can then put on a rebuttal case.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Dale Carson - High Profile Criminal Defense Attorney (Jacksonville), Former FBI Agent, Former Police Officer (Miami-Dade County), Author: "Arrest-Proof Yourself;" Twitter: @DaleCarsonLaw
Sheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert, Founder: Cold Case Investigative Research Institute in Atlanta, GA.; Twitter: @ColdCaseTips; Podcast Host: "Zone 7"
Dr. William Morrone - Opioid Expert and Author: “American Narcan: Naloxone & Heroin-Fentanyl Associated Mortality”
Dr. Michelle DuPre - Former Forensic Pathologist, Medical Examiner and Detective: Lexington County Sheriff's Department; Author: "Homicide Investigation Field Guide" & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide;" Forensic Consultant
Anne Emerson - Senior Investigative Reporter, WCIV ABC News 4 (Charleston, SC); Host of Award-Winning DAILY Podcast: "Unsolved South Carolina: The Murdaugh Murders, Money and Mystery;" Twitter: @AnneTEmerson

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0:00.0	CRIME STORIES WITH NANCY GREASE
0:07.0	Hello everybody, we are live at the Corn House. The jury is just left for a lunch break,
0:18.2	so let's pack it in as quickly as we can. I want to tell you everything that has gone
0:22.8	on in the courtroom since we spoke yesterday. Number one, Alex Murdoch's own brother calls
0:29.8	police to report suspicious behavior after the roadside shooting as it is euphemistically
0:37.3	called and car data maps out. Alex Murdoch's every movement in his vehicle, the night
0:45.2	his wife and his son were gunned down dead on the floor of the dog kennels. I mean,
0:51.4	Nancy Gray's this is CRIME STORIES. Thanks for being with us here at Fox Nation in
0:55.0	Series XM1111. What a day in the courtroom. You know, just when you think you can't hear
1:03.0	anything else. Nothing else can surprise you. Then you find out what's happening in the
1:08.9	Alex Murdoch trial. First of all, you learn that the roadside shooting evidence is coming
1:15.7	in. What we mean by that is allegations that the double murder defendant, legal air Alex
1:22.4	Murdoch, agreed with someone cousin Eddie Curtis Edward Smith to shoot him Murdoch in the
1:29.7	head for life insurance proceeds. Well, I don't think that was the motive at all. I think
1:34.3	the motive for that fake shooting was to make it appear that Maggie Paul's killer was
1:40.6	now after Alex Murdoch, so he couldn't possibly be the killer. That's what it's all about
1:46.0	in my mind, but I want you to hear just as the jury heard it today. Take a listen to
1:51.4	our cut one.
1:52.4	He stopped and he called off. He did. And we pulled off. Did you look in his face? I don't
2:20.2	know. I'm just disoriented. So your intent was to have him kill you so he could call
2:27.2	me and shoot life insurance, right? So my phone could be. I knew I was about to lose
2:33.8	everything. I think he's better off. That way, man. Even with me.
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