Closing Arguments: Murdaugh had Means, Motive, and Opportunity to Kill

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Closing arguments began today in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial after the jury visited the murder scene at the family hunting lodge. A caravan of vehicles carrying the jury, both legal teams and protection personnel traveled more than thirty minutes west of the Colleton County Courthouse.Judge Clifton Newman followed in a pick-up truck driven by law-enforcement.

The jurors spent just over an hour walking the overgrown path between the kennel area and the shed.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Darryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney (Fulton County, Georgia) Former Assistant State Attorney (Florida), Defense Attorney, Cohen, Cooper, Estep, & Allen, LLC, CCEAlaw.com, Facebook: "Darryl B Cohen", Twitter: @DarrylBCohen
Robert Crispin - Private Investigator, Former Federal Task Force Officer for United States Department of Justice, DEA and Miami Field Division, Former Homicide and Crimes Against Children Investigator, “Crispin Special Investigations” CrispinInvestigations.com, Facebook: Crispin Special Investigations, Inc.
Sheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert, Founder: Cold Case Investigative Research Institute in Atlanta, GA, ColdCaseCrimes.org, @ColdCaseTips Host of new podcast: Zone 7-
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, DMichelleDupreMD.com
Kelly Skehen - Fox Nation Senior Producer

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1:13.2	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
1:15.1	Hello everybody. We have just come out of the courtroom and what a closing argument it has been so far
1:27.1	by the state's first counsel prosecutor waters. But before we could start closing arguments and I
1:34.2	tell you you could hear a pen drop in that courtroom and I very carefully was watching each
1:40.3	year that I could see. But before we could even get there the jury went to Mozel, the hunting
1:47.2	lodge, the scene of the murders before closing arguments bright and early this morning. Take a
1:53.5	listen to Judge Newman in our cut four. We're going to have the an escort take you all to
2:04.0	the subject property Mozel to have a view, a jury view of the location. You're not allowed to
2:14.4	discuss the case with anyone and you're not allowed while there to ask any questions
2:23.7	of anyone who may be there. If you have any questions you can only ask me. Now it has been
2:33.3	year and a half or more since June 7th of 2021 and things have changed or most likely have changed.
2:43.6	So you have to take that in mind and certainly consider that but still it's the same location and
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