Lead prosecutor: Alex Murdaugh believed he could convince the jury of his lies
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
4.1 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, and his son Paul Murdaugh. The once-prominent South Carolina attorney reiterated his innocence and told the judge he “would never hurt” his wife and son. The lead prosecutor Creighton Waters tells Anderson Cooper that he thinks Murdaugh believed he could convince the jury of his lies.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and take a look. |
| 0:02.8 | This is the phase ten out of Alec Murdoch, convicted killer, his head shaven at a South |
| 0:07.6 | Carolina prison system intake facility on his way within the next several weeks to serving |
| 0:12.5 | two consecutive life sentences, life without parole, for murdering his wife Maggie and son |
| 0:17.9 | Paul. |
| 0:19.2 | This is also the phase of a man whose family name was once synonymous with the law and the |
| 0:22.9 | county in South Carolina that he lived in, the Sion of multiple generations of Murdoch's |
| 0:27.7 | and the legal professional and profession and criminal justice system there. |
| 0:32.3 | At today's hearing in the courthouse where his grandfather's portrait once hung Murdoch |
| 0:36.0 | with sentence, he spoke briefly but Judge Clifton Newman had the last word. |
| 0:41.3 | I would never under any circumstances hurt my wife Maggie and I would never under any |
| 0:47.9 | circumstances hurt my son Paul Paul. |
| 0:51.5 | It might not have been you. |
| 0:59.3 | The monster you become when you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 opioid pills, maybe you become |
| 1:09.6 | another person. |
| 1:12.8 | Tonight a prime time exclusive interview with Crane Waters lead prosecutor in the case |
| 1:17.0 | who made a plane in his remarks today in court exactly who Alec Murdoch was to him. |
| 1:24.1 | No one who thought they were close to this man knew who he really was and you're on her |
| 1:27.8 | that's chilling. |
| 1:30.1 | And I've looked in his eyes and he liked to stare me down as he would walk by me during |
| 1:35.7 | this trial and I could see the real Alec's Murdoch when he looked at me. |
| 1:43.8 | Mr. Waters, thanks for joining us. |
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