Murdaugh Murders: DID MURDAUGH DISCARD BLOODY SHOES?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jurors in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial finally heard from the CFO of the law firm where Murdaugh was a partner.

Jeanne Seckinger told the jury that she had a tense meeting with the lawyer over settlement money that the law firm had collected, which was missing. That total amount was more than $2.8 million. In less than 12 hours, Murdaugh's wife and son were fatally shot.

Also on the stand today, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) Forensic scientist Megan Fletcher discussed the gunshot residue she found on Alex Murdaugh’s blue, tarp-like raincoat.

The raincoat was found on the third of his mother's home about a week after the murders. Residue was found on the outside and inside of the jacket.

Testimony was also given on tests run on Murdaugh's shoes.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Mark Tate - Trial Attorney- The Tate Law Group
Leonard Romero -Forensic Firearms Examiner/ballistics Expert
Christina Marinakis - Psych. D., J.D. Jury Consulting & Strategy Advisor,
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	The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:11.5	You know the other day when second juror was on the stand this is the lady that worked
0:15.7	with Alex Murdoch that found out he was stealing really millions of dollars from clients
0:21.9	in the law firm.
0:22.9	Remember the jury wasn't there.
0:25.2	They didn't hear any of that that we heard.
0:27.3	We actually know more than the jury knows.
0:29.5	Well, the judge had a bombshell ruling in court and that was that this financial motive,
0:36.3	financial misdeeds could be heard by the jury.
0:40.5	And remember typically a jury never gets to hear all that.
0:43.4	Why?
0:44.4	Because it could be considered to be bad reputation or other bad acts, not the murders.
0:51.8	That's what he's on trial for the murders.
0:54.4	And that is unconstitutional.
0:56.6	But in this case and in other similar cases this type of evidence is allowed.
1:02.0	Why?
1:03.2	Because it shows motive, frame of mind, scheme, course of conduct and it was contemporaneous.
1:12.8	In other words, it was rest just a all happening at the same time.
1:19.4	Not some bad thing he did 10 years ago, but happening right then that was motive for
1:25.2	the murders of Maggie and Paul, his wife and son.
1:30.2	Man, it better be some good motive to murder your wife and child and the way he allegedly
1:36.8	did it.
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