Prosecutor grills Alex Murdaugh over lies, drug use and details during double murder trial

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🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Alex Murdaugh completed his testimony in his double murder trial over the 2021 killings of his wife and son. Prosecutor Creighton Waters questioned the once-prominent South Carolina attorney over his lies, drug use and the details surrounding Maggie and Paul Murdaugh’s deaths. Former FBI Special Agent Mary Ellen O’Toole has spent her career studying the criminal mind and was one of the FBI’s most senior profilers until she retired. She joins AC360 to discuss Murdaugh’s testimony and if she thinks the jury will believe him.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	We begin tonight with the Alec Murdoch double murder trial and his attempt today to
0:04.9	convince a jury that being a serial liar, being at the scene of his wife and son slaughter
0:09.2	just before they were slaughtered, does not make him a killer.
0:12.2	That's what it boils down to.
0:13.9	Having admitted yesterday on the witness stand to telling the string of lies, most significantly
0:17.5	about being at the scene of the crime near the time it happened, he spent another day
0:22.0	today under tough questioning.
0:24.0	Alec, did you murder Maggie?
0:29.2	I would never hurt Maggie.
0:31.8	Did you murder Paul?
0:34.2	I would never hurt Paul.
0:37.2	Court adjourned late today, capping a stunning week by any measure.
0:40.0	CNN's Randy Cage joins us now with the latest.
0:41.7	So what was it like in court today?
0:44.5	Well, Anderson, this was the first time we got to see the prosecutor question Alec Murdoch
0:49.7	about the night of the murders and he pressed him on the details.
0:52.4	He asked him what time he got to those kennels where the murders took place, how long he was
0:56.2	there, what did he talk about with his wife and son.
0:58.7	And he asked him these questions repeatedly, presumably, to try and trip him up.
1:02.8	But he kept coming back to the same theme.
1:05.5	Don't believe what Alec Murdoch is telling you.
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