Murdaugh sniveled and shook as he admitted to lying to police about where he was the night of the murders, but denied killing his wife and son
Shortly after his colleagues confronted him, he testified,
he’d hired Eddie Smith to kill him in a botched suicide attempt. Murdaugh and Smith are charged in an insurance fraud scheme in a hitman-for-hire incident during which Murdaugh called 911 on Sept. 4 saying he’d been the victim of a hit-and-run attack while he was changing a tire on the side of the road. He claimed the bullet grazed his head. On the stand, Murdaugh claimed he’d hired Smith to kill him because he was suicidal. “I meant for him to shoot me so I’d be gone,” he said.
Several times throughout his testimony to Griffin, Murdaugh sniffled and sobbed when describing finding Maggie and Paul’s bodies. Griffin asked if Murdaugh had touched the bodies, then asked him to specify where on their bodies he’d touched them. Murdaugh said he grabbed Paul by his belt loop and tried to turn him over. When asked where he touched Maggie, his face crumpled. “I think I touched her down around like the — I don’t know,” he whimpered. “I think around her waist but i don’t know.
At other times during the questioning, Murdaugh referred to his son Paul as “PawPaw” and Maggie as “Mags.” Other recurring mentions included “RoRo” , Grandma, and Papa T, who jurors learned are Maggie’s parents. Murdaugh also identified the dogs Bubba and Grady, two labradors who were running around their kennels the evening of June 7, 2021.
At the time of his death, Paul was facing felony charges amid accusations that he had killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach after drunkenly crashing a boat into a bridge. Murdaugh has long suggested the killings were linked to the boating accident. In his testimony Thursday, Murdaugh said for the first time on the court record that Paul had received several threats before his death. “Paul got the most vile threats,” he said.
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