UPDATE: In a tense moment on the witness stand Friday, Alex Murdaugh fingered prosecutors as the reason why he left out a potentially damning detail about his alibi until now.
After claiming for nearly two years that he’d been asleep in the main house of the family’s hunting estate when 52-year-old Maggie and 22-year-old Paul were shot near the estate’s dog kennels, Murdaughat the kennels that night but lied about it to police and prosecutors out of drug-induced paranoia., filmed by Paul at the kennels just minutes before the murders, in which Murdaugh’s voice could be heard in the background.
Waters scoffed at the response, insinuating Murdaugh was continually coming up with new lies to counter any damning fact dredged up against him. Murdaugh made other stunning admissions during his cross-examination on Friday, including conceding that “Every single client—I looked them in the eye, and I believe the people I stole money from all those years trusted me,” Murdaugh said, describing some of them as people “I love and still consider close friends.”
Murdaugh also revealed Friday just how troubling his opiate addiction was in the years before his wife and son were killed. He said he’d regularly pop more than 60 pills a day—including oxycodone and oxycontin—just to be able to function normally. But despite admitting he had a two-decade addiction to opioids and had lied to authorities, Murdaugh insisted that he did not kill his family.
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