Alex Murdaugh and his family long dominated the legal scene in his small, rural South Carolina county where the only roads in are two lanes.
More than 75 witnesses have been called and about 800 photographs, reports and exhibits have been presented as evidence. Jurors are expected toAs the trial winds down, here are some takeaways:on the evening of June 7, 2021, and said he'd found his son and wife dead when he returned home from a one-hour visit with his mother, who has dementia.
Prosecutors took more than a year to charge the disgraced lawyer with murder but decided not to pursue the death penalty. Murdaugh, who is also charged with They called 61 witnesses and introduced more than 550 pieces of evidence over 17 days of testimony — from descriptions of the brutality of the killings to numbing details about bank records.
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