Alex Murdaugh trial live: Legal scion’s five shocking words after family murders revealed

The trial of high-profile Alex Murdaugh took a dramatic turn Monday when jurors heard the law enforcement officer may have unwittingly confessed to killing his wife and son.

Audio from Mr. Murdaugh’s second interview with law enforcement was played Monday in Colleton County Court in Walterboro, South Carolina, revealing for the first time the shocking five-word statement from the heir to the disgraced legal dynasty.

“I did so badly,” he apparently said of his son.

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A coroner has admitted it is “possible” that two shooters killed Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son as lawyers seek to dig through evidence collected from the bloody crime scene.

Defense attorneys in South Carolina continued the double homicide case of attorney Alex Murdaugh on Monday as state agents gathered and analyzed evidence in the murders of Murdaugh’s wife and son.

During the first three days of testimony, prosecutors called mostly crime scene officers and technicians to present evidence to the jury that investigators would later explain in detail. They described their case as a puzzle in opening statements last week.

However, when cross-examining witnesses, defense attorneys ask questions that suggest the metaphorical pieces aren’t clear or that prosecutors aren’t leaving them all on the table.

In dramatic testimony Friday, Detective Laura Rutland of the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office contradicted her version of events as she said Mr. Murdaugh was “clean from head to toe” with no signs of blood on his body, shirt, shorts or he has no shoes.

Rachel Sharp follows the case.

The photos were entered into evidence Friday when SLED forensic analyst Melinda Worley testified for a third day in Colleton County Court in Walterboro, South Carolina.

Five shocking words from Alex Murdaugh were released Monday in the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, after his wife and son were killed.

Jurors heard evidence about Mr Murdaugh’s second interview with law enforcement on June 10, 2021 – three days after he shot dead Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, at the family estate in Islandton on 7 Indicted in June 2021.

In the interview, SLED Special Agent Jeff Croft testified that Mr. Murdaugh told him: “I did it very badly.”

When prosecutors sought to suggest the son-in-law, 54, had failed during the interview, Mr Murdaugh was seen shaking his head and appeared to say “that’s not what I said” in court.

The interviewer’s voice has also raised suspicions, with some believing he was actually saying: “They got it pretty bad.”

Agent Croft is expected to be cross-examined by Mr. Murdaugh’s lawyers when the trial begins Tuesday morning.

Newly released body camera footage shows Alex Murdaugh dressed in a “clean” white shirt after he claimed he touched the bloodied bodies of his wife and son when he found them on the family estate in South Carolina was killed.

Mr Murdaugh is pictured wearing a white t-shirt and dark shorts. The flowers are wheat but there are no obvious signs of blood on his shirt.

Rachel Sharp put together a timeline of key moments in the broader case against Alex Murdaugh.

Alex Murdaugh told a 911 dispatcher moments after he discovered the bodies of two dead family members that his son Paul had been under threat from a fatal boating accident “for months.”

Mr Murdaugh, 54, is heard telling the operator that his son Paul had been involved in a fatal accident and had been threatening him “for months and months and months”.