![]() ![]() Prosecutor John Meadors ended his questioning of Owen by asking if Alex Murdaugh suggested state agents search his mother's home in the hours after the killings. Griffin's questioning of Owen focused on other crime scene issues - why agents didn't search for blood in drains or sinks and why Maggie and Paul Murdaugh's clothes weren't tested for DNA. In cross-examination, Griffin pointed out state agents never asked for those clothes before the interview even though they knew Murdaugh had changed. "I'm not sure," Murdaugh said, pausing for several moments. ![]() "What point in that evening did you change clothes?" Owen asked. The tears dried up as Owen brought up evidence Murdaugh at the time didn't know existed - a Snapchat video posted by his son taken a few hours before the killing showing Murdaugh wearing different clothes than the shorts and T-shirt he had on when police arrived after he called 911. Murdaugh started crying at the beginning of the interview. It would take 11 months to get murder indictments against Alex Murdaugh, only after agents finally hacked into his son's cellphone and found a video Paul Murdaugh took at the kennels about five minutes before the shootings that several witnesses have testified has the voices of all three Murdaughs in it. “I have to go where the evidence and the facts take me, and I don’t have anything that points to anyone else at this time," Owen said. Then Murdaugh asked, sounding surprised and irritated: "Do you think that I killed Maggie?” Owen then methodically asked if Murdaugh killed his son or knew who killed either of them. “No,” Murdaugh replied, pausing for a moment. Murdaugh also changed clothes sometime in the hours before he found the bodies.Īt the end of the friendly interview, after Owen told Murdaugh to reach and call if he had any questions and Murdaugh told the agent he appreciated the help, Owen dropped the hammer. It backed up much of what the jury had heard about the case already in three weeks of testimony - Murdaugh said he wasn’t at the kennels when witnesses said they heard his voice there minutes before the killings. Prosecutors called Owen to summarize their case and get the final interview Alex Murdaugh did with investigators into evidence. ![]() Their bodies were found June 7, 2021, near the dog kennels at their Colleton County home. "That was an opportunity missed?” defense attorney Jim Griffin asked.Īlex Murdaugh, 54, faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted of killing his 52-year-old wife Maggie and their 22-year-old son Paul. Owen also testified agents did not search the sprawling property where Murdaugh's mother lived for weapons, bloody clothes or anything else for three months, even though it was the place Murdaugh was at just before finding the bodies. Owen's testimony Wednesday also opened the door to cross-examination, where Owen acknowledged he told the grand jury that indicted Murdaugh on two murder charges last summer incorrect information about blood stains on Murdaugh's T-shirt and that several shotguns in the house were loaded with two different sizes of pellets like the killing weapon, which hasn't been found. ![]()
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