South Carolina AG details what worked
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson spoke Friday before sentencing about moments in the high-profile trial that sealed Murdaugh’s fate.
“That dog pound video that no one knew existed until months after the murders happened, it was basically Paul speaking from beyond the grave. That, yes, Alex Murdaugh was there moments before Maggie and Paul were brutally murdered. That was a big part of the state’s case,” he said on NBC’s “TODAY” show.
In the case, the state presented Snapchat video evidence taken from Paul’s cell phone that located Murdaugh at the property’s kennel at 8:44 p.m. the night of the murders, countering his denial to investigators that he had last seen his family at dinner time.
The attorney general said Murdaugh himself was the «most important piece of evidence.»
«When he took the stand, I think it was ultimately fatal for him,» Wilson said.
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