Alex Murdaugh: Live updates from double murder trial - WJCL News Savannah

Above: Live video from the courtroom Murdaugh Murders TimelineMurdaugh Murder Mystery Interactive Map: Dates and locations surrounding 5 Lowcountry deathsUpdate 3:30 p.m.: The justice addresses the assemblage astir their relation successful the case.Update 1:22 p.m.: The assemblage is released for luncheon and tribunal volition resume with opening statements astatine 3 p.m.Update 1:15 p.m.: Six alternates person been chosen.Update 1:05 p.m.: 12 jurors person been selected. Alternates are being picked now.Initial report: It was June 7, 2021 erstwhile 2 members of the salient Murdaugh household successful South Carolina were recovered changeable to decease connected their property.Since that time, the probe into the deaths of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh and the apprehension of the antheral who called 911 that night, disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh, has led to planetary headlines. Below record video: Alex Murdaugh calls 911 aft discovering bodies of wife, sonRecap from Day 2 of Jury Selection: The execution proceedings of Alex Murdaugh concluded its 2nd time Tuesday with the archetypal assemblage excavation of astir 600 radical narrowed to 120.Those 120 volition instrumentality Wednesday astatine 11 a.m. arsenic prosecutors and defence attorneys record it down to 12.South Carolina lawyer Joe McCulloch expects the last assemblage to beryllium selected by 1 p.m. Below video shows Alex Murdaugh arriving to tribunal TuesdayThe lawsuit has been unfolding fast. And McCulloch says, due to the fact that of the quality of this case, helium expects Judge Cliffton Newman to support things moving quickly."We've seen respective jurors excused due to the fact that of their anxiety," McCulloch said. "I deliberation 1 idiosyncratic said PTSD. And you cognize that's a precise existent thing. Going done a proceedings of this calamity with photographs which volition nary doubt, inevitably beryllium offered, it's harrowing."McCulloch says prosecutors volition beryllium aiming for jurors who consciousness aggravated oregon sympathy implicit the murders.He says the defence volition beryllium looking for jurors who are thoughtful, attentive and capable to compartmentalize their emotions. RELATED South Carolina attorney: It's precise imaginable Alex Murdaugh could get a hung assemblage astatine execution trialMurdaugh household held South Carolina's 14th circuit solicitor presumption for astir a centuryMurdaugh housekeeper's wrongful decease colony led to the find of much fiscal crimesBelow video: WJCL Special Report: The Trial of Alex Murdaugh