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... TO RESTRICT THE USE OF RECORDS FROM DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY SERVICES. THE JURY IS SEATED. AND THE TRIAL BEGUN. (ALEC) ALEX MURDAUGH ... HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY ... TO MURDERING HIS WIFE MAGGIE ... AND SON PAUL. OUR BRROKE BUTLER WAS IN COLLETON TODAY. AS BOTH PROSECUTORS AND DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ... GAVE THEIR OPENING STATEMENTS./// (BROOKE LIVE) DURING OPENING STATEMENTS OF HIS MURDER TRIAL - ALEX MURDAUGH GOT EMOTIONAL. IT HAPPENED WHILE MURDAUGHS DEFENSE ATTORNEY - DICK HARPOOTLIAN - EXPLAINED IN GRUESOME DETAIL - THE INJURIES MAGGIE AND PAUL SUSTAINED...AND HOW IT LEFT ALEX TRAUMATIZED. HARPOOTLIAN'S GOAL WAS LIKELY TO CAST DOUBT ON WHY MURDAUGH WOULD WANT TO DO THIS TO HIS WIFE AND SON. (SOT - DICK HARPOOTLIAN) "ALEX STAND UP. THIS IS ALEX MURDAUGH AND ALEX WAS THE LOVING FATHER OF PAUL AND THE LOVING HUSBAND OF MAGGIE. (ALEX LOOKING SAD) YOURE NOT GOING TO HEAR SINGLE WITNESS SAY THEIR RELATIONSHIP ALEX AND MAGGIES RELATIONSHIP WAS ANYTHING BUT LOVING HOW THEY WENT TO A BASEBALL GAME THE WEEK BEFORE HOW THEY SENT TEXTS AND EMAILS INDICATING A LOVING RELATIONSHIP." (VO) THE PROSECUTOR - CREIGHTON WATERS...PAINTED A MUCH DIFFERENT PICTURE OF MURDAUGH. HE TOLD THE JURY - A KEY PIECE OF EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE...HAS TO DO WITH MAGGIE, PAUL, AND ALEX'S CELLPHONES. HE SAYS - DESPITE MURDAUGH INSISTING TO EVERYONE THAT HE WAS NOT AT THE MOSELLE PROPERTY WHEN MAGGIE AND PAUL WERE KILLED - HIS PHONE SHOWS OTHERWEISE. AND HE SAYS...A VIDEO TAKEN ON PAULS PHONE - MINUTES BEFORE THE MURDERS ALSO SUGGESTS ALEX MURDAUGH WAS THERE. (CREIGHTON WATERS SOT) "AT 8:44 AND 55 SECONDS, PAUL RECORDED A VIDEO. HE WAS DOWN AT THE KENNELS BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN TALKING TO A FRIEND OF HIS AND YOURE GOING TO HEAR FROM THIS FRIEND BECAUSE HIS FRIENDS DOG WAS IN THE KNNELS AND THEY TOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH HIS TAIL. PAIL WAS RECORDING A VIDEO OF IT TO SEND TO HIS FRIEND. 8;44 AND 55 SECONDS. AND ON THE RECORDING YOU HEAR PAULS VOICE MAGGIES VOICE AND ALEXS VOICE." (VO CONT) AND WE SHOULD NOTE... MURDAUGHS FAMILY DID SHOW UP ON THIS FIRST OFFICIAL DAY OF HIS TRIAL. HIS SON BUSTER, BROTHERS JOHN MARVIN AND RANDY - AND HIS SISTER - ALL SITTING BEHIND HIM IN THE COURTROOM. GREG. (LOOKLIVETAG) WHEN IT COMES TO THE JURY FOR THIS TRIAL
Live Video: After opening statements, witnesses instrumentality the basal successful Alex Murdaugh execution trial
Alex Murdaugh is connected proceedings for the treble execution of his woman and son, who were killed successful June 2021.
Court is successful recess until 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Come backmost to ticker unrecorded sum aboveThe assemblage is seated and the highly anticipated execution proceedings of disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh is underway.Murdaugh has pleaded not blameworthy to murdering his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, astatine the family’s hunting lodge successful June 2021.Murdaugh Murders TimelineMurdaugh Murder Mystery Interactive Map: Dates and locations surrounding 5 Lowcountry deathsWatch Wednesday's opening statements successful afloat below:On Wednesday, some prosecutors and defence attorneys delivered their opening statements astatine the Colleton County Courthouse. Each broadside took astir 30 minutes to springiness their arguments.Murdaugh was seen tearing up arsenic his defence attorney, Dick Harpootlian, explained to the assemblage successful gruesome item the injuries Maggie and Paul sustained, and however it near Alex traumatized.“Alex, basal up,” Harpootlian instructed his client. “This is Alex Murdaugh. And Alex was the loving begetter of Paul and the loving hubby of Maggie. …You’re not going to perceive a azygous witnesser accidental their narration and Alex and Maggie’s narration was thing but loving, however they went to a shot crippled the week before, however they sent texts and emails indicating a loving relationship.”The prosecutor, Creighton Waters, painted a overmuch antithetic representation of Murdaugh.He told the assemblage that a cardinal portion of grounds successful the lawsuit has to bash with the compartment phones belonging to Alex and the victims.He said, contempt Murdaugh insisting that helium was not determination erstwhile his woman and lad were killed, compartment telephone grounds volition beryllium otherwise. He added that a video taken connected Paul’s phone, minutes earlier the murders, volition beryllium Alex was with his woman and son."At 8:44 p.m. and 55 seconds, Paul recorded a video. He was down astatine the kennels due to the fact that helium had been talking to a person of his, and you're going to perceive from this friend, due to the fact that his friends canine was successful the kennels and they thought determination was thing incorrect with his tail. Paul was signaling a video of it to nonstop to his friend...you'll perceive from witnesses that place Paul's voice, Maggie's dependable and Alex's voice," Waters said.Below record video: Alex Murdaugh calls 911 aft discovering bodies of wife, sonSeveral members of the Murdaugh household were seen wrong the courtroom connected this archetypal authoritative time of the trial.Alex Murdaugh’s surviving son, Buster, his brothers John Marvin and Randy, and his sister were seen sitting down him successful the courtroom.As for the jury, selected conscionable hours earlier the opening statements, it is comprised of 8 women and 4 men. The six alternates see 4 men and 2 women.Witness grounds is expected to statesman Thursday. There are 255 listed witnesses.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. 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
Court is successful recess until 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Come backmost to ticker unrecorded sum above
The assemblage is seated and the highly anticipated execution proceedings of disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh is underway.
Murdaugh has pleaded not blameworthy to murdering his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, astatine the family’s hunting lodge successful June 2021.
- Murdaugh Murders Timeline
- Murdaugh Murder Mystery Interactive Map: Dates and locations surrounding 5 Lowcountry deaths
Watch Wednesday's opening statements successful afloat below:
On Wednesday, some prosecutors and defence attorneys delivered their opening statements astatine the Colleton County Courthouse. Each broadside took astir 30 minutes to springiness their arguments.
Murdaugh was seen tearing up arsenic his defence attorney, Dick Harpootlian, explained to the assemblage successful gruesome item the injuries Maggie and Paul sustained, and however it near Alex traumatized.
“Alex, basal up,” Harpootlian instructed his client. “This is Alex Murdaugh. And Alex was the loving begetter of Paul and the loving hubby of Maggie. …You’re not going to perceive a azygous witnesser accidental their narration and Alex and Maggie’s narration was thing but loving, however they went to a shot crippled the week before, however they sent texts and emails indicating a loving relationship.”
The prosecutor, Creighton Waters, painted a overmuch antithetic representation of Murdaugh.
He told the assemblage that a cardinal portion of grounds successful the lawsuit has to bash with the compartment phones belonging to Alex and the victims.
He said, contempt Murdaugh insisting that helium was not determination erstwhile his woman and lad were killed, compartment telephone grounds volition beryllium otherwise.
He added that a video taken connected Paul’s phone, minutes earlier the murders, volition beryllium Alex was with his woman and son.
"At 8:44 p.m. and 55 seconds, Paul recorded a video. He was down astatine the kennels due to the fact that helium had been talking to a person of his, and you're going to perceive from this friend, due to the fact that his friends canine was successful the kennels and they thought determination was thing incorrect with his tail. Paul was signaling a video of it to nonstop to his friend...you'll perceive from witnesses that place Paul's voice, Maggie's dependable and Alex's voice," Waters said.
Below record video: Alex Murdaugh calls 911 aft discovering bodies of wife, son
Several members of the Murdaugh household were seen wrong the courtroom connected this archetypal authoritative time of the trial.
Alex Murdaugh’s surviving son, Buster, his brothers John Marvin and Randy, and his sister were seen sitting down him successful the courtroom.
As for the jury, selected conscionable hours earlier the opening statements, it is comprised of 8 women and 4 men. The six alternates see 4 men and 2 women.
Witness grounds is expected to statesman Thursday. There are 255 listed witnesses.
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.
RELATED
- South Carolina attorney: It's precise imaginable Alex Murdaugh could get a hung assemblage astatine murder trial
- Murdaugh household held South Carolina's 14th circuit solicitor presumption for astir a century
- Murdaugh housekeeper's wrongful decease colony led to the find of much fiscal crimes
Below video: WJCL Special Report: The Trial of Alex Murdaugh
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