Watch unrecorded video from the courtroom aboveMurdaugh Murders TimelineVideo: Hear afloat grounds from the archetypal lawman to respond to the Murdaugh execution sceneVideo: Hear afloat grounds from the archetypal lawman to respond to the Murdaugh execution sceneUpdate 9:40 a.m.: Detective Laura Rutland of the Colleton County Sheriff's Office has taken the stand.Initial report:For the archetypal clip Thursday, witnesses took the basal successful the Alex Murdaugh execution trial.Below video: Recap of Thursday's testimonyEach witnesser gave jurors a amended representation of what archetypal responders saw and heard the nighttime Alex Murdaugh’s woman Maggie and lad Paul were killed astatine their Colleton County property.Murdaugh has pleaded not blameworthy to murder.Jurors heard from a full of six witnesses Thursday. They watched graphic assemblage cam footage, heard unredacted 911 calls and heard first-person perspectives from the transgression scene. Body camera video from the archetypal instrumentality enforcement serviceman connected country proves that 1 of the archetypal things Murdaugh told archetypal responders was that helium was definite Maggie and Paul's deaths had to bash with the vessel clang that killed Mallory Beach."This is simply a agelong story. My lad was successful a vessel wreck a fewer months back, he's been getting threats," Murdaugh said successful the assemblage camera video.At 1 point, the authoritative pointed retired to the assemblage a circumstantial infinitesimal captured by the assemblage camera video wherever Alex seems to power code portion giving idiosyncratic accusation to a sergeant astir his woman and son.Murdaugh, who was successful hysterics, abruptly pauses successful the video to code different archetypal responder. He casually asks, “How ya doin'?” Below: Members of the Murdaugh household get to tribunal Thursday In the assemblage camera video, Murdaugh is besides heard explaining to instrumentality enforcement wherever helium was erstwhile Maggie and Paul were killed."I left. I was astir apt gone an hr and a fractional for my mom's and I astir apt saw them 45 minutes earlier that," Murdaugh said. During transverse examination, defence attorneys questioned the integrity of the transgression scene.Several times, some attorneys and witnesses mentioned caller tyre tracks that were spotted astatine the scene. Murdaugh’s lawyer Dick Harpootlian asked instrumentality enforcement wherefore those marks were not preserved. Harpootlian asked a witness, "So if idiosyncratic had travel successful and left, who committed the murders, immoderate tyre tracks near were obliterated by your men. Is that right?"The witnesser responded, "It's possible."Harpootlian besides questioned witnesses astir imaginable contamination of evidence. "If determination were bloody footprints successful the provender room, could they person been created by you and your men?," Harpootlian asked a witness, who is simply a sergeant with the Colleton County Sheriff's Office."They could’ve been created by anyone walking successful that area, sure," the witnesser responded.Harpootlian besides asked wherefore instrumentality enforcement officers weren't wearing much protective cogwheel portion connected sceneCourt volition resume Friday morning. Below video: WJCL Special Report: The Trial of Alex Murdaugh
Watch unrecorded video from the courtroom above
- Murdaugh Murders Timeline
- Video: Hear afloat grounds from the archetypal lawman to respond to the Murdaugh execution scene
- Video: Hear afloat grounds from the archetypal lawman to respond to the Murdaugh execution scene
Update 9:40 a.m.: Detective Laura Rutland of the Colleton County Sheriff's Office has taken the stand.
Initial report:
For the archetypal clip Thursday, witnesses took the basal successful the Alex Murdaugh execution trial.
Below video: Recap of Thursday's testimony
Each witnesser gave jurors a amended representation of what archetypal responders saw and heard the nighttime Alex Murdaugh’s woman Maggie and lad Paul were killed astatine their Colleton County property.
Murdaugh has pleaded not blameworthy to murder.
Jurors heard from a full of six witnesses Thursday. They watched graphic assemblage cam footage, heard unredacted 911 calls and heard first-person perspectives from the transgression scene.
Body camera video from the archetypal instrumentality enforcement serviceman connected country proves that 1 of the archetypal things Murdaugh told archetypal responders was that helium was definite Maggie and Paul's deaths had to bash with the vessel clang that killed Mallory Beach.
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MURDAUGH MURDER TRIAL: In assemblage camera video that was played for the assemblage today, we could perceive the infinitesimal Alex Murdaugh mentioned the vessel wreck his lad Paul was progressive successful to a sergeant.
It was 1 of the archetypal things Murdaugh said to the sergeant (who was the archetypal connected scene) pic.twitter.com/19J4dk5dOo
"This is simply a agelong story. My lad was successful a vessel wreck a fewer months back, he's been getting threats," Murdaugh said successful the assemblage camera video.
At 1 point, the authoritative pointed retired to the assemblage a circumstantial infinitesimal captured by the assemblage camera video wherever Alex seems to power code portion giving idiosyncratic accusation to a sergeant astir his woman and son.
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Here's a infinitesimal that kept getting brought up successful tribunal this morning.
BODY CAM FOOTAGE: While giving Sgt. Greene a statement of his deceased woman & lad (names, birthdays), Alex Murdaugh pauses and says to a passing archetypal responder successful a casual tone, "How ya doin?"#MurdaughTrial pic.twitter.com/Tasvy3x8tD
Murdaugh, who was successful hysterics, abruptly pauses successful the video to code different archetypal responder. He casually asks, “How ya doin'?”
Below: Members of the Murdaugh household get to tribunal Thursday
In the assemblage camera video, Murdaugh is besides heard explaining to instrumentality enforcement wherever helium was erstwhile Maggie and Paul were killed.
"I left. I was astir apt gone an hr and a fractional for my mom's and I astir apt saw them 45 minutes earlier that," Murdaugh said.
During transverse examination, defence attorneys questioned the integrity of the transgression scene.
Several times, some attorneys and witnesses mentioned caller tyre tracks that were spotted astatine the scene. Murdaugh’s lawyer Dick Harpootlian asked instrumentality enforcement wherefore those marks were not preserved.
Harpootlian asked a witness, "So if idiosyncratic had travel successful and left, [someone] who committed the murders, immoderate tyre tracks near were obliterated by your men. Is that right?"
The witnesser responded, "It's possible."
Harpootlian besides questioned witnesses astir imaginable contamination of evidence.
"If determination were bloody footprints successful the provender room, could they person been created by you and your men?," Harpootlian asked a witness, who is simply a sergeant with the Colleton County Sheriff's Office.
"They could’ve been created by anyone walking successful that area, sure," the witnesser responded.
Harpootlian besides asked wherefore instrumentality enforcement officers weren't wearing much protective cogwheel portion connected scene
Court volition resume Friday morning.
Below video: WJCL Special Report: The Trial of Alex Murdaugh