A male who looked after the dogs at Alex Murdaugh’s property has actually affirmed about unusual information in criminal offense scene pictures at the disgraced legal scion’s murder trial.
Roger Dale Davis, who managed Mr Murdaughs’ dog kennels in the stretching property of Moselle in Islandton, South Carolina, was called by the state to affirm on Tuesday at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro.
Mr Davis detailed where he kept each dog in the kennel, how and where water would pool when he rinsed the kennels, and how he ensured the water didn’t swimming pool near the feed room due to the fact that it was decaying the wood. Mr Davis was likewise in charge of feeding the family’s dogs, which he would do two times a day in the early morning and the night.
He said he invested a long time in Moselle on 7 June 2021, hours prior to Mr Murdaugh made the 911 declaring to have actually discovered the bodies of his better half Maggie and boy Paul, prior to leaving around 4.30pm. The dog caretaker said he keeps in mind particularly rolling the tube up, regarding avoid water pooling on the ground.
When revealed an image of the criminal offense scene at the kennels, Mr Davis said he thought someone had actually utilized the tube, due to the fact that it was not put the method he left it.
“Somebody used that hose after I did because it’s twisted,” Mr Davis informed the court.
Prosecutors have actually hinted that the absence of products linking Mr Murdaugh to the killings — such as weapons that haven’t been discovered and blood discovered just near the bodies and not on his clothing — show he tidied up the criminal offense scene prior to heading to visit his mom.
Mr Davis informed the court that it was unusual for water to pool around the kennels throughout the summertime. And that even when it occurred, it was right under the tube and not by the feed room or by the 2 kennels — as the criminal offense scene photos revealed.
“There is too much water right there around the second and third pen,” Mr Davis informed district attorneys.
When the state revealed a Snapchat video taped by Paul on the night of the murder, Mr Davis said he acknowledged Paul, Maggie and Alex’s voices in it.
But throughout interrogation, the defence stopped briefly the Snapchat video, revealing a frame in which the tube can be seen already reversed on the ground.
When revealed an image of the criminal offense scene at the kennels, Roger Davis said he thought someone had actually utilized the tube, due to the fact that it was not put the method he left it
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Mr Murdaugh’s lawyers then argued that the water seen in the criminal offense scene pictures pooled there around the time the video was taken quickly prior to 9pm — while Maggie and Paul were still alive and for this reason not as an outcome of Mr Murdaugh cleansing himself.
The defence likewise argued that the water wouldn’t have actually dried up, as the sun had actually already set.
Elsewhere in his testament, Mr Davis said that on the night of the murders, the dogs were not remaining in the particular order that Maggie would have chosen.
He likewise said that the Murdaughs would typically leave weapons at the kennels, sheds and vehicles on the hunting lodge. On the day of the murders, nevertheless, Mr Davis said he saw no guns in the kennels.
During interrogation by the defence, Mr Davis stated an event in which among the Murdaughs’ dogs was fatally hurt.
To spare the dog an agonizing and sluggish death, it was chosen that someone would shoot it and put it out of its anguish. Mr Davis said he was asked to take control of the awful job after Mr Murduagh might not bring himself to shoot the dog.
The bodies were discovered near the dog kennels at the Murdaughs’ hunting state
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Mr Davis said that although Mr Murdaugh was really specific about the method the kennels were managed, it was typically tough to reach the now-disbarred legal representative due to the fact that he was hectic with work.
Mr Davis likewise affirmed that Mr Murdaugh had actually never ever been violent in his existence which he never ever saw him arguing with Maggie and Paul. Instead, Mr Davis said, Mr Murdaugh and his better half were “lovey-dovey,” while Mr Murdaugh and his boy “drank beer together.”
“I’ve never seen that man even raise his voice at his wife,” Mr Davis informed the court.
In the 4 weeks of trial up until now, the prosecution has actually argued in court that Mr Murdaugh killed his better half and boy to sidetrack from his installing monetary and legal scandals.
Mr Murdaugh has actually rejected the accusations and pleaded innocent last June.
The double murder trial is far from Mr Murdaugh’s only legal issue. Besides the case, Mr Murdaugh is dealing with a minimum of 100 other criminal charges over a string of monetary scams accusations.
