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March 6, 2023 | 2:18pm
Jurors were persuaded of Alex Murdaugh’s function in the murders of his better half and boy after hearing his voice in a video tape-recorded simply minutes prior to the slayings, according to a brand-new interview.
Juror Amie Williams told “The Today Show” that “the kennel video definitely played a major part” in the panel’s choice to discover Murdaugh, 54, guilty in the shooting deaths of Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22.
The Snapchat video taken by Paul on June 8, 2021, caught Murdaugh chewing out the dogs simply minutes prior to the double murder near the family’s kennels on their Moselle property. Murdaugh at first rejected it was his voice, however couldn’t conceal it any longer after he took the stand.
“When he got on the stand, I was like, ‘OK, so it was him,’” juror Gwen Generette informed NBC News. “I don’t know him so I never knew his voice, but I realized it was him in the kennel video, and that just kind of sealed the deal.”
Murdaugh copped to formerly lying and came tidy on the stand that it was his voice, however said he drove back to the primary house in a golf cart simply after the video was tape-recorded. He kept his innocence even after he was condemned, informing the judge throughout his Friday sentencing that he did not dedicate the gruesome criminal offense.
The jury amazed lots of specialists after it just pondered on a mountain of proof for 45 minutes, however the jurors said they had actually mainly comprised their after Murdaugh himself affirmed.
“If I was him, I don’t think I would have, but I think that he believes that he’s so convincing that he felt like that was his last resort,” juror James McDowell informed “The Today Show.”
Murdaugh broke down in court and on the stand, however the 3 jurors said the disbarred attorney appeared to be carrying out.
“No, I didn’t think he was crying,” Generette said. “He turned it on and off. It wasn’t genuine.”
“We already know that he’s a lawyer,” McDowell kept in mind. “He’s able to be emotional with cases, he’s able to be emotional with himself … I think we were able to read right through that.”
Murdaugh was purchased to serve to 2 successive life sentences by Judge Clifton Newman. He likewise deals with charges of a minimum of 99 different monetary criminal offenses.
Prosecutors argued he killed Maggie and Paul to sidetrack from his installing monetary criminal offenses, however jurors said they still don’t understand precisely why he did it.
“He wanted to have control of everything — his wife owned the majority of the things that they owned — so I’m thinking it was more like greed and being in control,” Generette hypothesized.
McDowell said that “it may not have been that one singular thing, but there’s so many things there that contribute to that overall storm.”
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