During the first day of testimony, jurors watched Colleton County Sgt. Daniel Greene's body camera footage from the crime scene at Murdaugh's South Carolina hunting lodge.
called 911 to report his wife and son were seriously hurt noted at the attorney's double murder trial Thursday that the suspect was upset but that he had no tears in his eyes.
Murdaugh's lawyer questioned Greene at length on what he did at the crime scene, suggesting that officers disturbed potential evidence by walking around in the dark without flashlights, failing to look for shoe prints or tire tracks, and standing near the bodies after it had been established that they had died.on two counts of murder. Investigators said his 22-year-old son Paul was shot twice with a shotgun near kennels outside the family's Colleton County hunting lodge.
Murdaugh also faces about 100 charges related to other crimes, including money laundering, stealing millions from clients and the family law firm, tax evasion and trying to get a man to fatally shoot him so his surviving son could collect a $10 million life insurance policy. He was being held in jail without bail on those counts before he was charged with murder.
Scrutiny into the Murdaughs had started more than two years before the killings. Paul Murdaugh was charged with felony boating under the influence after investigators said he was driving a boat that crashed and killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach, who was on board.
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