Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial didn’t reveal much about his cousin Eddie, the alleged shooter in Murdaugh’s botched assisted suicide, and his possible accomplice in the narcotics schemes that both men have been charged with.
The trial of the South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh for the murder of his wife, Maggie, and his son Paul was expected to last three weeks, but instead went on for six. It was a fittingly epic finale to the protracted downfall of Murdaugh, the scion of a prominent legal dynasty, whose saga involved embezzlement, drug trafficking, money laundering, a faked murder attempt, a failed assisted suicide, and the deaths of three other individuals.
For all the circus surrounding the trial, the fact is that two people were brutally murdered and a third was facing the possibility of life behind bars. The case against Murdaugh was based entirely on circumstantial evidence, much of it gleaned from the treacherous surveillance technology of cars and phones.
It was almost certainly this video that prompted Murdaugh to make the decision to take the stand in his own defense. As a lawyer, he would have known the risks this entailed, but there was no other way to address his inconvenient lie. He did so by blaming it on paranoid thoughts caused by his opioid addiction, which he said had exacerbated an already deep distrust of.
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