(24 Feb 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Walterboro, South Carolina -- 24 February 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Murdaugh, Defendant:
Prosecutor Creighton Waters:
"I did not tell them that I went to the kennel. I lied about that."
Prosecutor Creighton Waters: "And at the same time, you also looked at this jury and tried to tell them that you had been cooperative in this investigation."
Murdaugh: "Other than lying to them about going to the kennel, I was co-operative in every aspect of this investigation."
Waters: "Very cooperative, except for maybe the most important fact of all that you were at the murder scene with the victims just minutes before they died. Right?"
Murdaugh: "I did not tell them that I went to the kennel."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Murdaugh, Defendant:
"I disagree with your assertion about every detail I don't recall. I know that I was getting up and I was leaving. I was going to check on my mom. Specifically what I was doing, I don't, I don't know. I know what I wasn't doing, Mr. Waters, and what I wasn't doing is doing anything, as I believe you've implied, that I was cleaning off or washing off or washing off guns or putting guns in a raincoat. And I can promise you that I wasn't doing any of that."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Murdaugh, Defendant:
Prosecutor Creighton Waters: "Do you know why so many phone calls were missing from the log around this relevant time period when law enforcement downloaded your phone on June 10th?"
Murdaugh: "From my phone?"
Waters: "Yeah."
Murdaugh: "No, I don't."
Waters: "Did you delete them, Mr. Murdaugh?"
Murdaugh: "Not intentionally."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Murdaugh, Defendant:
Prosecutor Creighton Waters: "Well, the real reason, Mr. Murdoch, is that you as a lawyer and prosecutor are up at 9:02, finally having your phone in your hand, moving around and making all these phone calls to manufacture an alibi. Is that not true?"
Murdaugh: "That's absolutely incorrect."
Waters: "So that's just another circumstance of coincidence in this particular case, right around the time that you lied to law enforcement about maybe one of the most important facts in the case."
Murdaugh: "It is absolute fact that I am not manufacturing an alibi, as you say."
Waters: "How do you remember so much detail about everything else but you don't remember what you were specifically doing to generate 283 steps while you're making all these phone calls in the same four minute period?"
Murdaugh: "I remember unequivocally, without any doubt, with as clear a mind is I could have at any time that I never manufactured any alibi in any way, shape or form, because I did not and would not hurt my wife and my child. So so I know for a fact that I never, ever, ever created an alibi."
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STORYLINE:
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh testified Friday at his double murder trial that he cooperated with police investigating the deaths of his wife and son in every way except mentioning the last time he saw them alive.
Murdaugh returned to the stand in his own defense for a second day, and prosecutor Creighton Waters had the defendant walk through what he repeatedly called Murdaugh's “new story” about what happened at the kennels where the bodies would later be found the night of the killings.
For 20 months since the June 2021 killings, Murdaugh insisted that he was never at the kennels.
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