A juror in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial has broken his silence to reveal what it was that sealed the fate of the disgraced legal dynasty heir.
Craig Moyer spoke out for the first time on Thursday just hours after the jury convicted Murdaugh of the savage double murder of his wife Maggie and son Paul in Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina.
Mr Moyer told ABC News that Murdaugh’s lack of remorse, crocodile tears and the damning cellphone video captured by Paul minutes before his murder convinced the panel of his guilt.
“I didn’t see any true remorse or any compassion or anything,” he said, adding that the disgraced attorney came across like “a big liar”.
Mr Moyer said that he “was certain it was [Murdaugh’s] voice” from the very first time the kennel video was played in the courtroom.
“Everybody else could hear [Murdaugh’s voice] too,” said the carpenter from Colleton County.
Mr Moyer said that he locked eyes with Murdaugh in the courtroom as the video was played and described the killer’s demeanour as like “he knew what was coming”.
Key to the prosecution’s case was a damning cellphone video which placed Murdaugh at the scene of the murders.
The video, taken by Paul on his cellphone at 8.44pm, filmed a dog inside the kennels on the grounds of the Moselle estate.
Off-camera, three voices are heard: Paul, Maggie and Alex Murdaugh.
During dramatic testimony, multiple witnesses identified Murdaugh’s voice in the footage.
Minutes later – at around 8.50pm – Maggie and Paul were brutally gunned down.
The bombshell video not only placed Murdaugh at the scene – but also exposed his lies about his alibi that night,
Since the 7 June 2021 murders, he had claimed that he had never gone to the dog kennels with his wife and son that night.
He claimed that he had stayed at the family home, napped on the couch and then driven to visit his mother at his parents’ home in Almeda.
When he drove home, he claimed he went down to the kennels, placing a dramatic 911 call claiming to have discovered the bodies of the two victims.
In a dramatic two days in the courtroom, Murdaugh finally confessed that he had spent the last 20 months lying about his alibi that night.
The convicted killer took the stand in his own defence and admitted for the first time that he was there at the kennels with the two victims that night – and that he had lied to law enforcement officials investigating the case, his family members and close friends and colleagues for the best part of two years.
Despite confessing to lying, Murdaugh continued to plead his innocence in Maggie and Paul’s murders.
Yet, Murdaugh’s confession over the kennel video further cemented his guilt, Mr Moyer told ABC, saying it was that monent that he knew for definite where his vote lay.
The juror said that Murdaugh’s performance on the stand did little to help his case, describing his testimony and answers to questions coming across as too quick, rehearsed and clearly coming from someone with knowledge of how to play the legal system.
“He knew what he wanted to say. I mean he is a lawyer,” he said. “I didn’t see any true remorse or any compassion or anything.”
Murdaugh’s tears – as we sobbed throughout the trial both on the stand and at the defence table as gruesome details of Maggie and Paul’s brutal murders were revealed – were also far from convincing, he said.
Rather than being genuine, Mr Moyer said Murdaugh appeared to be more like “blowing snot” and came across like a “big liar”.
