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WALTERBORO, S.C. — Two childhood friends of Paul Murdaugh’s each took the witness stand Wednesday to tell a jury that a third voice heard on a cellphone video, recorded minutes before Paul and his mother, Maggie, were murdered, is the voice of his father, Alex Murdaugh.

A state agent testifying in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial meticulously reconstructed activity from his iPhone and the cellphones of his son and wife the night they were killed to try to link the disgraced South Carolina attorney to the shooting deaths

Jurors previously learned that Alex Murdaugh called his wife’s cellphone five times in the aftermath of the murders

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Maggie Murdaugh’s cellphone was active early in the evening on the night she was killed at the family’s 1,700-acre rural estate, receiving texts, recording screen orientation changes and logging bursts of steps, a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division cellphone specialist testified Tuesday.