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Second week of testimony concludes at Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina where Alex Murdaugh stands trial for murders of wife Maggie and son Paul

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Jurors in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial got a late start Friday, as Judge Clifton Newman considered whether testimony about Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes should be heard by the jury.

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.

Fourth day of testimony concludes in Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina as Alex Murdaugh stands trial for murders of wife Maggie and son Paul

Fourth day of testimony to get under way in Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina as Alex Murdaugh stands trial for murders of wife Maggie and son Paul

WALTERBORO, S.C. — As the first week of the long-awaited double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh wrapped up Friday, a jury of eight women and four men, the state of South Carolina and the nation have borne witness to an evolving courtroom drama and disquieting disclosures from the witness stand.

WALTERBORO, S.C. — A detective who was the first to interview Alex Murdaugh the night his wife and son were killed attempted to poke holes in his story during Friday’s testimony at the Colleton County Courthouse in South Carolina.

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Jurors on Thursday heard directly from Alex Murdaugh on the night his wife and son were shot, via law enforcement body camera footage from the first responders who arrived at the scene of the murders the night of June 7, 2021.

WALTERBORO, S.C. — “He was the storm,” prosecutor Creighton Waters thundered, pointing at Alex Murdaugh, who is on trial accused of murdering his wife and son. “The storm came for them.”