The disbarred lawyer is hoping to convince a South Carolina jury that he did not kill his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, as his life unraveled under financial pressure.
Murdaugh acknowledged in court that he suffered from “paranoid thinking” when he admittedly lied to authorities.
“I wasn’t thinking clearly,” he told the courtroom about why he lied, saying he was sorry to all of his family members, including son Buster. He said he was most sorry to his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, whom he referred to throughout his testimony as “Mags” and “Paw Paw,” respectively. “I would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them — ever.
The trial has spawned intense media coverage — including true-crime TV series and podcasts — about how a well-heeled legal scion entered a world of mysterious deaths andMurdaugh has maintained that he did not shoot to death his wife, Maggie, and son Paul in June 2021 outside the family’s 1,772-acre rural Islandton hunting estate, about 50 miles from Charleston. He faces two counts of murder.
Murdaugh, 54, was the patriarch of a legal dynasty of elected prosecutors who have served the state’s Lowcountry for three generations. He has since beenJurors have heard testimony about how cellphones work and seen gruesome crime scene photos. But the firearms used in the killings still have not been found. Murdaugh’s defense team has argued since the beginning of the trial that there is no physical evidence tying him to the killings.
South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman sided with prosecutors Wednesday when he ruled that Murdaugh could be questioned about the 100 financial charges he faces. Prosecutors argued that those counts are relevant because, they claim, Murdaugh killed his wife and son to get sympathy and more time to cover his alleged financial crimes,
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