CNN —
The jury in Alex Murdaugh’s
double murder trial saw footage Wednesday from a crucial interview he had with state investigators where he was asked for the first time if he killed his wife and son.
The interview on August 11, 2021, was the third Murdaugh had with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, which was investigating the murders of his wife, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, and grown son, Paul Murdaugh, two months earlier, according to testimony Wednesday by SLED agent Lt. David Owen.
The interview was about to end when Owen told Murdaugh he had “a few more questions.”
“Did you kill Maggie?” Owen asked, according to the footage played in court.
“No,” Murdaugh said. “Did I kill my wife? No, David.”
“Do you know who did?”
“No, I do not know who did,” Murdaugh said.
“Did you kill Paul?”
“No, I did not kill Paul,” Murdaugh said.
“Do you know who did?”
“No, sir, I do not know who did,” Murdaugh said. “Do you think I killed Maggie?”
“I have to go where the evidence and the facts take me,” Owen said.
“I understand that. And you think I killed Paul?”
“I have to go where the evidence and the facts take me,” Owen said again. “And I don’t have anything that points to anybody else at this time.”
“So does that mean that I am a suspect?”
Owen told Murdaugh he was “still in this,” adding, “I have to put my beliefs aside, and go with the facts.”
Owen’s testimony Wednesday comes as the state nears the end of its case, in which prosecutors contend Murdaugh killed his wife and son to distract from a mountain of alleged financial crimes he had committed and to stave off a “day of reckoning” when those crimes might come to light.
The jury in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial saw footage Wednesday from a crucial interview he had with state investigators where he was asked for the first time if he killed his wife and son.
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