When Proctor heard that her sister and nephew were dead, she initially felt it had to be some sort of terrible mistake, she said. But as her shock and horror subsided in the days that followed, Proctor said she began to notice a few things that she found odd.
To begin with, she told the court she had found it strange that Alex had gone to see his mother alone that night, given that Maggie had told her that accompanying him had been “the whole reason she went home that night.” (Alex’s father had been taken to a hospital earlier that evening and was not at home).
Second, although Alex appeared “very torn up” about the deaths, Proctor said, he had given her a confusing response when she had asked him whether Maggie and Paul had suffered as they were killed. After he assured her they had not, Proctor asked Alex if he had any idea who might have killed them. “He said that he did not know who it was, but he felt like whoever did it had thought about it for a really long time,” she said.
“I just didn’t know what that meant,” she added.
New testimony on Thursday at Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial included revelations about his alleged infidelity, as well as details on what the family knew about his supposed addiction to prescription drugs.
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Finally, although a killer or killers remained at large, Alex didn’t appear to be at all scared for his safety or that of his surviving son, Buster. Like many people, Proctor had immediately suspected the killings might be some form of retribution against the Murdaughs over the boat case. But although Alex
repeatedly raised that as a possible motive when he originally spoke with the 911 operator and first responders, he didn’t seem to be living in fear that someone was after him.
“We were afraid. We didn’t know what was going on. My family was scared. I was scared for Alex and Buster. I thought that they needed protection. I think everybody was afraid,” Proctor said. “Alex didn’t seem to be afraid.”
In fact, Alex seemed most concerned with trying to prove that Paul had not been driving the boat on the night of the 2019 crash — and thus that a
potentially multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Murdaughs by the dead girl’s family was moot.
“He said that his number one goal was to clear Paul’s name, and I thought that was strange because my number one goal was to find out who killed my sister and Paul,” Proctor said. “I don’t know how he could have thought about anything else.”
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