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#AlexMurdaugh phone recorded no steps or any activity at all from 8:09:52 to 9:02:18. Originally, you'd think this is him napping/lying on the couch but now he says that's not true. Waters asks him and AM says he must not have taken his phone to the kennels.
AM says he's not sure where he set the phone down when he got to the house after being with Paul and before dinner, but must have just set it down somewhere in the house and then didn't take it to the kennels.
AM says Paul was not inside the house when he went to get in the shower. This would have been some time after 8pm when AM and Maggie are both at the house, before eating dinner.
Waters shows this map showing Paul's phone was in the area of the house. AM says he could have been out in his truck.
AM's phone recorded 283 steps from 9:02 - 9:06pm. Waters pressing him what he was doing in those 4 mins to record that many steps if he says he just got up off the couch and was heading to his mom's.
#AlexMurdaugh says what he WASN'T doing is this:
Waters points out AM was making phone calls during this 4 minutes while he was recording the 283 steps.
"I did not delete phone calls from my phone." -
#AlexMurdaugh (records show calls were deleted)
Waters: "..you as a lawyer and prosecutor are up at 9:02, finally having your phone in your hand, moving around and making all these phone calls to manufacture an alibi, is that not true?" AM: "That's absolutely incorrect.”
"I never, ever, ever created an alibi.” -
Waters: Why didn't you just stop by the kennels when leaving for your moms? You were obviously trying to get a hold of Maggie...missed calls. Why didn't you just go down there? AM: It wasn't important to.
AM denies asking Maggie to come to Moselle that night.
Alex Murdaugh says he did NOT check Paul and Maggie before calling 911 and he doesn't believe he told law enforcement that. He says when he got on the phone with 911 then he went over to their bodies.
Waters plays interview the night of the murders.
#AlexMurdaugh says he went to their bodies, that he tried to turn Paul over, his phone popped out, he tried to take their pulses. He says he called 911 but I'm not sure this is meant in chronological order - Up to interpretation.
AM says in the car that he called 911 "pretty much right away”.
Waters plays the part of the interview where AM says Maggie was at the kennels and he was at the house. "You made a conscious decision to lie right then ...." AM: I don't believe that was lying at that point because Maggie had gone to the kennels and I was at the house.
AM: I'm not sure when exactly I decided to lie.
AM says the fact that he had a pocket full of pills in his pocket, he was the person that found Maggie and Paul, his distrust for SLED...all of these factors made
#AlexMurdaugh decide to lie.
Waters: Ever heard of the expression that not telling the whole truth is the same as telling a lie? AM: Sure I have. Waters: That's something you understood as a lawyer and a prosecutor? AM: Yes
Lunch break. Waters is not done with cross-exam yet. Court resumes at 2:15pm.