The state's 29th witness is SLED crime scene unit agent Kristin Moore.
Moore testifies SLED searched the home of Alex Murdaugh’s parents in Almeda. There, they found a blue tarp in a storage container *and* a blue raincoat in a coat closet. Both were found on the second floor.
Moore testifies they found the blue raincoat balled up in the closet. Griffin objects to any further testimony about the coat, and Newman overrules his objection.
I am very curious about what's happening here. For the state's sake, I do hope they have more to link Alex Murdaugh to that blue raincoat than Shelley Smith's testimony just now.
Agent Moore testifies that SLED tested the raincoat several times for blood and found none.
Griffin is now asking about the size of the blue rainjacket. Wonder if we're moving toward a "the rainjacket doesn't fit” moment.
It is taking Moore several minutes to unravel the packaging of this raincoat. This trial has featured about an entire day's worth of bag crinkling into the microphone.
Forgot to mention, but Griffin earlier established with Moore that SLED did not test the blue tarp at all. Just the rainjacket.
After all that, the jacket doesn't have a tag indicating its size.
Moore steps down. In redirect, prosecutor Savanna Goude establishes that it is a very large raincoat. Otherwise, not sure what we're doing here.
The state calls its 30th witness, Charleston resident William McElveen, a close friend of Paul Murdaugh.
