Alex Murdaugh closing arguments: Prosecution makes final case to jury

ALEX MURDAUGH MURDER TRIAL RECAP BELOW

Closing arguments will take place Wednesday in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, but first jurors will get a tour of the place where the victims were killed. Shortly after noon, closing arguments began with the prosecution making its final case to the jury. Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters began by laying out a timeline of how Alex Murdaugh’s life was spiraling out of control, leading to the boat accident involving Paul Murdaugh and Alex Murdaugh’s drug addiction.

Murdaugh, 54, is accused of killing his wife Maggie and son Paul at the family’s Moselle estate back in June of 2021. Prosecutors say he’s the sole person responsible while the defense says the state never seriously looked for any other potential witnesses.

Jurors started the day with a trip to the Murdaugh family estate, known as Moselle, to look at the property. They left the courthouse around 9:10 a.m. according to the press pool report. The 1,700 acre plot is where Paul and Maggie were killed near the kennels on the land. The request to visit the site was made by Murdaugh’s lawyers.

They’ll then move on to closing arguments which are expected to take several hours. Judge Clifton Newman, however, hopes to give the case over to the jury to begin deliberations before the end of the day.

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