Murdoh’s verdict concludes a six-week trial in which 72 witnesses, including Murdoh himself, were asked to testify.
The trial grabbed national attention and shook the small town of Waterboro and the Lowcountry region of South Carolina where the Murdow family was a powerful and influential family. was a good lawyer. At the time of sentencing, Judge Clifton Newman said the portrait of Murdoh’s grandfather, which hung in the courtroom where Murdoh was convicted, had to be removed to ensure a fair trial.
A key piece of evidence in this incident was a Snapchat video taken by Paul in the kennel on the property minutes before Paul and his mother were killed.
Murdoh’s voice was heard in the video, and multiple people testified that they recognized it as his. Murdoh himself admitted that it was. The video contradicts his long-standing claim that he was not at the scene of the crime that night.
Murdau, who told investigators he suffered from an addiction to prescription painkillers, said he lied about his whereabouts that night because of drug-induced paranoia.
Moyer said he was “extremely surprised” by Murdau’s admission that night that he had lied about his whereabouts.
