Alex Murdaugh’s Last Text to Wife Revealed in Court — and Prosecutors Say He Called Her After Killings

On the night that Maggie Murdaugh was shot to death close by her child, Paul, she got a message from her significant other’s telephone that said “Call me, darling.”

As per court declaration, that message was sent at 9:47 p.m. on June 7, 2021 — after Maggie was at that point dead.

Examiners additionally affirmed that Alex Murdaugh endeavored to call Maggie’s telephone on different occasions after the killings, trying to make a vindication. In court on Tuesday, attendants heard declaration from Britt Pigeon, who works in the PC violations unit for the South Carolina Policing. Dove made sense of the timetable of Maggie’s telephone utilization.

Dove affirmed that Maggie settled on a telephone decision at 7:50 p.m. on the night of the killings. That call, to a lady named Barbara, went on for roughly three minutes.

Maggie didn’t utilize her cellphone once more, examiners say. At roughly 9:06 p.m., after examiners accept she was dead, the telephone camera initiated for about a second.

Dove affirmed that there was a coherent clarification for that. “It seems the telephone’s being moved and the camera’s enacting behind the scenes to check whether it would remember someone’s face that would open it,” Pigeon told hearers. Seconds after the fact, the telephone’s direction changed, which recommends that somebody got the telephone.

As per Pigeon, Maggie’s telephone then, at that point, missed three separate calls from Alex Murdaugh in the following 40 minutes. At 9:47 p.m., he sent the last message: “Call me, darling.”

Alex Murdaugh’s Last Text to Wife Revealed in Court — and Prosecutors Say He Called Her After Killings

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Alex Murdaugh called 911 soon after 10 p.m., asserting that he had quite recently found the bodies of his significant other and child close to the canine pet hotels of the family’s domain.

The cellphone was not with Maggie when police showed up; specialists later found it disposed of outside the entryways of the family’s home.

As indicated by court declaration, specialists suspect that the once-unmistakable lawyer shot and killed the pair that night. Then, they say, he changed garments and visited his sickly mother to lay out a vindication. Investigators battle the telephone and message record was an extra endeavor to represent his whereabouts that evening.

Paul Murdaugh was shot in the chest and head with a shotgun at short proximity. Maggie was shot on numerous occasions, remembering a single went for the back and extra shots while she was lying on the ground. She had been shot with 300 Power outage ammunition from an AR-style rifle. The two of them were articulated dead at the scene.

Examiners say that Alex Murdaugh was the shooter, however the guard keeps up with that he was a caring dad who coincidentally found the bodies of his better half and child.

Alex Murdaugh is presently having to deal with two counts of homicide and two weapons penalties in this preliminary. He has argued not blameworthy.

Regardless of whether Murdaugh is cleared in this preliminary, he will have more lawful burdens. He has to deal with many penalties for supposed monetary violations, including misusing cash from his law office, swindling clients of assets and PC wrongdoings. Specialists claim that he likewise duped the group of his previous maid out of a $4.5 million protection settlement after she died in a puzzling slip-and-fall mishap at his home. A preliminary for those charges will be held sometime in the not too distant future.

Murdaugh’s homicide preliminary is supposed to endure something like two additional weeks.