Did Alex Murdaugh plead guilty? Juror reveals evidence that convinced him of lawyer’s crime
Natalie Ross
Published Dec 29, 2025
Previous South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, 54, was as of late seen as at real fault for killing his better half and child in 2021, following an almost six-drawn out preliminary.
On Thursday, a hearer, Craig Moyer, who casted a ballot to convict Murdaugh, told ABC News in a selective meeting that cellphone film showing Murdaugh at the scene minutes before the killings of his better half and child persuaded him regarding the shamed legal counselor’s culpability.
For almost two years, Alex Murdaugh denied being with his significant other and child the evening of the killings. Notwithstanding, during the homicide preliminary, he conceded that he lied about his whereabouts that evening.
Following quite a while of refusal, he likewise conceded that it was his voice in the cellphone film that demonstrated him to be at the crime location at the hour of the killings.
The evening of June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh shot his significant other, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and more youthful child, Paul Murdaugh, 22, to death at their home in Islandton, South Carolina, close to the canine pet hotels on their property.
Maggie was shot four or multiple times, incorporating once toward the back and on numerous occasions while she was lying on the ground with 300 Power outage ammunition from an AR-style rifle, and Paul was fired two times with a shotgun. Both were proclaimed dead at the scene, and the deadly weapons were not found.
Examiners said Alex Murdaugh killed his significant other and child trying to redirect consideration from his monetary wrongdoings and evoke compassion from the local area.
Examiner Creighton Waters uncovered toward the beginning of the preliminary that Paul had taken wireless film close to the canine pet hotels on the family’s Islandton property at 8.44 pm the evening of the killings. The voices of Paul, Maggie, and Alex can be perceived in the video.
ABC News revealed that attendant Craig Moyer said that he was sure the recording highlighted Murdaugh’s voice. Alluding to different members of the jury, Moyer said:
Moyer expressed that as the jury continued to ponder following shutting contentions, a vote was taken in which nine individuals, including Moyer, thought Murdaugh was liable, two idea he was blameless, and one was uncertain.
Yet, subsequent to exploring the proof once more, all members of the jury consistently concluded that Murdaugh was answerable for the passings of his significant other and child.
As per The Related Press, the guard attempted to have the decision renounced and a malfeasance pronounced. Nonetheless, Judge Clifton Newman excused the solicitation, noticing the huge measure of proof and declaration the jury had assessed.
Alex Murdaugh was sentenced for two counts of homicide and two weapons charges. He has to carry out at least 30 years in jail for each murder conviction, and examiners have shown they will look for a sentence of existence without the chance of parole.
In the homicide preliminary, north of 75 observers affirmed, and the jury surveyed around 800 bits of proof. The jury caught wind of Alex Murdaugh’s bombed endeavor to counterfeit his own demise for protection cash and a lethal boat crash for which his child Paul was blamed.
They likewise caught wind of the passing of the family’s servant in a fall in the Murdaugh home and allegations that Murdaugh cheated her group of the protection settlement.
CBS News announced that Alex Murdaugh has likewise been blamed for around 100 monetary offenses, including extortion, illegal tax avoidance, tax avoidance, and imitation. He is likewise associated with taking more than $8 million and endeavoring to have a man shoot him in a $10 million disaster protection conspire.
While he owned up to a few of these offenses on the stand over the span of the homicide preliminary, judicial procedures in those cases are as yet progressing.
A preliminary for those charges will be booked for a later date.