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What is SLED? Alex Murdaugh admits lying to investigators about his whereabouts

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Henry Morales

Published Jan 06, 2026

Alex Murdaugh, the shamed South Carolina scion being investigated for the passing of his significant other, Maggie, and most youthful child, Paul, confessed to misleading the South Carolina Policing (SLED) about his whereabouts the evening of the homicide.

The South Carolina Policing (SLED) is an insightful office entrusted with giving labor supply and specialized help to the neighborhood policing in researching violations.

In a homicide preliminary that enraptured the country, on Thursday, February 23, 2023, Alex Murdaugh stood up and uncovered interestingly that he had misled the SLED specialists driving the examination concerning the passings of his better half, Maggie, and most youthful child, Paul, who were shot on different occasions in the family’s hunting bequest in June 2021.

After determinedly rejecting that he was available at the crime location minutes before the twofold manslaughter, Murdaugh at long last conceded that he lied about not being with his better half and child before they were killed, adding that he, nonetheless, didn’t kill them.

SLED specialist’s part in researching Alex Murdaugh investigated as the suspect concedes he lied about his whereabouts

During their examination concerning the twofold manslaughter, SLED specialists found that Alex Murdaugh was at the crime location five minutes before they were shot on numerous occasions close to the family’s canine pet hotel. This was uncovered by a Snapchat video shot by Murdaugh’s 22-year-old child Paul. Notwithstanding, Murdaugh deceived the examiners on numerous events and said he was at the house sleeping prior to passing in the vicinity to visit his debilitated mother.

Recently, investigators at Alex Murdaugh’s homicide preliminary played a snap talk video considered a basic piece of proof. The recording shot minutes before the killing uncovered three voices that examiners claimed had a place with the two casualties and Alex Murdaugh. The declaration was verified by Paul’s companions, who affirmed that they were positive that they heard the suspect behind the scenes of the clasp recorded by Paul at 8.44 pm on June 7, 2021.

Following the dooming declaration implicating Murdaugh on Thursday, he conceded that he had deceived SLED specialists on numerous occasions about his whereabouts the evening of the homicide. During the preliminary, safeguard lawyer Jim Griffin asked Murdaugh:

Murdaugh answered that it was him in the video and when the Protection inquired as to whether he had deceived the SLED specialists while he was evaluated in association with the killings, he said:

“I wasn’t thinking obviously. I don’t think I was equipped for reason, and I lied about being down there, and Please accept my apologies that I did.”Alex Murdaugh faults substance maltreatment for deceiving the specialistsAlex Murdaugh educated members of the jury that he lied concerning his whereabouts the evening of the homicide because of his suspicion coming from long periods of substance misuse.
Murdaugh, who has been dependent on pain relievers for quite a long time, said that he was shaken after policing interrogating him concerning the passings of his family and decided to lie as he was jumpy.

In any case, examiners keep up with that Murdaugh killed his family to acquire compassion to try not to be uncovered in that frame of mind for his supposed monetary wrongdoings.

In practically no time before the twofold manslaughter, Murdaugh, an accomplice at a law office established by his predecessors, was terminated after different accomplices found that he took millions from his clients throughout the years to support his way of life as he was suffocating in the red. Whenever sentenced, Murdaugh has to deal with 30 years in jail.