Alex Murdaugh explains why he lied about going to dog kennels: full video — Transcript
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- 0:00I'm Alec murdick m-u-r-d-a-u-g-h
- 0:06good morning
- 0:22Mr murder
- 0:24on June 7th
- 0:262021 did you take this gun or any gun
- 0:30like it
- 0:31and shoot your son Paul in the chest in
- 0:34the feed room at your property off
- 0:36Moselle Road no I did not
- 0:39Mr murdick should you take this gun or
- 0:42any gun like it
- 0:43and blow your son's brains out on June
- 0:467th or any day or anytime
- 0:50no I did not
- 0:54Mr Murray
- 0:57if you take a 300 Blackout
- 1:01such as this
- 1:03and fired into your wife Maggie's
- 1:06leg torso or any part of her body no I
- 1:10did not did you shoot a 300 Blackout
- 1:15into her head causing her death
- 1:19she Griffin I didn't shoot my wife or my
- 1:21son any time
- 1:23ever
- 1:40Mr murdick is that you
- 1:42on the kennel video at 8 44 pm on June
- 1:457th the night Maddie Maggie and Paul
- 1:47were murdered it is
- 1:50were you in fact at the kennels at 8 44
- 1:52pm on the night Maggie and Paul were
- 1:54murdered I was
- 1:56did you lie to sled agent Owen and
- 1:59deputy
- 2:00Laura Rutland
- 2:02on the night of June 7th
- 2:05and told them that you stayed at the
- 2:06house after dinner
- 2:07I did lie to them did you lie to agent
- 2:10Owen and agent Croft on the follow-up
- 2:13interview on June 10th
- 2:15that the last time you saw Maggie and
- 2:17Paul
- 2:18was at dinner
- 2:20I did lie to them
- 2:22and in the interview of August 11th
- 2:26did you tell agent Owen and agent crawl
- 2:30did you lie to them by telling them that
- 2:33you were not down at the Kennels
- 2:35on that night yes
- 2:40Alec why did you lie
- 2:43to agent Owen agent Croft and Deputy
- 2:45Rutland about the last time you saw
- 2:47Maggie and Paul
- 2:49as my addiction evolved over time
- 2:55I would get any situations or
- 2:57circumstances where I would get paranoid
- 2:59thinking and it could be anything that
- 3:03that triggered it might be a look
- 3:04somebody gave me it might be a reaction
- 3:06somebody had to something I did
- 3:08um it might be a policeman following me
- 3:11in in a car
- 3:13um
- 3:14that night June 7th
- 3:17after finding
- 3:22mags and Paul Papa
- 3:27don't talk to anybody without Danny with
- 3:29you
- 3:31all my partners were just repeatedly
- 3:34telling me that
- 3:35I had a deputy share taking gunshot
- 3:39tests from my hands
- 3:43I'm sitting in a
- 3:45police car
- 3:47with David Owen asking me about my
- 3:50relationship with my wife and my son
- 3:54and all those things
- 3:56coupled together after finding them
- 3:59coupled with my distrust for sled
- 4:03caused me to have paranoid thoughts
- 4:06normally
- 4:08when these paranoid thoughts would hit
- 4:10me I could take a deep breath real quick
- 4:14just think about it reason my way
- 4:16through it and just get past it really
- 4:18quickly
- 4:21on June the 7th
- 4:32I wasn't thinking clearly
- 4:35I don't think I was capable of reason
- 4:42and I lied about being down there
- 4:47and I'm so sorry that I did
- 4:54I'm sorry to my son buster
- 5:00I'm sorry to Grandma Papa t
- 5:08I'm sorry to both of our families
- 5:17most of all
- 5:19I'm sorry to Max
- 5:21and Papa
- 5:25I would never
- 5:26intentionally do anything
- 5:30to hurt either one of them
- 5:39ever
- 5:43ever
- 5:45foreign
- 5:52lying after
- 5:54that night did you not but once I lied I
- 5:57continued to lie yes sir why
- 6:05you know or what a tangled web we weave
- 6:07but once I told a lie
- 6:11I mean I told my family I
- 6:15had to keep in mind
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