Neighbor who cleaned dog kennels testifies at Murdaugh trial — Transcript

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1. 0:00want to get back into the trial of Alec
2. 0:03Murdock this afternoon a witness who
3. 0:06knew the Murdoch dogs and their kennels
4. 0:08well took the stand Roger Davis is his
5. 0:10name and he was a neighbor to the
6. 0:12Moselle property and Alec hired him to
7. 0:15clean the dog kennels twice a day now
8. 0:17Davis told the jury Maggie loved those
9. 0:20dogs and took good care of them but when
10. 0:22shown pictures of the kennels from the
11. 0:25crime scene from The Night of the
12. 0:27murders Davis told the jury there
13. 0:28normally was not that much water on the
14. 0:31ground listen to this
15. 0:34is that how water would normally pool
16. 0:35when you washed the kennels for four
17. 0:37years
18. 0:42normally no oh
19. 0:45there's too much water right there you
20. 0:46can tell what the concrete is already
21. 0:48done started drying but there's too much
22. 0:50water right there around
23. 0:54the second and third pin
24. 0:57again that was the prosecution trying to
25. 1:00show that Alec used that hose to clean
26. 1:02himself off the night of the murders but
27. 1:04then I don't know that they expected
28. 1:06this moment Davis gave some powerful
29. 1:08testimony for the defense when
30. 1:11questioned by Jim Griffin listen to this
31. 1:13well you use the phrase lovey-dovey
32. 1:16about Alec and Maggie what'd that mean
33. 1:19means they love each other what and and
34. 1:22your presence you just I mean you
35. 1:24describe that them as being lovey-dovey
36. 1:26didn't you yes and telling Jerry what
37. 1:29you meant by that
38. 1:30oh every time I always see him they you
39. 1:32know I've never seen that man even raise
40. 1:35his voice at his wife or kids so I'm so
41. 1:37oh or his wife I've never seen him even
42. 1:40none of them argue
43. 1:43all right also the defense got Davis to
44. 1:46save if he once had to shoot and kill
45. 1:48one of the Murdoch dogs the dog was
46. 1:50badly injured because he said Alec
47. 1:52couldn't do it himself
48. 1:55we of course haven't