Testimony on alibis and phone records in Murdaugh murder trial — Transcript

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1. 0:02now to the Alec Murdock double murder
2. 0:04trial where the prosecution was expected
3. 0:07to wrap up their case today instead they
4. 0:09continue to move forward and now they're
5. 0:12expected to produce testimony about a
6. 0:13September 2021 roadside shooting in
7. 0:16which Murdoch admitted to hiring someone
8. 0:18to kill him so his son Buster could
9. 0:20collect life insurance money at first
10. 0:23The Judd said he wouldn't allow that
11. 0:24testimony but moments ago he changed his
12. 0:27mind just before court adjourned for the
13. 0:30day and we have Team coverage in
14. 0:32colington County starting now with news
15. 0:3419's Rachel Ripp who has more details on
16. 0:37what happened in the courtroom today
17. 0:39Rachel
18. 0:43J.R Darcy only two witnesses took the
19. 0:46stand today in court the first was sled
20. 0:48lead investigator David Owen and the
21. 0:51second was a little bit later in court
22. 0:53it was David Grubbs and he is an expert
23. 0:56in cell phone forensics
24. 1:00now earlier this morning Owen testified
25. 1:02that Alec had no trouble understanding
26. 1:04Owen's questions and that he had timely
27. 1:06answers and several of his interviews
28. 1:08with sled the prosecution team then
29. 1:10played a long video clip of Alex
30. 1:12interview with sled on August 11 2021
31. 1:15two months after the killings in that
32. 1:18video interview Owen toad told Alec that
33. 1:21family guns were used in the killings of
34. 1:23Maggie and Paul Alec then went on to ask
35. 1:26Owen if one two or even three people
36. 1:28were responsible in cross-examination
37. 1:31Griffin confirmed with Owen that the law
38. 1:33firm Alec worked at offered a 100 000
39. 1:36reward for tips with an expiration date
40. 1:39later Griffin got Owen to say he
41. 1:42misspoke in front of the Colleton County
42. 1:44grand jury
43. 1:46Tuesday November 16th 2021. all right
44. 1:49and if you'll go to the page I had open
45. 1:52and um
46. 1:54and I'll tell you I'm gonna read the
47. 1:55question if you'll read the response
48. 1:58it says um
49. 2:01at line seven all right and we're all of
50. 2:05them to your recollection loaded that
51. 2:06like that and your answer was
52. 2:09they were load they were located loaded
53. 2:11in a similar fashion question in a
54. 2:14similar fashion yes sir
55. 2:16question with one turkey load and one
56. 2:18Buckshot load response yes sir all right
57. 2:21thank you and that was not accurate
58. 2:23correct
59. 2:25correct
60. 2:30now Grubbs took the stand just before
61. 2:32court wrapped up for the day he
62. 2:35testified about uh Maggie and Paul's
63. 2:38phone usage and their phone habits
64. 2:40reporting live in Walterboro Rachel rip
65. 2:42News 19 WLTX all right Rachel thank you