was and what he was doing, and he told attorneys today he told prosecutors, he was not trying to manufacture an alibi when he now admittedly lied to investigators around that time. here with me is cnn s jean casarez who has been watching so much of this trial and what jumped out to you at the end here, particularly the dramatic finish of that cross-examination? he went through every single name of his partners, the people that should have gotten millions of dollars from the law firm, his family, everyone for decades he had lied to over and over and over again. then he lied about not being down where the murders happened with his wife and his son. so close in time to when their phones locked forever, meaning they never were on them again because they had been murdered. trying to show this jury, you can t believe today anything he says on that sand because he s a liar and always will be. let me dig into that a little bit more, the specific moment, now that murdaugh admits t
page 46. highlight and blow out the 90218 alex murdaugh s iphone shows. now do you remember being asked about these steps, 283 steps, traveled during this period of time? i do. and i think you testified your belief was you were just getting ready to leave to go to your mom s house, is that right? that s correct. i mean that would have been the time i left to go there. and you were like you had made some phone calls during this period of time, correct? yes. the records show. alex, did you have maggie s phone with you at any time
later on, between maggie and blanca. do you recall that? i do. and it s in evidence as defendant s exhibit 54. doug, if you could pull that up please, sir. if you could highlight the blanca text. is this a text message you re referring to? it is. and i ll just read it. it says ty. is that thank you? ty i m waiting. alex wants me to come home. i had to leave door open. his dad is back in the hospital. last doctor claims not cancer it s pneumonia. she adds some faces. alex is about to die? hope he doesn t go down there to sleep. alex needs to take care of
you have a professional civil litigator, a trial attorney, and you convert them and they re the defendant on the stand they know how to work that courtroom. he has been preparing for months what his answers were going to be, and he was able to get the story he wanted to be out there. he had to own up that he s a liar and that he s a thief. we knew that. and he owns up to it each and every time. the one question that wasn t asked, hey, you ve been honest about that you stole from these people and you regret all of this, guess what, you still pleaded not guilty and still have these old charges. what is the jury to decide now? can i believe this guy who is a con artist and bamboozled so many people close to him. what should we do now? it s the alex murdaugh show this is croom. mark, did the prosecution score any points? did they land any serious legal
treatable and can give the immunotherapy a chance to work. is that what you re referring to? that s the text i was talking about that came when when talking to jeanne sekinger. this wasn t a terminal diagnosis on the 7th? that was a little bit of positive news. okay. that was short lived but it was positive at the time. you can take that down now, doug. stay on that exhibit. alex, you were asked, if you go to page 46, please. the same exhibit, 520.