verdict guilty. convictions on all four charges including two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of his wife margaret and son paul until life 2021. you seeing him being led away, they re put in a van, taken away from the courthouse. just moments ago, we are waiting for a conference with will be taking place any moment, now our randi kaye was in the courthouse when the verdicts were read. andy, it is extraordinary how quickly the jury came to this verdict, what was it like in the courtroom when the verdicts were read? yeah, anderson, and took them just about three and a half hours or so to find alex murdaugh guilty on all for the accounts, no way tried to read the jury as they fall back into the courtroom, none of them looked to the right of the courtroom when murdaugh sixth and the family set. they all basically had their heads down as they got into the courtroom, also, anderson, you can see the alex murdaugh, we have this precip that is just about the start he
wrong if you break the law if you murder and justice will be done in south carolina and i think south carolina has shown the nation and the world how a process can work and work well thank you all also i want to think created i said creighton i would come down and be just a staff attorney i know i am your boss i m your bosses boss but i said i m going to come down i will help and i said i am going to follow instruction and i hope i was too to my word this past weekend i will say what can i do to help as that i m willing to take a witness if it will be said actually it would so he led an old prosecutor dust off his cleats and get back in the game and to help the team out and do not get used to it but in all seriousness i am proud of the
america. i want to start by thanking our prosecution team, i want to tell you i ve been here for nearly six weeks with this team living in a hotel, and it felt almost like being in a dorm environment in college, late nights, cramming, studying, little sleep, away from our families, getting up early, getting here to the courthouse, working long hours getting on each other s nerves that times but it was all worth it. it was all worth it because we got to bring justice for maggie and paul murdaugh, and bring justice for the people of south carolina. i would like to start real briefly by thanking our team, first, excuse me, i will put my glasses on. our chief prosecutor, i will tell you, i threaded good waters to be the chief prosecutor of this case nearly a year and a half ago, and i want to say i m pretty brilliant, because i picked the right guy. i want to say thank you to creighton water, creighton he did a fantastic job. another attorney in south carolina let this herculean effort.
creighton will be the first to tell, you he did not do it alone, because he had a team of people. the first thing i want to thank was actually creighton s boss, he is the deputy attorney general, and the attorney general office for over 40 is sitting here to my immediate last don salika, thank you so much. john matters, many of you got to see him in the closing arguments today, john, thank, you you have done a phenomenal add to our team. i will go quickly through the names, but as i read the names, please raise your, hand you know creighton, you saw don, and you see john, david fernandez, john conrad, johnny james. savannah gal, lazio alida, shane ysidro, carly jewell, carson bernie, daniel cologne, and our victims advocate trisha allen, i also want to say thank you to the south carolina law enforcement division, mark kiel,