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Jurors in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial will hear from the defendant for a second straight day.

Trying to change a tire in run flats. thats the story you told. >> thats the story i told. because the man that shot me did not shoot me that day as i intended. i had to have a story as to how i got shot. so i lied. >> so you lied. youre saying that people in your family and your friends didnt instantly believe that whoever these 12-year-old marauders were were back to finish the job? >> you keep using -- >> it happened just two hours after you were confronted by chris wilson. >> i think some pe...

That -- thats impossible. so to cash a check that is already been checked is going to throw -- theres no question its going to throw that off. what happened is i had -- we used to get a rent check, little checks. they pile up the small checks. that check got mixed in and it got sent to the bank. it got deposited. that was a year after. >> keep going. >> i do dispute i stole that money. that money. >> you brought it up. any of the other money you dispute stealing? >> you brought it up. >> and you...

Getting past this may help them get some closure, and so, since at least january, i have been trying to sit down with yall to talk to yall. >> okay. >> and never, never, ever got a response to the multiple requests. >> multiple requests. >> yes, sir. multiple requests, and i would ask about this every few weeks. >> sir -- >> sir? >> did mark ball ever hear your story to the jury about the kennels until yesterday? your buddy and law partner mark ball? >> i have not spoken to mark ball since i wen...

Around there, and i think that you said somewhere around there, to do whatever you need to do and get on that cart and head back. >> the kennel video ended at 8:45? >> and 8:45.45. >> it certainly could have been 8:47 before i left out of there, and i think sooner than that, but it could have been. >> that is 60 seconds. and 75 seconds, correct? after it ends. >> if it ends at 8:45.45, and this is 1:15. >> do you characterized it yesterday as i got out of there, right? >> that is exactly what i ...

>> 75 seconds, correct? after it ends. ? >> if it ends at 8:45:45. it is a minute and 15 seconds. >> you characterized you got out of there >> thats what i did. >> if youre at 8:47, giving you the benefit of the doubt, two minutes to get up and back to the house, correct? >> approximately. >> all right. and when you got back to the house, where did you park the golf cart? >> same place i had gotten it from right where mark ball testified that it was. >> what door did you go in? >> i would have g...

Barbara Ann Mixson, 72, said she could not say anything bad about Alex Murdaugh as she claimed the suspect is normal and a good person who would always offer a helping hand to the community.

By Dianne Gallagher, Randi Kaye, Dakin Andone and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN

Disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh is expected to take the stand in a North Carolina courtroom on Thursday in his own defense during his double murder trial.

Alex Murdaughs defence attorneys have sought to advance their theory that investigators did not properly h...