clients. yeah, his lawyers said they re cooperating with investigators. during the trial, you remember he admitted swindling all kinds of people. right now the assets of his firm are under state control. so maybe victims will get some money in the end. back to you. martha: let s hope. as he said on the stand, what a tangled web we weave. and that is still unfolding. william, thank you very much. so farewell this hour to music legend, tina turner. she died at 83 years old. many knew her as the queen of rock and roll. we leave you with one of her classics as we close out the story today.
minutes for you guys to come to a decision? probably about 45, maybe an hour. reporter: murdaugh, once a prominent lawyer in the area, took the stand last week in his own emotional defense, maintaining he found the bodies after returning from a brief visit to his mother that night, despite cell phone video placing him at the scene. remind me of the expression you gave on the witness stand. was it, oh, what a tangled web we weave. what did you mean? that when i lied, i continued to lie. reporter: the defense relied heavily on murdaugh s opioid addiction to account for his deception and lies, something the judge and jury didn t buy. they ve concluded that you continued to lie and lie throughout your testimony. not credible, not believable. reporter: despite all the circumstantial evidence against him, murdaugh maintained he was
asked him a question and then he answered it and then the prosecutor gave a brief pause and murdaugh said oh, what a tangled web we weave. he offered it. he was not asked about it. and that was the statement of the judge just recited back to him. dana: he said that phrase really stuck with him, the tangled web and asked him about it. that a notice of alibi had been filed with the court before this trial ever got going. the alibi was he wasn t there. they had a hearing about it and imagine the judge now has to sit there and listen when he says actually i was there. the snapchat video proved that. murdaugh said it was lie upon lies. the other thing the judge said to him is that you were so gregarious. you had a lovely family, to go from that to this and the judge is back in the courtroom. let s listen in. speaking freely with the media because they ve undergone a life changing experience as
showed very little, if any, emotion today. very little, if any, emotion when the guilty convictions were delivered last night. when he was on the stand testifying in his own defense, he was asked why he lied about being at the kennels shortly before the state says maggie and paul murdaugh stopped using their phones for good. at the time he said that he lied because he felt he was paranoid, he didn t trust police, he was on drugs, all of these factors. when he was asked why he kept lying, he said, what a tangled web we weave. the judge asked him about that moment. listen. oh what tangld web we weave, what did you mean by that? i meant when i lied, i continued to lie. the question is, when will it end? when will it end?
of that? that is obviously what the prosecution is doing, trying to establish that this is an established liar. so why trust him now. when does murdaugh say he decided to lie about that? the reason was because during the initial interview with state law enforcement, he said that owen freaked him out and that is when because he says that due to his addiction to opoid, he had paranoid thoughts and he lied because owen asked him about his relationship with maggie and paul. and this is the line of questioning right before we broke for lunch, that is when this lie took hold. yesterday he testified that he kept the lie up because he had already told people and that is when he did the oh, what a