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wife and son to hide financial crimes. the prosecutor is seeking to go after alex on this comes back to the notion that he did have a motive, he did have a reason and he did have a world that was closing in on him as again, the details of his financial improprieties and embezzling were coming to life and known by his wife and indirectly by his own son and the separate drugs issue, this break will be about 15 minutes or so. i want to get the read from ted williams what he makes of this argument that the prosecutor is making. that this storm got to the point that he did what he did and...

>> did you steal divert the fee away from the law firm? >> i did. >> how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn't yours? >> you know, i'm not quite sure how i let myself get where i got, but it came from -- you know, i battled addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldn't -- >> what type of addiction are you referring to? >> my addiction is to opiate pain killers, specifically oxycodone, oxycontin. >> when did you first become dependent or addicted opiods? >> oxycodone or opiods in general?...

for "ac 360." good evening, and take a look, this is the face tonight of alex murdaugh, convicted killer, his head shaven at a south carolina prison system intake facility on his way within the next several weeks to serving two consecutive life sentences, life without parole for murdering his wife maggie and his son paul. this is the face of a man whose family name was once synonymous with the law in the county in the legal profession and criminal justice system there. at today's hearing in the courthouse where his grandfather's portrait once hung, murdaugh was sentenced. he spoke ...

good evening, and take a look. this is the face tonight of alex murdaugh, convicted killer. his head shaven in a south carolina prison system intake facility on his way within the next several weeks to serving two consecutive life sentences, life without parole for murdering his wife maggie and son paul. this is also the face of a man whose family name was once synonymous with the law and county in south carolina where he lived and multiple generations of the murdaughs in the legal profession and criminal justice system there. at today's hearing in the courthouse where his grandfathe...

lead lawyer of one of them. i helped my dad in the other four. >> still a part of preparing the case? >> yes, sir. >> still a part of gathering the evidence and putting it together for trial? >> in a criminal case, we didn't do much the gathering of the evidence. we took what law enforcement had gathered. >> putting it together for the criminal trial, correct? >> yes, sir. >> presenting evidence in court? >> yes, sir. >> giving jury arguments? >> i did the closing argument in one of them, yes, sir. >> did you ever have any cases that you prosecuted that went short of a jury trial, ei...