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the goal is to solve the crime. we checked everything trying to find some evidence that possibly the crooks left. we found quite a bit of shotgun pellets that were left behind, and those were everything from bird shot, which is very small, to double buck which is very large. there were some pieces there from the shotgun rounds. i believe that there were 13 of those that we recovered throughout the floor. but the interesting fact was the expended cartridge cases were all picked up. and finger prints on a shotgun shell would be pretty darn good for fingerprints. so it was a very calculated move on the suspects part trying to collect as much evidence as possible. why they didn t pick up the watting, i don t know. when a crime happens in beverly hills, the first snap judgment you would make is robbery. ....
Melissa came in and grabbed her and was talking to 9-1-1. the detective discovered the bullet that killed ben was a number eight bird shot. same ammunition they discovered in craig s room. so, the question quick. i apologize for doing that, if i have to, you know. did you kill ben? no, i did not. sure enough, when they tested craig for gunshot ready to do our blood cast off, he was clean. could not have fired that gun. and so, back to melissa. i know it doesn t make sense to you, but it is any sense to me either. it s not necessarily a huge, bad thing. but it s stuff it s the worst feeling, thinking that you re gonna be blame for your husband s death. melissa, understand that i m not blaming you. i m asking you to help me solve the problems with the questions i have, okay? because there was blood on melissa and gunshot residue. i don t know what to tell you. ....
Shot and bird shot. there are four other ones. so that matches. guess what? totally not true. that was totally not true. he admitted on the stand it was not true. he admitted telling alex during the interview he said well, i can do trickery. i said are you trying to trick the grand jury? no, i didn t say that. we walked through it and he did say it. he didn t remember it. you remember the testimony. i said look, people make mistakes, don t you? that was a mistake. it s okay to make a mistake, right? you can make mistakes about time. that s the most common thing people make mistakes about. it s not all right for alex murdaugh who is in the center of the circle, who not all right ....
Begrudgingly that he testified to the grand jury that there were four weapons found up on the property in the gun room, 12 gauges that were loaded or i m not saying 12 gauges, i m sorry, four shotguns that were loaded with buck shot and bird shot. there s four other ones, so that matches. well, guess what totally not true. that was totally not true, and he admitted on the stand it was not true. he admitted telling alec during the interview, he said i can do trickery. but he and then i said were you trying to trick the grand jury, no, i didn t say that. well, we walked through it and he did say it. and he didn t remember it, and you ll remember the testimony. people make mistakes, don t you? yeah, that was a mistake. it s okay to make mistakes, ....
0 work, your family, your personal obligations, maybe some of you missed vacations. but you ve been here in a three-week trial and here we are at the end of six weeks. i want to thank you personally and on behalf of all of us and especially on behalf of alex murdaugh. in his opening statement it was explained the law governing your service requires each of you to engage in an unnatural task. in every criminal case, jurors are required to begin the process by presuming the defendant innocent. in this case, you were required under your solemn oath as we began to presume alex murdaugh innocent of these charges. and frankly that s not natural. when you hear on the news a crime was made and the defendant was arrested you were relieved. i wouldn t be surprised when you read in the paper that alex murdaugh was charged with the murder of his wife and son that you thought oh good, they got him. but those opinions and each of you when you filled out your questionnaire agreed and affirmed that yo ....