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>> we would talk about the boat case. and he was very intent on clearing paul's name. >> what did he say? >> he said that -- his number one goal was clearing paul's name. and i thought that was so strange because my number one goal was to find out who killed my sister and paul. >> reporter: regarding his whereabouts the night of the murders, maggie's sister told the jury that alex told her family that he had not gone to the dog kennels where the murders took place earlier that night. >> you said he never went to the kennel? >> correct. >> reporter: keep in mind, alex told investigators he wasn...

>> i just don't know what that meant. >> she also testified following the murders that alec seemed focused on resolving a boat lawsuit his son paul was involved. and >> we would talk about the boat case. and he was very intent on clearing paul's name. >> what did he say? >> he said that his number one goal was clearing paul's name. and i thought that was so strange, because my number one goal was to find out who killed my sister and paul. >> regarding his whereabouts the night of the murders, maggie's sister told the jury that alex told her family that he had not gone to the dog kennels for th...

>> yes. >> reporter: proctor shared how she felt after learning about their deaths. >> i couldn't believe it. i didn't think that it was true. >> reporter: maggie murdaugh's sister testified about what she sdri described as an odd conversation she had with alex in the days following the murders she said she asked if they suffered and he assured her they did not. >> and i said do you have any idea who has done this? we have got to find out who could do this. and he said that he did not know who it was, but he felt like whoever did it had thought about it for a really long time. >> temperature s...

What shirt he had on that day, correct? >> it did feel like he was inquiring. it felt more like he was trying to convince me of the shirt that he was wearing. >> simpson agreed with the defense murdoch was a loving husband and father. but said and maggie confided in her that she felt her husband was hiding details of a multimillion dollar lawsuit he faced as a result of their son paul's 2019 boating accident that claimed the life of 19-year-old malory beach. the beach family attorney was trying to compel murdoch to turn over his personal financial records. prosecutors claim murdoch feared that...

Paul murdaugh, the now deceased son of the defendant in this case, was accused of driving that boat under the influence when it crashed. alex murdaugh owned the boat. he had been named in a civil suit filed by this attorney, a $10 million civil suit related to that boat crash. what we heard in his testimony today, this attorney said that the moment paul and maggie were killed, the wife and son of the defendant in this case, that it meant the civil case, that the defendant was facing, millions of dollars that he could have had to pay, that that essentially was going to be over. listen. >> did t...