Alex Murdaugh alibi ‘unraveling’ as trial may last two more weeks: source

Alex Murdaugh’s dead son, Paul, caused him no end of trouble when he was alive — and may help convict him of double murder from beyond the grave.

As the sensational Murdaugh trial wraps up its third week at the Colleton County courthouse in Walterboro, SC, the 54-year-old lawyer, accused of murdering his wife and troubled son in June 2021, has appeared much less sure of himself than he did when he was all smug smiles as the trial began on Jan. 23.

Murdaugh, who has since been disbarred, has sobbed openly at times.

Part of his courtroom consternation could stem from a crucial bit of evidence: a video extracted from Paul’s cellphone that may upend a key tenet of Murdaugh’s alibi.

Murdaugh initially told officers who arrived at the scene of the double homicide — the family’s 1,700-acre rural estate, Moselle — that he had not been at the dog kennels where the bodies of his wife, Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, were found. He said he only discovered their bodies after visiting his elderly mother in a nearby town.