Murdaugh on Trial: The Prosecution Rests

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Go inside the courtroom for the trial of the year. Today Show Anchor and Dateline Correspondent Craig Melvin and Dateline Producer Carol Gable — two proud natives of South Carolina — dissect the just-concluded prosecution case against Alex Murdaugh for the murders of his wife and son, charges to which he has pleaded not guilty. They analyze key moments, review dramatic testimony, and assess the trial so far, with the defense about to take center stage.

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0:00.0	Are we recording?
0:04.0	Okay, before we get started, Craig, you come on these podcasts with me with your really
0:09.1	smooth anchor man voice.
0:11.1	I just want to remind you what the famous philosopher Loretta Lynn said, where I'm from,
0:18.4	this is not an accent.
0:25.4	You should have saved it for the podcast.
0:27.8	We just said it, they're recording.
0:30.8	Alright, are we ready to start?
0:32.6	Alright, here we go.
0:37.1	It was a pitch black night back in June of 2021 when Maggie and Paul Murdoch were found
1:01.4	shot to death on their family's sprawling country property.
1:06.7	That tragedy and the events that followed brought national, even international attention
1:12.6	to tiny Hampton, South Carolina as the life of Alec Murdoch, a third generation member of
1:18.4	a powerful legal dynasty, unraveled spectacularly.
1:23.4	It was just so bad, I did it so bad.
1:28.3	I'm Craig Melvin, NBC anchor and Dateline correspondent and this is Murdoch on trial, the prosecution
1:36.8	rests.
1:37.8	A perfect storm that was gathering, that all came to a head on June 7, 2021, the day the
1:45.0	evidence will show he killed Maggie and Paul.
1:51.9	As the trial plays out, we are going to be with you every step of the way, with inside
1:57.4	information and analysis on one of the biggest and most dramatic trials in South Carolina's
2:04.4	low country in decades.
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