The brother of a disgraced lawyer accused of murdering his spouse and youthful son tearfully recounted cleansing up his nephew’s stays on the crime scene.
John Marvin Murdaugh testified as the ultimate witness in protection of his older brother, disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who has pleaded not responsible within the killings of his spouse Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22.
Within the Walterboro, South Carolina, courtroom on Monday, John cried as he informed jurors that cleansing Paul’s stays was ‘the hardest thing’ he ever did.
‘I saw blood, I saw brains, I saw pieces of skull,’ mentioned John. ‘It was terrible.’
John went to the canine kennels on the crime scene at Alex’s looking property and located Paul’s stays throughout the feeding room. John mentioned he felt he wanted to gather the stays of Paul, who had labored at his gear store.
‘It felt like it was the right thing to do. I felt like I owed him, and I started cleaning, and I promise you no mother or father or aunt or uncle should ever have to see or do what I did that day,’ John mentioned. ‘It’s the toughest factor I’ve ever been by means of in my life.’
John mentioned he made a promise to Paul as he cleaned up.
‘I told Paul I loved him, and I promised him I’d discover out who did this,’ John mentioned.
When requested by protection lawyer Jim Griffin if he found who the killer was, John mentioned: ‘I have not.’
Investigators had informed John and his siblings that they knew Alex was liable for the double homicide due to the T-shirt he wore.
‘They told us that it was covered in blood,’ testified John. ‘They went so far as to tell me on the police bodycam that he takes his shirt and wipes his face and that’s how they knew that Alex was on the scene, and that he was the one.’
In line with the protection group, the T-shirt didn’t take a look at optimistic for blood.
An skilled mentioned that Alex’s shirt was ‘stained with high-velocity blood spatter resulting from shooting Maggie and Paul’, however prosecutors didn’t find yourself presenting proof to again up the declare.
The protection wrapped up its case after calling 14 witnesses over two weeks. Monday additionally marked the sixth week of Alex’s trial. Among the many protection’s witnesses was Alex’s surviving son Buster, 26, who wept as he recalled his dad calling him to say Maggie and Paul have been useless.
Alex has plead not responsible to 2 counts of homicide and two weapons fees.
Decide Clifton Newman dominated that jurors can be allowed to go to the Murdaugh household’s property the place the 2 our bodies have been discovered after the rebuttal witnesses, and earlier than closing arguments.
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