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WALTERBORO, S.C. () — The double murder trial of disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh is getting closer to its end. Murdaugh is accused of killing his wife and youngest son, Maggie and Paul, at their hunting lodge in June of 2021.
The defense rested its case on Monday and the prosecution is expected to call four to five rebuttal witnesses to close out their case.
The prosecution will have to deal with the fallout from yesterday’s testimony from an expert who brought up a two-shooter theory stating that one person could not have committed both crimes because of the time period involved and the potential damage the first contact wound shot on Paul Murdaugh may have caused to the shooter.
Prosecutors will call experts to refute the defense claims and lock down evidence that shows Alex could have been the shooter and was at the scene that night.
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Once testimony finishes, the jury will take a trip to the crime scene itself. The judge agreed with a defense motion Monday to send the jurors to see the kennels at Moselle and get a better sense of the location Maggie and Paul were killed.
The trial will resume at 9:30 a.m.
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