![]() Murdaugh claimed he never Googled a restaurant near his beach house on Edisto Island which his phone records show he did after finding Maggie and Paul.During his testimony, Murdaugh denied a series of claims made by the State, including that he told his mom's caregiver to change her story to match his alibi.Defense Attorney Dick Harpootlian told the judge 'it hurts my feelings'.The disgraced legal scion took the stand against the advice of his attorneys.He said far from helping, Maggie and Paul's deaths complicated his finances.Asked whether he thought his 'financial house of cards was about to crumble' on the day of the murders, Murdaugh told jurors: 'Absolutely not'.Murdaugh said Maggie was 'as beautiful inside as she was outside'.He described Paul 'as just so sweet' and challenged anyone who really knew him - who does not have 'an ulterior motive' - to say anything negative about his son.PawPaw got so many threats I didn't take serious' Murdaugh recalled speaking to Paul's lifeless body that night: 'I said PawPaw, I should have known.He said he believed his son had been killed in revenge for a fatal boat accident during which Paul was driving under the influence in February, 2019.Murdaugh denied shooting the pair, saying: 'I didn't shoot my wife or son, ever'.The legal scion told jurors he was not 'capable of reason' that night and apologized: 'Most of all I am sorry to Mags (Maggie) and PawPaw (Paul)'. ![]() He claimed his crippling opioid addiction made him paranoid about the police.Murdaugh admitted for the first time he lied when he told cops he was not at the kennels earlier on the night of the killings.On a day of blockbuster testimony in 'the trial of the century'. Maggie, Paul and Alex are pictured at the younger son's high school graduation My boy was lying face down and I could see his brain hanging on the side wall,' Murdaugh said. He smiled at the jury, adding: 'I am very proud of that.'Įarlier he broke down on the stand as he described how he arrived home from visiting his mother to find his wife and son shot dead. 'Paul was so bad. Murdaugh told the court he was no longer suicidal, saying that he had been clean for 535 days. Murdaugh hoped it would earn Buster, 26, a $12m life insurance payout. I had been through so much,' he sobbed as he described his suicide attempt. ' I knew all this was coming to a head, I knew how humiliating it was going to be for my son (Buster). Prosecutors say he was 'out of time and out of options' after stealing more than $10m from clients and partners at his law firm. He is accused of killing Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, at the family's hunting estate in Moselle, SC, on June 7, 2021. The disgraced legal scion, 54, said he was in the grips of a 20-year addiction when he asked his cousin, Curtis 'Eddie' Smith, to shoot him in a botched suicide attempt three months after the murders of his wife and son. Alex Murdaugh today admitted stealing money from his law firm to fund his 'extremely bad' opioid habit - but smiled proudly as he told jurors he is now sober.
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