The disgraced South Carolina attorney’s testimony convinced the jury that he was responsible for fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, at the family’s sprawling estate — and his tears weren’t believable, three jurors said on Monday.
. The fascination grew as the trial continued for more than six weeks, marked by emotional scenes in the courtroom when family and friends testified about Murdaugh before his tearful cross-examination.
previously told The Post that his client wanted to testify from the beginning, a decision the defense team wasn’t certain about until prosecutors brought the financial fraud allegations into the trial.The jurors said their visit to, the rural, 1,772-acre hunting estate in Islandton, S.C., where the Murdaugh family lived, was helpful to better understand the crime scene.
“I don’t know that we’ll ever know,” Juror Amie Williams told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin. “I think it may have been a combination of things. Not just financial, but everything was weighing heavy on him.”For years, Murdaugh had sought to conceal his secret life of stealing money and using opioids.
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