Smith said she did not see any blood on him. It was later than he had ever visited before. Smith told jurors that Murdaugh arrived at his mother's on the night of the murders wearing a T-shirt and shorts. She was so concerned by the instruction from Murdaugh that she later told her police officer brother about the conversation. Smith said this made her 'nervous' because she recalled he had only been there for half that time. The caregiver wept as she described how he showed up to his parents' house a few days later and pointedly told her that he was with his mother for 30 to 40 minutes on the night of the killings. His mother Libby, who is in the late stages of Alzheimer's, was in bed and Murdaugh lay next to her in the bedroom. He appeared 'fidgety' and was periodically looking at his phone during the visit which lasted between 15 and 20 minutes. Murdaugh's mother's caregiver, Smith, testified on Monday that he visited on the night of the killings at some time between 9pm and 9.30pm. He told jurors this had been done by the manufacturer.Īs a result, the FBI had to take another 2021 Chevrolet Suburban and reverse engineer the computer encryption to crack the code. It is possible that he drove back to the main house and then back to the kennels - around 400 yards away - after retrieving the firearm.įalkofske said the data from the Suburban's onboard computer was encrypted, not something he had ever encountered before. However, Murdaugh was holding a shotgun when cops arrived. The log data does not prove the car was moving, Dwight Falkofske, an FBI electronics engineer told jurors Wednesday. The car went into park at 9.22pm, apparently arriving at his mother's, then 21 minutes later, at 9.43pm the car is taken out of park again, indicating he was headed home.īetween 10pm and 10.13pm the car was taken out of a park five times.
The disgraced attorney, 54, told detectives he was at his mother's for around 40 minutes - and instructed her caregiver, Shelley Smith, to say the same - although she wept as she told jurors last week that he was actually there for half that time.ĭata seized from the computer of his 2021 Chevrolet Suburban - which took the FBI a year to decrypt - yesterday appeared to shatter his alibi.
He then fired up his Chevrolet Suburban at 9.06pm and drove to his mother's home in Almeda - around 15 minutes away - in order to 'manufacture an alibi', the State suggests. Prosecutors say Murdaugh shot Maggie and Paul dead at the family's hunting estate at Moselle, South Carolina, at 8.50pm on June 7, 2021.
Alex Murdaugh's car data appears to prove he spent just 20 minutes at his mother's house on the night of the double murders - despite claiming he was there for 40 minutes.
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