Alex Murdo jurors see bullet holes while examining horrific crime scene

The jurors who will decide the fate of Alex Murdo visited on Wednesday the hunting lodge in South Carolina where his wife and son were found murdered, taking a detailed look at the site where the horrific crime took place for the first time.

Alex Murdo has been charged with the murder of his 22-year-old son Paul and 52-year-old wife Maggie Murdo, who were found dead on June 7, 2021 from two different weapons, neither of which was found.

The jury was able to look into the small feeder where Paul was found dead on Wednesday. Paul was shot at such close range that after the crime, the room was covered in his blood and body remains.

Alex’s brother John Marvin Murdo tearfully described how he cleaned up the crime scene at the booth on Monday, saying, “I saw blood, I saw brains, I saw pieces of the skull, I saw tissues.

“And when I say brains, it might just be tissue. I don’t know what I saw, it was just awful.”

However, he added that he considers it his duty to his nephew to disinfect the area.

The tour of the Islandton property was approved by Colleton County Court Judge Clifton Newman, who joined the jury during the tour.

The tour, already spooky enough, most likely passed silently – jurors are not allowed to talk to each other about the case before deliberation, and lawyers cannot note details that they think are important to the jury.

Murdo’s lawyer, Dick Harputlian, requested the tour in the hope that it would give the jury context for his clients’ alibis: that he was at the main house when his loved ones were brutally murdered, and that it was far enough away that he couldn’t hear the gunfire.

The disgraced lawyer, who is also accused of dozens of financial crimes, admitted that he had previously lied and was in fact in a dog kennel near the murder site right before the murder, but said that right before that, he drove a golf cart to the main house. murders. Murdo then went to visit his sick mother and returned to find Paul and Maggie dead.

Throughout the six-week trial, the prosecution alleged that Murdo murdered his family members to divert attention from his financial crimes, portraying him as a rich, deceitful and drug addict who would do anything for money.

Murdo, who returned to jail every night while the trial was underway, told the jury that he was deeply flawed but insisted that he would never kill his wife and son.

Like John Marvin, Alex’s surviving son Buster came to his defense, testifying on the stand how his father called him to say that his mother and brother had been shot and “destroyed” as he rushed to their home.

After returning from the tour, the jury heard the closing arguments of the prosecution.

“This man is trying to convince you that he was at a nursery, then came back and quickly dozed off in the shortest sleep in the history of the South,” Attorney Creighton Waters said in court on Wednesday after the tour.

Waters said that Murdo’s reputation was about to be damaged when his financial schemes collapsed and “his ego couldn’t take it … And he became a family destroyer.”