Jurors at Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial in South Carolina heard evidence Tuesday that gunshot residue was found inside a rain jacket found at his mother’s home three months after his wife and son were killed.
A judge’s decision to allow the testimony was the second win for prosecutors in as many days. Judge Clifton Newman on Monday allowed prosecutors to call witnesses to testify that Murdaugh was stealing money from his law firm and clients and committing other financial crimes long before the killings.
Later Tuesday, once of Murdaugh’s law partners testified about how his firm found out Murdaugh was stealing money and also about trying to collect birdshot from the scene of the shootings at the Murdaugh property the day after the deaths but stopping because they were sickened by the gore still around after the crime scene agents left….