Prosecutors challenged Alex Murdaugh’s testimony Tuesday by recalling his former law partner and close friend, Ronnie Crosby, as their first witness in their rebuttal case in Walterboro, South Carolina.
On the stand last week, Murdaugh told jurors that he checked Maggie and Paul’s pulses while he was on the phone with 911 after finding his slain wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, June 7, 2021.
Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters asked Crosby, who arrived at the crime scene the night of the murders to support his grieving friend, what Murdaugh told him.
“My understanding of what he told me was that he checked them before he called 911,” Crosby replied.
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The disbarred attorney’s account allegedly changed after data from his Chevrolet Suburban revealed he called police less than twenty seconds after his car pulled up at the murder scene.
Murdaugh has denied fatally shooting his wife and son near the dog kennels at the family’s sprawling hunting estate known as Moselle at about 8:50 p.m.
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Waters also asked Crosby when he’d first heard Murdaugh admit that he was at the crime scene with the victims minutes before they were murdered.
Crosby replied that it was during Murdaugh’s testimony last week.
Murdaugh initially told Crosby and investigators that he hadn’t gone to the kennels the night of the slayings, but he changed his story after video recovered from Paul’s phone in 2022 contradicted that claim and placed him at the dog kennels at 8:45 p.m.
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On cross-examination, defense lawyer Dick Harpootlian suggested that Crosby’s testimony was informed by his resentment of Murdaugh for stealing from the law firm where they were once both partners.
“Are you angry at him for stealing your money?” Harpootlian boomed.
“I have had anger with him, extreme anger, Mr. Harpootlian, because of what he did to my law firm, my partners, my clients, his clients, our clients, what he did to his family, what he’s did to so many people” he replied.
Crosby insisted this betrayal had no impact on his testimony.
Prosecutors recalled Dr. Ellen Riemer, a pathologist who previously testified that the second shot that killed Paul grazed his shoulder, entered his neck and blew his brain out the top of his head.
A pair of defense witnesses Monday testified that Paul was shot in the back of the head with a shotgun pressed against his skin and that the shooter would have been covered in Paul’s blood, brain matter and tissue.
H/T Fox News (read more at FoxNews.com)
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