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‘Murdaugh Murders’ Saga: Anatomy Of An Alibi
November 8 2022
Ironclad and airtight? Not anymore …
What has happened to his “ironclad” and “airtight” alibi along the way?
Let’s look at the timeline …
As our intrepid researcher
Jenn Wood detailed in our most recent ‘
Week In Review’ episode, “the alibis and narratives coming from Alex Murdaugh’s defense team and family have been evolving for over a year now.”
And are continuing to evolve …
According to Wood, Murdaugh’s original alibi centered around him taking his very sick father,
Randolph Murdaugh III, to the hospital in Savannah, Georgia on the evening of the murders.
“This narrative first developed when Alex’s brothers, John Marvin and Randy Murdaugh, made an appearance on
Good Morning America on June 17, 2021 – just ten days after the murders,” Wood noted. “Alex’s brothers told reporters that on the day Maggie and Paul were murdered, Alex had taken their father Randolph to the hospital. After that, he reportedly checked in on his mother before returning to (Moselle).”
“The details provided were scant, but left little room for interpretation,” Wood added.
This was the official Murdaugh version of events prior to May 10, 2022. On that date, an interview given to
Seton Tucker of the
Murdaugh Family Murders podcast pulled a rug out from under it.
According to Tucker’s podcast, John Marvin told her his brother Randy called him on the day of the homicides and asked him –
not Alex – to take their ailing father to the hospital that evening. John Marvin obliged, picking up the late solicitor from his home in Almeda, S.C. and driving him to Savannah in his mother’s car. John Marvin also stated he asked Paul Murdaugh to retrieve his truck and drive it to work the following day – and that it was
his truck Paul drove to Moselle on the night he was killed.
“Were Randy and John Marvin simply confused?” Wood wondered. “Or did they lie to
Good Morning America? Did they tell investigators the same story about that night? Or did the lying stop with the press? If John Marvin admittedly took his own father to the hospital yet stated to reporters (and possibly investigators) that his brother had done this exact same task – which assisted with the establishment of his alibi – is there not some criminal culpability?”
At 9:21 p.m. EDT, Alex called his mother’s nurse’s aide and asked to be let in the home, Griffin said. Upon his arrival, he watched a gameshow with his mother for twenty minutes and departed for Moselle at 9:41 p.m. EDT, according to his lawyer.
Is that all he did, though?
As I reported last month,
a witness for the state reportedly observed Murdaugh “engaging in some suspicious activity during his brief visit to Almeda in the immediate aftermath of the murders.”
According to our sources, this witness saw Alex “hide something wrapped in a blue tarp behind (his parents) house” upon arriving from Moselle. Another source referred to the blue tarp as a “rain slicker” – or rain jacket – but confirmed “it was blue.”
“It ended up being a rain jacket the witness thought was a tarp,” the source said.
Whatever the blue water resistant item was, “there was significant GSR (gunshot residue) on it,” one of our sources said.
Murdaugh allies have pushed back against this report, confirming the existence of the rain jacket but insisting it did not belong to Murdaugh. They also claim it did not fit him and (perhaps most significantly) did not
contain his DNA anywhere on it.
Also, as I noted in my report, any items which were “transported inside (the rain jacket) … were not retrieved from the scene.”
Will Murdaugh’s “ironclad” and “airtight” alibi continue to evolve as the facts of the case are presented in open court?
Ironclad and airtight? Not anymore ...
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