Why Were The Guns That Killed The Murdaughs Never Found?
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The episode discusses the mysterious absence of the guns used in the Murdaugh family murders and the implications for the upcoming trial.
Here's a fact in the Alex Murdaugh case that never stops being strange: the two guns used to kill Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were never recovered. Not the shotgun. Not the rifle. Two weapons, two victims at the family's dog kennels, and to this day neither one has been found. With the South Carolina Supreme Court having overturned Murdaugh's convictions and ordered a new trial, every piece of physical evidence is about to get a second look — and the missing weapons are near the top of the list. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski for the evidence-level conversation. The two guns don't match each other, and they don't match in origin: the rifle that killed Maggie reportedly traces back to a Murdaugh family firearm, while the shotgun that killed Paul has been tied to nothing on that property at all. The defense built a theory around the physics of it — that whoever fired the first weapon at close range couldn't have calmly turned and used the second. And there was no blood on Alex. Coffindaffer walks through what missing weapons do to a case, how investigators trace a gun's origin, and what it means when one weapon points inward and the other points…
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