Murdaugh Prosecutors Called This DNA WHAT?
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of unidentified DNA evidence in the Alex Murdaugh case and the ongoing legal battles surrounding it.
The unidentified male DNA found under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails has been sitting untouched for eight years, and Alex Murdaugh's prosecutors are fighting to keep an independent lab from finishing the job SLED never did. One test, one conclusion that it wasn't family, and then nothing. No effort to find out who it actually belonged to. The defense wants a forensic genealogy lab, the same kind of lab that identified Bryan Kohberger in Idaho, to test what's left before it degrades. The state wants first access, running the same process that already fell short, in a procedure the defense says risks destroying the remaining sample before an outsider ever examines it. Think about what that means. If prosecutors are confident this DNA is nothing, an independent test proves them right at zero cost. Fighting it only makes sense if the answer might not be what they're hoping for. The defense has also laid out a broader pattern in this case: a white T-shirt that tested negative for blood, a blood spatter expert who allegedly reversed his conclusions after the lead investigator paid him a visit, and a SLED captain accused of ordering subordinates to bury results that helped the defense…
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