What Creighton Waters Learned About the Murdaugh Evidence in Open Court
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The episode discusses new developments in the Murdaugh case, focusing on evidence presented during a recent court hearing.
Alex Murdaugh's defense raised something in the Lexington County courtroom on August 14 that Creighton Waters did not see coming. The defense told Judge Debra McCaslin that weapons from a recent Allendale County murder may connect to the Murdaugh murder weapons. Waters told the court he had never heard a word about it, despite daily communication with SLED. Jennifer Coffindaffer, a retired FBI Special Agent, joins Tony Brueski to cover the August 14 hearing and what it tells an investigator about how SLED managed the evidence in this case. McCaslin ordered SLED to release fingernail DNA from Maggie Murdaugh to the defense for outside testing. The standard SLED analysis detected unknown male DNA under her fingernails but could not identify whose it was. The defense argued SLED's retesting protocol would destroy the remaining sample. The venue was moved entirely out of the Colleton County circuit. McCaslin said she will personally oversee how jurors are selected. The first trial conviction was reversed after the clerk of court was found to have improperly influenced the jury. The court ruled Murdaugh's 2023 testimony will be played in the retrial. That includes his admission he…
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