Murdaugh’s testimony only cemented what they were already thinking - that he easily lied, and could turn on and off his tears at will, jurors said. He could have received as little as 30 years behind bars, but the judge gave him the maximum: two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.Īfter the trial, some jurors said that the key piece of evidence in finding the lawyer guilty was a video on his son Paul's cellphone that was shot minutes before the killings at the kennels near where the bodies were found. Murdaugh, who is also charged with about 100 counts of financial and other crimes, adamantly denied any involvement in the killings. Left to right: Paul, Alex, Maggie and Buster Murdaugh "You know, she's not 'the wife that was murdered.' I mean, we don't want her to be remembered that way", she added. "She was a person, she was a mother, she was a sister, she was a friend, she was a daughter," said West.
They noted that their friend doted on her sons and was a dutiful wife to her husband, whom Price said was "larger than life" while Maggie Murdaugh "wasn't flashy at all". The disgraced lawyer has been sentenced to life in prison after he shot dead his wife and their younger son.Ĭaroline Price and Shellie West said they want to make sure they remember their long-time friend for the good times - "the way she was, and not what happened," West said. In a case highlighted in the Netflix documentary Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal, the jury took less than three hours to conclude prominent lawyer Murdaugh was responsible for the deaths of son Paul, 22, and wife Maggie, 52. The downfall of this once all-powerful legal scion captivated the country with reporters and true-crime fanatics packing out the courtroom to hear the latest turns in the case. Two close friends of a murdered wife want to keep her memory alive and honour her for the woman she was instead of the terrible crime she was a victim of.
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