Prosecutor: Alex Murdaugh ‘Fuzzy’ About New Details of Case

Prosecutor: Alex Murdaugh ‘Fuzzy’ About New Details of Case
Prosecutor Creighton Waters (L) asks Alex Murdaugh if he recognizes two solicitors badges during Murdaugh's murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., on Feb. 23, 2023. Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool
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Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh faced intense questioning about his movements the night his wife and son were killed as the prosecutor challenged inconsistencies in his memory Friday at his double murder trial.

A day after revealing for the first time that he was at the kennels where his wife and son were shot shortly before they died, Murdaugh returned to the stand in his own defense. During cross-examination, prosecutor Creighton Waters grilled Murdaugh about what he repeatedly called the once-prominent lawyer’s “new story” about what happened at the kennels on the evening June 7, 2021.