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Jury visits crime scene before closings at Murdaugh trial

Prosecutor Creighton Waters holds up a composite sketch Alex Murdaugh helped make during closing arguments in Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in Walterboro, S.C. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool) Alex Murdaugh enters the courtroom before closing arguments begin in his trial for murder at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C. on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool) Buster Murdaugh, the son of Alex Murdaugh, listens as prosecutor Creighton Waters describes his father as a "family annihilator" during closing arguments in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in Walterboro, S.C. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool) Alex Murdaugh listens as prosecutor Creighton Waters makes closing arguments during his double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse on Wednesday, March 1, in Walterboro, S.C. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool) Dr. Ellen Riemer, a pathologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, is questioned by defense attorney Dick Harpootlian during Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool) Dr. Paul McManigal refutes the opinion of a previous witness, saying that Maggie and Paul Murdaugh's murderer could be any height if they crouch, during Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool) Members of the media gather to photograph Alex Murdaugh as he is brought into the courtroom for his double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool) The judge has agreed with a defense request to let jurors visit the Murdaughs property in Colleton County, South Carolina. Jurors are getting their own look Wednesday at the South Carolina estate where prosecutors say Alex Murdaugh shot and killed his wife and son Dr. Paul McManigal, right, refutes the opinion of a previous witness, saying that Maggie and Paul Murdaugh's murderer could be any height if they crouch, during Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool) Dr. Paul McManigal refutes the opinion of a previous witness, saying that Maggie and Paul Murdaugh's murderer could be any height if they crouch, during Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool) Defense attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin talk during Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool) Alex Murdaugh listens to Dr. Paul McManigal's testimony during Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool) The judge has agreed with a defense request to let jurors visit the Murdaughs property in Colleton County, South Carolina. Evidence shown in Alex Murdaugh's trial for murder shows the Colleton County property where the Murdaughs lived, at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C. on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. The judge has agreed with a defense request to let jurors ride 40 minutes to see the sprawling property. The exact date and time of the jury trip has not been scheduled because it is dependent on how many witnesses the prosecution calls in its reply case. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool)
Jury visits crime scene before closings at Murdaugh trial