Third witness places Alex Murdaugh at wife, son murder scene

A third witness placed Alex Murdaugh at the murder scene after resoundingly pinpointing the disgraced legal scion’s voice in a video taken minutes before his wife and son were ruthlessly murdered.

Ronnie Crosby, a friend of the Murdaughs and attorney at The Parker Law Group, told jurors Tuesday that he could hear Murdaugh talking to his wife in the background of a video his son Paul took inside the family kennel, Fox News reported.

“The three voices on that video are the voices of Paul Murdaugh, Maggie Murdaugh and Alex Murdaugh,” Crosby said.

“How sure are you?” asked prosecutor Creighton Waters.

“I’m 100% sure that those voices are on the audio there,” Crosby said.

Crosby is the third to claim with certainty that Murdaugh could be heard talking in the minute-long video taken at 8:44 p.m. on June 7, 2021, just four minutes before Paul and his mother Maggie’s phones went dark.

The footage, which was introduced in court last week, threatens to compromise Murdaugh’s longstanding claim he was on a separate part of the South Carolina property when his wife and son were killed.

In the video, Paul, 22, appears to have been filming one of the animal’s tails — he had been texting with a friend who was worried about its condition.

Paul can be heard talking to the dog as he inspects the tail as two other voices — one female and one male — speak to one another in the background.

Prosecutors said Paul’s phone locked just four minutes after he took the video.

Prosecutors had called the video “crucial evidence” that Murdaugh was lying about his whereabouts the night of the murder. The fallen scion had repeatedly claimed he had not been near the kennels where Paul and Maggie’s bodies were found that night.

Murdaugh said the last time he saw his wife and son was when they ate dinner together around 8:15 p.m. He said he was sleeping on the couch when they were killed, and left around 9:06 p.m. to visit his sick mother, who was suffering from late-stage Alzheimer’s.

He repeatedly texted and called Maggie during the hour he was gone, though none of his messages were opened.

Murdaugh returned to the home at 10:01 p.m. and called 911 five minutes later to say he found Paul and Maggie’s bodies.

Paul had been shot twice with a shotgun. Maggie was shot multiple times with an AR-style rifle and received a single, execution-style shot to the back of her head while she was face-down on the ground.

During his damning testimony Tuesday, Crosby also suggested Murdaugh had killed his family in an attempt to hide legal fees connected to a fatal 2019 boat crash involving his son, Buster.

According to Crosby, Murdaugh had “suggested” to The Parker Law Group’s CFO that he was trying to hide the millions of dollars he owed after his son drunkenly crashed Murdaugh’s boat off the coast of South Carolina, a tragedy that left a 19-year-old girl dead.

“Oh f–k no, we’re not,” Crosby said was his reaction at the time, adding that the suggestion was “illegal” and “unethical.”

Murdaugh has maintained his innocence since he was indicted last summer and has rejected claims he killed his wife and son in an effort to cover up his extensive financial crimes.

He is also facing 99 separate charges of financial fraud and is accused of trying to get a man to kill him so his surviving son could collect a $10 million life insurance policy.

Crosby also testified that the firm changed its name to Parker Law Group after Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes. Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick was founded in 1910 by Alex Murdaugh’s great-grandfather.