Alex Murdaugh’s jury reveals why the jury was so quick to find him guilty

One of the jurors who convicted Alex Murdaugh broke his cover to tell how it took just 45 minutes for the jury to unanimously find him guilty of double murder.

Craig Moyer appeared on Good Morning America Friday morning to explain why he and his fellow jurors felt Murdaugh was guilty of killing his wife Maggie and son Paul on their South Carolna property in June 2021.

“He was a good liar, but not good enough,” Moyer said, breaking his anonymity to discuss the blockbuster trial that had the United States trapped.

When the jury entered the deliberation room yesterday, nine were already convinced of Murdaugh’s guilt, including Moyer.

Two thought he was innocent and another juror was undecided.

Moyer revealed Friday that it took just 45 minutes of deliberations to convince the other three jurors of his guilt.

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‘You start deliberating, you review the evidence and everyone was practically talking.

‘About 45 minutes later, after all our deliberations, we figured it out. The evidence was clear.

Moyer said the nail in Murdaugh’s coffin was a video filmed by his son Paul moments before the murders, in which his voice can be heard in the background.

Murdaugh had always denied being anywhere near the kennel where the bodies of his wife and son were found, but admitted at trial that he had lied and was heard on video.

Moyer also said the jury was not convinced by Murdaugh’s emotional testimony on the stand.

“I didn’t see any real remorse or compassion or anything. She never cried.

All he did was blow his nose. [There were] without tears. I saw the eyes of her,’ Moyer said.

The defense claimed that Murdaugh would not have had enough time. I think there’s enough time to shoot his wife and son, clean up, visit his mother, and then return to the scene where he called the police.

Moyer, however, said he and the jurors felt he had “enough time” to do all of those things.

He also said they were baffled by Murdaugh’s apparent preparation.

‘His answers, how quick he was with the defense and his lies… just constant lies.’

Murdaugh will return to court this morning for sentencing. He faces life in prison.

Yesterday, he did not show any emotion when he was found guilty.

He had wept on the stand, telling the court about his crippling opioid addiction and financial problems, but insisting that he did not kill his wife and child.

Prosecutor Creighton Waters also appeared on GMA on Friday to reveal his cross-examination strategy.

He has been able to talk his way out of responsibility all his life. People like that are convinced of their own ability to do that.

He was convinced that he was going to testify. My strategy was to establish who he was.

‘You know, he wouldn’t even concede to the jury that he was rich.

“The idea was for him to talk about himself, his life, and then go into the details of his new story that he was telling the world for the first time.”

Among those who appeared in court yesterday was Buster Murdaugh, the only surviving son of the legal heir.

Buster has never explained why he supported his father. When he read the verdict aloud to himself, he dropped his head into his hands.

In his closing arguments, Waters told the jury: ‘No one knew who this man was.

“He avoided accountability all his life, he had relied on his family name, he had a powerful family, he wore a badge and wore it with authority, he lived a rich life, but now he was finally facing utter ruin.”

He added that the legal offspring “is the type of person for whom shame is an extraordinary provocation” and faced with financial ruin that his “ego couldn’t bear … he became a family annihilator.”

He concluded the speech with the fervent plea: ‘This defendant has deceived everyone, everyone.

“Everyone who thought they were close to him he fooled them all and he also fooled Maggie and Paul and they paid with their lives.

Don’t let him fool you too.