Alex Murdaugh was confronted by the son of ‘little detective’ Paul about the pills his mother found

A voicemail has revealed how opioid addict Alex Murdaugh was confronted by his “little detective” son about the pills his mother found a month before their brutal murders.

Murdaugh is accused of fatally shooting his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, on the family’s hunting property in Moselle, Lowcountry, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021.

A month before the murders, Paul left his father a voicemail saying, ‘I’m still at EB (Edisto Beach) because when you get here we need to talk. Mom found several bags of pills in your computer bag.

Cell phone records show that on the same day, May 6, Maggie googled ‘white pill 30 on a side rp’. The description matches that of a 30mg oxycodone hydrochloride pill, a high-potency opioid used to treat severe pain.

Murdaugh checked into a rehab center in Atlanta, Georgia, three months after the murders, telling police he had been paying $60,000 a week for opioids.

Maggie cleared the searches she did on May 6th for the white pills.

Jurors heard Maggie refer to Paul as her “little detective” because he would find out if her father was on pills.

Maggie’s older sister, Marian Proctor, told the court earlier this week that Murdaugh’s drug abuse bothered his wife and had “been going on for some time.”

The prosecution is nearing completion of its case and today shows the jury more phone records of the Murdaugh family.

A voicemail from Murdaugh to his banker Russel Lafitte on March 6 showed that he was asking if he could extend his line of credit for another $600,000.

“My dad will also sign if necessary,” he told Lafitte.

Prosecutors say that at the time of the murders, the millions that the disbarred lawyer had accumulated in debt had come to a head “like a gathering storm.”

On the day that Maggie and Paul were murdered, Murdaugh was faced with more than $792,000 that he stole from the company.

A hearing was due to be held later that week to determine the status of his finances in the shipwreck lawsuit.

Murdaugh told lawyers for the de Beach family that he was broke and that the court heard how he was diverting funds from the firm to his personal accounts in an attempt to protect the money from the lawsuit.

Maggie had recently confided in her housekeeper that they were being sued for $30 million.

The defense theory is that someone else killed Maggie and Paul in revenge for the boat accident. Murdaugh’s lawyers have also suggested that a violent drug gang called the Walterboro Cowboys may have been involved.

They argue that their client was a ‘loving’ husband and father who could never have killed his wife and child. They have dismissed as “ridiculous” the supposed economic motivation of the State.

Murdaugh claims that he went to visit his mother around 9 pm on the night of the murders. The State says that Maggie and Paul were killed shortly after 8:49 pm and that a video taken by Paul at 8:45 pm proves that she was at the scene.

Several witnesses, including close friends of the family, have testified that they can hear the voices of Alex, Maggie and Paul in the footage.

But the suspected killer told investigators that he was never at the kennels.

Murdaugh says the family had dinner together around 8:15 p.m. and Maggie and Paul went down to the kennels while he fell asleep in front of the TV.

At 9:06 p.m., he set his Chevrolet Suburban on fire and went to visit his mother in Almeda, about 15 minutes away.

He claims he was there for about 40 minutes, though this is denied by his mother’s caretaker, who said he was only in the house for 20 minutes.

Murdaugh says that he returned to the hunting estate to find Maggie and Paul dead in the kennels. She called 911 at 10:07 p.m.

First responders have testified that they did not check on either Maggie or Paul because their injuries were so horrific as to be “incompatible with life.” Two shots entered Maggie’s head, while Paul’s brain was completely separated from her skull.

The court previously heard evidence that when officers arrived, Murdaugh’s clothing appeared clean to the extent that police believed he had changed recently.

Blood tests performed on his white jersey later came back positive. However, Murdaugh says that she touched their bodies to look for signs of life.

An earlier video taken that night by Paul at 7:56 p.m. shows Murdaugh wearing a blue shirt, long pants, and brown loafers.

The family’s housekeeper, Blanca Simpson, testified last week that she never saw the clothes again.

The State intends to rest its case today and then the defense will begin calling its own witnesses.

The trial is taking place at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, a quiet rural town 50 miles west of Charleston in a low-lying region of South Carolina over which the Murdaugh family has wielded immense judicial power and political.

In fact, in the courtroom where Murdaugh is facing trial, a portrait of his late grandfather, legendary 14th Circuit attorney Buster Murdaugh Jr., had hung on the wall before it was removed before trial.

After the murder trial, Murdaugh will have to face more than 100 additional criminal charges, ranging from drug trafficking to accusations that he stole nearly $9 million from clients and other lawyers.