
"You'll see that video and you'll hear from witnesses that identify Paul's voice, Maggie's voice and Alex's voice," Waters said, telling the court Paul was filming a dog that belonged to his friend because they were concerned about the animal's tail. Prosecutor Creighton Waters of the South Carolina Attorney General's Office - which is prosecuting the case due to the Murdaugh family's decades-old ties with the local solicitor's office - teased the video in his opening statement last week, saying that while Alex claimed to investigators he was napping at the house, video evidence would show he was present at the family's kennels, where the bodies of his son and wife were found. The prosecution ended its direct questioning of Dove without clarifying who the voices belonged to, CNN reported.

Murdaugh appeared emotional while the video played in court.

And while Dove did not personally know the voices, he said, "You can tell that they're different voices." In his review of the trio's phones, the footage was the only video or photo Dove deemed relevant to the investigation, he said, telling the court it appeared to be recorded in the area of the Murdaugh family's kennels.ĭove believed Paul was trying to take a video of a dog's tail, he told the court, adding three different voices could be heard in the footage. the night of the killings, Dove testified. The video, just short of a minute long, was filmed on Paul's phone starting at 8:44 p.m.
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David Britton Dove, a supervisor in the computer crimes center at the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, who extracted all forensics from the phone of Murdaugh's 22-year-old son Paul, as well as those belonging to Alex Murdaugh and his wife Maggie. Prosecutors in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh played footage in court Wednesday that could undercut the disgraced former attorney's claim he was not present at the scene of the killings when his wife and son were murdered.Ĭourt proceeded Wednesday with the continued testimony of Lt.
