Maggie Murdaugh’s sister wept on the stand today as she recalled how Alex told her whoever shot his wife and son ‘had thought about it for a really long time.’
Marian Proctor told the court that Murdaugh did not seem scared that the murderers could still be out there and seemed more intent on ‘clearing his son’s name’ following a drunken boat crash two years before.
Proctor said she did not talk to Alex much in the aftermath because he was ‘just really busy. The whole town was coming to see him. He was very, very, very torn up.’
Later she asked if he had any idea who had shot Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, dead. ‘We’ve got to find,’ she recalled saying. Alex told her he had no idea but said ‘whoever did it had thought about it for a really long time.’
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Proctor said she asked him if Maggie had suffered and the alleged killer assured her that her sister had not. ‘Now I’m not sure that that’s true,’ Proctor told the court.
Alex Murdaugh pictured with his wife Maggie and their two sons Paul (left) and Buster
