Final text aside, Maggie Murdaugh’s cell phone proved an important piece of evidence. Her phone was reportedly in airplane mode when she was killed, but the device still recorded its location information indicating it was picked up repeatedly and moved some distance after she died, and that its orientation had also changed, according to Today. After the murders took place, someone seemed to have tried and failed to use its facial recognition function to unlock it.
After her death, Maggie’s phone also received three unanswered calls from Alex Murdaugh before his last text arrived. In addition, Murdaugh made several other phone calls to those close to the family. Maggie’s final, unread text from her husband was received 20 minutes before Murdaugh called 911 to report his wife and son were “not breathing,” per The Daily Beast.
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Murdaugh later said he was not at home when his wife and son were killed. According to Murdaugh, he was visiting his mother, who was ill. In light of all that, state prosecutor Creighton Waters said to the jury at Murdaugh’s trial (via Daily Beast), “It’s up to you to decide whether or not he was trying to manufacture an alibi.”
