What Alex Murdaugh's Prosecutor Admitted He'd Never Been Told

The lead prosecutor in the Alex Murdaugh murder case found out about potential evidence linked to the murder weapons from the defense — in open court. Creighton Waters told the judge on August 14 that he had never heard of the development. He said he communicates with SLED daily.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski on True Crime Today to go through the Lexington County pretrial hearing and what it means for the retrial scheduled for April 2027.

Judge Debra McCaslin granted the defense access to fingernail DNA collected from Maggie Murdaugh. SLED's standard method had confirmed unknown male DNA but failed to identify it. The defense had fought to prevent SLED from retesting the sample internally, arguing the process would consume the only material available for independent analysis. McCaslin ruled an outside lab would get access.

The retrial has been relocated out of the Colleton County circuit. The first trial was held where the Murdaugh family name carried decades of institutional power. McCaslin is personally overseeing jury selection after the first conviction was thrown out due to jury tampering.

The prosecution can play Murdaugh's sworn testimony from 2023, including his admission he lied about being at the kennels. It lost roughly twelve and a half hours of financial crimes evidence the Supreme Court excluded. The defense has separately raised allegations that SLED's case agent provided false testimony about a bloody T-shirt and that the lab halted testing when results did not match.

Coffindaffer covers what the hearing reveals about SLED's case management and whether the prosecution is stronger or weaker heading into the second trial.

Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty. He is presumed innocent.

Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.

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