Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Has a New Missing-Gun Claim

Alex Murdaugh is headed back to trial, and the missing murder weapons are now at the center of a new discovery fight. His lawyers filed a September 30 motion asking the court to compel production of records from an investigation into allegations that local police may have handled or moved evidence after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed.

The defense motion relies on reporting about a state grand-jury inquiry involving Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander and another officer. Alexander was present at Moselle on June 7, 2021, but he has not been charged. His attorney denies the allegations. The defense wants the underlying witness statements and investigative material so it can determine whether the reported claims affect the State's original theory of what happened to the weapons.

Meanwhile, prosecutors say the defense is overstating a separate discovery dispute. After Murdaugh's lawyers demanded full cellphone extraction files, the State responded that all cellphone records in its possession had already been turned over during discovery for the 2023 trial. That issue is scheduled to be part of an October 16 evidentiary hearing.

The fight sits beside older forensic problems that are already part of the record. Maggie's cellphone location history was overwritten after recovery, according to appellate filings. Confirmatory testing of stains on Alex Murdaugh's shirt found no human blood. A low-level male DNA contribution that excluded Alex and Paul was found beneath Maggie's fingernails, and further testing was authorized in August 2026.

The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned Murdaugh's murder convictions in May 2026. The retrial is scheduled for April 5, 2027, in Sumter County. The next phase is no longer just about what happened at Moselle. It is also about what evidence survived the first investigation and what a second jury will be allowed to see.

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