Father allegedly admitted to killing his own son in taped police interview

Alex Murdaugh’s attorney appears to jolt his head up in a shock as he adds, ‘I did him so bad,’ during his second police interview after the killings of his wife and kid.

Three days after the killings, the disgraced legal scion, 54, begins to sob as he recalls the terrible image. Jim Griffin, who is also one of the trial lawyers, is seen sitting in the back of the police car.

Murdaugh sobs, “I did him so badly, it’s just so horrible.” Griffin appears surprised by the apparent confession as he abruptly glances up.

Earlier in the trial, there was heated discussion about this purported admission of guilt as the defense claimed their client said, “They did him so horribly.”

Only recently was the public given access to the video of the police interview; up until then, jurors had only heard the audio.

On June 7, 2021, Murdaugh discovered Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, shot to death at their hunting estate in Islandton, South Carolina. Detectives questioned him about the “terrible picture” he saw.

Two weeks ago, when it was shown to the jury, the prosecutor, Creighton Waters, very purposefully paused the video to ask the investigator, Jeff Croft, to elaborate on what Murdaugh had said to him in the car.

It’s simply so horrible, I did him so horribly, Croft said again.

But Murdaugh fiercely shook his head in court, appearing to tell his attorneys: “I did not say anything.”

Detectives at the time did not focus on the purported admission since Murdaugh kept describing Paul as being a good youngster to them.

When Croft made a statement that sounded like a confession, the defense demanded to know why he “never followed up on that.”

Griffin even sped up the recording to show it back to the jury while asserting that the officer misheard his client remark, “They did him so terrible.”

When he said, “I did him so bad,” why didn’t you ask him, “What did you mean by that, Alex?” right then and there?

Griffin testified to the jury that despite Croft’s assertion that he “took a mental note of it,” the detective never pressed Murdaugh to elaborate during a future interrogation.

Griffin kept pressing him to explain why such a “important statement” did not prompt an instant response from detectives if Murdaugh was so crucial to the inquiry.

“It was early in the inquiry, it was more of an information-gathering interview, and at that precise time we did not have any evidence to contradict anything that Alex would have given us,” Croft retorted.

Griffin, however, said, “You never followed up on that,” informing the jury that neither Croft nor his associates brought up the subject during a subsequent police interrogation on August 11.

In fact, they go on to discuss funeral plans during the interview with Croft and another agent on June 10; an agent named Owens seems to feel sorry for Murdaugh because of the media intrusion.

Griffin claimed that after Murdaugh said, “I did him so badly,” the answer was, “They [the media] don’t deserve to be there.”

In a final attack, the defense stressed that Croft must have misheard their client and sped up the recording by 1/3.

Did you catch that they? Griffin enquired.

Croft, though, retorted, “No sir, I did not.”

As the trial enters its fourth week, the prosecution is still outlining its case. Tomorrow, when the defense would present its witnesses, they intended to rest their case.

Legal professionals described the possibility of Murdaugh being called to the witness stand as “almost unheard of” when it was first reported yesterday.

The list of defense witnesses also includes Alex’s surviving children, Buster, John Marvin, and Lynn, who regularly attend court proceedings in Walterboro at the Colleton County courthouse.