Alex Murdaugh

Alex Murdaugh, 54, was convicted in the fatal shootings of his wife, Margaret, and their youngest son, Paul, in a case tied to a slew of financial crimes.

Lawyers for Murdaugh moved for a mistrial after the verdicts were read. [ unsolved double homicide](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mother-son-prominent-south-carolina-family-found-shot-dead-grandfather-n1270614), but it soon unraveled into wider allegations of [ financial fraud](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-murdaughs-bond-set-7m-financial-crimes-charges-rcna8590), a [ hired hitman plot](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-man-charged-assisted-suicide-shooting-alex-murdaugh-n1279208) and [ drug addiction](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/behind-alex-murdaugh-s-fall-grace-drug-addiction-fueled-opioid-n1279453), and it revived inquiries into other curious [ deaths linked to the Murdaugh family](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sons-murdaugh-housekeeper-killed-trip-fall-will-receive-money-lawyers-n1280705). Each juror was then asked whether the verdicts were correct and said yes. He faces 30 years to life in prison without parole. "We had no doubt that if we had a chance to present our case in a court of law, that they would see through the one last con that Alex Murdaugh was trying to pull — and they did," Waters said. [ Murdaugh admitted on the stand last week](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/alex-murdaugh-trial-live-updates-rcna72136) to having lied about his location before the murders because of his drug addiction and general paranoia. [sprawling case based on circumstantial evidence](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prosecution-alex-murdaugh-trial-wraps-case-hard-evidence-killed-wife-s-rcna70485) to convince jurors that Murdaugh was guilty, using electronic data and video extracted from the victims' cellphones to suggest that only he had the motive, means and opportunity to kill his wife and son. During the state's closing arguments Wednesday, lead prosecutor Creighton Waters said that Murdaugh had much to lose if his financial malfeasance was exposed but that the deaths of his wife and son promptly stopped the law firm's investigation and stymied the boat crash case to his advantage. The motion was denied by the judge, who said that the verdict was a matter for the jury and that there was enough evidence for it to have found Murdaugh guilty. [three felony counts of boating under the influence](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-murdaugh-arranged-whisper-campaign-2019-fatal-boat-crash-lawsuit-n1279726) in connection with a 2019 boat crash that killed a teenage passenger. [deliberating for three hours](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/juror-removed-alex-murdaugh-trial-improper-discussions-courtroom-rcna73055), the jury of seven men and five women convicted Murdaugh, 54, of two counts of murder in the fatal shootings of Margaret, 52, and their youngest son, Paul, 22, in June 2021. [Alex Murdaugh](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/alex-murdaugh-indicted-murder-charges-summary-timeline-rcna38026), the disgraced South Carolina lawyer accused of murdering his wife and son to gain pity and distract from financial crimes threatening to topple his reputation, was found guilty Thursday in their slayings.

Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced attorney whose dynastic family had significant legal reach in parts of South Carolina's Lowcountry for decades, ...

“If he went in there and they believed him, then he would have likely been found not guilty. When he heard a verdict had been reached less than three hours after deliberations started, he suspected Murdaugh would be convicted, he said. But the verdict shows jurors did not believe Murdaugh was credible, the experts said. [argued ](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/02/us/alex-murdaugh-trial-defense-closings-thursday/index.html)authorities did not properly examine other suspects. [video](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/us/alex-murdaugh-trial-wednesday/index.html), recorded by Paul near the family’s dog kennels shortly before the time prosecutors say they were killed, captured Alex Murdaugh’s voice in the background, nearly a dozen friends and family members testified. I think they couldn’t get past the lie (about the kennel video).” But that prominence belied underlying issues, and the killings of his wife and son were Murdaugh’s lies are likely what led to the speedy decision, they said. It was an opportunity for jurors to empathize with him while he appeared to put it all on the line, confessing to his drug addiction and repeated lies during financial schemes and the murder investigation, the experts said. “In the end … Prosecutors have indicated they will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole, sparing Murdaugh the death penalty. in South Carolina’s Colleton County.

A South Carolina jury convicted former attorney Alex Murdaugh in the killings of his wife and son. He faces up to life in prison when he's formally ...

The jury on Thursday convicted Alex Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina lawyer, of murdering his wife and son.

The prosecution seized on that admission — how readily, and easily, he had lied to the police, his family and friends — in an attempt to convince the jury that he was lying about not having killed his wife and son. He also said that when he spoke with his father about 20 minutes after prosecutors say the murders took place, Alex Murdaugh sounded “normal” — at a time that Mr. “He said that he did not know who it was, but he felt like whoever did it had thought about it for a long time,” Ms. Murdaugh’s law firm confronted him, accusing him of pocketing about $800,000 in lawyer fees that he was supposed to have deposited into the firm’s account. Murdaugh testified that he had feared an admission that he was at the kennels before the murders would cause the police to consider him a suspect. Defense lawyers also noted that the police had issued a statement in the days after the killings saying that no immediate threat to the public existed. Murdaugh was wearing when police arrived after he called 911 — it would have been covered in blood and body matter, his lawyers argued — and the DNA of an unknown man was discovered under Mrs. That was an indication, they argued, that the authorities were investigating only Mr. After denying for more than 20 months that he was at the dog kennels where his wife and son were found shot to death, Alex Murdaugh confessed that he had lied about his whereabouts. Murdaugh’s phone from the day of the killings had been overwritten. Murdaugh told his lawyer that he had been there for a few minutes, but then had left, laid down at the house, and driven to check on his ailing mother who lived about 15 minutes away. He blamed his lies to the police on paranoia spurred by opiate dependency, as well as his distrust of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, a state investigative agency.

The South Carolina lawyer faces a minimum of 30 years in prison for each murder.

They called Judge Newman's decision to allow evidence related to Murdaugh's financial crimes to be included in the murder trial "erroneous". Murdaugh had been cast as a "despicable human being", he said. He stared ahead and did not react as his sentence was read. "I would never hurt my wife and I would never hurt my son," he said in brief remarks at the hearing. Judge Clifton Newman called the case "one of the most troubling" he had seen and noted Murdaugh's past "as a well-known member of the legal community". Disgraced ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife and son in a case that shocked the US.

The 54-year-old disbarred South Carolina lawyer faces a sentence of 30 years to life in prison for each murder conviction.

"This defendant has fooled everyone — everyone who thought they were close to him," Waters told the jury in his closing argument. He was facing a financial reckoning, they said, that also included his liability in a court case over a fatal 2019 boating accident in which Paul, then 19, was said to be driving. Prosecutors never produced the two murder weapons used to kill Maggie and Paul, and there were no eyewitnesses. But after witnesses identified Murdaugh's voice in a cellphone video taken by Paul at the kennel around 8:45 p.m. Newman had said he would render his sentence after any victim impact statements, but prosecutor Creighton Waters began his remarks by saying the state did not have anyone who wanted to deliver a victim statement. "It's so unfortunate, because you had such a lovely family of such friendly people — including you," the judge told Murdaugh. The sentencing closes a six-week-long trial that charted Murdaugh's fall from grace. Murdaugh said repeatedly that he didn't go with his wife and son to the dog kennels where they were shot and killed, saying that he stayed in the house, and took a nap before leaving to see his ailing mother. The court session began shortly after 9:30 a.m. Thank you." "Good morning, your honor. Newman told Murdaugh that each of the punishments apply to "the rest of your natural life," adding that the sentences are consecutive.

Former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murder in the deaths of his wife and son.

Waters said Murdaugh, a member of a [prominent legal dynasty](https://bit.ly/3KROCEA) that ran a prosecutor's office in Hampton County for more than 80 years, killed his family to prevent his alleged financial crimes from being exposed and ruining his family's legacy and his successful law practice. Murdaugh initially told police he was not at the family's dog kennels before finding the bodies there, but his voice was captured on [a video taken on his son’s cellphone](http://bit.ly/41ASJLd) minutes before prosecutors believe the killings happened. [Murdaugh addresses the court: 'I'm innocent'] [None of Maggie or Paul's family members delivered a victim impact statement, but Murdaugh briefly addressed the court before he was sentenced.] ["I'm innocent. [tax evasion,](http://bit.ly/3CZRISg) and [drug trafficking](http://bit.ly/3JkNoRB) which [ could carry a penalty of more than seven centuries of prison time. [Judge Clifton Newman criticizes Murdaugh's testimony as not credible] [Newman said he could imagine the "looming storm" lead prosecutor Creighton Waters described Murdaugh faced the day of the murders. "In the murder of your wife Maggie Murdaugh, I sentence you for a term for the rest of your natural life," Newman said. “And it might not have been you," Newman said. "But once that information was in, I mean he had to take the stand to explain the kennel video, the lie, if you will." He added the evidence that Murdaugh stole and lied wasn't about motive but Murdaugh's character. When asked why Murdaugh's son Buster did not speak during sentencing, Griffin said it would not have made a difference in Murdaugh's sentence. The attorneys said the strongest grounds for appeal are the judge's decision to admit evidence related to Murdaugh's alleged financial crimes.] Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and Paul Murdaugh, 22, were killed near dog kennels at the family's home in June 2021.

Alex Murdaugh, center, is led out of Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies after being convicted Thursday, in Walterboro, S.C. Murdaugh was found ...

"This defendant has fooled everyone — everyone who thought they were close to him," Waters told the jury in his closing argument. He was facing a financial reckoning, they said, that also included his liability in a court case over a fatal 2019 boating accident in which Paul, then 19, was said to be driving. Prosecutors never produced the two murder weapons used to kill Maggie and Paul, and there were no eyewitnesses. But after witnesses identified Murdaugh's voice in a cellphone video taken by Paul at the kennel around 8:45 p.m. Newman had said he would render his sentence after any victim impact statements, but prosecutor Creighton Waters began his remarks by saying the state did not have anyone who wanted to deliver a victim statement. The sentencing closes a six-week-long trial that charted Murdaugh's fall from grace. Murdaugh said repeatedly that he didn't go with his wife and son to the dog kennels where they were shot and killed, saying that he stayed in the house, and took a nap before leaving to see his ailing mother. The court session began shortly after 9:30 a.m. Thank you." After a trial that spanned 28 days, it took a Colleton County jury only a few hours to agree unanimously that Murdaugh is guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of using a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. "Good morning, your honor. Newman told Murdaugh that each of the punishments apply to "the rest of your natural life," adding that the sentences are consecutive.

Sentencing came little more than 12 hours after South Carolina attorney was found guilty of murder.

Newman – who also spoke about the many times he had encountered Murdaugh as a lawyer in the After the murders, Murdaugh portrayed the killings as an act of retribution by unknown assassins. “It doesn’t matter who your family is,” Waters said. It doesn’t matter … I am sure they come and visit you,” he said. The small town of Walterboro has been turned into a media circus for the trial’s duration.

Sara Azari, a criminal trial attorney, told News Nation, the case was “cloaked in doubt,” until Murdaugh testified, which “sealed the deal” for the jury, who ...

For five weeks Murdaugh was on trial for the June 2021 murder of his wife, Maggie, and his 22-year-old son Paul. [Alex Murdaugh Found Guilty Of Murdering Wife And Son](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/03/02/alex-murdaugh-found-guilty-in-murder-of-wife-and-son/?sh=2f0daa902674) (Forbes) [How Alex Murdaugh Opened The Door For Convictions On Financial And Tax Crime Charges](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2023/03/01/how-alex-murdaugh-opened-the-door-for-convictions-on-financial-and-tax-crime-charges/?sh=2e7edf5172ed) (Forbes) [Juror Removed From Alex Murdaugh Murder Trial For Discussing Case Outside Courtroom](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/03/02/juror-removed-from-alex-murdaugh-murder-trial-for-discussing-case-outside-courtroom/?sh=535db4534247) (Forbes) [Alex Murdaugh Murder Trial Jurors Make Rare Visit To South Carolina Crime Scene](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/03/01/alex-murdaugh-murder-trial-jurors-make-rare-visit-to-south-carolina-crime-scene/?sh=7d1dcd391ccb) (Forbes) [Levinson](https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/20230303030321-legal-experts-examine-alex-murdaugh-murder-verdict/#x) said. [told](https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/murdaugh-murder-trial/alex-murdaugh-verdict-watch-jury/) News Nation, the case was “cloaked in doubt,” until Murdaugh testified, which “sealed the deal” for the jury, who Azari said didn’t care about why Murdaugh committed these crimes but instead focused on the big “lie.” [told](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCOLlbBtj_E%5C) the Associated Press. When Alex Murdaugh—who was found guilty Thursday of murdering his wife and son in June 2021 and sentenced Friday to life in prison—took the stand to explain his side of the story, he backed himself into a corner, admitted to other crimes and ultimately made himself unreliable, which legal experts say lead to his guilty verdict.

The disgraced South Carolina lawyer was charged in the murders of his wife and son. His defense argued that investigators fabricated evidence.

In his new version of events, Murdaugh admitted being there, but he said he went back to the house minutes before 9 p.m. In his closing argument, Waters stressed to jurors that he thinks one thing was missing from the two days Murdaugh spent testifying. "You want to leave the eggs or take the eggs?" But, he said, she would be replaced so that the integrity of the trial would remain intact. Griffin began his statement with an overview of the criminal legal system, comparing the trial to an instant-replay review in college football. The court received a complaint from a member of the public saying the juror, a woman identified only as juror No. He noted that South Carolina law doesn't require the state to prove premeditation or motive in a murder case. Griffin accused the agency of a list of failures, saying the state never explained if tests were performed on hair he said was found in Maggie's fingers. Once investigators seized on the idea that tests showed high-velocity blood spatter on Alex Murdaugh's T-shirt, he added, they refused to dismiss that idea and pursued it "with vengeance." As for the lies Murdaugh admitted telling, Griffin said his client lied because "that's what addicts do." But when the state was faced with mixed results and questions over tests of Murdaugh's shirt, Griffin said, they embraced a "Mr. A defense attorney for Murdaugh sought to sow doubt about the work by police and forensics teams, saying they fell far short of preserving evidence from the crime scene.

After deliberating for less than three hours Thursday, the jury in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh found him guilty of murdering his wife and son, ...

[prosecution argued Murdaugh’s motive](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/02/us/alex-murdaugh-trial-defense-closings-thursday/index.html) in the killings was to distract and delay investigations into his financial wrongdoing. [denied](http://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/us/alex-murdaugh-murder-trial-thursday/index.html) killing his wife and son. In the prosecution’s telling, the motive was Murdaugh’s attempt to distract and delay investigations into his growing financial problems. Griffin acknowledged Murdaugh had lied about being at the dog kennels where his wife and son were killed on the night of the murders. And the opportunity was Murdaugh’s presence at the crime scene, “Our criminal justice system worked tonight,” Wilson said. “Everyone who thought they knew who he was, he’s fooled them all. He further admitted to [stealing millions of dollars](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/us/alex-murdaugh-murder-trial-friday/index.html) from his former clients and law firm and lying to cover his tracks. has fooled everyone, everyone, everyone who thought they were close to him,” prosecutor Creighton Waters told the jury. “I find it offensive that the defense … Murdaugh kept a stony face while the verdicts were read. His only remaining son, Buster Murdaugh, could be seen wiping tears from his eyes.

Verdict in case of prominent South Carolina lawyer accused of 2021 double homicide comes after gripping six-week trial.

It was not until state investigators were brought in, and Murdaugh confessed to embezzlement, that murder charges were eventually filed. Prosecutors argued that Murdaugh had left the estate soon after to visit his mother to help establish an alibi. But he said he drove a golf cart back to the main house, 500 yards away, before the shootings took place. Newman has discretion to pass a sentence of 30 years to life without parole for each of the murder convictions. “He may be taken away,” the judge, Clifton Newman, said as Murdaugh was led out. Murdaugh was judged guilty on two counts of murder and two weapons-related charges.

"The evidence of guilt is overwhelming," the judge said after the jury verdict was read in court.

But they were unable to find either firearm and produce them at trial. This was the same thing." The case against him was based entirely on circumstantial evidence. Reporters shouted questions, though he remained silent. He scheduled sentencing for Friday morning. Murdaugh had pleaded not guilty to killing his wife and youngest son in an attempt to conceal years of financial corruption - fraud that he himself had acknowledged in court.

The jury deliberated for less than three hours before finding Murdaugh guilty of two counts of murder at the end of a six-week trial that pulled back the ...

Before he was charged with murder, Murdaugh was in jail awaiting trial on about 100 other charges ranging from insurance fraud to tax evasion. Murdaugh lied about being at the kennels for 20 months before taking the stand on the 23rd day of his trial. Murdaugh comes from a family that dominated the local legal scene for decades. Murdaugh called 911 and said he discovered the bodies when he returned home. He blamed his decadeslong addiction to opioids for making him paranoid, creating a distrust of police. I would never hurt Maggie, and I would never hurt Paul — ever — under any circumstances,” Murdaugh said.

The 12-person jury declares Murdaugh, 54, guilty on two counts of murdering his wife Maggie, 52, and youngest son, Paul, 22.

Murdaugh changed his account after the jury listened to audio evidence placing him at the crime scene minutes before the killings occurred. But in the end jurors did not believe Murdaugh’s account. “It doesn’t matter who your family is, it doesn’t matter how much money you have,” Creighton Waters, the lead prosecutor, said after the verdict. He was then led out of the courtroom with his hands cuffed. The case has drawn intense media coverage given the family’s immense political power in and around Colleton County, where the trial took place. He was also convicted of two related firearms charges.

Prosecutors have said that they would seek life in prison without the possibility of parole, and not the death penalty.

[reports](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/state-by-state/south-carolina) that there have been no executions in the state since 2011. Murdaugh or in support of showing him leniency will have the opportunity to do so. Murdaugh faces a minimum sentence of 30 years in prison for the murder charges and a maximum of life in prison.

Disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of his wife and 22-year-old son.

In a remarkable courtroom moment, the judge in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial spoke in stark and personal terms ahead of the disgraced lawyer's sentencing ...

That is the sentence of the court and you are remanded to the state Department of Corrections. For the murder of Paul Murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, I sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. I sentence you for the term of the rest of your natural life. Murdaugh, I sentence you to the state Department of Corrections on each of the murder indictments. And then that necessitated more lies and continued to lie, and I say when will it end, it has already ended for many who have heard you and concluded that it will never end. “It might have been the monster you become when you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 opioid pills, and maybe you become another person. I have not been able to get anyone, any defendant, even those who have confessed to being guilty to go back and explain to me what happened at that moment in time when they opted to pull the trigger, when they opted to commit the most heinous crime known to man.” I don’t question at all the decision of the state not to pursue the death penalty. And reflect on the last time they looked you in the eyes, as you looked the jury in the eyes.” “This has been perhaps one of the most troubling cases not just for me as a judge, for the state, for the defense team, but for all of the citizens in this community, all the citizens in this state, as we have seen based on the media coverage throughout the nation,” Newman said. A lawyer, a person from the respected family who has controlled justice in this community for over a century, a person whose grandfather’s portrait hang at the back of the courthouse that I had to have ordered removed in order to ensure that a fair trial was had by both the state and the defense. In fact, as I have presided over murder cases over the past 22 years, I have yet to find a defendant who could go there, who could go back to that moment in time when they decided to pull the trigger or to otherwise murder someone.

A judge has sentenced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to life in prison a day after he was convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and ...

But they had a mountain of circumstantial evidence, including the video putting Murdaugh at the scene of the killings five minutes before his wife and son stopped using their cellphones forever. As Murdaugh stood before the judge to learn his fate, he was in the same courtroom on the circuit where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather tried cases as the elected prosecutor for more than 80 years. The voices of all three Murdaughs can be heard on the video, though Alex Murdaugh had insisted for 20 months that he hadn’t been at the kennels that night. Before he was charged with murder, Murdaugh was in jail awaiting trial on about 100 other charges ranging from insurance fraud to tax evasion. The lack of remorse and the effortless way in which he is, including here, sitting right over there in this witness stand — your honor, a man like that, a man like this man, should never be allowed to be among free, law-abiding citizens,” Waters said. All he did was blow snot,” Moyer said. It didn’t take long to convince the other three. But juror Moyer said he saw through yet another lie. “He never cried. [READ MORE: Suspect in Orlando shooting faces more murder charges](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/suspect-in-orlando-shooting-faces-more-murder-charges) Any sentence would have no chance of parole. “As I tell you again, I respect this court.

The disgraced former attorney spoke briefly before the sentence was handed down and denied that he had ever hurt his wife or son.

"I'm sure they come and visit you." "I mean, he was getting a double life sentence. I'm sorry, I'm an old guy — crippled people who had just done horrible, despicable things, and he had to try to push back on that," Harpootlian said during a press conference. "It's ended already for the jury because they've concluded that you continued to lie and lie throughout your testimony." Attorney Jim Griffin said the defense team will appeal all the way to the U.S. But his testimony also included admissions that he had lied to investigators, and evidence presented by the prosecution placed him at the scene on the night of the murders. Prosecutors argued Murdaugh carried out the killings to gain sympathy before the allegations came out. "I respect this court, but I'm innocent," Murdaugh told the judge. The convicted former attorney and the judge exchanged words a few times during Friday's brief hearing. "And it might not have been you," Newman responded. [Alex Murdaugh](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-murdaugh-trial-verdict-reached-murder-case/) was sentenced to life in prison Friday morning in South Carolina, and his attorneys said they plan to appeal his conviction in the high-profile double murder trial. Murdaugh, 54, wasn't sentenced for the other charges because of the life sentence.

People have been sentenced to death for less than this double murder, the judge told the convicted killer.

"I know you have to see Paul and Maggie during the night times when you are attempting to go to sleep," he said. In this case, death penalty would have been a "reach", he said. And he revealed nothing about his own family tragedy - the death of his 40-year-old son, Brian - that occurred just weeks before he assumed control of the Murdaugh case. "Your case qualifies under our death penalty statute," he said on Friday. and reflect on the fact that over the past century your family, including you, have been prosecuting people in this courtroom and many have received the death penalty, probably for lesser conduct." At one point, midway through proceedings, he gently chastised defence attorney Jim Griffin for re-tweeting an article that was critical of the prosecution.

Murdaugh's sentencing Friday came less than 24 hours after a South Carolina jury convicted him for the murders of his wife and son.

But he has a lot of pull - had a lot of pull with police because, basically, his family was the legal system in this rural community. And the defense, which has yet to speak about this verdict, about the sentence, is expected to come out before the courthouse in the next 10 minutes. And he admitted in court - and has yet to be tried, but he admitted to walking away with nearly $5 million. And the judge even mentioned that Murdaugh's grandfather's portrait had hung at the back of the courthouse and was removed to ensure a fair trial. But he's basically accused of embezzling colleagues, friends, the law firm of nearly $10 million, including the family of his late housekeeper whose sons he had promised to get - oh, I think he said he could get them $100,000. His family has been prominent in this community for nearly a century, founding the family law firm that was so well known that made so much money in this community. If you - he called him a person from a respected family who had control of the justice system in this community. This was briefly brought up as the prosecution tried to prove motive, which was basically that there was this perfect storm coming, that Murdaugh was facing these financial - this financial storm, that he needed to create a distraction with these murders to get sympathy. First of all, to walk in the courtroom this morning at 9:30 and see him dressed in that tan jumpsuit with the orange sandals and the white socks, you know, compared to the suits and the nice shirts that he's been wearing as of late, was just - that was a shock. And when this story first began to break, there was a lot of fear in this community. And there was just a silence in the courtroom. You know, he was given two life sentences for the murders of Paul and Maggie to be served consecutively.