Alex Murdaughs lawyers to introduce shocking DNA findings that could upend murder cases at retrial

Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers revealed the new evidence they’ll introduce at retrial to argue the disgraced legal scion’s innocence in his wife and son’s murders – including never-before-heard DNA findings. “There was DNA under Maggie’s fingernails, male DNA that was not DNA of Alex or any other family members,” Murdaugh’s lead attorney, Jim Griffin, told “NewsNation” anchor Chris Cuomo Thursday, one day after the South Carolina Supreme Court shockingly overturned Murdaugh’s double murder conviction. “They were never put into CODIS,” Griffin said, referring to a database utilized by law enforcement to compare DNA profiles.“That has never been followed up on.”Murdaugh, 57, had been serving two consecutive life sentences without parole for the grisly executions of his wife, Maggie, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, after a jury unanimously found him guilty of the slayings following a dramatic six-week trial in 2023. The mother-son duo was found gunned down near the outdoor dog kennels at the family’s sprawling hunting estate in Colleton County on June 7, 2021. “As we pointed out in the first trial…the state law enforcement investigators were singularly focused on Alex Murdaugh and ignored evidence of other potential murderers,” Griffin continued.

“I mean, Chris, there were tire tracks driving away from the murder scene that were never followed.In fact, they were trampled over.“I’ll tell you, since the first trial, we have been provided information that gives us a list of other potential suspects,” the lawyer said. Griffin insisted the prosecution has no proof that his embattled client “was there at the time of the murders” – instead, “he was there before and he was there after.” However, “we don’t even know when the murder happened,” he said. “The state’s evidence and their whole theory of the time of death is cessation of use of cell phones, and we know Paul’s cell phone’s battery was running o...