“This is a long story. My son was in a boat wreck,” Mr Murdaugh is heard saying

  Murdaugh Family Murders

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Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh, 52, and her son, Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found dead on the 1,770-acre property, where the family has a hunting lodge.

Three generations of the family have also served as solicitor of the 14th Judicial Circuit for more than 86 years.

Second day of testimony to begin Friday morning in Alex Murdaugh’s trial for the murders of wife Maggie and son Paul

In the footage, Mr Murdaugh is heard “immediately” offering up a motive for why an unidentified killer would shoot dead his wife and son as soon as Sgt Daniel Greene arrives on the scene.

“This is a long story. My son was in a boat wreck,” Mr Murdaugh is heard saying. “I know that’s what this is.”

The murder trial is only one of Mr Murdaugh’s troubles in a saga spanning a botched hitman plot, multi-million-dollar fraud schemes and unexplained deaths.