Following the guilty verdict of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh, a member of the 12-person jury has revealed the key piece of evidence that secured the guilty verdict.
On Thursday (March 2), 54-year-old Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of the murders of his wife and son, along with related weapons charges.
Back in June 2021, Murdaugh's 52-year-old wife Maggie and 22-year-old son Paul were found dead on the grounds of the family's 1,700-acre Moselle hunting estate in Islandton, South Carolina.
Prosecutors had argued in court that Alex Murdaugh had killed his wife and son in an attempt to deflect attention away from alleged financial crimes. Throughout the six-week trial and subsequent sentencing, Murdaugh repeatedly denied causing his family any harm.
However, on Friday morning, Judge Clifton Newman handed the former attorney two life sentences and Murdaugh was subsequently transported to South Carolina's Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center.
Following the highly-publicized televised trial, one of the jurors - carpenter Craig Moyer - has now spoken to Good Morning America about the jury's relatively short deliberation and the key piece of evidence that convinced him of Murdaugh's guilt.
Moyer revealed that it took him and the majority of the jury just 45 minutes to turn the holdouts, telling ABC New's just hours after he voted to convict Murdaugh: "The evidence was clear."
The juror revealed to ABC's Eva Pilgrim the piece of evidence that sealed Murdaugh's fate for him.
Speaking about a cellphone video that placed Murdaugh at the scene of his wife and son's deaths just minutes beforehand, Moyer revealed: "I was certain it was [Murdaugh’s] voice."
The video was reportedly recorded by son Paul Murdaugh at the family's dog kennels. In the background, a voice can be heard that Moyer believes belonged to Alex Murdaugh.
"Everybody else could hear [Murdaugh’s voice] too," Moyer said, referring to his fellow jurors.
Ever since his wife and son's murders, Murdaugh repeatedly said that he had not been at the dog kennels with his family. However, during the six-week trial, he would later backtrack on his previous comments, telling the court: "I lied about being down there, and I'm so sorry that I did."
Elsewhere in the interview, Moyer said that despite believing Murdaugh to be a "good liar", the disgraced lawyer wasn't "good enough".
"I didn't see any true remorse or any compassion or anything," Moyer told Pilgrim. "He never cried. All he did was blow snot. No tears."
Per Fox News, Murdaugh will now be held in a single cell of the maximum-security, level-three prison for 45 days before his next location is decided.
While at the Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center, he will undergo a series of physical, mental, and educational tests.
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