Alex Murdaugh Retrial: Defense points to unidentified male DNA found under Maggie's fingernail

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Jim, can we talk about new evidence? I know last week you you mentioned DNA evidence under Maggie's fingernails essentially Right.

[00:00:07]>> connected to a male. Can we go into that a little bit more and how that will play a factor in this new trial? Well, we pointed out during the last trial that that they did find a male unknown male DNA who's not related to any Murdoch or or any of Maggie's family under her fingernail.

[00:00:26]That was you know, not really followed up on.

[00:00:30]We asked that they follow up on that before the last trial. We don't have possession of that DNA, so we can't do anything with it. We can perhaps with a new case back to square one, go and seek an order from the court to compel them to send it off to CODIS. CODIS is the national uh DNA database. Um So, I mean if we were in charge and we had the facilities, the the forensic lab they have SLED, and we had search warrant abilities, we would we would have done things a lot differently. Um and more timely.

[00:01:07]A lot of that opportunity is lost, and so that's unfortunate.