Alex Murdaugh: A Lab Report the State Missed?!
A returned crime scene. Questions about items that may not have been collected. And a laboratory report that prosecutors acknowledge was initially missed. Put those pieces together and you have a serious examination of the investigation into Maggie and Paul Murdaugh’s killings—not a shortcut to deciding who committed them.
Tony Brueski is joined by retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to look at what SLED did at Moselle and what it left for others to find. The episode raises the account of a law partner entering the feed room after investigators had released the estate to the family. It also examines concerns about an unphotographed tire track, potentially untested clothing and the timing of a later search at Alex Murdaugh’s mother’s property. Coffindaffer approaches these as investigative-process questions: what should be documented, what should be secured, and how do you reconstruct a scene after control has been surrendered?
The second half connects those questions to the pending challenge to the original murder indictments. The defense says SLED lead agent David Owen gave grand jurors an incorrect account of alleged blood spatter on Murdaugh’s shirt despite an earlier state-lab result showing no human blood in tested cuttings. Owen said he did not see that report until after the indictment. Prosecutors say the oversight was inadvertent, reject accusations of fabrication and point to other evidence and an outside expert’s opinion.
That distinction matters. An inaccurate claim is not automatically an intentional lie, and a dispute about one item is not a finding that the entire case fails. The parties will argue those questions before Judge Debra McCaslin at the scheduled November 13, 2026 hearing. With Murdaugh’s murder convictions previously set aside and his case awaiting retrial, Coffindaffer and Tony separate investigative errors, disputed interpretations and the remedy the defense is requesting.
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