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'He showed his guilt': Juror believes Alex Murdaugh‘s train wreck testimony led to his conviction

Craig Moyer, 37, was convinced that Alex Murdaugh was guilty of killing his wife and son when he took the stand in the high-profile case

WALTERBORO, SOUTH CAROLINA: A juror was convinced from the get-go that Alex Murdaugh, a now-disgraced former South Carolina attorney was guilty of killing his wife and son when he took the stand in the high-profile case. Juror Craig Moyer, 37, said that he believes Murdaugh's testimony brought him down and was the tipping point in the six-week trial.

The 54-year-old admitted in an emotional display that he lied to the authorities about his whereabouts on the night of the ordeal. The entire courtroom was taken aback after he acknowledged that he was at the dog kennels where a Snapchat video from his slain son caught his voice in the background shortly before the horrific killings. 

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What did the jury say?

"His head shaking all the time and no tears, and he wiped his nose like this,” Moyer told New York Post. “Him crying and shaking his head back and forth and him admitting that he was there [at the dog kennels] a year and a half later." Although Murdaugh's train wreck testimony was helpful in Moyer’s decision-making. He said the evidence that persuaded him the most was the dog video shot by Paul Murdaugh. Prosecutors argued in court that the social media video with Alex Murdaugh’s voice on it was shot minutes before the killings took place.

“The dog kennel video, I mean it happened right before they were phoneless.” Moyer said that the deliberations got heated as two jurors initially did not consider Murdaugh to be the murderer. However, he is not sure what changed their minds and soon all 12 of them quickly came to a consensus. “It was kind of loud, everybody talking over each other but we got it done.” Moyer said, stressing the importance of the case. 

Moyer said that the jurors reached a verdict in 45 minutes in a previous interview.

'A dozen eggs'

Moyer found the request of one dismissed juror to be particularly strange as she told the judge she needed to retrieve a dozen eggs. The unnamed woman was propelled from the jury after she was apparently caught talking about the case outside the courtroom. When Colleton County Court Judge Clifton Newman asked her if she needed to collect any personal items, she gave a bizarre reply, saying, “a dozen eggs” by hearing which the entire courtroom broke out in laughter. 

“I thought it was kind of weird about the eggs,” Moyer said. “Everybody’s talking about the eggs.” “I think another juror brought them in and gave them to her,” Moyer explained. “They were farm eggs.”

On Thursday, March 2, Alex Murdaugh was convicted of fatally shooting his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, in June 2021 at one of their homes. He was sentenced to life in prison the following day for the brutal slayings as his surviving son Buster looked on.