Alex Murdaugh juror reveals why jury was so quick to find him guilty

‘He was a good liar.. but not good enough’: Alex Murdaugh juror reveals it took just 45 MINUTES to reach unanimous guilty verdict – and says video of his voice at the scene sealed his fate

• Juror Craig Moyer said Murdaugh never showed remorse on the stand 
• The nail in his coffin was a video filmed by his son moments before the murders 
• READ MORE: The damning evidence against Murdaugh and the most bizarre moments from trial

One of the jurors who convicted Alex Murdaugh has broken his cover to tell how it took the jury just 45 minutes to find him unanimously guilty of double murder. 

Craig Moyer appeared on Good Morning America on Friday morning to explain why he and his fellow jurors believed Murdaugh was guilty of killing his wife Maggie and son Paul on their property in South Carolna in June 2021. 

‘He was a good liar, but not good enough,’ Moyer said, breaking his anonymity to discuss the blockbuster trial that had America gripped. 

When the jury entered the deliberation room yesterday, nine were already convinced of Murdaugh’s guilt – including Moyer. Two thought he was innocent and another juror was undecided. 

Moyer revealed on Friday that it took just 45 minutes of deliberations to convince the three other jurors of his guilt. 

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Craig Moyer appeared on Good Morning America on Friday morning to explain why he and his fellow jurors felt Murdaugh was guilty

Alex Murdaugh will return to court on Friday for sentencing. He faces life in prison 

‘You start deliberating, going through the evidence and everybody was pretty much talking. 

‘About 45 minutes later, after all our deliberating, we figured it out. The evidence was clear.’ 

Moyer said the nail in Murdaugh’s coffin was a video filmed by his son Paul just moments before the murders, in which his voice can be heard in the background. 

Murdaugh had always denied being near the dog kennel where the bodies of his wife and son were found, but conceded at trial that he’d lied, and was heard in the video. 

Moyer also said the jury wasn’t convinced by Murdaugh’s emotional testimony on the stand. 

‘I didn’t see any true remorse or any compassion or anything. He never cried. 

‘All he did was blow snot. [There were] no tears. I saw his eyes,’ Moyer said. 

The defense claimed Murdaugh wouldn’t have had enough time to shoot his wife and son, clean up, visit his mother and then return to the scene where he called police. 

Alex Murdaugh with wife Maggie and their sons Buster (left) and Paul (right) 

Prosecutor Creighton Waters also appeared on GMA on Friday to reveal his cross-examination strategy

Moyer, however, said he and the jurors felt he had ‘just enough time’ to do all those things. 

He also said they were turned off by Murdaugh’s apparent preparedness. 

‘His responses, how quick he was with the defense, and his lies…. just steady lies.’ 

Murdaugh will return to court this morning for sentencing. He faces life in prison. 

Yesterday, he showed no emotion as he was found guilty. 

He had wept on the stand, telling the court of his crippling opioid addiction and money troubles, but insisted he did not kill his wife and son. 

Buster Murdaugh with his head in his hands yesterday after father was found guilty of murder

Pictured: Alex Murdaugh’s sister Lynn is seen leaving the Colleton County Court

Prosecutor Creighton Waters also appeared on GMA on Friday to reveal his cross-examination strategy. 

‘He’s been able to talk his way out of accountability his entire life. People like that are convinced of their own ability to do that. 

‘I was convinced he was going to testify. My strategy was to establish who he was. 

‘You know, he wouldn’t even concede to the jury that he was wealthy. 

‘The idea was to get him talking about himself, his life, then move into the specifics of his new story that he was telling the world for the first time.’ 

Among those in court yesterday was Buster Murdaugh, the legal heir’s only surviving son.

Buster has never stated if he believes in his father’s innocence, but he was called to stand as a witness for his defense team.

He told the court his father was ‘devastated’ by the murders. 

Maggie’s relatives, including her sister, also testified for the prosecution. She said she thought it was strange her brother-in-law wasn’t looking for his wife and son’s killer. 

‘I just thought his priority should have been focusing on finding out who killed Maggie and Paul,’ Marian Proctor said. 

John Marvin Murdaugh, brother of Alex Murdaugh, listens to testimony during his brother’s double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse

Maggie’s body was found a few yards to the right of a doghouse, while Paul’s was by the doorway at the end of the kennels. Dr. Ellen Riemer described how Paul’s brain was blown out the back of his head by a shotgun and that the organ arrived at the morgue ‘in a separate bucket’

In his closing arguments, Waters told the jury: ‘Nobody knew who this man was. 

‘He avoided accountability his whole life, he had relied on his family name, he had a powerful family, he carried a badge and used that in authority, he lived a wealthy life – but now finally he was was facing complete ruin.’ 

He added that the legal scion ‘is the kind of person for whom shame is an extraordinary provocation’ and faced with financial ruin which his ‘ego couldn’t stand…he became a family annihilator.’

He concluded the speech with the fervent plea: ‘This defendant has fooled everyone, everyone. 

‘Everyone who thought they were close to him he’s fooled them all and he fooled Maggie and Paul too and they paid for it with their lives.

‘Don’t let him fool you too.’ 

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