People in the courtroom say jurors appeared to show sympathy for Alex Murdaugh's surviving son, as the lead defense witness on the 21st day of the double-murder trial.
Buster Murdaugh, whose name had originally appeared on the prosecution's witness list, countered reports that his dad seemed to lack outward signs of grief in the days following the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son.
He also told the court the infamous black rifles he and his brother got for Christmas often failed to, as he put it, "find their way back to the gunroom" at the family hunting estate. He also testified and that Paul's rifle had been stolen from an unlocked truck months before the murders.
Also on the stand, a ballistics engineer testified the trajectory of rifle bullets that killed Maggie Murdaugh showed the shooter could've been no taller than five-foot four. Alex Murdaugh is about 6 foot four.
