Alex Murdaugh cries as court shown video from dog kennels before murders

Alex Murdaugh was seen sobbing as his son Paul’s final Snapchat video was played in court, revealing the voices of three separate people at the family’s dog kennels just minutes before the brutal double murder.

In the video, played to jurors at Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina on Wednesday, Paul is filming the tail of a dog he was caring for for a friend inside the kennels on the sprawling 1,700-acre Moselle estate in Islandton.

Three separate and distinct voices are heard in the footage – two male and one female.

One of the male voices belongs to Paul, who is heard talking to the dog.

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[EyeColorAnalyzerUnika]

Alex must've fallen to his knees when he found out this video exists.

[FPChris]

Guilty AF. He’s clearly the third person and that puts him there at the time of the murders.

[greapper]

He's screwed. That video places him at the murder scene minutes before they were both shot to death.

[JohnSmith-guub]

Busted buy his own son's innocent video of a dog wagging its tail.

[gr-egld]

The tears are for himself alone, knowing that he's busted.

[Heisenberg]

That explains why he made it a point to tell the cops that Paul's cell phone was slipping out of his pocket and he was "trying to do something with it" and then put it down. That was a very odd thing to bring up after seeing your own son's brains and seeing your wife and child destroyed by gunfire. If this happened to me, I think it would either be such a shock that I would either just become a vegetable for the rest of my life or I'd need to be hospitalized for a while and be given sedatives to be able to come close to talking about what I saw. And what about those eyes? Every picture I see of him, his eyes are as black as shark eyes...soulless, devoid of empathy. I know the look well, my ex had the same eyes.

[MikeJones-mjqj]

Because he killed them right after that. Emotionally knowing those are the last minutes of his wife and son.

[kountry_bumpkin]

You can tell as soon as his sister (sitting behind him) heard his voice she knew he was guilty.

[hootax]

The tears of a man who knows there's no lying, cheating, or bribing out of this one

[yalilfrin]

And at that moment he new he fucked up

[jlyn]

The moment when The mighty have fallen.

[mnpd]

Well, that's shatters the alibi of just coming home from visiting his sick mom and finding his family slaughtered. Crying? I've seen a lot of people cry, but never saw anyone cry with dry eyes, . Maybe he has abnormal tear ducts? In any case when he learned Paul was recording audio a minute before being shotgunned, he knew it was his ass.

[lilso]

I assume this is the first time Lynn heard this video - and her reaction as soon as she hears Alex's voice seems pretty visceral. I wonder what she thought in that moment.

[michele]

The minute he gets it through his head he is not going to get out of this. Still he tried with the drug addict liar story. Not just prison but likely in solitary at least until the people he helped put there as well age out or become senile.

[heathermallory]

There are 4 voices in that tape! Who's the 4th???

[constancedenchy]

From the grave his son caught his father

[smpeace]

So Alex said he took the chicken and drove off back to the house on the golf cart and then they were killed.

[nobullman]

A Dogs tail never Lies..so profound, And say so much about humans and about Dogs...I like Dogs better .. but still need the chix

[jenniferswan]

Only 2 minutes before murder. How long would it take for him then to say his goodbyes. Then how long from the kennels back to where his car was? Was the car close to kennels or the house? He didn't hear gunshots at all? Yeah hard to believe 2 minutes would be enough time not to hear anything unless he were the one who did it. He also nodded his head yes when saying no that he didn't do it...not a smoking gun (pun intended) but something I noticed....not one shake of a no. Just something to think of.

[MMMWMMMMMMWMMMMWMMMMWM]

0:40 he's thinking something along the lines of "f*ck I'm going to jail forever"

That video got his ass