Murdaugh Defense Floats Allendale Gun Link as Prosecutors Report 0 Ballistics Matches
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 14
Murdaugh Defense Floats Allendale Gun Link as Prosecutors Report 0 Ballistics Matches
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 14
Summary
Prosecutor Creighton Waters told court Friday that the .300 Blackout from the Allendale County homicide was entered into a national ballistics database and produced no leads or matches.
Defense lawyer Jim Griffin had just urged the court to investigate a possible tie between that killing and the June 2021 murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, citing unverified FITSNews and podcast reports as potential Brady material.
Griffin offered no victim name, weapon identification or test results, but argued that any casing match could challenge the original ballistics evidence or suggest a gun tied to the Murdaugh case was later used again.
Waters said the allegation was entirely new to him and that SLED had not advised his office of any such development; Judge Debra McCaslin told Griffin to send the media material to prosecutors for review.
The dispute surfaced as Murdaugh prepares for a retrial after South Carolina's top court overturned his 2023 double-murder convictions over jury tampering, though he remains imprisoned on separate financial-crime sentences.