Jury hears Murdaugh stole millions from law firm amid gunshot residue evidence – live

In the aftermath of the murders, Miss Griswald recounts the law firm and the wider community that rallied around the Murdo family.

Questions about missing attorney fees for Mack Trucks case closed.

Ms. Griswold remembers being so worried about what might happen now that she raised concerns about what Mr. Murdo might be doing.

She reached out to Mr. Wilson’s paralegal, Vicky Lyman, to voice her concerns.

Ms. Griswold says her daughter asked her to prepare her resume because she could be fired for her role in uncovering the apparent theft.

She remembers Ms Sekinger coming into the office and seeing Mr Murdaugh on 7 June 2021, the day of the murders. She left without saying anything.

Ms. Griswold dropped Mr. Murdaugh off at the office at 5.15 p.m. and went home. She awoke in the middle of the night to several texts and missed calls and spoke with Randy Murdoff, learning of Paul and Maggie’s murders.

In early 2021, the Mack Trucks case, on which Mr Murdaugh worked with his friend Chris Wilson, raised more red flags.

Ms. Griswold says she was shocked to learn that the legal fees were paid directly to Mr. Murdoch. He assumed it was a mistake or that he had lost the check.

He claimed that he never received the check and after a long chase, Mr. Murdaugh said that Mr. Wilson has money. It was the missing $792k that finally exposed the extent of Mr. Murdo’s theft.

Ms. Griswold brought in CFO Jean Sekinger (who testified yesterday) and they both agreed it didn’t look good but hoped it was some sort of misunderstanding. She says that both of them had a feeling that something was wrong.

Ms. Griswold testified that she began to notice inconsistencies in files when she was away from the office and someone else had to cover for her, or when things were being done quickly at the end of the work day.

As the court previously heard, Mr Murdo was depositing these checks – money payable to customers – into his fake forge account at Bank of America.

Upon delving into the details of the financial crimes, Ms. Griswold recalls Mr. Murdo instructing him to change disbursement sheets and cut checks to “forge” and not “forge consulting.”

He also remembers that Mr. Murdo would personally take charge of those checks and say that he would pass them on himself instead of having them mailed to his contact at Forge Consulting, Michael Gunn.

Everything changed after the boating accident, Ms. Griswold recalls. Mr. Murdaugh changed, often locked himself in his office, was difficult to reach, and treated his paralegals aloof.

She describes it as very stressful.

You could say that the boat accident was taking a toll on him. It was almost consuming his life.

Agent Fletcher testified that it is unusual for so many GSR particles to be found on the inside rather than the outside of a garment because people wear their clothes properly.

It remains a matter of speculation how GSR got inside the raincoat. The prosecution appears to be pointing to the firearms being wrapped in the garment.

Mr. Griffin has another quick question, clarifying that Agent Fletcher can only tell them what he saw under the microscope. he agrees.

Prosecutor John Meadors is now questioning Agent Fletcher on redirection following the conclusion of cross-examination.

During direct examination there was some confusion as to how many particles were found on the raincoat. 14 were found on the outside of the garment and 38 were found on the inside, although they stopped counting because there were too many. These were sampled from 13 outside lifts and 12 inside lifts.