Alex Murdaugh's crucial testimony in his own defense for the murder of his wife and son concluded on Friday, with the prosecution aggressively challenging him about where he was on the night of the killings. After months of denying he was at the scene, Murdaugh had offered a new account of his whereabouts. Through telephone calls, texts, videos, car navigation data and cellphone step counts, the lead prosecutor, Creighton Waters, tried to prove Murdaugh's story of his movements that night incompatible with the timeline of the murders.

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Murdaugh had initially