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Murder In Moselle: Othram, Genetic Genealogy, and the Defense’s New Murdaugh Strategy (7/2/26)
South Carolina prosecutors are pushing back against Alex Murdaugh’s defense team as he prepares for a retrial in the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul. The fight centers on a defense request for independent testing of DNA found under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails, specifically her left fingernail clippings. Murdaugh’s lawyers argue the sample included DNA from an unknown unrelated male and want it sent to Othram, a forensic genetic genealogy lab, at Murdaugh’s expense. Prosecutors counter that SLED already tested the evidence and found only Maggie’s DNA mixed with what they described…
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