Chris Wilson, one of Alex Murdaugh's best friends, told jurors how he felt “betrayed” after spending months by Murdaugh’s side in the wake of his wife and son’s murders—only to learn the former lawyer had stolen $192,000 from him.
“Shocked. Betrayed. Mad. I don’t know. Numb,” Chris Wilson told a packed Colleton County courtroom before choking up. Wilson was Murdaugh’s law school roommate and said he was “one of my best friends if not my best friend.”
Wilson said that he confronted Murdaugh on the porch of his mother’s house the morning of Sept. 4, 2021, where his former friend admitted to stealing the money—and confessed to stealing from several other people and having a two-decade addiction to opioids. He added that Murdaugh “broke down crying” as he confessed to his years-long secret Wilson said he had “been good about covering it up, especially the drugs.
The insight into Murdaugh’s one of closest relationships came on the third week of his double-homicide trial, where prosecutors allege he murdered his 52-year-old wife and 22-year-old son at their hunting estate on June 7, 2021, in a twisted attempt to cover up his financial crimes. Murdaugh, 54, is facing two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in connection with the case.
“He was not just my best friend. Our wives were close, our kids were close,” Wilson said, noting that he spoke on the phone with Murdaugh almost daily.
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