Just lying & crying: juror

A juror on the Alex Murdaugh case has come forward, revealing it took less than an hour to reach a verdict — and cast doubt on the patriarch’s emotional display on the stand.

Murdaugh is “a good liar, but not good enough,” juror Craig Moyer told Eva Pilgrim on “Good Morning America” Friday, less than 24 hours after the disgraced South Carolina attorney was convicted of killing his wife and son.

After a six-week trial involving mountains of evidence from over 70 witnesses, Moyer and the 11 other jurors deliberated for three hours before finding Murdaugh, 54, guilty of the murders and related weapons charges.

Ultimately, Moyer said, it took just 45 minutes for the group to reach the unanimous decision that Murdaugh shot his wife, Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, in cold blood near the kennels on the family’s sprawling estate on June 7, 2021.

“You start deliberating, going through the evidence, and everybody was pretty much talking,” he said, but two jurors initially held out for not guilty and a third was undecided. “About 45 minutes later, after all our deliberating, we figured it out. The evidence was clear.”

Moyer was unmoved by Murdaugh’s testimony, during which he broke down several times when discussing the murders.

“I didn’t think much of him,” Moyer scoffed. “All he did was blow snot, no tears. I saw his eyes. I didn’t see any true remorse or compassion or anything.”

Murdaugh was notably emotionless when the damning verdict was read. His surviving son, Buster, was also quiet with his head in his hands.

Moyer said that Murdaugh’s voice in the background of a Snapchat video Paul took just moments before he was killed was the key exhibit that convinced him.

“You can hear his voice clearly,” Moyer said.

He also said the jury did not buy the argument that Murdaugh did not have enough time to kill Maggie and Paul, clean up the scene, visit his ailing mother and return within a little over an hour, when he called the police.

“I think there’s just enough time,” he insisted.

In one of the bodycam videos from the scene, Murdaugh can be heard trying to blame the shootings on threats that Paul received — moments after he supposedly stumbled upon the bodies.

Moyer said the jury was unnerved by “how quick he was with the defense, and his lies, just steady lies,” he said.