S.O.B. STORY: JUROR

Teary Murdaugh testimony backfired

A juror was convinced South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh was guilty of murdering his wife and son when he took the stand — leading to a lightningfast conviction despite “loud” jury deliberations in the highprofile case.

Juror Craig Moyer, 37, told The Post on Sunday he believed Murdaugh’s own testimony was the tipping point in the six-week trial.

In an emotional display, the disgraced and disbarred lawyer admitted he lied to authorities about his whereabouts the night of the double-homicide.

Murdaugh shocked the courtroom by acknowledging he was at the dog kennels where a Snapchat video from his now-dead son caught his voice in the background shortly before the bloodbath.

“When he took the stand, he kind of showed his guilt then,” Moyer, a construction worker, said from his home.

“His head shaking all the time and no tears, and he wiped his nose like this,” Moyer said as he pretended to vigorously wipe his nose with his arm.

“Him crying and shaking his head back and forth and him admitting that he was there [at the dog kennels] a year and a half later,” said Moyer.

Murdaugh, 54, was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, in June 2021 at one of their homes. He was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the slayings as his surviving son Buster looked on.

‘Voice’ of reason

While Murdaugh’s train-wreck testimony was helpful in Moyer’s decision-making, he said the evidence that swayed him most was the dog video shot by Paul Murdaugh. Prosecutors argued in court the social media the video with Alex Murdaugh’s voice on it was shot minutes before the gunfire began.

“The dog kennel video, I mean it happened right before they were phoneless,” Moyer said.

Initially, two jurors didn’t believe Murdaugh was the murderer, and Moyer said deliberations got heated. He isn’t sure what changed their minds before all 12 jurors quickly came to a consensus.

“It was kind of loud, everybody talking over each other but we got it done,” Moyer said, stressing every juror was serious when discussing the case.

In a previous interview, Moyer said the jurors reached a verdict in 45 minutes.

HIS OWN WORDS: Craig Moyer says he and rest of the jury quickly agreed on a guilty verdict in the trial of Alex Murdaugh (below), in part, because of an admission the killer made while on the stand.