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Throughout the trial, state prosecutors argued that Murdaugh murdered his wife, Maggie, and his son, Paul, to distract attention from the fact that "his financial house of cards" was starting to crumble. When he took the stand in his own defence, Murdaugh made the radical decision to repeatedly confess to those financial crimes.