re: Investigators When they KNEW Murdaugh lied (Page 112)

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But Bevel concluded that the T-shirt is 'stained with high-velocity blood spatter resulting from shooting Maggie and Paul' after his initial report found the stains were 'consistent with transfers and not back spatter from a bullet wound.' Murdaugh's attorneys accused SLED of 'badgering' Bevel into changing his report. The T-shirt was later destroyed 'for purposes of forensics testing by the unnecessary application of an oxidizing chemical stain,' the court filing states. Bevel's initial report only came to light when prosecutors with the South Carolina Attorney General's Office accidentally turned over a copy to Murdaugh's defense team, according to the motion. The white T-shirt is a critical piece of evidence for state prosecutors, who have suggested in court papers that the family patriarch shot his wife and son after fearing his decades-long corruption schemes would be exposed.

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