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Buster Murdaugh’s police interview after murders revealed in new video

Source: NBC Dateline

Buster Murdaugh’s stunned reaction to the brutal murders of his mother Maggie and brother Paul has been revealed for the first time in newly-released bodycam footage.

The only surviving son of convicted killer Alex Murdaugh was interviewed by investigators for the first time on 10 June 2021 – three days after Maggie and Paul were gunned down at the dog kennels of the family’s sprawling Moselle hunting estate in South Carolina.

Footage of the interview was publicly released for the first time during NBC’s new Dateline special “The Murdaugh Murders: Inside the Investigation”.

In it, the 25-year-old is seen sitting in a police vehicle speaking of the moment his father called him that fateful night and told him his mother and brother were dead.

“He said ‘something terrible has happened’,” Buster said of his father Alex.

“I could tell that he was emotional. He goes

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