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Fight over evidence in Alex Murdaugh retrial turns to DNA and missing murder weapons

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Friday, October 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM · 1 min read
Fight over evidence in Alex Murdaugh retrial turns to DNA and missing murder weapons — WFLA Statewide, Estero Community news
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Alex Murdaugh’s defense can do their own tests of unidentified DNA found under his wife’s fingernails after she and her son were shot to death in 2021, a judge said Friday, part of an increasingly bitter battle over what evidence can be used in his murder retrial next year.

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