Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys say prosecutors recently disclosed that previously unprocessed reserve DNA samples remain in the murder case, fueling a renewed effort to have an independent laboratory analyze the evidence before South Carolina investigators conduct additional testing.

Defense attorneys wrote that allowing the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) to conduct additional short tandem repeat (STR) testing first could consume or degrade the remaining DNA before Texas-based Othram Inc. has an opportunity to analyze it.

In a memorandum filed July 30, obtained by WSAV in Savannah, Georgia, and reviewed by Fox News Digital…

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