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'HIGH RISK': Alex Murdaugh's defense team is betting everything on a DNA test that could either point to another killer or destroy their best argument at retrial. A judge approved new Y-STR testing on swabs from Maggie Murdaugh's cellphone and clippings from under her fingernails, even though the process will consume the last of the testable samples. Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters called the move "high risk," saying the defense's own expert acknowledged the samples are unlikely to generate usable results — "goose eggs on the Y chromosome." Murdaugh's attorneys say unidentified male DNA was found under both of Maggie's fingernails and on her phone, which was discarded on the side of the road after the murders. The defense contends the pattern is too consistent to dismiss. But a former prosecutor warns the gamble could backfire catastrophically: if the DNA comes back to someone with a rock-solid alibi, the defense will have foreclosed the very argument that could have created reasonable doubt. Full story here https://t.co/NKxmkN0Mxy