PAUL & MAGGIE MURDAUGH: South Carolina vs. Alex Murdaugh for Double Homicide of wife & son *GUILTY*

This case is being kept pretty quiet, no major details released to speak of (other than it does say there were two different guns used), but no info regarding who found them, who called 911, very little else.

Of interest, the grandfather died just a few days after these murders and it sounds as if he was ill from various articles so probably not unexpected. I think of the typical motives, did grandpa have a big estate? How big in the overall family of grandpa's on down? They sound like a pretty well known family and a powerful one in their state, more on that in the article.

Questions abound in SC Murdaugh killing. Among them: Should prosecutor step aside?

Several days after two members of a prominent Hampton County family were fatally shot, questions about what happened still vastly outnumber answers.

www.postandcourier.com

 

[Guess Who]

Ok if it is too little to test then it is not enough to convict anyone IMO.

exactly

 

[Guess Who]

I guess her blood could have got there after he discovered the bodies and checked them then drove back to the residence or sat in his car to phone the police. You would at least check for a pulse right?

The other things that I think point to his innocence are the facts of the location of Maggie's phone and that two weapons were used, a shotgun and an assault rifle. I cannot see why or how one person could easily use two separate weapons ?

Yet not get any blood on anything else without washing off???

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I guess her blood could have got there after he discovered the bodies and checked them then drove back to the residence or sat in his car to phone the police. You would at least check for a pulse right?

The other things that I think point to his innocence are the facts of the location of Maggie's phone and that two weapons were used, a shotgun and an assault rifle. I cannot see why or how one person could easily use two separate weapons ?

Didn't he call from his house after discovering the bodies?

 

[Summer_Breeze]

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article272510756.html

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
bmarchant@thestate.com

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BOTCHED SUICIDE EVIDENCE CONSIDERED Even as state prosecutors have signaled they plan to wrap up presenting their case against Murdaugh this week, lead prosecutor Creighton Waters spent Wednesday morning arguing for more evidence to come before the jury.

Prosecutors wanted to present evidence related to a bizarre incident over Labor Day weekend 2021, after Murdaugh was fired from his law firm. The defendant initially told investigators he was shot by a stranger on the side of the road while he was changing his tire, but ultimately acknowledged he had asked someone to kill him in order to provide a life insurance payout for his surviving son, Buster. However, the judge in the case has ruled they won’t be allowed to present that evidence to the jury. Waters contends the initial story of the Labor Day weekend shooting was part of a plan to tie Murdaugh’s shooting to the murders of his wife and son, Maggie and Paul, three months earlier — and convince the world both were the work of unknown assailants targeting the

 

[Tresir]

He'd use two separate weapons in order to make it look like there were two shooters, If he checked the bodies that closely, why didn't he have blood on his clothes. Also, why would he ask the cops if they were dead. Since his sons brain was blown out of his head if he looked he'd be sure he was dead. His wife he'd have to touch in order to check on her. So he already knew they were dead. Then he asks the cops if they're dead.

Firstly, I don't believe they have located the clothes he was wearing earlier in the evening or they were washed by the housekeeper. I also don't believe they have an exact time of death to pinpoint whether AM was there. They have the times from his car of when he left to visit his parents so with the 15 minute journey there and 15 minute return plus the time he was there (also 15 minutes approx) this brings him back to the property around 9.45/10 pm and he calls police on discovering their bodies. He probably didn't get much blood on him from Paul, because, as you say he could tell he was dead by looking at him. With Maggie he probably did check and that would explain some of her blood on the steering wheel. With asking the cops if they were dead, he was seeking confirmation, I believe.

 

[Tresir]

Didn't he call from his house after discovering the bodies?

Not sure whether he called from his cell or the house. It would be good to hear the call if it is available.

 

[Tresir]

Yet not get any blood on anything else without washing off???

I am not even sure they have retrieved or tested his clothes from earlier in the evening.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Not sure whether he called from his cell or the house. It would be good to hear the call if it is available.

He could have called from his cell at the house.

 

[Guess Who]

I am not even sure they have retrieved or tested his clothes from earlier in the evening.

And we can ask guess why.

 

[kdg411]

Didn't he call from his house after discovering the bodies?

He called from the crime scene which was on their property however not at the house.

 

[Tresir]

And we can ask guess why.

Is Guess Why a relative?

 

[kdg411]

Is Guess Why a relative?

The clothes AM was wearing during the murders have 'disappeared'.

 

[kdg411]

My notes from yesterday;

Witness'

1. David Owen - SLED lead agent

was scheduled to testify yesterday however his Mom passed away suddenly

3rd voluntary interview with AM on 8-11-2021;





Attorney Corey Fleming present;





SLED confirmed the guns used to kill Paul & Maggie were family (Murdaugh) weapons





CB Rowe advised of a cooler was by the kennels; is now missing - Judge Newman sustained JG's objection



Owen didn't have reasonable cause to obtain a search warrant for Almeda



2. David Grubbs - SCAG's office Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force





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[Cousin Dupree]

Is Guess Why a relative?

Guess Why is the shortstop.

 

[kdg411]

Link to today's testimony

 

[Guess Who]

Is Guess Why a relative?

Posting from my Kindle at the time... Supposed to be "all", not ask.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

 

[Tresir]

Three links about tyre marks on Maggie's leg. First link says they could not find any vehicle that matched the marks, second link says it was ATV tracks and third link says it was a golf cart tyre mark.

Missing truck, tire tracks: Testimony reveals new details about Murdaugh crime scene

Deputy Jason Chapman, who was among the law enforcement officers to testify in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh on Thursday, revealed new details about the crime scene.

www.foxcarolina.com

Agent: Alex Murdaugh wanted to die after wife, son killed

Alex Murdaugh and a friend spent just minutes planning a failed attempt to fatally shoot the lawyer on a lonely South Carolina roadside so his son could

am870theanswer.com

 

[kdg411]

State's last day of testimony

 

[Summer_Breeze]

uh oh!

Prosecution in Alex Murdaugh trial wraps up case without hard evidence he killed wife and son

Without a confession, eyewitnesses or fingerprints directly linking Murdaugh to the fatal shootings, the defense will look to sow doubt that he murdered his family in 2021.

www.nbcnews.com

Feb. 17, 2023, 4:08 PM EST
By Erik Ortiz

South Carolina prosecutors in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh rested their case Friday after having called more than 60 witnesses over four weeks — a hodgepodge of testimony and evidence that sought to leave no doubt in jurors' minds that he fatally shot his wife and son in 2021.

Yet, the prosecution offered no hard proof — such as a confession, eyewitnesses, video or fingerprints — that Murdaugh, a once-powerful lawyer and part-time prosecutor in South Carolina's Lowcountry, had pulled the trigger.

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Lengthy article at link. ~Summer