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

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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.


www.postandcourier.com

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 www.postandcourier.com
 
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Witness' called by the defense over the last two days; (my notes)
1. Buster Murdaugh
2. Mike Sutton - forensic physics engineer (introduced theory of shooter being 5'2 to 5'5)
3. Mark Ball - atty Parker Law Group, formerly w/PMPED
4. Daws Cooke Jr. - atty asked to co-represent AM in ‘boat’ case by PMPED atty Danny Henderson
5. Kenneth Zercie - forensic scientist (disputes crime scene investigation and shoe prints found)
6. Barbara Ann Mixson - long time Libby Murdaugh daytime caregiver (never saw blue tarp)
7. Micah Sturgis - digital forensics investigator (iphone steps more accurate than gps, his opinion)

The witness that 'seemed' to help the State's case more than the defense was Mark Ball.
 
kdg411 said:
At this time it appears that AM will take the stand.

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Oh man, I'm tired and should go back to bed, so I can Uber later, I'm not doing that now!!
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I guess he'll take the fifth on the financial crimes.
 
kdg411 said:
Per Judge Newman's statement yesterday, AM will NOT be allowed to take the 5th and the State will not be limited to the questions they can ask.
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I thought it was everybody's right to plead the fifth when on the stand. I don't see how the judge can deny that right.
 
Cousin Dupree said:
I thought it was everybody's right to plead the fifth when on the stand. I don't see how the judge can deny that right.
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The defendant cannot plead the 5th once he waves his right to testify. If he chooses to speak in court on his own volition then the 5th in not applicable and he's waving his rights. ;)
 
I've missed almost all of this. I did see him "crying". It looked a lot more like slobbering so it would look like tears running down his cheeks.

What are your thoughts?
 
I have seen a lot of his testimony. He admits he initially lied about not being at the kennels after dinner and continuing the lie but explains it as a paranoid reaction to the situation from his drug use. Once he lied about it, he could not extract himself from it and kept up the lie. It was almost like he was explaining something that he had no control over. He explains his time earlier in the evening going round the estate with Paul as a pleasant and enjoyable time and his great affection for his wife and sons comes out in the testimony. To me it is obvious he could not have murdered them as his distress at their loss is very evident.

I have not seen all the testimony but I do think he was right to take the stand.
 
Tresir said:
I have seen a lot of his testimony. He admits he initially lied about not being at the kennels after dinner and continuing the lie but explains it as a paranoid reaction to the situation from his drug use. Once he lied about it, he could not extract himself from it and kept up the lie. It was almost like he was explaining something that he had no control over. He explains his time earlier in the evening going round the estate with Paul as a pleasant and enjoyable time and his great affection for his wife and sons comes out in the testimony. To me it is obvious he could not have murdered them as his distress at their loss is very evident.

I have not seen all the testimony but I do think he was right to take the stand.
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If someone believes he said "I did him so wrong." Then his crying wouldn't be out of character. I think something set him off and he killed Paul. His mom may have discovered his body before Alex could take care of things, so he had to kill her too. Which would explain the two guns.

I just started the Netflix series about them and it's eye opening. The family knew about Paul's alcoholism but refused to do anything about it. According to his girlfriend, it would have been an embarrassment to the family to have him go to rehab. I'm thinking the boating accident and possibly some other stuff was the straw that broke the camel's back for Alex. The kid was definitely entitled, and his crimes were covered up.

I figure this is why the prosecutor was asking him about displaying a badge and pretending to be law enforcement at the hospital after the boating accident. He "couldn't remember" anything about that, and a :poop: load of other things too, but based on what little I've seen so far, it's exactly what his father would have done.

It's pretty obvious that this whole family suffers from Affluenza. They're already talking to his ex girlfriend, and she's relating a story about him getting drunk one night and wanting to drive his truck home. She insisted that she drive he yelled at her, and she got in, and he wrecked the truck. He called his grandfather, she called 911. Within minutes people showed up and took all the guns out of the bed, picked up the empty bottles and cans and asked her if she called 911. She said she had, and immediately they all got on her ass: "Why did you do that? Do you want to get Paul in trouble!!!"

So this family is so effed up, I can easily see Alex doing this.
 
Cousin Dupree said:
If someone believes he said "I did him so wrong." Then his crying wouldn't be out of character. I think something set him off and he killed Paul. His mom may have discovered his body before Alex could take care of things, so he had to kill her too. Which would explain the two guns.

I just started the Netflix series about them and it's eye opening. The family knew about Paul's alcoholism but refused to do anything about it. According to his girlfriend, it would have been an embarrassment to the family to have him go to rehab. I'm thinking the boating accident and possibly some other stuff was the straw that broke the camel's back for Alex. The kid was definitely entitled, and his crimes were covered up.

I figure this is why the prosecutor was asking him about displaying a badge and pretending to be law enforcement at the hospital after the boating accident. He "couldn't remember" anything about that, and a :poop: load of other things too, but based on what little I've seen so far, it's exactly what his father would have done.

It's pretty obvious that this whole family suffers from Affluenza. They're already talking to his ex girlfriend, and she's relating a story about him getting drunk one night and wanting to drive his truck home. She insisted that she drive he yelled at her, and she got in, and he wrecked the truck. He called his grandfather, she called 911. Within minutes people showed up and took all the guns out of the bed, picked up the empty bottles and cans and asked her if she called 911. She said she had, and immediately they all got on her ass: "Why did you do that? Do you want to get Paul in trouble!!!"

So this family is so effed up, I can easily see Alex doing this.
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It is now being said that he said "IT did him so wrong", which is what i was hearing all along. He sure would have been better off if he had said "they".

Afflenza is also what I have been saying all along about them, too.
 
Well, after watching episode one of the Netflix documentary, I'm glad Paul's not around. Woman beater, drunk and didn't give a :poop: about anyone other than himself. He didn't give a :poop: that Mallory was missing after the accident. It took them twenty minutes to get him to get into the ambulance, he didn't want to, and when he got in the first thing he did is call his grandfather and tell him that he was in a boating accident, but somebody else was driving. That kid was a :censored: :censored: I don't know how far back the Affluenza went, but Paul's grandfather took care of him. So, I'd imagine he took care of Alex too, did his grandfather's father do the same thing? It's obviously been Affluenza for a couple of generations at least.
 
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