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

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Someone on Court TV said that Alex said on the stand: "I wouldn't intentionally hurt my family." Intentionally?

Also, what's the timeline between Alex getting sober and the killings? Was Alex still an addict when he, allegedly, shot them?

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Another thing, I don't give a if Buster told me the sun rises in the east. I'd immediately be looking it up because I wouldn't trust anything, anyone in this family says.

Buster said his dad said, several times, "they did him so wrong." So if the defense is saying that he said "It" did him so wrong. Then Buster must have been bold faced lying.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I think the prosecution is going to call some rebuttal witness' for his testimony. I'm guessing one of them will be whoever he dealt with at the hospital to tell the jury he definitely had a badge and was barking orders at them like he was the most important cop in South Carolina.

Oh, his girlfriend says that when she was in the hospital after the boating accident a nurse came up to tell her she needed to get away from Paul as soon as possible. Then a totally different nurse came in later and told her mother that Paul was an angry drunk, and they needed to stay away from him.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I think a better motive for killing Paul is that it saves the family a civil suit. With him dead, who are they going to sue?

 

[Cousin Dupree]

This Netflix documentary is amazing!

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Two jurors were crying while Alex was testifying about his families deaths.

 

[kdg411]

My notes from yesterday's testimony;

Nolan Tuten - childhood friend of Paul's
Alex Murdaugh -
“I would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them”;
admitted her lied to SLED multiple times about being at kennels and left after he helped get the guinea from Bubba, used golf cart to go down to the kennels and back;
admitted he used his solicitors badge for privilege;
blamed stealing from clients due to opioid addiction;
claimed he never told Miss Shelly to lie about his time with his Mom;
asked Blanca for copy of insurance card because he was going to use it for detox center in Atlanta;
claimed he never brought a blue tarp over to his parents home nor has ever seen the blue rain jacket;
admitted he checked pulse on both had blood on fingertips only

Cross exam will continue this morning, per Creighton Waters he expects another 4 hours with this witness. Harpootlian advised Judge Newman he had two more witnesses to testify after Alex Murdaugh.

 

[kdg411]

Today's live testimony link

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Kurt Nurmi was on Court TV last night, I'm not sure if it was him, but someone on the panel said the last trial they'd seen where a juror cried for the defendant ended in an acquittal.

A big part of the problem is the investigation. It's a vicious cycle. They get all kinds of deference because of who they are. However, that deference leads to sloppy investigative work. Had the investigation been handled like it would've against you or me, we'd have been convicted already.

 

[Guess Who]

I'm still stuck on the reasoning of him being a prosecutor that also had an attorney that thought it was a good idea to call LE and throw Cousin Eddy under the bus. Part of that conversation w$as that he was giving him $50k/week (over $2 million/year!). That is NOT just a pill addiction. That is either trafficking, hush money or other drugs or ...but definitely not that much for just pills for himself. In this little plot, he is also admitting that he was willing for Eddy to be charged with at the very least, attempted murder (if their plot would have worked, if you believe it at all, it could have been murder charge) AND also drug trafficking with that call. There absolutely has to be way more to this story.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

The amount of money he stole is a lot more than his addiction explains. What was that money being spent on?

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I'm still stuck on the reasoning of him being a prosecutor that also had an attorney that thought it was a good idea to call LE and throw Cousin Eddy under the bus. Part of that conversation w$as that he was giving him $50k/week (over $2 million/year!). That is NOT just a pill addiction. That is either trafficking, hush money or other drugs or ...but definitely not that much for just pills for himself. In this little plot, he is also admitting that he was willing for Eddy to be charged with at the very least, attempted murder (if their plot would have worked, if you believe it at all, it could have been murder charge) AND also drug trafficking with that call. There absolutely has to be way more to this story.

You and I posted the same idea at the same time. What was really going on. I can't believe that the prosecution hasn't done more work on that.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

In the documentary there are a couple of murders and/or accidents that occur in their sphere. Hush money is a fair guess.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Is it just me, or do others hear the prosecutor calling him Mr. Murder?

 

[Guess Who]

One thing that if he gets off on this charge, his misery is far from over with all of the other cases hanging out there and his reputation is shot and life as he knew it is over, which IMO is why this all happened is because of his pride in his reputation and love of money...aka affluenza

 

[Cousin Dupree]

The prosecutor is laying the foundation for his ability to lie effectively. I get the impression he's going to pounce suddenly, but when, or at all?

 

[Cousin Dupree]

The more he calls his dead son Paw Paw, the more it irritates me.

 

[Guess Who]

The prosecutor is laying the foundation for his ability to lie effectively. I get the impression he's going to pounce suddenly, but when, or at all?

I am not impressed in how the prosecution is not tying together all of the little nuggets they have brought out. Hopefully we'll see something impressive in closing, but right now there is a lot of info but not tying it all together as they go though it is a mistake IMO. I guess we'll see. It only takes one juror to be pulled into his "charm".

 

[Guess Who]

The more he calls his dead son Paw Paw, the more it irritates me.

He's slipping at times now, too.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

The prosecutor is leading up to his motive for killing them. I think the motive now is that they were hassling him to go to rehab. Paul going to trial, Maggie finding his pills, stealing from clients, all just came together in a storm that caused him to kill them. I'm behind on testimony because I'm watching Court TV. They're showing all of the testimony, they just pause for commercials and then come right back to where they left off.