Alex Murdaugh murder trial prosecution opening statements: full video
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- Watch all of the opening statements by the prosecution in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial. Prosecutor Creighton Waters spoke for the state. Murdaugh is charged with murder in the deaths of his wife, Maggie, and his son, Paul.
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Why is there always someone who sounds like they have whopping cough in every damn courtroom??
I have truly come to think it's strategic to distract from whomever is speaking on both sides.
I give lots of presentations to all sorts of groups and I often feel like I’m presenting to a TB ward, especially if there are smokers
Smoker ?
Lol!! I noticed that too!!
What the friggin is he chewing on judge has a lovely seat witness horrible little seat 🪑💺🪑💺🪑💺
There’s always a selfish person who refuses to leave the room despite their loud cough
If their presence isn’t required the judge should ask them to leave.
The judge can tell them to step out of the courtroom.
🤣🤣🤣 This comment made me laugh
You should definitely call the manager!!!
@@pianomanhere
Sigh.....
I love this judge! He’s strong, brave, knows his stuff, and won’t be manipulated.
HE IS FOR REAL...NO NONESENSE!
Agree, he's SO likeable and a very wise man.
He is the same judge in the Samantha Josephson case . A student who attended USC in Columbia. She got into a car thinking it was her Uber . She was murdered and dumped . He did such a great job in that case . Very compassionate and kind but also firm . Her killer received a life sentence with no parole.
Ummm… let us hope ALL JUDGES ARE THIS WAY! Are you serious ?
oh my God I was just about to type the same thing and to say I wish he could come to Boston to conduct my son's murderers trial coming up in
The cellphone evidence says it all.
Awesome opening statement by the prosecution! Brilliant.
This is amazing watching it in reverse/after verdict! This Prosecutor really breaks it down for the jury.
This opening of the trial is like reading a John Grisham book. Very well done Mr. Waters.
Grisham is my favorite author
That person who’s coughing! Get out….now!
Yeah…f***ing annoying.
lmfao🤣
I love the judge and Creighton Waters!
Why would you even pick up the mobile phone given the catastrophic circumstances.. even more so as a parent. You wouldn’t even see anything else but your child laying dead on the ground with obvious catastrophic injuries 🙄🤨
Yes that would be traumatic, and I would think anyone would be distraught upon discovering such horrific murders. However, I do think it is possible one would also be scared that the perpetrator(s) is still present or nearby and thus fear for one's own life. If I was in fear of my life, I would probably do anything to try to figure out who killed my wife and son, including checking their cell phones. I doubt I would even consider whether doing so made me personally seen guilty.
@@stevenstevo2 I didn’t say he was guilty. I just can’t imagine that would be the first thing I’d do. Anyway, he had his own mobile phone to call for Police.
Yea.. but he killed them sooo he’s not thinking how a person with natural affection would react. He’s a evil manipulator.. he was trying to think about what evidence he should get rid of.
@@Anaana-jl5kg well we know that now 👌. He picked up the phone to see who had just messaged Paul. It was his friend Rogan Josh (Cash’s owner) which is why Rogan was the first person he called.
The prosecution's opening statement is extremely thorough as well as easy to understand...this trial should be good.
The murders weren't just a distraction or a ploy for sympathy - even without life insurance (Why? weird), there were HUGE financial incentives for killing Paul and Maggie.
This guy is a psychopath. He steals from those that trust him. He lies to and embezzles millions from lifelong friends. He had everything anyone could want. He was born with a silver spoon, married a wonderful lady, had two sons, a name respected for generations and apparently an aptitude for law. He made high 6, low 7 figure income. And yet he stole from the weakest and manipulated his closest friends and family.
There is no way for us to understand his motives. His mind works in ways we don’t want to understand. I hope Justice will be served and I know God has plans for him and his eternal future.
Very true. I also think he felt Paul was a failure and embarrassment.
Alex failed in every way.
I actually feel for Buster. I think he will be able to process all these later and accept his dad is guilty...or...it would be so easy for him to never come back from all this. I hope all of the adults in his life can step up and be there. They know how it feels to be betrayed by his dad.
Unfortunately, I think it was just that simple. Alex, as a narcissist, felt killing his family was the best way to handle the disaster he caused. He expected an outpouring of community sympathy, a halt to the boat case discovery process that would have exposed the truth about his financial situation, needed to keep Maggie from knowing the true status of their finances, his years of theft and his impending firing and disbarring. Maggie was already embarrassed and felt like an outcast in Hampton because of their son's cause of the death of Mallory Beach so the revelation of what Alex had been doing with client and firm money would have sent Maggie over the edge with shame. She had no idea that their bank accounts were in constant overdraft status and the narcissist couldn't face this..He had to kill Paul along with Maggie to make it look like the murders were in retaliation for the boat death.
I really want to know how he misspent millions of dollars. There are claims that he made some bad land deals but there's got to be even more to how this guy blew millions of dollars to the point of having to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars to get his account out of overdraft status
Yes, where did All those millions of dollars go? Surely not all on opiates. If Alex was taking 1000mgs of opiates daily he would not be able to stand up. Is this another of his lies.
How could he murder his wife and son! It is inhuman and heinous.
He is a soulless creature.
This guy is so competent. It’s a shame that he only makes a living wage for being an honest public servant while slime like Alex make 10-15 times his salary chasing ambulances and pushing papers. This doesn’t include the non-taxable income he got from stealing from his blind, paralyzed and dead clients and their families. Thank God for people like this prosecutor who are willing to do the right thing when they could easily transition to the “dark” side of law. Don’t get me wrong, we need legal advocates to help us when we are wronged, and they risk a lot and work very hard for their money, bit they aren’t in the business to seek Justice. They are in it for the 30-40% of the injured and victimized awards. May Alex get the worldly Justice he deserves and may God take it from there.
Totally 💯 agree 😊
Agreed!!!
I close my eyes and I can picture Tommy Lee Jones acting a part )).
Well said. In freaking unbelievable, how crooked and self serving Alex is- it’s like out of a disgusting movie! I’m naïve I guess , because I can’t imagine the horror of this what he did to his family 🖤 👿
I like this prosecutor, he wants what we all want, Justice for Maggie and Paul
I think this is the very first time I've seen a man as the court recorder :)
And actually using a stenograph and doesn't look like they're trying to anesthetize themselves 🤣
Smart guy. They get paid more than the prosecutors and no one hates them.
It is unusual to see a male court reporter.
It's a good paying career. I have a friend who is a court reporter who is totally blind.
There was a male court reporter (older) in the Jodi Arias trial lol.
I love his explanation of circumstantial evidence
Me too with the drum, a few buckets of water and a fan 😊Love his voice could listen to him forever 👏🏼
Exactly. A very effective way to explain reasonable doubt. You may have doubt, but if it’s based on “what if and but this” that was nowhere in the record, IT IS UNREASONABLE.
me the opposite - hate it. he could have chosen smth better for an example.
Circumstantial evidence -- thanks for the clear and precise analogy.
I like this judge,he's always fair,lve watched him handle one of high profile case,he was fair and just
He's soft spoken, fair, mild mannered and not full of drama and outbursts.
I have not watched a ton of trials, but in the ones I have watched, the judge seemed fair. I am not an attorney, so I have no idea if the judge made the right decision regarding issues of law.
I love this Judge he is very blunt and fair.
WTF!!!
Did d the judge have to use the loo halfway through the prosecutions opening statement or something?
I've never seen a judge ask counsel to hold on a minute (then getting up and leaving the court) during an opening statement!
@@matthewclaridge8063maybe there was a threat.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a judge interrupt the state’s opening statement to take a break. For any reason. Ever.
Unbelievable Evil! The wife & son probably killed bc they knew too much.😡😡
They were killed for money
True! Also, Paul was a bigger financial burden after that boat crash killing Mallory! He was being sued for $10 million dollars. And Alex had to prove to the courts that he truly couldn’t afford such amount on June 10th of that year. This means his financial crimes were about to be exposed!! Paul had to go!! And Maggie was worth money because the properties were under her name. But I heard Maggie was most likely responsible for the housekeepers death in 2018. Did you hear her 911 call? May God be their judge.
State Attorney did an outstanding job !
It’s a shame law enforcement didn’t give him more. Did they even look for the guns?
This prosecutor is a boss. Outstanding!
Ok for the up coming Movie I say to play the Lead Prosecution is Richard Dreyfuss
I like this judge he listens very, very, well. Nothing gets past him!
Nothing except Ms Shelly’s testimony, judge couldn’t make out her thick southern accent to save his life 🤣
Creighton Waters was a childhood friend of mine.
He is amazing 👏
Paul helped catch his murderer!!! By his recording.
my goodness, why are there people coughing incessantly in churches and courtrooms? so annoying
Every court case I watch, there's always at least one person coughing their balls off. Here we go again.
That’s the “I don’t want to be part of this jury for the next several months” cough.
😂😂😂😂😂. Right ? They should be ejected.
@@LegitLC But it’s not necessarily a jury member.
So annoying.So true. Just excuse yourself and get water.
you are so right. happens every time. lol
He hit the nail on the head !! Common sense ,that's what it all comes down to!!
Brilliant execution by the prosecution ☑️ Mr Murdaugh will need to pray for a miracle to squirm out of this toxic mess of his own narcissistic creation - all for greed, power and money.😮
In my experience a weapon does not kill anybody. The person loading and firing the weapon killed the person.
Guilty as charged
You don't misplace machine guns they're not car keys
Those aren't machine guns. They're semi automatic rifles.
You missed his point
i swear to god if i hear another cough im gonna lose it🤬
The coughing is so infuriating 😂
25:30. They got him !!!! 👏👏👏👏
Buster looks very friendly with his father. I wonder how Buster feels that his father murdered his mother and brother.
Buster doesn't care about his brother & mother. He gets all the money, plus grandpa died. Money money money.
Buster doesn’t care
Maybe Buster was in on it remember the cops found several tire tracks!
@@mjchiwara I don’t believe that there is much left , as Alex probably gambled it away and owed money .
@@graysgigi I don’t want to believe that . I hope he sees the truth .
I could find him guilty just from opening statements!!! So clear
Creighton Waters is an outstanding Prosecutor. He had me convinced watching this back after the trial without any witnesses. Mr Waters & his fellow prosecutors clearly did a fantastic job having sent the jurors back to the deliberating room & having all 12 convinced of Alex Murdaugh's guilt within an hour.👏👏👏
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Live this Atty he is amazing!!!
There's no one single human being on this planet could ever get to his wife and son at that property, at all!! 😆 Just No Way!!! Except....
The Prosecutor Creighton Waters is GREAT, with a lean strong language, that can make anyone understand what really to expect and how to apply and understand the LAW !!! I hope the jurors understand their responsibility ! I listen many many hour of this Court EVIDENCE............and for me ALEX is GUILTY 100% !...............Alex must be one of the worst killers in US history, because of the evidence ! PAUL'S phone video recorder from his GRAVE point exactly who is the killer, and that's............................ ALEX !...................PAUL PAY ALEX BACK !
That coughing person needs to go very disruptive!
Wish someone would give the coughing person some cough drops.
Paul and Maggie suffered terribly, physically and no doubt emotionally, before the final shots killed each. BRUTAL. DIABOLICAL. TERRIFYING.
I get it ! he is typing everything Prosecutor saying.
WTF!!!
Did d the judge have to use the loo halfway through the prosecutions opening statement or something?
I've never seen a judge ask counsel to hold on a minute (then getting up and leaving the court) during an opening statement!
Haha yeah I wondered about that. Apparently everyone likes the judge because of his demeanor, but no mention of the fact thay he clearly interrupted the DA's opening statement to go take himself a poo. The judge is clearly relieved when he returns and seems a bit more relaxed, so he probably had to poop pretty badly.
I’m an old man and I know about urgency. and it was😮 probably a pee. He should wear a diaper.
That's what I thought too 😅
comment and a question, why did the judge call for a "time out" just when Waters was getting wound up, wonder what thats about and PLEASE tell that cougher to use some cough drops, or leave the courtroom !!!!!!!!!
Fascinating
I was on a jury twice. It’s no fun that I know
Are they showing the jury? I’ve never seen him do that before.
no, they are not and will not show the jury.
@@lilg2300 they did last night
I bet he went home and showered !
Compelling opening!
Why is he sitting there without wearing a tie?? He's an attorney....or he was but he still be respectful. He knows what you should be wearing as appropriate attire in a courtroom?? Especially as he's the defendant? That is disrespectful to the court.
He's in jail. You wear what your attorney brings for you to wear.
@@spencertherren6806 Then if he can't bring him a tie because he isn't allowed to wear one as a prisoner then I can understand that but if he can then his attorney is showing disrespect to the court for not having his client dress appropriately.
@@spencertherren6806 I'm not a fan of his attys anyway.
He could wear a clip on bowtie. Hard to commit suicide with a clip on.
Dang should have kept the video on his face to show any reactions to this opening statement
Prosecutor drops his voice.....hard to understand him.
Wow AM took an oath when he became an attorney.... He ripped his clients off he stole from his own company. The company that his Grand father and Great grand father built during hard work. I guess that meant nothing to him. AM took an oath when he married. This man must feel nothing to kill his own blood. His Son! His Beautiful wife who raised his babys. Wow.....
camera's in courtrooms are necessary for acting 🤣
Forget the case, I am loving this free law school class.
I hear the wife and son weren’t good people. Maggie for example is suspected of killing the housekeeper in 2018. Paul due to his negligence killed Mallory and had no guilt or remorse! Horrible family! May God be their judge!
As the bible tells us, 'you cannot serve both God and money'. What a perfect example of a man who chose to serve money.
Oh please…
It also says the love of money is the root to all evil
@@risaholland3318 Yes, the bible does specifically say exactly that statement, as well as choosing money.
The Bible also says (Leviticus 20.9) that anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22: 20-21 Says if your daughter loses her virginity before marriage then the men of the town must stone her to death.
In Hosea 13:4, 9 &16 it says the little ones will be dashed to the ground and pregnant women must be ripped open.
The Bible is an entire work of fiction that delights in death and murder, it wants and commands people to commit murder.
No wonder why so many people who follow that work of fiction don't have problems killing others. Their brains have been corrupted and their morals destroyed.
@@risaholland3318 - & how true it is.. people mistake the scripture in saying "money is the root of all evil" ; when in fact, it is written "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil..
So Maggie saw Paul being shot?? Why no death penalty??
Difficult in a fully circumstantial case. They don't want to lose the case because people are on the fence because of no direct evidence.
There's tons of circumstantial evidence and I think he's guilty as hell but it is very much all circumstantial (albeit strong circumstantial evidence).
Who is that choking like on purpose 😮 I shouldn’t be watching this ! I’m gonna have nightmares….
Everytime I hear a dog bark now, I think of the kennel video.
my name is Creighton and I ain't about no damn bullshit
If you create a playlist of a trial please consider chronological order. #1 on it should be pretrial .. or opening statements. Playlists are for your audience and will play from 1 - XX.
The closing arguments will be even better with the video and on-star evidence. You can take those two things and bring in more and more evidence. Such as, his demeanor after the shootings, even three days later. Lying about his alibi will do him in.
How hard did the investigative genesis on this case look for the guns? They didn’t take plaster casts of tire tracks, didn’t remove shot pellets from the rafters, waited 2 hours to tape the crime scene, sent his friends up to the house to hang out, then allowed the maid to clean the house and wash the clothes…the scene was released 12 hours after the killings. This prosecutor only has a circumstantial case because law enforcement grabbed the dead and went back to bed. I hope this becomes a case study for how not to conduct a double murder at an influential legal families house.
The police need to pay attention to activity in the courteoom and not there phones. Lazy generation.
Assuming the worst and that he did it...why would he establish a reason for his fingerprints being on the phone? Why would he be touching his son's phone prior to shooting?
to erase the video
Alec's voice was on the snap chat video Paul took at the time
To try and delete videos that were incriminating!
Detective Green has the patience of a Saint. That Lawyer on the defense side, ol Andy from Mayberry(ah Technology not ez…)he reminds me of an old kids toy. Called ‘Weebles’
It's beyond obvious he did it. That video shows he's the only one there that could have done it. He lies about being there for a reason. It's clear that with the lack of any defensive wounds that the person that got right up on them was known to them. If it had been some secret killer coming at them there would have been Some attempt at defense. Alex lied and provided an according to him, an airtight alibi. He soon changed his story because that video blew his alibi apart.
Pretty dang good job telling the jury what is NOT reasonable doubt. It’s actually a tricky concept and very hard to define in absolute terms. The prosecutor gets a B+ from me.
Why B+ and not an A? Genuinely curious? 😊
Motive?????
Moron
They don’t have to prove motive
No defensive wounds says so much. Paints a clear picture.
Prossy is doing just fine, all I'll act like Chicken Little.
Relax...he's surprisingly organized and calm.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Bravo!!! Guilty on all counts💯💯
Prior to this murder the family pics only always showed one of their children, WHY?
Imo it states a ton ! Was the child who was ALWAYS in the pics the one that was not killed ?
What a madman !
my son's murder trial is coming up and I can't wait until they put that SOB into jail for life on first-degree murder with extreme atrocity and Malice it's taken three years even though they have this guy dead to rights on four different surveillance he's not denying that he killed him he's saying he was crazy when he did it. he's been pulling all these stunts like pretending he's an orange or whatever to get into a psych hospital so the trial has been cancelled three times now so we can make sure that we honor his rights... I'm actually wanting to file a report against the prosecutor because I don't believe he is representing my son's Depp in the way that he should be. I think these people have dozens of murder trials on their dockets and they are tired overworked and are making mistakes. how do I file a report without affecting the trial outcome
It just blows my mind that Alex used a family weapon and then when asked about if he thinks if there could be anybody else lurking around. This dumb ass Alex says absolutely not!!! What’s wrong with this dude? So it must have been the Invisible Man!!!
i'd love to know what other people think - but i'm not sure all the puffing and blowing and ranting and raving ends up doing a whole lot for this prosecution - i love watching opening statements - i can't get enough of them - and i find the most compelling ones are when the prosecutor tells a linear narrative - a compelling story that paints a clear living picture with a cast of characters and their motivations - all moving around on a proper map - starting with a clear point - a time and date and a place and a person - you know like - "on 15th january 2001 - so and so was taking her kids to school - she worked 2 jobs because her marriage had broken up etc etc - she drove down this street here - whereupon she was stopped by THIS DEFENDANT at the traffic lights - he pointed a gun at her - got in the car - etc etc" - i think this guys starts well - but then he starts floating off - he gets disconnected - starts clapping and yelling trying to make an impression - i don't think it worked as well as it could have... just my opinion - i imagine it can't be easy...
I mean AM is there on video 4 minutes before the murders. The only way he didn’t do it is if he left DIRECTLY after the video. Didn’t hear the gunshots from 1/3 a mile away. Didn’t bring his phone down to the hanger for some reason. Calls twice with no answer but doesn’t check in by easily driving down. Either he killed them or he’s the most unlucky person in the world because everything he did was in service of an alibi.
@@MADDcartman and the killers were supposedly waiting in the wings for him to leave - then they strike - but they don't bring their own guns - they come trusting they'll find guns there...?
@@hamishg0rdon agreed. I don’t envy the jurors though. The only thing the defense has is that he cleaned up very well in a ten minute span. Or he just cleaned up at his moms. Either way, very compelling. Ultimately, I think I would put him away knowing all the surrounding factors that put him in this position. If he is innocent, he is the most unlucky person alive, because almost everything points at him.
@@hamishg0rdon Exactly!! Doesn’t add up. It’s all about using critical thinking skills.
But the prosecution does give the narrative you’re referring to during closing arguments. ❤
No one had a cough drop??😮
Kennel video
I could write an excellent thesis. Give it out to the city.
The judge is awesome!
Imagine being married to this guy / prosecutor
Nope
If my mother and brother were murdered like they were I would won't someone like him.
Prior to watching this, I wasn't exactly sure of the difference between Direct Evidence and Circumstantial Evidence. The prosecutor's examples were perfect, and very helpful! One of the best things about these trials and interrogations being public is that they can educate and inform.
of course there were no wounds bc of defense. they knew their murderer. where there is trust there is no defense
I believe he shot them
Why did he kill his son and wife?
I think we know now.💔
Greed, Domineering/Overbearing... The fact she OWNED a Majority of their belongings and asset's ... Men in the U.S. are so insecure AND GETTING WEAKER and weaker by the day's
I have been betrayed before but I couldn’t imagine you didn’t want to be there, you think it’s fishy and he started to shut your son in front of you and then you. That realization could be more painful that the bullets.
Shoot I’m convinced already 😢
No one is supporting poor Maggie and Paul…
well Paul can burn in hell. But yeah Maggie deserves better.
@@michaelsmedsrud8707 wrong. nobody deserves to be killed like this by their own father. And Paul was demonized by these kids in the netflix docu who refused to take any responsibility themselves. they were all drunk and all went to the party and on the boat. not one of them is free of responsibility.
Don't cough during opening statements.
Why is the fbi not involved in this case with all the embezzlement,
? I think this runs deeper than what is been said here's,sleds botch job is too suspicious to me. All them mistakes can't be right, 1 r 2 u expect but every single 1 there is holes, what is that?
S.C. Has its own reactors. SLED south Carolina law enforcement division.
The FBI is only involved with crimes committed across state lines.
Defense team paralegal Mrs. Hollie Miller is looking especially elegant in a conservative Ivory business ensemble today. =)
There was a private person who got drone video of Alex removing the guns in that raincoat but it was never presented as evidence. I wonder why. This footage is available on RUclips. Maybe bc it wasn't a police drone? Idk
Removing the guns was the responsible thing to do. With such a hi profile case, a known hunting lodge, and the scene being released, it is only right that someone removed guns from the house to avoid them being stolen/getting into the wrong hands. To leave firearms in an empty house is irresponsible, and in the case of them stolen and used in a crime, negligent. They were idiots and haphazard with their firearms and the friends and family knew this. I did the same thing when my dad died - I gifted him a shotgun for Christmas, and when he died that gun was the first thing I removed from his house.
He has to be one of the best prosecutors in thr World! after that performance!
Cellphones are tracking devices
I think the state should have included as many reasons as possible for Murdaugh to have done this. But they only charged that it was done as a distraction from his financial issues ? But the son had that catastrophic boat incident, and were there rumors Maggie was considering a divorce ? Maybe just rumors though since the state didn’t mention it ?
I thought there was something familiar about this family .. it was the boat story! A girl was killed
@@TheKrazykraker14 Yes Mallory Beach .
Alex .... "dang I'm a goner ..... "
Was Buster really out of town? Because if you listen real close to the 911 call you can hear Alex say Buster!!! He says it real low like in a whisper. I’m just saying Yo!!!
The two weapons were never found.