Alex Murdaugh trial: Feb. 24 recap and legal analysis of Murdaugh's testimony
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- Опубликовано: 23 фев 2023
- Alex Murdaugh testified in his own defense and got grilled for hours by the prosecution during cross-examination.
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I’ve lied for years, I’ve lied to my own family, I’ve lied to my lawyers up until yesterday…..but I’m telling the truth now! …the blokes a complete narcissist who used his sick mother as his alibi, and that’s about as low as you can go!
Man that Buster is stone cold. Alex is bawling about the killings and how he loved his family etc. Buster just sitting there emotionless. I think he knows something here.
bawling, just saying. Yes, he seems void of emotions but maybe he suspects Alex is the murderer. If he doesn't complete his law degree, will Alex kill him too?
Buster knows. AM tried to give 12 million dollars life Insurance to Buster so favorite?
Don't you people understand that family, friends are spoken to prior and requested not to show emotion. Emotion would be an interference and possibly sway a jury. Family, friends,defense and prosecution in no way want to interference when seeking truth.
he could be numb. hes lost everything if not involved its tragic
@Bianca Karteron good point. Thanks 👍
Alex LIED to the JURY yesterday !! He stated that he “didn’t” touch/check Paul/Maggie until after his 911 call. Go back and listen to 911 call .. the 911 Operator specifically asks him not to touch anything/the bodies .. and Alex tells her on the call that he had already checked both Maggie/Paul for pulses. Perhaps this is a small detail overall .. but I believe it was a missed opportunity for the Prosecution (Waters) to prove to the Jury that Alex just lied TO THEM !!! ✨
I noticed that too. Hopefully, when the jury reviews the evidence they will catch it or Creighton will bring it up in his closing.
His attorneys are dying here! He forced them to let him take the stand because he is “the smartest man in the room’! Typical narcissist! He has dug his own grave!
His attorneys Orange dying anywhere???
The prosecution is a dead fish out of water .
Please......
No Evidence
No DNA
LUDACRIS MOTIVE.
The prosecution's case was sunk like the Titanic before they even got started. Little only had to pay two of the witnesses. Hmmm.🤔
Yup
Alex literally shed light on how he shot them from such a low stance when he said he never got off the golf cart.
That's interesting. I wonder if anyone in that room caught that. You might be right.
He did say he got off of the cart to save the chicken.
From the golf cart?? There would have been tracks near the shells and gun powder all over the cart.... I would think.
@@jeffhanna30 only if they tested the cart, and that's how Maggie got the tire print on her calf.
Oh my, AM could have hidden two guns in that golf cart!
Unfortunately many fathers have brutally murdered their family and act like they didn't. AleX is an accomplished liar. Sure, he's going to bawl with snot running out because even he can't believe what he did!
The 289 steps don't mean crap. If he's making calls he's probably pacing the whole time. He just slattered his wife & child!
He's Guilty!!!
Just bc a phone is recording steps didn't mean he's walking... you can just lift your phone up and then back down, really fast and it'll record a step.
Or, you can bump your phone and it'll record a step. Try it yourself and see if I'm right!
I used to barely bump my phone in my hand from the bottom of my phone and it would record steps as long as I did that.
Therefore, the recorded steps aren't accurate!
I did do it.
I think that the issue would be what are his normal steps?
the steps... he was washing Gun residue off, changing his clothes, hiding the guns? wiping his cell phone, maybe another shower. Yeah he was getting ready to visit MeeMaw.
Convict a man of murder off what you feel and 289 steps ? Yea that's not the way it works he walks on murders gets life for financial crimes
His lip smacking happens when he is lying in the extreme.
Yes, he is losing all the moisture in his mouth lying. It’s his bodies fight or flight response. Some people get cotton mouth, some people sweat
I really think he thought Buster being in law school, well sort of, would carry on the family legacy but Paul was more like a farm hand. He even seems obsessed calling from jail that Buster get back in law school. Never once says - we have to find the real killers! Never once.
You have a lot of nerve is fun was a farmhand????
Your a *******
Mama always said: if you'll lie you'll steal, if you'll steal you'll kill.
A Liar is not necessarily a killer. It’s a big step to go from lying to killing your loved ones
@@fuanatmarsel3852 No boundaries w/ greed, addiction, paranoia, & being discovered & disgraced! Divorce would of cracked open more of where his money was & knowing the boat accident lawsuit was leading to the same! He had to change it by killing his family. Buster was next if he did not help?!
@@DNLDVID there is no proof she was divorcing him; if there was the prosecutor would have used it to their advantage but that rumor is unfounded, hence they stayed away. America has allowed people to get rich on others’ misfortune, just like the 30 million lawsuit against his family. The law has allowed others to punish and impoverished others due to accidents etc. it is the society that creates these crimes. He did not do what he did alone; sadly, he had a lot of help from the society’s legalized getting-even schemes
@@fuanatmarsel3852 Please go & inform yourself other than this trial! Look into Murdaugh Murder Podcasts-you will be surprised at what is the truth!
@@fuanatmarsel3852 not really......
Alex confirmed that there was no one else out at the kennels, the dog weren't agitated........That is an ADMISSION that he killed them.
You should let them know,you are correct.If some one had just smoked their owner they would be agitated
I wished Waters had really keyed in on the fact if the dogs weren't sensing any strangers...and it was within a couple of minutes they were killed, they would have been alarm barking at strange sounds. It's so obvious that he's lying...it's hard to listen to him.
How can anyone with common sense believe anything Alec says? He is Guilty!
The incredible shrinking man. He is being eaten up by his own lies and deception.
If someone else was out there at the kennels the dogs woudve been barking like crazy! Theyare hunting dogs & would’ve alerted Alex , Maggie , Paul before Alex supposedly left
He said yeah I lied to them just like there's nothing to it.
Creighton Waters, absolutely systematically destroyed him today ! Mic Drop moment IMHO. And he WAS asking him yes or no questions , Alec is the one who wouldn't SHUT UP and simply answer the yes or no questions.
The prosecutor kept asking Alex WHEN did he decide to lie about being at the kennels. Alex said when he was talking to the SLED agent because he distrusted SLED and that made him paranoid. BUT it turns out he told the same lie already when SLED was not there yet. That was a good way to end for the prosecutor.
I enjoyed that too coz Alex's face was priceless as the penny dropped when Mr Waters played the last video interview.
That was so awesome. I got a cold chill.
I believe he is over exaggerating his drug addiction as an excuse. People like to blame substance abuse for their actions... Now lets be honest, if he wasn't a rich white man, the trial would already be over.
I think that the two guns, etc, was all a deliberate tact to confuse.
If he didn't do it, why did he lie about it???????
He can remember things with great detail..except when it comes to the night of the murders.
I know, right?
What murders? 😂
All while being on 60 pills a day and what seems to be a lot of alcohol
What kennels are you referring to ? 😂
300 what ? 😂
Murdaugh fit's the proverbial "Were you lying then or are you lying now?" scenario! His credibility is pretty much nonexistent.
Which was the prosecutor's cross-examination strategy - to prove that Murdaugh is a practiced, professional liar who can't be trusted to tell the time of day. He stole millions from dozens of people and no one caught him except his own paralegal. He will lie to anyone, anytime on any issue when he perceives a personal gain. He's a garden variety sociopath incapable of feeling empathy, sympathy or guilt, and so good his own family didn't know of the monster wrapped in a meat suit. However, Maggie had to have some understanding after all those years of lying next to a demon in disguise.
@@mnpd3 Repetitively and boringly going over and over and over same old, same old by prosecutor because he has nothing else to slam AM with. It's obvious AM has the ethics of a low-life gangbanger, and jury gets that. Does not make him a killer, nor does it prove he's a killer. He'll be acquitted on Reasonable Doubt..
Yeah. He will bring up the "effect of drug" card whenever convenient for him. Lock him up for good!
And he also repeats the questions asked. Seems he does that to think up another lie
In closing defense "Look, he tried to save a chicken. This guy is not a murderer" lol
I don't understand why the state didn't pick him up over saying he called 911 'pretty much' right away. He even says in court, I called 911 right away. that's clearly not what he said in the recording.
I really don’t think anyone would be in their right mind with something this horrific …. Talking in circles. I had something horrific in my life and I couldn’t think straight, talking in circles - your mind goes blank, in and out!
@@michelleodom3330 I agree that its completely normal for an innocent person to react exactly the same way you did. Where Alex loses me is those intricate and irrelevant details in his story. He even feels the need to give a review on the 911 operator. i Just can't see an innocent person doing those things.
Ladies & Gentlemen. Today you met evil. 💪
I agree 💯
Absolutely 💯💯💯. He really gives me the creeps.
@@jennifermitchell3070 He can't help it but I hate his whiny, high pitched voice!
@@jennifermitchell3070 I would never sleep in the same house with that nut case
Did anyone catch when he said that he stood sitting in the golf cart when he went down to the kennel and only got out to get the chicken out of Babba's mouth and went back to the golf cart to avoid sweating?
Now if he stood sitting, wouldn't that make him short enough to shoot Paul and Margie and look like a short person who killed them?
I believe he gave himself away right there.
Isn't that what the defense is trying to convince everybody of, that according to the way Margie and Paul were shoot Alex appears to be too tall to have done this...That it was a short person but if Alex was sitting in the golf cart as he stated to the Prosecutor then that would make him short enough to kill them.
He also messed up when the Prosecutor and him kept debating about where was his phone when he stopped using it when he went back to the house after the kennel before going to see his mother. He slipped and said I probably put it down when I took a shower and quickly said something else before the Prosecutor caught it.
Didn't he claim that he took a shower before going down to the kennel and that was why he said NO to Margie when she asked him to accompany them?
My thing is that if he had just seen Paul and her at the kennel then why call her at 9:06 pm and not once but twice. The other thing is if you love your wife and son as they all stated, then why wouldn't you go by to check on them when she didn't answer...I know I would; especially to say good bye or just to make sure she and Paul were okay.
I mean if I know my son is receiving threats as Alex claimed, I wouldn't leave him out of my sight.
These are things the Prosecutor should had drilled him with because that alone makes him look suspicious especially when he was the one who brought it to the attention of the detectives and 911.
And why say "THEY DID HIM SO BAD." What did he mean by that? I would be asking, "who's they?" over and over again until I got a satisfying answer.
Food for thought 🤔.
Well he said it was not unusual for them not to answer, I imagine he had a lot on his mind with his ailing parents and just was letting them know he was fixing to be otw, they were fine a few mins before that so… as far as the shower goes he did say he took another shower he said he went back and rested then got ready to go to his parents, he took his shower earlier before he went to the kennel, that’s the reason he didn’t want to go back down to the kennel because that always means work, and sweating, then decided to go down and it was just what he expected he was going to have to work if he stayed so he left oretty quick. It’s all so confusing to me, but those phones not being together at any given time, they lied to the grand jury about blood spatter when there was none, I just cannot get to a guilty verdict, today is still a not guilty by reasonable doubt
@@donnameans1030 Agreed! And as they say in the video here, there are plenty of liars, cheaters, drug addicts out there who aren't committing murders. And Alex had pissed enough people off, plus he could've owed his dealers piles of cash, such that the murders happened at a hitman's hands. As far as being "at the kennel," well, if Alex was paranoid and didn't trust the cops, why would he say he was there. It'd just expedite him getting thrown in jail.
Alex is a CHAFF MASTER. Minute details about totally irrelevant people place and events, but purposefully vague about the most horrific day in his life. He's plays vague every time it suits his needs.
I am amazed that he is SO general - “it took a while, I spent a good bit of time, a short while, not long, mostly right away”. He is so cunning
He also hedges almost every answer with "I believe this or that"
@@lisalane5808 he has never answered a question yes or no .
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@@adrienne1958l Life always can't be explained with a yes or no. Try it sometime.
He's got money hidden somewhere
Yes! $50,000 a week on pills sounds completely ridiculous.
He places himself at the murder scene!
What about the dogs……they, the dogs, if there was someone else there… they would have been going nuts… barking
I’m a nurse, & there is no way Alex could’ve taken 60+. 30mg tabs a DAY of oxycodone or OxyContin.
Seriously.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I'm a nurse too and you must be lying your ass off. You're a liar
Alex said clear as day, but then changed it on day 2, that he never got off the golf cart -
I think he shot them both from the sitting position in the cart, one gun jammed, he ran 252 steps getting another gun and chasing Maggie down and then left, backing over Maggie's leg, driving it back to house with guns. That's why he had no real blood on him - did they ever swab the cart? Probably not. He cud have even washed it all down between 8.52 and 9.00 - then raced back to house, got changed and bagged clothes, and hid them somewhere good - maybe to pick up the next day - but took bulky guns to his mom's wrapped in the jacket/tarp.
If sled didn't even pick up his dirty karkis in bathroom then they didn't have much of a look for things. There were sooo many places to hide things - this was probably premeditated - he was facing divorce and financial ruin and had a fight with Maggie about her not loaning him money from the beach house and Paul came to her rescue. He wanted them both there that day coz he had made the decision to delete them both. Family annihilator, it happens all the time over financial ruin...He cud have even had an accomplice, one of his mates that came round but I think he worked alone. Yes he is remorseful, but such was his arrogance I don't think he ever thought he wud be grilled over it. They must find him guilty, no other story makes any sense based on this timeline. It's most always the simplest solution. The husband did it.
How can anyone believe one damn thing he says ? What a joke
IMPOSSIBLE
It’s obvious he did it.
I was a user of opiates for years and there is absolutely no way he was taking that many. He would have OD or showed some kind of sign yes opiates would give me energy but if I did too much I would be nodding out somewhere I nodded out once in Walmart there’s absolutely no way. And I went from Vikes to Oxys to heroin 😒 just seems like he’s trying to make them feel bad that he has this issue.
one can, if enough pills or heroin are available, increase the daily dose immeasurably. The body can easily withstand this for years. This can go so far that heroin no longer has to be cooked on a spoon but in a saucepan. 🙂
man kann, wenn genügend Pillen, oder Heroin verfügbar ist die tägliche Dosis bis ins unermessliche steigern. Das hält der Körper locker jahrelang aus. Das kann so weit gehen, dass heroin nicht mehr auf einem Löffel, sondern in einem Kochtopf aufgekocht werden muss. 🙂
My dad and my brother both took and became addicted to opioids for years. I was shocked beyond belief when I learned that they BOTH were taking in excess of 30 pills per day, and not only that, but they were both taking an opioid called “lortab” an opioid 4 times the strength of a common Vicodin.
@@joergkirchberger3979 yes but you'd have to be stung out on shooting up a long time before u could attempt to take that many mgs a day. It's impossible. No way he is telling the truth about that pill money and amount. He has that money stored somewhere
@ashleystenberg931 Murdaugh is playing the "addiction" card for all he's worth, because he thinks it will get more sympathy than to admit it went on his family's and his lifestyle, criminal activities (he co-owned properties with drug smugglers), or even gambling. (Murdaugh didn't turn a hair when Buster went to Las Vegas to gamble after Maggie and Paul's deaths. He actually gave a little laugh. Again, prison recording).
@@dustingill4202Exactly what some experts have said. I wonder if the prosecution will call a specialist in rebuttal to counter it. Him asking Alex the amount on Friday makes me think he might.
He just admitted there was no time that he could have “ done all those things “ before calling 911. Which means he knew they were dead upon his arrival ( he didn’t need to check, he killed them) and then he called 20 seconds after parking his car.
Well he’s seen the records sooooo
Even if he innocently arrived and found them, how did he know they were "shot badly" within seconds of his arrival without having time to check them? It was dark especially where Maggie laid. They could have been hit with serious blount force trauma to sustain wounds resembling what could be observed on the scene. There's no way he could make that distinction in so little time unless, of course, he already knew exactly what had happened to them.
@@mamarealtalk5850 great point.
They were not dead "upon his arrival", they were dead while he was present!
There's an eco on his 911 call which an analyst on YT said is due to the on star system in his vehicle so he made the call from his vehicle and out of his car as he claimed. Alex is a bold faced liar. He only admitted on the stand to being at the kennel after lying about it to his family, friends and law enforcement since the murders because too many ID his voice on Paul's snap chat. I bet Alex wishes he could kill Paul again for that snap chat video. lol Alex said whoever did it hated Paul. There's a fine line between love and hate for crEATures like Alex MURDAugh.
The biggest problem with his new lie is he TOLD NOBODY that. If he told the lie because he was paranoid, or didn't trust them then why didn't he tell his brother, friends or partners?? GUILTY!!
No! Dont you dare use common sense or connect dots! Dont you dare reveal that you have an understanding of psychology and the ability to read people etc! Nope!
@@mikimiyazaki Lmao 🍻....Ikr!! Let's hope the jury does as well! Thanks
And, why didn't he tell any of the lawyers accompanying him at any of the interviews, or representing him in the weeks after the murders? He knew lawyer-client privilege applied. He didn't even query with them whether he should tell police the truth?...Didn't even want to assuage his guilt and angst over the 'big lie' to get feedback from one of the 30 lawyers surrounding him on what approach he should take? Even when he went to detox and admitted to the drugs and stealing he didn't fess up.......because he did it...then he waited to see how the state's case and witnesses would perform before he decided if he needed to testify...
He’s guilty AF. 👹
Boy, that jail phone conversation between AM and ol Bus sure was damning. Everyone knows those calls are recorded and monitored.
He's really looking old. Worrying about how he's going to get out of this mess has aged him all alot.
After Alex killed his family, I believe Alex took Maggie's phone on the cart and drove up the road far enough to throw it across the grass! This will explain why the phone never shows that it traveled along with Alex's auto.
Was her phone ever found?
It was, the next day, right on the side of the road by the edge the property
Mannnn, the golf cart never occurred to me in relation to Maggie's phone toss! 🎯
HatRatt- WHY did Alex kill his wife and son ? Where are the murder weapons? Why is there no forensic evidence tying Alex to the two murders ?
@@Sealust50 think about this. They said the shooter was 5’2”, how tall would Alex be if he was sitting in the golf cart. Ether in a seat or hiding sitting on the floorboards.
After supper Maggie ask Alex to go down to the kennels and he say no but then minutes later he decide to go down to the kennels to meet Paul and Maggie. So he goes down on the golf cart with the 300 blackout rifle and the 12 gauge shotgun and he probably pull up on the golf cart and shot Paul with the 12 gauge and then shot Maggie with the 300 black out and killed both of them Paul and Maggie. Sitting on the golf cart he would be lower down to make the shots. So the guy that did the reaction of the scene put two people in there to make it seem like it was two shooters. Then motive would be if he killed Paul that would make the boat lawsuit go away. Then killing Maggie he would collect on Maggie big life insurance policy. There was only one shooter. ALEX IS GUILTY
Except no life insurance on either. Moselle and other properties in her name, though.
I believe Miss Maggie was fixin to divorce Alec
I think exactly the same. Maggie was angry and told him to go. Because he was in his golf cart, shots were fired from low. Yesterday it was very clear that he said,, MAGGIE TOLT MY TO GO,,. And that was a slip on the tongue 👅
Even though he didn't have life insurance. Motive make the boat accident go away. Divorce can be very expensive. He would have been ruined financially.
@jay that’s a lot of angles to shoot from a golf cart especially with Paul in the feed room
The Mardaugh's are very prominent and powerful in that small town, why then did they not use their power to find the killer/s? If you truly love your family that much, you would do anything to solve the case, and would even bring the award money to $1M as these were your WIFE AND SON! I have seen so many 24hrs and dateline in my life...this isn't the first time that the husband kills his family!
He must be terribly constipated. I am an armchair detective. AM admitted guilt when he said" I went back ti the kennels and did what I did. "
Exactly … he said I did what I did not what to do . He confessed !
I caught that also. It surprised me
Glad y' all noticed that. Fat boy tripped up. Guilty
And he also slipped up and said and “Maggie asked me to leave “. When they were talking to him about the night of the murders when they had eaten dinner and Maggie “wanted him to go to to the kennels” with them. Alex is then Asked something else about it and he says yes, “she asked me to LEAVE”. Is ANYONE getting this!!? He SLIPPED UP BIG TIME. The TRUTH accidentally slipped right between his wicked lips!! She wanted him to LEAVE. She’d had it with the pills and it was OVER!!
Yes and how about having rotten teeth?
Shouldn't he be answering, just yes or no? Why does the lawyer letting him tell a whole bunch of stories like we care.
With the timeline proving Alex's comings and goings, seems an innocent man would have been screaming truth and looking for killer. Great liar.
AM is one of the most deliberate, intelligent, charming, cunning, despicable person I have ever seen. If he walks, and I believe he will, it will be an indictment on our criminal justice system.
my thoughts to the T
This! I feel this
Alex is a pathological sociopath. He's evil and a self confessed liar. He did everything to get his drugs.Alex is without a doubt GUILTY!
I'm a Doctor of Psychology btw.
@@101GM8 The prosecution is weak. I know they don’t have to prove motive, but saying motive was a couple weeks of sympathy, that makes zero sense to most people. If he killed them and I think he did, he was doing it to frame Mallory’s family and he didn’t try hard at the frame. It seems he got away with lying for so long he didn’t even feel the need to try very hard. Having the killers arrive weaponless and after killing two people with their guns, they took the weapons with them? Come on, Murder Man, you must be able to do better than that.
I just hope the hung jurors don’t say, I think he did it but I’m not beyond ard. I hate that. If you think he did it, vote guilty.
And who in his right mind would hire his cousin to kill himself, mess that up, lie about it then come clean-"ish"? That is pretty obvious that all of the pressure of getting caught drove him to extreme actions and to strike out at the two people he viewed as being the biggest threats to his finances. (Narcissists never think they are at fault and feel anything they do is justified.)
He can look anyone in the eye and lie.
Dude is a PRO!!!!!!
Judge is the very best.
The way he respons to the questions is infuriating.
Thinking he is a lawyer.
Not a drop of shame.
A display of a distorted mind.
My understanding is he was a volunteer DA/solicitor who tried 1 case and plead 3. He was a personal injury attorney. Born into the profession. Doesn't even know what habeus corpus is.
So these are the two options we have regardless of motive and based on Alec's testimony:
1. Alec killed them, hosed himself and got rid of a shirt, pants, shoes and two guns in one of the hundresds of potential hiding spots around the kennels in 15 minutes.
2. An unarmed killer(s) by some fluke went after Paul in the one day he was at Moselle, in 15 minute window he was at the kennels and the TWO MINUTE window after Alec left, found some guns, and killed them, all that again in TWO MINUTES while Alec who left at 8:47 and took two minutes to get to the house was literally crossing the door when they were killed but heard ZERO shots.
Plus the hundreds of lies Alec has told at this point.
Regardless of all the evidence and testimony this is were we are, he have been saying drug dealers or vigilantes, but how on earth did the killer pull that off in TWO MINUTES?! It couldn't have been a stranger hiding waiting to strike because Alec himself said the dogs OR QUAILS did not percieve anyone else.
So it was an armed Alec in 15 minutes or an unarmed lucky vigilante in two minutes who somehow knew SLED would not find him because they would charge one of the most powerful men in town
It had to be Alec!
Where was the other son? Does he have a solid Alby?
@@spencercharels4121 He does, he was in a other town with his girfriend.
I believe there was someone else there that night. I think AM was being extorted or something. I think this goes way beyond embezzlement and a pain pill addiction. I think he's scared of or protecting someone.
@@christinakaur8766 I think that if he was protecting someone or afraid, threaten he will make a lot of mistakes when he talks, he has said a lot of lies but hasn't seemed freightened
Yes!
At 5:23….take notice of the rage in AM’s face. Caught in a lie and there’s no wiggle room for him.
This is not the Aww-shucks persona he’s trying to portray. He’s pure evil
Thanks for the info and update❤❤❤
I think Maggie and Paul had told him they were not going to deal with his drugs anymore, so they went to the dog kennel he got his gun and went after them because he knew he had to cover his self and that's his paranoia working
He said in initial interviews to police that the person who did it planned it well. I believe he was talking about himself. What did he do with the guns ? Never found.
I agree but also. Paul was getting ready to got to jail for atleast manslaughter. Maggie was filing for a divorce. And Alex needed money for his theft.
@@7jarrow Yes, I thought the same when Alex said "it was planned" and I thought he said "for a long time."
Unfortunately it's entirely possible to take those amounts of pain pills. As an addict myself I have first hand knowledge of this. The longer your addiction is the higher your tolerance becomes. You chase the initial feelings of euphoria and it takes higher and higher doses to get that feeling. There are deaths that occur with the levels Murdaugh is discussing but, that usually happens when either the tolerance isn't there or when taking the pain pills in conjunction with muscle relaxers and or barbiturates such as Valium or Xanax etc...
I'm so thankful that I was able with God's help to walk away from those pills over 8 years ago.
Congrats 👏 sandra!!!! As a recovering addict myself on suboxone I can say myself is very hard to do and I'm glad you had the will power to do so... 😊
I’m 15 years clean of abusing the same meds. Congratulations on your sobriety!
Keep it up, Sandra, one day at a time!
@@nickaiken5715 I’ve been on Suboxone for almost 15 years and I think it’s the greatest drug for recovering addicts ever invented. You can lead a normal life and it’s great for long term pain from injury. Not great for acute pain but certainly great for normal long term pain. Congrats on kicking the pills to the curb!
@@runhardhooah thank u so much. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!!!
Keep up the good work with these daily recaps. Great job 👍🏼
Very telling that AM can't remember what he was doing when he took those steps but he does remember dropping his phone in the car.
He was probably pacing back and forth while he was making phone calls , especially if you just killed your family .
Having been on a murder conspiracy trial, I can tell you that jurors will debate & argue until they arrive at a decision. It is a sacred duty and they will realize what their responsibilities are. It might take weeks during deliberations to come to a unanimous verdict..
Addiction. ,, so sad.,, unless you understand. Addiction.,, lies and deception is part of addiction.,,,rest in peace., magi and Paul., and Alex death., tragic
I agree
He would already have died many times over if he was taking 60 pills a day. He’s lying. Surprised?
@@trishhegarty7506 true,but it shows up in your body with effects!
I can't understand why it would take weeks....innocent people don't lie to this extent to save their own skin, if someone else murdered their family....they'd want the real culprit brought to justice, not instantly distract the police!
and now he is saying he rolled Paul over by inserting his finger in his belt loop? really? so that is why he has no blood on his hands ? and only on his "fingertips" ? what a joke. any human being finding his child would have to be preyed off of them consoling them in grief. detective Monk ... "He's the guy ! "
Don't you think AM was in the golf cart when he shot them with 2 different guns. Would explain the 5 foot 2 inch height of killer. Maggie had a golf cart tread mark on her leg. She was running for her life.
Mr Berry, your recaps and discussions are exemplerary! Thank you. 👍
I look forward to them every night.
What? Really
Great recap & convo. Really enjoyed hearing Chris’s thoughts 👏🏼
He's fabulous 🤩
The prosecutor attorney is doing a great job….
I totally agree. There are lawyer pundits slamming the prosecutor for asking open ended questions but they are just getting paid to be argumentative and say how they could have done it better. If the prosecutor had asked leading questions, the defense would have objected.
Thanks so much for doing this. I have limited time and have found your recaps so interesting. I’m a lawyer, but only do civil litigation. So I found your interviews with the local defense lawyer interesting. Thanks.
Creighton was trying to make a point and let him talk and lie himself into guilty. "Murderdock" never gave a straight answer!
Don’t demean yourself like that. Being a lawyer is hard work, to pass the bar exam and to practice law takes a lot. Not to mention the educational requirements. ✌️
Some jurors will buy his lies unfortunately.
You got that right. Hung jury.
its not about believing his lies... the dollar store prosector threw the case focusing WAY too much on discrediting Alex... Everyone know he is a lying thieving drug addict, they have proven that. They havnt even came close to proving he murdered his wife and son.
Sadly, I agree. It would be so much better if people would learn and apply.
I heard a lawyer doing a legal analysis yesterday that said some in the jury were crying with him yesterday. The lawyers for this case are terrible.
@@Oceangirl_505 Sadly you dont understand how the justice system works.
M&P are not Alex's first murders.
He is just so obviously full of sh!t. I was wondering, would it have been a better defense for him to just say that he found his wife and child bodies and with his paranoia, he was worried that he would be seen as a suspect, so he did some things that he thought would remove suspicion (like changing his clothes, which were covered in blood from checking the bodies). Or, would that be too ridiculous?
not for a b---s--- lawyer low life!
Such a joke
If u don't think it mattered if u were at the kennels or not as he attorney and he say- WHY LIE?! Contradiction right there
Joohoo 👋🏼 THE DUDE LIED ABOUT HIS ALIBI FOR A YEAR AND A HALVE!
ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?
THANK YOU!
He confessed to the cops. Listen
Yes and you would be more convincing if you could spell!
Half not halve
Ok. This guy, this influential, attorney, pillar of community, entitled guy wouldn’t be INSANE mad crazy fire and brimstone leading a witch hunt for the person/persons that murdered his wife and son????? Please! He would be on the national news crying and pleading. There would be billboards and interviews WHATEVER to find the person/ persons that DARE mess with HIS family.
He looks you dead in the eyes and lies to his friends and family who he say he love.
they won't allow the facts about Maggies efforts to acquire a divorce from Alex. This would help alot though.
Thank You for this Summary !!!!👍👍👍
He lied by omission, which is how he glosses over the murders
Great report as always y'all thank you
If you lie 🤥, if you get cornered you'll kill.
If one lies, they will steal, and then kill
@@efleming4727 My daddy told me that one day after he caught me in a small lie when I was very young. I never will forget those words from him. My daddy was my rock who taught me all the morals and principles of a virtuous life. Miss you so much, daddy. ❤️🙏
Alex is lying for his life right now, on the witness stand.
Alex stating that he is not a successful man ...
It depends how one measures success. If purely monetary, he was wealthy; if a well balanced man with a happy family life then he was disastrously unsuccessful. Alex has learned the falsehood of wealth as a measure of success.
They should call in the guy who sold him pills if he actually got $500 grand. And how many pills he sold to him.
Great point. Why indeed?
When on rare occasions he tells the truth, it comes straight out of his mouth, otherwise he stutters and stall etc…. If the jury believes him, they all think Father Christmas is real…..
His ass is done.. GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY....
All of us addicted to watching this laboriously repetitive, bloated, and needlessly drawn-out endless trial will no doubt be able to pass the Bar exam by the time this all draws to a close.
Alec buried the weapons he and Buster used to kill Maggie and Paul in his father's coffin. Let the police go to the cemetery and open the coffin and find the two weapons.
They would have to get a judge to agree to that, and the only way a judge would allow that is to have some sort of proof. No judge would approve that based on just speculation.
Yep. As well as the bloody clothes.
As a recovering addict, the only thing I really believe him about is when he is talking about his addiction. It’s amazing how high your tolerance becomes with opiates.
Congratulations on your recovery! It seems like a LOT of pills, is it possible to even take that many in a day and not die?
@@cwalker228 This guy is rich, so most addicts couldn’t afford to buy this much oxycontin (I was paying up to $.50 USD of each mg). When I got to the point that I was taking 270mg at a time and couldn’t feel anything, I moved to shooting heroin, which I could get for as little as $25 a gram. I’ve abused pretty much all the hard drugs and have been an alcoholic. While you develop a tolerance to any drugs you abuse, opiates really surprised me by how fast my tolerance became and how fast I became addicted. It doesn’t surprise me that he was consuming that many pills, especially given he can spend as much money he wants on drugs.
@@wes788411 thank you for your explanation and again, congratulations on your sobriety man!!
@@cwalker228 yes it is possible when you are on opiates esp over time. You build a tolerance so fast. Sometimes people with certain genes metabolize them must faster and need twice as much to feel what people without the gene feel. I learned about that at rehab when they did a genetic testing and my results said that. It explained why I was able to take an amount that would normally knock people of their feet.
Why didn’t he ask him if he was at the house? How could he not hear the gunshots or hear the dogs barking?
In my mind, AM is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. That said, the prosecution has done a poor job organizing the trial evidence and the cross examination of AM was weak, not well done. I expect better from an experienced prosecutor. I’m hoping the jury is smarter than the prosecution.
Yes I totally agree. I can’t believe what a lousy job the prosecution did. Have you seen the prosecutor for Nancy Brophy? He did a much better job.
perhaps they neaten it up in the closing
I think they never expected him to take the stand
He said he saw them 45 minutes before he left for his moms. 45 minutes when he killed them. And, washed off
❤To quote of Dr Phil used many times - “ If his lips are moving, he’s lying 🤥
Megan Trainor has a great song by such title. Catchy lil beat!
@@bonniejane01 Cool, I’ll have a listen , can’t live without music, hence jail wouldn’t work for me 🫶🏻fifi
Having another possible killer is the only reasonable doubt that could save Alec, but until today we didn't understood how IMPOSIBLE it is.
Alec said THERE WAS NO ONE DOWN THERE or the dogs and quails dod not sense anyone.
The killer had not guns and got some there and killed them IN TWO MINUTES.
We have been thinking he couldn't have take off his clothes, hosed himself and stashed the guns in 16 minutes but the defense will claim some unarmed straneger did it IN TWO MINUTES?
Impossible!
The prosecutor is probably sick and tired to have this criminal walk after each one of his crimes for years. I hope this trial will be the tipping point for Justice and for this Prosecutor who has done a remarkable job of prosecuting. The Judge is also great.
I would really like for Prosecutor to force Murdaugh through each and every victim that he ripped off by way of being their trusted Lawyer. Most all of those folks were horribly injured. The jury needs to hear more of these individual injuries and the amount he stole from them. These facts will help exhibit his psyche.
In addition, even if he ate 1000 pills a day, there are millions of dollars unexplained. Where is the money? He stole all he could thru work but still wanted more. The jury needs to see the family was just his ‘Next’ supply to fill his gluttonous need for money.
Gambling addiction? Goes great when high on opioids.
@@shellyvieth2469renovations on these multiple properties, vacations, and law school tuition probably
Very hard to prove that someone besides AM did it.
They don’t need to prove someone else did it. Ever heard of “reasonable doubt”?
The doubt isn't very reasonable
Right now that's impossible and that is not even what they are going for. lol They are striving to influence reasonable doubt! lol
@@kristinebarbaree2697Dont cherry pick 2 words you bafoon. "In a criminal case, the prosecution bears the burden of proving that the defendant is guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. This means that the prosecution must convince the jury that there is no other reasonable explanation that can come from the evidence presented at trial."
@@axisvictory - The problem is where is the forensic evidence ? There is none. Where are the murder weapons? Can't find them. Were the proof of motivation ? There is none . There is no hard evidence of this guys guilt.
I really enjoy these nightly Recaps you're doing.
How can you sit here and lie to these jury
ALEX. "PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE "
He did it all from golf cart, thus tire track across Maggie's leg. Washed cart off there. Drove back to house. Easy to understand.
I 100% agree
Not from the cart ..shooter had to be within 3 feet or so to leave the powder residue on there bodies
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I think only first shot to Paul had stippling; could have been right there, leaned over to shoot both times.
A view from the UK. If he didn't kill them, who did and what was the motive? From what i could see this property in "Moselle" is it called, was off the road someway with the dog kennel separate from the house. It was late, probably dark too. Like the prosecutor said, how would a robber know they were there, get the guns from the main house THEN go to the kennel to kill them, why? He didn't need to kill the mum & son at the kennels to rob the house. Besides it turns out the son was videoing the dogs on his phone and his fathers voice could be heard on the recording meaning he WAS there. This man has lied so much in his life that he he can't tell what the truth is anymore. He just lies with impunity probably stemming from the power he gained from his social status in South Carolina.
Agree Robert. Another Brit in the UK.
Thanks for the excellent Recap!
Can you imagine how many times he lied to Maggie? When she just wanted a beautiful life and she seemed confident spending time to herself, would go to her other house alone, independent, beautiful, and her husband is doing this in the background 😭😭
IF it turns out to be a hung jury...YES it should be re tried with a change of venue.
He is GUILTY!