Top 5 Critical Moments from Alex Murdaugh’s Family Murder Trial - Week One
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2023
- Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s family murder trial has entered week two as prosecutors continue to present critical evidence they allege connects him to the murders of his wife and son. The Law&Crime Network’s Jesse Weber breaks down the top five critical moments from week one of the Murdaugh murders trial.
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All the "sobbing" but not a single real tear in that cop car. He is a real piece of work.
Narcissist psychopath!
Lots of fake sniffing & snorting except every time he answered questions mysteriously his nose forgot to run.
It sounds more like a laugh to me. He’s a sick puppy
Yes he was tearing
All the sniffing is because he's high
I love how offended he sounded when she asked if it was a house or mobile home. "IT'S A HOUSE!" 😆 When your family is dead but you're still a snob!
👍 That's exactly what I picked up on as well
Hey I noticed that too!
Caught tht also!
I thought I was hearing it out of prejudice. I'm glad I'm not the only one who picked up on his tone. He's a real piece of work! 🤦♀️
almost like "mobile home ? do you know who I am ? "
"Crying" with hands in front of face, and wiping his face constantly, I saw no signs that tears had flowed.
What scares me is for a hot minute I believed his act…..
I particularly liked how he looked up to check if the jury were looking at him. Oh the anguish.
When someone just lets their nose drip onto the desk without attempting to stop it or wipe it, that is 100% for the jury to witness. Even a toddler would reach up to wipe their nose!
I thought I was the only one who saw that snot drop‼️ 😷
just imagine if the man who had his family murdered and is now being accused of killing them is found innocent... anyway you seem like a lovely person and must be a great friend and I'm sure you never react off pure emotion
@@Mike-zu9ke he won't be found innocent. He is 100% guilty.
He might not be found guilty over some technicality but he will never be found innocent.. too many murders and crimes around him.
He must have invested in the amber heard course on crying!!
Eww 😵💫🤢🤒🤕😷🤧
I've got a question. Why did he check his son for a pulse if he saw his brains on the ground? and if he tried to turn them around why did he not have a speck of blood on him?
He’s a liar
How much brain was on the ground? You can still have a pulse with part of a brain.
If he only used his hands to touch them then he wouldn't have blood on him he would have washed his hands.
I think people are wanting him to be guilty.
@@outqast all these women(and a few men 😂) on these comments are hating on him.
No one ever considers what being in shock is like and if he really did find them how tf would they react. Everyone is different.
I'd also wonder HOW he didn't get covered in blood when there was a huge pool of blood around him and brain matter all over. Like unless he was wearing a Hazmat suit, how is it he only had a smidge of blood on only his shirt? I think he was wearing different clothes when he annihilated most of his family. There is no way he checked them for signs of life and didn't get covered in blood. No way.
@@DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague how do you know commenters genders? Like do you have a special gift to see into the pants of people you disagree with or in your life has it just always been women who irk you? I don't understand your comment whatsoever 🤣
Watching a man listen to himself fake a phone call after killing his wife and son is some intense television
‘Wade, it’s Jean.’
His wife Maggie was seeking a divorce when they had no money and her check to charity bounced. He was also being found out that he stole millions from his family law firm. His son Paul being drunk and Mallory dying made him and the family set up for huge lawsuits. Alex even tried to blame other people for the wreck. He stole 4 million in a lawsuit for a young man, after someone pulled the cord. He also beat woman, that came out. He’s a full scale jerk and bad guy. The good old boy network needs to go away, forever, it’s not fair.
What did the part about someone pulling the cord mean? And yes, he did it. He did the housekeeper too. Scumbag
Wow, just incredible!
Sounds like a soap opera! Sad!!
Trial needs to be in another state. Either way, he's going to see their dead bodies and hear their dying voices the rest of his sad life. Horrid.
I’ve always thought trials should be held right where the crime was committed. Based on the evidence presented at trial, the verdict comes. It’s the job of attorneys to prove innocence or guilt.
@Jane Smith - what you say is rational. However jury’s are not always rational. Often they Ave heard all about the crime and want to be on the jury bench. They will say they know nothing at all just to get on the jury. I actually don’t believe in having a jury. I think the system should be THREE sitting judges. And they decide from the evidence only and also understanding the law.
As a parent, if my child was murdered I wouldn’t want to live anymore. Even if I was falsely charged with my child’s murder, I would honestly be so dead inside I wouldn’t have enough in me to even put up a fight.
I agree 💯 percent!! I can’t understand a parent that can go on living without their child period. I would be done forever.
You could hire a crazy person to ‘murder’ you on the side of the road like he did.
my worst fear! i will go mad if someone would murder my child.
@@ronda757 I postponed marriage and having children because of that fear, but after raising two beautiful, successful daughters that joy outweighs any tragedy, life goes on for the survivors.
How would you know if you haven't experienced them being murdered?
He showed no fear of the killers still being about the area. Still, it’s hard to comprehend a father doing this to his son! But then, you have Chris Watts.
Exactly! And many other cases.
Very good comparions to make. C.W. to me is worse than an animal ... he is an abominable creature & it seems that A.M. are in the same league.
um.. he ran back into the house and grabbed a shotgun that's why he was seen on scene with a shotgun
Because killing a woman is absolutely all right isn't it you man? 🤮🤢 if those women would learn to put the bat on your backs in time many things would change in the world
@@Mike-zu9ke and why a shotgun if not for a reason? Of course it’s missing
Making a snap chat video laughing and an hour later your brain is by your feet. Life is Strange.
Minutes later…8:44 pm…8:50 they never use their phones again…Alex leaves at 9:06 to his mom’s. That gave him 16 minutes to wash off the blood off of that big, blue raincoat, his hands, face and eye glasses, hide the rain coat and rifle, text and call Maggie (of which she never responds) and drive off, phoning people all the way for alibi.
To be clear, Paul made and sent a video to his friend of said friend’s dog staying at their kennel at 8:44 pm
And people are stranger
It’s nice to see a “powerful” person answer for their crimes. ESPECIALLY down here.
He is a long way from being convicted.
@@claymac7895 With 100 other charges, he will never leave incarceration, as it should be. He is paying for his crimes, ruined his life and the lives of others around him in the name of greed, control and narcissism.
The more I’ve heard this far, the more I’m starting to seriously doubt he did this.
I do 100% believe he’s definitely guilty of all those other crimes he’s charged with in the separate case, but this specific case is the one exception where I honestly don’t think he did it.
There are other people who would’ve had far more logical a motive to kill them for way better reasons than the motive the prosecution alleges against Murdaugh in this case.
As a well experienced attorney, he would’ve also very clearly known that sympathy for a murdered wife and son would never prevent him from being convicted of the other crimes he was soon to be charged with when the evidence he committed those other crimes is so irrefutably obvious.
@@BB-kt5eb I've been following the entire Murdaugh matter as a litigation Paralegal, he will never be a free man again. He is connected to many other crimes and has zero credibility.
@@carlabarrick8538
I agree that he will spend the rest of his life in prison regardless of what happens in this specific case.
I think the evidence for all those other very serious crimes he’s been charged with is impossible to overcome.
This particular case is the only exception where I think there is abundant reason to doubt, especially when one considers how many enemies the family’s actions had caused them to have. There are too many who all would’ve had abundant reason to do this to them and these reasons make a lot more sense for a motive than what the prosecution has alleged.
On June 7th @ 8:44:55 pm on the night of Maggie and Paul's murder, Paul sent a snap chat from the dog kennels to a friend. The snap chat included Paul, Maggie and Alec's voice. At 8:49:01 pm, 5mins later Paul's cellphone goes dead forever. Alecs claim to everyone he was not at the kennels that evening......this is key.
That's why he admitted to touching it. Looking to delete it.
Poetic justice for Paul and his Mom ! His Son will convict him!
@Patrick Abrams I think it sounds just like him.
The meta data can easily be examined and is difficult to change.
He has a distinct voice. It’s him. If not, who was there talking to their dogs, Maggie and Paul? Maybe it was OJ.
And that defense attorney is a regular slick Willy
Not once has he SCREAMED with anger asking WHO DID THIS? That..says EVERYTHING
THIS IS THE COMMENT . LIKE NOTHING ELSE YOU CAN TELL ME CAN SAY MORE THEN THAT
Sure it does! You're absolutely 100% correct! Anything that he said or did not say that you think is condemning is clearly condemning!
It's crazy to me how many of y'all just know exactly how folks react to situations when y'all never faced this situation. Everyone's different.
Yeah he also didn't seem worried that they'd come back to kill him or something. Almost as though he knew he wasn't in any danger!
@@AndyCutright I'd check if my son was dead.... With 100% certainty. From the day he was born until the day I die, I would walk on water for my child. So if I came upon a scene with my son shot bleeding... I can actually guarantee you I would jump to check for signs of life and help him in any way imaginable. I'd move planets for my child. So no, I wouldn't have a few specks of blood on my shirt I can tell you that with every ounce of my soul. I'd step in front of a moving train to save my kid lol so I can assure you I would be making sure I could not help before I'd pace around waiting on the police. I'd call 911 while my entire soul was crushing me and I'd be screaming maniacally. Because that is what almost every parent would do if they found their own child in a pool of blood.
He didn't stumble across a corpse in the woods. By all accounts, his family was alive an hour earlier.... So yeah I can 100% guarantee a normal parent would react differently. A parent would try to help their child.
I don't even think we need to get into the wife. I think anyone with a happy marriage would check on their wife too.
@@AndyCutright He reacted to their deaths the same way he reacted to the financial crimes he's charged with......No Empathy?!!
Noone knows what is going on inside a relationship except those in it!! What people portray on the outside, has many times, nothing to do with the inside!
Exactly especially with social media everyone shows just happy pics but some of the time it's an act just to keep up appearances
If my son & wife were laying on the ground brutally murdered and I found them I think I’d have blood all over myself. I honestly don’t believe I could have not held them in my arms.
Not all people react the same.
@@sauce1232 that's exactly what Chan just said.
Same. I'd be doing whatever I could to see if I could help them.
Deanna, he told detectives he tried to turn Paul over and check pulses before calling 911. . But he also told the 911 operator that he just walked up to the scene.
Agree.
I honestly think he killed them both, showered and changed, hid the clothes and guns, and then called 911. He said they were "hurt badly" but yet he doesn't render aid of any kind? He doesn't even flip them over? I dunno. His description to 911 is almost like minimizing by saying hurt badly instead of "Someone killed my family help!" ... And he sounds like he's panting in a rhythmic way which isn't very natural. It lacks emotion. If I found my family in a blood bath, first I'd be jumping to check for any sign of life, and then I'd be bawling on the phone with 911 while covered in blood. He's a manipulative narcissist... I think his emotions are completely fake and he's acting a part. I think someone who is capable of stealing their maid's will and $8 million from clients is entirely able to shoot is family. He would do anything to keep up his charade.
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Listen to that body cam.... He jumps between calm explaining his daily schedule to high pitched weird voice asking if they're confirmed dead?!
What? If he's not guilty, he certainly orchestrated this. No doubt in my mind he is faking shock and he is not remotely heartbroken..... Nope I don't like it. He's like Chris Watts faking it as best he can.
And in the cop car he keeps remembering that he's supposed to be upset so he takes a big long painful breath to get going again with the cry... Oh this is not real. He's editing his own story as he goes. It's unnatural to go from breaking down to calm storytelling in a second. Only someone who's acting can pull this off. I'd bet the farm on it.
Didn’t he say “” I saw him lying there from the road “”. I be like the road !!! The detective said it was up and to the right and kind of inside the door way …. Someone said that !! I’m not too sure … but AM did say he saw his son lying there all the way from the road !!!
@@laurellynn8496 everything about it is off to me... If you can ignore his pathetic painting. He says "hurt badly" when they are slaughtered, and Paul has no skull because his brains are scattered on the ground. He minimizes the whole thing. I'd be calling saying "SOMEONE KILLED MY FAMILY HELP!" and I'd lose my mind. He seems to have a story to tell police and periodically remembers he has to play the upset dad role. It's creepy to me.
His sons phone popped out of his pocket and he "tried to do something with it". Why not tell his intention specifically, my guess he was trying to get rid of the video placing him at the scene.
Exactly
My thoughts exactly
OMG I didn't know he was on a live when this took place... I watched him being questioned in the car and he stated his son's phone popped outta the pocket and he tried to do something with the phone... I thought to myself, why would he bring that up, who would eve bother to fiddle with a phone during a time but who knows, who knows what he's thinking.. NOW it makes sense
@@jolenevieira3748 he was trying to delete whatever Paul recorded but thats not how Snap works. He got everything right but that one little detail. Convict.
Wouldn't you think the next thing after checking Paul's pulse would be check on Maggie?!
“Is this gun from inside the house” then he goes rambling on about his son’s boat accident🤦🏻♀️
it has been my experience when people are rambling on and on, they are lying !
Rambling about the boat ride, him saying there may have been revenge from his son driving drunk and killed his friends on the boat.
@@normacolon9618 I actually thought the same thing ....possibility definitely
I think the emotions are genuine-as a narcissistic con artist, this guy must believe that all these terrible things are happening TO him and not because of him. He seems like he didn’t actually want to kill his family but felt he had no other choice because the narcissist simply cannot take responsibility for their own actions and so they’re constantly finding ways to make others pay the price.
It’s always easy to forget the #1 rule: Gingers have no soul
@@MatthewMS. hey now
Every person he saw that night said they didn’t see one single tear. Which I think would be normal and ok if he was in shock but he’s pretending to cry. The expert “Behavior Panel” breaks down his reactions and as far as his behavior alone he is absolutely deceitful and deceptive.
@@MatthewMS. can you give examples of these?
@@beautifulteta632 orange head people are not actually human they are a fruit an orange 🍊
The marriage was not fine. Maggie was not living with Alex. She had seen a divorce lawyer. She texted her friend on the day of the murder that Alex had talked her into coming to the Mosele property and that she, Maggie, felt it was “fishy.”
Stevie wonder can see he killed his wife and problematic son
There has been no lawyer in the low lands country to step forward and say Maggie came into see them regarding a divorce. Wouldn’t you think by now they would have found out who and when she went to see?
Yes and in the police car at the scene, Alex told the cop asking questions that their marriage was great and that it wasn't unusual for Maggie to be at the kennels. However, she was no longer living there not to mention that the reason she was there was because he asked her to be there. And she was suspicious about this.
And he put up her cabin/cottage as collateral for a big loan without her permission... And the bank was coming looking for answers and signatures.
Sounds like a solid marriage lol for a psychopath!
@@debkb7 she must have just moved out of that giant property because he snores too loud...
I don’t know how this man continues to take a breath
Despicable being
Alex shot his son, and tried to access his phone to delete the video he knew his son had likely recently taken. Which is why he discloses it to detectives during the interview in the car. He knows they'll likely pull evidence/ prints from it so he continuously builds in reasons for the forensic evidence along the way in his statements. Imo.
Yeah. This fool is toast. Maybe he want make it long locked up.
If he knew his son had recorded them earlier, he would of altered his alibi statement to say he was there but left for some reason. Maybe he was checking the phone was not recording at that time?. A sad case, maybe he intended to end it for all, but couldn't turn the gun on himself after all?.
They can recover a deleted video I believe
Absolutely, that's when we heard him say I tried to get his phone then changed subject ,why would he want the phone is it because he realised his voice would be in it 🤔 my opinion only, no one tries to take the phone when your son's brains are everywhere 🤔
@@bobbyswain7049 True. I will watch with interest.
I feel like the crying is more from his guilt than from his heart.
This is so sad! Prayers truth is revealed and justice is served.
Piper Lori -
FACTS:
* so sad his son killed a Beautiful young girl while drinking and speeding in a boat. That girls family court trial is in 2023.
* So sad that he is a major attorney well known in the community was stealing from his clients he represented and also stealing from his own law firm.
* So sad that he staged a hit man to attempt to kill himself.
* So sad that he has an attorney present with him DURING the Crime Scene, his attorney present with him sitting in the back seat - answering questions in a police crime detectives car...
*So sad his wife and son were shot directly in the face with a shotgun...
His wife and son did not deserve this - may they rest in peace..
The truth is being revealed in front of our eyes 👀
I imagine with his head blown off at his fathers hands there was no pulse check.
@@lukeholler4364 Yes, that’s what I meant the entire thing is sad. Thanks for caring to be so specific. I don’t have time to text a book.
@@piper_lori-williams-tudhope People can be real fools. Don’t mind the trolls.
Speaking from experience, when I cry, tears come out of my eyes. Just sayin...
And snot out of my nose…he wipes his nose and eyes but the dang tissue stays dry? Amber heard did that, too.
That's a good one. The psychological disordered cannot cry for others. True fact. They do not have regular emotions towards other people. Cause this guy physical harm, and watch him ball his eyes out. Or if he ever feels sorry for himself. That's as deep as these demons get. They share traits with Satan. Give him the death penalty, they can kill, but never think they deserve death. I bet he could shed a tear then.
That proves you are a human with a soul, and he is a soulless demon. 👍
I recommend Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty to anyone that has hbo max. Its a 3 part series about this family and all the other terrible stuff they've done. Completely insane!
I watched it today, excellent!
There were also 1 or 2 other deaths (non family related) that were kind of questionable.
This guy is definitely a serial killer or something, only someone who's gotten away with multiple murders would think they could get away with this crap. Imo nothing worse than someone with antisocial personality disorders who's also; in active addiction. They'd go to any and all lengths to get what they think they want. People like that have great instinct to manipulate, but horrible at predicting where the chips are gonna fall...
It's also on Netflix!
@@TwoPinkPeasTerri thank you, I was about to ask if on Netflix as well?
Anyone else notice the crying but not a single tear?
As to the “how-could-he-be-sweet-and-having-a-jovial-time-with-his-family-one-minute-and-kill-them-the-next-minute defense….20 years an opiate addict can make a man into a monster. He was desperate. She had a lot of assets of which he was to inherit. Paul had made a huge mess of things and was about to go on trial which was going to expose Alex’s financial dealings. That’s how.
What’s that saying ? Oh yeah you catch more bees with honey. He lured them into his trap and the dead chicken was decoy to distract them.
He could also have pre-planned that to make it seem like their relationship was more “wholesome” than it would have normally been
Yes and money has been so important to them for so long and they thought they were so entitled.
This punk had multiple motives. Sounds so fake on 911 call. He didn't check anything.
Alex sets up people. He is sweetie-pie to get them to trust him then wham-o.
I'm thrilled Paul caught his Dad's voice on the cell ph video! That's good evidence and the prosecution can use more tangible, un-circumstantial evidence.
You mean, uncircumcised evidence… 🙃
Does anyone understand what he was making the video for/what he was "worried about"? Cannot understand what the lawyer said...
@@tborody I believe they weee filming a friend’s dog who was in their kennel and having issues with it’s tail
I have never heard that! Thanks
When?
I like the way Jesse explains everything concisely, so others, like here in the UK, can follow the case.
Think old county families with money and political clout and power going back generations and interelated. This guy was a big fish in a little pond and entitled as were the sons. My Mom's family across the Savannah River were in the same county going back to a King George land grant before the Revolution and were related to scores of families in three surrounding counties and even in SC.They were elected to Judgeships, County Commissioners, Clerk of Court, School Boards,etc. And when I went to a nearby college I met profs and student who were more cousins I'd never met in yet another county. Lol!
@@janetprice85 fascinating!!
Hello UK from Texas 🙋🏻♀️✌️
@@janetprice85 I really enjoyed your comment!
@@janetprice85 Far out !
Prosecutor was outstanding. Thank God for justice.
The 911 call? They say that anyone who leads with anything other than information about the victim is suspect. He starts out with his address, says ‘ma’am’ when asked to repeat himself, and becomes audibly outraged when she asks if it is a mobile home or a house. None of these things are the actions of a frantic father/husband.
Boy I hope he gets on the stand. I know he won’t. But that prosecutor would be such fun to watch.
Well, you got your wish!😅
I’ve never seen anyone cry uncontrollably like that without a single tear.
AM was laughing it up at an oyster roast shortly after the murders.
And at a boat show or fishing tournament in Edisto - two weeks aftter the murders - with Buster...
I think the audio of him and his defence lawyers opening statement condemn him on there own.
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I don’t think so. I think the defense attorney is doing pretty well.
Agree. Defense opening was bad. I would be so upset if I was the defendant. Could a "loving husband and father" murder his wife and son? Yes sir, we see it happen every day. Even though they love them, they still do that. Sir.
My answer is, Yes a “narcissistic” person would who btw is also a lawyer that’s “ruled” that county for decades..
…who is also a murdering narcissist 🤫
Trying to watch the trials, so I thank you very much for keeping me up to speed
Alex's own attorney brought up a great point that points towards his guilt when he said "the shooter was no more than 2'-3' of him" I mean it was up close and personal and who would've been able to do that?? It's almost as Jr never even saw it coming or expected it....Oh right that's because it came from no other than daddy himself!!
Then he took a bath before calling 911
@@sinetteiversen9978 I can't understand why there appears to have been no investigation into bathroom/showers and pipework looking for any evidence of washing off blood, either at Alex's house or his mother's.
I don't let anyone but my father, mother, and wife anywhere near my face. Many will answer the same
@Diman Laundry Yeah for sure. Heck he's in his yard he's not letting someone get right up on him if it was a masked killer that came out from the woods or something. I suppose it is possible if they had him at gunpoint but I think it points toward daddy walking up with a shotgun in his hand and blowing his head off
I think they were both shot dead from behind.
There’s a moment durring the interview when they are speaking about how his marriage and relationship was with his kid was going. There’s a moment where he looks into the detectives eyes the detective looks away and he continues to stare at him like he’s trying to get him to believe him/ trying to almost intimidate the detective into moving on from that because he “wasn’t lying”.
I found my MIL and did CPR, her bones broke under my hands. Afterwards I went outside and threw up, but after I did that I was stoic and in shock. The police interrogated me and I had no emotion, but I couldn’t eat for weeks because it would remind me of her bones breaking. They never questioned me further and left it as a unknown death. People can have weird emotions during situations like this… it’s so hard to tell, but something is just not right with him.
As a former ED RN, we sometimes broke ribs. If you're doing CPR right and with the correct amount of pressure, you will break bones on vulnerable folks (such as elderly women.)
I'm so sorry for your experience. It was certainly traumatic.
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The difference in reactions is night and day. Innocent and guilty. Body language, your body gives tells when your lying, uncomfortable, relaxed, telling the truth. You won't EVER be a suspect, unless you are acting too far out of normal. NO TEARS, is AM big tell. People who are emotionally void CANNOT cry for other people. He dismisses the son he murdered, by giving the other son's birthday first, when that wasn't even asked of him. That shows his contempt for him. People who are lying have to release their nervous energy. The body does it automatically. The first thing they ask married people, how is your marriage? If there is cheating, that person automatically becomes number one suspect. LE have said this. This guy was in so much financial trouble. They look to see what the life insurance was on the wife. The guy never said you need to find whoever did this, never talks about how much he loved them. Gave himself away about "trying to do something with it".....then stops himself, tells on himself. He couldn't help it, about trying to get that video off of his son's phone. If you think this guys behavior was ok, maybe your just misinformed about everything I just mentioned.
@@LisaPeterson227 body language is different in every situation for every person. No one knows what they’re going to do until it happens. I didn’t cry when I found my mom dead or my mother in law, I was in shock. It took a week to cry about it.
Narcissists are good at all the drama. They also have feelings only for themselves. Those tears are for his sorry self, because he has been caught. The evidence will put him away for the rest of his sorry life.
But there were no actual tears ...
He's going to beat this. Not guilty.
One terrible actor…
In today’s hearing on the 30th the prosecution brought forth an interview with a detective between him and Alex in a patrol vehicle. When asked about his son cell phone found at the murder scene his response was a bit different from his first interview conducted by the police on the night of the murders. He defendant explicitly detailed how his son cell phone had a password or a code that nobody knew nobody and that even his brother could not or would not know the code to access the phone. During the initial interview with the defendant he said he checked with somebody and the cell phone popped out he said that he picked it up and was going to do something with it but then put it down. During the second interview is when he was explaining to the officer that his son cell phone would be hard to access because no one knew the code. The second time during this interview he was questioned about his phone cell phone he said that he had hit the cell phone up but did not try to open it. This to me seems really odd in the first interview he picked his cell phone up he was going to do something with it if you were going to do something with the phone you would probably want to look at it therefore you would open it which would require the code. In the second instance you would say I was not trying to open the phone why would you even say that if you knew that nobody knew the code . This to me seems a little bit odd to say the least. Also the constant referral back to the boat accident is just…again …odd.
Popped out. Yeah right
What if the cell phone was unlocked when Paul was shot?
I don't think the reference back to the boating accident is odd at all. Especially if he felt certain that the murder was a result of the girl's death caused by his son. I'm not saying I believe this guy but it makes perfect sense that he would be thinking about the boating accident as the reason his wife and son were gunned down.
I agree it’s a little weird, but I don’t think it’s all that significant. The way I interpret that is he tried to see if he could get in the phone, but realized he couldn’t, so he put it down.
Given the nature of everything that had already been happening surrounding Murdaugh and his son, I don’t think it’s unrealistic to try to see if he could open the phone up when he came across his son dead like that and he knew they had major enemies.
I think he might have really done this, but I’m NOT conclusively convinced that he definitely did. At this point Im starting to doubt he did this.
Perhaps some more conclusive evidence will be presented that will eliminate doubts, but thus far, I honestly do not see where his guilt has been established.
If anything, the evidence the prosecution has presented has actually made me doubt his guilt more than it has convinced me of it.
That being said, even if this jury acquits him, he will most definitely spend the rest of his life in prison either way, because those other crimes, he definitely did, and I don’t see any way he can possibly escape the paper trail that proves his guilt in those cases.
@@BB-kt5eb I agree with your statement for the most part. Anyone experiencing such a traumatic event would be in shock, and sometimes people aren’t as articulate as they would want to be. Crazy this case, the Idaho case & Delphi case are all going on. What a time to be into true crime.
Former attorney. He figured he could get away with it but I hope he doesn't. Maggie didn't want him anymore, the kid fixing to go on trial for his stupidity. They were a bump in the road for him. Jmo
If he cries it's bad if he doesnt cry the same. give me a break with commentators. lawyers and commentstors.
@@normacolon9618 crocodile tears. The only thing he is upset about is getting caught. They were both in his way. They were both about to cost him a Lot of money. He's already been caught being greedy, stealing money that wasn't his. Drugs will do that to people. He Thought he could get away with it because of his name. He thought wrong.
On another video someone pointed out in the kennel snap chat video Alex ‘what’s the matter Paul’ and Paul saying ‘it’s ok Dad’ wow!
Also the first video of Paul and Alex looking at planted trees about an hour before they were shot -AM is wearing blue shirt and long pants -where are those clothes?
My mind is absolutely blown at the video on Paul’s phone. Oh my god. The horror Paul and Maggie must have experienced. 😢
He talks about what a wonderful relationship with his son and wife but never once did I hear him say he loved them he never says that unless I miss something. Todays trial you could hear him tell the police saying about his son “I did him so bad” WTH
Yes I heard that, it sounded like a confession. This will be very hard to refute, once the jury heard it
the I was they
The detective in the car was repulsed by him. Look how far he is up against the driver's side door. Your body language is going to be the first clue you did it.
You can tell he feels nothing, listening to the recordings, 0 emotions
What both the defence & prosecution neglect to realise is that someone can have killed someone and still be genuine in their grief of loss for that person. It's not even psychopathic behaviour, it's natural human behaviour. In this situation (having just killed someone you supposedly love & care for) it would be psychopathic behaviour to NOT breakdown & cry & grieve
Narcissists can fake emotion.
It would be psychopathic to murder your child and wife...
Hard to fake real tears and literal snot pouring out of your eyes and nose simultaneously and streaming down onto the table. It doesn't prove his innocence, but the emotional response is authentic, in my opinion.
@@lulabell79_31 entirely my point, but you said it much better. I think no one should ever be judged by their response. Emotions & the human mind & body are a weird thing. Everyone is literally different in so many ways, including the way they react to an event like this.
@@lulabell79_31 Authentic emotion in court while his own life hangs in the balance. Letting it run and drip for cameras. The officer testified he saw no actual tears the night of the murder.
It is heartbreaking to hear the damage done to his and wife.
Thank you this helps frame this for me.
"He was having a good time with his kids right before the murders, so he couldn't have done it".
Reminds me of John List.
In 1971 , accountant John List killed his entire family: Mother, wife and three children. After killing his mother and wife, he waited for his daughter and youngest son to come home before killing them. After grabbing some lunch he then went to watch his oldest son's football game, and when they got home he killed him, too.
His motivation was a combination of severe money problems and a religious belief that prevented him from dealing with this in a rational fashion. Poverty was a sin, so the only way out was murder.
I remember seeing a documentary on that case. He moved on and remarried and lived another life. No conscience?!
@@janetprice85 No conscience, or he was completely convinced he did the right thing. I put my money on one on the B-cluster personality types.
How did he get away with all that???
@@sherrykrause3410 Who said he got away with it 🤔
@@EJ-74 he got away with it all for years.
Another great video. Thanks!
Has anyone picked up on the fact that this guy went to see his mother who has “late stage Alzheimer’s” right before he discovers his wife and son brutally murdered. She certainly cannot vouch for whether he was there or not …she wouldn’t remember!
Typically Alzheimer victims have Sun Downers Syndrome and their evenings start really early. I don't believe she would have been receptive to a visit at the hour Alec came to see her. Not buying that alibi.
He only went there to hide that tarp/blue rain coat with possible blood and gun shot residue on it ….. however is Alex’s world …. Sadly she could be next ( forgive me )😢
Nursing g staff can
Cell Phone pings
What about the sound? The time of the murders seems to be between 8:00 and 9:00 pm . Murdaugh said that the three of them had dinner together, his wife and son then left the house and he took a nap. Wakes up Calls and sends a text to his wife who is at the kennel, but no answer. He then left about 9:00 to visit his mother. Keeping in mind that this guy is an avid hunter, keen senses and gun enthusiast... are you going to tell me that he slept through 5 rounds of 300 BLK and two blasts from a 12 gauge in the peace and quiet of his secluded 1700 acres? I've shot both of these weapons...they are LOUD!!!
So he would have to claim the murders were committed while he was napping or after 9:00 while he was at his mom's. Both require some
" splaining" ...did he hear gun shots? Did the surrounding neighbors hear any at that hour ? How many ?
..the 911 call it was silent as it was recording while ringing, all you could hear was dogs barking in the background, no hysterical Alex Murdoch.. just dogs until the 911 operator picked up then it was blubberying.
Interesting when he talked about seeing his son with half his head missing and immediately grabbed his phone to ."See if I can do something with it". Maybe he knew there was a video on there he needed to get rid of.
Yup. My guess is the phone had died and he couldn't erase it
Quality show good summary of case so far...
His emotional display was related to his lifelong screwing the system and gotten caught reaction. He was upset with himself, not losing his wife/son.
You just have to look at Chris watts .. that man said everything but his prayers and he still didn’t want to admit to putting his kids in oil tanks but the coward in him couldn’t bare the thought of death row
Omg Chris Watts…the name itself makes me physically ill. I spent so much time poring over that case, watching those little girls run around so happy. My favorite video is when Bella and CeCe are sitting on the couch and you hear “Guess what girls?” and you see them in anticipation as to what it could be…and you hear Shanann say “Mommy has a baby in her belly!!!” and they jump up in excitement and yell “Yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!”
Just adorable
There was a lot stronger evidence against Watts than against Murdaugh in this case.
Maybe some better evidence will be presented to better establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt, but as of right now, I’m increasingly seeing reasons to doubt.
I believe he might have done this, but thus far, I’m still not fully convinced. I’m actually growing more doubtful as the trial continues.
@@BB-kt5eb agree with this there is a lot of conflicting evidence if you keep a straight mind down the middle ..
@@stassigrey4110 it just brings it HOME that you never truly know ANYBODY
I get nauseated watching him rocking back and forth acting like he's upset.
I think he is detoxing
Now that I don’t get. I really think that was an honest involuntary thing, honestly. When he realized he was doing it every time he made himself stop.imo.
I do the same thing when I am upset
@@torihawthorne6732 I bet hes upset! I would be too.
I have really bad anxiety and can say this happens.
“His cell phone popped out of his pocket. I tried to do something with it, thinking maybe.. then I put it back down really quickly. Then I went to my wife”
Extremely telling
Upon finding your child and your wife shot and dead...WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU BE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR SON'S PHONE IN THAT MOMENT?? I can't imagine being in that moment or anything like it but I think that phone falling out of one of their pockets wouldn't provoke any thought of, let me see what's on his phone. That is a small detail that doesn't make sense. And liars usually add small details that don't make sense to make their lie seem more believable.
@@tiffanishehan5084 AM knew that Paul had recorded: AM, Maggie, Paul & Paul's friend's dog (being housed in the Murdaugh dog kennel). Paul was going to or may have sent that video to his friend before the homicides. All 3 of their voices were heard on the video recording.
I'm guessing AM wanted to delete the video. The evidence proving he was there in the dog kennel & could have committed the 2 homicides.
@ALA-FREAKING-BAMA! I understand when you're trying to save your stuff from a house fire.. that's a different type of trauma response. Trying to save your stuff compared to finding your child with their brains blown out...I would imagine that you would be focused on saving your child, not their phone.
***Edit to add, I'm not trying to downplay what you went through, I can't imagine and I hope you and your family got out ok!! Just saying that our responses in those situations would most likely be different.
@@orianjuarez3074 oh I know why he wanted to get into his son's phone..I was just saying as a parent, your first reaction or response wouldn't be to look at the phone at all if you didn't kill them.
@@tiffanishehan5084 Exactly. If AM had "discovered their bodies, he would have 'called 911 immediately'. According to the medical examiner. There was an hour delay from time of death until 911 was notified.
During the 911 phone call, Alec looks like he’s sobbing in court and then not a single tear when he looks up. It’s just really hard to believe he is distraught.
Whatttt they got a video with the accused on video with the victims just minutes prior to the murders?? That’s a big one
I can’t wait to see that. It’s the case, for me. Why lie about an alibi if you don’t need to…
@@queenofwater8783 he obviously did it. As soon as he started getting questioned he brought up the boat incident. He was already using that and visiting his mom with Alzheimer’s. What a con man
😢it’s crazy out here
"I called 911... She was very good."
I don't even know what that means but he's not sobbing anymore... Weird considering he's talking about dead family the whole time. You'd think he'd be pretty inconsolable the whole time. But he has a story to tell them to explain his actions. He reminds himself periodically to cry though, like a trained psychopath!
I think after he saw how bad and brutal what he did was, he actually was disturbed by it.
I think what people don't get unless they have personally experienced something to this level of terror of finding your child and or spouse dead is what your reaction will be. Regardless of the defendant is guilty or not we all have an idea of how we think we will act but we truly don't know until we are in their position. I always would have thought I would become hysterical if my child past away but when my infant son passed I was so shocked I couldn't talk, cry or do anything. I was frozen in shock and trying to process. It became an out of body experience. My mind went crazy but my physical self was numb. It took a bit before I could cry or talk I just felt like a zombie. A persons reactions is a poor test of guilt or innocence. Until your in that situation you never know how you'll react cause it goes beyond what one can imagine.
I was the same way when I found out my sister was murdered. It hit me like a ton of bricks at first and the days that followed I don’t remember anything for days. I remember people coming in to talk to me but I couldn’t tell you the conversation..
Yes but this man could talk and seemed more concerned about clearing himself more then anything else.
He is a liar
I am so sorry for your loss.
His reactions were different because he murdered them both.
Definitely an elaborate coverup - as momma used to say , "believe you, me , mark my
words "😂
Ha! Mine said that, too!!
His face says it all."what have I done" .
Just because there are texts, calls, trips to games, etc., doesn't mean there AREN'T serious issues in a marriage. A lot of partners don't tell their family/friends, when things aren't going well. Especially if they are married into a prominent family.
Maggie saw a divorce attoyney
@Sinette Iversen
I heard about that in the comments, but I didn't hear that directly, during the trial yet. Can you tell me when that was discussed during the trial and/or who said it?
@Goose 😍😮😮😍😍😍🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👌🇮🇪🍀
Is it true that Maggie wanted a divorce?? That's a good motive
He needed her money to pay for his other crimes.
No evidence of Maggie wanting a divorce whatsoever. It's been widely speculated, but not one shred of evidence or proof has been presented. If it existed, the prosecution would have been all over it way before now.
She wasn't even living with him and was about to have their finances forensically audited, the house of cards was coming down and Alex knew it.
@@truthhurts2879 Yes
This boy has solved his and his mother's murder without even knowing
Top video thx
Can you do one of these for the Jensen trial? I've been following that trial but haven't seen much discussion on it at all.
Huge discrepancy-he told the 911 operator that he just walked up on the scene, yet he tells the detectives he touched both, took a pulse and then called 911.
I caught that too!
I think that's first reaction t ck if they are ok.
Maria Mata, yes the first response is to check a pulse. The discrepancy is he told 2 different stories.
the whole thing in the car strikes me as fake, he never sheds a tear with his break down, then suddenly becomes very clear interjecting what he (seemingly) wants known, "actually, i think i tried to turn paul over first...his cell phone popped out of his pocket, i started to try to do something with it (huh?). "did you touch maggie?" "i touched them both, i tried to do it as limited as possible." these comments are not emotional, and reek of someone trying to paint an alibi.
when you listen to the 911 call... when he is asked a question his grief clearly subsides and he answers uninhibited and without affect... soon as he finishes he goes back into grief mode and the pattern continues throughout the call
His cell phone popped out of his pocket.. then I picked it up thinking ...?
If feels like he got mad when she asked if it’s a house or a mobile home 🤣🤣
He totally did 😂
@@susanlawrence8401 like to me it sounded like “how do you not know who I am and would assume Im one of these poor people who live around” smh. It’s a normal question that rural 911 dispatchers ask I think, but he seemed really offended. And I think it’s hilarious.
@@susanlawrence8401 No, he didn't. He was stressed because they kept asking over and over again for the address of the property, so he clearly felt they were wasting time doing so. It's usual to ask twice, for clarification purposes, but not to ask numerous times, when someone is asking for help to be sent urgently and sometimes minutes count for saving a life.
He's been gettin' threats. He sure had that story ready.
Two things; 1. he doesn't mention his other son on the call. How was he sure his other son was OK? 2. He doesn't mention being concerned that there could be someone with a gun waiting for him, or somewhere on the property. If it were me, I'd be worried there was still someone with a gun waiting to kill me too.
If I saw my child laying on the ground shot to death I wouldn't be thinking about messing with their phone. I really don't understand that at all!
It's pretty obvious that he and/or his surviving son committed the murders. Very sad. I couldn't possibly ever think of doing something like this under any circumstances. I would spend life in prison before I stooped to murdering my family. He's a terrible person obviously and I sure hope he gets what's coming to him. I hope their faces haunt him every waking second of every day.
@@panchoandthemule I think it’s very possible you’re right. It also could be the cousin, but that son is soooo not ruled out
It’s also possible the surviving son AND the cousin were involved. This could’ve been a family divided 👀
Where is your evidence that his oldest son Buster was involved? You can’t just call people murderers with zero evidence. The ignorance and lack of critical thinking skills is stunning. Clearly y’all need to spend more time doing a fundamental research on our judicial system and police investigations. So glad y’all are so much smarter than the police while you have zero knowledge of the evidence. 🤡🤡🤡🤡
I don’t think he did this, but I totally believe he did every other crime he’s charged with here.
I went into this with no real opinion in either direction, but from what we’ve heard this far, I have growing doubts that he did this and the supposed motive being proposed here makes no logical sense either, given how irrefutably obvious his guilt of the other crimes is.
People! Buster, was in Rock Hill at the time of the murders!!! This is a 2.5 hour drive! It is documented, and proven, beyond any speculation, that Buster, had nothing to do with this! Nothing at all! He got in his car and drove the 2 and a half hours from Rock Hill to Walterboro, when John Marvin called him to tell him what had happened to his mother and younger brother, period, end of the story. Don't believe me, then ask the Colleton County Sheriff's Office, or ask SLED.
It's going to take more evidence to convince me that he went Grady from The Shining mode on his family.
Absolutely.
He sounds in shock what he sees.
Excellent
i really find something disturbing with how smug and unemotional his other son id behind him, like he knows something no one else does. even when describing the bodies of his family he had that smug smile, sitting cracking his neck like he hadnt a care in the world, yet his dad is shedding tears everytime the crime scene is mentioned. i dont know. something aint right with this whole thing
I agree about Buster. No emotions at all.
That could make sense if the oldest son didnt have dirt of his own. 😬
I wonder if Alex is covering for Buster as well.
@@panchoandthemule Dead wrong. Buster, was 2 and a half hours away, in Rock Hill at the time of the murders. This is proven, beyond doubt, and long accepted as fact by the Colleton County Sheriff's Office, and SLED. Buster had nothing to do with it. At the absolute very most, he could possibly know more than he's said thus far. He didn't commit the murders. He's long since been cleared by law enforcement.
Chilling.Dead eyes.
People don't know what goes on behind closed doors.
My late mother used to say the same thing.
He almost seems relieved when the cop confirms that his family is dead. You know, like they couldn’t get up and say that he shot them. Notice then his breathing and everything else slows
I wasn’t convinced either way as i haven’t really followed this case. However, after hearing the 911 call…he was feigning grief 100%. That is not the voice of a destroyed man.
I hope you'll never be a juror in a court if you make your mind with a 911 call only.
@@sauce1232 i hope you’re never a juror as you will make a judgement based on no evidence whatsoever.
Completely disagree. And I've suffered a very traumatic incident where someone close died in front of me. I couldn't cry. I did everything else, but couldn't cry for days.
@@mrsdoyle6828 people grieve in as many ways as there are people. Crying or not is not the point. There is no grief in this man’s interactions. There is no pain in his voice.
@@AUXdrone talk about basing your decision on complete speculation and assumptions. I agree with the other commenter about it’s a good thing you’re not on the jury. You do realize how our judicial system works, right? You do understand that evidence matters. Making a judgment based on intuition or a hunch has to be the most simple minded thing a low iq individual could say. It’s amazing how biased and opinionated some people are. They think they know everything, even when they haven’t heard or seen anything of substance. “There is no pain in his voice” got you looking like a total goof ball over there.
Remember, it was at night, in the country side is dark, the police were trying to look at the scene with flash light and car light. It would have been difficult to secure the scene until you walked around and figured out the scene.
This is a sad story, but if follow all of the bad things in this man's life at a certain point it leads to Motive, no doubt his wife added it all up in her mind and knew the hammer was coming down and spiraling out of control, she was no doubt leaving him trying to salvage what she had left and I believe Paul was listening to his mother... I live in a small town where gosip knows no bounds..
he doesn't seem concerned about finding out who did this to his family...
Well the fact that a relationship APPEARS normal & loving doesn't mean anything this day & age. Chandler Halderson seemed to have very loving parents with a great relationship with him, yet within an instant Chandler is burning the heads of his parents dismembered bodies in the family fireplace. That's just one example. Narcissistic sociopaths always keep up appearances to everyone else. So this isn't evidence. Hope the defense does better than that.
Omg ! Chandler…. How bout that look on his face when he asked his neighbor about his ring camera ( dude yes we saw you burning arms an snap in your fireplace all night long ) hahahaaa
Yes. Scott Peterson was considered a great guy and very in love with his wife. They still haven’t found her head.
Hope?.I believe this despicable being,who took a bath before calling911 gets a very hard sentence
He wanted to make sure they were dead, no recovery, before calling 911.
Being a psychopath, he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. So yes, he would speak openly to the police.
BINGO!!!
Yep. But after 20 years addicted to opioids…not smart anymore.
Somewhere I’ve seen a theory that he was trying to defer his financial fraud case by this murder case.
He was REALLY offended when the 911 operator asked if he lived in a house or mobile home.
5:48 i love it when sleazy defense attorneys help paint a picture of the victims for the jury to think about 😂