Alex Murdaugh goes through timeline from night of the murders
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- Alex Murdaugh goes through his movements on the night of the murders of his wife and son.
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When a person close to you dies unexpectedly, the normal and typical thing is to go back and remember in every little detail, many times, your last moments with them. His lack of memory of the details is damning. It's ridiculous.
I thought the same thing..I can remember exactly where we were, and what was said when I lost a loved one..he has selective memories that helps himself..
I TOTALLY agree. Some details come later but I can clearly remember my last day with my lost loves
Maybe he has PTSD
I don’t know… there are snapshots of extreme clarity, but stretches of time can be warped. No question.
Kristi, but with two loved ones dying? One should have a clear memory of that day.
Maybe the Shooting from the golf cart can explain the angle of the shooter and perhaps the tire marks on her legs.
Great point!
exactly.
When I say this man should have stayed in his seat next to his lawyers…man oh man he’s done done prosecutor is eating his azz up
You think so? 🤨 I don't.
@moi meself delusional
pretty easy to do. AM is screwing himself all on his own. Easy work for Prosecutor
I wish I drank. I would do it every time he said Pau-Pau.
Lol
I thought the prosecution did an awesome job honing in on his time line around the kennel video. And I loved how AM said that the dogs would have responded if someone else was around! Score for Prosecution!
After just watching the video, I couldn't believe AM didn't know why the prosecution was asking him that question! That was key to his claiming someone else was the shooter! LOL AM thought he was so smart, but obviously he was NOT!
He definitely Murdaughed them.
Murda, ugh.
As a former animal shelter director, I am a little confused by Alex saying what exactly was going on down there at the kennels is what he was trying to avoid....yet he is the one that asked Maggie and Paul to come there!
He can't keep his story straight.
No he wasn't. Maggie asked him.
exactly
This is what total arrogance looks like!
He just admitted that there was no one at the kennels for the dogs to bark at (other than family). That, in and by itself, is very damning!
It's amazing that he denied being at the kennels at that time until the video came to light, and now, he was coincidently only there for the precise 50 seconds that the video captures....what are the odds of that??? I bet if the video were 10 seconds, he'd only have been there for exactly 10 seconds. Unbelievable - literally.
Bubba caught the chicken and the murderer. In one bite.
If only Paul had that video goin for a few more minutes…😢
@@shavondawhite9298 I lost my breath when I read your comment. If only Paul had kept his video going. I believe he would have captured the murder. I believe Paul turned around after the bird shot hit him and seen his dad aiming that gun at him for the fatal shot. I believe Maggie was running toward her child. Her instincts were to protect him. She knew it was Alex shooting her. The first two shots on Maggie were not instantly fatal so she knew who was shooting her.
The fact that he lied about not being at the kennel to the cops and multiple people and then told his moms aid to say he was there earlier, all leads to his guilt. It’s so sad there are all these cases where parents killing their kids. He’s a horrible man in so many levels. Stealing from so many people even a teenager after he won her case- lied to her and stole her money. Pathetic. He killed his wife and son. Obvious.
He didn't exactly lie. He gave estimates if you watch the videos and even said his phone would show exact times but he said he wasn't sure.
@@farmerchick3040 he lied.
When asked a simple question yes or no he has to expand his answer to being a good ole boy.. Saying he's sorry that he stole from his friends, family and the people he so called loved doesn't help knowing he would have continued stealing if he wasn't caught.. He's good at lying... He's good at deflecting...he changes his story so much to fit his narative ..
Professional con artist
He comes off so creepy. I bet she finally found out their lives were a lie and she confronted him he snapped.
No. He planned it
He used two different guns. He lured them there.
Alec is done... lied himself into a corner; he was the only other one there at the kennels at the time of the killings
i think there is a lot of information that can cause reasonable doubt. We will have to wait and see.
@@melbabowen4389 that is reasonable... you seem like a person with a balanced point of view
Alex has the dubious and highly rare accolade of being the ONLY PERSON PRESENT at the crime scene both BEFORE AND AFTER the murders. And as any law enforcement officer will tell you, theres a very high ratio of the person either being the last person to be with/see the victims , or finding a deceased person is very often the same person responsible for their deaths. Added to that Alex was the ONLY person to be present immediately after their deaths, so he's not only the last person to see both victims literally moments before their deaths, but he's also the first and only person to find their deceased bodies and the only person to be present at the crime scene after their murders. The law of averages dictates that to have one of those is rare, two of those is exceptionally rare, but to have all 3 apply to this man is virtually incalculable.
@@justnoted2995unbiased. That's what everyone needs to be at this point because all the info has not unfolded yet
is it Alec or Alex?
How does a lawyer not sit down and do his own timeline contemporaneously to help the cops?
Wait, didn't Alex originally say that he was at his parents house at the time of the shooting?
Yes he did. And he told the carer to say he was there for 30 to 40 minutes
Todd Gaak I thought the same thing! Glad you pointed that out! LOL💀🤥
The prosecutor should have asked, "Did you hit Maggie with the golf cart just before you murdered her?"
LOL 😆
exactly. They should have taken the questioning in a different direction presuming that he is the murderer,
Did he hit her with the golf cart ?!
That time when he forgot that he got out of the golf cart to take take this chicken out of the dog's mouth.
The dogs were found in their kennels. Nobody else would have taken the time to put the dogs back up.
He wanted the wild hogs to come in to muddle up the crime scene, all that blood, brains and Maggie had a gut shot, dead chicken he deliberately did overkill hoping to bring in the wild hogs which are nocturnal feeders. My theory
@@ailsa4584 Interesting - but I think the hogs have learned to stay away from that home with the many gun loving men and dogs. The Murdaugh men but also their friends and visitors were ready to shoot hogs whenever they saw them and with whatever ammunition they had * and the animals are not stupid. (actually pigs are said to be as smart as dogs.) Leaving a body so the hogs would find it, mutilate it and thus make a correct autopsy impossible, would be a way to mess up the evidence.
But I do not think that AM could realistically hope the hogs would come CLOSE to the house and would come within 50 minutes. It could have worked if the bodies had been a few days in the forest away from the house.
* lawyer Ronnie Crosby that worked in the same lawfirm and was a friend of the family. On the stand he was asked about hunting, what weapons the Murdaugh men used, hog hunting in general and how they did it. He has also a property. Sounded like a large one too, that is good for hunting. He said that the hogs are a pest all over the south because they do so much damage with their diggign and trampling down. In his opinion If you have them on your property, you always have a rifle with you if you drive or ride around your property. Just in case that you would see a hog - to be able to kill it.
One of the other brothers of Alex (John-Marvin) also hunts but said he did not always carry a rifle when driving around on the property. He did not do it - but he also did not find it unusual that someone would have that stance. - So feral hogs are really unpopular in the South and are hunted mercilessly and it is always open season on them.
I read that at some time the hog farmers released lots of hogs. There must have been an unexpected drop in prices for pork (maybe a disease and other countries would not import the meat, and domestic demand is not high enough, so prices dropped). Costs for feed would have been higher that what farmers could get for the pork, and killing them prematurely means work, and also costs. So they just let them run (those were lucky hogs, especially if they were not already crippled from factory farming).
Now they do very wel there and procreate like crazy and have become feral. Likely also mixed with the real wild hogs.
Likely the hunters of the South have done a too good job to get rid of all predators like coyotes. And in that areas there are no alligators (I think) so no one but humans hunts them. They had and have a blast ever since.
Ronnie Crosby said that if he or the hunters he knew wanted to hunt birds (and had the ammunition and weapons that were a fit for that) and if he or other hunters came by chance across a hog, they would still shot at the hog. likely would not kill it (only if you were very close) but they would shoot at it nontheless. (I disagree with that strongly, if you cannot kill an animal you do not only wound it and let it die in agony or suffer from the wounds. But he made it sound like all hunters were very intent to kill hogs, not matter what, no matter the time, no matter the equipment).
He said he had killed hundreds of them - in the daytime.
I wonder if they let the hogs lay around ? There are no wolves, bears, pumas around and maybe also no coyotes that could deal with the carcasses. Females and younger ones can be eaten, but male hogs must taste terrible (the male hormones). Male hogs that are raised for pork are eaten young - or they are cut (testicles) to the hormones will not taint the pork.
Anyway: a halfway intelligent hog would have learned it was no good idea - at all - to come close to that house - and the mothers teach the young.
MAGGIE SAW ALEX SHOOT PAUL, SO SHE TOOK OFF RUNNING 🏃♀️ ALEX SHOT HER FROM THE ⛳ 🏌️♀️ CART BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG WITH THE BLACKOUT 🤬 G U I L T Y
And she drop her phone and when he was in the car he slow down to look for it? Or he throw it because he was going to check it . But thought against it
I think he ran her over and then shot her
YES!
@@graceb6381 her phone didn't record any steps between 831 and 849, she left her phone in the golf cart. They rode down together.
This trial got more airtime and news attention in a week than the Epstein/Maxwell case got in 10 years..
it really has, and it's just a local/regional story.
because this is about a family that seemingly loved one another and it is still mind boggling what happened. The Epstein Maxwell case is one of the ugliest cases and it wa basically thrown under the rug due to all the journalists, politicians, hollywood and other people that went to the island.
@@brettcantrell8650 It's also because of different laws governing different states. Not all of them permit trials to be filmed
He shot them from the golf cart. He was sitting with both weapons already in there,he needed 2 incase he ran out of bullets. That would make him about 5'2 and explain the tire marks on Maggies leg.
He needed 2 to confuse the case
Good point, though. Very plausible.
he shot paul at 3ft with the shotgun thats from the body examiner's mouth so explain to me how he shot paul at 3ft with the shotgun while on the golf cart
I didn't know about the tire marks
correct. He said that as soon as he took the chicken out of the dogs mouth, he went on the golf cart and "he did what he did not want to do". He's basically confessing on the stand. And probably those weapons came from Paul's truck which was parked in front of the house.
He is so irritating, he has to take the last part of the question and turn it into a question, so he can delay answering.
I said yesterday that he'd struggle today. He couldn't even get the simplest of things straight. Lawyers have to have a very good memory or they wouldn't be able to make sense of anything. He sure remembered how to screw people over. He is not credible and never has been. He's back to convincing mode now, turned to the jury, which he only does because of coaching. He uses the word 'believe' as he used the word 'dispute' yesterday and the monotonous repeating of "I took their money, which was not mine and I lied to them I shouldn't have". He is incapable of giving his own responses and an innocent person doesn't need coaching. Noticeably, he isn't looking them in the eye today. He didn't want to go to the kennels because you end up dirty, yet he was clean on the night of the murders. He's lied more than once now and innocent people don't lie and the constant referral to PauPau is again coaching and pathetic. If you noticed his baseline yesterday was still and assured, he's now moving all over the place when answering hard questions and that's a sign of anxiety. This is why he should never have taken the stand. He's just constantly repeating his coaching with no input from himself. It's a pathetic performance. He expects us to believe that on the night of his family being blown away, he has vague memories of everything that happened. He should remember every second.
Absolutely 💯💯💯 great comment 👍
Please shorten your comments. It's rude to leave 4 PARAGRAPHS. make a simple comment and that's it
@Steve McMillan thank you for taking the time to post your opinion and observations. Spot on!!!
If you find the part where CW asks if he’s been stealing money from clients since 2010, he answers in the affirmative like I don’t know if it was 2010 or not but I’ve been stealing for a long time ( I’m paraphrasing), WATCH his smirk likes he’s PROUD. Called Duper’s Delight…remembering facts in one’s mind that please you.
@@Dahmer_Jeff I know it’s difficult to read more than a couple sentences at a time, but it’s ok. Just keep practicing and one day you may just be able to read a chapter book! 🎉
Damn, his forehead is all wrinkled up in like a permanent position
Just watched the Netflix documentary. What a horrible man, and family. Poor Mallory, Stephen, Gloria and her sons, and his family.
Alex's legal team knew he would get ripped to shreds when he got up there. But being a lawyer himself, his ego convinced himself that he could get up there and convince the jury he was innocent. Anybody with a brain could see he was guilty except for Alex himself.
He repeats every question he is asked, to buy time to make up his lies.
Stalling at its best
The fact that he left his phone at the house tells me that this was premeditated murder. He may have even stayed behind Maggie and Paul doing to the kennel so that he could put the shotgun and blackout rifle on the golf cart before he went to the kennel. He intended to use two different guns to make it look like two shooters. Prison is where he belongs. I feel so badly for Buster to lose his entire family. I pray that he goes forward, and is a much better person than his dad. I believe John Marvin will be a much better father figure.
He didn’t plan on killing Maggie just Paul. I think Maggie heard the shots and came back after leaving the kennel and found Paul dead and Alex cleaning up and removing clothes. So then she had to go, so he grabbed Paul’s gun and then killed her.
Pau Pau..drives me crazy
He is trying badly to get sympathy from the jury
I feel like that also.
The prosecutor needs to stop him from referring to whats on file. He was doing that to stay be somewhat consistent with his stories based on gps, report, vid, etc. He should be able to recollect what happened and not used whats on the file. This is ridiculous! He is a lawyer and he knows how to go around the circles, reused his words, work the system, get into peoples psyche (at least he thinks so) but he's literally LYING! Again!
He pauses before answering then keeps saying “according to the timeline” or “according to the report”. That way he can’t cross over and get caught in a lie. The data is his “new” realty.
Yes!! Where is there ANY new information that hasn’t been stated already somewhere on record??
Yep. He begins to craft a new story based on the evidence and data the prosecution/testimonials haves
He can't remember anything without benefit of data
Exactly. He s a player ….
I d like to know how much life insurance he had on his family.
He didn't have life insurance on Maggie and Paul. But Maggie wouldn't sign over the real estate he needed for a loan. Paul was going to be tried for Mallory Beaches death and her lawyers wanted to see Alex s financials.
@@sedona816 yet he had it on the housekeeper Can u just imagine not having insurance in their money starving world
@@sedona816 Ah, there's a motive for AM killing Paul, right there! Thank you, I did not know that.
@@loucanterbury2359 he did NOT have insurance on the housekeeper. He had liability coverage from the property insurance and that also covered damages when dogs did harm to others. Such coverage is routinely sold with property insurance (fire, storm, flooding, water damages). Even a regular home can easily have 1,5 million max. coverage for liability - and of course that large property had more coverage. Insurance agents also tend to get wealthy people "premium" coverage: More things are covered, higher max. coverage - and the yearly premiums are higher, and so is the commission ;) for the insurance agent.
Time can become distorted.
On Star is the fact in regards to time.
He is trying so hard to look like an innocant, good ,soft man. I think he is the exact opposite. His paralegals described his demeaner. He is not what he is pretending to be.
He is trying to throw off himself as he not involved but he did that to his Family we have to remember he is a defense Lawyer and attorney so he think that he can get away with that shit, One hundreds years this family has got away with some many dead lives I don’t understand how can This be when you are rich you can just kill someone or just get away with killing so many many people dies it is so sad this man is a liar.
He was a lawyer for private injuries, civil cases - not a defense lawyer. I could be wrong, but I think the whole law firm specialized in those cases.
he's never been taken to task bf, none had ever questioned him in his life, waters shook the hellout of him
I've had mixed feelings about this case. But how can someone forget the last words spoken before loved ones were murdered. If he had left in that usual way, and came back less than an hour later, it would be all he would have thought about for a long time. 🧐🤨
Mixed feelings? What are you mixed about?
I did too...until I saw the cell phone records, with the pings putting him there, and showing all the texts that were deleted then later retrieved
He can remember the conversation he had with his housekeeper Blanca about clothes, but can't even remember the last words of his wife....
No MIXED FEELINGS NECESSARY
@@silkcustoms520 thanks for telling me what to think. I was really at a loss.
@10:43 "When you go to the kennels, you always end up getting shot" - Convicted Murderer
It’s strange in itself for him to go visit his parents at such a late hour as well… doesn’t make much sense at the age thier at (usually bedtime hour) even the caretaker said it was unusual for him to visit at that time. This was carefully planned out and he planned his ‘alibi’ out but clearly did a poor job, since he lied and did a poor job covering everything up
So let me get this straight. The guy is literally saying he didn't want to go to the kennels, but went there anyway, and once he arrived he just sat on the golf cart (aside from taking the chicken away from the dog) only to return back home? What did he speak to his wife about? He doesn't remember. He should have been DRILLED during this moment. Prosecutor is not doing a good job at all. This story doesn't make sense. If it doesn't make sense, it's not the truth.
How can anyone forget the last conversation /words he had with his wife?????? I would think someone would remember the last words spoken to someone you loved & had died. He did it.
Alex is the perfect example of quick sand. We know he didn’t just start off this awful. This is what happens when you choose to take that fist step across the line or good and bad. The problem is bad choices always lead to the next and bigger bad choice just to try and correct the first one.
LIAR LIAR pants on file..
He’s so FOS
The scope that shoots infrared are internet driven … and details are there
Generations of having people believe whatever you say just because can make one stupid.
Anyone this man helped to put in jail should demand new trials for this secret society occult hid in the system can't stay over all here anymore..
He was a civil lawyer. I think he only tried five criminal cases as an assistant.
@@KristiLEvans1 what ever this man had 2 do with the courts should be looked into ALL THINGS AND WHO HE DID THEM WITH 4 BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCKS 2GATHER
@@chrisskinner6291 they’ve tolerated 100 years of this mafioso family. They aren’t retrying. They’re probably trying out the replacement tyrants.
I’m not sure I could convict on the evidence.
He is a lawyer and he doesn't know anything about his life and what he does, or what he says ever? I find that hard to believe. He is a lawyer and he went to school to be one. unless he has Alzheimer's. He's being to careful with what he knows and doesn't know.
He was TRYING to be careful with what he was saying, but all he was really doing is making himself look BAD!!! I couldn't believe what I was hearing and how arrogant he was! LOL
Just like Anthony Todt killing his family, just like Chris Watts killing his family selfish reasons
All his BS tap dancing couldn’t save him in the end
He really should not have taken the stand. Wow.
That's exactly what I was thinking. LOL 😆
22:45 - that’s how it started
He sounds so anger at his own words , changing his story again .
What timeline? I'm an idiot. I killed my family. I lied about it. The end. Jesus
LOL 😆
Maggie was going to leave him and probably going to take Paul with. He's pathetic!
I wish waters would have slipped in a damning question like “where was magging standing when you pulled up to the kennel” “where did you take the chicken away from bubba at” get him comfortable with softball quick response easy questions then “was Paul in the storage room for the first shot?”
he was his own worst enemy on the stand, stammering hem hawking lip smacking pausing, such a bold face liar,
starting at 826 to 836 very scary and such an obvious lie..
he's not use to lying without his pills, he sucks at lying..
The fake little weird tongue thing he does is him trying to fake a severe withdraw as a defense mechanism as if the drugs are to blame for anything people might be thinking about him especially when he’s being asked something so obvious to which he’s about to lie to. Like the night of the murders. It’s very obvious he’s lying.
I agree absolutely lie.. so does that mean he is telling the truth? It baffles me
this man is a puzzle.
Where does the jury sit ?
When the camera is facing the courtroom, the jury sits to the right. They are not on camera. It would be helpful if there was a notice on the bottom of the screen indicating if they are in the room or not because if you're watching on tv you can't tell.
The jury is to the murderers right here
He was probably looking for hogs to feed them. I’ll let you figure out what he probably wanted to feed the hogs.
Wild hogs wont eat a body that fast and will look for the same feed that has been in the area. Not like the 400+ farm raised.
@@jasonrichardson6899 Thank you for the clarification that a psychopathic double murderer was really focusing in on what kind of pig will or won’t eat his wife and son. You have no idea how much better you just made my weekend!!!!
Awesome! If you want something else to do this weekend you should probably try to explain why if you wanted to kill these people he didn't just kill Paul when they were out in the middle of nowhere.....
The hogs would not be so stupid to come so close to the house with 3 men eager and capable to hunt them, never mind the visiting hunters. Plus dogs present. - If he could have placed the bodies in the forest and they would not be missed for a few days - yes then being in hog country could have helped him. A proper autopsy would have been impossible if the hogs would mutilate and partially eat the deceased.
ATTENTION! If you have a "Smart Phone" you better leave it home if you are planning to rob kill or steal. That joker knows how many times you breath in a 10 second period. LOL His phone tracked EVERY move he made before and after that murder and he was a busy guy.
What I do not get: Neither Paul nor Maggie can contradict what he says, why didn't he just come up with a few lines. Did you say goodbye ? I do not know exactely I _would_ have said something ... yada, yada. (Instead of: I do not remember the exact words: It was something like: I go back to the house, and then I'm off to my mother). His brother John-Marvin also has things he does not remember, he just says so, maybe offers an option: I cannot tell you if the door was unlocked, there was a pad where you could enter a code. Maybe I did that, I honestly cannot remember.
He had stayed at Moselle after the murder, went on June 8th in the morning to his nearby property to change clothes and shower and then came back. The question was how did he come into the house again, as no one else was around (sleeping, or still in bed).
Simple answer and if he does not know he says so.
If a conversation is inconsequential and 1,5 years later it is possible to forget the details.
It is very hard to swallow that AM totally forgot in the first interviews that he was in the kennel area (as documented by the video). I can see how he would not recall all details if he is in shock, but the fact that he had been there ? Paul's phone was only unlocked in April 2022 (he had face recognition). The video was not online, it was only on his device. So until then (10 months after the murders) no one could prove that Alex had been even near that area.
He does not remember what he said to Maggie. Then he volunteers: She was worried about Paul. So he did not even initially plan to go there, and says with some resentment that she wanted him to be there and as often was the case he ended up doing what she wanted. Very interesting remark.
He allegedly had no intention of going to the kennel area at all, after they ate together (so after 8.30 pm) If he went there it always ended up being work, getting hot and dirty. For some reason that is important (he mentions it twice). Interesting when considering what a mess the shootings were, blood, tissue, brain matter everywhere ...
So he reluctantly went to the area, spent very short time, his wife was very worried about Paul, so they talked about that (within earshot of Paul !!). Not a place or time to have deep parental conversations. But he cannot remember exactely what was said, what she was worried about (was it about he upcoming law suit, did he drink, problems with gf ?)
The man is supposed to be a good lawyer (or at least a smart one). He cannot think w/o the pills. He could have said he told her about the fruit trees that they had inspected that evening. No one could claim that it was not true. And it was an issue suited for a short conversation that would soon end (he intended to go to his mother's house), and was not an important issue - so it would be not so suspicious that he did not mention it before or that he did not remember exactely what he had said. Because it was so inconsequential.
He is not even a good liar.
There is only 1 person who could of done the crime is him. Only person. Who knows why but he did it.
All actors on screen
He was trying to find a way to kill Paul that night that’s why he wanted to go hog hunting.
He said “I got up, got on the golf cart drove down there, and did what I did” 23:00 chilling
That Prosecutor was so darn good. He had to be physically and mentally tired but he pulled that guilty verdict out without leaving ONE stone unturned. He was freaking BRILLIANT!! Bless him.
We got nature lessons now lol 😅
During World War 2 the Special Forces were told if you are going to shoot somebody make sure you shoot them twice. Still think it was odd that Paul and Maggie killed in two different ways with two different weapons, why not use the same weapon? Paul- The cool 2 shot killing of a professional hitman and the sloppy angry overkill of Maggie.
June 7 was a touchy subject. He got nervous
Maybe he killed Maggie and Pau Pau because they never talked to him about going to detox or his pill addiction and that was going to be an important part of his lie to his company after getting caught 😊
i thank god you're not one of the jurors
The motive that they are saying is that the murders would be committed to take attention off his stealing money from clients and his law firm. I thought he is guilty as sin for the murders but isn't that motive questionable? Put himself in a position where he could be accused of murder and go to prison for life just to take attention away from his stealing? Does that sound likely? It doesn't.
He was angry and had hate in his heart. He wanted the boat issue to go away. So, this is why he wanted PawPaw dead. Also, his financial stuff about the boat issue would also go away with Paul's death... He wanted Maggies' estate money (beach house) to sell and give to make up the financial theft. He saw how people reacted when his father was on his death bed. He thought his life would get better with these two family members out of the picture and he would perhaps be able to regain his old life again...a focus on only him...he is narcistic.
I don't believe that was his motive either.
@@miriammuniz3073 That sounds like a more likely motive.
And the distraction worked. Very well. He was THAT close to being busted following the confrontation on June 7th. His schemes were brazen, but not brilliant or sophisticated, There was a paper trail, only the culture of blind trust made it possible to steal, but once they would start probing, they would find more and more - and he knew that. On June 7th, afternoon he was saved by the bell. CFO got out of his hair when he got the phone call that his father was worse and in the hospital again.
His father had cancer, was old, his death was not an unexpected tragedy - he did die 3 days later - but even that sympathy (she knew his father, lawfirm was like a family) helped Alex M. to get out of a very tense meeting. It was a about one case but a large amount.
The murders happened the same night - and the CFO and Alex' team member that had been on his heels (both, they had not yet informed the partners, wanted to be sure before they would drop such a bomb), let him off the hook. This sympathy for the man whose wife and son had been murdered bought him 2,5 more months. He was hardly in the lawfirm after the murders and the CFO got back to the unpleasant affair mid / end August. When searching she found that it was even worse, and beginning of September he was confronted and fired. Lawfirm hired auditors and got authorities involved.
One day after that confrontation and firing he had the roadside fake shooting / suicide incident (his brother Randy helped authorities to bust him, told them about contacts between Eddie and Alex). One theory is that he wanted to set up Eddie. HE would shoot him in "self defense" - and maybe he could draw attention of the dead man as the potential killer of his wife and son. But Eddie smelled the coffee and was cautious, and AM ended up with a harmless wound when the bullet grazed his head.
Either way they bungled that. Most life insurance policies do pay in case of suicide, only the policy must be older than 2 years. If that applies to his contract then the argument that he wanted Buster to have that money but it had to look like murder, accident or natural death - and not suicide - is not relevant. He could have taken his life and Buster would be provided for.
And there is a pattern: He is busted - something dramatic happens that is calculated to garner him a lot of sympathie (as victim of an assassination attempt, the hero that successfully defended himself against a killer - and maybe he got the man that had killed his family).
The testimony of the paraligal of his team is impressive - how well the distraction by murder worked. He knew the people around him, and how much they cared for him and his family.
missing 792,000 in form of 2 cheques, 600,000 should have gone to the lawfirm as fee I think 192,000 were for costs, like experts, court costs
She and CFO suspected foul play, but still hoped it would not be as bad, that it was due to his usual sloppy ways, some mistake but no criminal intent. Both were worried and upset. After the murders they completely dropped their investigations - for a while. The whole law firm rallied to his side, they feared killers were after his family, that Buster, his brother Randy and Alex were in danger.
So that worked too - it bought him approx 2,5 months.
The lawyer Mark Tinsley that represented the parents of Mallory Beach learned about the homicides around 11 pm (he thinks still June 7th - so news travel fast in that community). In his mind the chance that the Murdaugh family would settle out of court for 10 million USD (their offer) was over. At that time he assumed that the family was rich, but the Murdaugh family did not have that kind of money and could not accept that offer.
After the tragic events - the settlement (out of court or awarded by a jury) would be much less and a trial would not help, in such cases it all depended on the jury and if they had sympathies for the man that had lost family member because of murders, they would not award a large settlement. And if the murder was suspected to be revenge for the accident of Mallory then it would be even worse. The jury would be locals and they all would know about the tragedy.
So AM planned right and bringing up the boat accident immediately as motive for killers (revenge) made sense in that context. It provided a distraction for the investigators and it helped with the public opinion - and the lawsuit.
If he had driven a vintage car, had left his phone at home and had properly disposed of both phones (Maggie's and Paul's - the kennel video was not online it was ONLY on the device, that is why they only saw it in April 2022, it took months to unlock the phone of Paul) he might have been able to pull it off. As heir of Maggie he could sell property w/o needing her O.K. (she had recently refused to sell the beachfront property, worth approx. 4 million USD). His best course of action would have been to take a lot of the money and to flee the country.
It was not realistic that the lawfirm would drop their investigation forever, and it was certain they would find a lot once they started searching. I do not think they would have taken several million dollars from Alex would have compensated the clients and kept silent about his stealing. Even IF he could have come up with enough money to undo the financial damage, they would have gotten authorities involved.
But maybe in his drugged mind he thought he would get out of this situation, could avoid murder AND fraud charges. The criminal and civil law suit because of Paul's drunken accident was no problem for him anymore.
Paul had an upcoming lawsuit case where Mallory beach's lawyers were potentially demanding 30 to 40 million $$ from Alex for her death. Maggie was about to get divorced from him...The morning of June 7, his CFO had demanded answers about stealing from the law firm...then the chicken and the dogs... he was up against the wall....don't know why he is putting so much emphasis on the chicken and the dogs.... was that also a trigger?
He said Paul was in the driveway fooling with cash when he pulled up. I thought cash was in the kennel, that's why Paul said "get back get back" when he started recording, entering the kennel that cash was already in.
This cat did not think this crime through at all. How many burglars or murderers come to kill you or rob you without a gun. LMBO! Come on now. This cat was so cocky until he thought he was going to pull this off and not be caught. But good gracious of life there was a prosecutor who uncovered EVERYTHING!
Whats the golf cart thing comment section please
It's ahh important to ahhh the investigation?
He always goes to the boat wreck.
Sad that he is brilliant at what he does.
my Gosh! This prosecutor is a broken record!
Are you really not understanding what’s going on???… like for you to say that is laughable.
@@girl.anachronism5639 , why are you so nasty? i have a right to my opinion.
Dry mouth smacking of the chops ummm umm smack ummm 🤔💀
Paw paw wow 🤮
Someone tell me so he says he got a chicken from Bubba, then went DIRECTLY to the couch. What happ’d to that chicken???? Did he put it on the couch??
Lol Emily good question! What did he do with that chicken?!
The Prosecutor is not making any friends in the jury. The constant sarcasm he is using is not necessary and could well work against him.
It won’t. This isn’t out of the norm. For someone who seemingly can’t tell a truth or answer anything straight. This is fine.
He is soooo unlikeable!
@@moimeself1088 He is soooooooo awesome look him up, he has put away a lot of bad guys like Murdaugh and plays a mean guitar 🎸
@@ailsa4584 ok, fine, I'll rephrase. I find him sooooo unlikeable!
@@moimeself1088 You must be a nerd
killer
It seems very strange that he had used two different weapons to murder his wife and son. I feel like there is a lot more to this case then just what the prosecutor had presented.
The prosecutor was intimidating. The prosecutor couldn't ask his questions clearly at times , Alex asked him to elucidate. The prosecutor was always trying to put words in Alex's mouth but Alex wasn't having it. Alex told the prosecutor you don't look for hogs in the daytime and he didn't have firearms with him and Paul. He had a shower and didn't want to go to the kennel because he would be doing some kind of work and sweat and get dirty. He didn't want that so he wanted the journey on the golf cart to be short to return to the house. The prosecutor was trying to time every movement by the minute. Are people so perfect in measuring their movements to a minute or second, I know I'm not Are the timings on machines and phones so accurate that they can't be wrong to minutes and seconds, He left the kennels quickly to get back to the house, does that make him a murderer? Assassins could have been hiding and waiting, that is possible. If he was asleep for a short time he may not have heard any shots.
This prosecutor wastes way to much time in between asking questions. Comes off as not prepared
No, what he’s doing is allowing space for Alex to talk. Liars tend to over talk and many times Alex has tried filling the space with more bullshit. It’s tact, honey 💅
This prosecutor has done an excellent job
he's allowing him to talk so that the jurors can see him lie after lie. he said he wanted to keep him talking and he was right to do so, bc it's obvious he's squirming
Who was not prepared was Alex, but he was too arrogant to understand that. LOL
@@girl.anachronism5639 He said that after the conviction. He wanted to give him space. Let him have enoughrope to hand himself.