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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Disbarred South Carolina attorney Richard "Alex" Murdaugh denied killing his wife and son but admitted to lying to investigators as he testified in his own defense in his double murder trial.
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Murdaugh, 54, is charged with murder in connection with the 2021 shootings of 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh and 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh. He has pleaded not guilty. At the outset of his testimony, Murdaugh vehemently denied shooting Maggie and Paul on June 7, 2021, at the family's property in Colleton County. "I didn't shoot my wife or my son anytime, ever," he said under questioning by his defense team. "I would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. Ever. Ever."
On Wednesday, defense attorney Jim Griffin asked Judge Clifton Newman if Murdaugh would be able to use his Fifth Amendment protection against incriminating himself in the nearly 100 other financial crimes he is accused of, including stealing from clients, money laundering, tax evasion and insurance fraud. Newman said prosecutors generally get wide latitude in cross examination. The South Carolina Attorney General's Office is seeking life in prison if Murdaugh is convicted.
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I am amazed that these witnesses are not sequestered. You don't let witnesses hear each other at a crime scene. Why would you allow witnesses to hear other testimony before they testify??? It absolutely can influence their memories.
That’s what happens in small towns, they can do whatever they want to do
How awesome is it that Alex was found guilty right?
A lot of things were done and allowed in this trial that wouldn’t be allowed in any other court... Waters and the Judge have assured Alex will get an appeal
What really gets me is what he does not mention. That is the fact that he never declared anything in relation to hearing any gunfire at the kennels.
iam pretty sure you would hear some noises. i cannot believe what he is saying.
His testimony about how the opiates affected him is actually spot on. If anyone is assuming he wasn’t on opiates, I can tell you for a fact, the way he’s explaining it is accurate as hell. People don’t realize how functional you can be on opiates as long as you can fund the habit.
Before people attacking me for this comment, I KNOW everyone grieves differently, but when asking how my relationship was with my spouse and children, there’s no way I could just answer with a straight face matter-of-factly without busting out in hysterical tears IF I had nothing to do with it….🤷🏼♀️
This family has 5 mysterious deaths surrounding their name.
Maid
Maggie
Paul
Busters boyfriend 🏳️🌈
Mallory Beach
And Hakeem Pickney
gosh this guy is so weird. just answer what you are being asked, he just wants to cherry pick every word instead of telling the truth, hes a liar.
Exactly...if he wasn't trying to get one over on them and trick the jury, he wouldn't be skirting literally every question
"There was nobody around, that the dogs didn't know. There was nobody else around for them to sense."
The last question was a nail in the coffin.
Alex Murdaugh: "I stole from people I care about, who I love, and still love."
The man does not know what love is! Stealing milliions of dollars from his loved ones and clients who needed the money, like the quadrepedic and Gloria Satterfield's family hurts a lot of innocent people and is most egregious act that my gut is telling me Alex Murdaugh killed his son and wife!
Alex called Paul at 9:46:35 and someone answered Paul's phone and it lasted for 00:18 seconds. Who answered Paul's phone when Paul was already dead? I believe there was an accomplice, who else answered Paul's phone call from Alex?
SOMEONE IN THE NEWS TELL US EXACTLY WHERE WAS BUSTER AT THE TIME OF THE KILLINGS
He was in Rock Hill w his gf
Buster probably killed that gay dude.
Crossed my mind too 😂
@@LennoxRums that 'gay dude' has a name and a family, shame on you
I wear an Apple Watch and it said I walked 488 steps while I slept last night. I don’t see that as quality evidence it tracks wrong all the time
He keep lying about everything,why did he change the story and tell them that he lie to the cop, if he was innocent why he would lie , he is guilty, he felt sorry for what he did but the reality he killed them and too late to feel sorry now, that was his family, I don’t understand why he did that or anyone else do that to his family
Only God knows his FAITH. Rip Maggie and Paul.
Truthful innocent people are routinely convicted in this country. Prosecution has No hadd concrete irrefutable evidence. Waters has simply grandstanded for the last two days, sans evidence.
7 days to detox from years old addiction, puleeze
He looks ppl in the eye that he cares about and lies. He says he would never "intentionally" hurt Paul & Maggie. He has a bag of pills in his pocket during interview at the scene. He looked pretty thin during that interview, not 240 lbs. To tight of a timeline also, who put the dogs away? Why didn't the dogs attack "whoever" killed P & M? Such a good memory but can't remember the last conversation he ever had with his wife?
I believe he shot them - the time line makes that apparent. He created a web of lies that he had to take the stand to try to gain the jury’s sympathy but ultimately he did this. How would he not hear the shots that happened right as he was supposedly leaving. I think he feels remorse and regrets his actions but if I were on the jury I would find him guilty.
He's not guilty too me.... They've got absolutely no physical evidence.... none. They can't even provide the bare minimum for a case like this.... no gun... no DNA.... no blood..... no clothing...no nothing. In fact, someone else's DNA was found on his wife the night of the murder. Two people other than Alex Murdaugh. That area was heavily hunted.... I'm sure it was not abnormal to hear gun shots. This prosecutor has no case and he knows it..... That's why he hammering the financial crap, to sway the Jury.... Murdaugh is simply beating him at his own game and he's pissed. 10 minutes is not enough time to squeaky clean a homicide scene.....
Exactly! Even if it was someone else, which it wasn’t, there’s absolutely no way in the time between the phones being put away and him leaving that he wouldn’t have heard or seen SOMETHING.
I think he was remorseful as soon as the first shot hit Paul and I think he was panicked and apologetic and traumatized. But once he did that, there weren’t any choices, he had to finish. In my head, I imagine him shaking and crying and hysterical while all of this happened. Still guilty though.
In my opinion , i think AM didn't commit the murders. I believe he knows who did though. (Just speculating.)
Stealing money is one thing.
This goes way deeper. And for the first time AM realised, No amount of Money could fix it.
Those 285 steps he took before leaving to go to his parents house....those steps were they inside their own home or on the property?
How about he's moving and shuffling about on the phone while standing ?
How about jigging a foot up and down while making calls from a couch ?
"Footsteps" is a pretty overly encompassing definition.
@@paulyandle6081 and his lie that he hadn’t been to the kennels? That seems like a pretty big and damning bit of evidence that he literally just divulged yesterday.
He had a big home, 285 really isn't excessive. My house is small and just going from bedroom to kitchen, back and forth from fridge to counter etc, to the bathroom then out to my car could be over 200 steps.
@@purv989 still does not place a gun into his hands.... show me a gun.... some blood... some DNA.... something.... this prosecutor has embarrassed the State of South Carolina and himself badly.
@@mattjones8254 Show me any evidence of any other person. No other footsteps. No other tire tracks. No other fingerprints. Paul was killed close range with a shotgun. Even if the guns were gotten ride of, that still leaves so many other pieces of evidence that are missing for some one else to have committed this murder. The guy is guilty and has you fooled.
I talked to a friend who is a criminal defense attorney. We both believe he's guilty. Too much evidence against him and too many lies plus the time frame is too short between when we know he was there from Paul's video and the time of the murders. There is no way he could leave that quickly and not hear the dogs or gunshots. My attorney friend said his defense should have gone for an insanity defense because Alex M has clearly lost his mind and anyone can see that. The drugs have destroyed his brain. Very tragic case for all involved. I almost feel sorry for him but then I think of the victims and know he needs to serve out the rest of his life behind bars.
he does not seem insane to me at all.. why do you think so?
So he took the golf cart so Maggie's phone couldn't be tracked when he disposed of it???
Don't know to much about this case but perhaps Greed thee love of money root of all 🤑 evil 💰 led to Murder ?
Paranoia will destroy ya
I think he is guilty but this prosecution needs to MOVE ON! What he has been focusing on has NOTHING do do with Murder.. if I were the jury I would acquit bc he made me sit through days of nonsense! lol
If Waters wasn’t allowed to bring up crimes Alex hadn’t been convicted of yet along with being allowed to do whatever he wanted no matter how wrong it was he wouldn’t have gotten a conviction.
He is a liar
His slouching of posture says to me he did it.
💯😂😂😂
Someone in another group posted:
Here are the two slips by Alex: Here are the two admission glitches--first one: go to the 5:11 mark (in the youtube testimony replay link below) m and then right before 5:13 Alex says WHEN WE DROVE THE GOLF CART and then immediately corrects himself to say I DROVE....this occurs after Waters is popping him on where the golf cart was parked after the crimes. Waters was so entrenched in his moment he missed this.
Next, start the tape over and go to the earlier 1:30-1:32 mark (1 being hour 30 being minutes, same above 5 being hour, 11 being minutes.) At the earlier 1:30-1:32 mark he says Maggie asked him to go to the kennels with him--then meanders about for 20 seconds and gets out of that mess. Waters missed that also. If Maggie was already at the kennels she wouldn't be asking him to go with her at that moment. Waters never asked him WHY he got up and drove down to the kennels which is when he could have immediately restated what Alex "gaffed" on to the jury-since when you lie, inadvertent truths come out. What likely happened is Alex rode with Maggie in the golf cart to the kennels, and came back without her because she was dead, and he did NOT park in his usual spot.
Also, I want to point out that Paul's phone was literally down to 2% when he sent that snapchat video and the phone miraculously got it sent before dying. That was God wanting the truth to come out. Or, maybe Paul wanted a record of his father being there because subconsciously he knew something was wrong.
Awesome comment and yes that was God through Paul 100%!!!!
Is he blaming who?
Good forgive me if I wrong but… a 100% innocent man tells the whole truth that he was at the kennels and then left. There is only one reason to not admit that at first. He wanted to distance himself from the scene. Innocent man would be saying… I was just there… I can’t believe I didn’t stay… if I had only stayed…etc.
It's murdaugh, not Murdock, water's
At first I actually believe he was guilty. But after watching this and the way prosecution acted. I feel more and more Alex is not guilty. All the prosecutor is focusing on is money crimes and then asks alex a question alex answers it and the prosecutor turns a question about events prior to June the 7th into the events on June the 7th. This prosecution team is full of idiots. I was die hard set on alex being guilty in the beginning but now , I’m not so sure he is . The prosecution is now reaching and twisting testimony to mean something other than what it is. They are adding to what others and alex has said and twisting the meanings.
You realize they just haven’t gotten to the murder yet, right? The financial crimes are a way of establishing Murdaugh’s character. Liar. Deceiver. Addict. Paranoid.
I'm in the same mind. I watched some breakdowns of the boat crash that weren't produced by Hollywood or mainstream media and I don't think Paul was actually driving the boat. That's just one thing that I find has been misrepresented. I'm not even certain how precise the phone coordinates can be. I've heard many arguments in other cases that suggest otherwise.
Also I just don't like this prosecutor he rubs me wrong.
He very well could be guilty but if I was on the jury I think I would have reasonable doubt.
@@purv989 I’ve been watching this trial. I know what they have and have not got to yet. But when the prosecutor sits there and twists words and testimony, and in one part of this video where Alex is talking about something that happened before the murders , nothing to do with June the 7th or the kennels the prosecutor then begins attacking talking about that’s new to the kennels yet the event being talked about was months before the murders. Someone can lie and not be a murderer someone can be a addict and not murder and pills do make you paranoid when cops are around or in general because when you’re an addict you worry people will catch the addiction. That does not mean he murdered anyone. This prosecution is trying to use guilt of drugs lies and money crimes as guilt of murder.
@@oscarcarter439 No. they’re trying to use drugs, lies, and money to show a PATTERN. He’s has an established criminal history. And some of those lies are directly related to his testimony. They pointed out the kennels because HE HAS BEEN LYING THIS ENTIRE TIME TO EVERYONE ABOUT HIM BEING AT THE SCENE OF THE MURDER BEFORE IT OCCURRED AND JUST DIVULGED THIS YESTERDAY.
@@purv989 establishing he is a lier thief and pillhead is not proof he murdered someone regardless if he was there earlier that night. If there was proof he did it then they would have put it out there not use other crimes and dishonestyies and say “ well he is guilty of these things so he must be guilty of that too”. My point is this , the prosecution team has hurt their case more than anything by beating on his money crimes which he admitted to before all this ,the pill addiction which his family knew about for years and was working with him on multiple occasions, and he lied and said he was at home before going to his moms house and not at the kennels and that actually doesn’t mean he killed them. The prosecution is hoping to get everyone to think just like you do.” If he is guilty of stealing money taking pills and lieing then he has to be a murder too” and that isn’t the way life works. Maybe the prosecutors should focus on proving Alex is guilty of MURDER , instead of proving he is guilty of lieing , thieft, and being a pillhead. You say it proves character yet it doesn’t prove you have the character of a killer. The character they are proving is that he will lie to you to steal your money and take a lot of pills with the money he stole from you. NOT THAT HE WILL KILL YOU.
Wonder what Maggie knew?
Alex killed Maggie, it was all coming to a head. He didn't want her to see him going on trial for the missing firm monies, as well as, alex killed Paul, He was not going to have his son go to prison for the boat accident.
Please¡¡ then why not kill buster too. That's ridiculous
Family problems -> mental/financial matters pushed this man to grab whatever his hand could lay on, his sanity is barely a hairline to keep it intact Atty Wilson his buddy understands it all🌷
I think AM was capable of killing M and P and did
Perfect example for Us Believers inn Christ/Jesus to Love God and not thee thangs of this temporal sinful W🌍rld Amen!? It's better for One to be broke as joke 😂🤣 then be a part from Yahovah inn JESUS'S Holy name Amenn. 🙏
Water's is a lawyer looking for stardom. Twisting things making himself out to b the best at what he does.
Alec is showing true heartfelt emotions. Coming back at water's bullshit trying to defame alec. If being a lawyer means asking questions about things most ppl do daily. Example ( you don't know where you put your cellphone.) I misplace my phone all the time. I can't remember what I did yesterday. Let alone remember trivial questions that happened in 2021.
I believe it was someone from boat wreck, or clients murdaugh stole money from.
I don't care about anyone's opinions in here. This is America. Freedom of speech and ppl allowed to have their own options right wrong or indifferent. Alec is innocent of these murders. Not the financial theft.
you don't have to agree with everyone. just have a difference of opinion with grace and allow others to have their thoughts. if we can do that and respect each other, it would go a long way to solving the world problems. I respect your opinion.
Mr Water's job is to convict Mr Murdaugh, using the facts avaliable to him. That's what he is doing. Did you think OJ was innocent too?
Opinion respected. No one knows for sure but him. A habitual liar and crook.
U are incorrect. There's no way in the world that in the short period of time some random killer knew exactly where Paul and Maggie were and killed them with guns they just so happened to know would be there for them to use. The killer is Alex.
Mr. Waters who killed Maggie and Paul. Rip Maggie and Paul
Dominion case,?
I think the people who lost their daughter and other injuries were probably blackmailing him over his pill use and stealing. And NOT PAYING HIM THE MILIONS THEY WERE OWED. THEIR LAWYER WAS GOING TO RUIN HIM FOR PAYMENT FOR THEIR LOSS. WITHOUT PAYMENT THEY PROBABLY DECIDED TO TAKE HIS LOVED ONES TOO..
There were other teens were injured too? Obviously, when Alec stated he was broke theyd be angry and would most likely to want revenge on Alec: removing his family just as happened to them:. Killing his loved ones.