Personal Injury Attorney Murders Mother and Starts New Life | Richard Merritt Case Analysis
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
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"it took the jury ninety minutes to find Richard guilty. It's not clear what they were doing for the other eighty nine minutes.. "😂😂😂
Lunch!
Imagine carrying a baby for 9 months, loving it, caring for him, teaching him about life for years only to be bludgeoned to death by him. Poor woman.
He killed the last person in the world who loved and supported him unconditionally despite everything he had done.
I don't have the best relationship with my mother to say the least but I can't even imagine doing something so heinous with a dumbbell and a knife... let alone if she was so supportive she was cooking me a meal before going to prison... extremely disturbing and sad
What he did to his mother( poor lady) he will get beyond hell
His loving mother taught him no responsibility and to become the greedy a--hole that he was that cost her her own life.
People who hate themselves often resent those who love them the most
Mothers are murdered more than anyone.
11:17 "If Richard had any talent as a lawyer, it was not on display during his testimony." Well said, Dr Grande!
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For most of us who actually do have a heart and a soul, losing our mother is one of the most difficult experiences in our lives. How someone could harm their own family is incomprehensible to me.
Yeah, this loser seems to have just done it totally to make his escape attempt more likely to succeed.
She was the one who raised the money for bailing him out. Goddamn.
I wasn't particularly fond if my mom but it's unimaginable to ever think of doing anything like what this guy did. Today, I think a lot of people are on the verge of losing everything and what happened here will become less uncommon because of desperation. It's horrible and I wish more seniors would get their lives in better order for their own protection. She had a lot of house to take care of.
His loving mother taught him no responsibility and to become the greedy a--hole that he was.
If his mother was evil and abusive to him, I could understand his hatred. But she was good. Too good. He himself said so. So HE was the evil one. He is a sociopath. That's why he killed her.
We do have non-murderous, lovely places here in Georgia. I promise! As always, thank you, Dr. Grande. 😊
"It's not clear what they were doing for 89 of those minutes." 🤣
I'm dying at 5:42 on the morning😂😂😂😂
I've watched Dr Grande for years, I not only respect but trust his "speculation" 👍
He betrayed everyone who trusted him. His clients were swindled out of money that was awarded to them. He risked his freedom and left his wife alone to raise their children. Someone who is capable of these things is evil and his poor mother paid the ultimate price.
This is such a horribly tragic case. Although his children probably got a much better deal with his leaving, though.
Had to raise mtself. Look at what my name is
This guy was something else on the stand. As an attorney in my first career, with a lawyer stepfather, and lawyer family friends, I've always been intrigued when lawyers go off the beaten path. But usually, it's financial misdealings or getting into trouble to due substance abuse. This guy killed his mother. It's hard to come back from that one.
I'm sure you are aware of the Alex Murdaugh case. Talk about a lawyer going off the rails!
What a sicko
I just wonder if his brother or parents noticed he had real problems.
When my ex husband was declaring bankruptcy, he used an attorney/friend of his who was addicted to cocaine and frequently came to court disheveled and unprepared. One his court date, the attorney was late to court. When my ex asked the judge to wait a few more minutes, the judge said “who is your attorney??” As soon as he said the name, the judge twisted his face and answered “No.”
The men produced guns, but committed murder with a dumbbell and knife.
I’m about to go to Law School. Any advice?
I'm heartbroken for the mother. She seemed like a kind woman. My heart goes out to her. I hope she's in a better place in the afterlife.
so weird. he had a beautiful wife, a nice home, made good money, but was keen to throw it all away... most people would, uh--kill--to have that kinda life.
I suspect the guy was a total A hole and got the wife because of his status.
A narcissist is never happy with what they've got.
And a narcissist always sucks at long-term thinking.
It's astonishing what this man thought other people would believe. It's like the clumsy lies of a child. Makes me wonder how he was a successful attorney.
"on the 3rd try" is the key here
I can only imagine his level of narcissism
" it is not clear what the Jury did for THE OTHER 89 Minutes!
@@christ3187 Sounds like a psychopath to me, additionally.
@@KaarinaKimdaly agree
The episode of American Monster on Richard Merritt is eye opening. Between the childhood videos of him and his brother's stories about Richard throughout his life it is evident that he was bad news from a very young age.
I hope to watch that episode one day. I was just wondering what his brother thinks about all of this.
@@Meela234 It's very telling and worth watching. Sometimes, those shows bore me, but the Richard Merritt case did not disappoint.
If onle they could see the future,I'm sure that military dad of his would have drowned his eveel behind back in his younger years. He the deveel's first son
just watched that episode too his brother wants nothing to do with him after sending him weird manipulative letters from prison
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Both of you are right!
@@mrs.reluctant4095 Dr. Todd Grande the ShirtMan Speculator
OR Dr. Todd the ShirtMan Speculator Grande
The roasts on this channel are unmatched. "He was found guilty after the jury deliberated for 90 minutes. It's not clear what they were doing for 89 of those minutes." Lmao oh Dr Grande, you G.
Dr. grande you find the most interesting cases and you tell them in the most fascinating ways!
89 minutes is just about right for catering to bring in a sandwich and soda pop for lunch, a bathroom break for everyone, and then one minute to for everyone to say, "Guilty". I actually recognize this guy from a private school where I used to work in Georgia...very sorry to hear about his mother who I actually met once.
I thought that was Tom Green in the thumbnail😂
Yes! And in other pics he looks like Marv The Wet Bandit
@@JugglingG 😂💯
watch out for those who are recklessly hedonistic and who have no objection to extreme violation of trust.
"After he was returned to Georgia, his lover did not want anything to do with him. Mostly because of the murder part"😂
What a monster! Thanks for your work as always, Dr. G!
This one has made me so angry.
My own mum is also seventy-seven and I would sacrifice everything in my life to keep her safe.
His mother had been the only one he could turn to after he threw everything away and he repaid her like this.
His brother must hate him so much.
His son does too.
The most tactful comedian in recorded history. 🤩
I am pregnant with my first child (a boy) and these kind of stories remind me to never coddle or enable him!
Not sure how she could have saw that coming. The dude was just an ass.
@Nieceyweesey. Hey hey hey just take care of your kid okay! Nobody said anything against loving your kid! wtf?!?!?!
this is sickening that there are people who donn an 'upstanding, upwardly mobile' guise in society yet they're really only thieves . . .
Well I've said it a million times before...........You only get Rich through Thieving!!
Rundbaum, narcissistic psychopaths are like that. Sadly for others, the vast majority of us , who are capable of empathy.
He didn't deserve to have such a loving and supportive mother.
Mother's love their children sometimes to a fault! This is one of those times! RIP Shirley!❤
May not apply in this case, but mothers do not always love their children. Unfortunately, there are cases in the news every day that prove that fact.
@@ellen5165 . I'm well aware that some mothers don't! What's more important is most mothers do love their children without question!
@@citacita7889 Yes. You are correct, but two things can be true at one time. People fall in love, get married, and/or have children for numerous reasons. Many times people mistake lust (i.e., Greek word έρωτας, meaning love, eros, cupid) et al. for love. A parent can also love a child to death "in the name of love" by simply giving in to all of his or her demands for numerous reasons unrelated to love (e.g., single, divorced, working, career, or widowed parent being much too busy at work or with romance to spend quality play time [See the foundation of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Mildren Parten's Stages of Play-Learning Model], guilt, trying to balance out rejection or a lack of attention from a physically absent and/or an absent-minded parent, etc.).
Dr Grande, have you ever analyzed the case of my medical school classmate Dr John Hamilton, who murdered his wife on Valentine’s Day, 2001? Place was Oklahoma City. He’s serving life in prison.
@qd63991 I like how the first thing you say is "have you done a episode on my classmate......"
As if anyone cares that a murderer that was caught was your classmate, like that is the main thing, and the murder case is just "ahh wudever, but hey who was that serial killer's classmate tho????"
I bet a lot of people have told you that you are a narcissist eh?
@@raymaharaj4502Well his comment has twenty likes so far;
yours has only a self-like. 😂
Can't imagine killing your own mother. What a monster.
I have 3 grown sons. If any one of them had done that and ripped someone off? They'd be sitting in jail. I would never have bailed my son out.
"It's not clear what [the jurors] were doing for eighty-nine of those minutes..." HA HA HA HA! Dr. Grande, you're hilarious!! 😀
His wife and children dodged the bullet, so to speak
I have a relative who is a lawyer. He stole over $300k of client money and fled the country. Thing is he also had a long history of "borrowing" thousands of dollars from family and never repaying it. They all just forgave his debts hoping he would build a successful law practice and become financially independent. He had many good qualities, but for some reason he just couldn't understand that he was burning all his bridges. When he started the law practice he was living very frugally. If he had continued to do that I believe he would have suceeded. But he started living off client money and then tried to get a loan to cover the difference but was denied due to bad credit. He dug a hole and couldn't get out so he just bought a plane ticket and left everything behind.
Do you know where your relative is now?
What’s wild to me is that Richard could’ve have just got his head down done the 15 and that would have been that.
He would have faired very well
In prison too by helping other inmates with legal advice and passing his time with that which would have also gained him some positive friendships in prison iif he was helping them out with his legal knowledge.
It wasn’t like he was going in for doing crimes towards children or women.
And his mum would’ve definitely stood by him, visiting him regularly and topping up his canteen.
But no , he thought murdering his poor mother was the way to go and look where it got him.
Only to end up with a longer sentence. Killing your own Mother is Taboo, so prisoners will frown on that.
His loving mother taught him no responsibility and to become the greedy a--hole that he was that cost her her own life.
@@stfuplsok
I'm wondering about the time that he was living with his brother as a teenager ,and not his parents, due to no high school courses in Saudi Arabia. A great deal of tuff love happens during that time. Lots of correction that he might have missed?
@@hopeausbyn1734 then what about his brother?
@@stfuplsok My assertion is, his parents, were not in the home actively raising their child during his teenage years. These are years of a considerable amount of correction for most teenagers. 🚩
I'm a half orphan, sitting with my speechless mother while we are watching your wonderful educational analysis together right now, dear Dr Grande and I'm really touched by this 😫, and I don't get why people kxll their family members just for fun... I'm sooo happy for his ex-wife to see his red flags earlier to save herself and the children❣️ This case is an example of why divorce sometimes makes sense even with kids❣️💯 And rest in peace, angel Shirley❣️😇♥️
There is no degrees of orphanage. You have a living parent. You are not an orphan.
@@danae-rain3019 Depends which country you are living in. I am from Germany, we are having the term, when you are a kid and one parent died, you even receive then money from the government for being half orphan
@@nutellabrot9047 TIL I am a half-orphan.
You could say: His actions were done without, merit.
I was surprised Dr G didn't capitalise on that one . 😂
Greed is a powerful motivator.
Thanks, Grande! ❤ So many great stories, and always interesting and informative!❤ We appreciate your work every day.❤
Thanks for your video today, Doc.
I think when lawyers go bad they’re the worst.
My heart breaks for his poor mother
Hello Dr. Grande…how sad for Richard’s mother. I’m sure she didn’t think her son was capable of how she died. Thank you Dr. Grande. I hope it is warm where you live. Denver’s high today -1 degrees!! ❤️🌵💕from Jean.
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I miss you reiterating OCEAN. hearing from you relating personalities to OCEAN helped me Immensely in my own interpersonal understanding.
Thank you Dr Grande for the daily uploads and sharing your thoughts on numerous cases.
Another ridiculous intruder story; this should be banned in court 🙄What a monster to kill his poor mother so brutally. Agree with your analysis & points. Thanks Dr G😊💛💛
You do realize that there are cases in which intruders have killed people don’t you? The Sam Sheppard case being one such example.
@@momof1576 Of course there are "mom" but you do realize they're RARE and wastes everyone's time investigating. It's like saying you got kidnapped by 👾 🤖👽.
Yes, but they don't kill someone and leave a witness who can identify them....@@momof1576
While she making a meal for him 💔
@@kristinaaslanyan5150 😑💔
I theorize that he denied all wrongdoing to his mother and conned her into paying his $40,000 bond! Then when he pled guilty she called him on it and possibly even told him she was disappointed or disgusted by him! Could have been enough to make him snap? Or he told her he wasn’t going to prison and asked her for more money when she refused he snapped? My guess is it’s one of those two scenarios!
I think those are quite likely scenarios. If individuals do not have personal insight into their internal strengths and weaknesses and their external opportunities and threats, they will be ill-prepared to become spouses and/or parents whose relationships are aligned in mutually shared directional strategies (i.e., values>mission>vision) for themselves and/or their families. So, whether it is at the personal or professional level, in the chain of top-down command, control, and custody and bottom-up feedback, strong interpersonal links must be forged early in the process of communications, cooperation, collaboration, coordination, correction, commitment, and compromise through play-learning (See Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Mildred Parten's Stages of Play). In the stream of my consciousness of yesteryear, all of this is what I used to call common sense in thought, word, and deed. As the results of this case seem to indicate, a parent who does not do the hard work up-front to civilize his or her children during early childhood cognitive-emotional development from birth on in order to make them good citizens in society later, should not be surprised when their children, whose heart-minds they actually do not know, ultimately turn on them as adults (Matthew 7:21-23). RIP Shirley.
People look askance when I tell them that most of the lawyers I know are a month away from bankruptcy at all times. They do okay until they start making good money. Then they expand their lifestyle such that they struggle to keep up.
Some years ago a lawyer Buddy asked me what it meant that I drove a 15 year old Ford Taurus. I told him I wasn’t trying to make a statement but it probably means that I had a lot more money than he did. (He drove a Mercedes.)
Incidentally he’s dead now. Started getting investigated and got on meth pretty bad. He committed suicide when he learned that he had a federal indictment for dealing meth.
Don’t envy these people. You have no idea what their true situation is.
😅 Love your sense of humor! "Not sure what jury debated for 89 minutes"!
"Not clear for what they were doing for 89 of those minutes."
Oh, Dr. Grandee!
Your dry wit is phenomenal.
It offsets these thoroughly detailed but so often grim tales of bad decisions.
Grim but oh so enjoyed.
Thanks again.
I'd love to know what the jury did for those other 89 minutes as well. 😂😂 Dr. G folks, king of deadpan! 😂😂
I wonder how many lawyers needed three or more tries to pass the bar...
John Kennedy Jr. had to try 3 times.
Many
@usmy first thought er-tm9qb2jk4o
WRONG question. How many have FAILED THREE times!!!
@@traybern That also is a good one.
I bet he used the last name Malvo because he watched the TV series Fargo. There was a killer named Lorne Malvo in season 1 played by Billy Bob Thornton.
That prosecutor should probably be locked into to see if she was taking bribes.
Best channel on UA-cam!
That poor mother.
Good afternoon 🌆, Dr. Grande! I hope you're doing well! Thank You!
Richard’s mother looks like the epitome of a graceful, classy and loving woman. My mother died when I was 8 years old. At 61 I still miss her greatly and think of her often. How could he do that?
Wow. That was wild. Thank you, Dr. Grande!
Your dry humor makes these videos so entertaining.
Poor shirley! What a rotten son!
I would love to hear your analysis on the Girardi case! Very similar circumstances surrounding the theft from clients, Tom Girardi just didn’t kill anybody
I would love to hear Dr. Grandes take on it. He’s been found competent so he can’t hide from these charges anymore. His wife is a peace of work too. She’s living it up with stolen money
@@elizabethhamm5320 totally agree, he should analyze the whole thing and give his opinion on whether or not she was involved!
"It's not clear what they were doing the other 89 minutes" 😂😂😂
This is why I love your content.. ❤
Thanks for the upload, Dr. Grande! Your true fans love your humour and sarcasm. January 15 is National Bagel Day, National Strawberry Ice Cream Day, Wikipedia Day, the Procrastinator's New Year, the Feast of the Ass, Humanitarian Day, and National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day.
Hahaha the procratinator's New Year... Happy New Year ❤🎉😂
😂😂😂 Procrastinator New Year.
How is no one talking about “the Feast of the Ass”
@@SpicyMango7 I have no idea!
Always interesting
Thank you ❤
Awesome! The "trial of the century" laid bare by Dr. Grande!
I love your emphasis on the lessons to be learned from these cases that you analyze. Thank you Dr. Grande!
Best anawysis in the game thank you Dr Grande!
It never ceases to amaze me just how easy it is for women to fall for criminal sociopaths. By this point, he probably has a relationship with some desperate woman who believed his innocence and wrote him a lettee 😂
It boils down to biology in the interplay between sex hormones (i.e., androgens, estrogens, and progestogens). Androgens are steroid hormones, such as testosterone, which are synthesized in the testes, ovaries, and adrenal glands that are responsible for the sex drive in both males and females in the development, differentiation, and maintenance of male primary-secondary male characteristics. Estrogens are steroid hormones that are responsible for the need to nurture in the female reproductive system and secondary sexual characteristics, although they have important physiological roles in males. Estrogens are synthesized in all vertebrates and some insects. So, while estrogen levels circulate at lower levels than androgens, estrogen levels are higher in women than in men. Progestogens are steroid hormones responsible for maintaining pregnancy and are present at other phases of the estrous and menstrual cycles. Thus, cognitive-emotional development is an interrelated process. It may be that criminal sociopaths prey on the feelings of women with high estrogen levels who were raised in households headed by psychopathic fathers and co-dependent mothers.
@@M-qw9ru While it is true that Oxford Languages defines criminality as "behavior that is contrary to or forbidden by criminal law," the precursors to criminality are wrong words and evil thoughts. His wife/girlfriend may intuitively have already known that there was something "off" about him.
@@M-qw9ru Restoring my faith that emotionally intelligent women aren't rare.
I used to work for this lady who grew up as a military brat she probably moved two dozen times during her school aged years she said she basically reinvented her whole personality every time she moved
I noticed that she always copied other people's mannerisms how they dress how they walked she was a weirdo
Who are you talking about? What woman? Richards mother?
It is my opinion, that in a case of external, not an internal, locus of control, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), such as a household economic hardship and instability, may lead to lack of attachment, lack of a strong sense of self, and increased psychological mirroring in order to fit in to a series of social milieux.
@@sparkplugpeggy4910 It is not uncommon to pick up on other people's mannerisms in psychological mirroring. It is done in sales all of the time. There is nothing odd about it. Trying to fit into a new school's cliques as a teenager, if you are unsure of yourself, is normal. Personality, however, is fixed by the time a child enters first or second grade.
As a former military brat, I can understand where she's coming from. Every new school has it's own personality and you have to do what you have to do to make friends and fit in. Some kids do it better than others but it's always a challenge.
Thank you Dr. Grande for your analysis on this case, always appreciate how your well researched and presented your videos are and like the accompanying dry humor.
Long time follower, thank you for all you do.
Wow! Absolutely Crazy! The guy is a classic narcissist- why though? He is his own god, no moral compass, the deceiver - a demon for sure. So sad for all those who loved him. Chameleons are so difficult to detect and protect oneself from. My ex “Richard” is just as evil but much more skilled, he goes after the mind not the body,,, the sadistic slow kill gives some a bigger thrill - but in the matrix those pansies will be pushing up daisies from hell,,, and so I pray. 🙏 Thank you Doc - great insight and warning! Mothers teach your children LOVE LOVE LOVE not only of self but for others❤❤❤
Hi Dr. Grande. Richard was a complete psychosocionarc, just saying, it certainly was obvious by his actions. I hope he rots in hell, & Prison is too light of sentence for an uncaring creep like him. Thanks for another interesting video, peace to you & Mrs. G, love yall 👦 guys & 🪆 dolls , Janine Smiley☕️🍩☕️🍩☕️🎂💞
Many thanks, Dr. G💜💟💜
My favorite part; your final thoughts🎉
Brilliantly articulate my sentiments💙⭐️💙
Now Im glad I used a personal day from work for no reason at all
Thank you for the video Dr Grande. Greetings from Illinois.
I swear i will watch something on ID an nxt thing i know I'm getting notification that Dr. Grande is analyzing the story 🤷🏾♀️ love it
Excellent vid as usual ! Love the closing remarks as words of caution. Reminds me of a saying "show me a liar and I'll show you a thief" but well I have heard it extended also to "show me a thief, will show you a murderer" ... anyway wow particularly true here 😮. I reckon it will save a lot of trouble in one's life to heed this warning.
This was a real shocking one!
One of the saddest true stories ever told.
Dr. Grande is extremely knowledgeable. He is no fool.
Thank you
Can you analyze the case of Brandon Teena? I’d like to see all the different dynamics at play in that covered in a video.
Seems he was trying to fill a big empty hole with money and hedonism.
Nothing was ever enough.
Liking it before the video starts 🤜🏽🤛🏽
Another spot on opinion.
When bashed over the head a hundred times a day and swept up in the roaring cataracts of Trump and Gaza and Ukraine and Trump again and again and again, there is nothing more restful than a Dr. Grande video. The repetitions within are like the chorus of a song (always so satisfying when we get to the lyrics we know!), made by his restful voice and rhythmic delivery into a lullaby. How curious that the gruesome and outrageous subject matter sprinkled with his straight faced humor only serves to keep us fascinated, like children by a bedtime story…but made that much more enthralling by the fact that it’s nonfiction.true, real, maybe next door!
I would not recommend horror stories to children, no matter how well-delivered. I believe that Dr. Grande's videos should be age-appropriate for an adults-only audience of viewers.
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I bet you’re a terrific writer! If not, you should flex that muscle - you definitely have talent.
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@@nanettevantriesteharder2469it's a metaphor !!
How can someone with such a good life just randomly throw it all away?.........smh
I love how these "gentlemen" had full access to his ex as he fled without warning them😂
Please investigate this
Dr. Grande, can you analyze the case of Thelma and Louise?
Maybe him and Murdaugh can be penpals.
😢😮oh aha 😡🤔🥵😇😇😇
I 😂😂😂 out loud at the 89 minutes deliberation joke!
His story about what happened to his mom is positively ludicrous. He's where he belongs for life, in prison.
I would love to see Dr. G’s take on the Iron Sheik
Can you do a video on the von Eriks
His office was in the Georgia county where I live...
Dr Grande, could you please do an analysis on the death of Gonzalo Lira
Hard to figure out why he killed her so brutally. If he did this just so she wouldn’t call the police, why so much anger and brutality? Just doesn’t make sense other then he was a complete psychopath.
Hey Dr. Todd? Could you perhaps do a video on Ali Abulabon/JinnKid?
The DA probably just phoned it in because she felt the case was so strong she didn't to put in any effort.
Hugebfan of the bluppers at the end. Adds to the dry comedy you do so well.