BREAKING: I did not follow this case closely but know there was great interest.
(CBS – South Carolina) – A jury in South Carolina has reached a verdict of guilty on all counts after just three hours of deliberations in the case of disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh, who is accused of murdering his wife and son in 2021.
Murdaugh was charged with four counts: the murder of Maggie Murdaugh, the murder of Paul Murdaugh, and two counts of possession of a weapon during a crime. Those charges carry a potential penalty of up to 30 years to life. Murdaugh still faces another trial in the future over numerous financial crimes.
Jurors started deliberations Thursday afternoon following weeks of testimony from dozens of witnesses in a sprawling case that culminated in a visit to the crime scene, the family’s rural hunting estate Moselle, ahead of closing arguments. (read more)
Next put the clot shot CEO’s on trial along with Fauci the Fraud.
agreed. It is horrible and sick and twisted that a man kill his own family.
but if we truly hold such a crime as horrendous, and violates every ounce of a moral human decency..
then how do WE THE PEOPLE view our own governments direct participation and support of gain of function bioweapons in wuhan that killed MILLIONS…as the design of these bioweapons are built to achieve.
not trying to make some equivalancy. they are both terrible murders.
but we ARE TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS OF HUMANS BEINGS ACROSS THE ENTIRE PLANET WHO WERE MURDERED>
who is responsible for prosecuting this crime against humanity.
why isn’t congress insisting on an INDEPENDENT COUNSEL to go after the evidence and bring it to trial.
where is the international human rights courts?
nothing.
Millions dead…and no one seems to care enough to start applying subpoenas for testimonies and records.
nothing.
It would like the lead detective in this murder case with the “disgraced lawyers” just decided to let this one go.
NO ONE WOULD STAND FOR THAT> It would never be allowed to happen.
and yet, that’s exactly what we have here. Millions dead from a weapon of war, released from a lab that was involved in creating a mass weapon of war. And that did destroy the lives of millions and devastated economies and put entire nation states into retrograde and plunged the world into draconian fractious dictates.
millions dead…and not a single detective has stepped up to start the work of putting people on the stand and processing them for crimes.
We can debate intentionality until the cows come home, but no one in their sane mind would dispute this release caused the deaths of millions. Why ISN’T THIS THE MOST IMPORTANT CRISIS THAT DEMANDS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION?
I pray about this matter daily. The problem with not doing anything about this is that the world will be forced into acquiescing and normalcy to millions again…billions next?
Because right now, there is nothing stopping it from happening again.
Without justice and a very real example of consequences as a deterrence, our so called leaders and our justice system has just accomodated the worst type of violence. the indiscriminate killing of millions ..and for what?
for what?
to “study” a virus in the interests of producing a vaccine for some future threat?
I think it is very clear that is a crazy idea and provable a insane idea given the risk and the loss of life.
what happens next when someone takes home a bad case of small pox in russia…the US?
because that risk is non zero.
this all must end…and soon.
every single week, I send my representative with a kick in the ass letter to get this at the very top of the priority.
fentanyl killed 180,000 last year (give or take, depending on who you trust for the numbers).
that PALES in comparison to the murder rate for this bioweapon.
Our country, given it has the best chances of ANY to establish a process, must take the courage and the leadership to get the ball rolling on this matter and begin a international court of justice process.
failing that, and there is nothing preventing this from happening again.
we must NEVER turn our eyes aways from what happened.
this is OUR HOLOCAUST…
MURDERERS ARE WALKING FREE RIGHT NOW…SERIAL KILLERS..
It makes no sense.
God Bless America
God Bles
“who is responsible for prosecuting this crime against humanity”
Governments across the world were all in on these crimes.
Politicians across the world were all in on these crimes.
Healthcare providers across the world were all in on these crimes.
Corporations across the world were all in on these crimes.
Media across the world were all in on these crimes.
And on and on and on…
Now it is all coming out the crimes are real.
They all are in on the conspiracy of the horror they subjected upon the world.
Who will hold them fully accountable you ask.
God Almighty will.
In the interim we continue to press the issue allowing no excuses.
We have to start somewhere …. and work our way up – or down as the case may be.
And note that the unvaxxed are still considered by all of the above to be the criminals.
Your comments are very valid, and have recently been enforced with the statement by chris wray that the FBI “for some time” has assessed that the pandemic resulted from a “potential lab incident” in Wuhan. How much “misinformation” has been promulgated by the morons in the media??? How accurate are the reports that more people died from the “vaccines” than the virus??? Have there been payouts to silence other authorities in the medical profession concerning the origin of the virus??? Why was the use of masks promoted as valuable when so many medical authorities questioned the value of the masks??? Why was the use of Ivermectin discouraged but then reports appeared that supported it to be effective against the virus?? Given the impact on the world, IMESHO, it would seem that there should be a solid, objective investigation into the origin, funding. and consequences of the “gain of function” research. Should that be initiated by the House??
May Gob Bless America, and its citizens.
There has been some talk from other pundits that the FBI, DOE (?), et al are saying the virus came from the Wuhan Lab as a distraction. They think it actually was developed in a Ukrainian bio lab, and transferred to China. If Wray says it’s from China, it probably isn’t!
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/nation-world/covid-19-conspiracies-after-latest-origins-report/507-580e4527-f84f-4502-962e-b43305a19b9a
“Many of the conspiracy theories contradict each other and the findings in the Energy Department report. In a tweet on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, called COVID-19 a “man made bioweapon from China.” A follower quickly challenged her: “It was made in Ukraine,” he responded.”
it is obvious that Satan is running amok in government leadership, they have zero moral mooring except to their delusional power hungry selves, peons be damned. Somehow we need to excise the evil parasites and right the heeled-over ship. Unfortunately even elections are useless so I fear it will come to an inflection point.
When God is removed from the equation (at an accelerated pace, recently) we remove the moral compass. Without that, without God, people simply lose their way. With no compass or target, the arrows always go astray.
Well said, Regi. It truly does feel like the entire world is locked in a “wait-and-see” mode…..
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/notice-of-war-crimes-to-health-care
At this site you can download a notice of war crimes that you can send to health care providers.
NOTICE OF WAR CRIMES
If you have been promoting or using products known as “Covid-19 vaccines” on patients since December 2020, you have been participating in fraud, mass murder and war crimes, because medical countermeasures (MCMs), covered countermeasures, and prototype products are DOD-contracted bioweapons intended and effective for injuring, sickening and killing recipients.
You may not have known or understood your participation in fraud, mass murder and war crimes before today. I am now informing you; you have now been given notice.
This document provides:
Agree completely. They better start prosecuting these crimes soon in courtrooms across our country & around the civilized nations. Justice needs to fall hard on the criminal to ensure there is no repeat of the crime. Otherwise, they are running the very real risk of upset relatives & Patriots executing vigilante justice against those responsible for these crimes against humanity. That would not be pretty; yet it would be considered just in many eyes.
regitiger, I couldnt agree more.
I think part of the problem is many of the people who might be inclined to do something about it still cant wrap their heads around what a massive crime against humanity the “covid” hoax, response, and “vaccine” is.
Its easier to fool someone that to convince them they have been fooled.
Id say 80% of the people with authority were completely fooled, and probably have taken multiple shots. They would have to acknowledge that they could have a heart attack, aneurism, blood clot etc… at any moment because of a decision they made, on their own accord. They were duped. Id say the ability to be that honest with oneself is pretty rare.
One of the many things working against any sort of reckoning of all of this is basic human psychology.
Can’t do that, it’d strike too close to the core of the problem.
To paraphrase Stalin: two murders are big news and a tragedy, but millions being killed by vaccine profits is just Russian misinformation.
The US killed 11M civilians since 1990. Not a peep for anyone.
Yup, not a peep, and the US govt is still out there pretending to be the good guy with moral standing on the world stage–what a freaking joke!!! Our govt was taken over by international bankers in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act and now it’s in the process of killing us with bioweapons. And it plans on enslaving us with digital IDs and CBDCs.
You’re dead on Amanda. But remember, if you state the obvious, you’re a terrible person. They can do as they damn please to us, but if we speak out, we’re the aggressors. This lie has been spewed for centuries
When we were kids, my brother told me that if you kill a couple of ants you’re a murderer, but if you kill the whole colony it makes you a conquerer!
The minute that snapchat video was played I knew, without a doubt, that this scumbag was guilty! He claimed he wasn’t there… but his son’s snapchat proved he WAS!
Absolute scumbag. SCUMBAG.
Did I say SCUMBAG?
N0t enough.
His son’s video is what did it, AM fake alibi could not overcome that video.
Voices from the grave!!
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Yep.
The guy couldn’t stop talking to save himself . . .
The people of Walterboro, SC and surrounding areas KNEW in the first couple weeks of it happening that he was guilty!
These old country folks aren’t stupid. Everyone I talked to from up that way, and anywhere across the state KNEW without a doubt that he was guilty.
The SCUMBAG thought he was smarter that the jurors or attorneys, but he found out he wasn’t.
He’s got a lot of other crimes yet to account for. He has no conscience and Satan has his soul.
By the way, Nikki Haley was born in Walterboro, SC. She’ll probably get a lot of questions about this, even though she probably won’t like it.
When she contacted me, wanting me to send her money, and ask for my vote, my answer was,
I’m voting for President Trump.
Lots a nice folks in that area.
Stopped into the Barrel House Grill a few times in my travels
Nice little golf stop off the Interstate, also. Walterboro, S.C. Nice people.
I couldn’t stand watching him on the witness stand. Apparently, neither could the jury.
But honestly, I didn’t watch it much either.
My husband at first said he couldn’t convict a man of murder just because he had committed serious financial fraud. But Murdach was in serious trouble in every area of his life. I didn’t see it much of a shift to murder–he’s an effing lawyer.
On The Closer, a police-procedural T.V. show from 10 years ago or so, an old detective (played by G.W. Bailey) had a dictum in such murder cases:
“It’s always the husband, it’s always the husband, it’s ALWAYS the husband!”
In real life, an exaggerated claim, but one could substitute “in a majority of cases” for “always.”
It’s always the husband except when it’s the wife!
It’s only the butler in dramas.
When the husband is dead in the pool of blood, that is the corollary! 🙂
Or the wife.
A favorite show of mine 👍
TV show *Snapped* they re-enact real life murders – Yup, it’s usually the husband OR wife – (sometimes the kid)
Recall the Menendez trial from a decade or so ago?! (1996 to be exact)
Those poor orphans!
Who was the media nitwit that was worried about “those poor orphans?” Rush mentioned it more than once, but I had forgotten all about it.
I remember all that, but I don’t remember who was saying that about the boys.
How wicked can the enablers get!!!
I believe it was Gloria Allred, the ‘orphans’ lawyer.
Exactly!
Information warfare is as old as time itself.
YES I DO! Terribly Gross.
Forensic Files
I love that show! HLN has been replaying all the episodes on the weekend so I have been binge-watching.
Whenever a person is murdered, the first person the police investigate is the spouse and that tells you all you need to know about marriage.
Generally it is the last person who was known to be with them, but the husbands/partners/boyfriends/wives/girlfriends are way up there.
I’ll second that!
NO!
As much spousal murder as there is, there is thousands of times more cases of spousal HELP that is far above and beyond the call of Duty.
Or boyfriend/girlfriend or ex-husband/wife or ex-boyfriend/girlfriend
Hardly ever a stranger.
My name is M.Murphy
Stupid auto correct!
Didn’t notice it.
@Ausonius, the G.W. Bailey character WAS BIASED, after being divorced at least more than 3 or 4 times! After that many divorces I think he’s projecting! 😛
And as you can tell I loved the Closer also! Didn’t like Major Crime that much, it lost it’s charm after Kevin Bacon’s wife left the show.
Heh-Heh! “Biased” indeed ! 🙂
Major Crimes would have been much better without the homosexual subplot of “Rusty.” But political correctness invaded the script-writing.
Provenza was great on The Closer. I watch on Cozi. No cable. Yeah!!
no privilege for the white man
Ironically nobody on the other side is following this case. doesnt fit the narrative.
WRONG!
What? That “white man” was privileged his whole life, in a way the vast majority of white folks have never even seen. Disgusting family corruption. Plus, it appears that all his victims throughout his life were also white.
Why would you rush so fast to insert a racial comment on this case, that you couldn’t even take the time to capitalize or use punctuation? Disappointed.
Perhaps its mockery, sarcasm? Hence the lack of punctuation and capitalization?
Joe, James ,and Hunter Biden are as guilty of money fraud as Murdaugh is of murder.
Money fraud as well as MASS murder….
And MASSIVE RICO and election fraud.
Delusional Joe is a mass murderer.
OF COURSE! Letting in all the illegals, and all the DRUGS, and killing all the Children (teens, etc)
Plus letting in all the criminals that are killing people!
ABSOLUTELY!!!
Reasonable doubt standard seems to confuse jurors. Was he guilty? Probably. I’d bet on it. But one juror didn’t find reasonable doubt here?! Very strange.
That being said, Any man who can murder a wife and son and then try to make an alibi is a cold-blooded psychopath. There must be many previous similar violent crimes in his background.
Start checking unsolved murders in the region since the 80’s.
Psychopath indeed.
Pathological lying being one of several indicators.
IMO a significant number of lawyers are psychotic.
I dealt with many while working.
Then there are all the lawyers in Congress and the government.
What % of lawyers lied about President Trump without a hint of conscience.
100%..
So sad in so many ways.
People fail to understand that lying isn’t normally pathological, it’s a conscious behavioral choice undertaken to avoid accountability.
PATHOLOGICAL lying (it’s a disease, they can’t help it, brain damage, tumors etc.) is quite rare by contrast.
I used to know a pathological liar. Early on I noticed that she lied now and then, but I thought big deal, so what, who doesn’t. It was a couple of years before I began to realize that she was constantly lying, literally if her lips were moving she was lying. About anything. Everything. About things you would never think to lie about. If you were talking to her on the phone while she was in the drive thru at McDonald’s, she’d tell you she was at Burger King.
here’s reality jeff. women lie. all women lie. all women lie all the time. it’s what they best and they’re very good at it. if a woman tells you she doesn’t lie…she’s lying to your face. women have to lie because it’s what gives them leverage over men as men aren’t near as good of liars as women. it’s their ace in the hole. little girls learn how to lie from their mothers and aunts and grand mothers and sisters then it’s off to k-12 where 90% of those teachers are?…wait for it…..women! donk women to boot. k-12 teaches girls they have a right to lie. girls and women are not held to account. that just doesn’t happen. then it’s off to college where 70% of the students are….women! all women lie all the time. it helps them control the world.
one last thought. it doesn’t matter what their politics…all women lie.
So do most, if not all, men.
Are you single Donnie?
I sure hope he is. Yikes.
LOL!!!!
Divorced is my guess. Not amicable.
If he ever got that close
😂
You got to start hanging out with a better class of woman. Female inmates are a bad place to start.
“all women lie all the time.”
I suggest you get help, donnie, to deal with whatever life experiences brought you to that conclusion. Seriously, that level of bitterness is not healthy. I say that with kindness.
Not sure I totally agree with you, donnieboy, but I’m very impressed by your commitment.
I’ll just step out of the way of incoming fire now . . .
OMG..I’m crying!!!LOL
God hears you.
Enjoy your Harvest.
Biden is a pathological liar.
Murdaugh seems to be more of a psychopath though. If it’s found out that he killed 30 transients over the years I wouldn’t be surprised
He was a druggie!!
illions of heavy duty opiate addicts did not kill their own family members.
it’s not a reasonable excuse for murder.
when you examine the larger big picture of this person, what you find is that at every single corner he took a path to cheat, lie, steal and cover up.
opiates don’t make you do this.
addicts are yes, unstable and unpredictable. I don’t think anyone disputes that.
but if you look at this legal case (I just finished a flash examination of all court records and investigative materials and testimonies provided to the jurors and motions filed by both defending and prosecuting parties), you find this:
the defense argued forcibly that the prosecutors could not be allowed to enter into the court OTHER CRIMES, attempts at crimes, and theft and earlier “encounters” with law enforcement as well as legal filings by others against him.
that being said, the prosecutors were very intelligent and cunning to get around this argument and made central to the case aspects of his former misconduct that painted an more true story about his choices. The defense had ever opportunity in court to argue the counter point. It was unsuccessful because it becomes very clear to anyone that this was one bad gringo.
Yes, he was a druggie. He was also a thug criminal who spent alot of resources attempting to defraud and commit many kinds of crimes well before he decided to murder his own family.
we never truly understand the mind of a criminal who commits such a horror murder.
it isn’t even that important to convict someone. The intent, the nature of, the floating ideas that goes on in a persons conscience are less important than the act itself.
I personally agree with this legal doctrine made as perfectly in our laws as it can be.
one example is the defense of many war criminals post nazi defeat – ordinary soldiers follow orders..military orders that are lawful…this was the argument to avoid responsibility for the individuals murderous acts. It failed for precisely this reason…”following” the orders even if considered lawful, are not a valid and acceptable defense to avoid conviction. Conversely, the basic principle assumes that all people irrespective of circumstance, and even “law” are aware of moral competence. Murder is such a unique crime, the law expects and assumes anyone considering it, even under the threat of punishment or removal from office for not following “orders” would resist/refuse.
We will see this ancient and modern adapted doctrine again when those that conspired to build virus bioweapon in wuhan.
“science” is not an excuse when the results are clearly the murder of millions.
we will also see a legal interpretation of “emergency authorizations” and liability immunity protections from harm cases wrt to the jab-gene-therapy…although if I had to estimate those cases are unlikely to gain a legal standing of murder as criminal matter, but rather a return to sanity about civil claims of harm against deadly drugs that should have never been approved and “data” the pharmas supplied (manufactured) to achieve such emergency auth.
God Bless America
God Bless America
this ^
At least 2 separate death cases are being reopened that were originally listed as accidental. A friend of the older son, Buster, and a housekeeper.
And the boating accident..the whole family is a mess. I couldn’t watch the trial. It sickened me.
Perhaps they were all missing their smartphones too much to deliberate. But actually I don’t know whether they were sequestered or not.
Me neither, but when the judge sent them out, he told them they were going to deliberate, they were getting snacks, not dinner. LOL!
But when he got caught lying on his alibi & had to admit he lied about it on the stand, that’s not helpful to claiming you’re not a killer.
There are already two very suspicious deaths that Alec Murdaugh is suspected to be involved in: His housekeeper, Gloria, fell down some stairs on his property and died, (He stole the wrongful death insurance settlement from her heirs). A 15 year old boy, Stephen, rumored to be his eldest son’s gay lover, died in a hit and run.
Maybe “speculated” is a more apt word.
On any given day there are several murder trials in progress. This one was never more important, more dramatic or more worthy of public focus. It gained an artificial prominence through having cameras in the court.
Out of the 80k criminal defendants charged per year, 90% plead guilty and do not go to trial and 8% get dismissed. Of the 2% that do go to trial, 83% are found guilty by judges or juries. That’s why having a good enough lawyer to be able to make a deal matters. If you are charged criminally, your odds of acquittal are very poor.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-federal-criminal-defendants-go-to-trial-and-most-who-do-are-found-guilty/
When a defense team puts the accused on the stand, it’s because they perceive they are losing. In this instance, the man admitted he had been at the scene (after having said first he wasn’t), to being a liar, an addict and a thief, in the vain hope that would convince jurors it made him less likely to also be a murderer. They weren’t convinced.
(Yes, I know the linked article is about fed crimes, and these were state charges. The stats are similar. Try not to get charged with crimes, and if you are charged, sell everything you’ve got to get better representation. You’ll need it.)
If you don’t get involved with drugs, or perpetrate any violence, or steal anything, your odds of ending up in court go way, way down.
True. Or take selfies/film yourself while doing things that can be construed as crimes. (Sorry, J6-ers. That was monumentally dumb.)
Unless you are a white, Christian, heterosexual male in a MAGA hat.
It was highlighted because the scumbag was from a prominent family in SC. His grandpa and dad were both Solicitor General for their county and headed a well known law firm (that is now history thanks to Murdaugh and his thievery). They go back many generations in SC.
He also scammed his clients out of money – just like Avenatti. There is also a dead housekeeper and a local boy whose death was covered up as a hit and run (which it wasn’t) – both probably killed by the remaining son… not to mention the poor girl killed by the drunken dead son.
Good point. I guess many of us little guys do get a vicarious thrill from seeing big guys get convicted.
Speaking of stats, if we were to assign a percentage to what constitutes ‘reasonable doubt’ what would that be? 25 percent?
Meaning unless the jury is more than 75 percent certain that the accused is guilty you must acquit.
It was in the news for a looooooog time before it ever got to court..
His misdeeds have been in the news for quite a long time.
It seems he has been screwing (without kisses) people for quite a while (years)
This is an interesting timeline of his rise and fall. It reads like a scrip for a movie.
The death of the housekeeper 😳
https://www.foxnews.com/us/alex-murdaugh-timeline-once-powerful-south-carolina-lawyers-spectacular-downfall
I wonder if they’ll go after his other son about the death of his “friend”.
Jury deliberated just 4 hours. Sentencing tomorrow morning at 9:3o.
In so, so many trials that receive publicity, sentencing comes months after the verdict. Here it’s the next day. Weird.
shows there was overwhelming evidence that was far about reasonable doubts.
I don’t know the details of this case…but generally, when you see fast jury deliberations…not always, but mostly..it means the defense could not withstand the weigh of evidence that proved guilt.
on the other hand, we have botched trials like OJ.
and we pretty much KNOW WHAT THAT WAS ABOUT!
if you are rich, famous, wealthy and a likeable person who ran 11,000 yards …and black..in california…it attracts all the corrupt attorneys who will sell their souls for the fame…
in this case…it would good to see none of the usual corrupt morons raced to defend this murdering evil man.
God Bless America
Vincent Bugliosi, the LA DA who got convictions in the Tate-La Bianca murders, in 1969 in California, said if he’d been DA during the OJ Simpson trial, he’d have gotten a conviction. He wrote a book (Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder) on why the LA DA failed to get a conviction. One point he made in an interview was that Marcia Clark started writing her closing argument the night before she gave it in court. Bugliosi said he wrote and edited his closing argument from Day 1 of the trial. He had the transcripts of each day’s proceedings delivered to him each night so he could review the testimony and rulings of each day. He did not leave anything to chance.
Not weird if you followed the trial. The pathologist was excellent and the Crime Scene expert, Dr. Ken Kirsey (I believe), yesterday was outstanding. In my opinion, he sealed the deal. Also, the cell phone data and of course the video discovered in Paul’s phone would have been difficult to disregard in order to find him not guilty.
Jury deliberated in under 3 hours.
Omg, I can’t believe the jury followed the truth. There is no doubt who killed Paul and Maggie. Have been glued to Fits News. They have been awesome with trial coverage. God bless Maggie and Paul. What a sad, sick tale.
I canceled my subscription to Fitsnews because it was all Murdaugh all the time. I wanted things like what’s happening in the legislature but there wasn’t much of that, just Murdaugh, Murdaugh Murdaugh.
Following the trial never interested me. Mildly interested in the verdict.
Netflix has a good docu-series on this case if you want the back story. It’s pretty crazy going back to the son that was murdered being responsible for a boating under the influence crash that killed a young girl…
Is there a reason for any interest in this case?
It has rich people, drugs, a lawyer bilking his clients of millions, uxoricide, filicide, etc.
In other words, it has a rich white man behaving like a devil, which checks off all the boxes on the MSM’s agenda.
Exactly the point I made to my husband when he asked why this was being covered by the MSM.
I truly believe shiny object and ‘fill’ for 24/7 news propaganda so the Lamestream Media does not have to cover Palestine, Ohio and the fake spy-op money laundering machine known as Ukraine. Maybe?
And the sabotage of Nordssteam pipeline by FJB
Ausonius,
You just reminded me of the Claus von Bulow case in Providence. A resident, I was astonished at the throngs of people who would slather themselves all over the sidewalk in front of the tiny courthouse in town!!!!
I could never make it as I needed to walk my rat in the afternoon.
I’m one county over from this mess and it’s the same for this trial. I personally do not care other than to feel sorry for all affected who weren’t involved. .
Humans are the WORST animals!
He is a murderer but the country has lots of them, so much coverage because he was from a well respected southern family, they had power & wealth, but mostly he is a White Man who was wealthy & did I say southern MSM field day! The Prosecutor kept saying Murdaugh was privileged
Other than it being a tawdry, salacious, shiny bauble of distraction from the collapse of America? Nope.
LOL!!!
It was televised.
Ha!!!! Bien sur!!!
Who gets the royalties for it being on TV?
The usual suspects.
With 1000 channels Television is always hungry for content….of any kind!
But it prefers the kind presented by this case!
Whenever I come across one of these tragic stories, I thank God for sending me on the path that He set me on.
A private tiny little gravel or dirt path in the backyard is the best!
So true WSB.
A nice two land winding road through the mountains works for me.
Love it!!!! I see it in my soul!
The state brought in tons of stuff about unrelated financial crimes to flood the zone, prolong the trial for an extra 2 weeks and frankly the whole thing turned into a circus. The fact that the jury only deliberated for 4 hours tells you that they wanted to go home after all of the BS the state allowed in.
Their donors are now safe from prosecution from those unrelated financial crimes I mentioned earlier.
They announced the verdict on live TV here (breaking into regular programming). Five minutes later, someone in my neighborhood set off several fireworks. I’m guessing it was because of the verdict but around here it could be because their kid lost their first tooth or their wife/ girlfriend (maybe both) got new lingerie. Any excuse…
I did follow this, and his story was hinky to begin with. It took forever to unravel, but this is one LEOs got right. There was so much interference from local officials because of the Murdaugh name.
It’s hard to have empathy, because the entire family was sick, with Alex being the worst. The festering rot finally took its toll. Sad all the way around.
I highly recommend the Netflix miniseries ‘Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal”
I think the first question in an over-publicized case like this needs to be, did he ever p|ss off any C|intons.
If the answer is NO, he might be guilty.
If YES, he didn’t do it.
He was a staunch Democrat from what I have read. Msm for what that’s worth. Reported to have contributed to Clinton’s, Obama, etc. Oh well, gotta start with the low hanging fruit….
he’s a lawyer so
I also did not follow this case closely. Too many other more important national security issues FLOATING AROUND..inexplicably allowed to float around.
but there are some common elements to be stated.
in the murder case, inexplicably, there is no forensic biological evidence at the crime scene to establish a killer. That is my understanding. I question that. it was a BLOODY MASSACRE. Either the investigators failed to collect biological evidence, OR they just blew it and created legal problems with the process. This really struck me as odd there was no bilogical material/dna…none. That was odd.
now lets turn to the “balloons”. the USG has the evidence in possession…and not just physically, but all the flight trajectory, optical records of surveillance AS WELL AS THE JAMMING FREQUENCIES they have admitted were shunted.
all of those things are collected material evidence that can produce attribution.
Will we see this on the public facing square?
will the IC sit on it ?
if this is a violation of US airspace AND a direct act of warfare, what are the legal means to file such a violation against china…will it happen?
if not, why not?
things I think about.
God Bless America
They’re still examining the contents of the balloons!
Probably will if you ask next year.
Haven’t been following this, which means nothing. chuckling
I’m normally not prone to comment on a picture at first glance, but something about his face suggests to me the steak is overcooked and has turned to plywood.
With today’s (cell phone) technology, even an experienced lawyer can’t lie any more. This lawyer was no different than that of a masked thief with a blaring tattoo on his arm. Too bad they didn’t utilize the same technologies to convict the Mules of 2020… but then they would have to admit an election was stolen.
Maybe it was his last son.
I tuned in today for closing arguments…
but caught some of the closing arguments too…
…the defense attorney was a train wreck, not emphatic enough, IMHO regarding his clients “innocence” and emphasis on reasonable doubt. His heart was not in it…Murdaugh took the stand but I missed those hours…
Don’t lawyers for the defense always advise the client not to take the stand?
Am wondering why it was so high profile/special that Fox was covering…
In any event, the appeals will be interesting esp. since they kicked one (or maybe two jurors off the jury?) The one that got booted today, it was believed to be in favor of the defendant as the defense objected to that action.
Sentencing in the morning…
One of Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys is a S. C. State Senator and former Chairman of the South Carolina Democrat Party. His name is Richard Harpootlian.
He’s a piece of work. Gosh, how low can one go?
wasn’tthe one who got kicked off an alternate? so, no effect on verdict
He took the stand because he thought he was smarter than his attorneys. He said he had lied, because he thought he was smarter than the jurors.
in SC>>>did he fund donate FJB primary win for D’s?
It seems ok to murder people by injection! Why isn’t it ok to murder anyone you want—not defending the guy—but murder has been declared ok by governments all over the world. So now by what criteria is “murder” a crime? Or, even considered immoral?
I think the jury and people in general, are sick of 2 systems of justice or rich and influential getting away with anything. That current environment is to Alex Murdaugh’s detriment and thus this result. Good job SC!
Thank goodness this horrific case had a jury who still possessed critical thinking.
Guilty as sin.
Listen to the forensic pathologist on you tube describe how the shotgun blast to Alex Murdaugh’s son’s head was so close and forceful that it lifted the brain out of the skull, landed on the ground and was sent as a separate specimen to the morgue.
Low country low life murdering thief. Burn in hell.
Judge Newman put Judge Ito/OJ & Judge Perry/Casey Anthony to shame in how he ran his courtroom.
Where are the J6 videos Tricker?
Next week. Tucker said they lied to us and it’s going to be interesting.
He didn’t say a word about it ’til tonight, hope he’s loaded for bear next week, or else, he destroys my tenuous relationship to his show.
I wonder if this dirtbag is a big donor to the Dems.
The sentencing might be interesting.
I had little to no interest….but I felt it was shoved in my face, every day….by the media…. that would rather report on anything other than what really matters!!!
We are on the cusp of WWIII….but let’s talk about this murder case. I am sorry….it is a tragic case but honestly doesn’t affect me and it never will. WWIII will.
Young people would be startled to watch a Cronkite newscast.
A handful of lengthy reports (by current standards) about stories Cronkite regarded as important.
The Murdaugh murder case would not qualify.
Even after he had ascended to anchorman, Rather went to Afghanistan to cover their war with the Soviet Union because this was the the type of story serious journalists covered.
So where are the ambitious journalists covering the phantom war in Ukraine?
Important people want the war not covered, so it isn’t. And the ambitious journalists stay far away.
I know very little about this case. I know it was going on, etc. but, my question is: what was the motive for killing his wife and son?
I have no idea and am not sure from talking with my family members if they really know for sure, other than all the embezzlement, the son’s motorboat accident killing his girlfriend, etc., etc., etc., but there was no clear motive established that I could see…on the other hand, I didn’t pay that much attention to it.
Maybe someone else knows for sure.
To avoid revealing his massive financial thefts, drug addiction, public humiliation, disbarment and prison by eliminating those who knew too much, even though they were family.
Thank you, Mikey. Just madness.
Agreed.
What a load of garbage you are spewing. His family didn’t “knew too much”. Where the hell did that come from? Not even the insane prosecution tried to make this claim.
What the state actually claimed is that killing his family got him a brief continuance on a hearing that had already been delayed twice, on a matter that might have led to him having to produce a financial statement several months down the road.
My understanding is he was already going to end up in prison because his embezzlement, drug addiction and crimes against his clients was already in the legal process. So nothing his family would say would make it any worse. I would like to understand his motive. It doesn’t have any rationale.
My husband, son and daughter followed this daily. I did not.
My husband has been on numerous juries from local town/village court right on through, county, state and federal court systems many times over. He was also appointed as jury foreman on at least 2 occasions.
Note: He NEVER discussed those cases (even when he was on for 6 months) with me or anyone else and even after the case was over, he really didn’t say much of anything. I never knew how he voted or why.
The only big issue all 3 had with this trial is there was ZERO physical evidence; no DNA, the timeframe, 2 weapons and the bloodiness of the crime, lack of physical evidence, and all circumstantial evidence.
Even though, my husband did mention that he would not be surprised with a jury decision going either way, he did believe with both the defense and prosecution, that there were a lot of holes in both sides of this case.
All 3 said they did not see the case presented ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’.
I’m just throwing that out there for discussion purposes.
I don’t understand why this case was tried in SC, in this county. I would have thought that the defense would argue that he couldn’t get a fair trial. I’m sure this family had/has many enemies.
On the other hand, I have no idea why it has been monopolizing Fox News for this length of time, only that we are no longer watching the DeSantis push, Palestine Ohio, Ukraine money-laundering, killing millions with the bio-weapon and the 2020 steal, along with the Biden criminality, just a few items ignored….
Please thank your husband for jury service. A lot of people would shirk. Six months is a huge commitment!
I think he enjoys it. He’s a quiet man and a PE by trade, so he looks at details a little differently than most; engineers are interesting people.
I’ve noticed during his retirement, he has a tendency to follow cases on line, if he can locate the court room dialogues.
Regarding physical evidence, there was the “tarp”/raincoat covered in biological matter, that his mothers’ caregiver saw him in and was later found hidden at his parents residence during a warranted search.
It did seem to me that the police also made a lot of mistakes the night of the crime. Not securing the property, allowing all kinds of people into the house. For crying out loud, the maid cleaned the house that night or the next morning! Prior to it being searched.
You are misstating the testimony and evidence. The caregiver swears that saw him carrying a blue tarp. The search happened 3 months later and found a rain coat. Same item, confused witness? Maybe. There is no physical evidence linking it to Alex, and the sole witness would only concede that what she saw and what the state produced are both blue – not exactly the stuff that “beyond a reasonable doubt” is made of.
And it wasn’t “covered in biological matter”, it had a few dozen flecks of primer combustion byproduct (“Gun Shot Residue” – “GSR”) on it. I don’t know if it is possible in theory to narrow down the origin of primer residue – the elements involved might not be amenable to isotope analysis, for example, or there might simple not be enough material to do so – but it certainly was not done here. That means that we don’t know which of the trillions of gunshots over the last few decades those residue particles came from.
Blood is very hard to clean off. GSR can basically be wiped or brushed off. The presence of GSR tells you that the jacket was not cleaned in a way that would be effective for removing blood/DNA, nor was it used to wrap and carry a firearm that had been used a few minutes earlier to aerosolize a human head at close range.
If we knew for certain that Alex had that jacket and that he didn’t live on what amounts to a 1700 acre shooting range, that residue might be damning. That is when GSR is useful – when it is found in unexpected places, on people who don’t shoot and aren’t around shooting. Someone who literally walks over spent shotgun shells and empty brass cartridges on his way to the car every morning, well, GSR isn’t exactly unexpected on his body and possessions.
By the standards of this trial, I could be found guilty of any given murder, because you’d probably be able to find similar amounts of GSR on basically everything I own.
GSR is not what convicted him. Paul’s (Pau Pau’s) snapchat video taken just minutes b4 his death where Alex’s voice could be heard (multiple friends and relatives attested to the voice being Alex’s). From the very first he stated he was not at the kennels – only after the video evidence showing the truth did he say otherwise.
Three people went down to the kennels and one person came back – it’s not that complicated.
Also an earlier video showed he had changed clothes and those clothes he was wearing in the earlier video were never found or presented by the defense.
Guilty.
The defense is not ordinarily required to find and present evidence in either direction. The burden of proof lies entirely on the state. There are important philosophical reasons why we have this requirement, but also practical reasons. The state is very powerful and has compulsory process for obtaining evidence, which they did not bother to use to attempt to obtain the other clothes.
Of course, the prosecution didn’t think they needed any other clothes because the head investigator perjured himself to the grand jury – he told them that the shirt Alex had been wearing was covered with blood, while a report was sitting in his email inbox, allegedly unread, that said that there wasn’t even a speck of blood on it.
And of course, “the kennels” isn’t a secure location behind armed guards and video cameras. We don’t know how many people went there that night, or any other night, and that absence of knowledge is not knowledge of absence.
I have no idea if he is actually guilty or not, but I sure as hell hope that if you ever find yourself at the defendant’s table in court that your jury isn’t half as willing to make assumptions and jump to conclusions as you are.
Mistakes were made because that is how LE in that area operated for decades – protecting the Murdaughs. Alex believed it would work this time – that he could put suspicion on the Beach family because of their daughter’s death and someone in LE would target someone and plant evidence or something. He thought wrong.
GSR is not what convicted him. Paul’s (Pau Pau’s) snapchat video taken just minutes b4 his death where Alex’s voice could be heard (multiple friends and relatives attested to the voice being Alex’s). From the very first he stated he was not at the kennels – only after the video evidence showing the truth did he say otherwise.
Three people went down to the kennels and one person came back – it’s not that complicated.
Also an earlier video showed he had changed clothes and those clothes he was wearing in the earlier video were never found or presented by the defense.
Guilty.
I didn’t follow the case closely, but never believed the motive presented by the prosection. The murder of his family would not slow down the prosecution of his financial malfeasance. He’s a lawyer, he’d know that.
Here’s an alternative motive. He had just been caught that very night by the bookkeeper and knew his life was about to rapidly unravel. My guess ( if he is like others backed into a corner of their own wrong doing), he was consumed by the need to stop his wife and son learning what he’d done, their view of him shattered.
Murder/Suicide is sometimes the outcome when a secret life comes undone. He just didn’t follow thru with the suicide part. I read something in the local news this last year about a murder/suicide after a police officer was caught embezzling. The husband seemingly couldn’t deal with what was to come (prison for cops isn’t fun) and tried to take them both out. He died. Fortunately the wife survived though with massive injuries. Apparently she knew about the embezzlement and was charged with involvement with the theft.
Lawyer, yes, but also drug addict. That can impair the quality of one’s logic.
I don’t understand why this is even a topic all things considered. Maybe Netflix drove this one to all corners of the web. Tiger King was better. I’m not southern, so maybe I just don’t understand.
His defense should have been he was hiking the Appalachian trail like the former governor?
Watched several different of those you tube lawyer shows that were following this trial. Learned that it really depends on which youtube lawyer a person followed whether or not the viewer would decide the man was guilty of the murders or not. It was a good exercise in learning how to develop better discernment of what one believes they are hearing and seeing vs what is actually being said and shown.
“”””Watched several different of those you tube lawyer shows that were following this trial. Learned that it really depends on which youtube lawyer a person followed whether or not the viewer would decide the man was guilty of the murders or not. It was a good exercise in learning how to develop better discernment of what one believes they are hearing and seeing vs what is actually being said and shown.””””
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I totally agree. Too many people do not watch the trial and only watch the snippets from so-called experts. Most youtube lawyers are biased towards the defendent.
I am sixty years old . Never before in my life has a trial been covered so much that I cared so little about
I watched much of the murdough trail.
He was a serial liar like we have in the biden regime.
The fake news media is full of serial liars like murdough.
Congress if full of serial liars.
The world if full of serial liars.
I am glad murdock was found guilty.
In my opinion he is a devil.
“The love of money is the root of all evil.” 1 Timothy 6:10
I watched his cross examination. There was no anguish in his demeanor that you would expect from a man whose wife and child were murdered. He was a slick silver tongued lawyer. It was a dead give away.
I have no interest whatsoever in cases like his. NONE.
What is the term for the crime of withholding treatment or even attempts at treatment to meet the “no effective treatments” requirement for the Emergency Use Authorization of, in many cases, mandated injections of a fraudulently and wholly inadequately tested first use of a new “vaccine” technology then ignoring countless, obvious safety signals, instead telling COVID victims to stay home until they were, in many cases, beyond help, then financially heavily incentivizing hospitals to use Rundeathisnear (which still stands last time I checked recently), etc., etc., etc…
The prosecutions for those crimes I will watch with great interest… IF they happen… which I doubt.
Alex Murdaugh sentencing announced [contains distressing detail]
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-64831114
I followed this trial and it was a complete and total farce showing there is no such thing as a “fair trial” or “impartial jury”. Murdaugh’s 5th and 6th Amendment Rights were violated, and the financial crimes accusations had no bearing in this case. I can’t take the American justice system seriously anymore.
Thursday, Sept. 16 2021: Alex Murdaugh turns himself in to police on charges of insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and falsifying a police report stemming from his botched staged murder attempt. Soon after, a local judge grants him a $20,000 personal recognizance bond. He chose to testify anyway and admitted to lying and committing some financial crimes. It appears that he did so because he wanted to clear up what he has suggested were statements made after the crime when he was confused.
Alex has testified under oath. He is well aware that anything he says can and will be used against him—in upcoming civil and criminal trials. That includes confessions that he stole money—which could be harmful in his financial crimes trials, including those for tax evasion.
Dude looks looney.
You just gotta look at the dude in that family pic to know something’s way iffy.
So much for that story, I say.
Terrible tragedy.
I have not followed this case but will say this:
1) drugs and taking them impact families and the killing of a spouse and child happens too often.
2) this OxyContin is a monster. Even those with drug histories (like Prince) succumb to it.
3) this is a story only because it is a wealthy, educated white family. This concept of drugs and killing of family members happens frequently in cities amongst poorer folks.
But those victims get little attention. And that’s disgusting.