SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #20

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623358870100795392

 

[justme11]

Only thing missing -- a mistress. I'm shocked that there hasn't been evidence of one.

But I guess it's possible, that his only mi$tre$$ was money.

JMO

I am too! As soon as things started to be revealed about AM, I thought here we have power, money, drugs, murder. There HAS to be a woman or women somewhere. MOO

 

[arielilane]

Does that make fourth witness to confirm AM on audio? moo.

 

[BUF]

Paul’s video is being played for her. She is 100% sure it was Alex, Maggie and Paul’s voices.

She is now the 4th to confirm this.

 

[Megnut]

AM rocking performance at each replaying of Paul's video, so contrived.

JMO

 

[BUF]

Does that make fourth witness to confirm AM on audio? moo.

I believe so

 

[sunshineray]

Buster is back where he normally is now.

 

[Boodles]

I stepped away for a minute. Did Annette read the text message? What did it say? TIA.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623360164739809280

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623360561235763200

 

[clearskies1]

I can't believe that he got away with it for so long, the banking institutions, the law firm, etc...I think that is why these witnesses are so strong, it's very embarrassing for them. JMO

I'm not talking about any of the witnesses here, but I wonder if some did not scrutinize AM's business because he was a Murdaugh, and the firm had been founded by a Murdaugh. Fear of their power? Just wondering. JMO.

 

[303gmf]

I am too! As soon as things started to be revealed about AM, I thought here we have power, money, drugs, murder. There HAS to be a woman or women somewhere. MOO

At this point it could be males?

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623360099443159040

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623361726396698625

 

[Edvis]

I am too! As soon as things started to be revealed about AM, I thought here we have power, money, drugs, murder. There HAS to be a woman or women somewhere. MOO

If there was believe she would be too embarrassed to show her face and admit it, finding a rock to crawl under.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623363460678488078

 

[arielilane]

I can't believe that he got away with it for so long, the banking institutions, the law firm, etc...I think that is why these witnesses are so strong, it's very embarrassing for them. JMO

Banking institutions ignored by CFPB? moo

 

[Edvis]

Just the defense rehashing AM's family man mask, sure when your riding the wave of your businesses and client's money.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623364884363677704

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/AveryGWilks

We're back after a little break.

Judge Newman just overruled another evidentiary objection from the defense. At this point I'm struggling with whether that constitutes "news” anymore.

Prosecutor Waters is taking great care with witnesses to establish that Murdaugh was a prolific cell phone user (making it strange that his phone recorded no steps for nearly an hour on the night of the slayings at a time when the dog kennel video puts him down by the kennels)

“He was always on his phone,” Griswold testifies. She testifies he would sometimes have two phone conversations at once, with a phone at either ear.

Waters plays the dog kennel tape for Griswold in court. Griswold: “I hear Paul Murdauggh, Maggie Murdaugh and Alex Murdaugh.” Waters: “How sure are you?’ Griswold: “I’m 100 percent sure.”

Waters also showed in court a 9/26/21 text Murdaugh sent Griswold weeks after his ouster from the law firm. “The worst part is knowing I did the most damage to the ones I loved the most,” Murdaugh wrote. Griffin begins his cross-examination of Griswold now.

Griswold on Murdaugh: “I cared about him. I respected him. I loved him.” “It was hard to work for him sometimes. He was a bit erratic. Yeah, for all the respect and love I had for him, it was still very difficult to work for him.”

Griffin is working to establish with Griswold that Murdaugh was a family man. He would take his family with him on work trips and to legal conventions. Maggie came and stayed with him in Columbia during the Mack Trucks trial, Griswold said.

Griffin is trying to tear apart the state’s theory that Alex Murdaugh killed Maggie/Paul to escape scrutiny for the financial crimes. Griffin: As a result of the murders, “Alex Murdaugh became front and center of a media spotlight, didn’t he?” Griswold: Yes.

Griffin establishes that Alex Murdaugh didn’t spend another night at Moselle after the slayings, that the killings seemed to mellow him out. He was a different person afterward. He stayed with family in the wake of it. Griswold agrees.

Griffin asks about the 9/26/21 message Griswold and the other secretary got from Murdaugh. Griswold says the message was sent from rehab. “I assumed it was probably one of the steps of reaching out to those you hurt and telling them you were sorry.”

Griswold reads the entire message aloud. I didn't catch all of it. Parts, though: “I know you both have been hurt badly by me. I know it sounds hollow, but I am truly sorry.” “I am committing to getting better and hope to mend as many relationships as I can.”

Message continued: “Please know how sorry I am to have made you part of my misdeeds.” Griswold on Murdaugh's relationship with the community: “He was trusted by everybody, and they knew that if they needed something, they could reach out and he was going to help them.”

Griswold steps down from the stand. The state's 37th witness is Michael Gunn, principal of Forge Consulting - the firm Murdaugh impersonated to steal from his clients. He is being questioned by Johnny Ellis James Jr. Gunn previously testified with the jury excused.