SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #22

[keek]

I just saw the body cam video of AM asking if they're dead, ridiculous..can't or can imagine what the police thought of that at the time. I bet they were right off looking at him as suspect anyway per he's there even tho all clean.

 

[Gardenista]

State really botched up the t-shirts testing, IMO. I think it should be ruled out and wonder why the prosecutors even think this mess will help their case? AJMO

They had to enter it. If they didn't, the defense would and would make the state look like they were trying to hide it.

 

[sunshineray]

His go to was to talk about Paul when LE first arrived, and then again when he was being interviewed in the vehicle as well. Throwing blame anywhere to distract from himself. No mention of Maggie leaving him, but by all accounts, she was living at the Beach house, and not at Mosel. Some British Press said a friend of Maggie's said she was going to divorce AM, and AM would not want to admit that(no proof thus far), as it could provide a possible motive. Paul was also not living at 'home', but had an apartment in another town(can't remember which).
The reputation of eh whole family tanked locally after the boat accident, and the facts that followed about the over privileged family. They barely mentioned about people being angry with Paul while testifying. MOO

On one of those LE body cams (I believe the officer's first name was Buford) you could hear the officer talking to another LE and he mentioned the killings being related to Paul...as in, they have to be related to Paul's problem [boat case]. This was when all the local cops were there before SLED showed up. So that theory was being discussed by the first responders, not just AM.

 

[Cindizzi]

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[arielilane]

Court is back after a short break.

 

[girlhasnoname]

Alex's Attorneys are cuing him up and handing the Kleenex over.

 

[Katrinepa]

I am hearing a lot of people say they are having a hard time understanding the motive in this case. I am worried about the jury understanding, and I hope the prosecution puts it all together for them. I agree that I would have trouble understanding the motive in this case too if I had not read the book "The Sociopath Next Door" by Martha Stout. I saw the author on Oprah around the time of the Laci Peterson murder. I could not understand Scott Peterson's motive. Why not just divorce her? Why murder her and her full-term baby? After reading the book, it made perfect sense. If you're not a sociopath, it is hard to imagine thinking like one. But when you understand how they think/view the world, which this book really goes through in laymen's terms, then the motive makes sense to me in this case too. A surprising statistic is that 1 in 25 people are sociopaths. I am not diagnosing AM as a sociopath, but it makes this motive ring true for me. Who else could steal money from so many people and lie to their faces? A person without empathy or remorse. A sociopath.

AM is a Narcissist for sure, and also either a Sociopath or Psychopath in my opinion.

 

[girlhasnoname]

GiGi w/Law & Crime reported via live stream that no one from Maggie's family have been seen in courtroom since first court date started.

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I heard that and thought that says A LOT.

 

[Derph]

These body cam recordings have a lot in them. I've been watching them as this testimony has put me to sleep. Some observations...

- Alex walking away from the 1st officer while talking to his brother and then him pacing around on the phone is strange. He's walking off a lot of nervous energy if you ask me.

- There we multiple bullet holes in the windows behind where Paul was shot in that closet room. His hands were underneath him. Initially the officers on scene were thinking it might have been a suicide from the angle of the entrance and exit wounds on Paul's head as the kill shot came from a low angle.

- One officer is perplexed as to why there were so many spent rounds around if both had been shot in the head??

- One of the officers or investigators questions others about Alex's behavior. He would think that Alex would be more in shock and shook-up after seeing both his son and wife brutally murdered. Up to that point there was no concern for Buster.

- Nearly 40 minutes into officer McDowell's body cam video, all of a sudden it dawns on Alex that his other son Buster may be in danger. He asks officers to get someone over to see if Buster is OK over in Columbia. If this was a hit on his family, he sure didn't show much concern for his only other living son! Could be stress but it's strange to me that Alex keeps on and on about the boat accident, calling his lawyer friends etc. Buster was a complete afterthought!! This raises a big red flag to me.


There's more and I rushed thru them but they are worth watching through in their entirety.

 

[Seattle1]

The murder was over a life insurance policy on several family members, sad to say.

^^rsbm

Regardless of the crime, locale, personality, and/or occupation-- following the money never fails.

AM seems to have an insatiable appetite for $$$$!

And even if greed was behind his suggestion for the Satterfields to sue him as a means to satisfy GS's medical bills and funeral expenses, there would still be a legit $1.5 in attorney fees he could apportion between his co-conspirators.

IMO, there's some satisfaction in that it was AM's initiated claim by GS's estate that helped bring him down after his insurer at the time (Nautilus) failed to renew his umbrella policy -- leaving him grossly underinsured at the time of the boating accident and exposing him personally liable for the death of Mallory Beach (and injury of others in the boat crash-- piloted by PM).

 

[arielilane]

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[Weki]

I heard that and thought that says A LOT.

What does it say to you? It makes me sad! How come they're not there?

 

[girlhasnoname]

This woman knows her stuff. I can't stand to hear the gruesome details.

 

[Seattle1]

Prosecution would love a delay. To digest the GM data.

^^rsbm

GM data? ?

General Motors?

 

[Katrinepa]

On one of those LE body cams (I believe the officer's first name was Buford) you could hear the officer talking to another LE and he mentioned the killings being related to Paul...as in, they have to be related to Paul's problem [boat case]. This was when all the local cops were there before SLED showed up. So that theory was being discussed by the first responders, not just AM.

Question: was that because AM mentioned that to the First Responders perhaps? CYA.

 

[arielilane]

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[girlhasnoname]

What does it say to you? It makes me sad! How come they're not there?

To me personally, it says that they are not supporting Alex in any way. I don't think it's necessarily sad, I think they don't want to add to speculation and to keep Maggie's reputation in high regards. I have always felt that Maggie was the forgotten victim here sadly.

 

[girlhasnoname]

Why is DH standing there in front of the jury and near the State and witness? Why isn't he sitting in his seat?

 

[arielilane]

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[Aquarian]

The white haired man sitting behind Alex looks like “Jack” from Law and Order” to me, lol jmo.