SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #27

[Katrinepa]

It’s like this guy is pitching for the wrong team.

The Truth will set you Free!

 

[Edvis]

Ball may just peel right out of the squadron here.

Comes a point when you know you have a dead stick and pull the canopy back and jump.

 

[Luna20]

Why why why would you even entertain using Clorox at a crime scene?!? This guy specifically seems planted now and on the scene. He is an AM groupie and it seems like he has done something sketchy that AM is holding over him. Why else would he strategically answer ‘the way’ the defense wants him to?

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1628419554983698432

 

[arielilane]

Damning imo SIL said something similar about AM

https://twitter.com/x/status/1628419938363867138

 

[BrownRice]

Wondering if this former friend partner agreed to testify and now after listening to all the testimony the past month, he’s seeing a whole other side of this. I guess financial crimes are one thing, but now that he seems damning evidence and testimony about the murders, he can’t be Team Alex.

 

[Snoopster]

https://twitter.com/AveryGWilks

Ball on AM: “The person I thought I knew loved his family or appeared to love his family very much. He’d take their calls. He’d do all of those things. After September the 3rd, I’m not sure I know that person. But he always seemed to be devoted.”

Ball on Paul: “Paul has been sort of demonized by this whole affair. It’s not fair.” Paul and other young people make mistakes. “Paul was a good kid. He was always polite to me.

Ball: The PMPED firm was like a family. “Unfortunately, Alex betrayed that when he stole the money.”

Griffin ends his questioning. Prosecutor Creighton Waters rises for cross-examination. First question: Waters: “He was pretty good at hiding who he really was, wasn’t he?” Ball: “Obviously.”

<snipped and bolded by me for focus>

"...loved his family OR appeared to love his family."

Regarding Paul, Ball said that he was a good kid. But what Avery Wilks didn't include in his summary was that Ball also said that at times Paul got out of control and Ball suggested to Alex that he should throttle Paul back.

 

[Edvis]

Thanks! And I would like a horse hair filled pillow for the evening please. Let’s not spare any expense on this voyage. I once traveled the Orient Express Simplon from Paris to Venice and up through the Alps. Not bragging, just recalling the memories and views fondly. It was the mid 1990s.

The special request is being processed, we're chasing the horse around to get some hair as we speak. Take note of the fine lighting and velvet seating along with the hand blown glassware. Watch your head though, still some plumb bobs hanging around from yesterdays defense theory.

 

[justtrish]

So Buster says dad was at rehab several times and had to detox on other occasions over the years because of his pill use, but his law partner who knew him well for 30+ years had ZERO idea he had a pill problem? I'm not sure that is possible because wouldn't you need to be off work with your rehab stays and I would think some discussion would need to happen about why.. unless his rehab visits were perfectily timed with vacations or something?

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1628421474712264707

 

[Seattle1]

Going over all of yesterday's trial events and some of the posts here, I wish I could say I am in disbelief that two justice systems are present in our country. It is so clear that the many lawyers in this area are so friendly (from boat deposition video from above) and willing to see how far they can push the rulings of the court when they have a friend in the mix but justice for others like the people ripped off by AM and harmed by PM is slow and stacked against them. It is kind of stomach turning to watch as they use (or abuse) the system to protect their own. From the Netflix series, the video of AM and family meeting with those kids on the worst night of their lives to get them cloud whether or not PM was driving the boat to BM testifying that no one in the family believed that PM was driving is just nauseating. I am ready for this trial to be over. It is a little like the Teresa Sievers murder for me in that there is so much subterfuge that you can't know anything really.

At this point, I am surprised that AM hasn't claimed the PM shot MM because of some inane reason. Then, AM found a carelessly stashed gun left by PM and killed PM in self defense. But...there is still time left in this trial for a Perry Mason 2.0 moment, I guess. Just sickening.

Approaching the 4 year anniversary of the boat crash and Mallory Beach's death, it's hard to swallow that PM's case was on the s l o w track for no other reason than his name while the victims of the crash were continuously maligned. It's all so very cruel. JMO

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

Exactly, the more foot traffic the dirtier the scene.

Sort of like that sad case years back in Boulder, Colorado.

 

[clearskies1]

Oh, this witness does not like Alex. JMO.

 

[bestill]

"People were his trade" - hence the defense's desire to have him testify and speak to the jury. It will be a show if AM does. jmo

 

[justtrish]

They knew what they were doing.

Absolutely they did! This isn't just the average family/friends that would innocently be in a place contaminating a scene. That house was full of lawyers and many family and friends of lawyers. No way they didn't wonder if something had happened in the house also and that maybe they shouldn't be in there or maybe with Alex

 

[Derph]

Well I'd say the defense lost this witness as well. They needed to come out swinging today and another witness just tanked!

 

[BUF]

Doesn’t the defense vet their witnesses??

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/Angenette5

Law firm existed for decades. Waters: Until he came along.

 

[Aquarian]

Well I'd say the defense lost this witness as well. They needed to come out swinging today and another witness just tanked!

I can’t imagine what they are thinking lol

 

[BUF]

Well I'd say the defense lost this witness as well. They needed to come out swinging today and another witness just tanked!

That song “and another one bites the dust” keeps running through my mind