SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #29

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They're hoping that one person is so trusting that they will believe him. My mom would have been that person. She just absolutely would not have wanted to believe that this man blew his son's head off, would see his sniffling and crying and be so touched with the Paw-Paw nickname (Southern roots). She was absolutely impossible to convince once she made up her mind. She prayed on things and if God told her to forgive someone, she did.

If a case was simple, cut and dried, my mom could see her way to finding someone liable (she did once, in a case where someone backed their car out without looking and ran over an elderly person), but basically she said God said "Judge not" and she worried that if she judged other people, that things would go badly for her on Judgement Day. She never did much of anything wrong (although she had a short list of what she thought God would mention to her).

That's the hope here. It's a Hail Mary. However, my mom was also subject to peer pressure, so if 11 jurors find what the prosecution is about to do with this witness believable, it's possible my mom would have caved. It's also possible that she would have absolutely listened to her inner sense of things and refused to convict.
I never knew your mom but i would have loved her! i am exactly that way, at first. The difference is once I start paying attention to a case and can see someone is truly horrendous, I’m ready to destroy them myself. I guess it is just hard for some of us to think a human being could be so evil. I can see how this jury might be hung. they just need one. But if that jury heard all that I have read, they must convict him.
 
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Right before lunch it felt like AM was becoming emboldened. Sitting up straighter, fire in his eye, he was feeling that narcissist adrenaline, the smartest guy in the room.
I don’t think it’s helping him. Any of it.
 
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I can’t BELIEVE this lousy weasel has the audacity to testify! What a turd! He’s gotten away with running roughshod so much that he thinks he will do just that now, too! Big dummy getting through life by swinging from his daddy’s testicles coattails! Even if he rubs copious amounts of Vaseline on his behind, he ain’t gonna be slick enough this time!
I CAN’T BELIEVE he’s been a powerful figure in his community! His voice sounds like a sissy lala, and he looks like the product of a gene pool that’s desperately in need of diversification.
This testimony is an insult to the intelligence of the jury. If I were a juror I’d be ticked off big time for having to sit through this!
moo
 
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^^rsbm

Blanca testified that AM wore a polo shirt & sport coat to work on Monday and she recalled fixing his shirt collar as he was walking out the door.

In the snap-chat (leaning tree) video, AM is wearing a button-down, short-sleeved shirt (not a polo). MOO
Thank you! I am not too knowledgeable about men's shirts and so I think I was fluffing over this part until now and I thought okay so where is that shirt, is there 2 shirts, was this not what he wore or was it.. lol So we have 2 missing shirts then, but we have a pair of khaki's. I'm sure the 5'2" 11 year old killer must have did a little clothing stealing as well.
 
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Is Al-Al's testimony helping or hurting my head?

helping 0%
hurting 100%
neutral make-it-stop

Jmo
 
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Looking back over this morning's testimony, why didn't the state object to almost anything? Everyone pretty much gave him an open mic ‍♀️
I imagine that Waters just wanted Alex to blather on and on. He will get him on cross…
I have faith. moo
 
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This is brilliant strategy. If it is objected to, it can be struck from the record. They have given him the shovel and letting him dig to his heart’s desire. They want to hear this version of events, and they want it on the record.

JMO. moo
agreed. kind of explains the body language and sighs of the defense lawyer who was probably waiting for that to happen when posing questions to his rehearsed 'ramblin' defendant.
 
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I found it to be almost a different book, when I read it this time. I was so naïve the first time. And it shows a different side of America - the woman who cared about the murderer was truly a good-hearted, Christian woman who stuck to her values. This despite the fact that her whole life was changed and disrupted (her husband was the sheriff, IIRC).

I too wish we could see the jury. I have to say that something about Alex's testimony is making me really angry. I wish Alex would just break down and confess. How he keeps himself from doing so, I have no idea. He's going to jail for the rest of his life, in any case (IMO), so he should clear his conscience. He obviously has no religious sentiments, doesn't feel a need to ask forgiveness of his family, the public - or his Deity.
When i read the book, I was also very naive. i still can’t see murdering people, strangers!, for no reason. But that’s pretty much what a lot of these cases are about. (Kohberger). I can’t feel for the murderers. Just can’t. You could tell me their back stories all day long. I just wont play with their evil minds.

Alex has no conscience. Anything he would claim about God would be just him mimicking others. The motive in this is sickening. Killing members of your own family to cover up what you have done and to keep making money? How was this man raised? I fear his own father has much to answer for!
 
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god Im just fallen for it hook line and sinker..even tho if I take off my rosy glasses...I can see him playing the adorable, earnest, good son, family man...ugh...but I just don't see the motive...
Before you can see the motive, I think you have to be able to recognize that AM is devoid of a conscious, why he was able to steal from even the closet friends who were considered family, he did this for over a decade. People are to be used, the walls were closing in because of the boat lawsuit, crimes were being discovered. These murders did put a halt to many of the inquiries. I don’t think AM is capable of a true emotional bond. Listening to this testimony, the nicknames for the family, not saying they did not have nicknames and refer to themselves that way, but in no other interview he’s given has he ever refer to them that way.
 
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Alex Murdaugh murder trial live updates: Suspect takes the stand in his own defense​

Murdaugh is accused of killing his wife, Margaret, 52, and the couple’s younger son, Paul, 22, in June 2021.

The defense dedicated a line of questioning to what clothes Murdaugh was wearing, which has been a focus of authorities in the aftermath of the murder and in the trial.

Murdaugh said that members of law enforcement showed him a Snapchat video his son Paul made prior to the murders. In the video, Murdaugh appeared to be wearing a different set of clothes than what he was found in after he said he discovered the bodies of his wife and son.

"I'm well aware that my clothes never became an issue in this case until my lawyers proved that this blood spatter that they said I had on my shirt from my wife and my son was a lie," Murdaugh said.



The judge called for a lunch break just before 1:30 p.m. ET with Murdaugh still on the stand. The trial will resume with his continued testimony around 2:40 p.m. ET.
 
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Is Al-Al's testimony helping or hurting my head?

helping 0%
hurting 100%
neutral make-it-stop

Jmo
Hurting. Make it stop.
 
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