SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #30

[Wishbone]

He’s studied all the cell phone, onstar and other data extensively. He’s calculated 8:49 as his back-to-the-house return time. What a coincidence. What a liar. He knows 8:49 is the minute he shot his family.

Sorry, haven't been following for long...how do we know 8:49 is the exact time family was shot?

 

[Shadow@light]

Chick-Chick

Thinking of KFC

 

[arielilane]

Break time. 15 min break. Time to hit the bar for refills!

 

[Love Never Fails]

Alex just said that the dogs did not sense anyone else at the kennels at 8:44 PM because there was nobody else there.

Isn’t it great? He just told on himself.

 

[Diddian]

So...... now is it the cat???

The mice are shaking in a corner.

 

[Batman's Mommy]

Old MacDonald…..

Old McMurdock

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1629154206522155008

 

[Megnut]

The greatest truths told this morning

I did what I didn't want to do.

I got out of there.

...

I'll bet he never sweated more profusely.

jmo

 

[Loveallmyhorsesdogsandcats]

He's getting his lies all mixed up!!

Yep, CW knew what he was doing letting him talk and talk and talk and talk…

 

[bamachica]

He was cooperative——except for providing the blue shirt they have asked for repeatedly

 

[makayla]

Just like a certain female inmate in Arizona

Yes, they’d make quite a pair, wouldn’t they? Similar personalities for sure!

 

[Love Never Fails]

Sign me up for a coffee and Irish it up!

I am too nervous to watch live, but will be following along here!

I am preparing myself mentally for a hung jury, while hoping, of course, for a conviction. The one thing that keeps me from throwing myself in front of the crazy train is that regardless, good ol' Alec is going to go away for a very, very, very long time for his financial crimes, regardless of the outcomes of this trial.

One can hope!

 

[sunshineray]

The Law & Crime guy that just popped on was in the midst of saying AM's testimony is sounding like a drunk that's pulled over and trying to explain why he can't walk straight LOL

 

[passionflower]

People that lie can’t remember what they say. Get caught

 

[10ofRods]

Sorry, haven't been following for long...how do we know 8:49 is the exact time family was shot?

Phone data mostly, I believe. Phone orientation, screens locking, etc. Maggie's phone leaves her person shortly after that and travels somehow to the Suburban, IIRC.

IMO.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/cathyrusson

Back to financial crimes - Waters: Would you agree that your stealing increased after the boat wreck? #AlexMurdaugh: No, sir I don't agree with that. I continued to do it....I don't think I took more money ...after the boat wreck than before

Waters: You wouldn't agree with me that in 2019 alone you stole about 3.7 million dollars? AM: That's correct. AM admits that was more in any one year period than before.

Waters going over AM's reported income each year - showing the money he was legitimately making at the law firm was trending down - though still a lot of money. But AM continued to steal money.

And yet, as @MandyMatney just pointed out, #AlexMurdaugh has pleaded not guilty to all the financial crimes. I guess he'll get around to pleading guilty?

Waters: These are all real people.. (people AM stole from) AM: They are real people...that I cared about...a lot of them are people that I love. Waters: Yes, you hurt the people that you love. (BAM)

Financial crimes are the theory of the state's motive so Waters needs to drive that home but at some point he does need to move on. I think it's pretty obvious at this point what a liar and horrible person Alex Murdaugh is.

AM confronts Waters saying his attorneys tried to talk to and have a sit down with Waters and he wouldn't do it. Then a little storm inside that courtroom happens:

AM admits yesterday is the first time he'd ever said "openly" that he was at the kennels that night.

AM still doubles down that he was "begging" for a meeting with Waters to get all this out up until the time he was charged with the murders of Paul and Maggie.

Waters: The reality is the reason why no one's ever heard that (kennel) before is because you had to sit in this courtroom and hear testimony you were on the kennel video so you had to back up and make a new story.

Were you aware that as late as Nov. 2022 your own lawyer was repeating your story that you were at home napping? AM: I don't know, in jail we don't get newspapers and TV is limited.

Finally to the day of the murders. #AlexMurdaugh repeats he got home around 6:40...rode the property with Paul.

Waters asks if AM and Paul had a 300 Blackout rifle with them when they were riding the property. AM says no.

Waters: When did you go back to the house after riding around with Paul? AM says he went back when Maggie got there. AM and Maggie were there before Paul returned.

Waters: When did you take the shower? AM: I believe when I first went in the house (8pm ish) Waters: And Maggie was already there? AM: Yeah

AM said after he showered he came out and ate dinner on the couch. He said it didn't take him long to shower.

AM says he's not certain how/when Paul and Maggie ended up at the kennels, but he's almost certain that went to the kennels together.

Waters: How much longer after Maggie left did you go to the kennels? AM: Fairly quickly. AM told the jury yesterday Maggie asked him to go and he said no, then he decided to go down.

Waters: How long did it take you to get to the kennels in the golf cart? AM: A couple minutes.

KENNEL VIDEO: AM says the kennel video must have been taken 'very shortly' after he arrived. Waters: Did you tell Maggie at that time you were going to Almeda? AM: I don't believe so.

AM says he pulled up in the golf cart right where Maggie was. She was standing to the left of the chicken coop. AM says he stayed on the golf cart until he got off to take the chicken from Bubba.

I can't hear "Paul Paul" one more time…………..

"I was getting ready to do what I didn't want to do." (Freudian slip?)

Waters keeps getting in there, "according to your NEW story..."

AM agrees it was probably somewhere around 8:47pm when he got back on the golf cart and headed back.

If AM leaves at 8:47 , it's about two minutes to get back to the house on the golf cart. That's 8:49pm. AM goes in the house and lays down on the couch. Waters: Before you said you were napping for an hour so but now you dozed for a second according to your "new story”

AM's phone is recording steps at 9:02pm. That's about 12 minutes on the couch.

Waters: Did you hear anything at all during that time period? AM: No, I didn’t.

You couldn't hear Blackout shots? AM: No Waters brings up AM told police that he thought Paul and Maggie had pulled back up to the house. He's backing away from that statement saying he never "heard" them pull up.

AM: Other than lying to LE about being at the kennels, I was cooperative with law enforcement. Waters: Very cooperative except with the fact that you were at the murder scene w/the victims just minutes before they died, right?

15 minute break.

Edited: added additional tweets

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1629154551516262402

 

[Leilei]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1629153684067082240

Okay, maybe I missed something. He claims that he thought LE were pulling up - was this during the whole dozing off timeline? If so, why would they be pulling up? He hadn't called 911 yet, right?

I'm confused :/

 

[Seattle1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1629153035149516800

 

[Loveallmyhorsesdogsandcats]

Sorry, haven't been following for long...how do we know 8:49 is the exact time family was shot?

8:49 or within minutes, When both phones went silent, locked. Paul was in the middle of texting a friend, tracked phone movements, steps of all 3 phones to create a timeline.