SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #33

[Smelly Squirrel]

Yeah that call turned my stomach. How would he ever think his surviving son would want to go hunt on that property where his Mom and brother were hunted and slaughtered!? The man has no empathy, IMO

It also shows that Alex's decision not to continue to live there was all for show, it's not that he was too traumatized to go there.

 

[LetsSolvIt]

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Prosecutor Savanna Goude starts her cross-examination with a sudden, playful dig. “Is it ‘doctor’ Palmbach?” “No.”

Goude: Wouldn’t Paul’s whole head be blown off if this was a contact wound? Palmbach: His head was basically blown off. G: But wouldn’t his brain have been destroyed? P: “There were pieces of his brain throughout the room, including on the ground.”

Palmbach is done and we are breaking for lunch until 2:45 p.m.

Who will want to eat after this gruesome testimony and photos

 

[sunshineray]

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That would be interesting

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

yep....the magic pellets. loved the "this witness was not worth the time" cross.

From that last direct of defense witness, and his theories, I am reminded, unfortunately of that ‘single bullet theory’ from the Warren Commission and that sad day in Dallas, Texas, 1963.

 

[mickey2942]

Who will want to eat after this gruesome testimony and photos

Yeah. Pass on any pasta with red sauce, meat. Maybe coffee and a yogurt. I would go with a triple mocha from Starbucks.

 

[CityKid]

Baloney! There was not two shooters. And this guy did not do a good job of trying to convince anyone of that.
One shooter. MOO.

Two shooters, neither of whom alerted two dogs who are known to bark, or chickens who apparently are guard chickens, managed to know the exact time frame during which PM and MM would be there. I can't see this convincing a jury. Feels like a Hail Mary, and it's probably money they didn't want to spend but realized it was their only chance.

 

[StarryStarryNight]

Friends,
I am so ready for this trial to be over.

 

[Loveallmyhorsesdogsandcats]

Too stunned from blowback to “run”to get a second weapon, he was giving them their moneys worth. No one knows where the guns were, maybe both were side-by-side on the golf cart or at the feed room. TP seems like a paid hack who is willing to come up with any scenario possible despite how improbable/unrealistic it is and despite not having any facts/info to back it up. MOO

 

[BrownRice]

Their own witness just referred to “the defendant “ as the killer.

 

[sunshineray]

Ok that was a rough. What was the point of hiring these gentlemen from out of state who never worked on this case and literally just visited Moselle this weekend? And how are they getting paid?
Also, please pass a note to the jury to take their time if they start deliberation on Wed/Thurs. I have a dentist appointment on Thursday morning.
And we've been here for 6 weeks. Six weeks. What are we going to do when this is over?

Neither made a report of their findings and only reviewed what evidence the defense gave them, recipe for disaster under cross

 

[Cindizzi]

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[Mysticeilis]

Who will want to eat after this gruesome testimony and photos

Chicken Wings, anyone?

 

[Tippy Lynn]

I'm sad to say, but from what's been presented up to this point I think the jury has room for reasonable doubt

 

[justtrish]

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This baffles me.

1. we have no idea where Maggie was when Paul was shot. She could have been further away and then tried to get to the golf cart. Alex didn't need minutes to put down a shotgun and pick up a second weapon. I mean geez.. I'd say 10 seconds tops and that is over estimating I think. If he planned all along to use 2 guns, it's not hard to imagine he had them close by when he shot Paul. Maybe Maggie was distracted with the dog.. maybe maggie was putting Bubba in his kennel after Alex got the chicken and did whatever he did. It's not hard to imagine Maggie and Paul both being distracted doing what they were doing because nobody expected Alex to be shooting them any second. I think natural instinct for a momma is running toward their baby if something happens. If she wasn't in eyesight of Paul, she would need to move to where she could see.. by the time she actually sees what happened and processes it.. Alex 100% could have the other gun ready to fire. They were all used to guns being all over the place. Maggie and Paul would not have been suspicious to see a gun laying there nor would they be suspicious if Alex rolled up in the golf cart with another gun on the golf cart. This is how they rolled so he had that advantage on them.

 

[Boodles]

Lunch recess till 2:45 p.m. then two more defense witnesses. Heading for the dining car.

How could the jurors have an appetite after all that - the images of brain matter and death?

 

[Herat]

Too stunned from blowback to “run”to get a second weapon, he was giving them their moneys worth. No one knows where the guns were, maybe both were side-by-side on the golf cart or at the feed room. TP seems like a paid hack who is willing to come up with any scenario possible despite how improbable/unrealistic it is and despite not having any facts/info to back it up. MOO

Hail Mary pass for "reasonable doubt"

Two shooters, one tiny, never alerted the dogs, shooter too stunned to take another shot,

 

[Warwick7]

The rubbing of his head is weirding me out. It's like he knows what he did to Paul's head. Guilt or self-soothing.?? Or
Man I would hate to have the images of what he did and saw in my head.

I think this true. MOO I don't think he thought the 2nd shot would go like it did. It may have e really shocked him.

 

[Loveallmyhorsesdogsandcats]

But then didn’t he say she would not have been moved? So when Alex said he “checked them,” how could that be true? How did he “check her” when her arms were underneath her and she had not been moved?

If I misunderstood, please correct me.

AM said he checked both pulses and turned Paul over. I assumed too he checked their pulse on the wrist, maybe he checked the neck on Maggie?

 

[sunshineray]

But then didn’t he say she would not have been moved? So when Alex said he “checked them,” how could that be true? How did he “check her” when her arms were underneath her and she had not been moved?

If I misunderstood, please correct me.

I believe in his interviews AM said he moved PM more, tried to turn him over, phone fell out. I think he said he touched MM but not that he tried to actually move her and in fact he may have mentioned not being able to feel her wrist for pulse because it was under her? Anyone remember it that way?

 

[Skigirl]

I'm sad to say, but from what's been presented up to this point I think the jury has room for reasonable doubt

The prosecution may not have removed any shadow of a doubt, but I can't see any reasonable doubt. JMO.