Anyone following the Alex Murdaugh trial in SC ?

I just wanted to add...that I thought Creighton Waters closing arguments were really powerful,
and I guess the jury did too.
I was pleased also to hear the judge tell the Jury that he felt that their decision was the correct one given all the evidence, so clearly he felt that AM was guilty too..

I like that Judge, he was a very calm presence, and never missed a word...and considering the trial was so long it must be very difficult to be on the Ball all the time, but he was...
 

I was pleased also to hear the judge tell the Jury that he felt that their decision was the correct one given all the evidence, so clearly he felt that AM was guilty too..

I like that Judge, he was a very calm presence, and never missed a word...and considering the trial was so long it must be very difficult to be on the Ball all the time, but he was...
I didn't follow the trial very closely, just reading bits and pieces here on SF and other news sources.
But, I've read other's comments regarding the judge in line with yours.

I'm surprised sentencing is being done so quickly..

Wonder if they have AM on suicide watch?
 
I didn't follow the trial very closely, just reading bits and pieces here on SF and other news sources.
But, I've read other's comments regarding the judge in line with yours.

I'm surprised sentencing is being done so quickly..

Wonder if they have AM on suicide watch?
see , that's a possibility, because he's already claimed he tried to get Cousin Eddie to kill him.. which I don't believe, but he will know being a prosecutor himself that at the very least he's going to be in his 80's before he gets out of prison.. and clearly having killed one son, despite his protestations of love for Buster, I can't see that he would care whether Buster was left without a father as well as a mother and brother..

All that said, he could be narcasistic enough to believe he can pull a lot of strings and rule the roost outside in his Dynasty from inside Prison
 

I just finished watching the documentary on Netflix and been following the news.

Alex is a narcissistic drug addict. He probably was “full of it” before his addiction to oxy. His drugs made him have delusions of grandeur that he was infallible. Even thought he could get away with murder.
yep.. hmmm.. I've wondered about this GA.... he states that he was taking upwards of 60 Oxycontin and oxycodone per day...PER DAY... but anyone even given a body gets more tolerant of drugs over time.. no-one could run a business and do everything he did every day of his life after taking 60 pills a day.. if nothing else his liver would have burst or he would have had a heart attack or at the very least be too woolly headed to make any decisions in his business and personal life .. .... and in fact.. he spent 57,000 in the space of 2 months.. saying he spent it on drugs... nope don't believe it.. !! He was far too alert in his daily life ..

There's something not adding up about the whole pill thing. Not saying he wasn't addicted to OTC pills I'm sure he was , in fact Maggie sought treatment for him a few times over the years, and he went into rehab.. but 60 a day ?.. Nope.. there's something not right.. and anyway even if he was by some stretch of the imagination, paying drug dealers for those pills...with the Millions of dollars he's spent.. he could have bought himself his own Pharmacy and not relied on any middleman.. That's what I think, anyway
 
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Has Murdaugh been in jail since he was charged. Will he stay in jail while his team starts the appeal?
Don't know, but assuming the jury got it right and I think they did, I believe he should never see the outside of a jail again. Except maybe in pictures...

Killing your son is a particularly hard thing to understand... not that any of his crimes are excusable.
 
I like that Judge, he was a very calm presence, and never missed a word...and considering the trial was so long it must be very difficult to be on the Ball all the time, but he was...
Looked that way to me too. Being a judge and paying such close attention like that must be hard... I sure don't have the attention span to do it. Never made it onto a jury but if I ever do that is something I'd worry about.
 
Don't feel I have the writing skills necessary to do my story justice; I only told my son about it 2 days ago.
@Pepper Very sad that you have carried this with you for so much of your life. You have probably thought of this already but, you could write it down in your own style, just to get it out, then decide what, if anything, you want to do. You may decide to do nothing but, the very fact that it is then your decision will be you taking back some control over what happened to you, something I expect you had no control over at the time. x
 
I haven't watched the trial but read about it in the media. No doubt Buster is having some sleepless nights over what is to come next.
 
I never followed the trial and only saw snippets of it on the nightly news but I could tell just from looking at him and the way he carried himself that he was guilty.

If nothing else he does deserve an award for the most fake tears shed during a performance.

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that's so true.. as a prosecutor he must have seen emotion like that work in the past with trials he's been involved in....however I also think that some of it might have been genuine. I think.. probably wrong.. but my suspicion is he thought he could kill the 2 of them with a clean shot, given that he's an accomplished shooter.. and it all went wrong, and he ended up with the messiest kill of all...and that's what's made him emotional. I think that if he'd shot them dead and they'd just laid there he wouldn't have been quite so upset... but despite him being a dirty murdering piece of scum... he must have had some feelings towards his wife and child, and to see their heads blown to bits might not be what he was prepared for..
 
Did you mean Buster ?.. Buster is the son... :) he's probably relieved he's not going to be killed like his mother and brother
Yes, the surviving son. I read that the police are re-looking at the case of Buster's old school friend, Stephen Smith.
 


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