Anyone following the Alex Murdaugh trial in SC ?

Jace said:
I wonder what her mindset was 🤔
that she thought she wouldn't get caught?

Did she do it on purpose..that she really didn't want to be a juror..to determine the fate of another 🤔
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There's a theory making the rounds that she was going for not guilty,so the jury would've hung.....
Hmmmm
 

hollydolly said:
Well, finally, and thank God for common sense. Can you believe I've stuck to this trial for weeks, and tonight when they went off to deliberate, I thought it was safe to go and have a shower, because they wouldn't be coming back tonight.. lol

When I got out of the shower and saw you all talking about the verdict, I had to dash to the TV and do a live Rewind, to see it all go down..


One thing is puzzling me. The Judge even right to the last minute of addressing the jury stated that the court had gone to great lengths to protect the Jury's anonymity, and if after tonight they want to speak about the case they can.. and if not and they are 'somehow' found by reporters, and don't want to speak about it, and are harassed.. the judge himself will deal with that for them.

..However.. did we get a big boo-boo moment, because as they led AM away he walked right past the jury and we could see everyone of their faces..

The judge refused the motion for a mistrial by AM lawyers.. I just wonder if seeing the Jury as we did.. before they were formally dismissed from duty will create a problem..
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Once the verdict is in and announced their job is done... doesn't matter.
 
hollydolly said:
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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Absolutely! His kidneys would be shot too...not possible.
 

hollydolly said:
Exactly PB...it was Bubba who indirectly placed Alex at the kennels at approx the time of death. he denied being there at all.. but unbeknown to him Paul was recording Bubba, who'd got a chicken in his mouth and recorded both Maggie and Alex trying to get it off him..

Apparently Maggie adored all the animals.. especially the dogs.

Blanca was the housekeeper...
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Paul was recording Cash,who belonged to his friend,Rogan,and they thought he had something wrong with his tail.
 
I just learned that Judge Newmans' own son, who was a City councilman, died aged just 40 of heart problems only weeks before the Murdaugh Trial.

How heartbreaking for the Judge to have to sit through a trial where man has murdered his son, when his own son has just died.. and then be as even handed as he was throughout throughout the whole trial.. is absolutely exceptional.

https://apnews.com/article/clifton-...-court-trial-c2441407e53625f205b466c653f720d0
 
hollydolly said:
I just learned that Judge Newmans' own son, who was a City councilman, died aged just 40 of heart problems only weeks before the Murdaugh Trial.

How heartbreaking for the Judge to have to sit through a trial where man has murdered his son, when his own son has just died.. and then be as even handed as he was throughout throughout the whole trial.. is absolutely exceptional.

https://apnews.com/article/clifton-...-court-trial-c2441407e53625f205b466c653f720d0
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Oh, it all makes sense now.
The things that were said by the Judge, at AM's sentencing. :cry:
 
Did the husband know she was at home and would hear the shots? I read that he used two guns, any theories why?
 
Looking back at youtube videos, the only two times I saw real emotion on Alex' face was when they introduced the video of the kennel and when the judge was forcing him to face reality.
In the first his face was clenching and the emotion was real because he was caught.
If you look at him with the judge his face sort of turns inward (hard to explain) trying to go between his denial and realization.
 
Trish said:
Did the husband know she was at home and would hear the shots? I read that he used two guns, any theories why?
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Maggie was away from home, Alex called her and asked her to come home that night, she hadn't planned to.. but she told her sister she had to go because Alex needed her, that he'd insinuated it was something to do with his dying father. He also arranged for her and Paul to be at the kennels..where he would meet them both.

he kinda gave himself away when being questioned by Sled officers, he said.. ''whoever did this had been planning it for a long time ''
 
win231 said:
Probably to make it appear that there were two shooters.
Or, maybe his shoulder was hurting from the high-power shotgun load he used on his son.
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that's exactly my supposition.

He had his excuse all ready the minute the police turned up.. he immediately blurted out that ''he knew'' it was something to do with the boat case because Paul had been getting threats.. so it's clear he wanted it to look like 2 shooters.

I believe he had the guns in the golf cart.. and when he shot Paul he was sitting in the cart.. and then when Maggie ran, he chased after her and caught her ( hence the tyre mark on the back of her leg).. and shot her with the second gun..

here's a video footage of the police at the kennels the night of the shooting and Murdaugh's reactions..

 
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When the sentencing was over, Murdaugh stood up one more time and told the judge he was innocent, The judge replied that he may be innocent but the man who was hooked on those excessive amount of drugs wasn't. You would have to be pretty messed up on drugs to do what he did.
 
Chet said:
When the sentencing was over, Murdaugh stood up one more time and told the judge he was innocent, The judge replied that he may be innocent but the man who was hooked on those excessive amount of drugs wasn't. You would have to be pretty messed up on drugs to do what he did.
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well if it was true he was taking 60 oxycodone etc every day.. you would be messed up... however there's no way he was taking that amount IMO.. he's been using this as an excuse for stealing up to $7 million , during just 60 days he spent $57,000 according to him on OTC pills...don't believe it.. he'd have been dead a long time ago , much less running his business with high powered court cases, running his family farm.. having the wit to defraud people... and not showing any signs of drug addiction to anyone, in fact everyone said he was friendly, and happy ... so the truth HAS to come out as to what he was really doing with that money!
 
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This is a bit of an eye opener... for anyone who wants to listen to the whole thing.. it tells that Maggie was someone who felt she was better than those around her, and married to Alex because she thought she'd ''won the prize'' and was only interested in material things and allowed her children to cuss and swear and run riot from babies.. unchecked.... and that Paul had mental health issues from childhood..


In this next one they look at drug connection between Alex and his best friend an alleged Drug smuggler...

 
hollydolly said:
This is a bit of an eye opener... for anyone who wants to listen to the whole thing.. it tells that Maggie was someone who felt she was better than those around her, and married to Alex because she thought she'd ''won the prize'' and was only interested in material things and allowed her children to cuss and swear and run riot from babies.. unchecked.... and that Paul had mental health issues from childhood..


In this next one they look at drug connection between Alex and his best friend an alleged Drug smuggler...

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After reading this thread the other day, I watched a little of the trial on youtube. Her sister Marion Proctor's testimony was particular sad. She's very wealthy (married "Yankee money" lol), older than Maggie and I wonder if part of Maggie's attraction to Alex was "keeping up" with her big sister's rich husband.

Marion and her husband have their South of Broad (some of the most sought after historic homes in the US) Charleston town house on the market. They sold their country home soon after the murders and still have a beach home on a small private island just off Key West Fl.

Proctor's former country home

Proctor's Charleston town house
(The interior designer who staged this house for the market did a horrific job. Looks like someone called a big box home decor store and asked for the newest trends sight unseen and scattered all the stuff about in this beautiful, historic home along with cheap art prints ...apparently never heard of eclectic decor that marries old and new. The pots with fake flowers hung on the wall in the garden are especially atrocious.)
 
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AnnieA said:
After reading this thread the other day, I watched a little of the trial on youtube. Her sister Marion Proctor's testimony was particular sad. She's very wealthy (married "Yankee money" lol), five years older than Maggie and I wonder if part of Maggie's attraction to Alex was "keeping up" with her sister.

Marion and her husband have their "South of Broad" Charleston town house on the market. They sold their country home soon after the murders and still have a beach home on a small private island just off Key West Fl.

Proctor's former country home

Proctor's Charleston town house
(The interior designer who staged this house did a horrific job. Looks like someone called a big box home decor store and said asked for the newest trends sight unseen and scattered all the stuff about in this beautiful, historic home ...apparently never heard of eclectic decor that marries old and new. The pots with fake flowers hung on the wall in the garden are especially atrocious.)
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Annie if you watch the first video I posted in the last Post of mine.. post 292.. that's precisely what's being said by the journalists who had been investigating the Murdaugh family for several years before the trial.. that maggie was jealous of her sister's lifestyle.. and felt that by marrying Alex she'd won the prize...
 
Those houses are stunning, the first one is more beautiful than any Royal House I've ever seen..

I could tell Marion had money when she appeared in court by the way she was dressed. Very understated, but classy, with hair beautifully coloured but simply styled..
 
look at the beautiful slip covers on these armchairs...

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win231 said:
Imagine the mess if Alex did it there........
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That's crude, @win231 and even the thought of it is like wishing ill to Maggie's sister. That poor woman has suffered enough. She and her husband have already sold this home and are in the process of selling their town house. Talk of this will never die out in that area and they know it. Every time it comes back up she'll feel grief all over again so I understand why they're leaving, but that's a sorrow too since Charleston has been their home for so long.
 

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