No one should be suffering frozen strawberries this time of year.
That was quick. Jury out less than three hoursā¦
Murdaugh guilty on all four counts.
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Wow, I am completely surprised. I figured he would walk.
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Me too.
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Iām interested to hear what lead them to the verdict. If it were me, it would be the story change at trial once he realized the prosecution could place him at the scene at the time of the murder.
I saw the cross-examination on that, and Murdaugh just wasnāt convincing. He had no good explanation as to why he decided to go down to the kennels, no good explanation as to why he left when he did (minutes before the murders) and no good explanation as to his activities thereafter. Notably the sustained 70 steps/minute activity that he could not justify other than to say he was getting ready to leave the house.
Iām sure weāll get lots of interviews.
Victim impact statements tomorrow, then sentencing. Minimum of 30 years, max of life.
Iām not 100% certain that he actually did the deed, but Iām 100% certain that either he did it or he paid somebody to do it and was double-checking their work. Same difference, as far as Iām concerned.
The prosecution made the point in closing that āreasonable doubtā doesnāt mean ā100% no doubtā. That they didnāt have to have every piece of the puzzle to draw a logical conclusion. When he showed the picture of the Mona Lisa with a bit missing and said āyou still know what this is when you see itā was a pretty powerful statement.
I watched the documentary, he was obviously, painfully guilty
I canāt wait until the Fulton Co. SGJ foreperson weighs in on it.
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My girlfriend is a true crime junkie, so I followed along for the second half of the trial with her just to check it out.
The closing argument and rebuttal by the Prosecution put the timeline together in painstaking, brutal detail. My takeaway from it was either he did it or he ran interference while someone else did it (but that seems less likely). The circumstantial evidence was a fucking mountain worth, and the amount of insane, tightly timed coincidences it wouldāve taken for it not to be him that did it was an even taller mountain.
The defenseās closing statement was also an absolute dumpster fire, just a good olā boy lawyer randomly mentioning things and trying to poke tiny holes in them.
Followed by some fake emotion and him calling the defendant his friend as his finale. Also, fun note, the guy that gave the closing statement for the defense WAS a close friend of his, and was pretty seriously involved in the story as a witness for everything after the murders.
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Never realized til now that Murdaugh pronounces his name like āMurder.ā The Murder family.
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I havenāt been following this at all, but why did he kill his family? I get being a cheat and liar, but what prompted the murders?
Personal debt to be paid off by a massive insurance policy, iirc
This is the cooling effect of the Dobbs decision and all the state laws enacted or reanimated thereafter.
Fuck Walgreens.
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That was a major consideration.
The speculation also was that it would take the heat off of all of the major upcoming investigations as well. His son was part of a boating accident death that was looming large and he had been busted by several coworkers for major league book-fudging and theft.
The defenseās effort to establish āreasonable doubtā was badly damaged after cellphone video evidence showed Murdaugh had been at the crime scene minutes before the murders were committed.
Jurors instead accepted a prosecution argument that largely relied on circumstantial evidence, including phone and vehicle tracking systems indicating Murdaughās movements the night of the killings.
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Another ideologue brings their mush brain to be slaughtered by Jon Stewart.
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While it was circumstantial, it also showed that the timeline for the murders was insanely tight, and the odds that some random people rolled up, knew there were guns available for them to use, knew where both the guns and the people were, killed the wife and son, then boogied without a.) him seeing/hearing anything and b.) without leaving a single shred of evidence was goddamn impossible. Even HIS timeline was pretty tight, and showed that (to me) he had planned out almost everything ahead of time.
The cellphone video is really what sunk him. The lying fucking prick couldnāt get out of his own way once his initial all lies alibi fell apart, and his second put together on the fly alibi to try and make up for the absolutely crazy lie that he was never at the kennels where they were killed when he was on video just a short time before the murders never worked.
The guy is a pathological liar and a narcissist.
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Mrs Hawkās Beer Buddy and Murder Team have concluded that it was him insisting on testifying that did him in. Had he not, he would have come across as much more sympathetic rather than a pompous, lying snake who thought he was the smartest guy in the room.
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