re: Investigators When they KNEW Murdaugh lied (Page 112)

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he literally blew his head off with a shotgun at close range

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Yeah that's tough to fathom but the context helps.

AM addicted to opiods for two decades.

AM facing imminent financial ruin as well as public embarrassment, and the morning of the murders he was terminated by the prominent law firm his father founded for embezzling millions of dollars - money, status, family name, reputation - all gone. For someone like AM these things would be worse than death.

PM's actions in the BUI accident arguably set the whole thing into motion with civil suits being filed by the families. There was testimony that fees from the boat accident may have led to the firm's discovery of the embezzling (I don't recall exactly just the mention by the firm accountant). So there's likely some blame mindset by AM there whether rational or not. Paul being murdered for revenge over the accident would play well publicly giving sympathy for the grieving Alex, maybe reduce or eliminate the civil suits and certain financial probe resulting from it.

And you're talking about someone with the mindset to commit all the crimes he did, especially paying someone to murder him - not a normally functioning mind.

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they want me to believe he loved 1 son so much he was willing to hire a hitman to help him commit suicide so he could get the $10M insurance

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That was a lie. He staged that shite to get sympathy and put some fuel to the fire that someone was still out there hunting his family. Everyone immediately caught on because his story made absolutely no sense, so he confessed to staging it and used his son as an excuse.

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but then was so mad or hated the other one so much he literally blew his head off with a shotgun at close range.

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Paul was murdered before the whole hitman situation.

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The financial testimony that the jury didn't hear to me was not as damning as the murders. But the damage done to families, to people that AM knew, and in the case of his two decades employed housekeeper, how Am kept lying and lying to that young man who AM had known since the boy's childhood. How AM could take not just the 500K but also the 5.5 MILLION that the Murdaugh blanket policy paid out. Damn. It could have made such a difference to the boy who had to worry about his Mother's hospital bills.

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That’s just the tip of the iceberg, man. Read up about Hakeem Pinckney. The guy was left as a quadriplegic after a car accident, and AM stole $1 million from his family. He passed away about 2 years after the accident.

His mother was left to deal with grieving the loss of her son, while realizing the guy who was representing her to help cover his medical bills has actually stolen all of the settlement money.

When you read that story you realize there isn’t a damn thing Alex Murdaugh wouldn’t do for self preservation.

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AM is a flaming piece of shite for what he did the Satterfield family. Son just testified.

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That poor kid. He thought he could turn to AM for help and guidance and all AM did was abuse his trust and steal his money.

AM gives a new low bar for lawyers. He is despicable.

He wasn’t fired that day. However, that day the CFO confronted him about the approximate 800k missing and basically told him they had reason to believe he had it. The heat was on.

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Why would a single killer shoot one person (you have to assume the other victim hears those shots) and then switches guns and shoots the other one?

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1) Some kind of attempt to make it look like 2 killers?

2) So you don't have to stop and reload?

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The different guns points to there being more than one shooter and them killing both victims simultaneously or in close proximity of time. Why would a single killer shoot one person (you have to assume the other victim hears those shots) and then switches guns and shoots the other one?

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I don't know guns. Someone needs to go back to descriptions of the two guns (for 10K( that Alex bought for his sons. Paul supposedly lost his and his replacment was less than 1K because it didn't have the fancy sight on it.
The day of the murders, Paul and Alex had ridden around the property, did they say it was to shoot feral hogs? Wouldn't a superpowerful rifle be used and wouldn't it have a silencer on it so as not to spook the whole herd of hogs?
That's one way to get a rifle to the dog kennels. The second one....when AM got up from his "nap"

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Wouldn't a superpowerful rifle be used and wouldn't it have a silencer on it so as not to spook the whole herd of hogs?

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Nah, pretty sure you can hunt hogs with an AR (maybe) or AK (even more likely) and I doubt a suppressor would help.

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The state has called Carson Burney, a forensic accountant for the South Carolina Attorney General's office who was tasked with examining the funds which Murdaugh allegedly stole from his law firm.

Burney is questioned about the Faris case, where Murdaugh convinced his longtime friend Chris Wilson to pay him fees directly, instead of the $792,000 going to his firm.

Murdaugh set up a fraudulent Forge Consulting account to receive money which would then flow out to other accounts, including his personal checking account.

Burney testifies that $747,000 of the $792,000 from the Faris case was disbursed.

Reading from a spreadsheet, he said there were payments to Murdaugh's associates and relatives including $2.4million to Curtis 'Cousin Eddie' Smith and $385,000 to his ailing father Randolph III.

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[img]mea culpa, mea culpa[/img] I apologize with Murdaugh-like tears running down my cheeks, somewhere up above I mislead you in thinking that Cousin Eddie only received a couple of hundred thousand.