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

Ignorant commenting about questions on the law and crime link.

No the jury shouldn't be influenced because an expert witness is paid $600 an hour. The litigator on this show should have spoke up that expert witnesses are usually paid a lot of money.

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You should watch the 3 episode series on Netflix about it. It gives a pretty decent overview of the saga without getting bogged down in the weeds. The original podcast gets more into the weeds. It is an insane story.

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Netflix was good. I though the interviews with those kids was powerful. But I really didn't think Netflix got much into the actual evidence concerning the murders of the son and wife. Maybe I fell asleep during that part!

I have NOT followed this one closely, so excuse me if this has been beat to death.

Why two different weapons? That does suggest two shooters. What is the prosecution's theory why there would be two murder weapons?

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Discussing asking the jury if they want to go to Moselle-

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I saw a little while ago the judge said yes to this. Any idea what the schedule is going to look like now?

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Alex thought this out in a way to make it look like it was anyone else but him that killed them. Using 2 different guns was just part of the subterfuge

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That's one sneaky dude, if true.

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Why two different weapons? That does suggest two shooters. What is the prosecution's theory why there would be two murder weapons?

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I didn't start following this more closely until the cross examination of AM. But I've watched a lot of the legal thoughts after each break.

From what I can tell, the 2 weapons would be because AM has been an attorney for a long time, and knew that by using 2 weapons, it would imply 2 different shooters, and harder to pin it on him.

Bottom line, the biggest negative against AM is that the brutality suggests someone with a great deal of anger. In cases like this, it more often is someone that knows the victims well, like close family member. The mother and the son were the 2 biggest people that were trying to get AM to stop his opiate addiction.

And what gets me the most, AM lied about where he was just prior to the murder, as well as where he was after. He didn't admit the lie until a video came out proving that he was there just prior. His only explanation was that he was paranoid about law enforcement, of which he was one and was in bed with most of the players.

There's more evidence, like his phone being turned off during the murder, etc. But for me, very difficult to get past why, if he was innocent, he would lie about his whereabouts before and after.

I think he set up a perfect murder with the 2 weapons. But he had no idea his voice would be on audio from a video taken by his son right before his head was blown off.

John Marvin is easily one of the only likable people in this trial. Seem like a stand up guy - he hasn’t been implicated in the financial fraud has he?

I agree with the line of thinking that the guy from Connecticut laid out about the 2 person theory.

It would’ve been difficult for someone to shoot Paul two times with a shotgun from inside the feed room at close range and still have the wherewithal to switch to the rifle and shoot Maggie several times in such a small time frame.

Fitsnews has linked to this chart before. It gives a detailed breakdown of how AM could have done all of this.

Churchwell Chart - link to PDF

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without one of the 2 running away.

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Which Maggie may have been doing. Two shooters would have been pros and Maggie would have gone down with at most two shots. But it took more. And then someone was so angry at her than they administered TWO kill-for-sure shots to the back of her skull. Would a pro have needed two back of the head shots?