Posted on 02/27/2023 8:39:39 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
Alex Murdaugh, the patriarch of a prominent South Carolina family, seemed to have it all: a loving wife, two beautiful sons, and a successful law career. However, his presumably happy facade would soon crumble and his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, would be shot to death on the Murdaugh family land on June 7, 2021.
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Not a true crime fan, I take it? A broke minority crack addict annihilating his own, or another family: Dog bites man. A wealthy lawyer crack addict annihilating his own family: Man bites dog.
The more I listen to the testimony the more I lean toward Alex got sideways with the drug cartel and they set him up real good.
My other theory is that Paul and or Maggie hid his oxy pills that evening and he went psycho because he needed his fix and got into a row with them down at the kennels and then in a rage shot them. But to me if it was an argument turned deadly he’d be more likely to just grab a gun and shoot them not two guns and three types of ammo. That takes some thought.
Yeah. There are a bunch. It’s always interesting to me being a child of pop culture and growing up on Kung Fu, and then The Incredible Hulk, and then A-Team, which are all basically the same show about people drifting into some small town and breaking the empire. When I got old enough to start reading the right books and watching the right documentaries, there’s a lot more truth in those goofy shows than one might think.
...Or he’s the coldest son of a bitch on planet earth and he sacrificed them to get out of trouble with his business partners for various reasons.
It seems he was there when they were shot. He has some splatter but not much.
He was there mere moments before or during the time they were shot. One thing is certain, it’s entirely possible Alex said not one word of truth during his testimony.
There were 5 people killed mysteriously in a small community where this guys family has run things for like a 100 years in a matter of 6 years that were all found to have some connection to his family. Very strange.
After watching the Netflix documentary this weekend, IMHO, his young son needed to be put down.
Yes its possible Alex Murdaugh brutally murdered his wife and child up close and personal. But as one defense attorney said “just because he did it doesn’t mean he’s guilty”. There is a good amount of reasonable doubt. In my heart I guess he did it but I’d hate to be on the jury because I don’t feel sure of it.
I’m betting on a hung jury.
Have you never loaded your shotgun like that? It is how I do it, birdshot followed by slugs actually. Times 3, 6 total shells, maximum damage.
I grew up in the SW and even 60+ years ago getting permission to go on private property to hunt or fish, often was next to impossible.
My Dad was able to fish on the big pond of a family he knew decades ago. They allowed me to hunt as long as they were notified. No goose hunting as geese often had mates for life. When my Dad gave up his Driver’s due to vision problems, the property owner/s allowed my mother, a sibling or me to drive him to and from the pond. Dad’s first cousin became the allowed driver when my sibling and I went to college. My mother would only go if it wasn’t too hot or too cold.
One of my teachers in high school recommended me to the probably richest family in the county. I could walk or ride my bike to their locked gates. I had their combo and just had to call to let them know, I would be there. That owner became a long time Congressman. After a long interview, he let me have a key to locked gates. I could not bring anyone including my Dad.
The homes on these two properties where immense. The later one looked like a regal home in Scotland. The other home was huge and was built like smaller ranch/farm homes in that area. The smaller home was on a full section of land, and the bigger one was probably on 4+ sections.
There were all types of rumors re how the owners ended up with their properties, and how they made money to live in and staff those properties.
Yea. Pau Pau was spoiled a-hole
The boat case brought about a lawsuit against the Murdaughs in which the attorney representing the family of the deceased girl was about to receive the information on the location of his assets and afterwards, would be subpoenaing the financial institutions for balances. This came about because Murdaugh claimed he was broke, despite being the attorney of record for 50% of the cases in the County.
The day of the murders, the law firm's accountant had confronted Alex about money that was supposed to have been put in an annuity for a client but despite having been dispersed, was not accounted for at the annuity company. The reason for this was because Alex had opened an account with the same name as the annuity company and had been putting the money there and using it for his personal expenses. This had been happening since 2015. We're talking millions. The firm has since had to make everyone whole. Keep in mind, this guy had a base salary of $125k a year and an annual profit share every December that was usually 6 and sometimes 7 figures. He also had a scheme with a bank employee that was providing him cash, as well.
The family's housekeeper died from a “slip and fall” on their front steps and Alex sued his own insurance company “on behalf of the woman's grown children” however, they knew nothing about it and he pocketed the 4 million dollar payout.
His eldest son is rumored to be somehow involved in the yet unsolved killing of the town's only gay kid. He's also sat through the trial while his mother and brother's horrific wounds were described and never displayed an ounce of emotion. For that matter, Alex didn't show much emotion, either.
Alex stole $192,000 from another attorney who he co-litigated a large settlement with on behalf of another client. That other attorney had been his college roommate and childhood friend.
On the night of the boat crash, he showed up to the hospital while the kids in the boat who survived were being treated. He tried to present himself as their “legal guardian” while simultaneously running interference with the cops. In doing so, he attempted to railroad one of the boys as being the actual operator of the boat and was pressuring the kid's father with promises of legal representation. His attempts failed.
There's so much more but the fascination has a lot to do with just how big of a scumbag this guy really is. FWIW, I believe he did kill his wife but I don't think he acted alone. I also think the son wasn't really a target but had to go because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The civil suit in the boat case stopped dead in its track. It hasn’t moved forward since.
Considering all his lying, especially about being at the kennel reasonable doubt goes out the window.
Wow neat stuff. I’ve never managed to fall in with that chunk of society. Probably for the best, I’d probably do something dumb.
Murdaugh is compelling for a movie. Besides the name being so similar to the world ‘murder’ he reminds me of Ed Norton in Primal Fear.
He looks similar to him imho, too.
“Murdaugh is compelling for a movie”
The wife and sons’ murders are just the latest chapter in the goings on of this family.
They could make a trilogy out of this mess.....maybe even more than 3 movies considering the drug use, embezzlement and at least two deaths under mysterious circumstances around this family.....one being the housekeeper the other being a friend of the oldest brother Buster.
After posting this article, I find the most plausible motive is that he and an accomplice shot his wife and son away to silence them. Discovery would have blown up his whole life. I think drug dealing and money laundering with the cartels might be involved.
And that’s just the 4th and 5th generation. Who knows what went on for the 1st 3 generations. Something had to have gone on for Paul to know that “if there’s trouble call grampa”.
Yeah the way I hear it that family has held sway over Colleton county for decades.
His world was coming undone and he was about to be found out. He acted out of desperation. Even the attorney for the deceased girl admitted that had the murders been an act of vigilantism as Murdaugh contends, his clients would have settled with the previous offer of insurance money and dropped the punitive action (the Murdaugh parents regularly supplied alcohol to the minors and fostered an atmosphere of binge drinking and partying - and it was all posted on the internet) because they wouldn't have wanted to do that to a man whose family was murdered.
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