Posted on 12/11/2022 4:08:37 AM PST by robowombat
Prosecutors on Thursday, Dec. 8, provided their most detailed explanation for why Murdaugh, a disbarred South Carolina attorney allegedly killed his wife and son in a case that has spurred investigations into financial wrongdoing and drawn overwhelming attention worldwide.
Prosecutors on Thursday, Dec. 8, provided their most detailed explanation for why Murdaugh, a disbarred South Carolina attorney allegedly killed his wife and son in a case that has spurred investigations into financial wrongdoing and drawn overwhelming attention worldwide. (Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP, File) COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge will determine whether evidence of disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes are admissible in an upcoming double-murder trial that has drawn worldwide attention for its bizarre twists.
Prosecutors recently said that Murdaugh killed his wife and youngest son last year to gain sympathy and distract others from his damning financial crimes. On Friday, prosecutors and defense attorneys debated the relevance of those years of alleged financial misdeeds that lined Murdaugh’s pockets with nearly $9 million.
Murdaugh, the disgraced heir to a Lowcountry legal dynasty, has pleaded not guilty and repeatedly denied any involvement in the June 2021 slayings of his wife, Maggie, 52, and their son Paul, 22.
According to prosecutors, at the time of the killings, Murdaugh was terrified about a pending motion that threatened to expose years of substantial debts and illicit financial crimes by revealing his personal records. Such a move would have spelled “personal, legal, and financial ruin” for Murdaugh, state grand jury chief prosecutor Creighton Waters wrote in a filing Thursday.
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And we celebrate such behavior in shows like Breaking Bad
If you watch any of the documentaries that have resulted from this case it’s pretty clear Murdaugh was involved in ripping off his clients over personal injury settlements.
One of his younger sons was driving a boat stumbling drunk which resulted in the death of one of the passengers, his family connections got the son off with minor consequences.
Did he actually kill his son and wife, the jury will determine that but I would not be surprised given all the other rotten things he’s done to people.
He is a pain pill junkie. Full blown dope addicts are capable of any level of the crazy/evil mix.
This case reaches a level of a bad joke version of a Faulknerian tragedy:
Prosecutors shared inklings of new details earlier this week. Within a minute of his first conversation with responding officers on the day of the killings, Murdaugh allegedly claimed the slaying must have been connected to the February 2019 boat wreck that killed teenager Mallory Beach.
Beach was killed when authorities say an intoxicated Paul Murdaugh wrecked his father’s boat — an event that ultimately led to dozens of charges accusing Alex Murdaugh of stealing nearly $5 million in settlement money from lawyers who sued him over the death. Murdaugh now faces additional charges involving money laundering, a narcotics ring, a staged attempt on his life and millions of additional stolen funds.
And while Murdaugh seemed wealthy, prosecutors said it was a series of land deals worsened by recession that “permanently changed his finances.”
The events of the past 18 months have marked a steep fall for the Murdaughs. The family founded a massive civil law firm over 100 years ago in tiny Hampton County, where — alongside four surrounding counties — Murdaugh’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather dominated the legal scene as the area’s elected prosecutors for more than eight decades.
I guess murdering your family doesn’t result in professional, personal and financial ruin in SC?
I think the state and the people would disagree .
Hang him high.
Stealing from client funds is not uncommon. A hs classmate was a junior partner to about the ‘most senior and highly respected general legal practitioner’ in town. One morning he arrived at the office and his boss wasn’t there but many people from local, state, and federal police and agencies were. The highly respected attorney had been skimming money for decades and the amounts could never be really ascertained. He created a real estate pyramid with client funds and the 2007 crash pulled it down. The highly respected partner went to the Dominican Republic and was never extradited, dying there in 2015, in the arms of a lovely 18 yr old Dominican girl, it is said. My classmate’s career was destroyed.
A Democrat dynasty. Dateline didn’t mention that little tidbit once in their reporting.
Your classmate destroyed his career by being of moral turpitude. I’m sorry you had the bad experience of ever knowing such a piece of trash.
Who celebrated Walter White and the drug dealers in Breaking Bad???
Their lives were RUINED by involvement with drugs.
It reveals the hideousness of the drug world.
That said, it is an incredibly good character study of Walter White and the kind of people who repress significant parts of themselves (their shadows) only to find those repressed personalities do come to the surface when given a chance.
There are probably a good many Freepers who have seen their shadows rise to the surface during otherwise mundane lives. I am certainly one of them.
The murder would make more sense if (wild example for demonstration purposes only) his wife admitted to having an affair, told her husband their son wasn't his, and the both of them (mother and son) threatened to testify against Murdaugh?
Excellent post, and I thank you for it. Wise and courageous, and seriously impressive.
Thx much.:-)
Just because his classmate was working for the guy doesn’t mean the classmate was involved in the skimming. He probably didn’t even know about it.
"The idea that Murdaugh sought to engender sympathy through the deaths is also illogical"
Griffin's claims seem logical to me.
The classmate was a partner of, not the crook himself.
To have them on television as cultural icons... whether good or evil provides a notoriety that is appealing to some and a how to manual to others.
No, Charlie had no idea of what was going on. He was a sort of beard. The ‘respected’ elder lawyer was a sort of Madoff type who was brilliant in conning people. Everyone loved him, he was mister city conscience. He was given awards by the NAACP, the FOP, even the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Had he been less a sociopath who truly loved playing everyone he could have really been the great man he pretended to be. Charlie told me, ‘I thought of him as another father, wise, kind, extraordinarily intelligent and always having time for the most humble as well as the powerful. This has destroyed me in ways far beyond money,’
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