Maggie’s pajamas had been laid out neatly on the floor in the laundry doorway, along with a clean pair of her underwear - something housekeeper Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson testified was odd: not just the unusual placement but also because Maggie wouldn’t typically wear underwear beneath her pajamas as she slept.
In that same conversation, he offered to help pay for her wedding and to help her get a promotion at her second job, she said. She said he only stayed about 20 minutes, but in a conversation with Murdaugh days later, she said, he had emphasized to her that he’d stayed there longer - 30 to 40 minutes - which made her “nervous” and disturbed her enough that she called her brother about it. Muschelle “Shelley” Smith, who had worked as a caregiver for Murdaugh’s mother, whom he visited the night of the murders, testified that it was unusual for him to come by so late. But some people hear something else in the recording: “ They did him so bad” - consistent with Murdaugh’s contention that two other people killed his family. He’s such a good boy, too,” Murdaugh said, according to Croft.
“I did him so bad”Įarly in the trial, Jeff Croft, a senior special agent with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, testified that Murdaugh had made a Freudian slip when Croft brought up a “traumatic” photo Murdaugh had seen of his son's and wife’s extensive wounds. I tried to do it as limited as possible, but I tried to take their pulse, both of them,” Murdaugh said.
I tried to turn him over,” he told police, describing how his son’s cellphone had fallen out of his pocket when he did so. “I think I tried to turn Paul over first. Notably, Murdaugh and his clothes were clean despite him saying that he’d rolled over the blood-drenched victims’ bodies and checked their pulses. In fact, in a Snapchat video Paul filmed at 7:38 p.m., Alex can be seen in a short-sleeved shirt, khaki pants, and loafers. Murdaugh was wearing different clothes shortly before the murders than the white T-shirt, cargo shorts, and Nike running shoes he was wearing when police arrived at the crime scene. That bought him time to repay most of the money and to borrow the remainder from his friend Chris Wilson, who also testified. The former CFO of Murdaugh’s law firm, Jeanne Seckinger, testified that less than 12 hours before the murders, she confronted him about money she believed he had stolen - and demanded “proof that he had not.” After the deaths, she and the firm agreed that the matter of the missing funds could be delayed until the end of the year out of sensitivity to Murdaugh’s shock and grief. This contradicts Murdaugh’s original assertion that he was nowhere near the kennels - where Paul and Maggie’s bodies were found - at this time. In a Snapchat video recorded at the dog kennels minutes before the shootings, the voices of three people can be heard: victims Paul and Maggie Murdaugh as well as Alex, according to six witnesses who have identified him with 100% certainty.
CAR VOICE RECORDER TRIAL
Here are the biggest revelations of the trial so far. But the trajectory of the trial changed with the judge’s decision to allow testimony about Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes - enabling prosecutors to bolster their opening argument that “ a perfect storm” of legal and financial troubles motivated Murdaugh’s desperate decision to kill his wife and son.
CAR VOICE RECORDER FULL
Financial spreadsheets, cellphone logs, GPS data, and other evidence presented - like gunshot residue analysis and DNA results - were full of technical details and haven’t seemed particularly damning. Much of the testimony in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial has been hard to parse, but BuzzFeed senior breaking news reporter David Mack has been watching intently and somehow making sense of it all.
0 kommentar(er)
