Dick Harpootlian was hired because he is a big name lawyer in this area that use to make people quake in their boots, but that was a long time ago. He is way past his prime and needs to give up working the courtroom. Plus he is a total jerk and always has been. Around here, if you are so guilty no one else will touch you Dick Harpootlian will do it.
There’s a line that AM says that has always stuck with me. “Whoever did this was thinking about it for a long time.” It’s made me wonder when he first thought of doing it. When you see the timeline and the way he went from one piece to the next for his ‘alibi’ says a lot.
During one of the interviews when asked if they'd ever had an argument that had gotten physical Alex confirmed that there had been. Then Paul kept trying to find his pills and find out if he was using, but if Alex wasn't lying about the pain meds giving him energy... imagine someone trying to take your coffee and you have to go to work to provide for them. So around the same time Paul's gun goes missing. Seems like he may have started planning that far back.
@@ContactsNfilters interesting point, about the missing gun coinciding with time he started plotting the murders. I wonder if it was just Paul in the beginning and Maggie was added to the list later on
I just subscribed too, very precise, accurate yet still harrowing to listen to, I’m still shocked that he could commit such a hideous, cold blooded execution of his wife and son, like the Watts case it’s very hard to comprehend. 😢
The guns are at the bottom of the ocean. His brother traveled by boat to the Bahamas soon after the murders (who does that just after a major family tragedy!)
For a long time I found Paul Murdaugh an unsympathetic victim, but the more I heard about what he was like when he wasn’t drinking, the more I felt for him. According to friends and family members like his uncle, he was a hard worker, conscientious, fun and a loyal friend. He also cared very much for Gloria Satterfield, the housekeeper and woman who has been instrumental in raising him and served as a mother figure. It appears his mother neglected him and she and Alex started and encouraged the drinking. Maggie Murdaugh had numerous photos of Paul with alcohol on her Facebook page that she had liked. I think Paul also had his dad’s number and didn’t have much respect for him, although he would call his grandfather when he was in trouble and wanted granddad to fix it. If you’ve grown up with that, had a mother who constantly told you, “You’re a Murdaugh.”, to tell you how special your family name is, there aren’t too many young people I’d think who wouldn’t follow protocol. Yes, Paul obviously had a drinking problem, was likely an alcoholic and, unfortunately, had a 180 degree personality change when drinking, but it sure doesn’t seem his parents tried to get him help. I wonder if they had seen “Timmy” come out or had even heard of the aggression and belligerence, although, it really doesn’t matter in regards to trying to get him help, because it’s certain to me they had seen him many, many times drinking to excess. At almost three times the legal limit when the accident occurred, for this guy to even be conscious at that level speaks to long-term, heavy drinking. Anyway, Paul didn’t deserve to die, to never have the chance to get sober, and to know with horror that it was his father killing him.
They just enabled his horrible side. I mean his own father murdered him in cold blood. Wish Paul could’ve been raised by his Uncle, who was the only person who really seemed to care about him.
Exactly. People want to diagnose Alex with antisocial personality disorder or sociopathy, but I would think he also has borderline personality disorder and adhd. The very things he was most likely shamed for as a child and ended up hating about himself and then Paul. Waters hit the nail on the head, he could not handle the shame. I really wish they'd start teaching a little psychology/emotional intelligence in public school. At least play some Brené Brown videos.
Ummmm they are are pathetic. He hit his gf called her filthy names Can't wait for buster buster arrested for murder. How bout ya have sympathy for all the ppl who got money stolen....ur embarrassing
There is one 911 recording I heard where you can plainly hear the dogs barking like crazy for a minute and Alex is stone silent until the dispatcher answers, then he lays on the theatrics. You can hear it on your video too for a few seconds. He obviously didn't know that 911 calls start recording upon dialing, not when the dispatcher picks up.
Never stumbled across this channel before but in under 5 minutes, I'm impressed with the quality of the writing, story telling and the historical background of the family. Bravo. 👌🏻❤️
I’ve read many articles and watched many videos regarding this horrendous murder and subsequent trial. I want to commend you on an excellent job here! Very well done! Thank you for sharing this!
This is one of the best straight forward videos I have seen out of hundreds I have watched! Bravo ! The pictures & videos are great and how your it out! Excellent work! I will definitely follow your more!
Creighton waters did an awesome job all prosecutors should be like him I am so proud to know that there are people who will hold be accountable for their crimes the jury were awesome they didn’t need much time to decide common sense
I felt exactly the same way I feel as though because she was a black woman she was terrified for herself and her family for the southern style consequences they serve in the south
Alex definitely gives off the vibes that he threatened her. Alex’s father and grandfather also give me bad vibes. What did they do to establish the Murdaghs as this mob-esque sinister family?
She broke my heart. You could tell she loved Mrs. Libby and probably other members of the family. She was scared to death she was going to loose her job, her livelihood.
Rogan testimony just killed Alex. Short, sweet, courageous, and believable. As soon as he heard Alex’s story he knew that Alex was lying. He loved the whole family, and had to carry this knowledge around for a long time. Did Alex ever try and manipulate Rogan like he did the housekeeper and caretaker? I may have missed it. I would think that Rogan kept his distance from Alex after being certain Alex knew more than he was saying.
Alec stated that he spoke to Ro Ro, I guess he was trying to manipulate and confuse him by telling him that he heard wrong, it wasn't him Ro heard on the 12 seconds call.
@@suzymoroka297 thank you. This case is so fascinating. I really hope they do a documentary focusing on Alex and his interactions with these witnesses after the murders. I’m sure there is way more than we heard at trial
@@gregvinson1 I think Alex was also trying to find out if Paul actually sent that video of Cash’s tail to Rogan. If Paul had actually sent the video to Rogan Alex would’ve been arrested right away. I know they had the information from Alex’s phone regarding the 200+ steps he took after the murders, but he might have been able to explain those steps away. I think once Alex knew Rogan hadn’t gotten that video, he felt like he had gotten away with murder.
@@scgaliop7921 Yes. Thank you. That is a great point about the video. I think i heard that it took SLED a bit of extra time to get into Pauls phone. Alex likely also believed if he wasnt confronted within the first week about the snapchat video then it wasnt on phone. But it was on Snapchat servers Alex! Its a digital world now and nothing ever goes away
What if Maggie, when hearing gunshots, chucks or drops her phone, she was communicating with her sister she thought something was up so maybe the phone is on vibrate? All the calls from Alex, are trying to locate her phone (why he deleted call history?)
@Lisa Stephens Do you think maybe the motive is that the lawsuit is about Paul, but Maggie wasn't not only divorcing him, she could then be allowed to testify against him?
@@Socraticstatic44 Listen to the testimony of Mark Tinsley. He’s the attorney for the Beach family. His testimony is so telling. When I heard it, I knew Alex Murdaugh was guilty. Mark Tinsley laid out the motive perfectly. The defense tried so hard to shake him off his testimony, but Tinsley wouldn’t budge. It was impressive!
@@scgaliop7921Yes. He murdered them both because they were going to expose his crimes, albeit unintentionally. Paul was absolutely driving that boat and was no doubt going to be found guilty. Alex would’ve been forced to divulge his finances to Mark Tinsley. And Maggie’s own sister testified that Maggie felt like the finances weren’t right and that Alex was ‘hiding how bad it was’. A divorce would’ve exposed him extremely fast. They both were unknowingly in his way at that point.
Yeah. That means that cop is a dirtbag. This is all the corrupt price tag justice systems fault. The people of south Carolina are too ignorant and pathetic to be ashamed. He admitted that he was buying $50k + in opioids per week. That godless corrupt black judge ignored it completely. Thank god his son is dead too think of what a terrible little no good shit he was raising.
I’m sure most people, including Alex, did not know that 911 calls begin recording even before the operator answers the call. He calmly waits for the dispatcher to answer before performing for his audience.
How is RU-vid dropping the ball here? Do you even know how RU-vid works? Before this video that she uploaded, look up the last time she uploaded a video. Here, let me help you. Over 8 months in between videos! Also she has just over 9K subs, but started her channel over 10 years ago! Just look up how RU-vid works, and then comment 😡 But I do agree with you that this video was well put together, and I wish she would upload more often. I had to subscribe just on this video alone.
Alec Murdaugh and his spawn wielded and relied on his father's immense power over law enforcement every moment until the old crook died (and after when they could manage it). Alec was treated as his dad's mouthpiece in the solicitors' office, where "whatever Murdaugh says goes" was what the boss told anyone who asked. The night of the boat crash, Randolph and all his sons were out "fixing" Paul's mistakes, like they always did, covering up for the drunken crackups without regard to the risks to others. That their collective efforts centered on first, preventing the finding of Mallory Beach to spare Paul the charges and second, framing another young man as the driver of the boat, made abundantly obvious to everyone concerned that they sought to protect Paul by sacrificing the lives of Paul's friends and victims. Randolph even snarled at Mallory's mother, when she spoke of trying to find her, how 'we all know how that's gone' and so the dead girl was of no importance, not when his youngest grandson was at fault and in danger of consequences. Connor Cook grew up aware of the Murdaughs' reputation, their known power in the justice system and unscrupulous corruption of it when their own protection required it. He feared, knowing they sought to frame him as the driver instead of Paul, they would then silence him by some fatal accident nobody saw, that no police would ever investigate. Like the boat captain set to testify the next day about a Murdaugh's extensive drug smuggling network, who walked into a semi (according to local police!).. Or like the quadriplegic accident victim whose majority at 18 would soon have revealed the depletion of his trust accounts, Murdaugh having stolen all his settlement funds-- a discovery prevented only by the accidental death of the client, his ventilator somehow having unplugged itself. Such an inexplicable random event, yet so enormously fortuitous it was for one man connected with the case, what are the odds? Murdaugh even represented the bereaved family in the wrongful death suit over that "mysterious unplugging" at the nursing home, only to steal those settlement funds in turn. Does a pattern begin to emerge, of how this man coaxed and massaged profits out of so many deaths, so many deaths so fortuitous for Murdaugh, for the power and prestige. and therefore impunity and wealth, of the clan-members? If the analyses of Alex Murdaugh's motives for murder have left out anything, I think it's the relevance to Alec of his father's imminent demise and how that would alter his chances of getting away with the murders and thus excising, as he would have seen it, the routes through which his own reputation was critically vulnerable: Maggie's forensic accountant. Paul's criminal charges, and the liability implied by numerous family videos of Paul drinking being mostly of her rather than him. His own authority and credit was always tied to his dad's, and many things would shift unpredictably for Alec once his father's life ended, with all the certainty of impunity being his dad's son meant all his life. I found it telling how Murdaugh misled police from the start and continued to present a version of their life in which Maggie had not moved out, as though she still shared a house with him, despite testimony from her own family and closest friends that she now lived in another house and had consulted a divorce lawyer and had a forensic accountant recommended to help her sort out the money since her husband, as she said, would not be honest with her. Nor was he honest, she gauged, in his communications with her that last day about coming to his house rather than going home to her own; she said, on the way there, he was "up to something" and she'd have to find out what it was.
Wow Judith! You've taken the testimony and interpretation of "what happened when" in this video & extended it with a more full interpretation of the privilege and multi-generational entitlement of the family and the man. That entitlement led to skewed ethics and values, allowed deceit and lies, possibly murder of associates, and makes believable the psychology of a man that would murder his family - which I had trouble accepting because it's so heinous. You clarified - and I do accept it now.
@@rockin-krockin-k7607 I'm from the area and I'm a retired teacher of logic and ethics. Anything else puzzle you about this lowcountry fall of the house of Atreus?
Great video, great insight and everything that was explained and said by the narrator was exactly what I was thinking throughout the trial. I hope u get many many more views and likes for this video bc u deserve it. This could not have been easy to put together.
Hey thanks for your time to make this video buy all I could hear was the constant Noise/Sound that overpowered hearing you speak so I had to mute it n put subs on x
I think the law firm need to be looked into, if they are still operating, because they seem to have VERY lax operating procedures . I wouldn't mind betting it wasn't only Alex being a bit 'creative' with settlements.😉
But it was the boat wreck. That was the final straw. He was screwed. He can’t have them go through the financials. May be the only thing he said on the stand that was the truth.
I know Alex in his head was like “dammit Paul and that phone” yes you sick bastard you were caught, I’m so glad Paul made that last video that showed Alex was there for his last moments. Rest in peace to Maggie and Paul 🙏🏽🙏🏽
This should be entitled, "How a dog convicted a murdering narcissist". The boat crash WAS connected. Murdaugh was about to be sued for 30 million! This would be a good précis except for the poor English in parts and the buzzing sound.
I never really thought about how the blood would have been all over him if he would have tried to save him, you are so correct, when my brother had a heart attack, I gave him mouth to mouth as he kept throwing up, in between, as he laid there dying. So if Alex loved his wife & son at all he would have too.
Those 28607 steps were when he was looking for Maggie’s phone, calling it over and over then runing awhile .it’s ringing then finally finding it probably on golf cart.😂
Could Randolph III, on his death bed, have conspired with Alex to rid of the family black sheep and before Maggie divorced the family? for shaming the family? You know, Like The Godfather?
I bet Alex bent down before shooting because he thought he could confuse the evidence. If you're 6'3 & most aren't that narrows the suspects a little & points the finger more towards you. So I bet he actually planned that stance on purpose.
This is such a well done video. I have yet to see a video containing this much information about this. I even learned a few things I didnt know. And I've been watching all the videos on this case 😂. Wonderful job!
I absolutely love your channel. Your analysis is so spot on. I subscribed ❤️ from Texas. I’ve been following this case since the beginning and you touched on all points. You are 💯
Glad somebody pointed that out. I don't believe he was an addict either. I believe it was just one more lie he told in an effort to get away with his crimes.
I’m from sc (about 2 hrs away from Hampton, I’m in the peedee region, but kind of in between if that makes sense since like Marion county(super close to my town) is considered more that region) and we are very close to Columbia (which is in the other direction, 1 he if traffic is bad) and we knew about this family around here. Like especially when Stephen was found dead and that was just totally covered up. Buster constantly travels all around and he’s kind of distinct looking. No one wanted to fuck with these people. I don’t know much about AM or Maggie. But Buster for the most part was honestly polite. I’m sure most people who comment on here who are from sc and certain parts, especially if you’re in the midlands or low country then you’ve ran across this family or knew someone who knew someone in the family because they were damn everywhere. No one in SC (at least where I’m at) didn’t think for a damn second that Alex was innocent. I was surprised he actually was convicted though, we all thought he’d get off because that family has always been corrupt. It’s just weird seeing people who everyone in your town knew about get gunned down and then finally the family name is in the mud. Glad he was convicted. Justice for all the people he ripped off. Justice for Stephen. Justice for Mallory. There are sooooo many victims.
This video was done so well I sat on the parking lot at Sam's and just watched the whole thing. I wonder if Paul and Maggie saw Alex shoot thwm and what the hell was going through their minds. God, it is so tragic!
Even if Alex didn’t kill his family - everything else is scary as hell. The power to bully law enforcement , judges & everybody in the community, is sickening. Cowardly people that don’t stand up for what’s right encourages and creates these monsters. Think of how many there are that we don’t know about because they don’t kill their family. They lie cheat and steal through life. Sad sad people.
He likely wore 1 of the rain jackets in full view of Paul and Maggie , whilst hosing out the kennels, it had been disposed of with his clothes. The other rain jacket had been used to wrap the guns in, I wonder why he didn’t dispose of it, a trophy maybe, it didn’t have human biological material on its, hence the 2 rain jackets.
CU - Thank you for stating the facts and timeline of this case in a calm and clear manner. Very grateful for use of 'logos' in this essay; many commentators discussing this case are using 'pathos' and conjecture. Subscribing.
Not that anything Alex has to say about it post-conviction is going to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth... Great video- very well presented, and NO BS, thank you!
And the fact he could and never ever used the word ‘murder’ when it came to Maggie and Paul .. it was always replaced with the word ‘hurt’ this is disassociation .
I can't mention too many details, but I lived in Meridian, Mississippi in the late 80's/early 90's and there were some "things I knew about", but you had to keep your mouth zipped out of fear of elected officials. So, I can relate to this situation very well.
He was equivalent of a District Attorney. What a dolt he flashes the badge 📛 like he's a cop 👮. No wonder the kids from the boat 🛥 wreck were intimated
Any hired help Alex employed, were most likely potential accidental injury insurance prospects. I’d bet on it. Especially if funds were beginning to run low. Disgusting
@@avgrim7729IMO, #1 for his appeal and also he needs to feel like he's getting away with something, to convince himself he has one up on everyone. It's one of the last things he can control, for narcissists it's all about control and their brains don't work like normal people's do. Eventually, when he's no longer the center of attention, he'll have this great story to tell and someone else to blame. "I owed alotta money to sal-sal and tone-tone so they killed mah familleee, I did it, it was wrong, I shouldn't have done it, and I'm sorry". But that's just my guess, wtf do I know?
yep, from halitosis to herpes, scurvy to subdermal hematoma, the proper dose & placement of buckshot cures pretty much every ailment, chronic or terminal, bringing complete remission of symptoms & alleviating all traces of pain, though the side effects are irreversible, excessive drop in blood pressure, rigor mortis & accelerated stankage.
The CFO was asking him to prove to her the money wasn’t missing (the firm didn’t know about all of it yet) when he received a call notifying him that his father was being put on hospice- doctors couldn’t do anything else for him. At that point the CFO said the conversation became personal (she knew him since she was 16). She testified that later that day, she was surprised he was still in the office. Of note - he never did go see his father although his father’s turn for the worse was his excuse to get Maggie to come home.
@@melissaorellana6951 oh my gosh you’re right! I honestly didn’t consider that he didn’t go. Thank you very much for answering my question. I thought it was the same day but my lawd he is a worthless liar in my opinion.
I saw another video that posited the moment with the CFO might have been the moment Murdaugh decided to do the murders. He was having an unwanted confrontation over his wrongdoings, but as soon as he got the call about his father, the CFO felt sympathy for him and let him off the hook, for the moment at least. So how could he get people to let him off the hook for even longer? What if his wife and son were murdered and he was left alone and grieving? Not saying the idea to commit the murders only occurred right then, I think he was probably mulling it over for a while. But it's possible that's the moment he made up his mind. And it certainly got him out of the hearing on Paul's boating accident and having to disclose his finances, which was set to occur days later. Also the possible reason for the fake hit/ suicide attempt; he thought garnering sympathy would get people to stop looking into his other crimes.
If his brother gave Paul his ID to purchase liquor from a store or anywhere, should he not be charged, I think there is so much diabolical craziness going on that it's discussing To the families who have been involved, I hope everyone gets justice, and I can't even imagine how painful this must be.... Peace Love and Light Always ✨️ 💕
Buster was charged with the crime. He settled the boat crash victims. Selling Moselle and Edisto Beach home. I do not know about the island properties.
What summary of timeline! Great job!!! I think you can cristal clear see here that he is guilty! Just the timeline of the videos and the phones passed out. I mean, if i m 200m away from a shooting, in my house, i still can hear the short gun shots!!!
The racial breakdown of family annihilators follows percentage of population almost exactly. In the U.S., the majority are white, so therefore, most family annihilators are as well. Whatever percentage of the population you are, the percentage of offenders who are you race/ethnicity will follow suit. There are also many female family annihilators.
I wonder if looking back on the old money that they may of been doing the same thing would be good to look into it someone thank you. Wonder if they were in some sort of club interested thank you
