Top 5 Critical Moments from Alex Murdaugh’s Family Murder Trial - Week One 

All the "sobbing" but not a single real tear in that cop car. He is a real piece of work.

I've got a question. Why did he check his son for a pulse if he saw his brains on the ground? and if he tried to turn them around why did he not have a speck of blood on him?

His wife Maggie was seeking a divorce when they had no money and her check to charity bounced. He was also being found out that he stole millions from his family law firm. His son Paul being drunk and Mallory dying made him and the family set up for huge lawsuits. Alex even tried to blame other people for the wreck. He stole 4 million in a lawsuit for a young man, after someone pulled the cord. He also beat woman, that came out. He’s a full scale jerk and bad guy. The good old boy network needs to go away, forever, it’s not fair.

I love how offended he sounded when she asked if it was a house or mobile home. "IT'S A HOUSE!" 😆 When your family is dead but you're still a snob!

"Crying" with hands in front of face, and wiping his face constantly, I saw no signs that tears had flowed.

As a parent, if my child was murdered I wouldn’t want to live anymore. Even if I was falsely charged with my child’s murder, I would honestly be so dead inside I wouldn’t have enough in me to even put up a fight.

When someone just lets their nose drip onto the desk without attempting to stop it or wipe it, that is 100% for the jury to witness. Even a toddler would reach up to wipe their nose!

He showed no fear of the killers still being about the area. Still, it’s hard to comprehend a father doing this to his son! But then, you have Chris Watts.

On June 7th @ 8:44:55 pm on the night of Maggie and Paul's murder, Paul sent a snap chat from the dog kennels to a friend. The snap chat included Paul, Maggie and Alec's voice. At 8:49:01 pm, 5mins later Paul's cellphone goes dead forever. Alecs claim to everyone he was not at the kennels that evening......this is key.

It’s nice to see a “powerful” person answer for their crimes. ESPECIALLY down here.

I honestly think he killed them both, showered and changed, hid the clothes and guns, and then called 911. He said they were "hurt badly" but yet he doesn't render aid of any kind? He doesn't even flip them over? I dunno. His description to 911 is almost like minimizing by saying hurt badly instead of "Someone killed my family help!" ... And he sounds like he's panting in a rhythmic way which isn't very natural. It lacks emotion. If I found my family in a blood bath, first I'd be jumping to check for any sign of life, and then I'd be bawling on the phone with 911 while covered in blood. He's a manipulative narcissist... I think his emotions are completely fake and he's acting a part. I think someone who is capable of stealing their maid's will and $8 million from clients is entirely able to shoot is family. He would do anything to keep up his charade.

Watching a man listen to himself fake a phone call after killing his wife and son is some intense television

Not once has he SCREAMED with anger asking WHO DID THIS? That..says EVERYTHING

If my son & wife were laying on the ground brutally murdered and I found them I think I’d have blood all over myself. I honestly don’t believe I could have not held them in my arms.

His sons phone popped out of his pocket and he "tried to do something with it". Why not tell his intention specifically, my guess he was trying to get rid of the video placing him at the scene.

The marriage was not fine. Maggie was not living with Alex. She had seen a divorce lawyer. She texted her friend on the day of the murder that Alex had talked her into coming to the Mosele property and that she, Maggie, felt it was “fishy.”

Making a snap chat video laughing and an hour later your brain is by your feet. Life is Strange.

I think the emotions are genuine-as a narcissistic con artist, this guy must believe that all these terrible things are happening TO him and not because of him. He seems like he didn’t actually want to kill his family but felt he had no other choice because the narcissist simply cannot take responsibility for their own actions and so they’re constantly finding ways to make others pay the price.

Alex shot his son, and tried to access his phone to delete the video he knew his son had likely recently taken. Which is why he discloses it to detectives during the interview in the car. He knows they'll likely pull evidence/ prints from it so he continuously builds in reasons for the forensic evidence along the way in his statements. Imo.

Noone knows what is going on inside a relationship except those in it!! What people portray on the outside, has many times, nothing to do with the inside!

And that defense attorney is a regular slick Willy

The 911 call? They say that anyone who leads with anything other than information about the victim is suspect. He starts out with his address, says ‘ma’am’ when asked to repeat himself, and becomes audibly outraged when she asks if it is a mobile home or a house. None of these things are the actions of a frantic father/husband.

As to the “how-could-he-be-sweet-and-having-a-jovial-time-with-his-family-one-minute-and-kill-them-the-next-minute defense….20 years an opiate addict can make a man into a monster. He was desperate. She had a lot of assets of which he was to inherit. Paul had made a huge mess of things and was about to go on trial which was going to expose Alex’s financial dealings. That’s how.

I like the way Jesse explains everything concisely, so others, like here in the UK, can follow the case.

“Is this gun from inside the house” then he goes rambling on about his son’s boat accident🤦🏻‍♀️ it has been my experience when people are rambling on and on, they are lying !

My answer is, Yes a “narcissistic” person would who btw is also a lawyer that’s “ruled” that county for decades..

Boy I hope he gets on the stand. I know he won’t. But that prosecutor would be such fun to watch.

I recommend Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty to anyone that has hbo max. Its a 3 part series about this family and all the other terrible stuff they've done. Completely insane!

Speaking from experience, when I cry, tears come out of my eyes. Just sayin...

I found my MIL and did CPR, her bones broke under my hands. Afterwards I went outside and threw up, but after I did that I was stoic and in shock. The police interrogated me and I had no emotion, but I couldn’t eat for weeks because it would remind me of her bones breaking. They never questioned me further and left it as a unknown death. People can have weird emotions during situations like this… it’s so hard to tell, but something is just not right with him.

This is so sad! Prayers truth is revealed and justice is served.

I'm thrilled Paul caught his Dad's voice on the cell ph video! That's good evidence and the prosecution can use more tangible, un-circumstantial evidence.

I feel like the crying is more from his guilt than from his heart.

Has anyone picked up on the fact that this guy went to see his mother who has “late stage Alzheimer’s” right before he discovers his wife and son brutally murdered. She certainly cannot vouch for whether he was there or not …she wouldn’t remember!

"He was having a good time with his kids right before the murders, so he couldn't have done it". Reminds me of John List. In 1971 , accountant John List killed his entire family: Mother, wife and three children. After killing his mother and wife, he waited for his daughter and youngest son to come home before killing them. After grabbing some lunch he then went to watch his oldest son's football game, and when they got home he killed him, too. His motivation was a combination of severe money problems and a religious belief that prevented him from dealing with this in a rational fashion. Poverty was a sin, so the only way out was murder.

I don’t know how this man continues to take a breath

Anyone else notice the crying but not a single tear?

Narcissists are good at all the drama. They also have feelings only for themselves. Those tears are for his sorry self, because he has been caught. The evidence will put him away for the rest of his sorry life.

Prosecutor was outstanding. Thank God for justice.

Former attorney. He figured he could get away with it but I hope he doesn't. Maggie didn't want him anymore, the kid fixing to go on trial for his stupidity. They were a bump in the road for him. Jmo

You just have to look at Chris watts .. that man said everything but his prayers and he still didn’t want to admit to putting his kids in oil tanks but the coward in him couldn’t bare the thought of death row

In today’s hearing on the 30th the prosecution brought forth an interview with a detective between him and Alex in a patrol vehicle. When asked about his son cell phone found at the murder scene his response was a bit different from his first interview conducted by the police on the night of the murders. He defendant explicitly detailed how his son cell phone had a password or a code that nobody knew nobody and that even his brother could not or would not know the code to access the phone. During the initial interview with the defendant he said he checked with somebody and the cell phone popped out he said that he picked it up and was going to do something with it but then put it down. During the second interview is when he was explaining to the officer that his son cell phone would be hard to access because no one knew the code. The second time during this interview he was questioned about his phone cell phone he said that he had hit the cell phone up but did not try to open it. This to me seems really odd in the first interview he picked his cell phone up he was going to do something with it if you were going to do something with the phone you would probably want to look at it therefore you would open it which would require the code. In the second instance you would say I was not trying to open the phone why would you even say that if you knew that nobody knew the code . This to me seems a little bit odd to say the least. Also the constant referral back to the boat accident is just…again …odd.

There’s a moment durring the interview when they are speaking about how his marriage and relationship was with his kid was going. There’s a moment where he looks into the detectives eyes the detective looks away and he continues to stare at him like he’s trying to get him to believe him/ trying to almost intimidate the detective into moving on from that because he “wasn’t lying”.

Alex's own attorney brought up a great point that points towards his guilt when he said "the shooter was no more than 2'-3' of him" I mean it was up close and personal and who would've been able to do that?? It's almost as Jr never even saw it coming or expected it....Oh right that's because it came from no other than daddy himself!!

I think the audio of him and his defence lawyers opening statement condemn him on there own.

Is it true that Maggie wanted a divorce?? That's a good motive

He talks about what a wonderful relationship with his son and wife but never once did I hear him say he loved them he never says that unless I miss something. Todays trial you could hear him tell the police saying about his son “I did him so bad” WTH

“His cell phone popped out of his pocket. I tried to do something with it, thinking maybe.. then I put it back down really quickly. Then I went to my wife” Extremely telling

I get nauseated watching him rocking back and forth acting like he's upset.

"I called 911... She was very good." I don't even know what that means but he's not sobbing anymore... Weird considering he's talking about dead family the whole time. You'd think he'd be pretty inconsolable the whole time. But he has a story to tell them to explain his actions. He reminds himself periodically to cry though, like a trained psychopath!

What both the defence & prosecution neglect to realise is that someone can have killed someone and still be genuine in their grief of loss for that person. It's not even psychopathic behaviour, it's natural human behaviour. In this situation (having just killed someone you supposedly love & care for) it would be psychopathic behaviour to NOT breakdown & cry & grieve

AM was laughing it up at an oyster roast shortly after the murders.

I’ve never seen anyone cry uncontrollably like that without a single tear.

..the 911 call it was silent as it was recording while ringing, all you could hear was dogs barking in the background, no hysterical Alex Murdoch.. just dogs until the 911 operator picked up then it was blubberying.

His emotional display was related to his lifelong screwing the system and gotten caught reaction. He was upset with himself, not losing his wife/son.

His Wife was shot 8 Time's, isn't that a Over Kill a lot of Hate 🤔

the whole thing in the car strikes me as fake, he never sheds a tear with his break down, then suddenly becomes very clear interjecting what he (seemingly) wants known, "actually, i think i tried to turn paul over first...his cell phone popped out of his pocket, i started to try to do something with it (huh?). "did you touch maggie?" "i touched them both, i tried to do it as limited as possible." these comments are not emotional, and reek of someone trying to paint an alibi.

Interesting when he talked about seeing his son with half his head missing and immediately grabbed his phone to ."See if I can do something with it". Maybe he knew there was a video on there he needed to get rid of.

It is heartbreaking to hear the damage done to his and wife.

If I saw my child laying on the ground shot to death I wouldn't be thinking about messing with their phone. I really don't understand that at all!

Whatttt they got a video with the accused on video with the victims just minutes prior to the murders?? That’s a big one

My mind is absolutely blown at the video on Paul’s phone. Oh my god. The horror Paul and Maggie must have experienced. 😢

I think after he saw how bad and brutal what he did was, he actually was disturbed by it.

Notice how indignant Murdaugh gets when the 911 operator asks him this question. 10:04 911 Operator: "Is it a house or a mobile home"? Alex Murdaugh: "It's a HOUSE!" He might as well have yelled, "How dare you suggest I might live in a Mobile home!" Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.

Just because there are texts, calls, trips to games, etc., doesn't mean there AREN'T serious issues in a marriage. A lot of partners don't tell their family/friends, when things aren't going well. Especially if they are married into a prominent family.

i really find something disturbing with how smug and unemotional his other son id behind him, like he knows something no one else does. even when describing the bodies of his family he had that smug smile, sitting cracking his neck like he hadnt a care in the world, yet his dad is shedding tears everytime the crime scene is mentioned. i dont know. something aint right with this whole thing

This boy has solved his and his mother's murder without even knowing

On another video someone pointed out in the kennel snap chat video Alex ‘what’s the matter Paul’ and Paul saying ‘it’s ok Dad’ wow! Also the first video of Paul and Alex looking at planted trees about an hour before they were shot -AM is wearing blue shirt and long pants -where are those clothes?

So many of you psychos want this man to have killed his family when no proof has been proffered. It's sickening.

You can tell he feels nothing, listening to the recordings, 0 emotions

It's pretty obvious that he and/or his surviving son committed the murders. Very sad. I couldn't possibly ever think of doing something like this under any circumstances. I would spend life in prison before I stooped to murdering my family. He's a terrible person obviously and I sure hope he gets what's coming to him. I hope their faces haunt him every waking second of every day.

During the 911 phone call, Alec looks like he’s sobbing in court and then not a single tear when he looks up. It’s just really hard to believe he is distraught.

Well the fact that a relationship APPEARS normal & loving doesn't mean anything this day & age. Chandler Halderson seemed to have very loving parents with a great relationship with him, yet within an instant Chandler is burning the heads of his parents dismembered bodies in the family fireplace. That's just one example. Narcissistic sociopaths always keep up appearances to everyone else. So this isn't evidence. Hope the defense does better than that.

Huge discrepancy-he told the 911 operator that he just walked up on the scene, yet he tells the detectives he touched both, took a pulse and then called 911.

Idc what anyone says, Paul did not deserve to die that way. Jesus.

I wasn’t convinced either way as i haven’t really followed this case. However, after hearing the 911 call…he was feigning grief 100%. That is not the voice of a destroyed man.

Definitely an elaborate coverup - as momma used to say , "believe you, me , mark my words "😂

Trying to watch the trials, so I thank you very much for keeping me up to speed

I think what people don't get unless they have personally experienced something to this level of terror of finding your child and or spouse dead is what your reaction will be. Regardless of the defendant is guilty or not we all have an idea of how we think we will act but we truly don't know until we are in their position. I always would have thought I would become hysterical if my child past away but when my infant son passed I was so shocked I couldn't talk, cry or do anything. I was frozen in shock and trying to process. It became an out of body experience. My mind went crazy but my physical self was numb. It took a bit before I could cry or talk I just felt like a zombie. A persons reactions is a poor test of guilt or innocence. Until your in that situation you never know how you'll react cause it goes beyond what one can imagine.

If feels like he got mad when she asked if it’s a house or a mobile home 🤣🤣

He's been gettin' threats. He sure had that story ready.

Remember, it was at night, in the country side is dark, the police were trying to look at the scene with flash light and car light. It would have been difficult to secure the scene until you walked around and figured out the scene.

Two things; 1. he doesn't mention his other son on the call. How was he sure his other son was OK? 2. He doesn't mention being concerned that there could be someone with a gun waiting for him, or somewhere on the property. If it were me, I'd be worried there was still someone with a gun waiting to kill me too.

His cell phone popped out of his pocket.. then I picked it up thinking ...?

It's going to take more evidence to convince me that he went Grady from The Shining mode on his family.

This is a sad story, but if follow all of the bad things in this man's life at a certain point it leads to Motive, no doubt his wife added it all up in her mind and knew the hammer was coming down and spiraling out of control, she was no doubt leaving him trying to salvage what she had left and I believe Paul was listening to his mother... I live in a small town where gosip knows no bounds..

Look like he loved those guns more.

He was REALLY offended when the 911 operator asked if he lived in a house or mobile home.

Somewhere I’ve seen a theory that he was trying to defer his financial fraud case by this murder case.

People don't know what goes on behind closed doors.

When I hear about these kinds of murders I always wonder if the "killers" ever regretted murdering the victim/victims and was their life that bad because now they will spend their life in prison or even worse the death penalty. Was their life worse than prison or lethal injection? I don't know why I think about that but I always do. Like Chris Watts or Drew Peterson. Was their lives that bad that they chose to kill and do they regret their actions and wish they appreciated their previous life? It's too late regardless but it makes me wonder how they think.

😢it’s crazy out here

Being a psychopath, he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. So yes, he would speak openly to the police.

His face says it all."what have I done" .

You didn t mention the sudden 3 seconds change of tone on the audio" cry cry "hey how u doing" on a detached normal voice and the cry cry again

He checked Paul's pulse,,I mean that makes no sense at all.

He wanted to make sure they were dead, no recovery, before calling 911.

Today Jan 30 he AM confesses saying “I did them bad” it was a slip of his brain. The prosecution pointed this in court.

HE DID IT ... I feel it deep in my heart

This defense attorney looks like he just came off a weekend drunk and pulled out a suit and tie and headed to court for a double murder case.