'Don't let him fool you:' Prosecution closing argument in Alex Murdaugh trial | full video

Good morning, it's been a long

trial

, hasn't it? On June 7, 2021 at the Moselle property in Colleton County. Maggie Murdock and Paul Murdock were brutally and maliciously murdered at the Kennels by Alex Murdock. Paul, as you know, suffered two shotgun blasts. Maggie suffered five blackouts. gunshot wounds and after an exhaustive investigation there is only one person who had the motive who had the means who had the opportunity to commit these crimes and also whose guilty behavior after these crimes betrays them this offended person was the only person who was living a lie the The accused is the person upon whom a storm fell and the accused as a person whose own storm would actually mean consequences for Maggie and Paul and consequences for those who trusted him and that person is the murder of the accused Richard Alexander .

I know this has been a long

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because it is a complicated case and I am not going to talk forever. I promise, but I'm going to try to summarize this for you and the first thing I want to do is set the stage and to set the stage we have to understand a little bit about Alec Murdock and who he was and who he is. He was a person of singular prominence and respect in this community, but he is also a person who has been able to avoid responsibility throughout his life while he outwardly gave the illusion. of wealth in a very lucrative law practice, some bad land deals and that sort of thing exacerbated by the economic downturn led to some financial problems and then you had some big cases in the early 2000s 2011 2012 and all your partners and you You have heard testimony to this thought that it had resolved things, you have heard cases like the Thomas case, the Pinckney case, the Plowler case and the Badger case, but the evidence you have heard shows that the defendant became so addicted and so dependent on a velocity of money that the millions of dollars in legal fees he was receiving were not enough and then we started stealing and how he stole, he stole by billing personal expenses to the company, he stole by stealing from his own family, you heard testimony about the check which he stole from his brother Randy, but the main ways were two schemes he developed and the first was to make checks made out from the client's trust account to Palmetto State Bank to talk fast to the staff and talk fast to the customers. with those disbursements and then take it to Palmetto State Bank where his friend Russell Lafitte would convert them and use them to pay personal expenses and every time until the end it worked because the customer was also receiving a large check, they left there thinking that everything had been fine when he wasn't, but then in 2015 he opened the fake Forge account and then all he had to do was get disbursements in the name of the Forge account and once he did that he would convert them for his personal use and to do that, although he also had to talk fast to the staff and customers of Talk fast and that scheme continued until in the end everything fell apart, the other thing you have to understand is during this time when he is making millions of dollars and stealing millions of dollars.

He also borrowed millions of dollars from wherever he could, the bank, his law partner, his father, and it still wasn't enough and this Slow Burn went on and on until the boat accident happened in February 2019. And that changed everything about him. set things in motion. that was going to happen because of the criminal charges related to that case as well as the civil charges related to that case and after the boat case, things changed, the pace of his theft increased, in fact, that was when he stole the money from Tony Satterfield, who you heard about, eventually stole about 4.5 million between the Satterfields and others and unlike other cases, Tony Satterfield, who was the son of his long-time housekeeper, took everything the money, it took every bit of it and that was coming to a head as we moved forward. until the spring of 2021 because there was some publicity and Tony Satterfield told him that he was the defendant who contacted him in the spring of 2021 because there was some publicity and told him, "Hey, I'm still working on the case." Still working on the case, it's good, but the reality is that the defendant didn't have that money to pay back and he had a Savings Grace because, as you may have heard, they don't get paid until the end of the year and their Savings.

Grace was the ferry case that they tried in December, they got the verdict and they were paid in March and that's when she convinced Chris Wilson to send her those 792 thousand dollars in fees but the problem is that it only lasted about two months 792,000 only lasted about two months and then ran out of money again, meanwhile, in the boat case, you may have heard that Mark Tinsley was looking to get a huge personal recovery from Alec Murdock of $10 million because he thought, like many people, that he was rich and he had a lot of money and when they said no, he filed a motion to compel and he's heard testimony about whether or not that was granted, but that doesn't change the fact that that's what Mark Tinsley was looking for. to do and that boat case hearing was scheduled for June 10, May 2021 as we move into June, that's when Alex, the paralegal, received the expense check for the Ferris case, but not the check of fees.

He tried to tell Alec and couldn't. I didn't get a direct answer. I tried to tell Chris Wilson and he couldn't get a direct answer to his office so he went to Jeannie Seconder and Genie Seconder went to the partners and they couldn't get an answer on that either and they want an answer to that because they're worried because Alec has been talking about structuring fees and they are worried that he may be trying to hide assets because of the boat case so they don't want to be a part of it, all these things are coming to a head and his finances are falling apart and you heard from the banker there, you heard where his finances were on June 7, 2021 and you saw what happened after in a short period of time he was negative 347 thousand dollars on June 7, 2021 he was in the office, he was working on the boat case working on those financial disclosures when secondary Jeannie came in and confronted him about those fees that he no longer had and couldn't pay and on June 7, 2021 and tells his sister Jeannie that their father Randolph is passing through a very difficult time and while they could have said it was positive news, the reality is that he was very, very sick and had always been someone the defender could turn to. could borrow money and that pressure is also happening and on June 7, 2021, as all these pressures increased, the defendant killed Maggie and Paul and how do we know that we are going to talk in detail about that, but the line of Time he puts there, the forensic timeline he puts there, his family's use of weapons corroborates it and his lies and guilty actions then confirm it and we'll go over each of them in great detail before we get to that, though I want to finish. because in the wake of this, everything changes, all those things that we are reaching a critical point, they disappear immediately, it is a different world, now they no longer ask about ferry fares and you heard testimonies that Mark Tinsley does not believe that the case advances. have the same value because the sympathies of the case have changed after this tragedy and you heard that who would understand that better than Alex Murdoch, who does the same job, the ship case hearing disappears and everyone immediately joins together as if it were a murder and it worked. because he allowed him to borrow two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from Johnny Parker as a law partner, who of course wouldn't have given him that money if he knew what Alec was doing and allowed him to go to Palmetto State Bank and get 350,000 and then, just out of the books, it hadn't even been requested and send that money to Chris Wilson and convince Chris Wilson to pay another 192,000 of his own money and send an email to the company saying everything was fine and that made Another month or less until Annette Griswold found the first check in her office and Jeannie Seconder searched for the falsified accounts.

What happened as a result of that? What was Murdoch's reaction? One day after he was forced to give up his friend on September 3. Chris Wilson is trying to see him, he comes and sees him on September 4th and confronts him about what he's been doing and then within two hours the thing that happens on the side of the road happens and Alec is a victim again when the responsibility was at his door, he was a victim again. and he told an extremely detailed lie and even went so far as to draw a composite sketch of trust with the police of this abuser and the responsibility that came to his door again, try again, try to make it go away and it worked for a while.

People thought, "Oh my God, what happened here?", so we would still be suspicious of Alec, but this time everything fell apart a little faster because his own brother found out that he was trying to buy drugs. The case fell apart very quickly. This is the setup for what we see and what's happening seems like a story far removed from most people's experience because it's a different story like it's never been seen before, but the reason is that he's a different man than kind of The stories we've seen before are a different set of circumstances than we've seen before and it's certainly easy to understand when you have a middle-aged man who is apparently successful, who has a strong family legacy and who has a prominent in the community. and a reputation, but he is living a lie, he is living alone and that leads and can lead to those pressures being overwhelming and actions like this happening.

Cousins, husbands, unfortunately, have been killing wives for years and husbands killing their children, goes all the way back to King Herod Charlie, when those pressures increase and someone becomes a family in my life now computer entry Please, thank you, okay, we have to do a little law school. I'm certainly not a professor, but I need to address some of the concepts here and one of the most important concepts is the fundamental role one of the fundamental roles while you are here since the judge has told you that he is the judge of the law but you They are the judge of the facts and what does good Judge of the facts mean? a big part of that is you determine credibility, you determine credibility, you determine which witnesses you want to trust or not, you can trust one part of the testimony of one witness, the testimony of all the witnesses, one against many, many against one , it depends on each one. one of you individually to make determinations and decisions and then discuss them collectively in a group decision, but credibility is important, it is credible, what someone is telling you is credible and there are many things that you can consider in credibility, but some of them are The conduct. of the witness on the stand if the witness has reason to be biased if the witness's testimony was contradicted by one side or supported or corroborated by another if the witness has been dishonest in the past and can again believe the witnesses all against one against others and you may believe parts of a witness's testimony as you see fit.

The same goes for experts. Expert witness is a legal determination that allows them to give an opinion. Just because someone is qualified as an expert doesn't mean you have to accept. your opinion, you can judge that based on your assessment of the credibility, relevance and credibility of that testimony, there is nothing different when someone is an expert. Beyond a reasonable doubt. I talked about this at the beginning of the case and it is our responsibility. it is a burden we welcome this is how this system works we have to prove guilt Beyond a reasonable doubt and what is a reasonable doubt A reasonable doubt is a doubt that makes a reasonable, honest and sincere jury hesitate to act It is proof that a reasonable person does not hesitate to trust his affairs, but a reasonable doubt is not and leaves him firmly convinced of the guilt of the accused, but he does not have to overcome all possible doubts, he does not have to overcome all possible doubts. possible doubts.

I used to try a case against the defense attorney and he'd take a picture or something right here. I have the Mona Lisa and he would tear off a piece like that and say, ladies and gentlemen, that's a reasonable doubt and my answer is: you still know what this is. true, you still know what it is and that is a reasonable doubt. It's okay, if you still know what it is and are firmly convinced that it is your duty under the oath that you have taken as law, since the judge will give you the law to convectively. direct defense direct circumstantial directly proves the existence of the fact and circumstantial evidence is proof of a chain of facts and circumstances that indicate the existence of that fact and we talked a little bit about that at the beginning sometimes people in ordinary discussions will say oh, the case It is only circumstantial but the law says that it does not matter, circumstantial evidence can be as good as direct evidence, it is just as good, it does not make a distinction between that and the judge will accuse you of not requiring a higher degree of certainty or circumstantial evidence than that of direct evidence, the circumstances must be consistent with each other and when taken together, pointconclusively to the guilt of the accused and I gave everyone an illustration at the beginning, I'm not going to redo the whole thing, but I'm inside and you go out and it starts to rain and you know it's raining well because you have direct evidence that you're getting wet , but if you walk in and you're in a closed room and it suddenly gets dark and you hear thunder and you hear the wind rustle and you hear the rain falling on the roof and then after an hour or so you come out and the sun is shining but there are fallen branches on the garden and it is wet as far as the eye can see and there are puddles in the garden and puddles in the driveway, is there any reasonable doubt as to what happened?

Now it's raining again. I'll say it again, supposedly I guess someone could have sprayed the entire neighborhood with a hose and blown a fan to blow the wind down or both limbs down, it looks like wind, but that's not a reasonable downhill, ladies and gentlemen, circumstantial. the evidence can be as strong as the direct evidence is just as strong the law makes no distinctions based on circumstances alone okay, let's talk about murder murder is the intentional killing of someone with malice or foresight is the unlawful and intentional killing of any person by one with malice of foresight, the crime of murder is actually, as far as the elements are concerned, quite simple, the operative terms here, the most important terms are malice, which is the state of mind that the person must have and a foresight , but let's talk about that exactly.

Do they mean malice and could it be any of these? It may be hatred, ill will or hostility towards another, but it may also be the intentional performance of an unlawful act with the intention of causing harm in circumstances where the law would infer a bad intention, it could be general evil recklessness towards the life and safety of others, it could be an evil or depraved spirit and 10 in doing evil could be using firearms, shotgun and a blackout to blow someone up, that can be malice, ladies and gentlemen, if that is what As you decide, a forecast seems like it has to be planned and certainly planning would explain a forecast, but it can be conceived in the same moment, a fraction of a second or in conjunction with the act, so an anticipated failure does not require planning for it to happen. that malice happens. occur, all you have to do is exist in the moment just a fraction of a second or at the moment the ACT occurs, so that when the trigger is pulled, as long as there is the intentional performance of an unlawful act with the intention to inflict an injury, there would be a wrong. intention of evil recklessness that can be inferred from the circumstances of the case, then that is all you need and how to do that.

I said infer because people don't always shout what their intentions are, you have to infer it from the circumstances of the case. case itself look at the crime scene look at what happened look at the backstory look at all the circumstances that come together and you will be able to infer malice from those foreign drugs malison law school voluntary intoxication does not affect a person's ability to act with foresight malice that is a legal principle if you become intoxicated voluntarily it is not a defense against a crime and does not negate the malicious nature of that crime one becomes intoxicated voluntarily you are as responsible for your actions as when you are not intoxicated and the judge again takes the that the law comes from the judge but this is a legal principle that you will hear voluntary intoxication is not a defense against a crime and why does the law say that well you can't take whatever and deny responsibility for what I have done well according to the law.

I'm going to move through this quickly because we've already talked about it and just to schedule I'm going to have to stop my discussion so we can all eat um but uh and that will give us all of you a chance to step away from this for a while, but I'm going Let's go ahead and go over some of this stuff we just talked about, but very quickly. A storm is brewing in Alex's life. We talked about his family legacy. Have you heard about how? important he was to him and how important he was to this family and how he was in danger because of the voting case, the criminal charges and the civil charges that Legacy was in danger and also threatening to expose him for who he really was. was what would totally destroy his part of that Legacy losing his career losing his law license facing consequences like you've never seen he's also a successful attorney in a part-time prosecutor and as we move forward and we talk about the circumstances of this case and we talk about the crime scene and the timeline and everything else, think about it with that in mind that this is an individual who is trained to understand how to put together cases complex cases has been a prosecutor has committed complex car accidents understands the law that has been given to him

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s to jurors early, so when you have a defendant like this, think about whether this individual is building defenses and alibis.

He thought about his legal practice, he must have heard how lucrative it is here. I had to fight with him to get him to admit that he was rich and made over a million dollars a year. I'll let you all decide if that's rich or not, but he finally admitted that you know it wasn't strange for him to make so much money on top of that. of stealing and borrowing, on top of that, the important thing to remember again and I want to highlight this is that they understand the way the company worked, they get their money at the end of the year and then it's up to them to earn it. last and that's the big problem he had, that's why I had to get the ferry fields, he can't if he runs out of money in May, he won't do it unless he can borrow it or steal it, he's out of luck and the dogs were at the door, okay, we talked about this, he has, you heard, I think Genie described him as someone who had intentional chaos, we had the land deals, he's paying off this huge debt load, He constantly needs new money and this has been going on for over a decade, constant stress on a hamster wheel and the pressure of that would be extreme because it's been going on for so long, always having to be one step ahead of the game, always having to beg literally borrowing or stealing for over a decade to have the truth exposed that has been going on all that time the big cases like partners think he stretched out, straightened it out and paid his debts but they paid him millions of dollars, but he is also stealing, it is not enough to keep that. the hamster wheel is going abroad so borrow and steal the methods I mentioned, you got the PSB checks, you got the fake Forge, you got fake business expenses to manage the company card and your family and your stadium, every one of these depends on him being able to sit down and look someone in the eye and convince them that what they're doing is right when in reality that wasn't happening and all those clients trusted him based on that and we sat there and spent so and it may have been exhausting. and I apologize for that, but he couldn't tell you about a conversation he had that stuck with him, that's how easy it came to him, it's so relevant to your consideration or what do you have to tell you that's for all of you I decided not to.

I could name a conversation. I just had the same response he had rehearsed and I didn't want to talk about any of those people who trusted me while he looked you in the eyes and asked you to do the same at the bottom. not just the clients too, it's his staff, they're doing the paperwork, they're completing all that. He also had a boom of rapid conversation. Alex's situation, I think, is similar to a Ponzi and a Ponzi like a pyramid scheme, where he depends. about new money coming in to pay old investors and it works, it will work for a long time as long as you can keep that money coming in, but the moment you can't, the moment you run out of options, it crashes and burns. that's how every Ponzi crashes and burns and that's the situation fundamentally his finances were in and that's the situation that was coming up in June 2021. when he was on the scene with the victims minutes before they died and he lied to For everyone who wanted to hear about a ship case was brewing, other factors were emerging, each leading to that inevitable Day of Judgment.

You had the trial lawyers conference where he was confronted. Mark Tinsley was confronted by Alec. Alec, of course, denied it. Everyone is lying about Ellick. Alex even tells you the truth. although everyone who knew him had no idea who he was, no one knew who he really was, the people who came here and said we thought this about him, not a single person knew who he really was, that's how convincing he is, but he denies. confrontation when Mark Tinsley was like bowing down to Mark Tinsley, he's like what are you doing man with the boat case and Mark says you're going to have to pay money to the beach family, millions of dollars that Alex doesn't have , which is barely a year old. one step ahead in the game, he no longer has insurance coverage or at least not a large umbrella policy and why because his insurance company fired him after the Satterfield case insurance company thinks the money went to the guys from Satterfield, but it wasn't like that.

I don't know that he stole it all but they don't want to insure it anymore so he doesn't have that to help him pay for the beach case so what's the only hope he has and that's the Ferris case? He tries to get a verdict. in February 2021 792 thousand dollars and eventually he tells Chris Wilson I'm going to structure those which is a lie and they send him the fees in March and he spends two months but the shelf doesn't go away Mark says show us your books, if you're telling me that you're broke, I think their testimony was that they said he could probably come up with a million dollars, which I guess is broke for him, but it wasn't enough, so they refused and that's what leads to the motion to compel and there has been a lot of discussion about whether or not it will be granted with the judge or not, what we do know is that Mark Tinsley said that is what he was looking to do and that he was looking to do it. because the defense had told him that he had no money, so he asked him to prove it.

None of us believe that knowing what we know about you in this community will show it. I can't allow anyone to paint his financial records because it's all going to be obvious that Ford's account is going to be opened immediately he can't let that happen everything will end up losing his career he will lose his livelihood he will face investigations and consequences like never before like you've been able to avoid your entire life, but if you can stay one step ahead just one more month and one more day, then you'll never have to face the responsibility you have to face.

The hearing is scheduled for June 10, 2021. And there is no one here. to argue to you that it is definitely going to be granted, all we are arguing is what the witnesses said they intended to do and as you have seen in court over the last six weeks, things happen and a process begins and once that the process begins there is a conclusion there is a conclusion and then you heard from Tony Satterfield who took the stand and talked about the fact that there was some coverage on this case as we move into the spring of 2021 and you hear from Alec and Alec Blasterman They say yes, we hope this case moves forward and they saw the text message to that effect when the reality was that it had already been stolen, how are those ladies and gentlemen going to get paid?

They are millions of dollars. They are millions of dollars. and in time they will realize that this money has already been paid the insurance company thinks it is going to the right place at some point the question will be asked and that alone is going to bring everything down Ferris' case is when his The assistant legal finds the expense check and not the fee check and I already told you this part of the story and you heard the testimony, but it triggers that investigation from the signature, so now we have this on top of everything else we have.

What you mention is that this is unlike anything I've ever experienced. He has always been able to stay one step ahead of the game, but after the racket, his appetite increased enormously, he started stealing millions of dollars and now he is running out of options and all of these factors are converging. They're all converging and then converging in a week, one day and then it comes, his father is in the hospital, there's a confrontation with Jeannie. Alec tells him that he manages to avoid the conversation by saying that Mr. Randolph is terminal, he of course denies it, so I guess Genie. lying about him too but that's what she says it happens he's working on the boat case and then tragedy happens and it worked it's not the only reason but it's part of the reason the pressures on this man are unbearable and they were all reaching a crescendo the day his wife and son were murdered by him that day and as a result of this Everything changes people stop asking about these things the community has changed as expected people were worried they are afraid they are worried and everything has changed the reaction of the shelf has disappeared and all that has changed and that's why Mark Tinsley thought his casehad finished.

This may seem true, but who would understand better than him that this is exactly the kind of work he did? His skills as a lawyer were understood. the emotional value of a case understand the sympathies of a case if you have a sympathetic plaintiff and an unsympathetic defendant who is in the civil world, that is a big case, but if they are reversed if they change if suddenly your defendant is more sympathetic it changes it , it completely changes Mark Tinsley's position in this case for the beach family that Alec was going to have to pay money and that's what he told you from the stand, he said in the second that I was alakabin a victim of some suspect or some random vigilante, the entire case has changed and I am not taking the same position.

I'm not trying to demand that level of recovery. He gets 750, well he gets 600 of them, he finally gets a loan of 750. He convinces Chris Wilson to get off the ferry, and the main thing he did after this was make sure he could give Chris Wilson enough money to send an email to the law firm saying, "Hey, everything is fine." I got it, everything is fine and that's what the law firm thought. The main thing he did after the murders of his wife and son was to make sure he stayed one step out of the game again because he now had more time. time he didn't have on June 7th but he had it now and that was the first thing he did, the first thing he did was keep the hamster wheel going.

I know it seems like a lot, but you have to consider the unique circumstances of this particular moment, this particular man who has proven time and time again that he will do anything to keep the hamster wheel going and avoid liability and has been doing it for More than 10 years, he finally reached a point he had never reached before. before, of course, the hearing on the propulsion motion is cancelled, who would move forward with that in the wake of what happened? That disappears. I don't think you heard from the testimony up there. It won't be rescheduled until long after all. accidents and burns in September don't even get rescheduled because of this, you don't have to worry about that either and the potential he had to expose who he was because the moment someone looks at his accounts the moment his own partner Danny Henderson Look at his accounts as when representing him he says well let me see he can't do that he can't do that he can't even show it to his own partner because they are going to see what is going to happen he can't allow that to happen or everything will fall apart, he loses everything, including that legacy you heard from people up there, it's very important to him, more important than anything else.

I'm not going to go through all of this, but this is the timeline and you can see how we and I will let everyone see that, but you can see how it plays out, how this hamster wheel continues, how he always has to be a step ahead of the game, you know, we've talked about redbeard and zero night on those are the land deals that went wrong, they cancel them, but you have Palmetto State Bank, you know, still deal with it, then appoint conservative Russell Lafitte and borrows up to a million dollars from the farm girls' accounts without their knowledge and then has to steal money from the badger case where he is already earning a huge amount in legal fees.

He has to steal money from the badger case to pay the farm girls before they turn 18. and then there is an accounting for that and then you open the falsified account and continue 338,000 by Dion Martin Johnny Bush Manuel Sanderson Richard 225 is maxing out a million dollar line of credit the only way to stay afloat is to borrow and steal is maxing out a million dollar line of credit, he stole some more money, but was back to where he was in March 2018. He has now maxed out not only a million dollar line of credit, but also a line of credit of 600,000, a line of credit almost like a maxed out credit card. then the boat accident happens and look what happens with the figures 3.7 million 1.1 million one million dollars and then you have the double homicide, these are some of the evidence, as you remember, there will be their statements and they are in evidence which shows the assets of the defendants on June 7, 2021 and the red ones are his liabilities, the one is green but it is negative and then this is where he was a couple of months later, he was banned for 750,000 and still ended up with $347,000 in the hole that some of that had to cover, I think it was called the most generous overdraft policy ever conceived because, I mean, to be fair, even though you still got a five-dollar overdraft fee, okay, what else do we have?

Because we have talked about many things about finances. and I know there's been a lot of that, but it's really the only way to understand all the things that were affecting this successful middle-aged professional man who had all these pressures on him like no one had ever gotten a good look at. the pills claims he has had a pill addiction for 20 years what does he say about it he says it makes him paranoid says it makes him agitated he says opiates give him energy using common sense about that but he also says and even said this in the phone interview down the road that withdrawals will force you to do anything to get rid of them.

That's common sense too. We know how powerful opioids can be and how opioid addiction can be extremely powerful. Withdrawals are not a drug illness. He may be extremely powerful, but he also says that he's been taking a thousand milligrams a day and he's trying to blame all the stuff on that, but that's not what these records reflect; They reflect an insatiable desire for money on a hamster wheel that has been running for a long time. time and you really don't see the escalation of your drug trafficker until March 2021. I would also ask you that one of the principles of the juries is common sense, that's what you are here for, it is for an individual and then for a common group. sense common sense a thousand milligrams a day does it seem like you can survive?

He sat there on that stand and told them that's what he was taking, and as we go through this process, we'll talk about what he said on the stand. and how many times along the way he looked you in the eye and didn't tell you the truth he's very good at it his own partners said he was very, very good at it I'll leave it to you to decide if a thousand milligrams a day you can survive the opiates and if Even if it were, you could still go to work, have a successful practice and then, on top of that, get involved in these complex conspiracies to steal and deceive everyone and live a life and how people outwardly think you are.

Do you know who you say you are in public? If I were taking a thousand milligrams a day? Does that make common sense? I present to you, ladies and gentlemen, it does not have it. I have no doubt he was taking opiate pills, but I think it seemed like. You and I would defer to you to decide whether or not he looked you in the eye and claimed an amount that is inconsistent with anything else we know about this man that is actually inconsistent with survivability as a matter of common sense, ever. could function at the level he's been functioning keeping up with these pressures, staying one step ahead for over a decade, if he were taking that much money, he would present you with just another lie that he would present to you as a lie that he is trying to make you believe.

Be sympathetic to him as if the drug was the cause of the money and the cause of his problems, when the reality is that it wasn't. This has been going on for a long time and the finances have proven to be different, but what else is there? I have seen the interviews. We're going to play some clips from these interviews, but I'm not going to play them all again. You've seen them, but if you have any questions, go back and watch them. He talks about being paranoid. listen, look at those interviews with when he's with Dave Owen, he doesn't look like he's withdrawing from any drugs, his responses are appropriate, he doesn't show any paranoia, he's smooth, he's focused on the events he's focused on trying to get information about the law enforcement case, which is interesting in itself, why he's so focused on that and in Savannah, where he was supposedly detoxing, he sat down, as he heard testimony, with a composite sketch artist and went through the whole process . come out with this photo that I swear is not me, how do you do that?, how do you do that?, if he is on drugs.

So why did he tell you that, ladies and gentlemen, why did he look you in the eyes and say? You that while I was sitting on that stand trying to explain what was happening, it is also interesting that in one of the interviews with the authorities there were three interviews on June 8, June 10 and August 11 before arriving at the side from the road where he mentions that Paul was a little detective, it's very interesting for him to mention that because you heard from Marion Proctor's sister Maggie that Maggie called Paul and that the little detective specifically in reference to Paul being paying attention trying to stop Alec from taking pills, why would he bring that up?

It's interesting to mention that because that's what he was referring to and what do we know, we know that in May, if we talk about all the pressures that are coming on him, all these financial things that we've talked about. grueling Hampshire wheel that's been running forever, the need to beg at the bar and still be one step ahead and you're running out of options, on top of that, we know in May that Paul sent him a text telling him that Mom found some pills, we need to talk. mom found some pills and we need to talk about another pressure from Paul and Maggie on him and if you look at the text messages from the weekend of the ball game on June 7th and those are evidence that Alec is not at the game and is answering texts and going ahead and Maggie says "Don't come if you're feeling sick" and he says "well you know, I think I can check out later" and then he says they made me leave at one, I'll tell you I present, it is a reasonable option. inference, they were on him right now, they were watching him like Hulk opiate, the most powerful of withdrawals and everything is coming to a head, including this lack of money, running out of options, he is not paid significantly until December, she already stole the reasonable speeds and spent that money in two months she has a habit of expensive pills and the responsibility and the consequences will undo everything in her life everything that is her self identity everything that matters to her she doesn't care lie to his partners and his family and his friends and his clients if that will delay the responsibility for him to make the heartbeat and all that is about to come undone yes sir okay ladies and gentlemen we will take an hour and 15 minutes for the lunch please don't discuss the case well I hope everyone had a good lunch motive means opportunity guilty Acts that is the basic way to determine identity so let's talk a little now about the means the tools to commit the crime family weapons were used to commit this crime and this is forensic evidence that was presented to you first, we will talk about the blackout and you have heard testimony that there were two blackouts purchased in December of the 16th and that one disappeared around Halloween of the 17th years before these murders and that a replacement without a thermal scope was purchased in April 2018. three blackouts that the defendant purchased can only explain one of them and it is this third blackout that is in question.

I say this if you listened to the defendant in his various statements and are very concerned to say no, they didn't have a blackout, there wasn't a blackout along with them even though he slipped up once and said yes, we were looking for Hogs . and you listened to his legal partners and you did the same thing saying yes you can search for pigs during the day very very worried at the beginning of the statements and saying they didn't have the blackout they just had a .22 gun and he also said eventually he says, well , I think I replaced it, well, I guess I replaced it, I'm sure I will replace it if you listen to his various, very vague and confusing statements about this third blackout, and he told friends, Paul's friends, who, one of both of whom testified. but Will Love in particular and what Will Love said.

The defendant said the guy disappeared around Christmas 2020. Will Love said no. I was with Paul. I was with Paul during turkey season, which is in the spring. I was with Paul in Türkiye. season and we sat on the steps right outside the house that everyone went to today, right at that side entrance that goes to the gun room and if you look down you can see how they were digging a pond and how it could be shot. in that area and they set up some targets to aim at and we were shooting that other gun, we were shooting that other gun, that replacement gun and it had a red dot sight, not a thermal sight, but a red tint, a red dot that is not well shooting a knife, but they were shooting him and citing him with the Red Dot, the tan gun that was with Paul while they were shooting that gun right there and what did Jeff Croft who testified before you find there worn cases or TheCasings resist the cases right where Will said he and Paul were firing that gun just a couple of months before the murders.

The grain blackout rounds 147 of the murders and those rounds and empty boxes and the photographs are as evidence and the rounds are as evidence were found everywhere. property s b 147 grain blackout

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clips found, empty boxes found and cases also found s p 147 grain blackout rounds found across the street at his shooting house, two separate locations on the property, but what is really important again goes back to what will be I said I was with Paul when we fired that spare gun right there and you heard forensic scientist Paul Greer testify that the six cases, elements two through seven, the six cases found around Maggie that They killed her were loaded, extracted and expelled through the same firearm. who shot those weather boxes right outside the door where you all went today and at the shooting range across the street a family power outage killed Maggie was present only a couple of months before the murders disappeared there now a gun disappeared family member the defendant I can't explain Mackey's death, but what about the shotgun, the 12 gauge shotgun that was loaded with a double gauge federal dollar and a number two dry lock, steel shot.

Well, first of all, you heard that the two guns that Paul favored were often carried for this shotgun here and the blackout, those were his two guns, his favorite guns, other than his deer rifle, the defendant had that. gun with them when Daniel Green, the first officer on the scene, showed up and shotguns, as you heard, are a little different than rifles and the conclusion was that the two projectiles fired that were inside the feed room that killed Paul had similar class characteristics. with that Benelli Super Black Eagle three but insufficient individual identification marks to equal or exclude it that shotgun there, but what else did you hear about shotguns?

Paul had the Spinelli Super Black Eagle 3. That was his gun, a friend came over. a strap Nolan playing Nathan tooten will love Rogan everyone identified that since Paul's gun is the one Alec had it has Maggie's DNA and blood on the receiver that you heard from the DNA experts and it was loaded with a 12 gauge and a 16 gauge badly loaded around what Also, did you hear? You also heard about the Super Black Eagle and heard from Nolan and Nathan that this was Buster's weapon. This is the Super Black Eagle 2. that had the Mojo sticker and was recovered during the search for the sledding residents.

The next day, what else did you hear? He heard from Nathan and Nolan that the defendant's favorite weapon was a Super Black Eagle. Do you remember Nathan reviewing each of these weapons and how knowledgeable he was about the differences between them? Look for each one in Moselle. 12 gauge, no Super Black Eagle One family weapons. The family weapons killed these victims and also, like the sb 147, well, not so much, but they are in evidence. Federal Double-ought Buck and Winchester Dry Lock Steel Two Shot rounds were recovered. in various places on the property, what does that mean? I started, we talked about motive, it means the defendant had the means to commit these crimes at the beginning of the case.

I told him about some of the tests I would hear and had. I picked up my cell phone and there was a lot of evidence, but the last witness you heard in the state case in Chief was Peter Rudolsky and he looked at that timeline and what does it show? Motive means opportunity to commit the crime and what it means. This timeline shows this is all the information, the various sources of information that were on this timeline and let's see what it shows. The first thing here is that the defendant arrived in Moselle at six 42. Now I will say one thing that I already heard a lot of testimony about what he said, about the hours, what time he got home, what time he went to the office, how long was in Almeda, certainly people can have some variability in evaluating that he was almost never right, he was almost never right 6 42 arrives in Moselle Paul according to his extraction arrives there around 704. and around 703 we see the steps of the accused registering in his phone and then for the next 30 minutes or so we see a symmetry.

Overall symmetry between the steps between Paul's phone and Alex's phone as he described walking around the property at 7 39. We have the creation of the Snapchat

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that the clothes were on when he finally recovered and watched the interview that was shown to the defendant. who had provided him with his clothes that night and the first time. started talking about changing clothes and we'll talk more about that later again 755 to 805 we have some symmetry with the steps we have Paul Murdo's battery life and you heard from the experts who have reviewed Paul's use that like many kids of the age, he's constantly flirting with him being short, but that doesn't stop you from using him and you see that and the evidence in this case too 756 again, that's when Paul sends the Snapchat to his friends and then in 808 we see Paul leave the kennel area. at 806. and 808 go down to residence 805-809 around that time Paul gets there at 808, that's the last step of activity on Alex's phone and it's the last step of activity until 902. which we'll talk about in One minute, Alex's phone has virtually no activity during that time period and he also has no cell activity from 652 to 904.

Which is right in that time period that we'll talk about in a moment, so while he was eating dinner, he heard speak to the accused. having dinner, Paul, it's that residence, if you look here from 8 14 to 8 35 and again that timeline display, there's a big one and then there's a condensed one and all of this is there, uh, in evidence for everyone to see . he is at that residence from 8 14 to 8 35. Now the defendant again, despite having a photographic memory, a new photographic memory about things that he told everyone and that people are hearing for the first time, I still can't remember specific things about Maggie's activities.

As for when Maggie arrived and what they talked about, he can remember dropping his phone on the console, but he can't remember things like that, he wants to remember things that will help him try to explain to you why he never told the truth about maybe the most important thing she could tell the police, but she can remember very specific details, she still makes mistakes, but she arrives at 8 17 in Moselle, they are already there, how do we know? Because her cell phone disconnects from her Mercedes at 8.17 and that's when she starts showing slips and Paul, what is she doing?

She still uses her phone as usual, we see the battery life, but she still sends snaps, receives snaps, blessings, sends them to her friends, all these friends right here, receives these snaps throughout the whole process. that time from 8 17 to 8 30. she continues to communicate with her friends using her phone as usual and then what happens around 8 30, Maggie's phone records some steps and consistent with that consistent with her and Paul going down to the kennels riding to the kennels we see Paul's phones start showing steps and then down here at 8 38 who is in the area of ​​the kennel where those points are and if you look at that particular slide from 838 to 844, that will be the latest GPS rating on Paul's phone 844. you heard from Rogan and you heard from Rogan as he references this timeline and Rogan tells you and told you from that witness stand that he was having a conversation with Paul about the cash and the story of the dog they were having an active conversation about. that Paul calls Rogan at 8 40 and they are talking about it and Rogan says send me a FaceTime but if it doesn't work send me a

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that 844 minutes and 14 seconds we have the FaceTime right here but it only lasts 11 seconds and then at 8 44 55 it was when the video of the kennel was recorded the last 50 seconds at the beginning of this investigation, as the testimony will call, they did not have Paul's password and they could not get in and heard the defendants August. 11th statement that when asked about Rogan he said he may have heard Alec on the phone during this time, he said well I would be surprised if that was the case because the authorities didn't have this video from the kennel, they didn't have this kennel video until april 2022. when paul's phone was finally unlocked and that changed everything, why did everything change?

The opportunity to be at the crime scene when the murders occurred. The opportunity and, more importantly, expose the defendant's lies about the most important thing there could be. I told the police when was the last time I saw my wife and my son alive why in the world what father and husband so innocent and reasonable they lie about it and they lie so early if they didn't know it was there and they could always say right. Rogan must be wrong. I'm surprised, not if my times are right, was what he said. Rogan told you that he was waiting for that video right there.

That was supposed to be the next thing to happen. Send me the video because we were worried about the dog's cash. At the end he talked about how his girlfriend was going to call a vet or she had some association with one, it was an active conversation right then and there and what's still going on. Paul still texts his friends, you may remember that was an opening statement. the defense attorney said oh he was texting after that video for 10 minutes it's not 10 minutes just a minute down here 8 48 58 84901 that was the last time paul's phone was unlocked and what do we know, we know the defendant was there just minutes before at the crime scene with the victims 8 49 01 Paul's phone crashes, he never sends that video to Rogan, did you hear Rogan say that when he saw that video he heard him say that that's the video I was supposed to get, that's the video my friend was supposed to send me and he never did, in fact Rogan answers 8 49 35 and says see if you can get a good photo of him Marianne his girlfriend wants to send it to a girl we know is a vet tell her to sit and stay and not move around too much even though this is an active conversation with paul who you heard from several friends was one who responded and used a cell phone.

Paul never reads it Paul never reads it. What happens on 8 49 31. We were 849 I won for Paul 849.31 Maggie reads Lynn's response to the group thread about Mr. Randolph and then her phone locks forever and is never unlocked again until she gets it back the next day here six eight, I think 110. 849 for Both, the accused, after listening to several people from his family, friends and lawyers, got on the stand and listened to that video and said that it was him in that video, they got on the stand for first time and they said, "Okay, I was there." to do what he does all the time and that is make up a new lie when he is faced with evidence that he can no longer deny and the only reason he did it is because all those Witnesses on the witness stand said yes. that's him, he's there, why would he lie about that, ladies and gentlemen, why would he even think of lying about that if he were an innocent man, why would he even think about that, but he got up on the stand and told them a story and we?

We're going to talk more about that story in a minute, but his story was that he didn't want to go down there and then he went down there and he came down very quickly and they loaded him with the chicken and he came right back and you can't remember anything he talked to Maggie about. I can't remember his conversation at dinner, but he is very sure of the fact that he went there and came straight back, but even if you give him the benefit of the doubt, his story doesn't make sense because the dog pound video is 50 seconds long, he ends up at 8 45 45 even if you give him the benefit of the doubt that he could take care of the chicken and maybe the fastest dog and chicken of all time.

Chase and put that chicken. You get up and don't say a word to Maggie and Paul and get in that golf cart and drive back to the house. Where does that put you? It puts you right at 8 49. At that point he claims he came in and managed to dose for a second then goes up to 902. maybe the fastest snap ever seen, it doesn't make sense ladies and gentlemen it's a new story that fits the facts that he can no longer deny about a person that not a single person close to him knew who. There really wasn't a single person close to him that hadn't been lied to by this man and I would tell you this is the most brazen, but we'll talk more about that in a second, what happened at 8 49 and "We've all been in the scene that the door to the big room is probably a little tighter than this.

You saw the evidence from Kenny Kinsey and everyone else that Paul was clearly in the middle of that feeding room. Nobody there with him. that room there is no defensive wound, he has his hands down and shoots in the chest and anyone who did that would probably think that he took matters into his own hands because of this bug shot, but for some reason he was sincere like this and passed , there was a million chance that he wouldn't kill him, Alec, the lawyer, Alec, the prosecutor, was thinking about that, we'll see, he's making an alibi and.he's also fabricating the fact that two weapons are used, but we know. unlike the expert they call from Connecticut, where they can't even get ARS, who doesn't know about the people running around the property, doesn't know about Paul and the two guns he likes to use, doesn't know about this family and how common those guns are together he says well his only conclusion is that I'm going to be practical for someone to just fire the magazine but this is him this is Alec the attorney's prosecutor and he's thinking about this he's thinking about this he's going to use two guns because it's going to confuse people, maybe there were two shooters, but again, it doesn't make sense two family guns, but believe that Paul is in shock and you heard the testimony that Paul appears at the door of the feeding room.

Is Alex leaving that? shotgun to capture Paul's blackout and startle and that's why the angles are like that and he catches a pole like that and goes up to the roof while you listen to Kenzie's testimony and the blows blow his brains out and what happens with Maggie, right ? here we see activity on Maggie's phone, you heard about the sandal prints, you heard from Kenny Kinsey about the mark on his leg from the Polaris, bye, the ledge next to the feeding room, you've seen the diagrams and photos of the crime scene of all that. Those cases are in that area between the feeding room door and where Maggie was found.

You heard that Maggie had no defensive wounds. You also heard from Paul, a brother, about that first shot at close range with no indication that he detected a threat from the person who fired that gun and why because he was the same with Maggie because Maggie sees what happens and comes running over there running towards her. Baby, probably the last thing on his mind is thinking that he was the one who did this. She runs towards her baby as he recovers the blackout and opens fire at point blank range again with no defensive wounds and she takes those two shots that she heard.

Dr. Rieber says we are parallel and that wrinkles her, in those cases you can see them move and take that shot that goes over here and she falls flat and then there is the shot in the back of the head, the malice is that malice , ladies. and gentlemen, is that malice to do that is that intentional harm to another with bad intention with bad intention to do those things clearly I present to you clearly it is malicious clearly it is malicious she was running towards her baby she heard that shot and she was running towards her baby when it was run over by the only person for whom we have conclusive evidence who was at that scene a few minutes earlier and who lied about that very fact until he could no longer do it to you last week.

Alec told you he went there in the golf cart, we'll talk about this a little bit, but they had their expert come here with the two, five, two people and everyone else was sitting in a golf cart, but he gets in the golf cart, but what we don't do. As I said before, I don't see any activity on his phone until 902. The crime occurred around 8 49 to 853 there in the feeding room, exhibit 516 of Stakes. It's just a diagram. Remember what Roger Dale Davis did about the kennels and the hose. there and how they didn't place me like he would if you're going to wash it real quick, what better place to do it: the water, the pictures of the water and states 199 and 190.

It wouldn't take much time to get naked and take care of taking that cart and go back to the house and then at 902, the defendant there, who didn't even admit until force two that he was at the scene, is suddenly as busy as he's ever been 902-906 283 steps 903 we see that the system starts in the car and that could mean it is close to the car. He came back with Maggie's phone and put it in that car and then what do we see from 902 to 906 not only does he take 283 steps in that four minute period but he's also making calls like crazy and I asked him, I told him what were you doing, what you were doing, and although he has a photographic memory about things that he thinks will convince you that I couldn't answer what he's doing during this four-minute period that is so illustrative of what we're talking about here that for four minutes he's not just giving 283 steps, this is a defense, exhibition, defense, 156, 283 steps and they put us in the distance.

I heard that the distance is not that precise, but it illustrates the point that it is 208 meters, you know roughly, it's a yard, a little more, a little less, I don't remember, but let's say it's 600 feet, it's a lot and he couldn't. I don't remember what he was doing. Asked. You've been on a treadmill. Were you doing jumping jacks? What were you doing at the same time you were calling all these phones? Why do you call several times? We can see right here that he calls. Maggie, call Randolph, call Maggie again during that whole four-minute period where he was moving but couldn't remember what he was doing, just getting ready, it's the prosecutor, the lawyer, making his alibi because he knows it has to come quickly to Almeda.

You have to compress those timelines and that's exactly why you knew you had to lie about being in the kennels to begin with, you have to compress those timelines so that you convince whoever is in the future that you couldn't have done it, you have to compress it and that's why you're doing all that at the time and there's a 905 56 startup in the Suburban and then this is interesting. Maggie's phone has that orientation changed to Portrait two seconds before Alex II's call comes into her phone if he is some random vigilante. vigilante who knew how to hide there and counted on the family's weapons being there, did he have ESP?

Do you have ESP to move that or was it Alec turning the phone when he got to the Suburban checking while fabricating his alibi that he was arriving and We saw how quickly he was out the door when the police arrived and then in his first interview, how he immediately refers to his telephone and, furthermore, you have heard about Alec, you have heard from the Witnesses that he went to the pound but he did not do it. taking his phone is that the lawyer and the prosecutor also made sure that his phone was not with him when he went there, the testimony heard.

It would be unusual for him not to take that phone to Kennels and then start this call. Here too, all those calls, all those steps when his phone finally goes off just minutes after he was at the scene with the victims and he lied about it and he's very busy, but let's take him at his word again, why the hell if he's calling? Whether he's so busy and so worried that he's calling her so many times in a four-minute period, why wouldn't she stop by Kennels? Why wouldn't he drive there? Just say: Hi Max, I'm going to Alameda, what are you doing?

Hi Paul, do you want to go? Why is he so busy and making so many calls but he doesn't drive less than a minute there to see what they are doing? Why wouldn't he do that? I've heard Marion's testimony, you even heard it from the defendant's own mouth about whether or not Maggie was going to go with him now. Meda said Allah might actually ask him to come home that night, which he denies and said in a statement he found out about. Later that was the case, but you saw Blanca's text and heard from Marion that Alec wanted Maggie to come home that night, make sure she was being mean about all that, why wouldn't she turn around and drive up there?

She just she was there. in the golf cart, why didn't she drive there? Why is he so anxious about having missed calls with her and she was just there and didn't drive there in roughly the same general time period that he lied until he tried to tell her what he told her? you from the stand last week right here the Suburban connects to Alex's iPhone, calls Maggie at 906 52 and is entering the Suburban right at that moment Maggie's later life goes from 907 to 931 and she has heard the testimony of the various experts on the backlight and then it leaves Mozell Road at 90706. this all fits together, it's moving on 908 36, it's right here at 42 miles per hour and there's the location of Maggie's phone and then 908.42 is passing and on 908 58 just 20 seconds after almost being there, he sends a text message to Maggie's phone and tells her I'm going to check it, I'll be right back, that text wasn't read.

There has been a lot of discussion by all the experts about the backlight problem and each and every one of them said that there are many variables about that light turning on, each and every one of them said that it will not register a change of orientation to unless that light is on and you've listened to every single expert about those variables and the fact that there's no guarantee that's the case. it's either going to show up or it's not going to show up, and you heard Paul mcmanagle on that topic and he was questioned about that and everything else, but it's just a common sense determination of how iPhones work and how that elevated feature works. it's set up to be picked up by a real person in the normal course, it's not set up to necessarily respond to a violent movement like flipping it over, each of the experts testified that each of them did and other than that you would have to accept the fact. that Alec was driving moments before that moment, all of this, all of these circumstances would have to run contrary to reasonable inferences in this case, he showed up there and testified on these issues as to the fact that there is no guarantee in The fact It's that chances are that if the phone is thrown violently, flipped, flipped, or whatever, it won't turn on and that's consistent with what all the other experts said. 907 to 922, the defendant is on his way to Alameda and you heard Mr.

Rutowsky's testimony. about this Agent Rudolsky is setting 74 miles per hour that night on that particular route why is he going to hurry that's faster than you drive to work why is he in a hurry because he knows he has to compress that timeline and then along the way he's making Alibaba making these short calls 60 seconds he calls Chris Wilson calls John Marvin Chris Wilson calls him back he's on the phone all the time he says to one of them hey, I can't get through to Maggie on phone, says something like they are very short, doesn't talk much and then we come down here at 9 20 there is a 131 second call which means the call ended at 9 22.45 and that is also when we see the vehicle go into Park, that's when we have the arrival in Almeda as well and you heard from the defense witnesses that although people parked back there, okay, also near these structures there is that line right there, but what do we see from 9 22 at 9 32?

We have 195 steps. We have him calling Libby Murdoch who will call the house two minutes later and then from there we have 9 31 and 9 32, we have system starts in the Suburban which the experts have heard could be due to having that key remote. in your pocket and we will walk near the car 9 22 to 9 32 are the steps in 931 you have two starts of the system and what did you hear from Shelley that she called but it still took several minutes before she came? That's about six minutes, meanwhile, what's so busy there? I'll see him in the meantime, Rogan is trying to call his friend without success, he sends the message.

Maggie tells Paul to call me. Neither of them can answer. He's still a busy guy. at Alameda 935 and 9 45 we have 60 steps, we also got another one at 9 36 around the beginning of that time period, another hit at the start of the system 936 at 9 41. Down here, about a five minute period, we have another hit and then at 9 43.05 the Suburban moves, besides he is not there for a long time and he moves a lot and he is sitting next to that car, well, he is in Alameda, he told the authorities several stories about his trip there, you heard Michelle Smith talk, the ones you heard about. she talks about him trying to tell her how long he had been there, he says he was just trying to tell her the truth but she didn't feel that way and the blocker didn't feel the same way when he tried to talk to her about what she was wearing that night, They are both people who have worked for that family for a long time, but he is a busy guy all this time leaving Alameda.

We have pause 944 with no seconds at 9, 44 and 54 seconds and that is during the time period he calls. That Maggie's phone again, this is the time period that she remembered it because I asked her in Cross and she remembers very specifically that her phone fell on the console and that whole story is that they are real ladies and gentlemen, or did she Are there any details? on the fly when you can't remember more important things like what was the last conversation you had with your wife and son when you flew to the kennels and came back what did you talk about at dinner what were you doing from 902 to 906 those are questions that don't wants to respond, but what reasonable person would remember those things.

Wouldn't you replay in your mind every day the last conversations you had? Why would you remember that console story? Because he lies convincingly and easily and he can. do it in the blink of an eye and you will have heard testimonies that he has been doing it to all the people who trust him for years and he did it to all of you. He's making an alibi. It's smart. He is a good Lord. His family. he has a

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history, he understands these issues, that's why this case is acase that had to be resolved in this particular way because you know what to do to try to prevent evidence from being collected and if so, listen to his statements again and listen to the questions that he asks, he asks questions like that, he is trying to find out what has the police, what do you know, it's a prosecutor trying to fabricate his alibi and we see this again because Paul, text me, call me honey, of course, none of that. he read or responded and then at 952-15 he calls Chris Wilson, call me if you're active, call me if you're active and Chris calls back and they talk for about two minutes including the two minute connection time and what does Chris say Wilson?

Well, he says he. It was a normal conversation, well of course it's this guy he's convincing, but what does Chris say? The only thing they talked about was Chris bringing up a case and then Alec said, Hey, I have to go and then I'll see her. Alex says hi, I'm trying to get home. I can't reach Maggie on the phone. I called her like six times. Paul doesn't answer either. Alex said he said, call me if you're awake and he said, did Chris say that? Alex said: I have to ask you a question or let's talk about this.

No. Chris brought up a case and it was Monday. He was fabricating an alibi. He is calling anyone who answers the phone for these short conversations. And it's the first of the The first things that come out of his mouth in the first interview look at my phone I called this person I called this person I called this person I called the president he's making the salad body too during this whole period of time relevant that you see in Dylan Hightower extraction you will see that over and over again all these call logs that are deleted from the extraction were deleted what happened on June 10, what happens with that on the way back?

These are defense tests 141 and 142. Rolling pretty hard at 75 to get there and I'm sure the defense will point out that those 80 miles per hour were a peak and it still runs pretty good there, why are you going to rush in the dark?going 80 miles an hour at 9 51 42 rolling 80 when he texts Chris, call me if you're awake because the top speed when he texts me is Channel One, he gets to Alameda and this It's going to be important. Rogan, of course, is trying to call Paul. and he sends a text to Paul, which is not read, but he hits Paul's phone and then says Almeida, sorry, that's obviously back in Moselle, he gets there, he's in and out of the park since 2200, which is 10 o'clock until 1001 43. call Maggie at 1003-58 and then at 100506 go to Kennels at 1005 57 arrive at the kennels about a minute later, let's say a minute in a Suburban how long is it going to take a 1005 57 golf cart arrives at the Kennels and 1006-14 is the 911.

Now there are many discussions with him about that, but in his statements with what he told his legal partners, they talked in great detail about his activities that night, They even lied to them about going. to the kennels it was very clear that he got out of the car and went and checked on Paul and Maggie one time he said to see if they were breathing and another time he said it was a pulse check. You've seen the horrible wounds they had. I have suffered 19 seconds, that is enough time for a shocked human being to encounter the same process he is seeing, get out of the car, go there, check both bodies and then call 9-1-1.

History has already changed. again because he's faced with this evidence the reason he's so fast the reason he's so fast is because he knew exactly what scene he was going to encounter 19 seconds into that 9-1-1 call and you can hear it on the 9- Call 1-1 and leave for residents from 10 11 to 10 14 and you can see the map dots there and those are the speeds in the Suburban on those trips that took just under a minute at 35 and 30 miles per hour, so think about that when you go back to his story about a casual trip to kimmels in the golf cart and look at his times but he's trying to convince you to 10 17 stop calling 911 call randy call randy again call John Marvin and then we see at 10, 20 and 8 seconds that Paul's phone reflects that thing in the car lot that could be, as you heard in the testimony, that it does not recognize a face, this is interesting, as we will see in the next few passing slides.

He spent a lot of time trying to call Rogan Gibson, he told you, oh well, he's a good guy who lives down the street, he lives nearby, he's calling Rogan before he called a lot of his family before he called the buster Colin They beg several times and those text messages. he would have broken into Paul's phone, what is he so worried about? He said he turned around Paul and his cell phone appeared. The sealed evidence, I'm not going to name it, appeared by fabricating an alibi. Concerned about the evidence. Worried about what Rogan might have known. or maybe you've heard it I'll leave it Can I please stop?

Sorry Mr. Thank you Mr. Foreigner iMessages call me at 10 25. 10 29 10 25 first helpers on the scene 10 29 calling Randy 10 30 Rogan again and finally at 10 34 is when Paul's phone goes off opportunity reason means a opportunity guilty conscience I've already talked about this so I'm not going to dwell on the topic but you already heard it from Blanca Simpson Blanca Simpson said she was wearing like a polo shirt when she left, she was wearing this shirt at Vinny Vine, she recognized them both, so Of course, he turned inside out the shirt he was wearing when the police arrived and then you heard Blanca say that he then tried to convince her that he was wearing a Vinny Vine shirt, three shirts in one day and a fourth, he tried to get a block of it and you and heard his testimony, she felt very uncomfortable because of the multiple changes of shoes on the day that he would not wear those shoes. if he were off the property, I already mentioned the text to Maggie that Alan wants her to come home, but she can't even make that point because it doesn't fit his narrative.

Marion Proctor says the same thing, but he can't admit that because that doesn't fit his narrative, he was surprised that Maggie didn't go with Almeda and then said that Alec made an interesting comment, one of many, some of which came up from that position we will follow. Talk a little bit about who did this, he thought about it for a long time, why would he say that? Because he told you that they were just random Shelf Watchers of which there is no evidence whatsoever that you have seen in these recording essays. It depends on the evidence, there has to be evidence to make a decision and your claims in trying to fabricate something about the Vape case, there has been no evidence of any other specific individual, there has to be evidence to consider not just mere accusations that have no any basis. type of evidence, whoever did this thought about it for a long time.

I think if you think about the defendant's statements and some of the things that he says, he often says things in one context but says them in another when he says things. like it hurt the ones I love the most we talked about Shelley after Randolph's funeral he arrives early she could have said Wednesday but there was other information Randolph's funeral was on Monday but anyway he shows up with something blue he shows up early he wants to come in he goes and she moves some vehicles and then there's this huge raincoat, she calls it a tarp, it's a huge raincoat and it has a ton of GSR inside and it's in a closet upstairs in the 411.

He was a busy guy. We met, as we just saw, he was moving, he kept getting out of his Suburban and then of course, as you heard, he was with the family for the next few days after the funeral, he came back and it was strange and interesting enough that Shelley said something to the regard. I'm also saying that in his experience it was unusual for him to come that way, then we have the defendant and like many statements he went through a lot of things with the defendant who told him that the reason he was telling him this new story was because he was paranoid because he had a bag of pills in his pocket because he distrusted Sled because David Owen asked him about his relationship with Maggie and his lawyer.

The partners told him that he should have a presiding attorney, who is here when all the partners were sitting in the back. He didn't have to do this. I understand. I totally get it, so no, you don't have a problem. I asked him repeatedly: Is this the point where you decided to lie? What was the point? you decide to lie I hate having to do this I understand I want to do that twice Is that okay or was this point when he first said he was in the house He was in the house or was this the point that he said he specifically mentioned and He kept adding factors and a One of the things was that Dave Owen asked me what my relationship was like.

This question was when he decided to lie about yours and the wonderful Maggie. I mean, I'm sure we had little things here and there, but we had one. wonderful marriage wonderful relationship but he goes deeper into the point what did you do when you went to the office or not? I was at home I came home Paul and I were playing uh I uh I was at the house I went to bed I took a nap on the couch probably I don't know 25 30 minutes I got up I called Maggie I got no answer and I went to my mom's house and she had said since June 8 at 1:21 in the morning and he is hospitalized "You know he is lying there, look how easily he did it with something so crucial and she is very good at answering the phone, so it was strange or me called back, so it was strange, but it was no big deal, it was strange, but No big deal, but again enough to say it was strange.

It's enough to make all those calls while doing 283 steps, but not driving 50. seconds to the kennels and goes to the next interview again. What is the tone of this interview? How are they treating him quite traumatically on Sunday? Yes, an aggressive interview is something that makes someone paranoid. the civil case involving my son. I told them about the shipwreck and some motions arose. that on Thursday and I was getting ready for those things and then other garbage, mention the bow case, oh, and Paul left and I guess you know, I'm assuming Paul left okay because you know what happened, I mean, I.

I guess Paul went to the pound, okay, and what did you do once Maggie and Paul left? I stayed at the house, okay, I was watching TV looking at my phone and I actually fell asleep on the couch, okay, okay, and what time? You know, I don't know exactly what time I woke up, but when they took my phone, you know, I think one of the first things I did when I got up was call Maggie because she was going to my mom's house and I know that. I texted him because I checked my phone and what time do we say the text was Jim?

It's like 906. I didn't see it, yeah, I wrote it down, so you know, I texted her, so I called her right before that and I mean. she didn't respond at the time um and I went to my mom's house, it was so easy for him to do and you say you said you went to bed and took a little nap and when you got up, Maggie and Paul were gone, weren't they? ? Leave when you went to bed I don't think so, I'm not sure, but they weren't there when you woke up around nine. Mark around the time you called Maggie to let her know no one was there. in that house when when I went away adding more details they are just lies look how he responds to this look what his head sees if you observe it yourself when he is there looking you in the eyes and trying to convince you of something the last The time Paul and you saw Paul and Maggies when they were having dinner, yes sir, when Paul's phone came out, did you pick it up and put it on, did you put it back on or do you know, yes I did?

Don't try to open it or anything, you know, I just don't know how I thought he needed to not mess anything up. I had that in going to the third interview on August 11, after dinner I went to the kennels or you know, I don't know exactly what that was like. I stayed on the couch and fell asleep while watching videos on Paul's phone. UNM navy khaki pants and a dress shirt. I guess there was a Santa tree or something and it was falling or you bent down and you were trying to get it back, back up, get up, but I mean the question when I met you that night, you were in shorts and a t-shirt, at what point? and that you even changed your clothes, I'm not sure I know.

I know it would have been before dinner or after dinner. It would have been the time of day. I would have thought he had changed by now. I don't mean it looks like it's getting dark, so it would have been 7 30 8 o'. clock I guess I changed when I came home. He had some very specific memories for all of you when he testified with the new story of his that had never been heard until last week. Gibson told me about the dog's tail and someone said his leg was broken he was there, he was in Kennels shaking his head forward, you know, I mean, Paul and I were hanging around the store and the kennels and you know, the whole property and that was before dinner yesterday and don't don't come back here after dinner yesterday.

I got hole information from him on the phone and Maggie was heard in the background and you were in the background before 9 p.m. I heard Rogan Gibson ask me if she was up there and he said he thought it was me and at nine o'clock yeah he knows her no if my times are right do you think there might bebeen, I have no idea and Rogan has been close to your family for almost his entire life, he recognizes your voice and you. having a different voice than anyone else may have misinterpreted no sir you know when we were talking he had asked me that, so I mean, he had told me that he thought I was a yes sir, come back to that, so I want to speak a little about the crime scene which indicates I want to warn everyone that it is likely sealed evidence.

I don't think they don't know yet. I think it was a public channel. I'm sure you guys went to the scene today. and you saw how it looks now, take a good look at those trees and where they were on the day of the incident. I'll put this on Elmo in a second and you can see the proximity of the Kennels to that residence. on June 7, 2021. exit Elmo please, about the PowerPoint, come back please, there are a lot of images in the PowerPoint that I understood, but I have them here, okay. Dr. Riemer, heard from Dr.

Riemer, heard from Kenny. You and Kenzie listened to the defense experts, so to recover the computer, Paul's first shot in the chest dotted his arms down, not fatal for a shot glass in the chest, this is where there was a dispute over According to defense experts, the second injury entered the left shoulder on the cheek with an exit wound to the top of the head with collapse instantly fatal and terminal. Dr. Riemer performed 5,500 autopsies. He does an independent autopsy. He actually physically examined the victim and it was very clear that it couldn't have happened from the beginning. up without destroying Paul's face and could show the image again.

I'm reluctant to do it because I know you've seen it enough, so I'll trust all of you to remember that his face was intact. I'll let you all remember and this is sealed, all the evidence up here at the top of the door. I'll trust you to remember Kenny Kinsey's testimony that Buckshot doesn't reverse course, kinetic energy goes One Direction. I trust you to remember a lot of all the biological matter that you see at the top of the store, the lion helps you remember again, says 339, what the shot is to kill Paul, because if you remember, the shot in the chest was still found on his chest.

Right here is the padding on the floor from the shot to his head and one of the things that stood out from Dr. Riemer's testimony when looking at Paul's face were the abrasions around the cheek wound that emerged from the padding like a inner bear You heard from Dr. Riemer that the reason for the shape of his shoulder was because it went along the shoulder and opened up. that area there, but it was still focused and then it expanded when it came in here, but she also testified that if it had been here that Force wouldn't have left her face intact, manner of death, homicide, so you heard from Dr.

Kenny Kinsey, well , we described it above. Paul was largely in agreement that his arms were not raised. He believes the shot was a little closer and that the lack of stippling could be attributed to the black shirt, but he also agrees that she doesn't make defensive wounds by looking at the blood. splatter sites there and he testified in great detail and testified yesterday that there was no high velocity blood splatter on the floor at the entrance to the feeding room, which would be necessary for the shooting to have occurred in the way that the defense suggested that the splashes traveled. up in an upward direction Upward direction you can see that at the door he spoke about the Void area and then he spoke with the blood on the ground that was around where Paul falls and that it is at low speed, better he spoke about the dents in the feeding. bedroom door the pellet lodged in the top frame of the door it is only possible if it travels through Paul's head, it is not possible if it is from a Ricochet as the defense suggested and steel is much less malleable than lead What else did he say?

Dr. Kinsey said I think so. three dozen times he observed contact lenses in the head with a shotgun, including one that happened in front of him, he actually observed it and also said that any type of contact injury like that would have destroyed the head and face and he was clear. about that he's actually seen them and I think what you see with the defense experts is that they come to you with absolutes to try to get you to consider that there is a possibility that a crime scene could definitively establish whether there is one or two shooters or whether or not they are a certain height and that's just not how it works and you heard it from Dr.

Kinsey that's not how it works not how it worked in this scene it's a red herring ladies and gentlemen it's a red herring you've seen the testimony of Kenny Kinsey talked about these issues again, did you see the demonstration there at the door that seems realistic to you or like Kenny Kinsey's explanation consistent with the evidence consistent with his experience consistent with Dr. Riemer's 5500 autopsies that actually looked at the victims . consistent with the blood spatter the lack of high velocity on the floor but the existence of high velocity on top and the low velocity blood spatter on the floor which is consistent with the evidence Maggie again has no defensive wounds the first two shots to her abdomen and leg on a parallel path and probably in a close secession dotting at close range the mark on the back of her leg collided with her baby she didn't see it coming she leans perhaps on her hands and knees in pain You saw me demonstrate that with both Dr.

Riemer and Kenny Kinsey and that's when she suffered that third rifle wound and you heard her expert come in and say no, she had to go this way instead of up with Grace hitting her chest and head here and Dr. Riemer actually physically performed the autopsy, looked at the hole, described the hole, talked about the injury going up to the head and showed them that and he disagreed with the idea that you can look at marks on the skin and that kind of thing and come to some conclusion about directionality but what she told you is that I looked at this wound I saw the hole going up towards the brain this was a coiled entrance to the head instantly fatal and terminal collapse the wound in the wrist could have been a foreign injury or it could be associated with this third rifle injury and then of course the fourth rifle injury to the back of the head.

They had the cannon effect, it would have been instantly fatal, except for the fact that in this case there has to be some clearance for that third shot. reappear man or death is homicide, so what did Dr. Kinsey say again? He took issue with an expert coming in and trying to tell him that he can determine the location or height of the shooter this way, the cardboard told him that he can't be trusted and while I agree with the angle of the doghouse, he showed you how changing the look of the shooter could easily fit with Alec and that he's too far away on his skis to try to claim that you can determine it.

From that information, the shooter had to be 5-2. That's not what can be done. Dr. Kinsey is a crime scene analyst. How many crime scenes did he say he had committed hundreds of homicides? Thousands of tests. Real world things. That's what he comes and talks about and you just can't make those determinations in a real world environment to come here and try to tell you that for that type of thing the shooter had to be a particular height, you just can't do it, you can't. you do it. I assure you that Dr. Kenzie knows what he is talking about and that Dr.

Kenzie has years of experience in real world applications of crime scenes to make those judgments and I also assure you that Dr. Kinsey is not going to understand . on his skis and tries to make you absolute statements the guy with the two five two people refuse to even grant the possibility of variables, but Dr. Kinsey knows that's how reality works and he's not going to get out of it on his skis and try to tell you something that just can't be supported by the evidence and that's what the defense expert did, the shooter can easily be six four or more and fit all those bullet trajectories of course one thing that The defense expert did not consider and would not even consider if all his little gray people are holding weapons like this, without considering kneeling, sitting or being in any type of different position, but the reality is that these are fluid.

Maggie is running towards her baby, she is moving and when she most likely gets hit when she hits her leg against that Polaris. There's biological evidence on that Polaris and she moves forward and collapses as Alec moves around her shooting. They had that expert come in yesterday and I already mentioned this, but I'll do it. He mentions it again, he arrived yesterday a day early, I've even lost track of time at this point, but he tries to step over his skis again and I testify that it had to be two shooters because there were two guns and why would you?

Not just using the blackout, is that opinion useful or does it make sense to know what you know about this case and know what you know about the firearms in this particular house and know what you know about Alec Murdock as you watch the rest of this evidence and what you are trying to fabricate to confuse these issues. Kenny Kenzie told you that there's a good chance he could be a marksman, and while this isn't to scale, you've got the feeding room right here. Polaris is here on cases, while they can't. Their specific location can be trusted, they are still there, they can illustrate the general area and they are all in that area moving from here to here.

Foreign GSR in the defendant's hand and seat belt. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to take a 15 minute break. will go to the jury room, please do not discuss the case, who can proceed, thank you, honor, mayor, please support Mr. DSR in the hands and seat belt of the accused. Maggie's DNA on that Super Black Eagle. DNA on the Suburban steering wheel. No DNA or blood. identified on the floorboards, yes, showing everyone State seven, this is how they do it, they comment and the second officer comes over, how they are doing it. Stakes five also from the body camera, it's very dark out there, we'll see how good it can be when the lights are on 22. 93 47.

I'm almost done, finally we'll talk a little more about the defendant's story that he told you on Thursday , we've already talked about that, just a couple more things I asked him when I went there, those dogs are clearly in the kennel video. I asked him if the dogs were alerting anyone nearby or in the woods like dogs do and he said no, he said his dogs weren't doing that. You heard about the fact that he changed his clothes and also heard testimony that his clothes smelled fresh and like dirty clothes. Look again at the making of the scene.

He heard from his legal partners that he wasn't and also from Marion that he wasn't too worried about finding out what's going on or any threats to Buster. and you actually heard in the phone interview after on the side of the road they specifically asked him if there was any threat to Buster and he said no why is there no threat to Buster because he was the threat, it's Maggie and Paul, He knows there isn't any. vigilante out there that's why he never cared that's why he called Rogan first the night of who knows the only threat is him.

I asked him if he could remember a line from all the people close to him, people he trusted and that he stole. He couldn't detail a single conversation, he couldn't remember his last conversation at the kennel to use his own words and when you listen to what he has to say when asked after the kennel video and his new story, what did he? he said I got out of there he has that photographic memory but I can't remember what he was doing when he was most active that day he didn't say if only I had been there if only I had gone to the Kennels if only I could have stopped him if I had been there a little longer he says that I got out of there what father would hold anything back if he was innocent what father would care what happens to him after that he claims that he told you that he had cooperated with Sled but it had happened there is nothing more important if someone is innocent than telling the police When was the last time the victims were alive.

I just saw them. I saw them at 8:50. I saw them at 849. They're still out there, go find them. They mentioned paranoia and tried to convince them that there was paranoia about a case 10 years ago and he confused David Owen with David Williams, foreign ladies and gentlemen, and when confronted with things while he was allowed to continue talking, he kept adding a new factor and a new factor and a new factor to justify why he is lying to her, why he had lied to the authorities and to justify why he is telling her what he is telling her now, he continued adding, although he can remember those ladies and gentlemen, can you remember a new, can you remember this and the problem with that is that you can't confuse David Owen with David Williams.

We showed you that photo of David Williams. This is a man who drives with a license plate on his windshield and had blue lights installed on his. private vehicle and yesneed some proof that he makes up lies and he tries and is very convincing with him and makes them up as he goes along, he should be caught off guard with the badge hanging from his pocket and trying to claim to him that Sometimes it was an accident that this badge was hanging from his pocket. How was it an accident? Look how fast he was able to lie, but the most important thing is the blue lights.

He sat there and told you three times. I think he said his name three times. Sheriff Smalls, the former sheriff of Hampton County, gave him permission to put blue lights on a private vehicle for a part-time paralegal with blue lights on a private vehicle, told him three times, effortlessly, he got up and lied to him because Sheriff Smalls I walked in here and said aha, of course not, that never happened. He had never heard of anything like this. This is a man who made his business online. He lied about the most important fact of the case and sat there effortlessly and easily. he turned to a new line when he was faced with something he wasn't prepared for thank you and the sheriff came here and said no that never happened of course it didn't but he looked everyone in the eye and told them he looked at them everyone in the eye and told him that like what was his problem Mr.

Waters the little sheriff said it was fine try to tell him that he was paranoid for having a bag of pills in his pocket the man who had blue lights on his car and he had a badge that went with him a badge on his windshield that's what he thinks of his power and prestige and that's what he thinks of the proper use of the authorities to put it there it only serves him it's only there to serve him but it also has tried to tell you that he gets paranoid and that's why he tried to lie about the most important fact he could offer to the authorities when his wife and son were brutally murdered because he had a bag of pills in his pocket, but at the same time he says that no one cares about the law firm and that fear of things yeah i don't care about the boat case why would he lie about that time unless he's fabricating an alibi and that's why it took him only 19 seconds to call to 9-1-1 because he knew what he was going for?

To find out, this whole thing has been constructed by him to try to confuse the situation, that lie he told you, he tried to make it look like he had been trying to say this, but he also admitted on the stand that, just like his brother who his own brothers heard for the first time last week that his own lawyer was repeating the story that he was sleeping the whole time and never went to the kennels on HBO in November just a couple of months ago, a lot of people lie, ladies and gentlemen, a lot of people lie when it's really important, something like this is a brutal murder, most people are going to confess to a bag of pills, but why do people lie?

People lie because they knew they did something wrong. Therefore, many ladies and gentlemen. As always, when faced with new evidence that he can no longer deny, he steps back, turns and tells a new story from that position and looks them all in the eye and then, when new evidence emerges. Cross, steps back and turns and tells another new lie and I'm sure if I could go back up there, I'd be saying, well, let me rephrase that, so he said so many witnesses are lying about him, they're all lying. him, but all we know is that he lied to them.

Mark Tinsley Line Genius Secondary Line Shelley Smith is lying. Blanca lies. Everyone lies about the master liar. You heard him answer questions about whether or not he killed his wife and son. He heard me ask him if he was a family annihilator when he answered those questions. Did you see him do this? Did you see him do that in those videos too and ask questions where we now know he was lying? It is the most classic story ever seen. I'll let you decide one thing. I agree with him on what he said up there, oh what a tangled web we weave when we first practice down to the seed, how appropriate coming from Batman, this man is trying to sell you an idea that was in the kennels to which he flew back in, got in so fast and quickly fell asleep from the shortest nap in the history of the South and then got in his car seconds after the supposed Rangers, these Rangers who are apparently 5-2. that they somehow knew that Paul and Maggie would be in Moselle on the afternoon of June 7 between 8 44 and 902 that they also knew that they would be alone at that time they knew that Alec would not be in these kennels and they also knew the property well enough to to get to the kennels, they also assumed that they would find ammunition and weapons there, so they did not bring them and traveled the same path as Alec after his 22nd short nap and knew that he would visit his mother in Almeda during At that time, those They are the circumstances that you have to accept.

The 5-2 watchers somehow arrived in that small period of time between 8 49 and 902 and that gave him all the benefits of this doubt about the story he told you, sprinkled with a lot of new lies too, yes, of Somehow they arrived during that time, the dogs never heard them or ran to them, someone put the dogs in the wrong kennels, someone rolled up the hose and these Watchers were lucky enough to find these familiar weapons there, which is clear from the other side that says we'll never be there, it's so clear, oh we never had the blackout, we never walked around with the blackout, thank you, no one knew who it was, no one knew who it was. man, he had avoided responsibility all his life he had relied on his last name he had a powerful family he wore a badge and used that authority he lived a rich life but now he was finally facing total ruin his father who he idolized who me who he worked with in times he was dying his son was facing charges in the boat case he was facing a civil action that could not only ruin him but would expose the reality of what he had been doing for years he had an addiction to opiates the whole hope of his life was about to be altered he couldn't live that's why he's the kind of person for whom shame is an extraordinary provocation shame is an extraordinary provocation his ego couldn't handle that and he became a family annihilator and I was thinking oh The people who have the last word in this courtroom are you and many witnesses have testified over the last six weeks, but there are a couple who never get to testify that are important and that is common sense and human nature and there are two more I can't testify, we couldn't bring any witnesses to them because they were murdered, but common sense and human nature can speak for Maggie and Paul when you look at this in its entirety.

Common sense and human nature can speak for them and them. deserves a voice, everything he did was for the men to try to frustrate the coroners as a lawyer and prosecutor with the two guns and the fabricated alibi and not bringing his phone to the scene, deleting call logs, making short phone calls, bring up the boat case. move Maggie's phone change clothes look at Paul's phone call Rogan try to call Rogan a man controlled this crime scene initially and that was out, but there were some things he couldn't control and we brought them a couple of things that the defendant said I agree that he said that whoever did this had anger in his heart, whoever did this planned it for a long time and that it hurt those closest to him.

It can be difficult for Fathom, ladies and gentlemen, that when you put all these circumstances together and really understand who he was in his entire life, the pressures that he faced for what he had been doing for so long, understanding that there was a mistake that he didn't expect and That's why I was worried about Paul's phone, that's why he's trying to get in touch with Rogan and it was the kennel video that surfaced at the end of the investigation. One of the things I asked him and we talked about this. The last question I asked him and the first question I asked him was. which is the most important part of your testimony here today and he wouldn't even admit it, but at least he admitted that the most important thing was to look you in the eyes and try to explain to you why after all of his story you should believe. when he says okay, I was in the kennel for a brief minute, but I had nothing to do with this, we went through that long crossing in which he identified all these factors since his partner said that to have a lawyer you need to have a lawyer present.

Given his distrust of Dave, Owen asked him about their relationship and asked him at what moment he decided to lie and he finally accepted, okay, it was in this interview, it was that moment in the interview on June 8, it was during that interview, but in his call on the 9th. -1-1, ladies and gentlemen, to 1006 when asked when he last saw you, he said an hour and a half and then changed it to about two hours, consistent with what he would say later before any of those factors that sat there and ran with all of you, the reason for his decision ever existed and if that's not enough, ladies and gentlemen, you saw it and I put it on Daniel Green's body camera, where he was asked the same question and he He said it was an hour and a half plus 45 minutes and all those factors that he identified to them about why he supposedly lied.

He was lying to you, ladies and gentlemen, when he made you up. He was lying to them when he made them up as he is. I lied to everyone who was close to him. Well about that, well about that, it was earlier tonight. I don't know the exact time, but it's okay, I left. I was probably about an hour and a half from my mom's house and I saw them about 45 minutes before. I traveled with Paul, he laughs about it, the opportunity, with ample evidence, guilty behavior, guilty conscience, all four factors are present and Maggie and Paul deserve a voice, they need a voice because they can no longer speak and this has been a difficult job , but the system depends on people who take that oath as jurors and are willing to honor that oath and make that difficult decision to vindicate these victims, to vindicate Maggie and Paul, who were murdered in the prime of their lives.

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ed them all and he fooled Maggie and Paul also and they paid for with their lives do not be fooled you also on behalf of the state of South Carolina I asked you to return a guilty verdict against the accused Richard Alexander Murdoch for the murder of his wife Maggie and his son Paul for his possession of firearms during the commission of these malicious crimes thank you all for your attention during this long journey