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They were crocodile tears.
This was interpreted by the Walterboro (South Carolina) jury, which needed less than three hours of deliberation to unanimously reach the guilty verdict of Murdaugh, 54, as the author of the double crime of his wife Maggie, 52, and their youngest son Paul, 22, on June 7, 2021.
This time he didn’t moan. He was undaunted. He was the other one, the cold type.
There is still one chapter missing in this courtroom drama about the downfall of the fourth generation scion of an influential, powerful, luxurious and wealthy South Carolina dynasty of lawyers.
His trial has captivated the attention and collective imagination of Americans for almost two months. In four the court reported a verdict, the cable news channels forgot about everything else. The world stopped. And once the result was known, a string of analysts paraded through the screens to unravel the decision.
The brooch will be this Friday. Murdaugh will return to court in handcuffs to hear his sentence. Judge Clifton Newman has already informed you that the minimum is 30 years and the maximum is life in prison.
It is actually his own deceased son who has condemned his father from the grave. An unexpected piece of evidence, the video that Paul sent to a friend minutes before the double crime in which the father’s voice is heard, shattered the defendant’s alibi.
On the witness stand, he acknowledged that he lied in this regard because of his paranoia, reinforced by his addiction to opiates, that they would not believe him and would place him as the main suspect. That video made him the last person to see Maggie and Paul alive.
During the investigation, more than a year and a half, he maintained that that night he was not in the kennel of his mansion and hunting property until he discovered the two bodies and contacted the police between sobs. According to his version, he had been in the mansion, half asleep and then visited his mother, about ten minutes away by car. Before finding the bodies, Murdaugh called his wife’s cell phone several times as part of her alibi. She was already dead.
Suddenly, that recording (his voice was identified by his relatives) dismantled his plot and confirmed that, as in his entire existence, he was an outright liar, which had led him to steal money from his prestigious law firm, from his associates and colleagues and compensation earned for their clients.
For prosecutor Creighton Waters that was the reason for the murders, carried out under a very elaborate plan. It was a smokescreen to hide his personal downfall.
He used two different weapons to create the narrative that it was as many authors, who sought to report to his son Paul for a boating accident in which, drunk, he caused the death of a young woman. He wanted this tragedy to win him general sympathy in the face of the accusations of fraud, misappropriation or money laundering that were beginning to emerge against him.
His defense attorney, Jim Griffin, tried to talk Murdaugh out of testifying. Given his storytelling history, he was taking a huge risk. But the defendant, convinced of his tables and his ability to dominate the scene, thought that, at the very least, he would convince a jury and the unanimity necessary for a conviction would be impossible. Days later it has been shown that he only managed to look like a forger, whose word is worthless.
The reading of the verdict was marked by the stamp of the defendant. Neither before nor after hearing his fate did he allow himself to express any emotion. A rock, a picture that contrasted with that man who gave the impression on the platform of being totally dejected, devastated by the disappearance of part of his family and who, through tears, assured that he would kill himself before he would have hurt his family. Magg and his Paw Paw, affectionate nicknames that, curiously, was the first one he had used since the investigations began.
Once the decision was rendered, the court clerk asked each and every one of the twelve jurors if that was their verdict and if they still stood by it. All answered affirmatively to both questions.
Murdaugh, impassive, while his eldest son, Buster, displayed the grief his father was unable to express. There was the sociopath, capable of crying at the questions of his defense and expressing himself coldly to the prosecutor’s requirements.
Griffin, his lawyer, still sought a final twist. He filed a motion with the judge to declare a mistrial. Prosecutor Waters replied that there was no reason and that “the verdict is correct.”
Judge Newman dismissed the defense request and praised the work of the jury, which had “an overwhelming amount of testimony and evidence” for its consideration. He added that the court thought there was evidence for the guilty verdict.
“Your verdict is supported by numerous circumstantial, indirect and direct evidence to reach the decision, I applaud you,” the judge thanked when dismantling the jury.
The prosecutor did a thorough job in these weeks to prove guilt based on detailed schedules of what Murdaugh did that night (the so-called key 17 minutes), the exposure of his lies throughout his career and how the double crime was a cover or a flight forward to cover up their frauds. The defense was unable to destroy or cast doubt on that evidence network.
“Alex Murdough loved his wife and son,” Waters argued in his final statement before the case went to the jury. But he added: “He still loved himself more and he had to protect himself.”
After the verdict, Griffin expressed his disgust and disagreement with the decision, although he indicated that he will make considerations this Friday, once the sentence is handed down.
“No matter what your family is, no matter how much money you have or the people around you, no matter how prominent you think you are, if you do evil, if you break the law, if you murder, justice will be served in South Carolina. ”, Waters stressed in an appearance before the press. “This verdict proves that no matter who you are in society, no one is above the law,” added state attorney general Alan Wilson.
Referring to Maggie and Paul, Wilson proclaimed that “their voices have been heard tonight and justice has been served.”
Undoubtedly, Paul’s voice was heard above all, the main prosecution evidence against his father, the missing link in the lineage. The party is over.