Anyone watching the Murdaugh trial?

Yes. I’ve been following it from the beginning. It’s been on Court TV for a couple of weeks. Quite a web of crime, one after another.

I am watching some but mostly following along on Twitter.

It is such a crazy story. I wouldn’t give it a good review if it was a movie— after all, how evil can one guy be? But this guy—he’s awful!

For a long while I mistakenly thought he had killed his wife and his son stumbled onto the scene unexpectedly but that isn’t at all what happened according to testimony. It is just unfathomable to me.

I have been listening to the Mandy Matney Podcast as it has been laying out the story in real time. I feel so bad for all the victims.

Watching on you tube Emily D Baker and evening recap Lawyer You Know

I lived in SC for five years. Dick Harpootlian lived down the street from me and I had trials against John Meadors. It is the tiniest state sometimes!

Following the trial closely from afar, of course. I built part of the final exam in one of my classes around the evidence in the case in the fall.

Weren't one of the son's also involved in a boating accident/young lady's death too? 

As answered above, it was Paul. The massive lawsuit coming out of that incident is believed to have been the proverbial straw that started Alex's whole house of cards to come tumbling down.

Yes! I've been following it since the double murders in 2021. I have been keeping up with the trial by watching it at 1.5x speed on You Tube, lol. I'm local-ish (Charleston, SC) so I think that's part of why it captured my attention. This case is so complex and they've barely scratched the surface in court so far.

I haven't watched it but have been keeping up with it in the news. It does seem that he may be guilty, based on what I have heard so far.

SC native here as well.

Anybody see the blurb on CNN where Wednesday there was a bomb threat called in and the courtroom had to be evacuated for several hours? Then, turns out his sister had passed him a book through a member of his defense team, IN THE COURT ROOM, and he was back in his cell with it before anyone figured it out??? A John Grisham novel. It was midway down in this article and just written out like it was a common thing. Very odd. www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/alex-murdaugh-trial-friday/index.html

CNN did not insinuate that the family called in the bomb threat, but it is all too convenient to smuggle him something then he be sent back to his cell during the evacuation, right?

Anything on the podcast or twitter world about this?

You cannot even make this stuff up.

I've been watching this week. The way the defense lawyer tried to demean the housekeeper's son was awful. The lawyer stated the son was not sophisticated enough to follow along with his questioning. His client stole 5 million from the housekeeper's family from the insurance money. His client didn't even tell the family 5 million was due to them, he tried to string them allow with a much lesser claim.

For those interested in the case, you have to watch this this - The Behavior Panel on YouTube...4 guys who have various experiences in body language/interrogation skills (in the military/police/business worlds) etc who give their opinions on the types of things that people say when they are being deceptive.
They just analyzed the video of his first police interview:

I find them so interesting...and they are 100% right, his wife and son are lying dead just near him, and it happened like 30mins ago, if someone didn't do that, they'd be completely hysterical...but he's sitting in the car chatting away, pulling phone records...where's the grief, or the disbelief? Why isn't he asking who would have done this?