Dad & I had been wondering what all the big deal was around this murder trial. Of course as you remember what my first squad leader said about learning from other’s experiences
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An Unexpected Lesson From the Alex Murdaugh Trial<\/a><\/p>\n The trial of South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh for the June 2021 murders of his son and wife is wrapping up and headed to a jury. Throughout the interminable weeks of testimony, I\u2019ve come away with one takeaway from the trial of the Southern princeling.<\/p>\n No, my lesson is not that tunnel-visioned investigators settled on a suspect and then sought to cobble together speculations, missing weapons, evidence, and hatred for the privileged, opioid-addicted good-old-boy, and did what they could to build a circumstantial case against him.<\/p>\n No, my lesson is not that the self-flagellating thief and liar testified that yes, he was a thief and a liar, but believe him now when he says he\u2019s not a murderer. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how the jury received that bit of information.<\/p>\n Prosecutors claimed that the 54-year-old trial attorney murdered his wife and son\u00a0due to<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe imminent threat of \u2018personal, legal and financial ruin.\u201d Left unexplained was how the successful trial attorney would solve his financial problems by murdering most of his immediate family. But not everything has to make sense, I guess.<\/p>\n Murdaugh may be convicted. Meanwhile, there are no fewer than two TV treatments of the case basically declaring the hedonistic attorney guilty, guilty, guilty.<\/p>\n During the trial, investigators and experts discussed Maggie Murdaugh\u2019s phone. This is where it got interesting for me.<\/p>\n