Opinion by Kathleen Parker: Alex Murdaugh’s “tangled web” is a tragedy without a hero
In testimony Thursday and Friday that alternated between sobs and steely resolve, Murdaugh finally admitted that, contrary to his consistent denials over the past year and a half, he was at the dog kennels where the murders took place — and where he claimed he later discovered the bodies of Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22.
We’ll have to wait for the jury to sort things out following closing arguments, probably next week. But my hunch is that Murdaugh planted seeds of doubt. After all, how could a man whose emotions were so real and who so plainly loved his wife and son kill them, using two different guns, after spending a pleasant evening with them?Nevertheless, such a scenario is usually impossible for normal people to contemplate.
, in which 19-year-old Mallory Beach was killed. Lawyers for the Beach family were seeking access to Murdaugh’s personal and professional accounts.Murdaugh has always insisted, even on the 911 call on June 7, that the murders were related to the boat accident. Friday, he testified that whoever committed the murders “hated Paul and they had anger” in his or their hearts.
he didn’t know, but “whoever did it had thought about it for a long time.” It was an odd answer. As an amateur Freudian, I wondered if his unconscious mind had betrayed him.It’s conceivable, if not necessarily plausible, that a criminal mastermind could have planned the murders, used two guns to create the impression of two shooters and built an alibi through his visit to his mother’s house.
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