I’m watching the Netflix thing. He has shaved his head in jail before, his first arrest on the financial issues he was denied bail. His next appearance in court for the murders he had a shaved head.
IANAC (convict) but that’s likely the case. For boot camp that’s one reason we lose our hair.
It’s amazing, on that next morning, how much of your personal identity is connected to your hair.
Yes, I thought that first time might have been because he did get a head wound, even if only superficial, in the roadside incident, and maybe they had to shave his head to get to the area for treatment. But maybe he just likes to get his head shaved when he goes to jail or prison.
I think there’s a team of two lawyers called “receivers” who are handling the money for compensation of victims and creditors and investigating Murdaugh’s finances. I’m hoping they can help find more money to help make the victims whole, but who knows where he stashed some of it. It’s my understanding that even the most hardcore opiate addict would not be able to use $50,000 worth of pills a week and still be conscious or even alive. Some of that money had to be getting funneled somewhere, it appears.
When I watched the dateline episode, they mention that the father died just a couple days before the murders. The father died just a couple hours after hanging out with Alex.
I’m just super curious about that death now.
The Dateline episode left me confused; I liked the Netflix series better and wonder if they’ll do a finale episode. We’re watching the ABC 20/20 show right now, which is better, but there are so many angles and twists to this thing that I’m probably going to need to buy the inevitable book.
I visited Reddit to see how the rumours were doing!! Many of a Bahamian connection, drug running or money laundering or stashing…
Murdaughs 17000 acre property is 26 square miles. 
Maybe the missing guns are out there somewhere?
More like one generation of Deep South Jim Crow-era political maneuvering (something I would frankly be ashamed to follow in the footsteps of myself, but apparently not Murdaugh, his father, or his grandfather), followed by three generations of nepotism, with an unfortunate but not altogether surprising act of annihilation.
The Wall Street journal reporter will be doing a book. It was mentioned on “ the beat”. Valerie bauerlein has been putting this thing together for quite some time.
Apparently there are several books in the works.
Dateline said the trial was held in the same courtroom that Alex’s father and grandfather tried cases.
The irony is overwhelming.
There was a portrait of the grandfather in that courtroom. The judge had it removed for the trial.
Would’ve been cool to hang it back up for the sentencing.
He is still up on charges for 99 different cases. If found guilty it would add up to over 700 years. He will not get out of prison.
Does anyone else think this guy’s gonna get “Epsteined”, whatever you may believe that actually was?
I’m aware that inmates don’t like people who harm women, or famous people. Do they feel the same way about lawyers as they do about cops?
I’ve heard that was wildly exaggerated.
For example Jared from Subway walked around acting like he owned the prison for about a year before another prisoner decided to beat the shit out of him because he grew jealous of his supposed special treatment.
Murdaugh can be the ultimate jail house lawyer. He can help other prisoners file motions and other paperwork. It won’t take long before Alex will have friends inside.
He is disbarred and can’t do much more than that.
Is there any real evidence he was anything but a suicide?
I don’t think Murdaugh has the balls to off himself. He will be loudly proclaiming his innocence and being a jailhouse lawyer for other inmates to garner good will. I also think he still has money, friends and influence so his jail time won’t be like it would be for you or me.
I missed most of this, but what’s the theory on why he killed his son? Killing a spouse when it looks like a divorce is in the cards isn’t unusual, but why the son?
I thought I had read earlier that his whole faked murder scheme was so his sons got his life insurance policy.
I haven’t been keeping up with the case, but perhaps he had some other schemes cooking that they knew about and wanted to disappear? If so, he’d have to know that killing them would cause a huge noise. Idiot. Especially the sloppy way he did it.
Perhaps he saw his son Paul as a reason for so much stress in his downward spiraling life, largely because of the death of Mallory Beach. Perhaps he saw his eldest son Buster as the only good son, not the partying drunk, self-entitled youngest son that Paul had become.
Who knows?
Yeah, he probably thinks if it wasn’t for Paul, he’d still be getting away with his shady business practices.
it was my understanding that the boating trial was imminent when paul was killed. if he was found guilty he was facing decades in prison.
as i was watching the various documentaries of this, i was wondering if alex had a mix of reasons to kill paul and maggie.
paul would have gotten jail time for the boating accident. at least 20 years if not more. paul was seen drinking and boating around while he was out on bail. he was not being careful. perhaps alex thought death was a better option?
maggie, if she did file for divorce would uncover his very precarious house of money cards. the discovery of his financial crimes would have alex looking at a lot of jail time.
having his wife and child die in such a horrible manner would give him sympathy and give him time to get to a more stable footing.
of course, things fell apart anyway, and he was disbarred, charged with over 90 financial crimes, and is guilty of killing his wife and son.