wife and son to hide financial crimes. the prosecutor is seeking to go after alex on this comes back to the notion that he did have a motive, he did have a reason and he did have a world that was closing in on him as again, the details of his financial improprieties and embezzling were coming to life and known by his wife and indirectly by his own son and the separate drugs issue, this break will be about 15 minutes or so. i want to get the read from ted williams what he makes of this argument that the prosecutor is making. that this storm got to the point that he did what he did and he outlined the storm. but it dragged on awhile. he s trying to map the storm out for the jury. how do you think it went? you know, neil, i think mr. waters has put on a compelling case here by the prosecution here. he has laid out a road map for this jury to be able to follow. you know, you have to ask yourself, when is alex murdaugh lie something when his lips are moving. i say that to say th
after they outed him, alex murdaugh earlier in the day of having stolen money from his law firm, 707,000 at that stage, that all of a sudden he didn t want his family members, meaning maggie and paul, to know about this and he was embarrassed by it, so he goes and kills them. that doesn t make any sense. you d have to think for a second. well, if you didn t want maggie and paul to know about it, wouldn t you not have wanted your other son, buster, to also know about it? so therefore, it seems to me that when you look at the motive in this case, that it is all over the page. i think that it is questionable. guess what? he didn t kill buster. if hi killed anybody, he killed maggie and paul and you would have thought that he would have also wanted to kill buster as a part of this cover up in this embarrassment of having stolen