particularly compelling. i thought i heard the word i rather than they. i don t think they matter to. much he put together the case that they did, this wasn t a compelling evidence. i want to bring in the consultant jill taylor. it is so fascinating to see these videos now of alex murdaugh breaking down, whether in a police vehicle, breaking down the nine of the killing, breaking down on the stand with the realization that the jury believes he was lying all along and did in fact murder these people, his wife and his son. talk about, as somebody who is a jury consultant, about the deliberations they took. were you surprised by the speed of this? in hindsight, no. now that we know what the verdict is, and the three hours,
access weapons from inside the property because those weapons would not be traced to them. why were the weapons missing after the fact? if you did not want them traced to, why don t you take them with you? there was just so much, the pile of things that one fact that might have been an explanation to fill a gap, but together they could not harmonize them to make sense. including shell casings from those weapons found on the property. not from the shooting. from prior shots. as a jury consultant, what is so fascinating is that there were two weapons. the defense was saying, well, that is evidence of two shooters. and what it may be evidence of, if the jury is correct and, i mean, alex murdaugh has been convicted of killing his wife and son, it is that this was thought out and perhaps intentional that he was using it was staged. he was intentionally using it.
it does seem jill, i want to ask you, though, as a jury consultant, how do demonstrations like that, in your experience, are they particularly effective for juries? absolutely. i completely agree with jurors needing visuals to act something out, especially with a witness like this he wasn t very credible, definitely connected and made common sense, a common sense presentation to the jury. then the jury goes to moselle. even though the defense asked for that, the jury now can specifically visualize where this took place. i thought that was an interesting strategy. the premeditation, john, is so fascinating. now that we have this conviction, you look back at all the steps that alex murdaugh to, calling his friends to say, oh, i have invited, i am going down to see my family. to call up his friends and he tried to call one friend to
so that was the key moment. mark o mara, how important i don t know if we will ever get an answer from the jury about whether they thought of that moment. but how important was that piece of video, you think? i will tell you the truth. i thought that was a weak moment for state to try and present that as a confession. now a freudian slip confession possibly, but i don t think they should have really focused on that as being some massive confession of him, because quite honestly, there is a couple of interpretations of it. and with the special evidence case, you to be a little careful with the jury going beyond the permission they give you. they put together a very good case. i didn t think that was particularly compelling. i thought i heard the word i rather than they. but i don t think it really mattered too much. i think they needed to put together a case they did. i want to bring in the jury consultant jill huntley taylor. jill, it s so fascinating to see these videos n