More Questions About DNA

Why did the defense have to file motions to have access to the DNA that the State withheld? The DNA under Maggie Murdaugh’s nails did not match Alex Murdaugh’s DNA and she had had her nails done only hours before the murders. Maggie had driven straight home from the salon that evening.

This extraordinary fact was treated as nothing to see here, just “transfer DNA” – move on. Much more to come on the DNA story. Many more facts that were under-reported or not paid any attention to, were, as a result of the breathtaking attitude of the prosecution, ignored. Again, move on nothing to see here. What you will learn regarding DNA and the role it should have had in the trial will be striking. The way the DNA was presented culminated in McNeal realizing they could convict the wrong man.

A thought: Politics and the Media Game Did this trial succumb to partisan politics that we are now witnessing all too often at play in this country? Murdaugh and his family were reasonably powerful Democrats, and his attorneys are Democrats as well. In fact, one attorney, Dick Harpootlian, was a senator in the South Carolina State House and a past two-time chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, but he was defeated in the primary, in June 2024, after decades of service. It is said that Harpootlian can be arrogant and occasionally offend a jury – is that why he asked the jury, in the first trial, to not hold his demeanor against his client, Alex Murdaugh? One wonders, did they?

On the other hand, Alan Wilson, an elected Republican Attorney General, who attended the trial most days and even took over questioning from the lead prosecutor of a key witness in the televised trial, is the son of the powerful United States Congressman, Joe Wilson (R SC). Attorney General Wilson has ambitions for a higher office, and the siren call of a televised trial could have been more than he could resist. He is now running for governor of the State of South Carolina, and the reversal has been hard for him to swallow. Wilson says he may seek the death penalty during the second trial.

Did Alex Murdaugh, the self-avowed drug addict and self-avowed thief, become the trophy to be awarded at the end of the trial? Where were the probing media? Unfortunately, many remained unaware or could not separate themselves from their leaked morsels of scoops favoring one side or the other. The result – so many under-covered machinations were allowed to take place in an unbridled fashion back of house beyond public view.

Was Alex Murdaugh the trophy?

A fair trial? Now, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled no.

There is so much more to come that will stun you

when seen in the clear light of day.

Audio – Chapter One coming soon. alex murdaugh the closing argument

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