Alex Murdaugh Research Paper

Audie Leon Murphy born in Kingston, Texas on June 20, 1925, he was the seventh child of twelve to Josie Bell and Emmett Berry Murphy. The murphys were sharecroppers, sharecropping is a system of agriculture where the landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced of their land. Murphy’s father, Emmett, had no plan on how to feed his family, Emit drifted in and out of his family’s life and soon he deserted them. To help support his family Audie dropped out of school in 5th grade and started picking cotton for a dollar a day. Audie Murphy also helped feed his mother and siblings by going hunting for rabbits and small animals around their property eventually he became very skilled with a rifle.

Upon considering the facts of the case – • Maher learned that his wife was having an affair with one, Mr. Hunt. • Maher found Mr. Hunt in the saloon and shot him. • Maher was arrested and charged with attempted murder. • The Trial Court did not admit into evidence that both Maher’s wife and Mr. Hunt were having an affair. – (Suk, 2017).

The noisy, smoke filled, stale beer smelling, Lost Arrow bar is where I found Joe Crow. In the corner, leaning on a rundown shoot-em-up arcade game. Dressed in his usual attire, a black western hat, threadbare plaid shirt, and gray boots, that never sees a coat polish. Joe looked like a cowboy on the edge of bankruptcy. Scanning the bar, most of the customers were avoiding Joe.

Wes Pomeroy was the head of security at Woodstock. He originally said no to helping out with the event, but after Stanley Goldstein, director of operations, told him the reason for the event and the goal they were trying to reach, Pomeroy agreed to help out because he believed in what they were trying to accomplish (Makower, 1989, p. 60). Pomeroy was a highway patrolman, World War II veteran, and a chief deputy in California for years. He agreed to help with Woodstock without using violence of any kind because they wanted this to be a peaceful event (Makower, 1989, p.61) Throughout the event, Pomeroy tells about all the drug use, how dirty everything was, sexual freedoms and how happy everyone was.

The evidence will show that the State's main witness, Jay Wilds, who was allegedly involved in the aiding of the victims murder, is an unreliable witness. Jay’s testimony has many inconsistencies and misleading information. During Jay’s interrogation with the police, he changes multiple parts of his story. The following are a few of the modifications the witness made, one Jay states to have refused to help in the digging of the victims grave but later reforms his story and states he did. Two, Jay told police Adnan informed him about his plan to murder Ms. Lee the day the murder occurred but later alters his story and says Adnan had frequently mentioned killing her.

He was extremely wealthy and operated a law firm. This law firm had been owned by generations of the Murdaugh Family. Alex had a wife and two sons whom he appeared to love dearly. Little did anyone know the secrets the family had hidden. In 2021, Alex had frantically called the police because someone had shot his youngest son, Paul, and his wife, Maggie, killing them.

Alex Murdaugh was a South Carolina lawyer, so it was basically his job to lie. Alex knew that society was not going to be kind to him after the double murder or the suicide attempt because this is how society views murders. As to the murderer’s end, of the three alternatives—execution, suicide, and madness. The first is preferable; for if he commits suicide he refuses to repent, and if he goes mad he cannot repent, but if he does not repent society cannot forgive. Execution, on the other hand, is the act of atonement by which the murderer is forgiven by society.

The Murdaugh Murders documentary has taken the true-crime world by storm with its gripping tale of a prominent South Carolina family's fall from grace. The story follows the murder investigation of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, who was found shot to death on their family's hunting property in 2019. This tragic event has rocked not only the small town of Hampton but also the entire state, as the Murdaughs are a well-respected and influential family in South Carolina. The documentary delves into the complex dynamics of this high-profile murder case and examines how family ties can complicate investigations. From the outset, it is clear that there are many layers to this case, with rumors and speculation swirling around every aspect of it.

To begin, I will talk about some of the major impacts that Richard Murphy had on the lives of others. Richard Murphy “founded the Rheedlen Center for Children and Families, now known as the Harlem Children’s Zone, which serves 12,000 youth and their families each year and is being replicated across the country as Promise Neighborhoods.” (huffingtonpost.com) He created the Beacon Schools in New York. This program turned school buildings into community centers after school hours.

To emphasize, Alex struggled with his addiction for many years and he hid it from everyone. Gloria, the family maid, found the drugs under the bed and informed Paul. Paul confronted his father about it only to receive backlash. This could have been another trigger that set off the killing of Maggie and Paul. Harpootlian says, ‘When PMPED went public with embezzlement accusations, the story from Alex’s team gelled: Alex suffered from 20 years of opioid addiction and blew “most” of his millions on “checks written to drug dealers’’ (Westfall,49).

They had already tested Mary’s rape kit and the DNA results showed that the suspect was Bobby Poole and not Ronald Cotton. The police had interrogated Bobby Poole for hours where he denied being the rapist. But after they told him that they had evidence

After a twelve-hour interrogation, Brenton Butler confessed to the murder of Mary Ann Stephens. A key claim made by the defense attorneys in this case was that this was a false confession, and after reaching a verdict of not guilty, the jury clearly agreed. The factors that led the false confession were laid out in a scene during the documentary. Instead of using the interview to discover the truth, the interrogators specifically sought out a confession from the suspect. They began the interrogation with the presumption that Brenton Butler was guilty.

In fact, on the day of the murder, prosecutors say Murdaugh’s law office confronted him about misusing funds from the firm.” After this, the Murdaugh name was practically drug through the mud. People now hear the Murdaugh name and think of such a disgraceful family. Shortly after Alex’s family was murdered, he

As you are shown in the film, after the identification of Brenton Butler and his so-called testimony to investigators, the police and prosecutors just stopped working on the case. Thus, evidence that would have supported Butler’s innocence and help find the actual killer weren’t discovered until Brenton’s defense attorney, Pat McGuinness did some investigation and research of his own. Thus, flowing from film from the trial to McGuinness’s investigation scenes shows the how he attained the information that he and his partner could present in the courtroom. While the prosecutors only had the one eyewitness, who claimed to have only caught a glimpse of the shooter and gave description that did not even match Butler. The film presents the conclusion that the police did not actually do the work to find the actual killer and if it wasn’t for Pat McGuinness and his partner wanting to find the culprit, it would never actually be solved.

Disbarred South Carolina lawyer, Alex Murdaugh, is currently on trial for the murder of his wife and son in June 2021. In his testimony, he admitted to lying to investigators about his whereabouts on the night of the murders but insisted that he did not kill them. His defense strategy is centered on his opioid addiction, which he claims caused him to have "paranoid thinking.". In response to Murdaugh's testimony, Fox News's Judge Jeanine Pirro commented that he had to take the stand and give his version of events because the evidence was "stacked against him." Pirro also praised Murdaugh's performance on the witness stand and referred to him as "one of the best witnesses" she has ever seen.