112: The Verdict Is In!

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.1 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After a nearly six week trial Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of killing his wife and son in June of 2021.

Seton and Matt were in the courtroom as the verdict was read.

We broke down the closing argument from Alex's attorney, Jim Griffin, and the rebuttal from the State.

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0:00.0	Well, Cetan, of course Matt Harris, Cetan Tucker, grateful that you've been with us since June of 2021.
0:10.0	We recorded the episode that's coming up as we were waiting for the verdict, not knowing that it was going to come in this quickly.
0:19.0	So let's see what was it about two hours, something like that.
0:22.0	Three hours of peace.
0:24.0	Yeah, it's weird, right?
0:29.0	It was so we were sitting in a restaurant waiting to see if it was going to happen or not.
0:34.0	And there was actually one of the attorneys who was involved in the case.
0:37.0	It was actually the same restaurant.
0:39.0	We saw him scoot out and I think Fitz News that posted something was happening.
0:42.0	So we quickly just paid our tab and headed to the courthouse.
0:46.0	And we all kind of knew whenever it comes back that quickly that it wasn't going to go well for Alec Murdoch.
0:56.0	I think we were all leaning toward we were being found guilty, just didn't know how quickly it would be.
1:02.0	Guilty or hung? We knew it wasn't going to be an innocent murderous.
1:05.0	No, no way, no way.
1:06.0	And we just were the restaurant bar that we were in before we left.
1:10.0	We left some things there, some people that we've met through this.
1:13.0	We came back in and they told us it got dead silent as they played it in all the TVs.
1:18.0	And then as the verdict was read, there was massive cheers to the restaurant.
1:22.0	And I was speaking to another friend who was in a bar in Charleston or a restaurant in Charleston and the same thing.
1:28.0	Cheers.
1:29.0	There was not a lot of empathy for Alec Murdoch or not a lot of love for him.
1:36.0	Regardless of this, you know, people had good reason to despise him anyway.
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