Ep 312: The Murdaugh Murders: Analysing the Macro Timeline of Events, Part 14
Crime Analyst
Laura Richards
4.9 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:31.9 | The Alex Murdoch murder trial resumes this morning as experts speculate, even if he gets off on the the murder charges Murdoch could still go to prison for financial crimes. This is one thing the jury may say. They may say, look, we're going to let him go. He's going to be convicted of financial crimes. He's already admitted it. How much is he facing for all the embezzlement? Forever. A long time. Yeah. Here to react is white collar criminal defense attorney Randy Zellon. Good morning, Randy. Good morning. Good morning. So cross-examination of him over, right? Friday was the last day. Thankfully for the prosecution, yes, it's over. That's not how it should have gone down. How would you have done it? Golden opportunity. The most effective cross-examination is a constructive cross-examination. |
| 1:13.7 | I make you my witness. |
| 1:14.7 | They had the opportunity to turn Alex Murdoch into a prosecution witness. |
| 1:19.8 | Take every victim of his financial crimes. |
| 1:22.8 | And you lied. |
| 1:24.0 | And you lied. |
| 1:25.1 | And Hakim Pinckney, who was paralyzed, who needed this money. You looked him in the eye. You told him he was getting these millions of dollars that you had gotten for him. And you lied. Your law partners who depended upon their income to feed their families. And you lied. Law enforcement. You knew the importance of telling the truth. The law enforcement. You were in law |
| 1:44.2 | enforcement. And you lied. And you lied. And you lied. And you lied. And you ended with you staged your own |
| 1:51.0 | homicides. So if the jury's wondering, this guy couldn't kill his wife, couldn't blow his own |
| 1:56.3 | brains, his own son's brains out. This is a man who is capable of staging his own homicide, knowing that someone was driving to where he was, got out of his car, pointed a gun, and in any moment he could have said, I can't do this. And he stood there and allowed someone to shoot him in the head. You know, he might pull at the heartstrings of the jury by saying, oh, Mags and Pawpaw, and he's using all the nicknames, sounding |
| 2:18.8 | like a loving father. Oh, and I missed them, and I would never have done that. He's a liar. He's lied so much in the past. Can you say to the, are the jurors going to think about that when they go back to make a decision? Are they going to say, how can we trust anything he's saying? And if the prosecution had constantly reminded them that he is a lawyer. |
| 2:40.0 | In fact, his lawyer even said it to the judge. |
| 2:42.0 | Judge, are we on trial here for murder or are we on trial for fraud? |
| 2:46.0 | And what the prosecution missed was the opportunity? |
| 2:49.0 | No, we're on trial because this man's a liar. |
| 2:53.3 | And you develop a theme and your closing argument |
| 2:56.0 | for the jury is, as you just said, ladies and gentlemen, |
| 2:59.6 | he not only defrauded all of his victims, |
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