Maggie Murdaugh Didn’t Want to Go to Moselle — A Therapist on Why She Went Anyway
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
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Summary
Everybody says just leave. As if it is one decision and then it is over. It is not. Leaving is a window. And everything the research tells us says that window is where the danger lives.
Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly consulted a divorce attorney. She was living at the Edisto beach house. On June 7, two witnesses testified she did not want to go to Moselle when Alex asked her to come. Her own sister encouraged her — and could barely get through the testimony about it.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains why separation triggers escalation, how automatic compliance builds over years of peacekeeping, and why the people closest to someone in danger often have completely different reads on how serious the situation really is. Scott recently wrote about this on her Substack, Spotlight on Psychology. The final two questions in this interview are for anyone standing in that window right now.
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| 0:31.3 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drink. |
| 0:37.8 | Let's continue the conversation over here to, hey, look, in your graphic, the retrial of Alec Murdo. |
| 0:47.4 | Huh. |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.5 | Tony's on the move already. |
| 0:49.6 | That's a little big news today. |
| 0:53.5 | Then we're talking, I want to talk specifically about Maggie Murdo here. |
| 0:57.4 | This is not a segment we're going to dive super into the retrial, but trust me, it's coming. |
| 1:01.6 | So press subscribe. |
| 1:03.5 | There's a lot of info that will be coming down on that. |
| 1:06.5 | There's that window we just talked about, deciding to leave and actually being gone. |
| 1:11.2 | Most people think of that, that's a hopeful part. |
| 1:15.8 | I mean, it can be mentally, but in terms of safety, it's not. |
| 1:19.6 | It's the most dangerous part. |
| 1:21.0 | Maggie Murdo had reportedly already consulted an attorney. |
| 1:24.1 | She was living apart from Alec. |
| 1:25.6 | On June 7th, she didn't want to go to Moselle. |
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