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MURDAUGH MOTIVES: Secrets in the Vault

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Hidden True Crime

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4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A psychologist's take on the Murdaugh family crimes. Recorded LIVE in front of our YouTube audience: Saturday March 4, 2023 Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of killing his wife and son. Dr John Matthias takes you through their SECRETS IN THE VAULT. How could this happen? What are the motives? The killings are not what started the unraveling of the family’s tangled history. Dr Matthias uncovers how the family's secrets play into the possible motives of murder. HIDDEN: A TRUE CRIME PODCAST is: CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY REINVENTED. Join a forensic psychologist and journalist (who happen to be husband and wife) on a journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind and the unconscious motivations that drive human behaviors in order to understand the world and ourselves.  DR. JOHN MATTHIAS is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist with 30 years’ experience in both clinical and forensic work. He serves as an expert witness for the federal government and has consulted on numerous high-profile cases for District Attorney’s offices and defense attorneys in several states. In the forensic area, Dr. Matthias has developed expertise in personality assessments, hidden behavioral motivations, complex trauma and criminal psychology. In the clinical realm, he has worked with numerous victims. He received his Master’s degree in Marriage, Family and Child counseling, as well his doctorate degree, from the University of Southern California.  Dr. Matthias graduated with honors in philosophy from Princeton University, and he won the prestigious McCosh Thesis prize while there. In high school he graduated valedictorian from a large public high school in Chicago where he was chosen to participate in a ground-breaking valedictory study that continues to this day.  Dr. Matthias is an adjunct assistant professor in the University of Nevada Las Vegas clinical psychology doctoral program. He supervises UNLV doctoral students on forensic assessments, clinical case formulation, and various therapeutic approaches to clinical work. LAUREN MATTHIAS worked as an anchor and reporter for ABC, NBC, and FOX News in Idaho & Salt Lake City, Utah. She spent a decade reporting on a diverse range of topics from high profile crimes to Presidential visits. Most recently, she reported for Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate News4Utah. In 2015 she received the Idaho State Broadcaster’s Association Best Reporter award. She left the reporting world to produce Hidden True Crime with her husband Dr. John Matthias, a forensic psychologist. Your support helps produce oyr podcasts/videos. We have big plans to explore the true crime terrain in a way no one else has attempted.  WEBSITE: https://hiddentruecrime.com/ YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/hiddentruecrime TO SUPPORT:  https://www.patreon.com/hiddentruecrime https://paypal.me/hiddentruecrime https://cash.app/$hiddenTruecrime Our Sponsors:* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Armoire and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.armoire.style* Check out Effecty and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.effecty.com* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/hidden-a-true-crime-podcast1836/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hidden Gems, it's Lauren with Hidden A True Crime Podcast. As a TV reporter, I learned

0:05.8

the art of visual storytelling. So if you're like me, you enjoy listening, but also viewing.

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0:28.1

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0:34.7

Hidden, a true crime podcast, a forensic psychologist and a journalist explore the hidden motives

0:41.7

behind unthinkable crimes while examining our deepest fears along the way.

0:49.4

Guilty verdict. We're talking about Alex Murdock here. He has now been found guilty charged with

0:54.4

murdering his wife Maggie and his son Paul Murdock. Many people have also been asking why we haven't

1:03.3

uploaded our last hidden hour onto our podcast yet. We do get behind on our podcast. So thank you

1:08.8

for those who understand and come over to YouTube. We do edit those and make them more concise

1:12.8

for our podcast midweek. It's just the two of us editing and it's been a busy week with breaking news.

1:18.0

I should make a correction that you're the only one doing the editing not me. So you're

1:24.3

you're a one man man on that. So sometimes we do fall behind but Lauren is as persistent as she can

1:31.0

be getting our schedule. So thank you all for understanding that. And busy isn't good. It's been a

1:37.2

good week. So thank you for joining us here. I think we should just start with giving some some

1:41.4

people credit. We followed this case but we really didn't do a deep dive until fairly late and

1:46.8

we're grateful for all the work that other people have done and we want to acknowledge that.

1:51.3

I want to start with a book that is not mentioned that much on this case but I think it's it's

1:56.6

a little bit overlooked. It's by Kathleen McKenna-Tutson. The book is called Murdock. She wrote.

2:02.7

I would recommend it. Other people we want to credit would be fits news and especially will folks.

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