S2E45: Murdaugh's Victims Have Their Day In Court
The Murdaugh Murders, Money & Mystery | Criminally Obsessed
Anne Emerson, Charlie Condon, Drew Tripp, Daniel Michener, Maxwell Harrison
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A tenuous sense of finality has spread across the South Carolina Lowcountry like a late November cold front as another chapter in Alex Murdaugh's seemingly unending criminal saga comes to a close. Getting there, the world heard for the first time this week the raw emotional catharsis of several families victimized by Alex Murdaugh's beguiling treachery. Friends, peers and clients alike unleashed years of pent-up anger and disappointment in Murdaugh Tuesday as he was formally sentenced to 27 years in prison for his many frauds, thefts, forgeries and lies. To some, the sentence only serves to further stoke the fire of their anger as it seems to them not nearly enough. Others are simply glad to turn from the last page a dark chapter in their lives — more interested in peace and forgiveness than vengeance.
But what would this historic day be without the enigmatic and vexing Murdaugh once again attempting to seize the spotlight away from those owed justice to shine the attention on himself instead?
Join host Anne Emerson, legal analyst Charlie Condon and producer Drew Tripp for this jam-packed retrospective on Alex Murdaugh's financial crimes plea deal and sentencing.
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| 0:00.0 | What say you Richard Illing, Murdoch, are you guilty or not guilty of the felonies |
| 0:06.6 | wherein you stand and die? Not guilty. How shall you be tried? |
| 0:11.0 | By God, and my country. |
| 0:12.8 | The exact time when Paul and Maggie Murdoch were murdered. |
| 0:16.4 | The end of the investigation, it was obvious. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm not here to work with him. |
| 0:21.6 | Okay. |
| 0:22.1 | And the whole point is to have this not fall into the wrong hand. |
| 0:25.0 | This case is unique, it's unprecedented in South Carolina history. These are people that lost their mother, that lost their sister. |
| 0:47.0 | The Pliler sisters lost their mother and brother. |
| 0:52.0 | Arthur Badger lost his wife and was left to raise five kids and you heard 1.3 million dollars. |
| 0:59.0 | He didn't get that money for 10 years. |
| 1:02.0 | Do you know what it would have meant to that man to raise five kids with an additional 1.3 million dollars? |
| 1:09.0 | Thomas Moore that Mr. Wooders talked about a state trooper. |
| 1:16.2 | He stole $125,000 from a state trooper. |
| 1:20.5 | The man needed the money to retire. |
| 1:24.0 | He couldn't retire because he had to pay back medical bills because he didn't have the $125,000. |
| 1:31.0 | But that money is still out there and he knows where it is. He didn't spend all that money on drugs. |
| 1:36.8 | If he wants to be accountable, he wants to be contrite. |
| 1:40.8 | He ought to tell these people where their money is. |
| 1:43.0 | That's not going to happen. |
| 1:44.0 | The same as he's not going to lay in bed at night |
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