‘I Could See His Brain’: Alex Murdaugh Interrogation Reveals Disturbing Details of Family Murders — Transcript

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1. 0:00long time day I'm Jesse Weber tough
2. 0:03questions for investigators Friday as
3. 0:05attorneys in the Alec Murdock murder
4. 0:07trial tried to persuade a jury that they
5. 0:09know the truth of what happened on that
6. 0:11June 9th in 2021. Murdoch is accused of
7. 0:14killing his wife Maggie and his son Paul
8. 0:16possibly to try to direct attention away
9. 0:18from his financial misdeeds the mother
10. 0:21and son were found shot to death in a
11. 0:23huge Farm property that the Murdoch's
12. 0:25own in South Carolina during Friday's
13. 0:27testimony the prosecution and the
14. 0:29defense grilled a South Carolina law
15. 0:31enforcement division detective focusing
16. 0:33a lot on the blood that was found on
17. 0:35around the bodies as well as whether
18. 0:37Alec Murdock had any blood on him now
19. 0:40the detective testified that as far as
20. 0:42she could see on the night of the night
21. 0:43of Murdoch was clean from head to toe
22. 0:46the prosecution seemed to be implying
23. 0:48that this meant Murdoch did not actually
24. 0:50try to roll over Maggie and Paul or
25. 0:52check for sign life signs but the
26. 0:54defense however used that apparent lack
27. 0:55of blood on Murdoch's body and clothes
28. 0:57to say he's not the shooter during
29. 1:00testimony on Friday the Court the court
30. 1:02saw and heard the first interview that
31. 1:04Alec Murdock had with police inside of a
32. 1:07police cruiser at the scene now we have
33. 1:09some of that hour and a half long
34. 1:10interview for you now
35. 1:13when I came back here I mean I pulled up
36. 1:16and I could see him and you know I knew
37. 1:18something was bad I ran out I knew it
38. 1:21was really bad
39. 1:24my boy over there I could see it was
40. 1:31laughs
41. 1:34foreign
42. 1:47I could see his brains
43. 1:55[Music]
44. 2:03and I ran over to Maggie and
45. 2:06actually I think I tried to turn Paul
46. 2:09over first
47. 2:11um
48. 2:13uh
49. 2:14you know I tried to turn him over and uh
50. 2:17I don't know I figured it out
51. 2:19um
52. 2:20his cell phone popped out of his pocket
53. 2:23that's
54. 2:24started to try to do something with it
55. 2:27thinking maybe but then I put it back
56. 2:29down really quickly
57. 2:32um then I went to my wife and I
58. 2:36I mean I could see hmm
59. 2:39all right I'm joined by my co-host legal
60. 2:41experts Brian buckmeyer Terry Austin
61. 2:43Brian will start with you a lot to sort
62. 2:46through today as all this evidence and
63. 2:47the testimony what did you pick up on
64. 2:49yeah Jesse so we're all watching the
65. 2:51same thing there in the video trying to
66. 2:53gauge whether or not Alec Murdock is
67. 2:55faking it or truly in distress but as I
68. 2:58listen to the detectives testimony there
69. 3:00was one point in the detective testimony
70. 3:01that stood out to me check this out
71. 3:04you had a meeting and you you looked at
72. 3:06uh some photos
73. 3:09I believe crime scene photos and autopsy
74. 3:11photos that sled right I did and you
75. 3:14made a mental note and you put it in
76. 3:15your record that that you notice a few
77. 3:18strands of what appeared to be brown
78. 3:19hair unable to determine the length from
79. 3:22the photo in Maggie's hands and fingers
80. 3:24right that is correct and you thought
81. 3:27that that possibly was an indication of
82. 3:29a struggle that Maggie can grab someone
83. 3:31had their hair in her hands right I
84. 3:34didn't say that in my report no
85. 3:37well so why did you note it in your
86. 3:39report
87. 3:40because it was an observation
88. 3:42yeah so I know there are a lot of people
89. 3:45saying that's potentially dog hair could
90. 3:47be human hair but that is reasonable
91. 3:50doubt if the prosecution can't explain
92. 3:52that away the defense can harp on that
93. 3:54and again we always say this you just
94. 3:56need one if one person can attach their
95. 3:59theory of this case within the jury to
96. 4:00say hey here's a lead they never chase
97. 4:02down Alec Murdock is as Blonde as they
98. 4:04come it could have been him that could
99. 4:07be something the defense could really
100. 4:08open up in this case and Terry people
101. 4:10are wrestling with this case people have
102. 4:11opinions about it one thing we never
103. 4:12talked about is why do you think this
104. 4:14trial is attracted such interest from so
105. 4:16many people you know what this is an
106. 4:18interesting case for a couple of reasons
107. 4:20first of all the Fall From Grace it is a
108. 4:23story that people are excited and
109. 4:25interested sadly enough to hear about
110. 4:28you know generations of solicitors in
111. 4:31his family it's the same as you know the
112. 4:33district attorney and the fact that he
113. 4:36himself is an attorney in the community
114. 4:38and now he's behind bars so I think
115. 4:40that's one reason the other issue here
116. 4:43is it is so convoluted the fact that he
117. 4:46is addicted to drugs the fact that so
118. 4:49many people have died I don't want to
119. 4:51say under his watch but around him
120. 4:53Gloria Satterfield his housekeeper this
121. 4:56young boy who was found on the street
122. 4:58hit by a car and he died you know
123. 5:01obviously Mallory Beach the young woman
124. 5:03who died in the boat accident when Paul
125. 5:05was driving and now of course the murder
126. 5:08of his wife and his son Paul so I
127. 5:11definitely think people are interested
128. 5:13in this story because it has so many
129. 5:15components and it is such a big huge
130. 5:18Fall From Grace Brian I'm going to throw
131. 5:20this back with you on this because let
132. 5:22me just ask you do you think it's the
133. 5:23mystery component too I mean the idea of
134. 5:26the unsolved mystery we saw it with
135. 5:27co-burger we saw it with Gabby Patito I
136. 5:30don't think there's a clear-cut answer
137. 5:31here whether or not he did it or not
138. 5:32absolutely Jesse in a lot of the cases
139. 5:34that we follow and the ones that we
140. 5:35really dig into it's not just the guilt
141. 5:38that people and we are trying to analyze
142. 5:40but whether or not the prosecutor is
143. 5:42going to improve their case whether or
144. 5:43not there is some piece of evidence that
145. 5:45could go either way when reasonable
146. 5:47Minds can disagree on a case that's what
147. 5:49I think becomes so fascinating
148. 5:50especially when you're talking about the
149. 5:52criminal justice system how they're
150. 5:54going to prove for example in this case
151. 5:55whether or not Alec Murdock was in the
152. 5:57area that the prosecution believes in to
153. 5:59be you're gonna have to go into the
154. 6:01science of cell phone pinging and
155. 6:03whether or not there's enough Towers
156. 6:04close by why is there no blood on his
157. 6:06clothes he says that he's there treating
158. 6:08them but we're watching him in there in
159. 6:10the front seat of the police car and he
160. 6:12seems to be as clean as the day that he
161. 6:14probably walked into that that that that
162. 6:16area and that scene and so those facts
163. 6:18those issues those legal arguments and
164. 6:21the fact that this person comes from a
165. 6:22dynasty as you said a dynasty of uh
166. 6:26prosecutors and Terry pointed out Fall
167. 6:28From Grace there's so many elements in
168. 6:29this case there's so many murders and
169. 6:31Mysteries that no one can keep their
170. 6:33eyes off of it unfortunately is very
171. 6:35unique for all the wrong reasons stay
172. 6:38with us for gavel to gavel coverage of
173. 6:39this very high profile trial you can
174. 6:41check out our links to videos live
175. 6:44streams from the courtroom all on
176. 6:46longcrime.com
177. 6:47[Music]
178. 6:50and welcome back everybody may recall
179. 6:52the ongoing case of Doomsday cult Mom
180. 6:55Lori vallo day Bell out in Idaho well in
181. 6:57a new twist her defense team is trying
182. 6:59to get the case thrown out altogether
183. 7:01saying time is up for the prosecution
184. 7:03Lori valadebell is being tried alongside
185. 7:06her husband Chad dabell for the deaths
186. 7:08of Lori's two children J.J valo and
187. 7:10Tyler Ryan the death of Chad's first
188. 7:12wife Tammy Davis was also included in
189. 7:15the charges in a new defense motion to
190. 7:17dismiss the case Lori's attorneys claim
191. 7:19that the state violated their clients
192. 7:21right to a speedy trial a speedy trial
193. 7:23should happen within six months of the
194. 7:25charges a new trial date is set for
195. 7:27April of this year but the charges were
196. 7:29filed in April of last year there have
197. 7:31been so many delays to this trial
198. 7:33including for Lori's own competency
199. 7:35hearings but her team says even then
200. 7:38she's been behind bars way too long in
201. 7:41total she'll have spent nearly 1200 days
202. 7:43in jail ruling from the judge is
203. 7:46currently pending so Brian the Idaho
204. 7:49statute for Speedy trials says that a
205. 7:50case needs to go to trial in six months
206. 7:52her defense team says it's going to be a
207. 7:54thousand days before she goes to trial
208. 7:56that just seems like simple math yeah
209. 7:59unfortunately Jesse the most difficult
210. 8:01thing for lawyers is just that simple
211. 8:02amount but the way I explain it to
212. 8:04people the right to a speedy trial is
213. 8:06not that six months exactly the same the
214. 8:08analogy I give is you've never seen an
215. 8:10NBA basketball game end in 48 minutes
216. 8:13even though each quarter is only 12
217. 8:15minutes because there's halftime on
218. 8:17timeouts there's commercial breaks
219. 8:19things like that and throughout the
220. 8:20pendency of a case there's also the
221. 8:22stopping and starting of that right to a
222. 8:24speedy trial clock uh emotion could stop
223. 8:27the clock the pendency evaluation could
224. 8:29stop the clock and so when you talk
225. 8:31about six months you have to look in
226. 8:32between the gaps in which that time is
227. 8:35running the other question here is Chad
228. 8:38day Bell waived his right to a speedy
229. 8:39trial Lori did not how does that work
230. 8:42out when one co-defendant waves but the
231. 8:44other does not and their cases are
232. 8:46joined together every state interprets
233. 8:48this right under this sixth amendment
234. 8:49differently it's just going to be a
235. 8:51matter of how this very complex math
236. 8:52plays out when you think about when the
237. 8:54clock starts and stops don't worry this
238. 8:56case isn't complicated enough just add
239. 8:58this on no no big deal so Terry you know
240. 9:01what I'm going to ask you
241. 9:03any possibility
242. 9:05this could actually happen any chance
243. 9:07her case is going to be dismissed
244. 9:09absolutely not listen these are
245. 9:12extremely serious charges the fact that
246. 9:14both of them have been accused of murder
247. 9:17of the children JJ and Tyler and there's
248. 9:19no question that they're not going to
249. 9:21get out and Lori asking I think this
250. 9:24motion is frankly ludicrous the fact
251. 9:27that because there's been a delay she's
252. 9:29caused most of those delays and she's
253. 9:32saying oh I think the case should be
254. 9:34dismissed because of the delays that's
255. 9:36not going to fly with the judge and true
256. 9:39judge Boyce has said he's a little bit
257. 9:41concerned about the fact that she's been
258. 9:43behind bars for so long but I don't
259. 9:46think he's going to look at that as an
260. 9:48opportunity to dismiss the case one of
261. 9:50the things Brian said that I think is
262. 9:51really true perhaps this case should not
263. 9:53have been joined in the first place Chad
264. 9:56is asking for different relief he's
265. 9:58saying let's postpone till further
266. 10:00notice basically and she is saying oh I
267. 10:03want a speedy trial that in and of
268. 10:05itself I think could give the judge some
269. 10:08opportunity to think about even now
270. 10:10separating these two cases because their
271. 10:13interests are not the same and in my
272. 10:15opinion they've never been the same so
273. 10:17we'll see what happens it's a textbook
274. 10:19example A lot of times people wonder why
275. 10:21do trials they don't happen until so
276. 10:23many years later kind of seeing it here
277. 10:24Brian Terry thanks so much everyone out
278. 10:26there thank you so much we'll see you
279. 10:28next time as we discuss Justice in
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