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Car data mapped Alex Murdaugh’s movements the night...
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Feb 17, 2023, 5:28 PM
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Car data mapped Alex Murdaugh’s movements the night of the murders. What it shows
Jurors on Friday got a much clearer picture of Alex Murdaugh’s movements the night his wife and son were murdered.
S.C. Law Enforcement Division agent Peter Rudofski led jurors through data from Murdaugh’s car that recorded his movements and speeds on June 7, 2021, including around the times his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, were shot and killed by the dog kennels at the family’s rural Colleton County home.
Prosecutors and investigators only received the data last Saturday from General Motors, the manufacturers of Murdaugh’s Chevrolet Suburban.
Rudofski laid out Murdaugh’s trip earlier June 7, 2021, to and from the house, called Moselle, and Murdaugh’s law firm in Hampton, showing his average speed was around 37 miles per hour. He arrived home around 6:42 p.m.
Murdaugh left for his mother’s house at 9:07 p.m., less than 20 minutes after prosecutors estimated the murders occurred. He passed the spot where Maggie’s phone was later found, the prosecutors noted, then accelerated to an average of 52 miles per hour on the 15-minute drive to Almeda, hitting highs of 74 miles per hour.
On cross-examination, defense attorney Phil Barber said that the data could show a continuous acceleration by Murdaugh after he turned onto Moselle Road from the driveway, moments after he sent Maggie a text that he was leaving. A combined timeline of Murdaugh’s movements with data from Maggie’s phone suggests the phone was moving around the time Murdaugh was leaving the house.
Murdaugh arrived at his mother’s house at 9:22 p.m., then started his car again at 9:43 p.m., but prosecutors noted he idled at the home for more than a minute. He arrived back at the house at Moselle at 10 p.m., reaching a maximum speed of 80 miles per hour on the way back.
Rudofski notes that as a law enforcement officer, he has driven with sirens through the area before, and would not recommend driving at such high speeds.
“You have deer that will run out in front of you,” he said.
Once back at Moselle, Murdaugh then can be tracked driving to the kennels at 10:05 p.m., driving at about 28 mph and arriving in under a minute, where he says he found his wife and son murdered.
He called 911 at 10:06:14, about 17 seconds after car data shows he arrived at the kennels. Barber noted that Murdaugh could have seen the bodies from his car as he pulled up to the kennels, explaining the quick phone call to 911. Rudofski said he couldn’t testify based on the movements of Murdaugh’s car what he may or may not have seen.
He left the kennels at 10:11 p.m. to return to the main house, then returns to the kennels at 10:13 p.m. Murdaugh told police he returned to get a shotgun that he was holding when deputies arrived that night.
Prosecutors also showed the court new information extracted from the victim’s phones. A month before the killings, Paul texted his father on May 6 , 2021, that “Mom found several bags of pills in your computer bag.” That same day, records show Maggie did an online search for “white pill 30 on one side rp.” Three weeks later, Maggie searched again on May 26, 2021, for “green gel pill p30.”
Earlier in the week, Maggie’s sister, Marian Proctor, testified that Maggie called Paul her “little detective” because he would find unprescribed pills his father kept around the house. Murdaugh, who has said he struggled with a lengthy opioid addiction, also referred to Paul as a “little detective” during an interview with SLED agents on June 10, 2021.
Barber introduced another text, sent from Murdaugh to Maggie, arguing it showed the loving nature of the family. “I am very sorry that I do this to all of you. I love you,” it said.
Rudofski said that as far as he could see from the data, Maggie never responded.
▪ 6:24:18 p.m. — Alex Murdaugh leaves his Hampton law firm
▪ 6:42:54 p.m. — Murdaugh arrives at family’s property, Moselle
▪ 9:07:06 p.m. — Murdaugh leaves Moselle for his mother’s home at Almeda
▪ 9:22:39 p.m. — Murdaugh arrives at Almeda
▪ 9:43:18 p.m. — Murdaugh leaves Almeda
▪ 10:00:00 p.m. — Murdaugh arrives back to Moselle’s main house
▪ 10:05:06 p.m. — Murdaugh leaves Moselle house to the estate’s kennels
▪ 10:05:57 p.m. — Murdaugh arrives at kennels to discover Paul, Maggie Murdaugh’s bodies
▪ 10:06:14 — Murdaugh calls 911 to report that he found Paul, Maggie’s bodies
▪ 10:11:54 p.m. — Murdaugh leaves the kennels, returns to the main house
▪ 10:13 p.m. — Murdaugh returns to the kennels
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Re: Car data mapped Alex Murdaugh’s movements the night...
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Feb 17, 2023, 5:37 PM
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I have been watching this case closely. Quite the Movie of the Week material. Hard to believe it is real life.
I suspect there are some more prosecutions to follow once Alex goes to prison.
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Amazing.
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Feb 17, 2023, 6:04 PM
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They can even tell when someone locked and unlocked their phone, or turned it from portrait to landscape mode.
This, plus the OnStar data, shows where Alex and everyone else was at every moment.
He’s toast.
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Re: Amazing.
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Feb 17, 2023, 6:16 PM
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$60,000 a week on drugs. Is that what they said. I don’t know anything about these pills How did he function?
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Re: Amazing.
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Feb 17, 2023, 7:37 PM
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Are there any new docudrama's out on this case?....Didn't this all start with his son crashing a boat and killing a girl?
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Re: Amazing.
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Feb 18, 2023, 8:33 AM
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Several out. One called “Lowcountry” is the one I liked best. On Apple or maybe Amazon
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Re: Amazing.
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Feb 18, 2023, 8:39 AM
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Are there any new docudrama's out on this case?....Didn't this all start with his son crashing a boat and killing a girl?
There have been a few shows on like Dateline or something similar.
Yea his son was accused of driving a boat while intoxicated and hit some pylons of a bridge. Mallory Beach ended up dying in the crash. That incident uncovered massive fraud on Alex’s part. Still can’t figure out why killing his wife and son was seen as something that he thought would help him.
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Re: Amazing.
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Feb 17, 2023, 9:09 PM
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Maybe cousin Eddie was ripping him off with outrageous prices. Alex shudda found a cheaper dealer.
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I’m glad this guy is going down but is anyone else
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Feb 17, 2023, 8:21 PM
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Troubled they can basically track everything about you? And save it?
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Re: I’m glad this guy is going down but is anyone else
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Feb 17, 2023, 9:44 PM
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Yep. Big Brother is scary. He will take away all freedom in the name of "safety".
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Re: I’m glad this guy is going down but is anyone else
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Feb 18, 2023, 7:45 AM
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Big Brother doesn't step in until there is a need to subpoena records (which can cost law enforcement a fortune over the course of a year). But Siri and Alexa are ALWAYS listening and they talk behind your back to Verizon or AT&T or Tmobile.
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Re: I’m glad this guy is going down but is anyone else
Feb 18, 2023, 8:50 AM
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Man we carry these cell phones around and share and receive data all day. Digital footprints are hard to cover up.
I believe the man was smart and from the accounts I have read was a go getter, top producing lawyer in the firm.
The whole deal snowballed. Stole from Peter to pay Paul and then the next thing you know you are millions in the hole. Start doing drugs, apparent marital issues, your son should have been going to prison as well just became too much. Should have ended his own life and been done with it.
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Re: I’m glad this guy is going down but is anyone else
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Feb 18, 2023, 11:48 AM
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They probably have voice data from your phone too. Never underestimate the power of big government. Our founders are probably turning over in there graves.
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Re: I’m glad this guy is going down but is anyone else
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Feb 20, 2023, 7:51 PM
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I am watching a three part series from CNN on these Murdoch's....I thought that Alex looked like like a spawn of the devil at the time I watched about his boy killing that beautiful girl in the boat crash...
.Now this Stephen Smith thing & a planned murder or suicide of Alex himself? The housekeeper? Knocking her down the steps for insurance & telling the ladies boys he would give them some money & then they don't get a dime?......
All the money that man stole from people that died tragically
You can't make this #### up !!!
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Re: Car data mapped Alex Murdaugh’s movements the night...
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Feb 17, 2023, 9:43 PM
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It's amazing a defense attorney could make those stupid mistakes. All my trucks are Chevy's and OnStar and Crash data recording are disabled before I drive them off the lot.
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I assume you're talking about Murdaugh...
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Feb 18, 2023, 7:38 AM
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He wasn't a defense lawyer, was he?
He was mostly a "Slip and Fall" lawyer. My impression is he was very much into money and status. He was probably fully subscribed to OnStar.
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Re: I assume you're talking about Murdaugh...
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Feb 18, 2023, 8:10 AM
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He was a very well known and effective plaintiff’s attorney.
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If by “well known” and “effective”
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Feb 18, 2023, 9:52 AM
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You meant notorious and opportunistic, then yes… have you heard any of the phone recordings from the jail?
He thrived in a world of corruption that was built just for him.
Others will go down with him.
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Re: Car data mapped Alex Murdaugh’s movements the night...
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Feb 18, 2023, 8:08 AM
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Up until Friday I thought the state had landed very few effective punches on Murdaugh but the cell phone and Onstar evidence the prosecution presented appeared to be a knockout blow. I’ve never doubted that he was a criminal- the state had laid that out quite effectively but I didn’t think they had proven him guilty of murder. Until Friday.
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I haven't seen anything about *his* cell phone's location...
Feb 18, 2023, 10:41 AM
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...data which would be even more compelling than the OnStar data IMHO. I did see something about his calls from his phone, but not the location data.
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