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As Murdaugh Retrial Looms, Another Former SLED Investigator Faces Scrutiny

Former SLED agent Ryan Kelly terminated after harassment and unbecoming conduct allegations.

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SubZeroIQ June 23, 2026 at 11:34 am

Good timing, Jenn Wood, specially with the revelation in the Karen Read cases up in Massachusetts!
And for those who missed my assertion that the system which STILL punishes ME for my PROVEN innocence will NEVER admit it wrongly convicted Alex Murdaugh, I here re-paste what I wrote this morning on other outlets:
Perjury and subornation of perjury ARE “true crimes” and may take the lives of their victims without a PHYSICAL weapon.
What “still gives [ME] the chills” is how cold-blooded my attempted framers were and are and how indifferent ALL judges were to those true crimes committed in their own courts and under their own eyes.
My attempted framers ARE Alex Murdaugh’s attempted framers, NOT people like them or people who know them. The SAME people: John Meadors, Donald Zelenka, David Amadeo Fernandez, Johnny James, etc. And these are only the lawyers. The so-called “victims advocate” should be called “victim framers,” too.
And the Indifferent-in-Chief is Judge Clifton Newman, to whom I presented an annotated transcript of my 22-26 February 2010 jury trial over which he presided, at the end of which a hopelessly dead-locked jury forced the judge to declare a mistrial.
Immediately after the mistrial, I did extensive research and compiled OBJECTIVE evidence of the perjuries, forgeries, and fabrications, deployed against me in that trial and presented my DOCUMENTATION to officials, including Judge Clifton Newman, who shrugged it off as “not my lane.”
WHOSE “lane” is it, then?
That is NOT a rhetorical question; nor am I seeking legal advice. After all, thank God, I exonerated myself WITHOUT A LAWYER.
Likely that is why most, if not all, South Carolina lawyers, specially CRIMINAL defense lawyers hate me and want to discredit me, even as the borrow VERBATIM parts of my closing argument to my jury, including my brilliant analogy of reasonable doubt to fuzzy “use-by” dates on food items.
I have not YET thought about giving you, Anne Emerson, an alliterative title because I see you as a working girl trying to make a living on the fringes of journalism.
But I came up with “Bottom-of-the-Barrel Brueski” (“BBB”) for your competitor on Hidden Killers, who is also soliciting his meager audience’s ideas.
Here is my response to BBB, which MIGHT also move YOU, Working Annie:
?Before I give you my records-supported theories on who the real shooters are, or the shooting FEMALE cabal is, I need to emphasize what is ACTUALLY KNOWN about the LIKELY time of end of Paul’s and Maggie’s lives.
I also do NOT apologize for, only explain, why I nick-named you “Bottom-of-the-Barrel Brueski”: your unseemly gloating over Alex Murdaugh disproportionately long sentence and atrocious prison conditions.
Otherwise, I do not know what YOUR AUDIENCE watched; but I know what I watched AND read in the OFFICIAL complete transcript filed in the OFFICIAL Record on Appeal with SC’s Supreme Court and available to the public FOR FREE on that court’s website.
I also know what I LIVED through: a 22-26 February 2010 General Sessions jury trial presided-over by none other than Judge Clifton Newman. Thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, I thwarted the evil scheme of THAT SAME JOHN MEADORS and his underlings to frame ME for harassment and, through peculiarities of penalty enhancements in SC’s harassment statute, put ME in prison for 36 years, YES, thirty-six.
I know FIRST-HAND their tactics and their limitless cold-blooded willingness to frame the victim instead of going after the real perpetrators.
And I am NOT the only one.
Again, a Justin Mallory was attempted to be framed by THAT SAME JOHN MEADORS for the murder of Justin’s wife, Nakia. Justin’s jury, like mine, deadlocked in the first trial. Justin and my paths after the mistrial differ but separately end in Justin’s and my UNEQUIVOCAL eventual acquittal DESPITE John Meadors’ doing everything available, but not necessarily ethical, for him to block and delay Justin Mallory’s and my separate AND LONG paths to acquittal.
Lest you think I am avoiding your specific MISTATEMENTS about Paul’s and Maggie’s time of end of life: what expired ONLY 22 minutes after Paul’s and Maggie’s KNOWN large, and relatively fatty, last meal with Alex at the house at Moselle were THE BATTERY charges on Paul’s and Maggie’s cell phones, NOT Paul or Maggie themselves.
For the nth time, the food in Paul’s and Maggie’s stomachs AT AUTOPSY was too little and TOO DIGESTED for them to have expired ONLY 22 minutes after that last meal.
Look up the Dutch Brothers Coffee murder case in Oregon to understand the importance of stomach contents at autopsy in Forensic Medicine.

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SubZeroIQ June 24, 2026 at 10:10 am

The most recently re-emerging prejudicial pre-retrial publicity is a claim the Alex’s first call was to 911, not to Buster, proves Alex’s guilt and makes him a “family annihilator”!
And it is again, unabashedly and unethically, driven by Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland, who, like Judge McCaslin, is an advanced physical, not legal, weight lifter, although I hope Judge McCaslin is more careful about her exercises than EBEB, who had to have knee replacement surgery in his relatively young sixties.
EBEB claimed complications from his knee-replacement surgery. He may be fixing to sue his orthopedic surgeon. But that is another story.
Back to Paul, Maggie, and Buster.
No one was targeting the entire Murdaugh family.
They were targeting only Paul and Maggie because then, along with Alex’s father, they and Alex were the only Murdaughs who knew that Gloria Satterfield has NOT fallen at Moselle because of “the dogs” when she went to Moselle NOT to pick up a check from Alex’s mother. That was an insurance scam and Gloria Satterfield’s heirs were in on it.
But there is no honor among thieves.
When Alex kept all the loot to himself, MY plausible theory goes, the Satterfield heirs started harassing him.
Alex countered that if the Satterfield heirs did not buzz off, he will confess to the insurance company that it was a scam and no one gets anything. The three people who could confirm that were Alex’s father, who was dying of terminal cancer, and Paul and Maggie, who were killed by the Satterfield heirs or their agents to silence them.
Remember? After Paul and Maggie were shot, Gloria Satterfield got over $10 MILLION for the IN-HOSPITAL demise of Gloria of TERMINAL renal failure FALSELY PAINTED as due to her fall three whole weeks earlier due to the Moselle dogs.
Buster was NOT involved in any of that.
Alex’s immediate referral to the boat crash case is proof, NOT of his shooting Paul or Maggie, but of his guilty conscience about having involved Paul and Maggie in the insurance scam.
BTW, on a show of one I “honored” as “Bottom-of-the-Barrel Brueski,” (“BBB”), EBEB still counts Stephen Smith’s demise against the Murdaughs, who had NOTHING to do with it.
I am NOT a lawyer, only better than most according to at least one SITTING federal judge; but I think EBEB should be added as a defendant to Buster’s defamation law suit and/or to Alex’s civil suit against Becky Hill.
That appears to be the only legal way to stop EBEB from shredding the Canon of ethics of SC lawyers.

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SubZeroIQ June 24, 2026 at 10:30 pm

Just a thought, admittedly with LESS objective documentation than I usually present; but a plausible thought nonetheless.
First, the available OBJECTIVE documentation, which comes from THE TRANSCRIPT of former FITSNews employee Callie Lyons, a deposition taken by the excellent Debbie Barbier in the SECOND Beach et al v. Parker et al case.
Unquestionably, Callie Lyons testified that the FALSE blood spatter evidence was leaked from SCAG’s office to Malicious Mandy Matney (“MMM”), also a former FITSNews employee.
And Callie Lyons was NOT speculating about that: she found an ACTUAL text or email or something to MMM from SCAG about the blood spatter evidence.
But SCAG does not itself test shirts. SLED does.
And MMM all but admits in her book that she regularly close-to-prostituted herself to get her “journalistic” scoops.
Could it be that MMM got that blood spatter “scoop” in return for sexual favors to that Kelly, whose termination remains unexplained?
Again, just a thought; but a plausible one nonetheless.

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SubZeroIQ June 26, 2026 at 10:32 am

It takes courage to live in this unjust world; and it takes humility to acknowledge my real IQ.
The Bill of Rights is NOT limited to the Sixth Amendment; nor is the latter even limited to trial by an untainted jury.
Before we even get to trial/retrial, the Constitution guarantees DUE PROCESS, procedural and substantive.
But he Defense is taking a complicated approach and playing into the Prosecution’s hands AGAIN.
Instead of all this talk about retrial arrangements, the Defense should push for a bench-directed-verdict-of-acquittal based on the CORRECT analysis of what the Prosecution presents as inculpatory evidence when it is in fact exculpatory.
And the Prosecution has one supposedly-inculpatory piece, and only ONE piece, which should, UNDER DUE PROCESS, be analyzed SCIENTIFICALLY.
And that is the Kennels video.
But think about it and pray Judge McCaslin has the courage to think OUTLOUD about it.
Paul was NOT shot “BEFORE he was able to send it.” Paul did not send the kennel video BECAUSE IT WAS USELESS.
If you look carefully, there was NO “pone” or any other lesion on that furiously-wagging tail of Cash-the-dog.
It had been either an optical illusion or some caked dirt which Paul had mistaken for “a pone” and wanted the veterinarian friend of Rogan Gibson’s girlfriend to look at and suggest remedies or continued passive observation.
By the time Paul took that video AND sleeved Cash-the-dog’s tail in Paul’s non-phone-holding palm, that caked dirt had fallen off or that swollen insect bite has flattened out AND Paul put his OWN phone back in his OWN pocket.
Think about it!
If Paul had been shot BY ALEX right after the kennel video: (1) Why was the phone left in Paul’s pocket and not taken by Alex along with Maggie’s phone? (2) Wouldn’t Cash-the-dog have run away spooked by the gunfire and had Paul’s blood at least on its paws? (3) Would Alex have had time to catch BOTH dogs (Cash and Bubba), clean them, and put both of them in their kennels in the SIX MINUTES between the last activity on Maggie’s phone and Alex leaving for Almeda?
Instead, the grounds/kennels-keeper testified that when he went to Moselle unsuspectingly in the morning, the dogs were ALL locked in their kennels and just hungry.
Of course, as I previously explained MANY TIMES, the REAL time of the shootings is closer to 9:30 pm judging by the victims’ stomachs’ contents at autopsy compared to the KNOWN time and composition of their last meal.

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