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Alex Murdaugh Murder Retrial Moved To Sumter County

Judge finds former attorney cannot receive a fair and impartial retrial in Colleton County…

by JENN WOOD *** The retrial of accused killer Alex Murdaugh will be held in Sumter County aft
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10 comments

Squishy123 (the original) September 8, 2026 at 5:27 pm

It’s all such a waste of money… someone inside just needs to take care of him like they did Jeffrey Dahmer.

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SubZeroIQ September 8, 2026 at 11:51 pm

What do you prove about yourself by writing this?
The man is already suffering the loss of his wife and younger son. Why do you want him offed before he can prove his innocence?
This hard-heartedness is frightening to me and damaging to your own soul.
Please reconsider.

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Squishy123 (the original) September 9, 2026 at 2:49 pm

Suffered the loss of his wife and younger son… at his own hands.
There’s nothing to prove, that was shown in the first trial.
Maybe if you weren’t such a bleeding heart, you’d see the facts for what they are.

Do you just want a do over because the trial didn’t come out the way you wanted the first time? Are you a paying member of the Dick Hartpootlian fan club?

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SubZeroIQ September 9, 2026 at 3:36 pm

There are EXACTLY two lawyers in North Carolina (one male, one female), one in Washington, D.C., or New York (a male), and one in South Carolina (a female), whom I respect and cherish. Besides those four, there is EXACTLY one retired federal magistrate judge and one retired federal judge in North Carolina, one retired state judge in North Carolina, one deceased state judge in South Carolina, and one sitting judge in South Carolina (all five males), whom I respect and trust to always do the right thing even when there is nothing in it for them.
ALL the other lawyers and judges I have known in the U.S. are motivated by self-interest or self-importance and it shows sooner or later.
Sure, if there is nothing for him/her on either side, a South Carolina judge MIGHT rule fairly and promptly. But put as little as a proverbial feather of potential profit or fun for the judge on one side or the other, what comes out is shocking ignorance OR ignoring of the law and of decency.
I am NOT a member of Mr. Harpootlian’s “fan club,” though I have great memories of the Armenian refugees I knew in high school and great sympathy for the victims of the Armenian genocide. But I doubt Mr. Harpootlian is related to any of that except by name.
I recommend for you a French-Italian movie starring Omar Sharif and Claudia Cardinale called “Mayrig,” the Armenian word for “Mother,” if you want to know more about the Armenian Genocide. French is one my first three languages; but I hope you can find a version dubbed in English, or at least with English subtitles, if you are not at home in French as I am.
But back to Alex Murduahg, I am NOT a “bleeding heart,” I am a scientist.
Medical Science tells the food in Maggie’s and Paul’s stomachs at autopsy was too little and too digested for them to have died ONLY 22 minutes after their KNOWN large, and relatively fatty last meal.
Botanical Science and the sciences of dynamics tell me Maggie’s phone could NOT have threaded itself between unbroken twigs of vegetation and came to rest as we see it in the photo taken of it where and when found the morning after the murders. That phone must have been placed there by hand, not thrown from a moving vehicle at whatever speed. And it was MORE LIKELY pilfered or wrestled away from Maggie BEFORE, not after the shooting, to prevent her from calling for help.
These are THE FACTS. Anything else is prejudicial publicity.
Please watch the movie, look at the photos, read the autopsy pathologist’s testimony, and tell me what you, in GOOD CONSCIENCE, think.

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Squishy123 (the original) September 9, 2026 at 9:57 pm

You forgot to mention that you’re a nutcase who likes to hear herself talk.

SubZeroIQ September 10, 2026 at 5:52 am

I referred you to a well-made movie where others talk; and I answered your false accusation about being a fan club member. How is that hearing myself talk?
And I pointed scientific facts out. How does that make me “a nut case”?
I now add that “nut case” is a meaningless cliche, facile to people who know nothing about science and are unwilling to learn.
But I hope some other reader(s) benefited from my observations. One never knows which good seeds will hit fertile soil.

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Squishy123 (the original) September 10, 2026 at 10:26 pm

Do you happen to binge watch old episodes of Quincy?

SubZeroIQ September 10, 2026 at 10:57 pm

I don’t know what Quincy is; nor do I have any intent of binge-watching anything.
Full disclosure though, a year ago I traced Peyton Place (a fiction including a man falsely incarcerated for 18 years for the murder of his wife) and The Fugitive and watched some episodes.
FYI, The Fugitive is loosely based on the true story of Dr. Sam Shepherd, who was convicted of his wife’s murder after horrendous prejudicial publicity and imprisoned but the U.S. Supreme Court reversed his conviction.
As Solomon the wise said, “nothing new under the sun.”
Good night and God bless nonetheless.

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Noseyone Top fan September 9, 2026 at 2:27 pm

I think Judge McCaslin is the right Judge for this and it is evident she thought very carefully about the venue change.

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SubZeroIQ November 3, 2026 at 3:21 pm

And the courageous and righteous response for the judge now is to dismiss the indictment.
Here is why:
Know why it was crucial for SLED/the Prosecution to fabricate that the Murdaughs loaded their shotguns with alternating birdshot and buckshot ammo, WHICH NO EXPERIENCED HUNTER EVER DOES and which NO hunting or self-defense manual EVER recommends?
BECAUSE Paul was shot with TWO different shotguns: one loaded with birdshot and another with buckshot ammo.
Why is that important?
BECAUSE it blows the single-shooter theory out of the water.
And instead of a two-shooter theory, we have a THREE-SHOOTER likelihood, with a concomitant necessity of a shooting cabal, about which I have been writing for a while, and which is the INEVITABLE result of Malicious Mandy Matney’s (“MMM”) relentless incitement against Paul MONTHS before his indictment for the boat crash case.
And no, No, NO! These were NOT the much ridiculed “random vigilantes” wondering what to do on a damp Low-Country June evening.
This was an organized, role-assigned, cabal formed after several interviews among MMM and the wider circle of the young Murdaughs’ supposed friends and the older Murdaughs’ supposedly loyal employees.
And it was also carefully planned to pin it ALL on RAM.
For example, they pretend RAM “lured” Paul to Moselle. But why did Paul go to Moselle that day? To replant the dove field.
And why did the dove field need to be replanted?
Because the flowers had died after having been sprayed with pesticide.
And who sprayed the pesticide?
You got it. CB Rowe.
Whether the unknown Murdaugh-unrelated DNA under Maggie Murdaugh’s finger-nails and on her cell phone turns out to be CB Rowe’s or not, CB Rowe’s main role was already complete: poison the dove field.
Then comes a name, Olivia Boyles, from MMM’s book “Blood on Their Hands,” as a respondent to MMM’s advertising for info on the boat crash and on Stephen Smith’s death.
Of course, it could be a coincidence of a not-rare name, or Olivia Boyles could be related to the male Boyle room-mate/best friend of Paul’s according to RAM’s 8 June 2021 interview with SLED.
“But the birdshot and the buckshot came from the same shotgun” you say.
“Says who?” I answer.
You see, all that controversial testimony about ammo/firearm identification relates MAINLY to the black-out 300 rifle, where the ammo casing is metal, the firearm bore is striated, and the firing pin’s impact on the primer can be talked about.
But shotguns’ bore is smooth; and the casing is plastic which does not carry striation marks and explodes on ejection, and the firing pin on primer impact is pretty uniform.
Meaning the impact of the firing pin on the primer is going to look similar, if not identical, of 12 gage ammo fired from DIFFERENT shotguns of the same caliber and manufacturer.
Prove me wrong if you can.

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