Alex Murdaugh Trial: My Opinion

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MY THOUGHTS ON THE CASE

Many people are interested in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, a lawyer from a prominent legal family for decades in South Carolina, accused of killing his son and wife.

To me, as the story was unfolding in the news in 2021, I was dumbfounded at the multiple one-in-a-million scenarios that were swirling around Murdaugh.  When you see that, always take notice.  Bad things can happen 1-in-a-million times, maybe twice: but three, four or five times??

No, that’s too unlikely with just plain old statistical odds alone.

That’s your first massive red flag.

Then when that person with these multiple 1-in-a-million odd stories, turns out to be an admitted liar?  And are caught in lie after lie after lie?

Your red flags are on FIRE!

Just say’n.

ON FIRE in capital letters!

Murdaugh is riddled with inconsistencies everywhere I looked and still look.

Above and beyond the murders of his son and wife, he is facing over 100 charges (according to the news I am reading) for money laundering, stealing millions from the family business and clients, to tax evasion, and being involved in roadside shooting incident that has hotter than coals on fire when it happened where his living son stood to gain $10 million in insurance money.

I am still open to look at clips of the case, if people want to post them in the comments.  Everyone should have a right to a fair trial.

I do have one question for anyone who believes him, why do you believe him, if you would courageously share it with me privately or in the comments.

HEADSHAKES

I know people are looking at his testimony to see what clues he drops.  In the video above, a reader has asked, does Alex Murdaugh’s headshakes indicate deception?

My answer is no.

This is not a classical presentation of an inconsistent nod or head shake.  To understand headshakes, you must understand human behavior at a deeper level.

It’s not black and white.

Murdaugh’s headshakes are a rather odd behavior, to be honest.

I’m scratching my head with them. I want to see more:  Is this being done intentionally because he knows about this signal so he is trying to confuse us?

Or is this just a weird behavioral quirk unique to Murdaugh?

I suspect it is the latter, but he is a polished liar so I am curious about the first!  If you see more videos of him doing this–please post links and time makers!! I’d like to figure this out.

Does he do it at other times when answering questions? Is it consistent when he tells the truth and lies? We have him caught in enough lies to look at this. If he only does it with his lies, it will make me go hmmm….

WHO DOES THIS?

If you watch Murdaugh in multiple interviews, you can clearly see this man can lie without a flinch, with no outward signs in interviews.

There are people who can do this. Always know this! But its very rare.

The most evil among us are capable of this, and often can get away with a lot of crimes because they can not only lie without any emotional remorse, BUT they know how to play on other people’s emotions skillfully and with precision to fool them!

Many highly intelligent psychopaths get away with some horrific stuff because of this.

Is Murdaugh a psychopath?  It is plausible here.

To get up on the stand in a case like this is ultra-risky, but it is a common practice for psychopaths to do. They think they are brilliant due to all the lies they pulled off successfully over their lifetime. They become so arrogant and cocky they keep convincing themselves they can fool anyone. And Murdaugh being a lawyer, too, he may continue to think he can fool the jury without question.

But I don’t think in this case Murdaugh will do that successfully.

He is grasping at straws to say he lied to investigators about being at the kennels the night of the murders because he didn’t trust SLED, and that he had addiction and was paranoid. Oh, he was paranoid alright but not for the reasons he said.  Skilled liars love to lay bits of truth at people’s feet to confuse them.

He was paranoid–that is the truth!! He was afraid that they would connect the dots way before he was prepared  to answer!  And to that point, he further tries to earn people’s sympathy that night by saying another TRUTHFUL FACT, “I don’t think I was capable of reason.”

That’s the truth! But yikes!!  I can imagine his defense team was cringing like crazy when he said that! That was a huge slip up, if you ask me.

He now has put himself at the location of the crime within minutes of when it occurred and admitted he didn’t think he was capable of reason that night.  He’s clearly not as smart as he thought he was.

 

Casey Anthony: “But no one asked why!”

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Ever since we had the Steven Avery documentary on Netflix, Making a Murderer, in 2015,  I don’t have much faith in shows like this to be hard-sleuthed for the truth.  I expect purely sensational TV for ratings–not hard investigative journalism.  So forgive me, I do not have much hope in this latest feature on Casey Anthony coming out by Peacock at the end of November to reveal anything. I suspect it will just be an entertainment piece that benefits the network and possibly even Casey Anthony here.  However, I will look at it (if I have access) and keep my eyes and ears open. I do care about the truth.

And I want to share the truth–especially if I see an evil person misleading people.  But keep yourself neutral here. Let’s listen.

When I watch the promo above, the first thing we see is Casey Anthony angrily stating, “No one asked why!”

It immediately puts you on edge and makes you feel alarmed, doesn’t it?  Like did you ask why?!!??

A bit of, “What is wrong with YOU here?”

Am I right?

But wait a minute, this is a victim stance–a stance many toxic perpetrators do!  They play victim!!

Alert–this is a BIG red flag for me. My walls of protection are pulling upward.

Is Casey Anthony a victim?

She surely wants you to believe she is.

By doing this, she immediately puts you on the defensive and attacks YOU to keep the target off of HER.

Swift, clever and fast, it’s rather mind-boggling, isn’t it?

Hold on to your pants, don’t recoil at her embolden behavior at this point.

Take note and don’t allow her to make you second guess yourself and your emotional response.

That is exactly what she wants.

Realign yourself. Think about her statement logically.

Hold your emotions and your truth in check. This is essential.

She is trying to act like she was railroaded, but folks, Casey Anthony faced a death-penalty trial. She had a platform to give her defense, to tell her story, to tell the WHY, to honor her daughter, right? She is acting like she could never say why before.  Is that reasonable or true?

It’s not.

This is actually GASLIGHTING. It’s meant to do all the things I said above –to disorient you, confuse you and make you question yourself and not her.

It’s to throw you off-center, and it works against most people when used as Casey Anthony has above.

Did she succeed in gaslighting you?

Her statement here:  It’s completely inconsistent immediately, it denies reality and doesn’t support an element of truth.

We all know one thing. Casey Anthony is a pathological liar, so tread cautiously.

Please note this piece was an edited cut and we do not know the entire conversation, so I am putting in a caveat here that given the entire conversation, there is a slight chance it could change how it is understood and interpreted. I reserve the right to adjust my assessment when given more information.

So while it is a huge ALERT and red flag for me here, it is important to see the entire conversation to make a solid judgement, but it will be very hard for her to make this come out any other way. So let’s take what we’ve seen so far, and file it under a strong red flag.

Find your ground, hold your truth and what you’ve known from the past (don’t question it) and listen logically. Hold your emotions of out this!  Let’s see what comes next…

 

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The Depp-Heard Trial Thoughts April 27, 2022

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Yesterday Depp’s attorney put Dr. Shannon Curry, a forensic psychologist, on the stand.  She testified that Heard has Borderline and Histrionic Personality Disorder.  This may make Amber prone to feeling intense emotions that are hard for her to control and may make her appear dramatic as a result. It’s an important diagnosis to consider. I am curious how her defense team will address this, and if there is an psychological evaluation of Depp that has been completed. Please know I am not watching the trial. I only am able to watch clips as I have time, so my opinions will be directly related to the clips I am watching.

In this video clip below, Heard describes an incident with Depp and her sister at the top of a flight of stairs in a deposition. It was sent to me by a viewer who questions if Heard’s emotional response and story here are authentic.  Her emotions are authentic here. You can see her supporting emotions of anger. We see her lips get thin and curl in. We see a microexpression of disgust.  We see stress in her forehead, albeit there may be some Botox there.

Heard was truly worried about her sister. And she admits she would have done anything to protect her sister. This is honest and open. She is not acting controlling as we saw Depp do on the stand in yesterday’s analysis. She was truly angry and concerned about her sister’s safety.  If Heard has Borderline Personality disorder, while she felt her sister’s life was on the line authentically, to a normal person viewing this incident in person, that mindset may be seen as a dramatic response. So there is truth here, but the perspectives of what happened may be inaccurate. Does that make sense? This may be hard for people to parse out and understand.

Last, I want to bring up this clip of Depp I found where he is asked if stuck Heard.  He does not leak any direct clues here that reveal the truth. He doesn’t give me anything that supports it’s the truth either. I will say I don’t feel comfortable with his response, but that is just a gut feeling. Not every statement leaks clues to deception.  So at this point I will remain neutral on this aspect until I get more information (testimony, evidence, etc).

When I analyzed yesterday’s clip, what I see is a man who has violent emotional outbursts that he is unable to control. I see a man who is unable to admit to his behavior, and a man who is willing to re-write the story to his benefit. These are traits of abusive men. Does that make him one? No.  Is it more likely than average? Yes. His behavior is telling that he is not able to control himself. That’s a huge red beacon, folks. We see the same with Heard, too, in clips.

So the pendulum here is swinging toward him lashing out due to his lack of control, but I do not have a complete picture to say what the truth is at this point with regards to the legal case. And that is a different matter, and I want to be clear on that. My analysis yesterday was for the video I analyzed. It does not speak on the entirety of the case. People are not black and white.  Someone may be honest in one clip and lie in another. Not all statements leak clues.

I suspect from what I have seen, we have two emotionally volatile and highly dysfunctional people who are unable to maintain self-control. Both act very inappropriate towards each other.  This case may be both wanting to be “right” and both are equally in the wrong. I will continue to watch the case and share what i see on a video-by-video basis as I have the time.

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Johnny Depp’s Testimony

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The big story in the news is the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial going on right now. Are you watching it?  People are wondering if Johnny Depp is being honest. Amber Heard hasn’t testified yet.

When I watch Depp testify, I see a man whose demeanor is very calculated. He is methodical in choosing his words and acting in a very controlled manner.  This flags me.  Why does he have the need to be so controlled?

When I listen to the recorded audio segments played in court of Depp and Heard arguing, I hear a very different demeanor from Depp. Of course he is mad (in the clip above), but this “calculated and methodically” personality is no where to be seen. It means we aren’t seeing an authentic Depp in one of these places.  You can pick which one you think is authentic.

When people are honest, they don’t need to control anything. So for me, this raises big red flags.

In the video clip above, I see many elements that give me pause and concern.  It’s clear Depp doesn’t have memories of multiple incidents because he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

It’s notable to me that he can’t remember the TV breaking. He thinks there was a “cup” or a “plate” stuck into it? Those are pretty distinct items to not be able to differentiate in memory.  He can’t remember which it was?

Ouch.

Would he then remember hitting or harming someone?

When it comes to the discussion of the penis drawn on a painting, I do believe Depp doesn’t remember drawing a penis on a painting. I’ll give him that! He gives supportive evidence he doesn’t remember.

When the attorney questions him about the penis painting, and says, “Given the state you were in, it’s entirely possible that you did that even if you don’t remember it to this day, correct?”

I love how Depp ignores the question (very common for him), and then tries to act like he does remember what was important to him.

Depp says, “Drawing a penis on a painting wasn’t the first thing on my mind.”

You have to laugh: That’s an ego statement like, dude, I don’t dream of penises. But it is also, to me, a form of control. It’s appears to be a need by him to change facts to suit him, which always raises eyebrows for me.

He continues, “I had messages…to, uh…write.”

Messages?  Really? Is that what you would call this?  Isn’t this manipulation? Gaslighting? Isn’t he painting himself in a light that doesn’t fit with reality?  Do you know anyone who could call defacing a lamp or property leaving “messages”?  It’s ridiculous.

For me, it is playing with words in an attempt to manage and control the situation–to change the narrative.

When you are honest, do you need to do this?

No.

People who do this? They typically can’t be honest with themselves let alone others. They are also often very toxic.

The attorney goes on saying that Depp wrote grievances he had with Heard, and Depp says, “Reminders”.

Listen, if you want to be taken seriously and honestly, admit what you’ve done. Don’t twist and turn the picture here to try to hide from it. Everyone can see it here.  Depp defaced stuff here so own it. Don’t tell us you wrote “reminders”.  That’s babble and nonsense.

When further questioned about the lampshade, Depp ridiculously says of defacing of the lamp, “Yes, I thought it was good advice.”

It’s good advice to deface lamps and put messages on them?

Please help me. Depp is telling you who he is here.

In point 6, in the video clip above, where Heard rattles off all the abuse she claims to have endured, I would have expected Depp to cut her off, disagree, or argue if it was nonsense. I find that noteworthy that he didn’t. I wish this clip didn’t cut off here, though! Is there more of this clip that is noteworthy? He could have just walked away–you can’t rule that out. I can’t tell by the short clip. I’m curious now! If he engages with her after this and just ignores it, it’s noteworthy.

Later in the clip above, Depp talks about looking through a doorway to see Heard’s foot injury (I’m not sure the whole context of this segment). He then says the door hit him smack dab head on in the forehead (because she kicked it in).  I’m trying to figure how that could happen. If you are bending down in a doorway, looking at a toe, and the door is cracked a jar about a foot as he says, how does the door hit you in the center of the forehead as he demonstrated?  I could see it being kicked and slamming into the side of your head (crushing). But how does a slightly ajar door hit you and bounce off the forehead as he says? Unless he was looking at the door and not her foot? Strange.

He even smiles as he says it.  Why would he smile here? It’s odd.  Then he says he, “was completely taken a back by such a…a…a…a., corrosive…..horr..ific move.”

That’s dramatic, don’t you think?  Or did he have serious injuries from this that I don’t know about?  He doesn’t seem to show or talk about any emotional pain from the experience. It sounds like it was a serious bruise to his ego however.

Throughout his testimony, we see this arrogant smugness, smirking and smiling on Depp’s face.  Arrogance is a belief  that one is superior. Superior people put themselves first always!  Nearly 100% of the time. It always alerts me to pay close attention that this is a very self-centered person.

We then see a video of Depp saying “You want to see crazy” as he pours a bottle of wine. When asked about the incident, the attorney says, “You were violent in that clip, correct?”  Depp replies, “Um…clearly I was having a bad…time.”

Really?  No, that was a rage fit. A violent emotional outburst where he lost control. He can’t admit it.

What can he admit then?

Depp is then asked if he was drunk in that video clip and he can’t admit it, either.  He says, “There is a possibility of that.”

You cannot pin down this man to answer directly on anything! And yet he wants to point the finger at someone else and hold them accountable?

In his testimony, Depp admits that he gave a pill to Marilyn Manson, “so that he would stop talking.”

YIKES.

This is an arrogance in a person that feels superior to others and will do whatever he wants to make himself feel better regardless of how it affects them.

While it is not appropriate to rage and yell and scream at a man as Heard did, I can certainly understand she was dealing with a brick wall who twists and turns and changes the narrative. That will make any person crazy.

Do you see a pattern here? A pattern of not answering questions directly?  A pattern of not taking ownership of his bad behaviors?? Of twisting things to change the narrative? Of not remembering events?

Is this a person you would find trustworthy?

I certainly don’t.  I would not feel safe in the presence of Depp behind closed doors ever.

I will share my thoughts on Amber as well once she testifies.

Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars

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I didn’t catch the Oscar’s last night. It’s not really my cup of tea, to be honest, but several people have requested my thoughts about last night’s incident with Will Smith and Chris Rock.

When I first watched the incident in the video above, the slap or punch or hit sounded so loud, yet I didn’t see Chris Rock respond in kind to such a hard hit.  It made me wonder for a second:  Is this real? Or a staged event?  Did you question it, too?

But afterwards, seeing Smith say, “Keep my wife’s name out of our f–ing mouth,” and the concurrent response of angry words he said, and the tension in his face clearly supports this is not staged, but real.

Will Smith even walks away after the slap with a smug smirk on his face. He is proud about what he did, which makes me nauseated, to be honest.

I find Smith’s actions to be completely unacceptable on any level. He was like a 2-year old child having a temper tantrum at a formal event!  He resorted to physical aggression to (a) communicate and (b) intimidate, (c) humiliate and (d) bully Chris Rock.

This is not a correction–drawing a respectable boundary, if he felt violated as an adult. This is abusive. If Smith had an issue, he could have maturely addressed his grievance afterwards whether in private or in public. There are mature ways of doing things.

Where is society going?  It seems we are going backwards!

When I see people who act like Smith and see they can and will do this in public without regret, I shutter to think what they are like behind closed doors where they feel freer to be cruel. When you can’t control a temper in public, there are often many other things you can’t control either, and its scary.  This gives me great pause in trusting someone after witnessing this!

Smith also did not give a sincere apology, but instead he continued his “victim stance”–even blaming Rock for being the abuser.  Smith said, “I know, to do what we do, you gotta be able to take abuse,” Smith also said in his speech. “You gotta be able to have people talk crazy about you. In this business, you gotta be able to have people disrespecting you and you gotta smile and pretend like that’s OK.”

He also said, “At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you”

He is a “victim”, which is another sad situation. Neither he nor Jada have to be a victim if someone insults them. That’s toxic behavior.

As for Chris Rock, if his comment was meant to attack Jada’s alopecia, it was not an appropriate joke, but I have to give it to Chris Rock. He didn’t resort to more escalation after being physically attacked! That took maturity to do that. And I thought it was common to roast people at the Oscars. Am I wrong?  I am not an expert on Oscar history, my apologies, if I am wrong.

Frankly, as a society, we should not accept people acting like Smith did. It’s totally unacceptable on every level. There is no excuse for it. Period.

Lastly, there are multiple reports of Nicole Kidman reacting during all of this. Some say it was due to the slap, and other say the moment was captured before. But either way, they captured a great expression on her face. Do you know what it is?