Murdaugh Murders Podcast - TSP #28 - Alex Murdaugh’s Sentencing Hearing Part Two + The Becky Hill Set-Up?

Episode Date: December 7, 2023

True Sunlight Co-hosts Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell break down Alex Murdaugh’s 50-minute speech to the court during his sentencing Nov. 27 for his financial crimes. Though nauseating — and, frankly, inappropriate given that he directly addressed the victims — this unprecedented speech from a defendant provided the public with a bird’s eye view to the full spectrum of his narcissism and his criminality. Also on the show, the quest to get Alex a new trial in his murder case has taken an alarming turn. The focus now seems to be on ensuring that Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill’s credibility is worse than that of the Egg Lady Juror as Team Murdaugh continues its full-court press in getting just about everyone removed from the case.  In the new year, we're planning to create casual meet & greets, book signings, educational presentations, LIVE Q&A, university events, cocktail happy hours and more... And we want to source these ideas from the listeners and Premium Members with y’all connecting with venues where possible. Essentially, you gather the people and we'll show up and add to the experience with programming, swag and the budget! Visit lunasharkmedia.com/newevents to submit your idea for consideration! Visit our new events page Lunasharkmedia.com/events where you can learn about the upcoming in-person and virtual appearances from hosts! Join Luna Shark Premium today at Lunashark.Supercast.com. Premium Members also get access to searchable case files, written articles with documents, case photos, episode videos and exclusive live experiences with our hosts on lunasharkmedia.com all in one place. CLICK HERE to learn more: https://bit.ly/3BdUtOE. And for those just wanting ad-free listening without all the other great content, we now offer ad-free listening on Apple Podcast through a subscription to Luna Shark Plus on the Apple Podcasts App. SUNscribe to our free email list to get alerts on bonus episodes, calls to action, new shows and updates. CLICK HERE to learn more: https://bit.ly/3KBMJcP And a special thank you to our sponsors: Microdose.com, PELOTON, and VUORI. Use promo code "MANDY" for a special offer! For current & accurate updates: TrueSunlight.com facebook.com/TrueSunlightPodcast/ Instagram.com/TrueSunlightPod Twitter.com/mandymatney Twitter.com/elizfarrell youtube.com/@LunaSharkMedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Essentially, you gather the people and name the place and we will show up and add to the experience with programming, swag, and the budget. Visit lunasharkmedia.com slash new events to submit your idea for consideration. So today is part two of Elik Murdoch's Sentencing Hearing episode. We're going to break down his self-centered and highly revealing 50 minutes' speech to the court, but first, we wanna talk about what's going on with Collatin County Clerk of Court, Becky Hill, because the fix is almost in,

and we need to sound the alarm in a way we never have before. For weeks now, it has been clear to us behind the scenes that all signs are pointing to a setup with Becky. The setup is this. T. Murdoch wants to tear down her credibility so that the media and therefore the public will reach the sloppy and incongruent conclusion that, therefore, Elik Murdoch should get a new trial. But let's be ultra clear here.

This is about the egg lady, juror. Elik lost the one juror, the one we know of at least, who seemed to be of the mind that he was not guilty. And Dick and Jim couldn't fight that during the trial because they knew that Judge Newman had the absolute discretion to dismiss her. They knew that he didn't have to give her the benefit of the doubt, which he did. They knew that the egg lady juror got caught lying. Regardless of what she might have said to those tenants, she violated the judge's order. That is the bottom, indisputable line here.

She spoke about the trial outside of the courtroom and then lied about it, according to her tenants and according to her husband, who admitted they talked about it and who admitted hearing her talk about it to the tenant. The problem for Dick and Jim is that the egg lady juror has credibility issues. Her word alone, that Becky spoke out of turn, cannot be taken at face value. So they puffed up the allegations and all the included boxes of blank sheets of paper to support their claims. Then the AG's office came back with a strong response with receipts in the merits of Dick and

Jim's case seem to dissolve. So Team Murdoch had to try a different tack and here we are. They want the Attorney General's Office to lose their resolve and give in to stop standing their ground against a new trial when faced with the public perception that Becky has done something wrong. They want the decision makers, this Supreme Court, who will appoint a new judge to hear their motion for a new trial, and then the new judge to feel pressured and into making decisions based on the perception that Becky has done something wrong and has credibility issues. Never mind what the facts say, never mind what the law says, never mind how obviously

coordinated all of this themes. Tea Murdoch wants the media, and therefore the public, to make the mistake of thinking that something is happening and column B makes the thing and column A immediately true. In other words, in column B, we have Becky's drama with her son in the ethics complaint, but they have nothing to do with column A, meaning Ella C. Murdoch's guilty verdict. But T Murdoch wants all of you to think the two are one and the same, so that they can get a new trial.

As Friedrich Nietzsche once said, they muddy the water to make you think it's deep. Thanks to the person who posted that on Twitter yesterday. And because the media and more prominent social media personalities have major financial stake in their being a new trial, they're not just going to push back hard enough, they're basically facilitating that outcome, whether consciously or subconsciously. It's undeniable that the trial of Elic Murdoch brought new notoriety to South Carolina

publications and media figures. We include ourselves in that. The spotlight has been huge, which as you all know, has its upsides and downsides. It has never been about the spotlight for us and it still is not. We do not want a new trial, no matter how much financial incentive might come with it.

We believe justice was served as far as the murders go. But for some in the media, not all, but some. It seems like the onslaught of national attention has been so intoxicating that they're not ready to let go of it just yet. It seems like they want a new trial. And if we're wrong about that, well, could have fooled us by how they're acting. wrong about that? Well, could have fooled us by how they're acting. If we've learned anything over these past three months since Dick and Jim first made their hollow allegations against Becky, it is that context does not seem to matter one bit to those who are spreading the message for Team Murdoch. Especially not to social media personalities, TV talking heads, and members of the media who are

more concerned about maintaining their own relevance in this case than they are about what the success of Team Murdoch's plot to free Ellic Murdoch would mean to the people of Hampton and Colloting Counties who have lived under this oppressive and controlling presence for generations. It doesn't seem to matter to them that Elyk Murdoch is a pathological liar. It doesn't seem to matter to them that Dick and Jim have helped perpetuate Elyk's lies and have repeatedly misrepresented circumstances

to the court. The Murdoch's continued stronghold over the low country doesn't seem to factor into their conversations on television or in social media. The endless connections between Dick Harpoutian and the various players now who have a hand in helping take town Becky doesn't seem to be a topic of discussion for them. They seem to have forgotten the state's response to Dick and Jim's motion for a new trial, with evidence showing just how wrong Dick and Jim's motion for a new trial, with evidence showing just how

wrong Dick and Jim are about the jury tampering claims in just how weak their case is. The media and the personalities and talking heads are largely reporting on this case absent the context. They are constantly resetting the board for team Murdoch, and they don't ever seem to be questioning the validity of the information that they are getting from the people who are quite clearly acting on their behalf. There is a full-scale attack happening, and it's far more sinister than what we saw happen in the months after the boat crash in 2019. Back before we knew what we know now, back when we suspected that the Murdoch's were setting up Connor Cook, back when we suspected that Alec and his father were doing their best to foul up and muddy the case, i.e. obstruct justice.

Back when we thought something didn't seem quite right with the glorious Satterfield case, things we now know to be true. This is more sinister than that, and that was beyond evil, beyond dirty, but this makes that look light. I know there are people out there who want to insert a yeah butt into this. Yeah, but if Becky really did speak to Jews, isn't that a problem? Or yeah, but her son wouldn't have been arrested without cause. Or yeah, but what about those ethics complaints? Or yeah, but you guys hate Eleg Murdoch and only want to see the parts that keep his conviction intact.

Ignore the Yabuts for now. We can hit the Yabuts when there's more factual information to draw from. For now, Team Murdoch is on a mission to destroy Becky's reputation through the allegations alone, so that a new trial will come their way without having to rely on the facts of their jury tampering allegations. They want her to look so bad that the decision-makers feel like they have no choice. This is why it's incredibly disturbing to see some in the media all but validate that messaging by not including the context. By the way, there is nothing more nauseating than watching members

of the media and commentators justify their reporting by hiding behind false virtue all to the benefit of Elik Murdoch. The statement, we're just trying to get to the truth, is an utter lie when it comes from those who are giving more weight to the allegations than they do to the facts while never acknowledging that at the center of their misguided equivalencies is a man who lied about where he was the night his wife and son were killed who wants the public to believe to five foot two-inch people killed Paul and Maggie with the family's weapons that they happened to find on the property who tried to get the help to lie for him about where he was that night and what he was wearing that day

Who wanted sled to believe that a mystery man who looked an awful lot like Mallory Beach's boyfriend tried to kill him on the side of the road. Whose entire legal career has been one big scam to defraud the poor and who has employed just about every trick there is to getting out of accountability from every angle. Our mission hasn't changed, we want there to be one system of justice, not one for Elic Murdoch and one for the rest of us, and we want whatever is at the heart of Elic's thefts and the murders to be exposed once and for all. Right now, all we're seeing are attempts to weaken the resolve of Attorney General Allen Wilson, Sled Chief Mark Keel,

and the South Carolina Supreme Court using the headlines and discussions on national TV, and the punch of disingenuous audacity coming from Team Murdoch. That is what's actually happening right now. They want a new trial, and they will take down whoever gets in their way. So let's go back to what we said a little bit ago about Team Murdoch's current goal

of tearing down Becky's credibility. It's important to understand each element of what's happening separately. Let's talk about the all-important mode of again. Team Murdoch wants you to believe that Becky tampered with the jury for her own fame and fortune. They had to have something, you can't just accuse a person with changing the outcome of a trial without there being a reason that person would want to do that. It's literally the only thing they could come up with, and it is weak. As you know, they want us to believe that Becky believed that herself published book,

that she wrote with a man who has also never written a book before, would result in some meaningful change in her financial status. I know a lot of crazy things happen in this world, but it's more than a stretch to suggest that a woman who barely knows how to use social media, whose book offers no bombshells, no drama, no new information other than insight into her own experiences during the trial of the century. Orchistrated things so that a member of a family known for its power, an ability to ruin people's lives using law enforcement, would be wrongfully convicted. Let us remind you that the only reason Maggie and Paul were out Mozel that night was because of Ellic.

He asked them to be there. He lied about his alibi, about why Maggie and Paul were there. He tried to pin the murders on the boat crash victims multiple times. He lied about what he was wearing. He tried to get others to lie for him. He lied about owning a 300 blackout, he lied about being shot on the side of the road and so on and so on and so on. That is the man who Dick and Jim won people to believe was set up by Becky, the self-published book writer. We've been asked to consider the idea that Becky was up to something nefarious as Dick

and Jim suggest, so help us with that one. Help us understand what she stood to gain from Alex Gilt. The trial was compelling, no matter what the outcome ended up being. In fact, there's an argument to be made that a book from Becky would actually have been far more interesting if Ella had been found not guilty. We all got to see the evidence against him, the vast majority of us believe the evidence showed he was guilty. If he'd been found not guilty, boy would we be interested in the behind the scenes on that? No?

ABC4 News reporter Drew Trep made an excellent observation about this mode of. He pointed out that of the dozen or so people who are writing books about Alec or who have written books about Alec, many, if not all of them, had book deals in place before Alec Murdoch was even charged. Pause there. That observational loan undoes Dick and Jim's assertion that Becky's motive was tied to the verdict. And by the way, we'd find true to guess that not one of those writers with actual book deals would tell you that their books depended on Alex Gilt or Innocence. Not one.

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and make sure Alec was found guilty so she could sell it. But the truth is this, going into this trial, Becky says, she considered the notion of one day writing a book about it. Notice my use of the word notion. She had no concrete plans in place to write this book, no agent, no book deal, this book, no agent, no book deal, no outline, no plan, just a thought. On March 1st, the day the jury traveled to

Mozel, Becky met a photographer named Melissa Gordon. This encounter happened when Becky was assuring that cameras would be down as the jury arrived at Mozel. She saw a man in a media shirt who appeared to be live streaming. She asked Melissa if she knew who the man was. This is when Becky and Melissa introduced themselves to each other. This initial encounter was inadvertently recorded on Melissa's camera. So, counter to what a tick-tock lawyer named Lori put out there, and counter to the claims made in one of two ethics complaints against Becky. Becky did not have a plan in place to write this book until after the trial, and she did not meet Melissa Gordon, whose husband ended up

co-writing the book until the very end of the trial. According to Neil Gordon, Becky's co-author, it would be another few weeks before he'd meet Becky, and they'd talk about the potential of writing this book together. Now, early on in the book writing process in April, Becky sought the opinion of the South Carolina Ethics Commission as to whether it was appropriate for her to write the book. The Ethics Commission essentially said, it's cool, as long as this isn't something that would otherwise be part of your job. In other words, is this something that the public is already paying you to do in the scope and duties of your position. Obviously, the public isn't paying her to write books, right? TikTok Laurie, online commenters and the ethics complaint writers have twisted this, of course,

saying that the ethics commission told Becky that she couldn't write the book because it's something that arose from her role as clerk. Here's David with what the commission actually said. To determine whether the proposed outside employment is permissible, analysis of the term quote, official capacity is required. There is a three-pronged definition of this term in the Ethics Act, and all three of these elements must be present for the outside employment to be considered within a public official's official capacity.

Here you must consider the following questions. 1. Does the opportunity for the activity arise as a result of your position as clerk of court? 2. Is the subject matter of the work something within your official responsibility? 3. Is this type of work something that the clerk of Court's office would normally perform and for which you could receive expense reimbursement for by the clerk of Court's office? If the answers to all three of these questions are yes, then

writing the book would be within your official capacity, and it would be impermissible for you to receive compensation for writing the book. In the opinion of Commission staff, it seems unlikely that writing a book would fall within your official responsibilities as clerk of court. However, you will have to make that ultimate determination based on your official duties and the guidelines offered above. If the answer to any of the above questions is no, then the work is not within your official capacity, and you may receive compensation for authoring the book so long as you adhere to the Commission's guidelines on off-duty employment. It is worth noting that the Ethics Commission capitalized the word any.

If the answer to any of the questions is no, then the work is not within Becky's official capacity. The answer to question three was no. The book is not the type of work that the Clerk of Courts office would normally perform for which she would receive compensation from the Clerk of Courts office. So if you hear TikTokers or see other comments online saying Becky was not allowed to write this book because the subject matter was something that fell within her official responsibility. Remember what's missing from what that tick-tocker or commenter is saying. The context is missing. They are

not giving you the full picture. They are not giving you the full story. Which should make you question everything else that they're saying, by the way. Now, we are not defending Becky's book. We both wish that she would have waited to write it specifically because of the mess that she is in now. But there are questions the media and the AG's office in the public need to be asking in those include, did anyone connected to Team Murdock encourage Becky to write a book in any way? Did anyone connected to Team Murdoch regularly check in with Becky to see how the book was coming

and find out when it would be published? Did anyone connected to Team Murdoch offer advice about the book or its publishing date or encourage her to take part in documentaries as a way to promote that book. We've already discussed what's in the book in past episodes. We already told you how Dick and Jim are singularly focused on Becky's use of the word we when describing a conversation that was had on the ride back from Ozil during the trial. We've already told you how they've mischaracterized that we, as including herself, among the jury,

when in fact we, refers very plainly to the courtroom staff in the car with her. Again, this is all context that is being left out of media reports and by TikTokers, and context matters. Okay, so the book is one thing. The next thing is the jury tampering accusations. There are three elements to that. The first we've talked about. All of this is about the egg lady

juror whose dismissal was indisputably warranted. Also, she has credibility issues, which is a giant problem for Dick and Jim, because the weight of the jury-tampering accusations rest on her shoulders. The second element we've covered in past episodes, so we won't get into it too much here. To summarize, the state has not only poked numerous and significant holes in Dick and Jim's assertions and showed how some former jurors even felt threatened and intimidated by Dick and Jim coming to their doors. The state has shown that not one juror has said their verdict was influenced in any way by Becky.

Not even the one juror who signed an affidavit for Dick and Jim. Additionally, the state included an affidavit from a former employee of Becky's, someone who might be inclined to malign Becky because of hard feelings between the two. Even she said she didn't witness anything improper between Becky and the jury, which brings us to the third element. Whether Dick and Jim get a new trial for Alec will be based on how the law gets interpreted. Oh yeah, it's about the law, not the headlines. Dick and Jim say that it doesn't matter whether Becky influenced the outcome of the verdict.

They say that accusations alone should entitle Alec to a new trial. The state and legal scholars behind the scenes say that it absolutely does matter that the jurors are saying that Becky did not influence the outcome of their vote. Not one juror has claimed that, and not only that, but validating Dick and Jim's reckless assertions

in any way puts the integrity of all juries at risk. The context here is this. There is no evidence of jury tampering in no evidence that Eleg Murdoch was convicted for any other reason than he is guilty of killing Maggie and Paul, and regardless of what Becky wrote in her book, regardless of what anyone thinks of Becky and social media, or thinks about her book, no one who matters is saying she affected their verdict. And Dick and Jim know this, they know that the law is not on their side, and neither are the facts.

They know that egg lady jurors' credibility cannot be relied upon. The only chance they seem to have at getting a new trial is to get the public to believe that sled is corrupt, and that the FBI should take over the investigation. To get the public to believe that crane water should recuse themselves from the case altogether, and that the AG's office should appoint a third party prosecutor to the case. This is why they forced Judge Neiman off the case. This is extremely important what I'm about to say. This is at the heart of everything.

Dick and Jim can only win Alex's case if they remove the judge, the prosecutor, and the investigators, and make way for their own guys. They can't win with the facts, but they might be able to win with their own judge, their own prosecutor and their own investigators, handpicked behind the scenes, and then lobbied for by their friends with power,

who, when challenged, will use justifications that are absent the context and absent the acknowledgement of past deception, such as we just want to get at the truth here. That is the good ol' boy system. And everything they've been doing through the media is called grooming. Team Murdoch is grooming the media and the public to accept their desired outcome as an inevitability and not see it for the corruption that it would be. When you're in the media and being grimed by the good old boys, I guess it's hard to remember that the only way to get at the truth is to break down the facts and consider

the context of those facts. Not just repeat allegations and shrug your shoulders for some air time. Again, this is about the egglady juror. It's her word against Becky's, right? We already know that egg lady jurors' word is not credible, so the only line of attack left is to make Becky's less credible, which brings us to Becky's son Colt and his arrest. We have no idea what the facts of that case are and no idea what if any involvement Becky might have. But here's the context. What does this arrest have to do

with the jury tampering allegations? No one seems to know, do they? At least no one who's said anything publicly. Yet, it's being talked about as if Becky herself was arrested. Even if the alleged wiretapping does turn out to be connected to Becky directly, what would something that happened in July have to do with anything the jury decided on March 2nd? We know it's not a recording of Becky talking about how she tampered with the jury because God knows Dick would be standing outside her windows, say anything style with a boom box over his head playing the recording. But we do know that according to sources, by July Becky was starting to fear that team Murdoch was coming for her, which brings us to those ethics complaints.

Two ethics complaints were filed against Becky in July. Here's the context of that. Not a single accusation made against her alleges that she tampered with the jury. Not a single accusation has anything to do with the verdict in Alex's case. Frankly, most of the accusations seem to be demonstrably false, such as the accusation that the media paid for Becky's birthday party at the media center. Is Dick's friend and egg lady juror Attorney Joe McCullough starting in newspaper? I had no idea he'd be considered media.

Wow. These complainants must have some really great and accurate insight into what Becky was up to. Now, the identities of the complainants are only known to the ethics commission, to Becky, and to the people in the complainant's lives who know they file these complaints. Of course, those people tend to talk. It's been known for some time now that the two people who made the complaints have questionable ties to team Murdoch, Andor, questionable and perhaps political motivations in filing

the complaints. In one case, it's questionable that perhaps political motivations in filing the complaints. In one case, it's questionable that the complain had had any first-hand knowledge whatsoever about the complaints they made. Meaning, this person not only has a pass that draws their credibility into question and not only has direct ties to Murdoch affiliates. This person seems to have relied wholly on gossip and personal assumption in filing their complaint. It makes us wonder why that complaint in particular wasn't immediately dismissed. So the complaints were recently leaked to the media at exactly the same time that 14

circuit solicitor Duffy Stone wrote a letter to Attorney General Alan Wilson asking Wilson to take over the case and present it to the grand jury for further investigation. Of course, the headlines were particularly grim after this. Absent from most if not all of the stories we read was a mention of Duffy's connection to the Murdoch's in the murder case. Oh hey, isn't Duffy a protégé of Dick Arpulian? And did it the fact that his investigators who had no business being on the murder scene because their jobs didn't include murder investigation?

Something Dick sure did bring up at the trial to a road at the integrity of the investigation. There, the reason we all had to learn about what a Faraday bag is and how Duffy's investigators built a used one in transporting Maggie's phone from the scene. Also, absent from the stories were questions like this. How did Duffy, the Murdock-affiliated solicitor who refused to recuse himself from the murder case for two months, end up with this case? Did the ethics commission refer to him?

Or was he conducting his own investigation into Becky? If so, why? In regarding the complaints, the leaked complaints were redacted, with the identities of the complainants blacked out. Were these complaints leaked by the ethics commission? By law enforcement? By the AG's office? We sure hope not, but the question has to be asked

because here is what is unfair to Becky. Beliekt complaints allow for a total bananza, a speculation on her without the benefit of people getting to hear her responses to them. Belieking doesn't allow for any sort of meaningful analysis into the potential motivation behind the complaints. There's only full-on insinuation that gets to happen against Becky. We will say this. There appears to have some sort of deployment happening from behind the scenes. Release the complaints.

Now, cue Duffy's letter. Now, cue the headlines and the talk shows in the social media comments. One social media video, a five minute rant from TikTok Laurie repeated the claims made in the complaints almost verbatim in spots. She used the word allegedly here and there to couch the claims, but her profanity-laced rant,

expressing the kind of certain outrage one usually reserves for things known to be true, or maybe outrage for someone like Elik Verdoch, perhaps, made it seem like she had unearthed a treasure trove of new facts about the case, and not just accusations unaccompanied by evidence. She accused Becky of giving preferential treatment Melissa Gordon during the trial, including 30 days of preferred seating, allowing Melissa to skip the line each morning.

It's an interesting accusation because Melissa says that she only attended the trial for four days and waited in line each day. As we mentioned, it wasn't until March 1st that Becky met Melissa. You know who did seem to get preferential treatment during the trial? Good old Joe McCola, who wore a media badge, and came to trial every single day for six weeks to allegedly take notes for an upcoming screenplay, which I guess got interrupted when

he decided to represent egg-lied juror for some reason. I say for some reason, because why would she need an attorney if not to help Elic secure a new trial? Let's just pause here for a second, because this TikTok Laurie video is completely demonstrative of what we're trying to say. Team Murdoch is relying on accusations to be taken as fact, and people are just repeating the accusations without vetting them in the slightest.

Let's talk about what an ethics complaint is and what the commission is supposed to do. The South Carolina Ethics Commission is tasked with enforcing the 1991 State Ethics Government Accountability and Campaign Reform Act. There are eight numbers on the commission. Four are appointed by the governor, two are appointed by the state senate, and two are

appointed by the state house. It's a bipartisan group of people. They handle complaints concerning things like conflicts of interest involving public officials and public employees or campaign finance issues. There is a code of law that lays out exactly the kinds of things that would be considered a violation of the act, meaning there are specific statutes that can be cited in filing a complaint. Not one of the complaints includes a specific reference to a violation of any of these statutes. Instead, they rely on vague and unsubstantiated accusations many of which, like we said, were demonstrably false. Meaning,

there's no evidence attached to anything we saw, no receipts, not bank statements. In fact, some of the accusations are couched with the word may, as in the clerk may have done something. Some include the phrase, I don't know what happened. And other accusations are simply false. For instance, Melissa Gordon did not take a picture of Ellic lying in his cell awaiting the verdict. That picture was taken off a security screen. Those screens were positioned all throughout the courthouse. Law enforcement knows who took the photo.

According to our sources, it wasn't Melissa, it wasn't Neil, and it wasn't Becky. The complaints also accused Becky of misappropriating funds, including donations made to the courthouse by Taurus. Specifically, a $100 check that the complainant says was deposited into Becky's personal of misappropriating funds, including donations made to the courthouse by Taurus, specifically, a $100 check that the complainant says was deposited into Becky's personal account. There are also accusations about her taking money meant to be reimbursed to the county from a vendor, and misappropriating federal money meant for family court. Again, there doesn't seem to be any supporting evidence included with allegations, but those allegations are likely why

Alan Wilson's office is now handling the case because they go beyond the scope of the ethics commission. Now, let's say it together one more time. Those allegations have nothing to do with Eleg Murdoch's verdict. So before we move on to Eleg's sentencing hearing speech, let's just list this out again real quick. Feel free to share this with anyone who wants to conflate Becky's legal dramas with Alex Verdict.

The egg lady juror was dismissed as a result of being caught in a lie. Not because of anything Becky did or said, but Dick and Jim need Becky's credibility to be worse than the egg lady's to get anyone to take the egg lady's accusations against Becky seriously. Moreover, Judge Newman could have dismissed

the egg lady juror without questioning her, but he didn't, he allowed her to tell her side and she got caught in that lie. Dick and Jim were part of the process and did not object to her dismissal. According to filing so far, Dick and Jim did not have one single juror saying their verdict came as a result to something Becky said or did. Instead, we have jurors saying that Becky's warnings to, quote, pay attention were general warnings and not specific to Ellic. Moreover, no jurors are corroborating the egg lady's assertions that Becky was lurking around the jury room and having secret meetings with the four person. TM Murdoch wants the public to believe that Becky's credibility plays an absolute role in the outcome

of Ellic's verdict. It doesn't matter what Becky says. It matters what the jurors say. And they're saying she didn't do these things. So far we've seen several demonstrably false accusations come out of these complaints. But ultimately, the ethics complaints do not matter. Nor does the wiretapping case matter, because the only thing that matters is did Becky influence the outcome of this trial. She didn't. It is that simple. Be careful listening to people who are willingly allowing themselves to get groomed by team Murdoch all so that they can make a buck. And we will be right back.

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used the courtroom as a microphone and took us all into the depths of his just jointed mind where he truly believes that his words still matter. And that is the part that he left out, the context that is so important. Elik Murdoch is so clearly different from the rest of us because he stood before the court assuming that everyone would want to listen to him. He didn't even bother to address the obvious elephant in the room, which is why believe

him now when he has lied so much before. What has changed? It was tough to watch this the first time and even harder to watch the second. This man has been convicted of murder. This man has been caught stealing millions. This man has been caught lying about his own fake suicide. Judge Gurkel said it best.

Murdock is man of faithly not a credible witness. And yet, even after two years behind bars, Elyk Murdock is still Elyk Murdock who believes he can talk his way out of anything. You might think Elyk's confidence in his speaking abilities would have taken a bit of a hit since he chose to take the stand in his own murder trial in a jury of his own peers in a to take the stand in his own murder trial in a jury

of his own peers in a county that used to be Murdoch country, outwardly rejected his narrative and convicted him of murdering his family. But no, not Ellic Murdoch. Because the thing is, Ellic is still surrounded by people feeding the beast of an ego inside of him. His lawyers are not taking the facts as facts that the jury found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt due to evidence. Instead, Elic and his lawyers have concocted this absurd theory, but a small town court clerk named Becky Hill devised a plan to secure Alex's guilt by erroneously tampering with the jury so she could score a self-published book deal with herself and achieve mediocre Murdoch fame.

Alex is still the kid who has never been corrected, even after being convicted of murder. He will never accept his fate, but instead, he will set out to destroy anyone who steps in his way. As much as it hurt my stomach to watch this man standing before the court with the confidence of Tom Cruise, I think ultimately it was good for the public to be reminded of the monster that they created and recognize the tactics that this man takes to make sure this never happens again. I won't make y'all suffer through the entire speech, but I do want to pick out a few parts that are important.

Before he started on his strange saliliqui, Dick Harpullian said the speech would take 5- ten minutes, which was yet another narcissists move right out of the gate. Narcissists only value their own time, and they do not care if the audience has other expectations. to know that I listen to you. I heard you. You pain and you hurt this powerful, like you did. It's reasonable that I promise you

that it resonates with me. I heard standing. I hope that the time will come when you can look back and know that despite the things that I did that I care about each one of you because I did I did terrible things each of you placed your trust in me I'll stay proud of that and I'll still today honor about that fact that I've seen each of you terrible terrible things that I'm thinking about right now. Calls me to be heard. Calls me to be disturbed. It is so important to me that you know how bothered

that I am about the things that I did. It's important to me. After our days, weeks, months, self-reflection. I knew now that I took more and more and more notes because I was hiding or attempting to hide from the reality of things that I was doing about each of you. I have special recollections of my interactions with each one of you outside of the terrible things that I did.

Let's all just say a collective U before we start off because U-wa. Elic has learned absolutely nothing in his words or proof of that. One, how dare he say that the victim's pain is reasonable. Ellic is a murderer and not a reasonable person, and he still feels like he has authority over other people's feelings. Two, notice he said, I did things that thinking about right now caused me to be disturbed and it is so important that you know how bothered I am by this. Not distraught, he is bothered by what he did to these victims in the way that I am bothered when my door dash takes longer than usual.

3. Why are the victims supposed to care about how this affected him? Even his apologies are so riddled with privilege. Four, and finally, at least Elik Murdoch is consistent. In his opening, he got to the heart of what he wants to say. Feel sorry for me because I was on drugs that made me crazy when I stole from you, but not crazy enough to kill my own family.

Additionally, he seemed to vaguely blame the victims for his drug addiction. What I did to you because I cared about you bothered me so much that I took drugs to cover it up. Next, Elic began addressing the individual victims, which by the way is seen as very inappropriate according to victim's attorney, Sarah Ford. Elyk being Elyk started with the most important victim in his eyes, Jordan Jinks. Jinks was Elyk's childhood friend and is now a Hampton County Councilman.

He was the man who made Elyk's face change when he said that he knew intimate things about him. JJ, I thought it was close to you as anybody. I still do. As anybody I can think of. We grew up together. It's okay. JJ, we found it. In the fish. We'll take a wee time and fish together alone, all over the low country. I mean, I think we talked to each other about everything that's important to both of us. And then I hate the things that I did.

My dad is one of the best friends. When I say that I care about you, as hypocritical as that seems to light up things I did, it is so very true. I did care about each of you, and I still care about each of you. He went on to tell Ms. Pinkney how her hugs used to make his days better, and he said other random things about the victims

that he stole from, like the fact that he remembers Dion Martin's graduation and his daddy. It was as if he believed his appreciation of the victims would be considered a gift to the victims. In the middle of that rant, Alec Murdoch found an opportunity to proclaim his innocence in the murders. You know, the real reason why he stood before the court.

One more thing, Jay, Jay, going back, I do want to tell you, as to how close I feel to you. My wife loved you and you are absolutely right about everything you said that you are dead wrong about one thing. And I would never hurt Maggie and I would never hurt Paul. And it is important to me that you know that, because she did love you. And I hope you know that. And I hope you know that I mean what I say here today. JJ had told Eleg in his statement that he didn't think Eleg could have done this, but as he learned more about what Eleg had done to him and these other families, he came to believe that Eleg was absolutely capable of killing Maggie and Paul.

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker, who during the trial had written some very toned-off columns that almost validated Eleg's version of events, seemed to now fully see who Alex Murdoch is. In a column that was published shortly after the hearing, Kathleen talks about Alex narcissism and about his extraordinary skills at acting and using that acting as a way to manipulate people. After the hearing, she recounted how she approached Jordan Jings to ask him how he felt after hearing Alex Denial about killing Maggie and Paul, whether he still believes Alex did it. Jordan told her, I'm on the fence.

On the fence. Think about that. Alex still has the power to change opinions just on his word alone. Jordan wasn't presented with additional evidence or anything that showed Alex innocence. He was persuaded simply by Alex saying, I didn't do it. That right there is chilling. Next, electric acted as attention to the Satterfield family. Your nose.

Honey, I went to elementary school, middle school, high school, with your ads and your uncles, I don't know you and Brian and Gloria are part of my family. I mean that as hypocritical as that sounds, then he's saying it. It's hypocritical as it sounds. Is that absolutely true? The thing is, none of these details about the victims make him look like any less of a monster. In fact, it is worse knowing that he stole from people who he grew up with.

He really knew these people. How could he do that to them? And this is where we really saw Elix cognitive dissonance. Elix Murdoch, the family murderer, still believes that it means something when he says that he saw the Satterfields as a part of his own family. Actually, it's not hypocritical. Elix, it is consistent. You treat everyone close to you as means to an end.

Next, Alex Inner Monster felt the need to insult Gloria Satterfield. At this point, I will say that I said to Mr. Blaine, Maggie and I raised our two boys. We're then put from her mom and dad, and then put from mom and dad. But we are the people who raised those boys. And also, with that being said, there is no person, no person period that was more important to my family, the glory was to all of us, to me, especially to me, to Paul He's a god. Hearing Alex say Erick's name was sickening, but it was interesting to us that this is something that Alex wants people to know about him. One thing we know about Alec is that he brought Buster and Paul with him everywhere.

To adult parties, to work events, to places where they were often the only kids. They were his props. They were extensions of him. Buster was the good boy who was going to go on a law school and carry on the family tradition. Paul though. Paul was in constant trouble and Paul was very close to Gloria. We don't know what to make of Alex reaction here, but it was clearly insulting to him that anyone would say that Gloria raised the boys, which

isn't even what Eric said, by the way. He said that Gloria helped raise them. Alec is the one who read into it. I'm not sure if you were able to make it out, but when Alec was talking about raising his boys with the help of his parents and Maggie's parents, Gloria's brother yelled out, and the help of my sister. Gloria's family had reclaimed the truth in that moment. Next, Ellic addressed his law partner,

specifically Danny Henderson, the PMPD attorney sitting in the courtroom who was not there to support Ellic, but there as a victim. Obviously, we don't recognize the firm as a true victim in this because their lack of oversight fist-selectated Alex Thass for nearly 20 years, and that's just inexcusable, but it was funny to us that Alex seemed to assume Danny was there for him and not for them. Not only that, he even pointed out that Danny was the only person there from the firm, almost

as if he expected there to be a crowd of supporters there for him. You'll remember Danny as the man Mark Tinsley said Eleg feared the most when Mark subpoenaed him for his finances. Danny was the point man for Eleg in defending himself in the boat crash case. He was also the man in the backseat of the sled vehicle listening to Eleg the murder the murderer cry to Agent David Owen. And I am so sorry. So sorry. One of the things that I did. And it is important to me that you, all my law farmers. And for the guys, it didn't look much easier to kill someone. No more I did. and looking at you, you need to kill him. No one will have to do it.

You can have him. You share it every fast, I don't know why. But there was my family. You are my family, everything. He went on to say he will talk more about these law partners in details because it's so important everyone there knows that Ellie Camerdoch cares about them and he is sorry. As if Ellie Camerdoch's concern should still be valued high, even after he was convicted of double homicide. Who cares what is important to Elyk? Once again, he reminded the victims that he was very bothered, not troubled or upset,

knowing that he hurt them. Elyk then turned back to Gloria's family. Tony, Brian, when I decided to make up the story and claim about dogs in glory, I did it with good intentions, both of them here. I am so sorry that those intentions very quickly became selfish and I am so sorry that I continue to involve you in my actions and I am so sorry for everything that you and all the make sure the whole family goes that I am so sorry for everything that you have been through. Timeout. This man is still lying and trying to make the victims believe that he stole from them with good intentions. There is no evidence whatsoever that Ellic had a shred of a good intention while devising the Glorious Satterfield scheme.

Glorious son lost his mobile home during the time that Ellic was dealing from him. Ellic could have given him a very small percentage of the money and gotten away with everything. It was only because he had no good intentions with the Satterfield heist that he got caught. Additionally, how dare he use this platform to further assert his defense in the Nautilus case? Because that's what that was. His claim that he lied about the dogs is in his mind, his get out of trouble card

and paying back the insurance company. And the audacity didn't stop there. He pressed on. So I'd like for you to think about it. Despite what was said and his courtroom today, I can tell you that through my attorneys, I have been asking for a plea offer since the very beginning.

The very beginning. I formally plead guilty within two weeks of receiving the very first plea offer. That was in this courtroom however many days now. But I formally pledge guilty within two weeks of receiving the very first plea offer. And you heard a lot talk about the sentence, and I will tell you that the sentence that I would agree to is harder than I wanted. It certainly harsher than I'd hoped for. I will tell you that while I am feeding guilty for a number of reasons, all of which I believe are valid, none of those reasons, it's more prominent than my host that seeing me punished will help each of you heal heal and begin to be able to put this behind you because I can see it. I mean I can see I can feel I know what you've been through. I don't know.

But I still... As much as I hate listening to and analyzing this man's words, this might be the most important part of Alex Beach, because it captures every corner of his character. This man, a former prosecutor, and one of the worst criminals our state has ever seen, who has been consistently not cooperative with police, believed he deserved a plea deal. Not only a plea deal, but one that was less harsh than the 27-year sentence he got.

And he said he hoped that seeing him punished will help the victims heal because in his mind, punishment, not accountability or acknowledgement, leads to healing. Beyond that, the phrase seeing him punished felt almost performative, or representative. Like, they only need to see that he's being punished, not that he's actually getting that punishment. Like, it's some pro forma part of this for him, where at the end of all of this, he'll ask them, now do you feel better? Okay, good, because I'm getting out of prison early. Next, he talked to Buster, who was not there. And I am so sorry. Now I'm gonna talk to a few different people on the start with bluster. Bluster.

I am. I am so sorry that I'll let you down. I am so sorry that I have not been able to be with you during such hard times. I am so sorry that I did so many things that are so contradictory to every single thing Mom and I ever talk to you, and Paul. I am so sorry, I am so very sorry that the things that I did and that I am leading guilty to here today have somehow caused some people, especially people on social media, and some people in the media, to somehow believe that based on the things that I did, that is somehow okay to make thoughts baseless, unsubstantiated, claims against you that are not only based on no facts and no evidence whatsoever, but are also not based on any semblance of reality was so heavy. And I am so sorry that you have had to go through that. It's kind of odd to us that Ellic would bring up the Stephen Smith case during his sentencing

hearing. If he wants to free Buster of any association with this case, it would seem like Buster's denial of having anything to do with Stephen's death would suffice. And that Alex should move on. No media covers that story without mentioning that denial. It's also worth noting that Alex is incorrect here. His financial crimes are not what brought about Buster's name being associated with the case. Buster's name being associated with the case is what brought about Buster's name being associated with the case. It's in the case filed dozens of times from 2015, way before Alex Crons were known. Alex went on to say that he is proud of Buster, and that people keep sending his attorney's

messages saying, how proud they are of Buster. And we'll be right back. Why do I love getting my holiday gifts at Chopper's Drug Mart? The PC optimum points. Perfume from mom? Points for me. right back. Hi, I'm Pete Davidson, and if you're like most people, you may be asking yourself, whoa, hey Pete, are you here to up my hydration game? And I'd be like, hey you, that's exactly right, with new smart water alkaline with antioxidant. And you'd be like, okay cool, but there's no way there's a higher pH, right? And I'd be like,

there actually is. And you'd be like, that's rad. I hope there's electrolytes for taste too. And I'd be like, you're not going to believe this. Elevate how you hydrate. And keep it smart with smart water alkaline. Moving down the list, in a way that someone would read cooking instructions, Alec addressed the rest of his family. Next, I'd like to address and speak to my mom, my brothers, my sister, my nieces and my nephews, do I love dear ones, my aunts uncles, cousins, the rest of them, my family.

I am so sorry that I let each of you down. I am so sorry that I humiliated each of you. I am so sorry that I destroyed my family's reputation. With these terrible things And I have done. I am so sorry that my actions, that I'm pleading guilty to here today, somehow made people on social media

and in the media think that it's okay to falsely attack That's me. Then I've ever known. That's my father. That's my grandfather. to men who spent their life in most decent. And if they were here We're here today. Two men that will be devastated. About what I have done. The three best men, Ellic Murdock has ever known. His grandfather, solicitor, buster Murdock, his father, solicitor, Randolph Murdock, and Maggie's father. It is hard to tell where exactly evil began in the Murdoch family, as we are still digging into Alex's relatives for a future episode, but I can tell you that something in the milk

ain't clean. As Justin says, remember Randolph accepted a $300,000 check that came from Hakeen Pinkney's stolen money. Is Ellic really apologizing for being the first thief in the family? Or just the first one to get caught? Because legacy matters so much to them. As David Lauderdale wrote in a column for the island packet, neither Randolph nor Buster were wholly committed to justice. They both bent the laws to their family's favor." Quote, Buster Murdock laid out the blueprint for the family legacy in the whiskey case.

You rush to the scene, you use your badge to manipulate the story and evidence, interfere with witnesses and jurors, hire a flank of high priced big name lawyers, remain a hail and hearty fellow who knows everyone in engender's trust with the belief that a Murdoch can always take care of them. Quote, Ellie went on. He apologized to Maggie's family,

claiming that his actions contributed to her father's health issues. Then, he turned his attention to his brother Randy and to his former law firm again. Next is my brother Randy. I say that I am sorry to you because I know I know for a fact

There are actions that I'm bleeding guilty to here today, have called you terrible, terrible problem. I'm so sorry that my actions, my actions alone have called you to be so wrongly and falsely attacked and that my actions have caused your integrity to so wrongly be questioned because I know and those who know you know that you are without a doubt. One of the most honest and high integrity people, there's ever what deserve. There's everyone who's here. And I hate that the things that I have done have somehow made that an issue for you. I will challenge any negative minded person as it pertains to Randy to go and find one single person. Single person. Anywhere, which really knows you. We've got to have an alterated mode to tell you that he's not one of the most honest people that they've ever known.

As I've said before, Randy is a hard one to figure out. He didn't attend most of Elk's trial and he didn't testify on Elk's behalf. Randy has mostly avoided the harsh spotlight and managed to keep his job throughout all of this chaos. While he has been questioned on social media for his alleged involvement in the Steven Smith case, which he denies, and we still have questions about that, our biggest issue with Randy was his shameless jumping ahead of the victims in line for the money he allegedly loaned. Alec. Remember, he loaned Alec money in September 2021 when he knew Alec was a scheming liar? So much for integrity.

And speaking of integrity, Alec had a lot to say to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom.

I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I was asked, it's my law partners. The day the only one I see here, I assume you know, one of you don't be used, all of I am so sorry that I have called so much. I love you. You know, I love you to be. I'm sorry I let you down. I'm sorry that I

delegated each of you. Sorry that I called you to have to go through like you did for me. I'm sorry that I destroyed my locker. A locker that you know that I dearly love. I dearly love. I'm sorry I let you down. I'm sorry that I've caused each of you is not only one of the best lawyers that I've ever done around such good such compassion such smart So it's a given. And it's such a decent people. And I began to have so sorry that I went to search for great links to have my addiction and to have my criminal acts from from each of you. I know you would have helped me before things got so out of control.

Just move down in my mouth. I say to Johnny, that he was a great mentor to all of us. I learned so many good things from him. I am sorry. I failed him. I hope one day, they is listening to this. So that he will know how much I'm listening and I'm this I chat. Here, Alec is talking to John E. Parker, the new namesake for Parker Lomperm, formerly PMPAD, another guy who is not in the room. Parker also succeeded in his greedy quest to jump the victims in line and it should be noted that John E. Parker loaned Elyk more than $400,000 in 2021 when he should have known better. Notice that Elyk said, let him know how much I miss him in our chats.

He will know what I am talking about. If that isn't criminal code for something, I don't know what is. Then, he addressed Danny Henderson again and here's where it got a little odd. In the same way, it got odd when Jordan Jinks mentioned intimate things he did and knew about good words for me to accurately depict how I feel about you and know the things that you They do know how you helped Maggie when she did thanks. She had anywhere else to turn.

So, and the person, I hope you know how special you are, to me, especially. But also the bus, we're all good, no. So was Ella genuinely thanking Danny for helping Maggie or was this another coded moment where he was reminding Danny of something? It's a question we ask because we truly believe that Jordan's words reminded Ella that leverage that knowing intimate things about a person is something he still has in some ways. Maybe not here with Danny necessarily, but again, it's a question we have to ask. I like finished up his speech by saying he was pleading guilty to free up the AG's office and sled to focus on who and not to pursue

the person or the people who hurt and kill mag and call call He then talked about how he didn't know what had brought him to this point in his life, but that he'd engaged in a lot of alleged self-reflection and is urging people with drug addictions to get help. Coming from him, it was actually quite unbelievable and very glib.

It was basically that infomercial that Dick Harp-Hootley mentioned at the beginning of the sentencing hearing when talking about Eric planned. Where I did, where I could do things that I did, to all you any and everyone in suffering from addiction, please get professional help. Don't let pride get in your way the way I did. I have people who love me. Who tried to help me? Many, many more people who I know would have helped me. I had resources, I had access to more resources, and I still couldn't be. I tried, any many times. It's just too hard. I say please get professional health. I'm

very proud as I stand here today to be 812 days clean. But I didn't do it soon enough. Please get help now. There are so many wonderful facilities out there with professional people who care and who do wonderful, wonderful work. I would say a special thank you to the people at the Vol Recovery recovery rehabilitation center and at sunrise detox for all the wonderful care that they taught me and I use the tools that they gave me in hopes that tomorrow I can add another day to my toes. Lastly, I want to thank the men and women who have sent me letters, emails, and give them messages to my attorneys. With genuine messages of support, they need more to me, than you could possibly know. There is a moment for you, listening to a narcissistic murder or give shout outs to a rehab

facility that many people believed he used not so much for the detoxing as for the out-of-state retreat away from the glaring eyes of law enforcement. To whoever is sending him genuine messages of support, seek help now for his big finale. The last thing I want to say to you honor is that I am fully committed to trying to be a better person. I'm going to do as much good as possible and help as many people as I can while I'm incarcerated. and wholeheartedly committed to finding a way to somehow make those who love me proud crowd again and some small way. I appreciate each of you talking to me. I'm talking to you, can tell, that you're listening, and I appreciate it. I'm gonna say one more time. I hope you know, I hope you believe that it's heartfelt and the two things that I hope you take away today are number one that I care about you and number two that I hate things that I did, and I am so sorry.

And, Garner, I thank you for letting me address you, and for letting me address the victims. Thank you so much. And that's when Ehrlich Murdoch 2.0 finally stopped talking and everyone in the room wished that Mose and Starbucks offered public showers to wash the creepiness off their skin during the lunch hour. Like we said, it was a full spectrum performance by a man who still thinks he'll escape accountability and who right up until the moment of this hearing was strategizing and maneuvering with his attorneys to get the system to bend in his favor. Right down to accusing potential jurors of not being fair to him already.

And still trying to get Judge Newman removed from the case right after the Supreme Court had told them, no. Thankfully Judge Newman, who is still set to preside over Alex Roadside shooting case, got the last word. It was September of 2021 when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court assigned me to preside over the pending investigations involving the various offenses that you're being investigated for, initially including these financial crimes and the murder cases. And I have lived with this case now for over two years. And I have 34 days left before active retirement.

And after imposing this sentence, your life will continue. I will turn the page and leave you behind. You're quite an anigma, a person that many of us thought we knew. And as I stated earlier, I've never seen you say it. I've never seen you being anything other than a friendly, curing person. And it's so disappointing to see you again in this setting. I believe the last time we saw each other and you were not in jail,

was at a conference when you were poolside having a good time. And as it turns out, that was a couple of months after the passing of your wife and son. But you were having a good time, uh, made nothing of it. And here, Judge Newman is likely talking about the August 2021 trial lawyer's convention on Hilton Head, where we have

seen a lot of pictures of Elik parting it up just two months after his family was murdered. This was Newman's way of saying, I have been watching you. And I see the monster that you are. He went on to talk about the long, strange trip that we've all been on since Alec first appeared before him in October 2021. It felt like Newman was bogged down and just wanted to be done with Alec in his sick games, which is why he agreed to the sentencing. But thankfully,

Newman didn't bite his tongue on his thoughts of Elic Murdoch. He compared him to a cop killer. The question was asked, what kind of animal are you? You're an inignatic person. I don't know that you understand yourself. What comes of mind is a young man that I sentenced to death penalty. So killing a police officer and setting his body on fire, and though personally,

I was opposed to capital punishment, he was sentenced to death. And in writing up that sentence report, I concluded that he was heartless, he was just empty. And when I see you, and I listen to you, and I reflect on all that I've seen since being appointed, assigned to these cases, you come closest to that young man. Being empty, I don't see anything. I try to reach you at At sentencing in the other case. I've listened to you

here today And I don't I don't see anything there. Hopefully Hopefully something really merged within your spirit, within your soul? Empty. That was Newman's way of saying, boy, you haven't learned a thing this entire time. I hope that changes, but no one is counting on it, which is why you need to be in prison for a very long time. As we look at all of us, none of us are perfect. Many of us do things that we shouldn't, shouldn't do. It's just unimaginable, unimaginable to me that you have done some of the things that you've done. And whether it's you or someone you become upon using drugs or through the process of just committing the crimes over and over over the period of years. I don't know, I don't know.

I don't even know what I'm speaking to now. But being a person of power and influence, in the question, there's a raise of what type of character do you have? A person who would pray upon folks who are vulnerable and who are of a lower perceived estate than you. How you would pray upon those people, people who you say you love, and you capitalize on a disparity of what you have versus what they had and what they need,

what they desired. I take no joy at all in imposing this sentence, but it is what it is. And you'll have to suffer the consequences of your acts, continue to suffer the consequences, And hopefully some good will come out of you as you move forward. It is what it is and you'll have to suffer the consequences. We sure hope so. Stay tuned, stay pesky, and stay in the sunlight. True Sunlight is a Luna Shark production created by me, Manny Matney, and co-hosted by journalist Liz Farrell.

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