Taking a closer look as the defense
rested its case yesterday in the
double murder trial of Alec Murdoch.
Now today the prosecution is going to call a
handful of rebuttal witnesses. Afterwards,
the jury is going to visit Murdoch's home,
where his wife and son were killed,
part of a request by the defense team.
Now, closing arguments are
expected to begin later this week.
Our friend Taylor Bell, defense attorney,
he is here with us again this morning.
Now I want to get to some questions,
some viewer questions.
And this one comes from Lee
out of West Columbia.
He says, quote, you know, my question for Mr.
Bell is would.
This be a pro or con for the judge
to allow the jury to go to the crime
scene at Mozelle for the defense.
And Mr. Bell,
you sound very professional and so smart.
You should have been Mr.
Murdoch's attorney.
Thank you Lee giving you
a compliment this morning.
Well, I appreciate that, Lee.
Stunned there.
Yeah, right.
Somebody finally said
something good about me.
They recognize your expertise.
Not used
to that as a criminal defense lawyer.
As for the crime scene visit by the jurors,
I think it can go both ways.
I think there have been some
exhibits entered into evidence by the
government which are not to scale.
I saw some of those.
I'm in a group text with
some of my attorney friends,
and I looked at it and we were
going back and forth that this,
this is not to scale.
So it could confuse the juror
and I think a first hand look
at how everything was set up.
The distance will be very
good for the jurors.
However for.
The jurors and the prosecution,
how isolated this location is,
I think it could fall back in their
face that how could there be some
stranger lurking at the time frame
that's been narrowed down so tight
for for there to be some other
possible suspect that there weren't
dogs alerting or anything of that
nature that no one would have known
that this stranger was lurking.
Somebody was out there.
And one thing I'm thinking.
Out in regards to the visit,
alright, we've got another viewer question.
This is from Rachel out of Bowman.
She says where are the clothes
Alex had on in the video and
why have they never been found?
I think he's guilty, but I think he's
gonna this is going to be a hung jury.
What does Taylor Bell think
the verdict is going to be?
And if a hung jury,
do you think they will try him again?
A lot of questions for you
there. First question, where the clothes are.
So it's my understanding the government
wasn't asking about this blue shirt.
Until after the fact when the defense
proved and prevented the prosecution
from going on their theory of high
velocity blood splatter spatter to
the white shirt when it came back
that that was not actual blood.
So this is a shift I think
a couple weeks before trial.
And so the defense I don't think ever
knew they were looking for this shirt,
this blue shirt here and it's my.
Understanding, based on testimony,
Alec had been living at multiple
different locations and that
everyone had packed up his stuff.
And I'm not sure, but I do agree.
Yeah, I want to know where it is.
I don't have that many clothes that
I probably couldn't tell somebody.
This is where this is.
So that's a good question there.
All right. And then real quickly,
let's see if we have time
for one more question here.
Could Alex have been driving the
golf cart and carrying the guns?
And is that how he was able
to get to Maggie so quickly?
And also maybe would you be
able to explain the theory of
him sitting on the golf cart?
And would explain the height of the shooter,
because there's been a lot of
questions about the height of
the shooter in this case.
That's correct.
That's a reasonable theory, I believe.
Absolutely, based on supposedly
A52 shooter, 22 short shooters.
But we also had expert testimony
yesterday that said the shooter shot
from above as if the victims had
already been had been leaned over,
leaned over and shot, you know,
and then crouched over and shot in the back.
So I think that's a good theory
and it's absolutely a possibility
that there could have been Alec
on the golf cart and I think the
government may do that in closing,
argue that's a possibility.
All right. Well, again,
this trial is going to continue.
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Roku or Amazon Fire. Taylor Bell,
thanks for being here, my friend.