"People Will Lose their Jobs Over this!" SLED Chief's Behind Doors Reaction to Murdaugh Trial Testimony

Furious SLED chief Mark Keel could fire people because of the incompetence of law enforcement revealed in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh

Murdaugh Trial: Week Two

So, one person is not pleased by the increasingly gripping testimony we’ve heard so far at the double murder trial of South Carolina attorney and scion, Alex Murdaugh. That person, I gather, is Mark Keel, the chief of SLED. (South Carolina Law Enforcement Division).

Monday night, Keel was described to me by a source in law enforcement as being “unglued” because of how badly he felt both SLED and Colleton County Sherriff’s Office had come off so far in the courtroom, where the trial is into its second week.

The Associated Press @AP

A South Carolina investigator testified that Alex Murdaugh, who is standing trial in the shootings of his wife and son, had uttered “I did him so bad” between sobs during an interview. But to others, it sounded like Murdaugh said, “They did him so bad.”

apnews.comThrough sobs, did Alex Murdaugh say he killed his son?“I did him so bad.” That’s what a South Carolina investigator on Monday testified that Alex Murdaugh had uttered between sobs during a recorded interview three days after Murdaugh’s wife and son were killed.

One of his agents, Katie McAllister, who was part of the team who examined the grisly murder scene, was visibly in tears Monday evening, says an eye witness who spoke to her. According to my source, she described Keel as “giving them so much hell that he says there will be people losing their jobs over this.”

Even if you haven’t been paying close attention to what’s been going on so far inside the South Carolina court room, the increasingly eye-popping headlines out of what we’ve seen so far in the trial, raise important questions about what happened on the night of June 7 2021.

The Independent @Independent

Cellphone data shows final movements of Alex Murdaugh’s wife before murder - live

independent.co.ukAlex Murdaugh’s chilling text to wife after murders revealed at trial – liveFifth day of testimony to begin in Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina where Alex Murdaugh stands trial for murders of wife Maggie and son Paul

Remember that’s the night the bodies of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found shot dead, felled by two separate guns, at Moselle, a family hunting estate owned by the Murdaugh family, a dynasty of lawyers who had effectively ruled South Carolina’s Low Country for around a century.

Alex Murdaugh, who was under pressure to disclose his extremely messy financial statements, phoned the emergency services at around 10pm. He said he’d gone to visit his ailing mother at around 9pm, and, upon his return, found his wife and son’s bodies near the kennels. It was an awful sight. Maggie Murdaugh had been killed with a semi-automatic rifle and Paul with a shot gun.

Investigators have testified to some curious anomalies: Alex Murdaugh never cried in front of them; his clothes were spotless, despite the fact he said he’d checked the pulse of his dead son and wife and their blood was everywhere. He told police his theory of the murders before they’d even asked. And he asked one cop: “How are you doing?”.

But, under cross examination, it emerged that the investigators didn’t react to the oddities of his behavior and potential clues as sharply as they might have.