The fate of fallen legal scion Alex Murdaugh now rests in the hands of 12 jurors as they begin deliberations in his double murder trial. The jury began deliberating on Thursday afternoon after six weeks of testimony concluded with dramatic closing arguments at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina. During the state's closing arguments, prosecutor Creighton Waters told the court how Mr Murdaugh's "gathering storm" of financial crimes, opioid addiction and years of "living a lie" culminated with the moment that he became a "family annihilator" and murdered his wife Maggie and son Paul. "After an exhaustive investigation, there is only one person that had the motive, that had the means, that had the opportunity to commit these crimes," he said. "And whose guilty conduct after these crimes betrays him." |
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| A group of police officers and lawmakers want former president held liable for Capitol attack |
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| 'Investigative Subcommittee' will determine whether freshman congressman may have 'engaged in unlawful activity' |
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| In two decades since their daughter's death, Cindy and Craig Corrie have not given up their hopes for peace |
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| New York congresswoman 'has taken several steps to ensure nothing of this nature will ever happen again' |
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Why did two men steal Charlie Chaplin's coffin and hold it for ransom? |
On 1 March 1978, Charlie Chaplin's coffin disappeared. The filmmaker had been buried two months prior following his death on Christmas Day in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland (Chaplin, a native of London, moved to the country with his wife and their children in 1953). Chaplin was 88 years old at the time of his death and the celebrated director behind silent films such as The Kid, The Gold Rush and City Lights and talkies such as Modern Times, The Great Dictator and Monsieur Verdoux. The disappearance of his coffin 45 years ago is still remembered as an especially brazen instance of grave robbing. So how on earth did it happen? |
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– The amount of propane, in gallons, spilled when a freight train derailed near the Sarasota County-Manatee County line in Florida this week, the latest industrial accident to hit America's railroads. |
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"She's chosen to live a lie, and I find that very, very sad. I don't know why she's doing what she's doing." |
– Carol Perone – the mother of Raquel Saraswati, who has resigned as the chief equity and inclusion officer at American Friends Service Committee after being accused of lying about her ethnicity – says her daughter is white and of German, Italian and British roots, not Latina, Arab, and South Asian heritage as she has claimed. |
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