Hidden Texts: What Alex Murdaugh’s Jury Didn’t Hear — And Why It Matters

I have comments on the timeline; but I also have a valuable comment on Callie Lyons’ totally useless story on Stephen Smith.
As usual, FITS agonizes before letting my comments through; so, here it is again:
Callie Lyons, have you forgotten how many REAL journalists died and still do in war zones to report accurately?
Have you forgotten how many REAL journalists were courageously incarcerated instead of revealing their sources?
Callie Lyons, your shameless play on words to insinuate FALSEHOODS make you are no longer a journalist in my opinion free from false humility.
Callie Lyons, you are a washed-up has been who does no more than pander to Will Folk’s weird menage-a-trois with Mark Tinsley on one arm and Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland (“EBEB”) on the other.
What “blood, sweat and tears” did anyone in Hampton County “invest” in Stephen Smith’s story? All people did, INCLUDING Sanctimonious Sandi Smith (“SSS”) did was sit on their butts and repeat unfounded accusations.
That Thomas Moore, who has a clear grudge against everyone Murdaugh, is one of the most incompetent and unethical so-called law enforcement officers (“LEOs”) the world has ever known. He went and shamelessly harassed the wonderful, and PROVEN-CORRECT Dr. Erin Presnell to make her change her diagnosis of the death resulting from a vehicle-pedestrian collision.
The second autopsy CONFIRMED that diagnosis 100%. EBEB’s hand-selected Dr. Michelle Duprey said so on many shows including Court TV and Nancy Grace.
It was a “homicide” only to the extent that hit-and-run and suicide ARE forms of homicide, meaning ONLY not natural causes such as aging or disease.
The vehicle accident which killed Stephen Smith has been investigated more extensively than that which killed Princess Diana; yet, SSS and EBEB refuse to accept the obvious: Stephen Smith died by suicide by intentionally walking in the middle of the road into on-coming traffic because he was a broke, school-failing, teenage prostitute whose mother did not even want him living in her home but was very happy to launch a Go-Fund-Me page after his death and never disclose what she did with the money raised from that scam.
That killed-somewhere-else-and-staged-in-the-middle-of-the-road fiction is STRAIGHT OUT of the Oscar-winning movie “In the Heat of the Night.” Watch it.
Remember? At the beginning, SSS insisted that Stephen’s much older “boyfriend” did it. Then SSS realized there was no money in it and turned on the Murdaughs hoping for some money there. None came. So, SSS went to Go-Fund-Me.
You, Callie Lyons, owe to those who “invested” in that scam, and to SC’s taxpayers, to request an investigation of what was done with the G0-Fund-Me money and who authorized a second autopsy at taxpayers’ expense when there was NO REASON other than that idiotic LEO Thomas Moore and SSS’s and EBEB”s (supported by Malicious Mandy Matney [“MMM”]) to doubt Dr. Presnell’s diagnosis.
Now Will Folks is in love with Valerie Bauerlein, who should be sued by Dr. Presnell because Bauerlein FALSELY wrote in her book that “the doctor who did [Stephen Smith’s] autopsy was subsequently fired.” In fact, Dr. Presnell was NOT “subsequently fired” but promoted.
I have no confidence that FITS will run this comment of mine because he acts as if I did not exist while he copies my views and even my brilliant phrases: I have been telling him to “go coercive-control [him]self” since he started giving oxygen to that STUPID proposed coercive-control legislation. Lo and behold, he titles one of his recent posts “SCOTUS to Planned Parenthood: Go Fund Yourself” as if Will Folks were capable of that original title without being inspired by me.
You, too, Callie Lyons, go coercive-control yourself instead of shedding crocodile tears over SSS and her cohorts, MMM and EBEB.

Because FITS kindly let me post here, too, my previous comment on Callie Lyons’ related (if useless) supposed “update” on Stephen Smith’s story, I paste here and hope FITS runs it, my follow up to my Callie Lyons comment after visiting Susanne Andrews’ X-page:
In the narrow window of the day when my vision blurriness is at its mildest, I managed to visit Susanne Andrews’ X-page and read a score of her posts.
This, God willing and FITS permitting, is a LOVING invitation for her to tell the world and ME the basis on which Susanne Andrews ASSUMED that (1) Stephen Smith was murdered, (2) was murdered because he is gay, and (3) someone other than the supposed murderer(s) knows who did it and why, but is not talking.
Though she also founded something she called #StandingforStephen AND received donations to that foundation, Susanne Andrews seems to be sincere, to the point of naivety. That is why I am extending to her this invitation to engage in a FACT-based dialogue on the basis of her beliefs.
First, I give ZERO credence to Hampton County (or anyone in South Carolina except for the few Catholic priests and nuns, Coptic Orthodox faithful, and NON-reform Jewish adherents) being Bible-followers.
The same God who forbade homosexuality also forbade adultery, extra-marital (including pre-marital) sex, and even sex during menstruation AND during pregnancy.
BTW, the latter is one of the main causes of premature births, low birth weights, and early infant mortality. But it is not spoken about just as very few speak of breast-feeding being one of the best preventers of breast cancer. But these are topics for another post.
My point is that “conservative” in South Carolina (and most of America) means hating foreigners, nothing more nothing less.
Second, why does Susanne Andrews think Stephen Smith was the only gay in Hampton County? And if so, why would someone who wanted to kill him (supposedly to eradicate gayness in Hampton County) wait for Stephen Smith to be walking in the middle of the road into on-coming traffic to hit Stephen Smith in the head with a blunt object from a speeding car with such accuracy that trained polo players cannot master?
I have previously used my narrow windows of vision blurriness being at its mildest to read COVER-TO-COVER among other books, three I found very telling of why Paul and Maggie were killed and why Stephen Smith was SUICIDALLY walking into on-coming traffic in the middle of the road on a country night.
Those three books are Malicious Mandy Matney’s (“MMM”) “Blood on Their Hands,” Valerie Bauerlein’s “The Devil at His Elbow,” and Eric Bland’s (“EBEB”) “Anything but Bland.”
MMM’s most offensive hypocrisy (among the multitude that abound in her book) is pretending that her supposed Catholicism made her feel guilty after her many one-night stands. TRUE Catholicism makes you NOT engage in one-night stands in the first place, not feel guilt afterwards.
Also, TRUE Judaism makes you ABSTAIN from pre-marital sex, NOT force a WASP girl you met “at a bar after synagogue” to convert to Judaism to please your mother then sow permanent division between that girl and her brother (the seventh abomination to God’s heart according to Proverbs) then co-habit with her pre-maritally, all according to EBEB’s own book.
And TRUE journalism should have made Valerie Bauerlein NOT lie about Dr. Erin Presnell, who had made the unquestionably correct diagnosis of Stephen Smith’s cause of death. That was NO MORE “QUICK” than autopsies are done “quickly” after death and no more “questionable” than in the mouths of that idiot Thomas Moore and Sanctimonious Sandy Smith (“SSS”).
Valerie Bauerlein is NOT about REAL journalism but about selling her book and now about doing a PR job for Mark Tinsley in his new civil lawsuit against the Spivey shooters.
Really, Susanne Andrews, read those three books and tell me how am I wrong in concluding that MMM pushed for the murders of Paul and Maggie (if not orchestrated them herself) to bring renewed attention to Stephen Smith’s case, help Gloria Satterfield’s heirs snatch form Richard Alex Murdaugh (“RAM”) insurance-fraud loot to which neither RAM nor the Satterfield estate was entitled (because no dogs were involved in Gloria Satterfield’s death), and help Mark Tinsley settle the boat crash case.
LOOK AT THE RESULTS.
They pretend RAM killed Paul and Maggie to get “sympathy” for the boat crash case. BULL. The result is the opposite: The Beach estate got $20 million even though, according to Valerie Bauerlein’s book, it was Mallory Beach who pushed for more drinks and THE boat ride that night-into-day.
Why? Because after RAM’s conviction, EVERY lawyer who dares oppose Mark Tinsley or EBEB knows that said opposing lawyer’s wife and/or son COULD be killed and have the murder pinned on that opposing lawyer.
So, the supposed civil defense lawyers pay with abandon. After all, that money does not come from the civil defense lawyer’s PERSONAL pocket but from the pockets of insurance companies. And where does the insurance companies’ money from? From us the law-abiding policy buyers who see our insurance premiums rise and rise under false pretexts that such rises are due to the California fires and the Texas floods.
Again, BULL.
The insurance premium rises are due to the scams of the insurance defense lawyers and the complacency of judges who approve outrageous fraud-based insurance settlements to make BOTH plaintiffs’ lawyers and civil-defense lawyers love those judges and hire them after those judges retire from the bench.
Again, Susanne Andrews, give me FACTS to tell me how I am wrong OR join me in exposing the real scams going on.
And advocate for breast-feeding and abstinence, at least during pregnancy.
God bless

May be comments on the timeline itself, posted under the other story that is still trending, will cause this story to trend again as it should.
So, here is my analysis of the timeline:
With the 7 June 2021 cell phone records as printed by FITSNews about two years ago and presented to the jury, I took the pain of color coding them and would ask Jenn Wood or Will Folks to make it possible for me to post the color-coded version.
Till then, here are my conclusions on which you have to trust me until you see my color-coded version or you color-code them for yourselves.
(1) About 20-30 entries are clearly designated as NOT in Rudolfsky’s downloaded data. Why?
(2) There is no doubt about the time of Maggie’s arrival to Moselle OR the time of the dinner: 8:00 – 8:30 pm. Her phone LOCKED during that time.
(3) Maggie’s cell phone batteries were borderline because she (apparently inadvertently) did NOT hook her cell phone to her car charger on her 7 June 2024 drives from, and back to, Moselle.
(4) The conclusion is: the phone locks when the battery is low, or when the owner does not want to be disturbed (as when having dinner), not when the owner dies.
We also need to know from the autopsy report what Maggie was wearing when she was killed. Did her garments have pockets large enough for her cell phone?
It is more plausible that, with so many dogs to let out then back in, Maggie needed both her hands free; and, if not wearing pockets, laid her cell phone on the side-by-side or her bike’s basket or wherever THE REAL KILLERS found it and had to deprive Maggie of it lest she call for help or lest the phone record what really happened.
(5) If Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) were the killer and had disposed of Maggie’s phone on the drive from or to Almeda, he would not have, the next morning, given SLED information and assistance on finding that phone.
(6) Also, if RAM were the killer, he would have spent the night at his mother’s home and left one of the Moselle hands to find the bodies in the morning and be the prime suspect.
I have previously detailed all the above here and elsewhere.
To recap here what I previously explained on FITSNews and elsewhere as OBJECTIVE SCIENTIFIC proof of RAM’s innocence:
(1) Paul and Maggie did NOT die as early as 8:49 pm on 7 June 2021 because the food is their stomachs, AS SEEN and MEASURED by the pathologist who performed the autopsies, was TOO LITTLE  and TOO DIGESTED for the death to have occurred only 22 minutes after Paul and Maggie’s KNOWN, relatively large and fatty, last meal.
(2) Paul did not send the video of Cash’s tail, NOT because Paul was shot by RAM immediately after making that video, BUT BECAUSE that video shows NOTHING WRONG with Cash’s tail. Paul’s having previously imagined, and reported to Rogan Gibson, that there was “a pone” on Cash’s tail was AN OPTICAL ILLUSION which was dispelled by Paul sleeving Cash’s tail though Paul’s palm then looking into that palm and finding nothing in it OR ON THE TAIL. Whatever “pone” Paul thought he saw earlier must have been an insect of a piece of caked mud that fell off with Cash’s furious wagging of its own tail. Tail wagging is NATURE’s way of ridding dogs of dirt and/or parasites. So, no need to bother the friend of a friend who is a veterinarian.
(3) RAM was wearing that while T-shirt into the kennels and later into his mother’s home. The spatter on it was NOT human blood but avian blood from the chicken RAM had extracted from the jaws of Bubba the dog.
(4) If Paul and/or Maggie were REALLY shot with guns which once belonged to the Murdaughs, they must have been Paul’s very expensive once-established stolen guns which were never recovered but of which the first one only was replaced. So, on 7 June 2021, someone had possession of at least two guns stolen from Paul Murdaugh.
(5) The REAL shooters are likely females with training in shooting game animals but not humans because, due to muscle memory, they aimed for the height of a game animal head, not a human head.
AND (6) The ideas of RAM shooting his beloved wife and younger son to gain sympathy is a total inventions of Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland (“EBEB”) from which he takes great CONTINUING sinful pleasure.
As a third-year law student in the then-and-now middling USC law school, EBEB’s self-importance and rabid ambition demanded employment in the more prestigious and lucrative Philadelphia, Pa, market which was out of USC’s circle of connections.
So, EBEB helped himself into calling Philadelphia, Pa, law firms and FALSELY pretending he ALREADY had scheduled interviews with competing Philadelphia, Pa, law firms. Then he would AGAIN FALSELY pretend to one firm that a competitor firm had offered him a job at a huge salary.
Parenthetically, I wondered how good were those supposedly elite law firms if they did not know to check whether their competitors had REALLY offered interviews and later well-paid jobs to a middling graduate of a middling southern law school.
Be that as it may, EBEB did get a job with a Philadelphia law firm but in their Florida branch, which soon closed.
So, EBEB returned to Philly where he spent three years jumping from on law firm to another without actually doing the work that would have qualified him for promotion from associate to partner.
So EBEB returns to South Carolina where he gets his WASP father-in-law to open a law office for EBEB and a partner.
For a while EBEB does well by destroying the competitors of one wealthy client; but soon that wealthy client himself goes into bankruptcy or something; and EBEB was, in his own words, “staring into the abyss.”
That is when EBEB gets the idea of destroying other lawyers for a living.
Full disclosure: I once thought EBEB a hero for standing up to Nexsen-Pruett. Truth is: each is worse than the other.
What is new to me is my fuller understanding of Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland’s (“EBEB”) personality and why and how he is obsessed, addicted even, with making others believe his fabrications. That is what makes EBEB happy and what started his career: fabrications (of interviews and job offers) which he calls “little white lies” and what continues his success. He wants to punch in the face a junior high classmate who was then taller and more muscular than EBEB. And now, he wants to literally kill RAM of broken-heartedness because RAM was once a more successful and higher-earning personal injury lawyer than EBEB.
EBEB may also have the Laius complex, so afraid that Oedipus will kill Laius and marry Jocasta that EBEB admits to BASICALLY verbally abusing his only son and never letting him win in golf.
Good parents, like caring fledging a brood, are patient with their young ones, laugh at the little ones’ jokes which are not funny to adults, pretend not to see them at peek-a-boo, pretend to fall for their facile April fool’s real “little white lies,” etc. But not EBEB. He is addicted to making people think what he tells them to think, even if the price is getting an innocent man convicted of two murders and of getting one black lawyer after another suspended and disbarred.
I pray that EBEB repents. But whether he does or not, YOU don’t let him mislead you.