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SC v. Alex Murdaugh
S1 "Theory Of The Short Shooter"Do mechanical Engineers engage in speculation? Do they base their opinions on assumptions? That was part of the fiery attack on the defense's expert during cross-examination.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP16 "Suitcase Carrying Death"I'm always afraid and always scared. That's what Sarah Boone told jurors on the witness stand. She tried to explain away the cell phone video she recorded while Jorge Torres was inside the suitcase pleading to get out because he couldn't breathe. Battered women's syndrome was a big part of her case. Boone testified that initially it was funny when her boyfriend was able to even fit inside that small suitcase. But then she claimed that she only left him in it because she feared for her life.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP17 "Physical And Psychological Abuse"The jury's attention shifted from the death of Jorge Torres to the years of domestic violence he and the defendant dealt with. Sarah Boone testified that she was a woman in fear of her life when she and Torres played a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Next, large images of Boone's bruises were displayed for jurors. She was testifying about the constant physical violence she claimed to have endured at the hands of her allegedly abusive boyfriend.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP18 "Domestic Violence Allegations"Domestic and alcohol abuse came to define the violent relationship between Sarah Boone and Jorge Torres. On the stand, Boone gave jurors a timeline of events where Torres allegedly attacked and abused her. But, the defendant never mentioned any alleged abuse while she was being interviewed by police. Yet on the stand, she told the jury that zipping her boyfriend up in that suitcase and leaving him in there to die was the first time she fought back against him.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP19 "Defendant Faces Cross-Examination"In her murder trial, Sarah Boone told the jury that she was shocked that she was arrested for the murder of Jorge Torres. Even though she never talked about any abuse in her interview with police, she told jurors that her actions that day was her way of defending herself from being killed. It was the State's turn to question the defendant on the stand. They wanted to discredit her claim that she zipped up her boyfriend in a suitcase and left him there for hours because she feared for her life.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP30 "Suspecting The Mother"Jurors listened to more descriptive testimony from the person who discovered Gary Farris' human remains. After his youngest son, who was living on the family farm, discovered the corpse in that burn pile he told police he was missing a gun and he found some blood inside the home. It didn't take long for Scott Farris to suspect his mother, Melody, in shooting and killing his father. Scott pointed out for jurors the fights and suspicious behavior of the defendant leading up and after the homicide.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP31 "Challenging His Alibi And Motive"An intense cross-examination was underway. Melody Farris' defense argued that the state got it all wrong. It was Scott who was the real killer in this homicide because he was living and working at the farm when Gary disappeared and then turned up dead. Scott was the defense's straw man. The defense wanted to poke holes in his take on what happened to his father and raise doubts that he had nothing to do with Gary Farris' death.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP32 "Life Back Home"Jurors listened to his son's troubled life after coming back home from his three tours in Iraq. After he returned and before his father, Gary, was killed, Scott struggled to get and keep a job. He was essentially forced to live at home and work for the family as a farmhand. Melody Farris' attorney brought jurors back to the family money which prosecutors claimed was her motive to kill her husband, Gary.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP60 "The Moment of the Fatal Shootings"In his murder trial, Ali Abulaban walked the jury through the very moment of the murders of his wife, Ana and her boyfriend, Rayburn Barron; on the day of the fatal shootings, Ali told jurors that he heard his wife and a man's voice laughing in a secretly placed listening device; his immediate response in the midst of his paranoia and jealousy was to take a lot of cocaine and head to the apartment, armed with a gun; the reason for the fatal attack, betrayal.
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S1, EP61 "From Military Discharge To Behavioral Counseling"Cross-examination continued on the defendant who was trying to appeal to jurors that he's no mastermind killer. Prosecutors challenged Ali Abulaban's credibility in his actions leading up to the shooting deaths of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. The lead prosecutor had Ali walk the jury again through his troubled relationship with Ana back when they first dated overseas.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP62 "Double Standard"Prosecutors questioned the credibility of the defendant on the witness stand. In the months before the double murders, Ali claimed he was a victim of emotional manipulation and sexual confusion which prompted him to kill out of heated passion. The State alluded to a double standard Ali had for his marriage. According to the defendant when he was separated from his wife, Ana, he cheated on her with another woman but grew upset when Ana was friendly with a male friend.
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S1, EP63 "Emotional Manipulation, Sexual Frustration"The defendant, Ali Abulaban, told jurors there were a million reasons his wife did not want to be with him days before she and her friend, Rayburn Barron, were killed. They included: Ali cheating on her with another woman in their home, the physical abuse, and his growing cocaine addiction. Jurors heard the allegations that Ana was the emotional manipulator, the neglectful wife, and the verbal abuser, according to her estranged husband.
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S1, EP64 "Defendant Lashes Out On The Stand"While on the stand in his own murder trial, the State portrayed Ali Abulaban as a controlling, abusive husband whose jealousy led him to plot and carry out the murders of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Despite Ana telling him she didn't want to be with him anymore, and she was getting ready to file a restraining order, Ali testified that his marriage was not over. Jurors watched the defendant throw a fit at the lead prosecutor's probing questions.
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S1, EP65 "Seeking The Truth With A Loaded Gun"Ali Abulaban recalled the very moments leading up to the fatal shootings of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. While the State contended that he premeditated both homicides, Ali claimed killing two people was never on his mind. He just wanted to find out the truth about his estranged wife allegedly cheating on him. When he aimed and fired at close range on the two victims, Ali recalled having an out-of-body experience and didn't even remember shooting his own wife.
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S1, EP66 "The Moments After the Shootings"Crime scene tampering is part of the State's case against Ali Abulaban for double murder; the lead prosecutor contends that Ali planted several bullets at the bloody scene immediately after shooting his wife, Ana, and her friend; Taren Brast claims that the moments right after the murders were just as important as the deadly shootings themselves; Ali admits that he took a cell phone photo of the two victims and confesses to his mom while going to pick up his young daughter from school.
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S1, EP67 "Jailhouse Confession"While testifying on the stand, Ali Abulaban's defense attorney blew the whistle during his cross-examination. The State brought up a jailhouse confession Ali allegedly made where he bragged about killing his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Later, the jury listened to the defendant be apologetic about his role in the fatal shootings. Ali admitted that he was initially in the victim mindset until he began his so-called Journey of healing.