So....anyone listen to the first half of closing agreements today? I listened on You Tube when I was out working today. I mean...I get that there's no "smoking gun"....but the phone/car data plus the lying about not being at the kennel. And the caregiver at his Mom's house saying he walked in with something that looked like a tarp (but was a coat), and that he said...."I was here for 40 minutes right".....when it was just 20. He also implied he'd pay for her wedding...etc. Blanca the housekeeper's testimony....about what he was wearing and that she never saw that shirt again was also powerful. He also said that the Hampton sheriff told him he could install blue lights in his private car, and that sheriff said he absolutely did not tell him he could do that. Yes Alex did....and also displayed a badge in his windshield and carried a badge on his person. He portrayed himself as 'the law'....as we all saw at the hospital after the boat accident.
I also believed the man who took care of the dogs who said that the hose was not the way he always put it back, and that there was puddles in places where there normally were not. I think Alex killed them, washed himself down, then went back to the house, showered and changed....and disposed of his clothes and the gun somewhere between his and his mother's home....possibly in that smokehouse at his parent's house?
I think it's probable that everything was beginning to boil over in his life. He saw the issue with his son (and the civil case in particular) as something that would likely uncover his many, many financial crimes. I believe that he or someone he hired killed his son and wife because he thought it would be a diversion of sorts.....in the same nutty way that he faked a shooting/suicide on the side of the road.
Ultimately I think that the prosecutor was correct in saying that Alex couldn't live with the shame of being caught stealing millions and millions of dollars from his clients and even a couple of family members. He was definitely on pills....and all of the "paranoid thinking" he admitted to having most definitely could have led to him thinking that this was somehow a good idea.
So...that's my take. I expect that tomorrow we'll hear from the defense that yes....he's a liar and a thief. And yes, he lied about being at the kennels. But the investigation by officials and SLED was sloppy and phone/car data records alone does not remotely prove that he killed his wife and son.
I'm with the prosecution.....I think he did it.