Matt Murphy (homicide prosecutor)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Matt Murphy (The Book of Murder) is a former Homicide prosecutor and current legal analyst for ABC News. Matt joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the importance of telling the victims stories over the killers, the craft of picking a jury, and his nerves the first time he was at a crime scene. Matt and Dax discuss the parallels between their childhoods, the experience of working with detectives, and the horrific crimes of Rodney Alcala. Matt discusses how his job skews his worldview, the mental toll of not having enough evidence when you know someone is guilty, and if murder is reflective of the times.

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0:13.9	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert.
0:17.5	This is a real departure from previous experts in the most exhilarating way.
0:23.4	This was a riveting.
0:25.1	Mm-hmm.
0:26.0	And it's a ding, ding, ding from Monday's episode.
0:29.7	Yes, from Anna Kendrick.
0:30.7	Because of her new movie Woman of the Hour, our guest, Matt Murphy was a technical
0:36.7	advisor on it, as well as an actual prosecutor on the case.
0:41.1	Matt Murphy is a former homicide prosecutor and a current legal analysis for ABC News.
0:48.3	Maybe you've seen them there.
0:49.1	And he spent two decades assigned to the sexual assault and homicide units of the Orange County District Attorney's Office, which you'll learn in this, is the third biggest in the country.
0:58.8	Three million people under their purview.
1:01.1	Yes.
1:01.9	He has tried some of the most headlining murder cases of all times.
1:06.4	A lot of shit was happening in Orange County that I kind of didn't realize yeah he's like golden state
1:12.6	killer a dirty john yeah he has a book out called the book of murder a prosecutor's journey through
1:21.6	love and death which is fantastic it's so good and he profiles all these different cases he's worked on as well as educate you a ton on how the actual mechanics of that job work, which I find fascinating.
1:35.0	And then his own personal journey, which is this job took an enormous toll on the rest of his life.
1:43.2	Yeah.
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