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Episode 650: Alex Murdaugh Part III - Under The Capri Sun

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Episode 650: Alex Murdaugh Part III - Under The Capri Sun", an episode of Last Podcast On The Left published January 30, 2026 (2 h 8 min, about 25,405 words). It mentions 16 people, works and ideas, including Alec Murdoch, Paul Murdoch, Maggie Murdoch, Dick Harput, PMPED.

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Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 15:00: Alec Murdoch, Mark Tinsley, Dick Harput, TFIA
  2. – 30:00: Alec Murdoch, Mark Tinsley, Paul Murdoch, Maggie Murdoch
  3. – 45:00: Alec Murdoch, Maggie Murdoch, Paul Murdoch, Randolph Murdoch III
  4. – 1:00:00: Alec Murdoch, Paul Murdoch
  5. – 1:15:00: Alec Murdoch, TFIA
  6. – 1:30:00: Alec Murdoch, Fast Eddie, Steven Smith, Mark Tinsley
  7. – 1:45:00: Alec Murdoch, Dick Harput, Fast Eddie, Maggie Murdoch
  8. – 2:00:00: Alec Murdoch, Dick Harput, Kraton Waters, Fast Eddie
  9. – 2:08:13: Alec Murdoch, Paul Murdoch, Buster Murdoch, Steven Smith

Notable quotes from "Episode 650: Alex Murdaugh Part III - Under The Capri Sun"

  • Yep. So, when we last left the Murdoch family, Paul had just been responsible for the death of his friend Mallerie Beach, who'd been killed in a drunk boating accident in which Paul had been driving recklessly to say the very.
    about Paul Murdoch · at
  • Either fall in line at their word or remain too terrified to speak up at all, an attorney named Mark Tinsley had finally decided that the Murdochs were, to put it simply, a…
    about Mark Tinsley · at
  • Crash occurred. Specifically, Tinsley filed against Alec, Randy III, and Buster. Randy III got involved because he had allowed minors to consume alcohol at his home and leave…
    about Randolph Murdoch III · at
  • Same way that he'd [ __ ] up with attorney Mark Tensley. You don't [ __ ] with a lawyer's money. See, after PMPED had won a big settlement worth nearly a million dollars a few…
    about PMPED · at
  • Style to make sure the job was done. And by splitting his wife's skull open with that last bullet, Alec Murdoch had removed both the possibility of divorce and his inconvenient son.
    about Maggie Murdoch · at
  • Sales place. Now, Fast Eddie was of course also armed. So to scare Alec out of shooting himself, Fast Eddie claimed that he fired a shot above Alec's head.
    about Fast Eddie · at
  • Mhm. And so on July 14th, 2022, over a year after the murders were committed, Alec Murdoch was finally charged with the double homicide of his wife and son.
    about Alec Murdoch · at
  • Yes. Also godamn good at his job. And he absolutely wiped the floor with Dick Harput and Jim Griffin. He worked 12 hours a day every day to make sure that Alec Murdoch went down. He does this thing too in his cross- examination.
    about Kraton Waters · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Alec Murdoch — Person · Primary subject (accused/convicted defendant in narrative) · 77 mentions · first at
    Central figure of the episode’s true-crime recap: alleged financial crimes, manipulation of investigations, and the murders of Maggie and Paul.
  • Paul Murdoch — Person · Victim; key catalyst for civil/criminal exposure · 7 mentions · first at
    His 2019 boat crash and subsequent civil suit pressure are framed as major drivers of events; he is also one of the two murder victims at Moselle.
  • Maggie Murdoch — Person · Victim; alleged primary target in motive theory · 5 mentions · first at
    Discussed as potentially moving toward divorce and financial discovery; murdered alongside Paul, with the episode framing her as the likely primary target.
  • Dick Harput — Person · Referenced defense attorney / political figure · 8 mentions · first at
    Portrayed as a powerful South Carolina figure who assisted the Murdochs (boat case) and later defended Alec at trial; also discussed as having political influence.
    Get him. Now, Dick Harput had gamely decided to stay by Alec's side until the end. After Alec was charged with murder along with the dozens of other crimes, Harput agreed to defend him in this case.
  • Kraton Waters — Person · Referenced prosecutor (trial lead) · 2 mentions · first at
    Described as the solicitor who prosecuted Alec Murdoch and led the cross-examination that undermined Murdoch’s credibility.
  • Mark Tinsley — Person · Referenced attorney (civil plaintiff-side) · 10 mentions · first at
    Presented as the lawyer who pursued the Beach family wrongful-death suit and pushed for financial disclosure, increasing pressure on Alec Murdoch.
  • Fast Eddie — Person · Referenced associate/accomplice (financial/drug allegations; roadside incident) · 8 mentions · first at
    Described as Alec’s cousin and recipient of hundreds of checks; central to the alleged drug-money conduit and the staged/attempted roadside shooting narrative.
  • Randolph Murdoch III — Person · Family patriarch; influence figure; death used as narrative pressure point · 4 mentions · first at
    Depicted as Alec’s father who accompanied him after the boat crash and whose terminal illness provided a pretext to gather Maggie and Paul at Moselle.
  • Buster Murdoch — Person · Surviving family member; discussed as potential helper/cleanup (speculative in episode) · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed as surviving son, implicated in civil suit context (ID for alcohol), and later in speculative discussion about disposal of weapons/cleanup.
    Well, instead, I personally think, and again, this is just my opinion, that Buster was the other person involved here and possibly John Marvin. See, I still feel like John…
  • Steven Smith — Person · Referenced victim (reopened investigation) · 5 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a separate suspicious death allegedly linked to the Murdoch orbit; the episode notes the case was reopened and remains unresolved.
    Gathered while investigating the double murder at Moselle. They made sure to state in public the Steven Smith murder and the double murders at Moselle are linked. However, we…
  • Gloria Satterfield — Person · Referenced victim (linked financial/crime thread) · 2 mentions · first at
    Her death and settlement are discussed as part of Alec’s alleged financial crimes and as a suspicious death referenced alongside other Murdoch-linked cases.
    Likely using money stolen from the Gloria Sadderfield settlement. But in the end, the University of South Carolina told the Murdochs that it' probably be best if Buster just stayed.

Companies & orgs

  • PMPED — Company · Business focus · 5 mentions
    Law firm where Alec Murdoch worked and embezzled funds, leading to his financial crimes investigation.
  • SLED — Company · Investigative body · 2 mentions · first at
    South Carolina Law Enforcement Division that investigated Alec Murdoch's crimes, including the murders of his wife and son.
    In the mix and Alex supposed attempted murder, bringing the Murdoch name into the news once more, SLED finally announced that there was a full criminal investigation into Alex's funds.

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That's when the cannibalism started. What was that? Wow. Now, what's on trial s? Are you on trial? What's going on? No problem today. Hot one. Lord, lord. Lord, I can't even believe how the how's a judge even holding his hammer. This kind of case don't give me the vapors.

Oh, you know what I love? WE GOT TO KNOW right now. Now, podcasts are not on trial here today. Today we're calling a capital crime mor.

Welcome to last podcast on the left. Ladies and gentlemen, I didn't get the sweater vest memo. I I'm sitting here with two pastel wearing sweater vest morons.

Do you know who I am? Do you know who my listening to strawberry wine all morning getting in the mood for today?

Listen. All right. I don't care. I love wagon wheel. Wagon wheel makes me cry. 17.

THEY DID MY CIRCUMCISION. The wagon wave. They use the wagon wheel. Yeah. Round about

I wish I could have gotten my face more red. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like that's what I'm really missing.

Hey, we can always stop and just put you under a lamp for a couple hours. Oh, there it is. There it is. There's that wind burn from from illegally driving a boat.

Yeah. I'm going to meet you by the dogs. My name is Marcus Parks. I'm here with the pink and gray Henry Zabrowski.

Thank you. Now, Eddie, we have to remember today we have to distinctly separate ourselves today in our South Carolina representation. Yeah, because we're headed into the trial. We're going to head into the whole thing with Alec Murdoch. And this is really where we're going to head towards fullon podunk. Yep. Yay. Yay. [ __ ] big old knees in the sky. South Carolina loyal.

Hey man, I love fireworks. I like butterfly knives, you know. And I like fighting my family.

We got to remember. So if you're going to be Dick Harput, you're down there. Oh, okay.

If you're also in the prosecution, right, at the prosecution, he coming down here. He's a famous Alec Murdoch. He's famous for trial. He's a trial lawyer. He was on the head of the trial lord cuz he's trial.

I tell one man, he don't kill his whole damn family. You see it? Seen it. I've seen it. I've seen it. I've seen it.

Because we have to separate it from Alec cuz remember Alec is up here being like, "Oh, the wild the tales what we we tal we we remember that's the crying timber of a guilty man."

YEAH. HOW ABOUT GOD, DADDY, WHY'D YOU LET ME TAKE THAT BOAT? HE'S DEAD. Not yet.

Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. We've also got with us today the pastel. What? That color of pastel green that Ed Larson is wearing today. I don't think I've ever seen that in nature.

Yeah, man. I'm It's uh It's my feaster green. I call that You know what that is, man? Republican foot green.

And here we are at the conclusion to our series on Alec Murdock. Yep. So, when we last left the Murdoch family, Paul had just been responsible for the death of his friend Mallerie Beach, who'd been killed in a drunk boating accident in which Paul had been driving recklessly to say the very least. Alec Murdoch, of course, had come to the defense of his horrible [ __ ] stain of a son immediately upon hearing of the crash and had arrived with his father, Randolph Murdoch III, at the hospital where the survivors were being treated that very night. Now, instead of inquiring after the safety of the young adults who'd been injured as a result of his son's actions, or asking what the progress was on the still missing girl, Alec Murdoch had gone from room to room to tell the kids that if investigators asked them who was driving, they were supposed to say they did not know.

I did none of that. That is absolutely slander. No, I was just a skittering. I just was a skittering and I was just a tinkering. That's a big thing that's going to come up today. A lot of skittering and tinkering. a lot of skitter in Tinkerin. Well, the purpose of this was to muddy the waters of the investigation. And that's if a proper investigation were to ever even happen.

And that's a tragedy on and of itself, Marcus. Yes. See, because of the Murdoch's connections, the authorities were doing their best to make Paul's many crimes go away. But after years of the Murdochs expecting people in the Low Country to either fall in line at their word or remain too terrified to speak up at all, an attorney named Mark Tinsley had finally decided that the Murdochs were, to put it simply, a bunch of pieces of [ __ ] and someone needed to finally stand up and take him down.

When you openly kill a cute little blonde girl, THAT'S IT. THAT'S REALLY IT. AND IN AMERICA, YEAH, YOU'RE DONE. no matter what. I found it interesting because for those of you that obviously you guys know I watch a lot of body cam footage and a lot of trial footage, but

a lot of interrogation footage, a lot of interrogation footage, but part of what I really like is this is what I would call justice porn, which is what I like. Go watch the 2-hour put together cross-examination of Alec Murdoch cuz they talk about this night a lot in the cross-examination because they really wanted to talk about his reputation. And what I found interesting, which I did not know until I rewatched this, was all of the stuff with the solicitor's badge.

Yeah. Yeah. So, he would use the badge of his father and he would use his fake deputy badge he got, too.

Well, it wasn't his badge. It wasn't his father's badge. It was a volunteer solicitor's badge.

But then if you look at the paperwork of the badge, it's not volunteer at all. He is a full official deputy of the [ __ ] He's a cop.

Assistant solicitor. I think that's what it was. If you listen to the way Murdoch talks about it, it's all he plays it down and then you look at the [ __ ] paperwork. All that is being said, he would leave the the the badge on the dash of his car when he was driving. Number one, to get picked up when he was drunk driving, so the guy guys would leave him alone. He opens it. And the second was in the footage of the hospital,

he's waving that badge around and he talks about how he didn't bring the badge to the hospital, but he's and that's how he got behind everything. He's waving there. And that's also the reason why everybody was automatically listening to him because he was acting like a police officer.

Yeah. He probably wasn't even saying, "I'm Alec Murdoch." No. No. Now, Mark Tinsley took the Beach's case after most of the other attorneys in the Low Country had turned them down, but not because Tinsley was an outsider. To the contrary, Mark Tinsley had dealt with the Murdoch's plenty and had even once considered Alec Murdoch to be a friend. But Tinsley was a man of at least some principle, and he had finally soured on Alec Murdoch's cynicism after practicing law with him for years. Tinsley was particularly disturbed by how easily Murdoch could summon tears during closing arguments. A couple of times after fake crying, Murdoch would sit down next to Tinsley and ask him, quote, "Now you don't think that was too much now, do you?"

Yeah, like a [ __ ] [ __ ] You should see him in the trial cuz he does it. It's him cuz also he stops the sniffle and Anna Snorton.

Mhm. Cuz seems to be he laid off the oxy for the trial. Just a little bit. Well, you had to.

Yeah. Now, Tinsley said that he also took the case because he had a daughter around Mallerie Beach's age. But it seems like the moment that Tinsley truly said, "Fuck this guy." concerning Alec Murdoch was when Alec boxed Tensley out of a million dollar fee on a big case. You don't [ __ ] with a lawyer's money.

Nope. After that, Alec Murdoch was open season as far as Mark Tensley was concerned. So, Tensley jumped at the chance to take Murdoch down when the beaches gave him the opportunity.

You know, and it's like it was such an open clear that he was going to win. Yeah.

You know, everyone knew it and he's like, I'm going to get this [ __ ] He's I got him dead to rights and he was happy to do it. Oh yeah.

Now, by the end of March, Mark Tinsley had filed a wrongful death suit against multiple members of the Murdoch family for the death of Mallalerie Beach. He limited it to people above the age of 21 because Paul was still a minor when the crash occurred. Specifically, Tinsley filed against Alec, Randy III, and Buster. Randy III got involved because he had allowed minors to consume alcohol at his home and leave drunk. Buster was in it because he'd given Paul, his old ID, to buy alcohol underage, the alcohol that Paul was drinking that very night.

And Alec was named because he had allowed his minor son to purchase and drink alcohol on a regular basis. This was proved by the copiousest number of pictures on the Murdoch family uh social media in which Paul was very, very drunk.

Yeah. Remember that about your social media, it's up there. IT DOESN'T GET DELETED.

YEAH. Even the stories. You think it's gone, it ain't gone. They didn't. No. No. Yeah. Because whenever these social media companies get subpoenaed, they flip. THEY JUST THEY MAGICALLY have it all.

Yeah. Apple's cool though. Remember when they wouldn't give the money of those people who they wouldn't hack the phone?

Yeah. So, hey, try them. Good try. You know, now filing the suit had been necessary because Alec and Randolph's tactics and pressuring witnesses and influencing investigators had worked to a certain degree. But even with their meddling, Paul still faced three felonies, including causing bodily injury, boating under the influence, and manslaughter. He was facing, I think, 25 years if he got the maximum sentence on all three.

And the guilty, that's really what the guilty ple like get in there is really what will superpower the civil suit.

Mhm. Well, none of that would matter, of course, if nobody could prove that Paul was driving the boat. And the Murdochs were pulling out all the stops to get Paul out of serving a single day in jail. For Paul's lawyer, the Murdoch called up an old friend of Alex's grandfather. Old Buster's friend was state senator Dick Harut.

Oh, there ain't no reason to be mad with old Haroot because he was just doing his job. THAT'S ALL HE WAS. He's a simple state senator. That's all. He's a simple senator. No, he could. He's just a friend. Alec is a friend.

Oh, bring the [ __ ] firing squad back. DICK and it's MORE HUMANE THAN THE ELECTRIC CHAIRS. WELL, I'm telling you, we got to bring back this firing squad and shooting these men in the head.

Oh, guess what? It's a lot OF FUN, TOO. IT'S NICE TO SEE THE hell explode on contact with a ion jacket bullet in it and have a melon like bus.

AND YOU KNOW WHY NOT? LET'S JUST GO AND PULL on a lottery round here to see who South Carolina want to get in on that fine spot.

And I'm going to GO AHEAD AND PUT my name in the back so I can FIND MYSELF. IT'S EXPENSIVE electrocuting these people.

I defended THAT MAN AND I STILL want to kill his guilty ass. Well, Ed, you interviewed Dick Harput like not to like What was your vibe on Dick?

Well, my vibe on Dick was he wanted to sell his book and and he does he is friends with the Murdoch family. There's no question about it. He's known him pretty much his entire [ __ ] life. He was down that was the one thing that I felt like I never saw anyone talk about and that's why I brought it up. I was like, "You were also a county solicitor. You were [ __ ] hanging out with Big Randy all the time." and he's like, "Yes, we were very close." I was like, "YEAH,

IT'S A DEFINITE CONFLICT OF INTEREST, but that [ __ ] don't matter apparently."

No. And I also think that Dick knows, which is what he sat here, and you can see why he was so sad, which is that he knows that this this story is the end of a very simple time in South Carolina. Yes.

And a very And he was really sad to lose that simple time when truly innocent times when a white man can kill anybody you like, he likes. Hey, even even another white person

even another white person if he felt it was properly justified because his son was involved.

It was just a late TERM ABORTION. YEAH, THAT'S ALL. SHE'S ONLY 20. SHE WAS 20 YEARS. THAT'S FINE WHEN IT COMES DOWN to it. THEY THEY WERE DEMOCRATS.

YEAH, they were Democrats. Don't forget Dick Harpull was a Democrat. All Democrats. They love We love abortion. I love abortions. I think they should be [ __ ] mandatory. I don't think kids SHOULD LIVE.

SO I SAY [ __ ] THEM. YEAH, GET IT. BUT he is still fighting very hard to get Alec his retrial. So

it's not going to happen. Now Dick Harput was a household name in South Carolina. He was possibly the most well-known solicitor in the state. Famously, Harput had been the one who had sent serial killer Pee-Wee Gaskins to death row.

That's a Patrick. And Harput had gained further fame after Gaskins had tried to have Harput's three-year-old daughter kidnapped.

But again, what do we know about Peewee Gaskins? He was a liar and a [ __ ] He did actually try to get the little girl kidnapped. Yeah,

but anybody can. I could call anybody to try to get somebody kidnapped. I could try to get I could try to kidnap all day.

Who do you want to kidnap? Secret secrets. Well, by the time of Paul's boat crash in 2019, Harput was one year into being a state senator. And although he only served from 2018 to 2024, he had enough influence nationally where Joe Biden appointed Harput's wife as ambassador to Slovenia of all places in 2021. You don't get

It's a low pressure one. It's a low pressure one, but you do not get an ambassadorship unless you do someone a favor, which means that Dickutian was had done someone a favor and had enough power to do a favor.

I did. I did. I'm going to have to get rid of all my merch. I'm going to have to get rid of my Joe Biden dick sucking sleeves. I'm going to have to get rid of my Joe Biden TOAD DICK SUCKING SLEEVES.

YOU GOT a lot of dick sucking sleeves. This is because honestly I my arms get cold.

You really don't. Now, that's all to say that even though the standing of the Murdoch in the low country community had lowered over the years, their name still had enough power to call down a senator to defend their [ __ ] son after said [ __ ] son had killed a young woman in a drunk boating accident.

Cuz that would be a waste of Paul's life Marcus. Oh, of course. Yeah. Why would we ruin this young boy's life over one simple misunderstanding mistake?

One one tiny tiny mistake. He's got so much future behind him. He's dead. And the Murdoch still had enough money at their disposal to make it worth Harput as well. He didn't do this [ __ ] for free. Reportedly, his retainer was half a million dollars.

That's why [ __ ] ran and did it is because he knew they were liquid enough to [ __ ] get it. And guess how they were liquid enough? Because Alec Murdoch was stealing from old people and children. Yeah,

that's probably why Harpull is trying to get him out again. Yes, I get another HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.

BUT ALSO, it's again, it's because these guys all know if you can erase the sins that you're connected to, you are you go back to innocent, too. That means Dick Harput's always been right. The whole system's always been right. And no one's ever abused it. No one's ever done this wonderful simple place. No one would ever turn Hampton County into a place of murder.

No. Now, with Harputian's help, Paul Murdoch never spent a [ __ ] day in jail. While it was standard for accused criminals in South Carolina to take their mug shots in prison orange, Paul's mug shot was taken at his hearing in the hallway outside of the courtroom in his street clothes. Never went through processing, never spent a day, never spent an hour uncomfortable,

just trying to make sure it was never a crime. Mhm. This, of course, greatly angered attorney Mark Tinsley, who saw exactly what the Murdochs were doing. The Murdoch used every trick at their disposal to push Paul's trial back again and again and circumstances only worked more in the Murdoch's favor when the court shut down in 2020 due to what? Co

what? Remember um do you think that they had something to do with CO coming here?

Do you think that Alec Murdoch went to China? Do you think that he went and he was just like he first thing he was like where's the lab?

I want to see where the LAB IS. WHERE'S THE MOST CUFF? He goes around there and he's like, "I got a coff in my mouth. Cuff my dark dark eyes. Go in my eyes."

Is there anywhere around here I can eat a bat? Can I eat a bat somewhere around here? Come meet my pengalin. Anybody want to meet my penguin? Listen, Chinese lady. Listen, Chinese lady. I can't help to see. But your eyes are pink and juicy and kind of just I just want to lick them. Look at those big old crusty pink filled eyes.

Well, much of the Beach family's hopes for justice therefore rested on the wrongful death suit. But the constant delays had hardened their resolve. So, when it came to making the Murdoch's pay, the beaches decided that they wouldn't settle for anything less than $10 million.

Now, the case did go to mediation in September of 2020, but Alec opened negotiations. He's always got a [ __ ] bit. He theatrically turned out his pants pockets like a hobo and then said,

"You can't get any money for me because I don't have any. I'm broke." Yeah. Yeah. It's because he was moving his money into his wife's name.

Well, Mark Tinsley believed that this statement was [ __ ] one way or another. So, he filed a motion that would force Alec Murdoch to disclose his net worth and provide a detailed breakdown of his finances.

Now, we don't want to go all trouble all that. We don't want to be getting into all that and wasting the court's time and wasting my time, wasting your time

when a lot of it's buried in the field. That's why I'm saying we don't want to waste everybody's time having to find these documents, having to source these documents, having to read these documents. No one wants to do that. All right, let's all go down. Let's go around tippies.

All right, go down to pickle shots on me. Pickle shots. Tinsley, however, had no idea that even though Alec Murdoch had spent years embezzling millions from the Murdoch firm, PMPED, Alec's finances were about as big of a mess as what you'd expect from a guy with an oxy habit of dozens of pills a day. See, by 2020, Alec was drowning in debt. He'd also lost a ton of money in 2008 during the financial crash, and he'd [ __ ] up a lot of real estate deals. That's what I didn't understand too is that that's a part of where all the money went is too is that he I don't even know how what it means by land deals going wrong. I don't know what that means.

I think you buy the land and you expect to sell the land or flip the land and then no one buys the land and so you just have to keep paying for the land

because it's in this shitty county that your family made so awful. That's what it is. Oh, it's cuz Hampton County is garbage.

Oh, okay. While Alex banker accomplice Russell Lefit was moving massive amounts of money stolen from Alex clients from account to account to keep this whole thing going

from boat to boat. We move the loot. DON'T YOU WORRY ABOUT IT. I'VE GOT IT COVERED. ME AND MY FIVE French slaves.

All right. HOW ABOUT IF WE BURY THE MONEY? Take the gold from the PORT TO THE STARBOARD. THEN BACK TO THE PORT. BURY THE MONEY. WELL, even a quick glance at Alec's records would show that Alec Murdoch was a crook. And besides the financial shell game, Alec was also writing hundreds of checks to his cousin Fast Eddie. Remember, he wrote, I think, 437 checks.

And it's definitely an ironic nickname. Yeah, Fast Eddie. Yeah. And Fast Eddie was allegedly using that money to fund not only Alex Oxyhabit, but also finance operations for a potentially massive drug ring with tentacles throughout South Carolina. In other words, disclosing his finances was the absolute last thing that Alec Murdoch would want to do. And the pressure to fix everything somehow someway began to slowly build over the next year of Alec's life. Cuz you know these crimes and these trials, Eddie, you don't know it yet, but they're they're so embarrassing for the family

and it's so hard for the family to go through. My parents never found out about my trials.

See, see that's how stressful they're dead. YEAH, I DIDN'T KILL HIM. THAT'S how they were.

I DIDN'T KILL HIM. IT WAS DIABET WELL, YOU COULD MAKE AN ARGUMENT THAT I KILLED MY MOTHER CUZ I GAVE HER diabetes and then she died of diabetes.

She chose to have you. You could have been an abortion. That's right. Which you should have been if I was president of the United States of America.

Absolutely would have been. And so would have I. If I was an abortion, they would have taxiderermy me and put me on a wall.

You'd be in the motor museum right now for using your new like Eden tea cozy. Even though Tinsley had filed this motion making it likely that others were going to look under the Murdoch financial hood, Alec was in too deep to stop the game. Now he continued embezzling and defrauding his clients.

He never paused once. Did not not even after the murders he kept doing it. And underneath all this mounting stress, Alec's life began falling apart in all the ways that mattered most to Alec. By mid July 2020, Maggie amidst rumors of Alec engaging in affairs both paid and unpaid.

I just like see him. You remember Chris Farley from that that the movie in Tommy Boy when it cuts to him is all red face and he's all like high and [ __ ] She like comes in the living room and he's like with a like prostitute who's like stuck on his penis and he's just like, "HONEY, I NEED HIM. HONEY, I THIS JUST BEEN A BIG OLD MISTAKE." YOU KNOW, LIKE HOW MANY TIMES he's done that? Like how many afternoons were spent like that?

Fair amount. Fair amount. It's like Lloyd Bridges an airplane. Oh, I picked the wrong week. Stop [ __ ] prostituting. Stop swallow up. I MUST GOT NERVOUS. I'M STUCK INSIDE OF HER. KIND OF LIKE A RAW WER who's having sex with the bean freeze. I need you to knock her out so that she relaxes cuz obviously right now she's very agitated. Super agitated looking to get off. Right. So, what you're going to have to do is Maggie, go get my claw hammer. Come on, MAGGIE. IF I DON'T FINISH, if I don't finish, I can't pay her. Well, Maggie moved out of Moselle and into their beach house on nearby Adisto Island. Reportedly, she'd told a friend that she just couldn't stand to live with Alec anymore. At the same time, Paul Murdoch's trail of destruction over the years, was starting to be spoken about more openly. When boat crash survivor Connor Cook, oh, Cottontop, the one they originally tried to blame the

whole thing on, they kept trying to blame it on him. When he gave his deposition in the boat case, he alluded to the other mysterious deaths that have been linked to the Murdoch family in recent years. Connor alluded to the death of housekeeper Gloria Sadderfield, specifically that Paul maybe had pushed her down the stairs in a fit of rage, but he also alluded to Paul's role in the murder of Steven Smith. According to what Connor alluded to, Paul helped Buster dispose of the body.

Of course he did. If if that was in fact what happened, they're tight brothers who commit crimes together.

See, I still feel like Buster's too much of a water head to do [ __ ] anything. If you

doesn't mean that he wasn't there when something happened by accident. I totally understand. But Buster's head shaped like a porttoello mushroom.

He just wanted to make fun of his head. I get it. I understand. He's so ugly. He's such a light. He looks like a light bulb. He looks like the character from Spongebob. Yeah.

Right. He's got Patrick. He's got that head and there's something about I don't think his brain works right. I don't know if he's even capable. Well, you know, we'll talk about

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Ooh, somebody's not good at school. Turns out if you just push through your entire life, you can't magically know it all when you get to college.

Exactly. Now, Alec figured that he could murdock this whole thing by paying a lawyer 60 grand to get Buster back in. Likely using money stolen from the Gloria Sadderfield settlement. But in the end, the University of South Carolina told the Murdochs that it' probably be best if Buster just stayed away for a little while. Why don't we revisit this in a year and then maybe the year after that and maybe the year after that

and then we'll see how much money you donate to us. Yeah, dude. And then you see that picture of him, Buster, sitting there with his [ __ ] gross ass half beard with his he's got a jacket on and he's got jeans on with no socks and no shoes, his feet and a [ __ ] sand. That [ __ ] disgusting animal. That [ __ ] disgusting rodent bastard.

I hate you dressed like this. I hate him. I hate him. It does make you angrier. It really does. It makes you so much angrier. I don't like it. be driving around South Carolina dressed like this like every day being like WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE LIKELY CRASH. Come here.

You kind of understand them better. Sort of thing. Yeah. Why they're so uncomfortable and miserable all the time.

Sort of a suck. Ultimately though, it seems what probably pushed Alec over the edge completely was when Maggie met with a divorce lawyer in Charleston in April of 2021. And this lawyer advised Maggie to start quote gathering numbers. Now, one of the themes that we brought up over and over again in this series is that Murdoch's don't divorce. Murdoch's do however murder,

which brings us to the motivation behind not just the murder of Maggie Murdoch on June 7th, 2021, but the murder of Paul Murdoch as well. Now, this year, this is just my personal theory on this. I ain't saying this is the be all end all cuz Alec still to this day has not said what his motivation was nor is there any concrete proof for anything. This is just what I think may have happened.

We do have an extremely detailed walkthrough of what they believe how the shootings went down that tells to me the story very clearly.

Now Alec might have found a way to somehow avoid disclosing his finances in the Mallerie Beach wrongful death suit. Maybe we would able he he might even be able to put it off indefinitely. I think it was pushing. He was pushing and pushing and pushing it.

But a divorce would trigger a full audit of his finances. An audit that he could never get away from. And Maggie was almost certainly about to file for divorce. Plus, with so many other humiliations piling up, including Paul and Buster's respective fuckups, some of them fatal fuckups, I don't think that being the first Murdoch to divorce was going to sit well with Alex ego. They were also the first Murdoch family to really flex the money angle of stuff. So Maggie very much so knew that a lot more money was accessible than what he was getting paid.

Mhm. Maggie therefore had to go. But remember that Alec Murdoch was a lawyer. His family had prosecuted dozens of murder cases over the decades. And Alec Murdoch knew how murder cases worked. He knew, for example, that he would be the main and only suspect if Maggie Murdoch was the only murder victim because nobody else had the motive to kill Maggie Murdoch. Paul Murdoch, however, was a different story altogether. See, the Murdoch name had not shielded Paul Murdoch from criticism in the death of Mallerie Beach like it had so many Murdochs before. But more importantly, no other generation of Murdoch had also had to contend with the scourge of social media. The death of Mallalerie Beach had become a story in the true crime world.

You're welcome. I was one of these guys. Yeah. And plenty of people inside and outside the Low Country were weighing in all over the internet quite aggressively on this rich boy who was getting away with killing a pretty young girl.

Paul did it and I'm glad he's dead. I wish you could have died in jail. Well, threats were being made by strangers. low-key threats, but threats nonetheless. There was also, of course, the Beach family themselves, who are getting more and more frustrated with how slow the process was going in bringing Paul to justice. Finally, there was Anthony Cook, Mallerie Beach's boyfriend, who was also on the boat that night and had since cut ties with Paul completely. In other words, while there was only one person with motive to murder Maggie Murdoch, many, many, many people had the motive to murder Paul Murdoch. And so while Maggie was ultimately the target, Paul provided a revenge narrative that Alec hoped would throw cops off his personal scent.

You know, if they hadn't killed the nanny, she would have been a suspect. Exactly. That's why it's important to keep your keep your nannies close. Keep your nannies close. According to Paul's friends, the whole people were coming after Paul thing was horshit.

Oh, total [ __ ] Yeah. This town, right? Because I I want to remind people of where this is and who these people are. Like Alec, the first thing he SAID WAS LIKE PAWPA HAD many enemies, you know? Like it was like the first thing and we'll get into it.

They called him pawpaw. Yeah. Which is [ __ ] weird. Call real weird. That's what we called my papa. My my grandfather my papa.

Now, as far as why Alec was so willing to use his son as a pawn in the murder of his wife,

a pon pon pon. Paul had proved since the death of Mallalerie Beach that he was not only expendable but a true liability.

That's always a problem. Bad combo. Mhm. Paul. Yeah. Being expendable and a liability. Holy [ __ ]

Well, Paul had proved to Alec that he could not be trusted because Paul had not only continued to drink heavily on a near constant basis, Paul had also continued drinking on boats with friends. And if you ask why people still hung around Paul in this environment after a girl had been killed, you might as well ask yourself why young blonde women continued hanging out with OJ Simpson until the end of his days. Some people just aren't that bright.

People also just love money access through a free boat. They love when someone else is paying for [ __ ] and so they will just go take it and decide to just deal with whatever company is there.

Yeah. Now, near the end of May, right around the time of Alec's 53rd birthday, authorities had stopped Paul with a boat full of drunk kids from going out onto the water. Instead of arresting Paul, the cops just took his booze and called Alec to come take care of it. He wasn't a minor at this point. He was 22. But even so,

he was driving a boat drunk. You never get to do it again. No. And you called your daddy again. And he like the whole daddy thing comes back into play. And yeah,

he didn't call daddy. The cops called daddy. That's what I mean. They all called his [ __ ] father. And then you just being like, you're just giving your never give your father too many reasons to [ __ ] kill you cuz you never know.

Well, this had been at least the second time that Paul had been caught by the police operating a motor vehicle while drunk since the death of Mallalerie Beach. That's just the second time he'd been caught by the cops. But because Paul was a Murdoch, the cops kept letting him go. So Alec knew that it was only a matter of time before Paul killed again. Now, coincidentally, this incident on the boat occurred just about a week or two before the murder of Paul and Maggie. So, it seems to me that this was the thing that made Alec decide that his son was too much of a liability to continue the Murdoch name and was therefore expendable. And that's my personal theory for motivation as to why both Maggie and Paul were murdered that night.

Heck of a theory. Makes makes total sense. And then also it's why he had the two separate guns and it's why he set it up because then we're also going to see the other narrative, right? So revenge is one. Revenge is a big narrative. Revenge fueled by drug like you know drug network. That's another thing. The idea of assassins,

sure, you know, assassins came out to Hampton County. He really does like and we'll get into it later, but you know, he really does try to introduce as many possible motives as as he can. all these guys. HE'S LIKE, "WELL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S CROOKED JOHN, BUT I WOULD never blame Crooked John for something like this." But, you know, there's murdering Matthew, but that's just a nickname. It's because of how many sliders from White Castle he can eat, but that's all better. But, I could say, but we don't know where he was in ter.

Yeah, that's right. It is interesting that Paul killed Mallerie in the same place that her last name is

the beach. Yes. Well, and then he got killed in the same place that his last name, the dogs.

That's an interesting away from parks. See that? I love parks. That's a view into Ed's mind. It's a view into how like Ed sees the world like it's just sort of like words floating around and he just g them. Beach. BEACH.

SHE WAS THERE. DOG. DOG. DOG. I LIKE DOGS. I said that on a show. Good see on a show. You're just lucky there's nowhere surprises live,

you know. No, we don't know. Now, Alec woke up late and alone on the day of the murders. According to author Valerie Bowerine, Maggie was not living at Moselle by this point. Instead, Maggie was out at the beach house in Adysisto about an hour away. The only person at Moselle who was tending to Alec on June 7th was the housekeeper they'd hired after Gloria died. This woman, a former prison guard, was Blanca Simpson.

Person they completely underestimated. Blanca was coming over that afternoon to stock up on Capri Suns for Alec. Specifically, orange pineapple tango and Mountain Cooler because Alec got grumpy if the fridge wasn't always stocked with his favorite flavors.

Mountain Cooler is goodter than a [ __ ] So bad. IT'S NO PACIFIC SUN, but it's [ __ ] awesome. I just like What's the last time you had a Capri Sun? I actually um I took a sip not too long ago because I keep them in the bottom drawer in the fridge for whenever the kids come by. Sure.

Yeah. So because I like you know so they're like they hurt me now my mouth. That shit's like crack for the kids.

You give it to them, they all start like ripping at the trees and like clawing at each other. It's hilarious.

Yeah. That's why I don't think it was even the hot seat that put like over the edge.

It could have been the Capri. No. Now we're getting TO THE TWINKIE DEFENSE. THUNDER WAS RIGHT.

TELL THE JURY THEY'RE WRONG. Blanca showed up a little afternoon with the Capri Suns to find Alec getting ready for work, but she noticed that he looked extremely tired and disheveled, like he was still wearing his clothes from the night before. Blanca therefore fixed his collar and sent him out the door to his job at PMED at about 12:30 in the afternoon. Oh, I was going to hope you say that Blanco fixed his collar and then jumped on him and started biting at a snack.

And then he started screaming and then electricity. Wow. [ __ ] fun. He um uh very often he did the thing.

These Ubers are crazy. He's very often a guy kept every time they call him right for work, he's always the I'm there. I'm on my way. I'm in the car. you know, in his underwear, covered in [ __ ] fast food rappers, shove an oxy in his mouth.

Mhm. Now, we don't know for sure if Alec woke up that day planning to murder Maggie and Alec. I actually don't think he did. I I actually don't think he was planning it that day. I think he was waiting for the day. Well, I think that he was prepared for the day and knew that the day would come and that was he knew it was coming soon and it would happen any day and that it just happened to be that day.

Yep. What we do know is that one more pressure point, perhaps the biggest one of all, was put on Alec just after he arrived late to work that afternoon because Alec had [ __ ] up at PMPED the same way that he'd [ __ ] up with attorney Mark Tensley. You don't [ __ ] with a lawyer's money. See, after PMPED had won a big settlement worth nearly a million dollars a few months prior, Alec had neglected to pay out the other attorneys who'd worked on the case. He'd gotten sloppy and had either forgotten or he just decided to not pay them.

Instead, he had kept the entire settlement check, about $700,000, all for himself. PMPED therefore started looking into Alex's books, and the chief financial officer had been asking a lot of questions, much to Alex's annoyance. He didn't think anyone was ever going to question him. By June 7th, the CFO was planning to fully confront Alec about the missing check. But just as she was in his office about to get into it with him, Alex's phone rang. It's almost like if it was in a movie, you'd say it was too convenient. You'd say, "This is [ __ ] Deusex Machina." Yeah,

the call was from Alex brother, who was delivering the bad news that their father, Randy III, was back in the hospital with pneumonia and was sure to die soon. The CFO, therefore, dropped their line of questioning and pivoted to consoling Alec Murdoch about his father's impending death. Alec, however, had just been handed a reason to call both Maggie and Paul back to Moselle that night. He got a hold of both of them and said that they all needed to go see Big Randy before he died. You got to come on home.

We got to go see Pippy. We got to go see Pippy. We got to go make sure we get that money.

YOU GOT TO GET PIPO. GO KISS HIS LIP. POP. COME SEE PIPPY. PO. There's Pippy. Now go get Give Pippy a kiss. A treat. Give us GIVE US ME THE child all,

you know. And then this is the same thing where he's like all beat up about his dad and stuff, but I feel like it all comes down to the fact that he knows that it's [ __ ] over.

Well, yeah. I mean, when they're start when the CFO is asking questions, he ain't getting out of it.

Well, yeah, cuz he also thought he just thought it would never happen. Also, the other reason to get him out of it, I'm sure he's in his mind and gets all these people out of so many things, is when you pretend to be the [ __ ] victim.

Of course. Oh, yeah, dude. This was a godsend to him. He loved that his father was dying. It gave him the exact re I feel like he lo he he doesn't feel emotions. Alec Murdoch is one of those people that every single thing is a way to capitalize on other people. So, when that happened, he was just like, "Fuck yeah."

Yeah. When I got a hold of Paul, Paul said, "Fuck it." Sure. Yeah, I'll be there later. And Maggie reluctantly agreed, but she texted a friend to say that Alex's request was fishy and that she thought that Alec was up to something, but she didn't know what.

And part of it remember of why he's such a big [ __ ] liar. Is because through all of this, he's like, "Man, Maggie, we're the happiest we have ever been. We were nothing but every night we s I sang to her to sleep. I thought I thought of a song and I made up a song each night. A different song about how we could have met,

you know, like and you're like, "No, she was not living with you." Well, they were also keeping it far under wraps from just about everybody cuz even Blanca, their [ __ ] housekeeper, seemed to not know that like anything was going on.

It's because Maggie, I think, was starting to understand that she something bad might happen.

Yeah, they were keeping everything on the down low. Well, she was smart. She [ __ ] got her divorce lawyer in Charleston in a different county.

She did it all on the side. That's how you got to do it. But she didn't get out. Sadly, very, very sadly, she did not get out fast enough.

Yeah. Well, Maggie was nevertheless on her way to Moselle by that afternoon. And with both Maggie and Paul guaranteed to be at Moselle that night, Alec Murdoch presumably began psyching himself up to murder his wife and youngest son.

get your glory. However, it does beg the question, and this is a question that I it just dawned on me today. Did Paul and Maggie ask why Buster wasn't there that night? What did Alec tell them? And how did he make sure that Paul and Maggie did not text Buster about the visit? Did Alec tell Buster to stay away that night? And if he did, did Alec give a reason, perhaps? Did Alec give Buster the real reason?

Buster? No. Well, it's not in the text messages, right? No. So, I He probably just didn't want him there cuz he knew what he was going to do and he didn't want to kill him.

Well, I know he was going to be n about it. He was going to be like, "No, daddy. Oh, daddy. I sure wish there was a way we could figure this out."

But what I'm saying is that how did he keep Buster away? Because you know, of course, if Paul and Maggie are going, they're like, "Hey, Buster, you coming on out?" And Buster's like, "Well, I don't know what for." How did they keep how did Alec keep him away? Because remember, he wants to keep Buster alive. He doesn't want to kill Buster.

He told them all different reasons. Buster, I believe, had an alibi. I believe Buster the reason why he wasn't brought in fully was because he was, I want to say, he was with friends. He was specifically not there. M

that wasn't the night that they were going to necessarily go to visit pee pe and mumu whatever their [ __ ] grandparents name is who [ __ ] gives a [ __ ] right they were going to go visit them like one of the reasons I think that's what he told Maggie Paul was there because ostensibly Paul was working on the that the land that night right he was doing this dumb [ __ ] tinkering and skittering whatever they do right whatever they go he said they go around we mess around and we gone with Paul

yeah you're on the ATV you got to check the land you got to go back you got to check you got to go check the property sneaky beginning. We're going over here going going a log over here talking turn into a frog going over here talking to a bird. You know what I mean? Like all like [ __ ] you, dude. And so I I I that is why I think Buster

literally just couldn't be there. Paul was there for another reason. Maggie was told to be there for another reason. I think Paul was just as surprised to see Maggie. And by the time all of that was happening, go go

Paul was not surprised to see Maggie. Paul and Maggie had texted that day because Paul Well, cuz well, Paul had asked like, "What are we eating?" And she and she said, "Lona made us cube steaks."

Yeah. Country fried steak. But then she So they knew. Yeah. But But yeah, Buster wasn't there.

God, their last meal was fried steak. Yeah. Fried. Yeah. Chicken fried steak. Incredible meal.

Yeah. Called steak burgers. I don't like it. I like chicken fried steak. That's a real southern thing. I like I like a nice soul food deal.

Mhm. Now, Alec arrived back at Moselle around 6:40 p.m. on June 7th, while Paul got there about 20 minutes later. The two of them got into their ATV and took a ride around the property, specifically to look at some trees that their new groundskeeper had damaged. Paul, giggling like an idiot, took videos of his dad [ __ ] around with one of the trees for Snapchat cuz Paul was constantly on his phone

cuz he had canceled his Facebook account because of the crimes, but he still loved his Snapchat.

Yeah. Yeah. Then Paul and Alec went back to the house at Moselle where they were soon joined by Maggie. The three of them ate dinner together, then went down to the dog kennels where they kept their hunting dogs locked up day and night like a bunch of [ __ ] so Paul could check on a dog that he was watching for his friend Rogan Gibson.

Oh, you mean Rorow? I [ __ ] hate these [ __ ] people. Hate these [ __ ] waste of space.

Do they call him Ro? This is a part of when he gets on the stand. Alec Moro, why do they all talk like they're babies? because they are in it's just they infantilize everything to make it sound not as serious. They do everything like this. It's overfamiliarity. It's this thing. Meanwhile, they're all getting paid. Every one of them's on the [ __ ] payroll. But he's calling him Rorow row and Bing Bong and Grandma [ __ ] Snappy and all these dumbass southern nicknames. And each one of them it's like and they have to correct him on the stand cuz they're like, "Who's Rorow?" He's like, "Well, that's Rogan blah blah blah." And they're like, "You've never referred to him as Rorow before." And he's like, "We all call him Rorow and there's Paul and you know Grandma Dippy and all this kind of shit." like [ __ ] you.

Yeah, it's this it's this sort of like it's this false folksiness that is supposed to like

wealthy. Oh, I wouldn't call wealthy. I say, you know, we were blessed. We blessed, you know, and I'll never consider us a wealthy or important family. I we don't think in terms of that.

Yeah. Well, you want to make a jury like you seem simple. Well, that's and then he crouches like this. He's so small. He's so delicate.

Mhm. even though he's 6'4. Yeah. Now, Alex's plan was simple, although it was hastily put together. He was going to kill his wife and son down at the kennels, go visit his mother in town to establish an alibi, then quickly head back to Moselle where he would quote unquote discover the bodies.

Oh no. Oh god. And so Alec, Maggie, and Paul went out to the dog kennels a little before 8:45 that night. Maggie played with her dog, Bubba, and Paul went to go check on his friend's adorable little chocolate lab, Cash, who had an injured tail. Poor puppy. Now, we don't know exactly when Alec began his short murder spree, but we do know that Paul was still alive at 8:48 p.m. because that is when he sent his last ever text.

You up? Uh, yeah, it's 8:45. A friend of a friend of Paul's asked him for a movie recommendation. So Paul told his friend that he should watch the remake of A Star Is Born, the one with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. It is [ __ ] awesome.

Do you think that pushed him over the edge? Cuz it's the worst. A Star Is Born.

Yeah, of course. But within minutes of sending that text, Paul Murdoch would be dead.

The real recommendation is that Chris Kristofferson A Star is born. That's incredible. That's an incredible and technically the Judy Garland Store is Born is also a classic of cinema that you should watch ahead of time with that one.

Yeah. Isn't that the Chris Christopher? Isn't Barbara Stry send in that as Oh yeah. No, she's incredible. I love Bob Stars. Whatever Paul's saying is horseshit.

Yeah. Another reason I'm glad he's [ __ ] dead. I am happy that that was his last movie.

Yeah. Now, Alec had two guns with him that night out at the kennels, a shotgun and an AR-15 rifle. While Paul was in the small feed room at the kennels, investigators believe that Alec laid the AR-15 against the room's outside wall without his family seeing him approach with the guns. Or hell, they may have seen Alec walking around with two massive guns cuz there were so many [ __ ] guns on this property at all times that any one of them carrying one or two guns wouldn't have even merited a comment LIKE, "HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THOSE GUNS?"

YEAH, cuz they loved it. That's fine. I'll just sneak up on my family first. I got to remove my slide on Sketchers. Put on my compression socks so that my veins don't make any noises. Man, I'm just going to

sneak a sneak sneak out there. Real quiet like, "Hey, Dad, you want TO SHOOT SOME DOGS?"

YEAH. OH, WOW. SON, what an amazing idea. Well, whether or not Alec was being sneaky, once he laid the AR-15 in position, he picked up the shotgun and approached Paul in the feed room where he fired a single blast into his son's chest.

I literally think it was like a spin move. I could see him doing like a like around the corner and just blah.

Mhm. Now, Alec probably thought that this would be enough to kill Paul. But even though Paul was a bastard, he was also a tough bastard. And the initial blast was not enough to take him down. After being shot, Paul began walking toward Alec, who was standing just outside the doorway to the feed room. Neither out of fear or panic, Alec crouched down next to the door. And when his son walked through the doorway, Alec fired upward at close range. This, of course, was the fatal shot. It completely separated Paul's brains from his head and turned his face into a loose mask of skin that barely settled upon the skull. The blast sent bits of bone flying into the feed room ceiling and Paul's red hair mixed with his blood SPLATTERED AGAINST the door frame. As undignified in death as he was in life, Paul had been killed wearing a t-shirt that said in big red lettering, "Wam, bam. Thank you, ma'am." You see, but

this is why these shooting patterns are also the reason why we know it was not done by a professional. A professional would have done it correctly. I mean like seriously.

Are there professionals there? Yeah. But no, if there were No, if this was a an assassin.

Oh, so he was saying it was an assassin, not like a murder out of, you know, that they had prepared that many people had come to do this. This is not a one-man operation. This is a several person operation that came here and systematically murdered his incredibly canny family.

Mhm. Now, it's thought that Maggie was a fair distance away when Paul was killed, and she probably came to see what had happened after hearing the two shots. But by the time she saw her son's dead body, it's likely that Alec had already picked up the AR-15 that he had set aside. This, however, wasn't due to Alec planning on shooting his wife from a distance. Instead, it's speculated that Alec believed that if he killed Paul and Maggie with two different guns, then investigators would think there were two shooters. Because what single person uses two guns at the same crime scene?

Only the smartest criminal in all South Carolina. But it's likely that once Maggie saw her youngest son lying on the ground with his brains splattered all over the place, Alec had already fired, shooting her in the stomach and upper thigh. Another bullet went through her wrist, shattering her tennis bracelet, which scattered the ground with tiny diamonds. It's thought that Maggie then fell to her hands and knees where Alex shot her again with the fatal bullet, one that was powerful enough to go into her chest and travel all the way up her body into her brain. Alec then walked up and fired one more shot into her head execution style to make sure the job was done. And by splitting his wife's skull open with that last bullet, Alec Murdoch had removed both the possibility of divorce and his inconvenient son.

Wow. I get it now. What? Wham bam. Thank you, ma'am. No, it's just the this whole scenario.

Wam. And this is what points to the fact that somebody who's never killed somebody before, they really are. This is a

It's very sloppy. It's extremely sloppy for a hit, but also he knows how to get away with this [ __ ] He thought he did.

Yeah. Well, it's obviously I Yeah. I I I think that uh what he did is that there was just he tried throwing too much too many ingredients into the soup. Like I I think he should have stuck with one story and gone with that, but he just he threw too much [ __ ] out there.

Well, there was one thing he tried to pull back and it be the thing that sunk him and there was nothing he could do about it. Now, after committing the murders, Alec also committed to his alibi. After changing clothes, he called Maggie's phone, then sent her a text saying he was going to go check on mama, and he'd be right back. And interestingly, in quick succession, Alec then called his son, Buster, a fellow attorney named Chris Wilson, and his youngest brother, John Marvin. John Marvin also was quite adept at cleaning up crime scenes. in the past. He'd been the one who had gone down and removed the boat that had killed Mallerie Beach from that crime scene. Well, this was all before Alec arrived at his mother's house at 9:22 p.m. about 30 minutes after the murder. Alec then went up to check on his mom, then spent a small amount of time watching TV with his mother's caregiver, who said Alec looked

fidgety. Alec was only at his mother's house for 20 minutes before leaving to head back to Moselle.

I'm just kidding. I'm a skitter in a tanker. That's home, David. You want to skitter and ticker with me? Come over here. Hey, have this pill right here. It's going to help you skitter. Ever done that? You're a skitter before. Listen, now you're skittering.

I ain't got time to skitter. I got to go. I'm I got I I ain't got time to skitter. I got to scoot.

Scooting and skitter. Now, let me explain. Yep. And after that, I got about two hours of scadaddling.

Yo, you know how scaddling goes. Well, Alec then called Paul's phone a couple of times. And

you ever Irish scadattlele? Continue. I'm sorry. I just never Alec then called Paul's phone a couple of times and texted Maggie a couple of times as well, texting things like, "Babe, call me back." Just to make it all look good. Alec also, sometime between the murders and the visit, either disposed of the murder weapons or hid them where someone else could get rid of them later. To this day, neither gun has been found

or his clothes. Yeah. Yeah. That's a I believe that was a John Marvin job. Mhm. It could it well that I mean according to uh one I believe YouTuber who sent a uh drone uh onto the Murdoch property, he did capture video of John Marvin and Buster removing guns from the property.

Yeah. Yeah. In plain day, literally in the sunshine of the day. Yes. Finally though, Alec Murdoch returned to Moselle at 1000 p.m. and arrived back at the kennels at 10:05. With everything in place, Alec then placed his infamous call to 911 to give the performance of his life.

I remember Alec before I make this call. Okay. Assassins have entered in Hampton County. All right. Think about it. That's your motivation. Assassins have entered in Min County. All right. What do I Oh, okay. Now, Alec, actually, you don't know if there are assassins.

We don't know. We don't know. WE ARE WE BLAME NO ONE. WE ARE JUST OPEN TO FACTS. WE'RE OPEN TO FACTS. We're helping the investigation. We're open to facts. And after you make this call, you can have a little reward of a couple oxy oxies and have a Capri Sun to wash them down.

And if I don't get arrested by the end of the night, then I can have a bowl of Fruity Pebbles with the sugar on top.

Now, be nice and I can watch my favorite videos. I can watch all my favorite videos. I love Theo Von. I think I YOU KNOW WHAT MY FAVORITE VIDEO IS? I like that one where that hippo be [ __ ]

Hippo be [ __ ] OH, MY IS THAT in the color blind glasses? I like color blind glasses.

How's like the ones where the women are getting shot in the head? Oh my god, I killed my wife.

All right, let's hear the call. 911. We emergency road. I need the police immediately. My wife and child.

All right, that's really all you need to hear. child has been shot badly. I've been trying to figure out how to get my voice to do it. It's so hard. The child badly.

There is like probably like a hint of like actual pain in there cuz he realizes what he's just done.

Well, no, he just it was Eddie. It was really hard on him. Yeah, that's what I don't think you understand. It was super difficult for him to do it and it really bummed him out. We never think about the annihilators in the family annihilator. Like what does it do to the annihilator?

But then guess what? He is alone. Yeah. You have to go through it all alone. He's got Blanca.

That's right. He's got Buster. He's got Ehonda. He's going to be there. He's got his dad for another couple hours.

Sure. Now, the first authority figure to arrive at Moselle parked near the dog kennels about 20 minutes after Alec Murdoch made his call. The deputy saw Paul's body first, lying face down with his brains at his feet. He then spotted Maggie, who was 30 ft away, lying face down on the grass. But before the cops had even taped off the scene, Alec immediately began deflecting the blame elsewhere. He said that his son had been in a boat wreck a few months back, which was weird because the boat wreck had been over 2 years earlier.

Yeah, he's making it all up. Alec also said that Paul had been getting threats. End quote.

He's been getting like like punched. Yeah. He said he he he punched punched. Yeah.

He's getting like punched. And this is like when there's one cop on the scene and you know the dead bodies are still in the background and he's and Paul

throwing out Alex immediately throwing out like this. Check it out. Yeah. Yeah.

THAT GUY. OH, WHO'S THAT GUY? WHO'S THAT? OH, I FORGOT THERE'S A BIG OWL. I'M IN THE HOUSE.

THIS CERTAINLY HELPS you not get cuffed. Yeah, that's what he Well, he was No, he wasn't cuffed.

They [ __ ] went to his house. They did the little plea and didn't take him to the station.

Mhm. Took a year. Damn. Before cuffs would go on him for these murders. But despite Alex's best efforts, investigators immediately noticed a few things about the scene that didn't add up.

These are great cops tech. This is one of those few stories where it's like the cops actually did their [ __ ] jobs in this

best as they well best as they could with all these [ __ ] people around. I can't believe it. Honestly, you could like they the fact that they even cuz he should for all intents and purposes OJ Simpson was right. Alec Murdoch should have walked. The fact that these guys actually put this all together is huge.

Hey, I mean and that's the and I think it also tells you sled is huge. Sled is huge. slight is huge, but it also tells you uh the it tells you why a prosecution must have all of their [ __ ] ducks in a row before they charge someone with the crime. They have to have the case. It's why it takes so long.

Even though if you know, even though you can know that someone has committed the murder, when you're dealing with somebody like Alec Murdoch who is inconced in the criminal justice system, his family is the criminal justice system.

You got to win. see him on that witness stand. He is evasion. He cannot answer a simple question at all. He won't because he's always assuming you're trying to catch him in something, which makes you look extremely guilty.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, as opposed to other investigations in which the Murdochs took control immediately, the lead officer in this investigation had grown up two counties away. They had no [ __ ] clue who Alec Murdoch was.

The right guy showed up, don't you? under the supervision of an unbiased investigator. The other deputies noticed that there were no signs of an ambush, no footprints leading to or from the woods, no obvious defense wounds, and no signs of a struggle. All this, of course, pointed towards the likelihood that Paul and Maggie were killed by someone they knew. All these little things matter.

Also remember though, at the time too, Alec is throwing his badge around. So when they also first showed up, the first thing is they go into his car and you see the badge right on the dash. Mhm. Now, by the time the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division showed up, that sled, a group of a dozen civilians made up of family, friends, and acquaintances of the Murdochs had already arrived. But even though these people crowded up the scene and made it difficult to collect evidence, authorities still quickly surmised that Alec Murdoch had indeed killed his wife and son out there, they just had to prove it. Now, Alex interview with investigators on the scene conducted in Alex SUV was rife with lies, halftruths, and wild [ __ ] stories. The most obvious lie was that Alec claimed that he'd rushed to the bodies and taken both of their pulses to see if they were alive. But if he' done that, he would have been both bloody and

muddy. Alec was squeaky [ __ ] clean. That he was so clean, they went on to notice that he smelled like fresh laundry.

Yeah, cuz he went and changed and he went and showered. Yes. Detectives also noted that Alec had freely admitted to handling Paul's phone without them asking if he had done so.

Yeah, he was just like, I was just looking. I looking at him. He'd also given two explanations to two officers as to the reason why Alec, a former prosecutor, had handled evidence at a murder scene.

He was like, I was just trying. I was just trying. I was trying. Well, he told him he told one investigator that he'd reached into Paul's pocket to get the phone so he could check something. I got I got I wanted to check something. Yeah.

But he told the other officer that the phone had fallen out of Paul's pocket on its own accord. and Alec had gently placed it back on the body. This inconsistency was, of course, noted by investigators.

Yeah. Cuz he knew he was all over his son's phone. Mhm. Yeah. He was trying to get to something. He's trying to see if if he had recorded anything, but that [ __ ] was locked up tight.

That was the thing is that what they say you could see it. He pulled it out of his phone.

Guess what? It was linked to to open. His face. Yes. Guess what he blew off of his body. I'm not even joking. Guess what he blew off of his body? So, he went to go, he literally went to go try to do it quickly and was looking at his faceless son that he just murdered and realizes he couldn't open the phone and then I could see he had a little mini attack.

Mhm. You know, and then we're like, "Yep, realize what he's done." Dropped it. Yep.

Finally though, in an attempt to throw as many suspects at investigators as possible, Alec brought up their new groundskeeper, a guy named CB Row. Alec said that Row wasn't working out. but then tacked on an insane story that the groundskeeper has supposedly told Paul.

Now, my thing is I I don't want to throw anybody under the bus here. I don't know who would do something like this obviously, but my I did hire a professional murderer to work on the on the field. Yeah, I knew he was

a professional. I mean, he murdered for the government, so I don't know if that makes him a professional.

How do you call him tempt a to perm? Well, supposedly this grounds keeper CB Row had told Paul that when Ro was in high school, he got into a fight with a bunch of black guys. And an undercover FBI team undercover at Rose's high school had seen him fight and he was impressed by how he handled himself against black guys.

Wow. So, he fought black guys. He fought black guys. The FBI was like, "Oh my god, NOBODY CAN FIGHT BLACK GUYS." HEY, WAIT A SECOND. MY JOB THEY'RE FIGHTING BLACK GUYS. We need to hire them because I'm afraid of black guys.

Nobody fights black guys like the FBI fights black guys. Ask Martin Luther King Jr.

Yeah. Yeah. It stands for fight black guys individually. Well, so impressed. And this is according to Alec. Alec and Alec is telling this story in his SUV an hour after the cops showed up to find his wife and son's dead bodies in the outside of their [ __ ] dog kennels.

I don't think he did it. No. Alex saying so impressed was the FBI that they put Ro on an undercover team with three Navy Seals whose sole job was to murder Black Panthers from Myrtle Beach to Savannah. And that's supposedly what Ro did before coming to work as the Murdoch's groundkeeper.

Isn't a groundskeeper like you don't hire one unless he has some kind of like shady fake story, right? Like you need they know that's it's not a groundskeeper unless he has a story like that.

Yeah. Well, I mean it it helps, right? Like think about the guy that helps your dad.

Yeah. How many horrific things has he told you? None. He doesn't tell me anything horrific.

Cuz he knows to keep cuz he's actually done horrific things. He's even to himself, you know what I mean? Like cuz he hasn't done those things. He'd be confessing the crime.

You know, it's good to hire a groundskeeper that kills panthers, you know, in case any show up.

Well, you want the the cat panthers. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Sure. But also, you would you should rehome them.

You shouldn't be killing them. He did say specifically radical black panthers. Although it might he might have been like they were radical black panthers like tubular black panther. They were awesome.

Yeah. No, no, no. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to ruin the black body and then he used the halfpipe to smoke oxy.

The whole in when they were investigating him or or grilling him, he's in the front seat, which I found very weird.

Yeah, he's in he's in the front seat and there are people in the back seat that are reaching up and like, you know, he's crying and boohooing about I found it. I saw his brains. And they're, you know, they're grabbing onto his shoulder, but they're also very suspicious. So let me help me understand. Anytime a cop says help me understand [ __ ]

like also just like putting their hand on his shoulder and stuff like that. It's I feel like is a good tactic

just like treat him like make him think he's winning and just let him keep talking. Dude, you know what's funny is that I actually have completely even reversed it just sitting here thinking about that. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. It makes him really [ __ ] comfortable. Yeah, it really makes him think that, oh, I've gotten away with this already, haven't I? And he can really start [ __ ] lying. And then because the lying is what gets you later. It's all of the putting it all back together.

Well, they know that they all have to play good cop all at the same time with it. Like that with Alec Murray, you have to play good cop all the time because he's telling so many lies and he's just he just keeps talking cuz he wants to talk. He thinks he's so [ __ ] clever. So, you just keep this guy talking and he's eventually going to tell enough lies where you can just start tripping him up.

What he should have done is should have just been [ __ ] sad and puking and unresponsive as like anyone would who just lost their entire family.

Well, that was one of the big tells for the investigators on the scene immediately cuz they said that, you know, when you when they showed up to murder scenes, usually uh relatives are inconsolable and they're like, "Why are you?" They say things like, "Why are you here? Why aren't you out trying to find these people? Why aren't you out?

Why are you talking to me? why you should be out there. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, "WELL, WHY DON'T WE GO sit down in my SUV for a little while? You know, maybe we can get chat and I can tell you what's going on." You know, it's

it's been hard. No, you know, he talked about it like it was a he had the same feeling like it was something like like a building collapse on the farm or if like something bad like that wasn't involving the death of your family. He was just acting like it was just this big old like

Oh, he'd acted like someone had come on uh to his and shot a couple of his dogs. Yes, that that's how that is this the same level of emotion he was showing was the level of emotion I would show if if someone had broke into my house and killed my dog.

I mean, I'd show an extreme amount of emotion. Yeah, I actually honestly I'd be way more upset if something happened to Car than Paul.

You know what I mean? I'd be way I'll kill you. Do something to car me, I'll [ __ ] kill you. Yeah, but I would say I'm going to show more emotion if my wife was murdered than if my dog was murdered. And and he's more showing and and he's showing more dog murder level of emotion.

Guys, at home, ask your wife what she thinks. If you're with your girlfriend or your wife, just be like,

who do you love more? This is a good stop the show right now and and ask them right now, who would you be more sad about if they died? The dog, the pet, or me?

Do it right now. Ruin your afternoon. All I know is I don't think I don't see Julie spoon feeding pumpkin into my mouth and she does tootsies.

Well, back to Alec in the SUV. After he told them about the groundskeeper and the Black Panthers and all that [ __ ] he added he didn't really think that their grounds keeper killed Paul and Maggie, but you know, Ro, his history, it it's worth pointing out. You might want to look into him. It's worth pointing out. Now, there was a fair amount of evidence at the scene, but it would be an incredibly long time before investigators could access it. Most important, of course, was Paul's phone, but investigators couldn't unlock it.

None of the Murdoch family knew the password, and Paul had never synced to the cloud. And they also didn't want to keep trying passwords and get locked out permanently. The other big piece of evidence was quite possibly the dumbest piece of evidence I've ever heard of in a murder case. Found next to the gun rack in the Murdoch gun room was what else but an empty bag of Capri Sun.

Yeah, got him. I don't know if it was Mountain Breeze or Pineapple Cooler. Doesn't say. Didn't say in the court documents.

It's Mountain Cooler and Pineapple Breeze. Okay. Thank you, Eddie. Please. I don't want to get these letters.

All those [ __ ] sun heads out there. Well, according to the testimony of the Murdoch's housekeeper, Blanca, there weren't any Capri Suns in the house on the morning of June 7th. Not until she stocked back up, and Alec did not take one with him to work that day. That meant that Alec had to have had that Capri son that afternoon. So investigators suspected that Alec downed one more sweet, sweet Capri son and absent-mindedly dropped the empty bag like a [ __ ] assassin, flicking away a cigarette just before he grabbed the shotgun and the AR-15 that he used to kill his wife and son.

There's also Iman and the [ __ ] professional eats the [ __ ] pills. Man, I honestly I could totally see Capri Suns could make me want to kill my family.

Investigators also spoke with Rogan Gibson, Paul's friend, the one who owned the dog that Paul was looking after. Rogan said that he had spoken with Paul at the dog kennels that evening, and he had heard Alec and Maggie talking in the background. Now, that's hearsay. That's not proof. He didn't record the conversation, but it did put Alec at the scene, and it directly contradicted the claim that Alec had made over and over that he hadn't been out to the dog kennels at all on the night of the murders prior to finding his wife and son's dead bodies. That's a very important thing. He said he did not go out there until 10:00 that night,

and he wasn't there. [ __ ] Rorow ruining everything. Yeah, [ __ ] Rorow. Somebody call Bing Bon. I'm going to call Grandma Snappy to tell her what's going on and [ __ ] dig her out of her [ __ ] grave. Tell tell Gro Grow OR WHATEVER. THESE [ __ ] IDIOTS. I hate southern people and I don't Hey,

I love I love the Southern Come on. All right. Come on, man. Come on. You're getting too passionate.

It's the best. Yeah, you're just you're just too sweaty, I think. Yeah, it's the rorow ro and the pow pow.

It's fine. It's fine. It's just a different way of referring to people. I hate pow.

We can have a good time down there. No, of course. We'll show you. I'll show you a good time. I

hate the little nicknames. Oh, like nobody in Queens has [ __ ] nicknames for each other.

Yeah, but they're fun. Like [ __ ] face and [ __ ] Robbie two times, you know, Jimmy Dixel.

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And so investigators had no other suspects besides Alec Murdoch. They were in fact so confident from the beginning that when they announced the double homicide, they made sure to say without naming their suspect that there was no danger to the public here whatsoever. They were so sure of it. The murders at the very least had the effect of taking the heat off Alec Murdoch in the wrongful death suit that the beaches had filed against him because the morning after the murders, the judge in the Mallerie Beach suit cancelled the upcoming hearings set for June 10th, 3 days later.

So he's just like, I did it. Did it. Yeah. And of course, the judge did this out of sympathy. And this was extremely fortuitous for Alec because this was the hearing in which Mark Tinsley had compelled Alec to produce his financial records. This may have actually been a third motive for the murders. He might have wanted to produce sympathy to buy time, figure out some other way of [ __ ] getting out of this.

Yeah, cuz now he's so [ __ ] down the oxyhole. He has no [ __ ] He is just a full monster at this point. Yeah, but investigators were not the only people who were looking at Alakabet sideways after the murder of his wife and son. Seems like people in the Murdoch circle figured that it might be a good idea to let Randy III know just before he died just how big of a piece of [ __ ] his son Alec really was. As Randy III lay on his actual deathbed, a visitor who knew about Alec's money juggling told Randy III that Alec had asked him for two loans in the weeks before the murders for no less than $600,000.

Jesus [ __ ] Christ. After Randy III was told about this and was told about the murder of his daughter-in-law and grandson, he supposedly grabbed the lapel of his visitor's jacket, pulled him close, and in full southern drama form said, quote, "What has become of this family? You are my number one guy. Oh my god. Please bring me to the brothel.

Don't kill anybody. What has become of this family? Don't kill anybody and I get my butt over here. That unfortunately for Ry III was one of the last things he ever said because on Thursday, June 10th, 3 days after Maggie and Paul's murder, and coincidentally on the same day that his son's financial crimes were supposed to be exposed to the entire world, Randolph Murdoch III died at the age of 81 with his family's [ __ ] legacy fully and deservedly in tatters.

See you in hell. You failed. That's it. You failed everything. Now die now. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Now, the Murdoch double homicide quickly became national news, and before long, the deaths of Steven Smith, Gloria Satderfield, and Mallerie Beach were also being bandied about on Facebook posts, Reddit threads, and of course, podcast galore.

Yeah, it was a podcasters feast in these days. It really was. It was one of my f It's still one of my favorite stories in the world, and it just kept giving.

Yeah. For Alex part, he was continuing to insist that the murders were connected to the outrage over the boat wreck, subtly pointing investigators towards Mallerie's boyfriend, Anthony Cook. Maybe you ought to look at that Anthony Cook boy. But since there was no evidence to support the outsider theory, and there was only evidence that Alec had done it, investigators continued searching for solid proof that Alec was the perpetrator because they knew that only a surefire kill shot was going to put him in prison for good. Ironclad case.

Yeah. Yeah. And if Cook did it, it would have been in the kitchen. Funny enough,

funny.com. Stick it to the thing. Let's [ __ ] shoot him in the head. Let's drop him in the swamp.

As long as you kill me by dogs, I'm fine with it. Yeah. By dogs? You mean like next to dogs or with dogs?

I want them to lick me. Oh, that's cute. I would never do that to you. I would never make dogs kill. Well, to put even more pressure on Alec Murdoch, investigators announced on June 22nd that they had reopened the Stephven Smith murder, citing new evidence gathered while investigating the double murder at Moselle. They made sure to state in public the Steven Smith murder and the double murders at Moselle are linked. However, we still don't know what that evidence is or if any evidence ever even existed. It may have just been a tactic, just a ploy to put some pressure on Alec Murdoch.

Yeah, the Steven Smith murder is still open as well. It is still open and it did, you know, it it triggered um I mean they exumed his body and they're investigating. We found out that he definitely didn't die by being hit by a car.

Well, well, I mean there's a well there is a there's arguments about like they say some say that um you know the autopsy shows that he may have been hit with a side mirror.

Yeah, sure. Am I very and then but again that still points to accidental death and then the kids trying to just cover up an accidental death which I do think while they were doing something nasty an accidental death happened and then they were doing and then they just childlike try to cover it up.

It's so rare that someone just sticks only their head into the road. Super hard to do.

Now once things settled down a bit after Paul and Maggie's funerals, PMPED continued their investigation into Alex finances. Sympathy notwithstanding, by September of 2021, two parallegals at PMPED had found hundreds of checks made out to Alec's fake Forge account at Bank of America. And these parallegals had compiled a damning case accusing Alec of stealing millions. They had him dead to rights. Now, the case was presented to the partners. All of the partners, even Alec's own brother, had no choice but to fire Alec. They couched it, however, in Alex's oxy addiction because the oxy addiction had only gotten worse and more obvious after Maggie and Paul's death.

They all used this oxy addiction as like a cover. Oh, yeah. No, it was the only thing they had like sweep it. They sweep it away.

And there's also seem like it almost is it's like an insan it's an insanity defense almost

because then it's like he wouldn't in his right mind. He would have never have done this.

Yeah. Yeah. So therefore, don't send him to jail cuz he was on Oxy. Come on. Yeah.

Also, you're on that much oxy. I mean, it's pretty I guess like the wrong word is impressive that you're able to kill a double mer.

You don't move that fast. Hey, we're going to get into it. Like the whole oxy thing because I mean cuz while he was an addict, he was what you would call a very functional addict.

Well, he was also what we said before, he's one of those guys that takes oxy and makes him filled with energy.

Yeah. Well, the other thing though is that I think like you keep saying that he was ged out. I think one of the things that remember he also was diagnosed with ADHD. So, a lot of his move like constant movements and fidgetiness that's due to the ADHD.

I'm talking about the snorting and the huffing and the lip sucking and that is what he does.

Yeah, that's different. Wait in the car. But he's But he's constant like Look at me. I I can't [ __ ] stand still for 2 seconds. And look at the size of my ass.

Wow. We talked about this. No, it was the snorting. It's the snorting. It's the back drip. You can hear he has a back drip going on. There's something happening inside.

You're crying. You're snorting. He is [ __ ] care. He has no wetness. Yeah. When the when the cops showed up, man, he was [ __ ] clean. Yes. OxyClean.

That was good. Well, Alec's brother was chosen to break the news that Alec was no longer welcome at PMPED, telling Alec that he could resign or be fired. Alec Murdoch, though, like he was the [ __ ] David Burkowitz of financial fraud, just said, quote,

"I knew I was going to get caught eventually. I'm surprised it took y'all that long.

[ __ ] prick. Yeah. Like, but also what he does, it's a humility. It's this thing again being like, well, that's a little old mistake I made and I can't believe you guys run up on that one. You know what I mean? It's like

there is egg on my face. He does this thing. What is a boy to do? Oh, the tangled webs. Wee wee.

Scrambled eggs all over my face. Now, I think that Alec thought that he was just going to walk away from PMPED, having been fired, and that was it. But the day after Alec was told,

that's bad enough. Yeah, it's bad enough. But the day after Alec was told to leave, his now former firm called up SLED, the South Carolina law enforcement division, PMPED, laid out everything with SLED to cover their own asses. And that, of course, triggered a full criminal investigation into Alec Murdoch.

Don't forget, too, they didn't do anything until the lawyers lost money. H. Yes. This was September 4th, 29. They didn't even [ __ ] look into it for a second.

Couldn't give a [ __ ] what happened to the little children that were paralyzed and the old people that he literally just took all the money from. It was when they they finally took money from the inside and then they had to cover their own asses so it didn't look like they were stealing money, too.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, this was September 4th, 2021, which ended up being a very eventful day in Alec Murdoch's life for multiple reasons. On this day, Alec Murdoch also made his infamous call to his cousin, Fast Eddie, to engage in activities involving firearms that are still somewhat of a mystery. So, according to Fast Eddie himself, Alec called him up and met him on the road. After making a bit of small talk, Alex straight up asked Fast Eddie to shoot him in his big dumb potato head because investigators were going to prove that he was responsible for Maggie and Paul.

out at Moselle that night. Quote, "Things just got all [ __ ] up. Things just got all [ __ ] up." Now, Fast Eddie, of course, said, "Hell no, I ain't going to [ __ ] shoot you." So, Alec said that he was just going to do it himself. And he took off. I'm just going to Well, I'LL JUST DO IT MYSELF.

I DON'T NEED YOU TO DO ANYTHING. I'll do it. I don't need anybody else. Well, he did that thing. He's like, you know, fast, Eddie, we're we're close, right? Like, you know, Eddie, we're we're like brothers, ain't we? Okay. I'm going to need you to shoot me in the head right now. Right now. I I'm going to need you right. Pardon? Pardon?

Right. Hey. Hey, listen. You see this? What is it missing? A bullet. I need you to do something about that.

Well, Fast Daddy drove after him. But when Fast Daddy caught up to Alec again, Alec had stopped his car on an isolated stretch of road. Alec got out, but was supposedly holding a gun when he did so, acting very erratically. Those noodle guys in front of the car sales place. Now, Fast Eddie was of course also armed. So to scare Alec out of shooting himself, Fast Eddie claimed that he fired a shot above Alec's head. Because that's because that's really like when someone is holding a gun, the best thing to do to make them not use the gun is to shoot your gun in the air.

Hey, hey, LISTEN, KIDS. I'M NEED everybody to calm down. ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY. BLAM.

I MEAN, IT DOES WORK IN every western, but it's because that's all that HE HAS SEEN. FAST. HE'S NEVER DEALT WITH THIS BEFORE.

He was fast on the draw. Well, he had to be. I don't think he was. It sound like all this was a slow roll out.

When we fired the shot above Alex's head, Fast Daddy said that Alec fell like a fainting goat

and he hit his head on some rocks on the side of the road. He absolutely did too.

And after that, Fast Daddy pretty much said, "Fuck this." And he just left. Yeah. He was just sitting there been like, "Well, this is [ __ ] stupid." You know, for 3 seconds he was so [ __ ] up that he thought he was dead.

Oh yeah, OF COURSE. HE WAS JUST LIKE, "OH my god, heaven is just like Hampton County." Like laying on.

It sucks. No, that story is just dumb enough to be true. I But if that is indeed what happened, then the knock on Alex's head must have restored his will to live because Alec Murdoch immediately found a way to spin this to his advantage. Every single thing in his life he spends to his advantage.

See, after Fast Eddie left, Alec called 911 and told the dispatcher that he'd been on the side of the road with a flat tire when a young man with really, really short hair,

really, really short hair, had driven up and shot him in the head. Now, absolutely nobody believed Alex story for a multitude of reasons.

When this news, when this hit the news, I'll always remember the day inside stories when this hit the news, and I was like, "This is incredible. This is one of the This is such an amazing turn of events.

I remember you did like you ran into my office and you were like he faked committed suicide and job is shooting and shoot himself with that. One of the best in the world.

There were no bullet holes in his car. Uh and the wound on his head was so superficial that it just needed to be cleaned then and bandaged like a bandage. Yeah. I mean it it doesn't look like a bullet, Grace. It looks like he fell on some rocks.

Yeah, it looks like Yeah, he's got gravel marks. Yeah, but even though everyone gave him just a Uhhuh. Sure. Whenever he told the story, Alec still gave a description of the so-called shooter to a sketch artist. And it just so happened that the person that Alec described looked a hell of a lot like Anthony Cook, Mallerie Beach's boyfriend. And he came up with that [ __ ] like in [ __ ] 10 minutes. Like that he's going to [ __ ] that he's going to he fell on the side of the road. He asked his cousin to shoot him in the head, but you know, he missed.

His cousin left and he's like, "I'm bleeding." Wait a minute. God damn it. I'm bleeding.

What would Pat Oswalt say? You know, like you just try to figure it out. It's improv man.

This is when you just The first thing to describe someone who just tried to kill you is short hair.

Really, really short hair. Really, really short hair. Really, really short hair.

Not their height, NOT THEIR SKIN COLOR. REALLY SHORT HAIR. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I YOU know what? I

think he did say he's a white feller. You know what I'll give you? I'll give him one the only piece of credit I'll give Alec. He didn't just put it on some random black guy. He had every He definitely could have. He didn't.

He didn't. Yeah, he didn't. He really could have. He could have ruined a whole bunch. You remember when um

uh they sent uh the Sher Pini. Yeah. The whole thing. Sh like you know making them go interrogate every single Mexican lady within 150 miles like what she did.

Yeah. Well, you know, in a way that's a way it's kind of fine. Yeah. I guess there is that.

Yeah. It's good to know he's not racist. Well, he is laughing in that way. Now, once Alec was at the hospital, he pressured an employee to borrow their phone, and he very stupidly used that phone to call Fast Eddie. This suspicious call after Alec's suspicious behavior led Sled to search Fast Eddie's house, where they found a ledger of alleged drug deals that had Alec all over it.

Why is he writing these down? Yeah. Alec, 5,000 oxy. Many, many pills for illegal Oxy for Alec. Alex, 10,000 pills. Getting more. Need to order more. Oxy for Alex.

It's so funny to listen to like Fast Daddy talk now cuz he cuz he's God, he's such a [ __ ] idiot cuz he's I mean his trial,

he's a guy. He's a groundskeeper, YOU KNOW? LIKE NO, FAST DADDY was just like he's like a mechanic. But he's but the thing is that at the very least you should know that if you have a trial coming up in the future do not do a documentary talking about the crimes that you were accused of.

Tell it to Karen Reed. Yes. Yes. I know. But Fast Ty's like on the Netflix documentary. Yeah. You know what they say I drug dealer. I was no drug dealer. Like you know every once in a while I get a an envelope and I I'd shake it and it sound like you know like a ratnake. You know, it sound like a random snake because it got that it's just like I thought maybe the pills in there, but I didn't think it's peeled in there. And then I just threw it over in the back. But I just every once in a while I go to a airirst strip and I pick up a a big box from this little plane and I didn't know there was anything in it. I didn't I didn't check I didn't check on nothing. I didn't ask no questions. I was selling maracas.

One of my favorite things, too. And that's also the one where he was just like I asked Alec, "Is this money laundering?" And he said no.

Yeah. He said no. And I said, "All right, I believe him. Whatever work." Yeah, I believed him.

Well, Sled also subpoenaed Fast Eddie's bank records and added the hundreds of checks written to Fast Eddie from Alec for the extremely suspicious amounts just under $10,000 to the ever growing investigation into Alec's financial crimes. And so with Fast Daddy's checks in the mix and Alex supposed attempted murder, bringing the Murdoch name into the news once more, SLED finally announced that there was a full criminal investigation into Alex's funds. Specifically, they were investigating the death of housekeeper Gloria Satderfield and the handling of her estate. And with the confirmation that Alec Murdoch had not only stolen from needy clients, but had also profited off the death of his housekeeper, the news media turned against Alec Murdoch completely. Not even Fox News is coming to his [ __ ] aid this time.

The final humiliation came and Alec was sued by PMPED, who had no choice but to pay back all of the money that Alec had stolen from their clients. Eventually, the firm dissolved and reformed without the Murdoch name, which effectively erased the nearly centuryl long legacy that Alec Murdoch's crooked family had worked so hard and so sleazily to build. And

so that prison call when he gets the word that they're changing the name of PMPED, he's like, "Oh, I don't know why they had to go all the trouble of that." Yeah. And you're like again, you just don't [ __ ] understand that you're a [ __ ] multiple murderer. You psychopath.

Yeah. And Randy four, you got to be so [ __ ] mad. So mad. He ruins everything.

Yeah, cuz I mean remember Alec has three brothers, you know, like there's Randy 4th, there's John Marvin, there's another one floating around out there.

Yeah, you got [ __ ] I got to John Marvin can suck my [ __ ] dick. Yes. Without actually very a personal thing for someone to do.

You're right. You're actually It really is. It's actually quite intimate. I should THINK ABOUT THAT. I TRUST him to do that for me. I don't know. Actually,

I don't think it'd be an enjoyable experience for me. Actually, you know what? You're right.

Yeah. Personally, I'm I'm married. The only person who can do that for me is my wife.

Legally, John Marvin should suck Randy For's dick. I SEE THAT. OKAY. And now that's where my money should go. Okay. Well, with all of this hanging over Alex's head,

why do you think they call him Buster? Exactly. We don't even talking about this. I'm sorry, Marcus.

It's fine. With all this hanging over Alex's head, he brought attorney Dick Harput back into the fold along with attorney Jim Griffin to defend him. Harput and Griffin managed to get Alec into rehab by blaming all of his crimes on his oxy addiction. But as soon as Alec got out of rehab, he was arrested for his financial crimes.

Finally. Oh. Well, you know, at least they let him go through rehab. They did. Yeah. Well, I mean, and that was very controversial in itself cuz they let him go to rehab out of state. He's still getting these like small favors being done for him here and there, but the favors that they all have to call in, they are dwindling very quickly.

Yeah, it's all it's all running out. Now, Alec was indicted on 48 counts pertaining to his financial crimes in November of 2021. With the Murdoch name and tatters, his bond was set too high for him to pay. I think it was 7 million. So, Alec was sent to the Richland County Jail. Incredibly though, after Alec got his bearings, he actually seemed to enjoy jail. As author John Glat put it, Alec was a lifelong hustler who adapted easily to life behind bars, where Alec was dealing with million-dollar settlements on the outside just a year prior. He was now haggling with criminals using honey buns and pop-tarts, but the principles were basically the same. Alec even bragged in jailhouse phone calls to his surviving son, Buster, how he had mastered the jail's barter economy. Buster listened, honestly sounding both bored and embarrassed as his father boasted about winning six soups, four beef sticks, and

a bunch of crackers for betting on NFL games with other prisoners. That's great, Diddy. Now tell me, can you kill me next? I'm going to die. Dy, can you please shoot me? I will be I am saying when I was in jail,

I was very surprised at how little they all wanted to watch football. Well, you talked about this and they watch cops.

Yeah, they watch cops and they wanted and they love Smallville. And there's something we talk about how it almost has a sleepover vibe sometimes if you're in jail.

No. Yeah, but not where Alex Alec was because he was with the violent guys. Yes. But I also

Well, actually at this point he's not quite with the violent guys, is he? Cuz he's in the jail for financial crimes right now.

Oh, yeah. So he's he is in but he is in gen pop because when he first got in he got into a he got a black eye cuz he got into a fight with the guy over a weight machine. Uh and then he was put into the medical wing as like kind of to keep him away from the other prisoners and he like told Dick Harpool he's like you know I kind of got a little soft but I bet I could take some of these guys in this medical wing.

Yeah. You're like these guys are all just they're all completely delusional. He's also does a call with John Marvin where he's just like talking about how hard it is for him to get his ibuprofen and he needs to get more ibuprofen because he's hit his ibuprofen limit and he's got shoulder issues cuz he's working out all the time. You see him now. He's lost all that weight. Looks great, right? And he that that's the problem is that he needs his brother to put money in another guy's commissary so that he could get him to buy him ibuprofen for him, which is also a crime. He's So he's already breaking c he's breaking all the jail rules over the phone willy-nilly.

Yeah. But as the months tick by with Alec in jail awaiting trial for his financial crimes, Sled was still doing everything they could to find evidence that would form a strong enough case to finally indict Alec in the murders of Paul and Maggie Murdoch. See, they still had Paul's phone, but they were afraid they'd be locked out permanently if they tried too many codes. Eventually, one of the detectives reached out to the Secret Service for help. But the agent on the other side said, "Just try the little idiot's birthday. It's always a birthday with these guys." And sure enough, when they finally said, "Fuck it." And just punched 0414 into Paul's phone, voila, phone unlocked. And the evidence they needed was found almost immediately.

And that's all like Alec is just sitting there being like, "Is my how dumb is my son?"

Yeah. He's sitting there wondering, gauging how stupid is my son? What is he going to do? What is he going to do to [ __ ] this up? You know what I mean? Like that style. Like you're like, and then I bet you there's a hot second where he's like,

I might actually get away with this. Yeah. At the very least, you know, like just going to have to deal with the financial crimes. Not going to have to deal with the murders.

Man, you know, Alec was pissed off as hell when he found out that code was was his birthday. He's like, I SHOULD HAVE TRIED IT.

I SHOULD HAVE TOLD I SHOULD HAVE TRIED IT. I SHOULD HAVE TOLD THAT [ __ ] IDIOT. OR HE'S SITTING THERE, HE'S LIKE CAN'T REMEMBER his birthday. Or he's sitting there just like [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] Well, unbeknownst to Alec, Paul had recorded a video at the dog kennel minutes before the murder. Paul had tried to FaceTime with his friend Rogan to show Rogan his dog's tail injury just a couple of minutes before Alec killed everyone. But since the reception was bad, Rogan had only gotten audio, which is when Rogan heard Alec in the background. But after the FaceTime failed, Paul took a video to send later.

And while investigators watched the video of Paul trying to get a good shot of the dog's tail wound, they heard, much to their great relief, Maggie shouting in the background about her dog Bubba catching a bird. Then finally, they heard big old puss himself, Alec Murdoch, calling after Bubba as well,

with his extremely distinctive voice. Come here, Bubba. Come here, Bubba. Come here, Bubba. This proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Alec Murdoch was indeed at the scene after he said over and over again that he wasn't. Finally though, investigators got one more piece of strong evidence. Months after sending away Alex shirt to a crime lab for blood testing, the results finally came back positive. Microscopic blood spray invisible to the naked eye was indeed found on Alec's shirt, which meant that even if he had not been the one to pull the trigger, he had been there when they were killed.

He was wearing some kind of covering. Mhm. And so on July 14th, 2022, over a year after the murders were committed, Alec Murdoch was finally charged with the double homicide of his wife and son. Get him. Now, Dick Harput had gamely decided to stay by Alec's side until the end. After Alec was charged with murder along with the dozens of other crimes, Harput agreed to defend him in this case as well for of course another sizable retainer.

He's getting his murder is a that's a bigger charge than financial crimes. And so it was Harput and attorney Jim Griffin at Alex's side when his trial began in January of 2023. Appropriately, a portrait of Alec's grandfather had to be removed from the courtroom during the trial. And that portrait of old Buster was never hung again.

Burn it. Hopefully, one day they'll hang Alec, though. Now, Harput's original defense rested on Alec's claim that he had not gone out to the kennels that night prior to finding the bodies. And Dick had reportedly believed Alec when he said, "I didn't kill nobody. I was never out there. I don't know what happened." And that was Dick's whole thing. I actually kind of, again, I don't feel bad for him, but I do think that he was m he also was taken in.

He was and so was Jim Griffin. Like that like the way that Jim Griffin talks about in the first season,

they're like fans of Alec in the first season of the Netflix documentary before uh he was charged with the murders. Like the way Jim Griffin like he had to have felt like such a [ __ ] [ __ ] with how much

how much uh confidence he had talking about Alec Murdoch's innocence. THAT'S HIS JOB.

YEAH, OF COURSE. But the way it went down was wonderful. Honestly, it makes me want to hire him.

Yeah. I don't think Dick Brutley is a bad person to call if you NEED HELP [ __ ] LAWYER.

YEP. If you got a We are not against defense attorneys here. You have to be properly defended in court. We know that more people like people are innocent and go to jail. It happens and it's because they have bad lawyers. So, you need to have a good lawyer no matter what side you're on. But reportedly, old Dick was stunned in the silence when he was shown Paul's video, the one where Alec can clearly be heard calling for Bubba in the background. And so, Harput was reduced to just saying over and over again that Alec, he just didn't do it.

and he was hoping that the jury would just kind of say, "All right." And during his opening arguments, Harput told the jury, quote, "I'll sit right there and right now. When you look at him, you have to believe he's innocent. He didn't do it."

So basically, Dick's defense was, "Just look at that face. That sweet, sweet face."

So pretty. I ask you, is that the face of a murderer? People say I got the eyes of a cockatail. They say that I've got the lifeless lifeless eyes of a plush doll covered in blood, but I would say that's true. No, but if you do give him the death penalty, I want to make sure we do shoot him.

You got TO SHOOT. WE GOT TO SHOOT. YOU KNOW, it's a bit of a pet issue of mine that we must shoot him in the head if he does get the death penalty. But listen, Alec, I got to just say honestly, it's way more humane this way. It's much better than the electric chair.

Think of the money the state will save. Think about shooting you in the head. It costs $40 in electricity to kill someone with the electric chair. That's $40. The bullets $15.

Easy to do. And we're using the bullets anyway. Lethal injection will not work on you. You could take too much oxy. It's got two He's got thin veins. Now, the solicitor in charge of prosecuting this case, Kraton Waters, didn't just have an amazing southern lawyer name. This is Kraton Waters, solicitor of the 14th district.

He wasn't on the boat. Yeah, that's right. Dude, that guy's a [ __ ] murderer. Yes. Also godamn good at his job. And he absolutely wiped the floor with Dick Harput and Jim Griffin. He worked 12 hours a day every day to make sure that Alec Murdoch went down. He does this thing too in his cross- examination where he's like, "Well, I'm gonna try to save you some time here." And he's just like, "We're not saving any time here. We're going to do this as long as we want to do this. We're going to sit here. You're not going to cut the time down. No one's" And it's like, "OW, IT'S WATCHING HIM SQUIRM." YEAH,

THAT [ __ ] [ __ ] should never put himself on the [ __ ] stand. He really thought that his Lex Luthther looking face was going to win in that room.

That's hilarious. But it has so many times in the past. I know. That's what he's good at. Convincing a jury to [ __ ] let someone off.

But it's also the first time he's killed his family. So when he makes his next family and he kills them, he'll know way better.

That's true. Well, besides the kennel video and the bloody shirt, Waters had also managed to get a hold of Murdoch's GPS data from his SUV, which tracked Alex every movement on the night of the murder. But what really sunk Alec was a total unforced error. A mistake made by megalamaniacs the world over in criminal trials. Against the strong advice of his attorneys, Alec Murdoch took the stand in his own murder trial where he was ripped to shreds byraton waters. When asked about why he lied so much, specifically about the kennel video, Alec claimed that it was the oxy that made him all fuzzy, that one lie simply led to another. And about his trail of lies, Alec famously said on the stand, quote,

"Oh, what a tangled web we we weave." And he's, well, he just said it so casually like, "Oh, what a tangle web weave." You know, you know, I go just, "Oh, what a tangle web we weave." It's just, you know,

I lied. Whatever. Because he's trying to act like again, it's this minimizing of his involvement.

Yeah. Always minimizing. Whenever someone says that in a trial, they should just get beat by the baiff.

But he's gonna he's going to get it in jail. I mean, the judge when he [ __ ] sentenced him, uh, he brought it up when he's like, "You said, "Oh, what a tangled web wee wee wee wee wee wee wee wee wee wee we weave. Oh, he just he hated it so much. The judge actually brought it up in the sentencing."

Well, it's cuz this idea again, it's this cutesy folklore thing. You killed your [ __ ] family.

Yeah. No, no. Folks does not folks has no place in a murder trial. But when Alec Murdoch said, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave." Kraton Waters made Alec detail that tangled web. He made him talk about his financial crimes. He made him talk about all the bad [ __ ] that happened to his clients as a result of his financial crimes. He even made him talk about his habit of using his volunteer solicitor's badge to get out of drunk driving-in tickets. But most of all, Kraton was able to prove that Alex claimed that he was fuzzy because of the Oxycontton. That didn't hold water. See, while Alec was an addict, he was a fully functional addict who was regarded as an extremely competent lawyer throughout his decades of addiction. By the end, Alec's attempt at going up to charm a courtroom one last time backfired completely and served only to shatter any remaining credibility that Alec may have had.

Good. Yeah. Now, Alec's defense was frail at best. Their strongest witness, for example, was a forensic engineer who claimed that the angle of the shotgun blast that killed Paul would have made it impossible for the 6'4 Alec Murdoch to be the killer, which discounted the fact that man is capable of crouching.

It is not. I mean, I would not both. Well, instead, this expert insisted that the shooter could have been no taller than 5'2, which to put it in perspective, Ariana Grande's height.

What' she do? Where she Where was she? Also, the Olsson twins. I'm [ __ ] Where were they? Yeah.

Where were those little girls? Los Angeles, probably. Oh, wow. New York. Good for them.

Oh, wow. Yeah, also New York. Yeah, I heard they're in the village. Yeah. Wow. Good. Oh, nice.

Now, by the closing arguments, Dick Harput was said to be a shell of his former self. As Valerie Bower put it so well, Harput sat at the defense table, quote, as motionless as a sphinx. While the case failed around him, Jim Griffin was therefore left to close, but couldn't do any better in saying that the jury should vote not guilty because the state didn't have enough evidence to 100% prove Alec Murdoch's guilt.

We're having apparently there's a big issue currently with jury educations about the idea of what a shadow of a doubt means.

Well, it's why Casey Anthony went free. Yes. And there's Yeah. They're having a problem telling them this being like,

"No, it doesn't. We're now going onto the other side just because there isn't a picture of him and video of him actively shooting them and then their dead bodies them standing up saying Alec Murdoch murdered me. That's not how it always is going to be.

Yeah. But since the case was so weak, the jury was incredibly quick to deliver a verdict. Only one juror had to be swayed, but not because Harput and Griffin had made their case. Instead, this juror flat out could not believe that a person could kill their own family. She thought that it was literally impossible.

This is why it's like these are our peers. That's a good pick for our booty. Oh, it is. It's very good pick for our one's mine. I told you I would pick her.

Oh, yeah. I knew that would be good. I could tell by the way she held that tea cozy close to her body. But after the rest of the jurors assured this sweet [ __ ] that it was indeed very possible and that it in fact happened every single day somewhere on this earth.

God, do you think the idea of teaching her single-handedly every single incident of familiar side? That's got to be amazing. Andrea Yates just be like this one, this one, this Ronald Jean Simmons and it's just like Chris Watts.

Yeah, Ben. Chris Watts and Chris Benw and Chris Chris bad. Yeah. Alec Murdoch was finally found guilty for the murders of his wife and son and was subsequently sentenced to life in prison.

3-hour jury deliberation. 3 hours. I mean, that's incredible. And an hour of that was them convincing some [ __ ] that yes, family members do kill each other.

Yes. I wonder why they didn't give him the death penalty. Uh I am actually wondering that myself.

I do believe it is there are aggravating circumstances that have to be hit. There are things that they do with like they flesh it out and I bet you it was a part of the sentencing where they they kind of talk about like like aggravating circumstances like you know how when like one of our favorite things when someone murders somebody and then they like

pull out their uterus and shoes with it and then like plays with make their their face a puppet and stuff like that and rape the body they rape the body a bunch they'll be like that I'm aggravated now.

Yeah. Yeah. And then that's aggravating circumstance. But if you just murder your family I might be right. side story loot gmail.com he just didn't hit he didn't hit certain factors that activate the death penalty

I think it's the last break that he ever got probably might be now as far as the peanut gallery in Alec Murdoch's life went his banker Russell Lefit negotiated a plea deal for his role in the embezzlement of funds and could be released from prison AS EARLY AS 2027

FREE TO SAIL the seas again AND I'LL FIND THE TREASURE UNDER the His other partner in embezzlement, however, Cory Fleming, decided to fight. That was the wrong move. And Cory Fleming was sentenced just last year to pay $3.75 million in restitution in addition to a term of 13 years in prison.

Unlucky number. And it is. It is. Those of course were Alex's partners in his financial crimes. Again and again, the question arises as to whether or not Alec Murdoch had any partners in the murders, specifically in the cleaning up of the murders. And while they cannot prove it, the prosecution did believe that someone helped Alec by at the very least disposing of the guns.

Somebody had to. They didn't find them. They found him nowhere. Now, you'd think the likeliest suspect here would be Fast Eddie, but I don't think Alec would have trusted him with something this important.

No, hiding him. He's slow. Yeah. Yeah. I think that ass literally is just like the most I can do is pills. Like that's like the most you really want to [ __ ] depend on me on.

I want to do this for you, but you do not want me to do this for you. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to help you by not helping you.

Well, instead, I personally think, and again, this is just my opinion, that Buster was the other person involved here and possibly John Marvin. See, I still feel like John Marvin was top position. Buster I think Buster I told Dove Buster's the sharpest crayon in the box.

I don't think he's able to do it. Well, listen to listen to this cuz I I think Buster I've known

he's an Eric Trump. I've known I've known Yeah, I've known many Busters over the years. He's not an idiot. He's not stupid. I think Paul was probably dumber than Buster was alcohol in a [ __ ] little rat. Yeah, I think Bust was just kind of lazy and he, like you said, he was handed everything his whole life. So, when it came time to actually do work, he didn't know how to [ __ ] do it, you know? He just coasted. Um, Ben, listen to this. Let's just, let's get into this for a second. If you'll remember, Buster's life was pretty much over after he got kicked out of law school. And the only thing he had left in this life was what his father could offer him by being a Murdoch in the Low Country.

That could have been quite a bit. Could have been. Buster therefore had motive to do whatever his father asked him to do.

Yes. As for proof, I got none. Nothing. Bub kiss. But there is a very suspicious jailhouse phone call in which Alec seems to be asking Buster to go out to Moselle to do something. We just don't know what. And this call, by the way, was made after Alec was arrested for his financial crimes, but before he was charged with murder. So, if there was any evidence out at Moselle, like say the murder weapons, Sled hadn't found anything just yet. Let's listen to this call.

What you doing? Nothing at uh Greenfield? I got you. Is Brooklyn with you? She is.

Well, good. Y'all hunting? Uh, we're going to this afternoon. Let me tell you what you ought to do, Buster. I think the damn um heaters were full over there at Moselle if you felt like going back there. I bet with nothing going on, I bet there's deer all over them things.

I mean, what's that going to do for me? What's that going to do for me? Kill a deer.

I'm not going hunting out there. I don't blame you. I'm just letting you know. I'm Buster. Also, I wanted to tell you this. I just remember this. You know, they replanted those sunflowers. Do you have any interest in hunting that field?

No. Do you care if um if I let Jim do it? No. You sure? Yes. All right. You me to call you if we hunt? Well, I I should be out by then.

Jim Jim who? Jim Griffith. What? Let him hunt deer out there. What are you talking about?

No, I'm talking about I didn't know if you wanted to hunt doves out there. If you do, then I want you to do it. If not, then I'm going to let him do it.

He knows how to facilitate a dove hunt. What? I said he knows how to facilitate a dove hunt. Well, I mean, you know, I don't think it would be. I hadn't really I don't know. Did you just Do you want a dove hunt out there?

No, not at all. Uhuh. All right. Um, now that call could be interpreted in multiple ways. You know, it could be Alex speaking in code. What's dove hunting? That's deer hunting. It also could be Buster being simply reluctant to return to the place where his mother and brother were murdered just so he could bag a deer.

Yeah, it was also that his at his father's insistence. But there are some very interesting sentences, some very interesting things that Buster says. For example,

he know how to facilitate a dove hunt. That's a big one. Let me get to that here in a second. Yeah.

First one, what's that going to do for me? How that's a very interesting like when he asks like you know what do you like you want to go out and hunt deer because he's telling them that the deer feeders have been full out in Moselle. No one's been out there. There's probably a ton of deer everywhere. You can go out there and he says what's that going to do for me which is a weird thing to say. That's a very strange thing to say. Sure [ __ ] sounds to me like Alec wanted Buster to do something that Buster didn't want to do. And when Buster said he didn't want to do it, it sounded like Alec asked if Buster cared if Alec's other attorney Jim Griffin did it instead. And also what gets me is the question, does Jim know how to facilitate a dove hunt? I don't know what the [ __ ] that means. I grew up going on dove hunts. I've been on dozens of dove hunts. I've been [ __ ] shot on a dove hunt.

You just shoot the doves, right? But the only thing you need to facilitate a dove hunt is a shotgun and a box of shells. You don't need any. You don't have to facilitate a dove hunt. You walk into a field. Drunk teenagers do it every day. You walk into a field with a gun and you shoot Dove. That's it. Also, a prison call is an audio medium just like this. What you don't hear in an audio medium is something like this, which is you're not hearing it because you're listening to a podcast.

What are you talking about? No one has any idea what you're doing right now. Exactly. It's exactly why. It's cuz it's a prison call. So, if this is on a prison call, you can hold a piece of paper up against the window with the thing written on it and no one's going to know what it is that you're saying.

He's he is calling them from home. Yes. But they all or there are also calls where he goes in and

this is a phone call. But there are conver but I'm saying before this you can communicate visually on the prison call that can allow them to then set up other things later on so you can start this is the code.

Yeah. Then you can go and talk about the code code for dove hunt. Yeah. They do it all the time. They did Cyberte right now in the Cory Richards trial. She just got nailed for that because she was going into the prison calls hold doing witness tampering by holding it up against the [ __ ] plate glass. So, what you think the uh the guns are in the [ __ ] sunflower field?

I think they're in a river. Well, I mean, the sunflower field does come up on the day of the murder. Um they were out uh was it Paul and uh Alec uh the Snapchat video that uh Paul took, they was in the sunflower field. So, they were in the sunflower field on the day of the murder. The sunflower I mean, who knows what's out in the sunflower field, but he was out there. Alec was out there on the day of the murder.

You'd like to believe they searched it. You'd like to believe they did. And they probably did, but who knows? I mean, there might be something out there. Maybe deer feeders like code for something, you know? Maybe there's something there in the deer feeder. Who knows? But it does sound extraordinarily suspicious.

There's just a lot of suspicious [ __ ] here. Too many family members have been murdered for this to be an innocuous phone call.

Yes. And too many family members have been connected to and or convicted of murder in this family for you not to listen to their phone calls with a little bit of suspicion. Like they earned it.

Yeah. I'm not going to give him credit now. Yeah, they earned that suspicion. Mhm. Now, while it is unlikely that Buster is ever going to be investigated or even questioned in the murders of his mother, his brother, or Steven Smith, for that matter, his life is still, for all intents and purposes, over the murderous Murdoch legacy that Buster was counting on. The one that Buster's father and his father's father had used to coast through life, it's just as ruined, tasteless, and bloody as the Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am t-shirt that Paul Murdoch was wearing on the night that Alec Murdoch killed them.

I got to get one of those. And all of this happened because one family decided that they were the kings of their own little slice of America. But in America, as it's been since 1776, men who believe they are kings always, and I mean always, get what's [ __ ] common sooner or later, just like Alec Murdoch did.

Suck my dick. Suck my [ __ ] dick. Ski ski. See what you did there. See what you did there. Yeah,

that would be great. Oh, you can go right over to um the Tublic and get yourself a Wham Bam Dicky Bam shirt.

Yeah, go to Spreadshirt and get the wham. Don't get that shirt. That's [ __ ] awful. Spread. Don't get the wham bam shirt.

If you want the only place to get that shirt is from a merch booth at a nan concert.

Yeah. Or Spencer's Gifts. If you don't have a Spencer's Gifts local, you can't buy that shirt. You might be able to buy. I don't know if Gad Zuks is still open. You can maybe buy it there.

Oh, and all Paul ever did was finger somebody. Yeah. Well, uh, you know what? A great [ __ ] series buddy.

Yeah, you everyone. Really good work. Thank you. You as well. Proud of you. I'm glad we could probably never talk about these [ __ ] again.

Until until he gets killed in prison. We'll see what Buster does or until the appeal. Yeah, we we never know. I mean, as far the last I checked, Buster still like he lives, I think, in uh Buffer Bufort County.

He just got married. He got married to to Brooklyn. Yeah. And his friends uh we actually got many messages saying that they uh played golf around Buster. They know where G Buster goes shopping. They know where he goes to gym. They know all the kind of stuff. So Buster's being very much so watched.

He's not returned to law school either. No. I wonder why. No, he's got to live somewhere, you know.

Yeah. Well, hopefully he gets into politics. Yeah, let's let's hope so. Buster Murdoch, our next attorney general.

We need some good Democrats in there. Shake it up. I CAN FINALLY SHAKE it up. Yeah,

we get Buster Murdoch, Kyle Writtenhouse. You can finally get me to the voting polls, guys. Come on. Don't you want me at the booth? DON'T YOU WANT ME THERE? MY favorite guys. Nothing I love better than a bunch of tubby little [ __ ] ruining life for other good tubby [ __ ] Mhm.

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