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

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I was listening to strawberry wine all morning getting in mood for today. Listen, all right. I don't care. I love wagon wheel. wagon wheel makes me cry. Seventeen. They did my circumcision wagon wheel. I wish I could have gotten my face more red. I feel like that's what I'm really missing. 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 windburn from illegally driving a boat. 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 Murdock. And this is really where we're going to head towards full on podunk. Yip, yeah. Fucking 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. So if you're going to be Dick Harp, you're down here. Oh, okay. If you're also in the prosecution, right, the prosecution coming down here, he's having Alec Murdock. He's famous for trial, the trial Lord. He was on the head of the trial Lord because he's trial. I'll do one man. He don't kill his whole damn family. You see that? Not seen it. I've seen it. I've seen it. I got separated from Alec because remember Alec is up here being like, oh, wow, the tales. I'm the what we weave. Oh, the tales we weave. Remember that's a crying timber of a guilty man. Yeah. I got to give it to Danny. Why'd you let me take that boat? I got to give it to Danny. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. We've also got with this today. The pastel, what the color of pastel green that Ed Larson is wearing today. I don't think I've ever seen that in nature. Yeah, man. It's my fester green. I call it. 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 Murdock family, Paul had just been responsible for the death of his friend Mallory Beach, who'd been killed in a drunk boating accident in which Paul had been driving recklessly to say the very least. Alec Murdock, of course, had come to the defense of his horrible shit-stain of a son immediately upon hearing of the crash. And at arrived with his father, Randolph Murdock 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 Murdock 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 not know that. That is absolutely slander. No, I was just a skitter. I just was a skitter and an officer's a tinkering. That's a big thing that's going to come up today. Let a skitter and tinkering. A lot of skitter and tinkering. Well, the purpose of this was to muddy the waters of the investigation. And that's if a proper investigation were to ever even have- And that's a tragedy on you know of itself, Marcus. Yes. To be because of the Murdock's connections, the authorities were doing their best to make Paul's many crimes go away. But after years of the Murdock's 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 Tensley had finally decided that the Murdock's word to put it simply a bunch of pieces of shit. And someone needed to finally stand up and take him down. You openly kill a cute little blonde girl? That's it. That's a really it. In America, yeah, you're done. No matter what. Yeah. 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. My 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 two-hour put together cross examination of Alec Murdock. Because 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 solicitors badge. Yeah. Yeah. So he would use the badge of his father and he would use this fake deputy badge. He got to. Well, it wasn't his badge. It wasn't his father's badge. He had both. It was a volunteer solicitors 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 fucking, he's a cop. Assistant solicitor. I think that's what it was. If you listen to the way Murdock talks about it, it's all he plays it down and then you look at the fucking paperwork. All that is being said, he would leave 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 guys would leave him alone. Of course. 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 Murdock. No, no. Now, Mark Tensley took the beach's case after most of the other attorneys in the low country had turned them down. But not because Tensley was an outsider to the contrary. Mark Tensley had dealt with the Murdock's plenty and had even once considered Alec Murdock to be a friend. But Tensley was a man of at least some principle. And he had finally soured on Alec Murdock cynicism after practicing law with him for years. Tensley was particularly disturbed by how easily Murdock could summon tears during closing arguments. A couple of times after fate crying, Murdock would sit down next to Tensley and ask him, quote, I know you don't think that was too much now, do you? Yeah, like a fucking asshole. Hey. You should see him in the trial because he does it. It's him because you also he stops the sniffle and then a snort. Mm hmm. Because it seems to be he laid off the oxy for the trial just a little bit. We had to. Now, Tensley said that he also took the case because he had a daughter around Mallory Beach's age. But it seems like the moment that Tensley truly said, fuck this guy, concerning Alec Murdock, was when Alec boxed Tensley out of a million dollar fee on a big case. You don't fuck with a lawyer's money. Nope. After that, Alec Murdock was open season as far as Mark Tensley was concerned. So Tensley jumped at the chance to take Murdock 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 motherfucker. He's got to dead the rights and he was happy to do it. Yeah. By the end of March, Mark Tensley had filed a wrongful death suit against multiple members of the Murdock family for the death of Mallory Beach. He limited it to people above the age of 21 because Paul was still a minor when the crash occurred. Specifically, Tensley filed against Alec, Randy the third and Buster. Randy the third 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 copious number of pictures on the Murdock family social media in which Paul was very, very drunk. Yeah, remember that about your social media. It doesn't get deleted. Yeah, even the stories. It gets caught and ain't got it. No, no, yeah, because whenever these social media companies get subpoenaed, they flip. They just they get magically have it all. Yeah, Apple's cool though. Remember when they wouldn't give the money of those people? They wouldn't hack the phone. Yeah, so try it on them. Now, following the suit has 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, voting 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, like get in there is really what will super power the civil suit. Well, none of that would matter of course if nobody could prove that Paul was driving the boat. And the Murdoch's were pulling out all the stops to get Paul out of serving a single day in jail. For Paul's lawyer, the Murdoch's called up an old friend of Alex grandfather. Old Buster's friend was state senator Dick Haapootlyan. Oh, there ain't no reason to be mad with all Haapootly. He's just doing his job. That's all you want. He's a simple state senator. That's all. He's a simple senator. He's just a friend. Alex is friend. Oh, bring the fucking firing squad back Dick Haapootlyan. I don't know. It's more humane than the Alexa tabs. What I'm telling you, we gotta bring back this firing squad and shoot these men in the head. Also guess what? He's a lot of fun too. It's nice to see the head. It's blown on contact with the Iron 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 else out Carolina's want to get in on that fine. And I'm gonna go ahead and put my name in the bathroom. So I can find myself. There's expensive electrocute in these people. I'm just into that man. And I'm still going to kill this guilty ass. And you interviewed Dick Haapootlyan. Like not to like what was your vibe on Dick? Well, my vibe on Dick was he wanted to sell his book. And he does. He is friends with the Murdoch family. Yes. There's no question about it. He's known him pretty much as entire fucking life. He was doubted. That was the one thing that I felt like I never saw anyone talk about. That's why I brought it up. I was like, you were also a county solicitor. You were fucking hanging out with big Randy all the time. I was like, yes, we were very close. I was like, yeah, it's a definite conflict of interest. But that shit don't matter apparently. No. And I also think that Dick knows, which is what he's sad here. And you can see why he was so sad, which is that he knows that this story is the end of a very simple time in South Carolina. Yes. And he was really sad to lose that simple time when the truly innocent times when a white man can kill anybody who likes. 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, it's all, it's only 20 years. That's fine. When it comes down to it, they were Democrats. Yeah, they were Democrats. Don't forget Dick Harp only was a Democrat. They love a, we love abortion. I love abortion because I think they should be fucking mandatory. I don't think kids should live. I'm like, say fuck them. Yeah, get it. But he is still fighting very hard to get Alec his retrial. Sure. Now Dick Harp Utlian was a household name in South Carolina. He was possibly the most well-known solicitor in the state. Famously, Harp Utlian had been the one who had sent serial killer P.W. Gaskins to death row. And Harp Utlian had gained further fame after Gaskins had tried to have Harp Utlian's three-year-old daughter kidnap. But again, what do we know about P.W. Gaskins? He was the liar and a moron. He did actually try to get the kidnap. He did. 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, Harp Utlian 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 Harp Utlian's wife as an immigrant. Harp Utlian's wife is ambassador to Slovenia of all places in 2021. It's a little pressure one. It's a little pressure one, but you do not get an ambassador ship unless you do someone a favor. Which means that Dick Harp Utlian had done someone a favor and added up power to do a favor. I did. I did. I didn't have to get rid of all my merch. I'm going to have to get rid of my Joe Biden dick sucking sleigh. I got a lot of dick sucking sleigh. It's just because I was honestly I got my arms got cold. I really got it. No, that's all to say that even though the standing of the Murdoch and the low country community had lowered over the years, their name still had enough power to call down a senator to defend their dipshit son after said dipshit son had killed a young woman in a drunk boating accident. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. behind him. And the Murdoch's still had enough money at their disposal to make it worth Harpuitlian's wall. He didn't do this shit for free. Reportedly, his retainer was half a million dollars. That's why Motherfucker ran and did it is because he knew they were liquid enough to fucking get it. And guess how they were liquid enough because Alec Murdoch was stealing from old people and children. That's probably why Harpuitlian is trying to get it out of his mouth. But also, 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 Harpuitlian's always been right. The whole system's always been right. And no one's ever abused it. No one ever done this wonderful, simple place. No one would ever turn Hampton County into a place of murder. Now with Harpuitlian's help, Paul Murdoch never spent a fucking 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. This of course greatly angered attorney Mark Tensley, who saw exactly what the Murdoch's were doing. The Murdoch's 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? COVID. What? Remember? Do you think that they had something to do with COVID coming here? Do you think that he went to China? Do you think that he went and he was just like he forced thing? He was like, where's the lab? I'll ask you where the lab is. What's the most cuff? He goes right in there and he says, I heard a cuff in the mouth, cuff in the mouth, cuff in the dark, dark eyes. Like if there anything went around here, I need a bat. I need a bat rest if I'm around here. Come me by paingling. Come me by paingling. Come me by paingling. Here's the candy candy candy candy candy candy candy candy candy candy candy candy Pink and juicy and bad. I just want to lick them. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I got crusty pink filled ass. Well, much of the beach family's hopes for justice, therefore arrested 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 decide that they wouldn't settle for anything less than $10 million. Yeah. Now, the case did go to mediation in September of 2020, but Alec open negotiations. He's always got a fucking bit. He theatrically turned out his pants pockets like a hobo and then said, you can't get any money from me because I don't have any hand broke. Yeah. Yeah. It's because he was moving his money into his wife's name. Well, Mark Tensley believed that this statement was bullshit 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. I'll trouble all that. We don't want to be getting in all that and wasting the courts time and wasting my time, wasting your time. But a lot of it's buried in the field. Yeah. I know. That's why we don't want to waste everybody's time. I'm going to find these documents, I'm to source these documents, I'm going to read these documents. I want to be that. All right. Let's go. Let's go around tippy's. All right. All right. I'm going to take those shots on me. Pick those shots. Tensley, however, had no idea that even though Alec Murdoch had spent years in bezeling millions from the Murdoch firm, PMPED, Alex finances were about as big of a mess as well. 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 fucked 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 to 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. So you just have to keep paying for the last because it's in the shitty county that your family made so awful. Oh, it's because Hampton County's garbage. Well, Alex banker accomplice, Rousseau Lafitte was moving massive amounts of money stolen from Alex clients from account to account to keep this whole thing going. From Bota Bota, we move the loot. I'm so worried. I got it covered in my five French sleeves. All right. How about if we bury the money? Take the gold from the port to the starboard then back to the port. Well, even a quick glance at Alex record to show that Alec Murdoch was a crook. And besides the financial shell game, Alec was also writing hundreds of checks to his cousin fast. I do remember he wrote, I think 437 checks. And 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, some way began to slowly build over the next year of Alex life. Because you know, these crimes and these trials Eddie, you don't know it yet. But 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, that's a stress moment. They're dead. Yeah. That's a stress moment. I ain't killing it. It was time you know, you can make an argument that I killed my mother. That's a paper diabetes. But that's as she died a diabetes. She chose to have you. You could have been an abortion. Yeah. Would you should have been if I was president of the United States of America? Absolutely. What have been so would have I if I was an abortion they would have taxidermied me and put me on a wall. You'd be in the mudder museum right now. For using a new like ad ginkie cozy. Even though tensley 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 client. He never paused once. Did not not even after the murder she kept doing it. And underneath all this mounting stress, Alex 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 skid that movie in Tommy Boy when it cuts to him is all red face and he's all like high and shit. 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 her. Honey, I just been a big old mistake. You know, how many times she's done that? How many afternoons were spent like that? Fair amount. Fair amount. It's like Lloyd Bridges and airplanes. No, I picked the wrong week. Fuckin' prostitute. Yes. I'm slow level. Must've gotten nervous. I'm stuck inside of her. Kinda like a raw wallet. I need you to knock her out so that she relaxes because I'll see right now. She's very agitated. Super agitated. Looking to get off. Right. So what you gonna have to do is Maggie, go get my claw hammer. Come on Maggie. If I don't finish, you can't leave. If I don't finish, I can pay her. Well, Maggie moved out of Mozel and their beach house on nearby Adisto Island. Reportedly, she told a friend that she just couldn't stand to live with Alec anymore. At the same time, Paul Murdoch's trial of destruction over the years was starting to be spoken about more openly. When boat crash survivor Conor Cook, all cotton topped, 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 had been linked to the Murdoch family in recent years. Conor alluded to the death of Housekeeper Gloria Satterfield, 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 Stephen Smith, according to what Conor alluded to, Paul helped Buster dispose of the body. Of course he did. If that was the 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 fucking anything. If you look at him, he doesn't mean that he wasn't there when something happened by accident. I totally understand. But Buster's head shaped like a portobello mushroom. I just wanted to make fun of his head. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's so ugly. He's such a light. He looks like a light bulb. He looks like the character from SpongeBob. Yeah. A Patrick. Yeah. He's got that head. And there's some about I don't think his brain works right. Yeah. I don't know if he's even capable. Well, I mean, I will talk about it. It's like his two pay is a jellyfish. Sure. From Northland. Now, in addition to problems with Maggie and Paul, Alex father, Randy the third was also dying from lung cancer right around this time. And Alex mother was quickly declining due to Alzheimer's. Perhaps worst of all when it came to family legacy though was when Buster Murdoch was thrown out of law school for bad grades, but especially plagiarism. 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, Alex figured that he could Murdoch this whole thing by paying a lawyer 60 grand to get Buster back in, likely using money stolen from the glorious satir field settlement. But in the end, the University of South Carolina told the Murdoch that it'd 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 you see how much money you donate to us. Yeah, dude. And then you see that picture of him Buster sitting there with this fucking gross ass half beard with this. He's got a jacket on and he's got jeans on with no socks and no shoes. His feet and a fucking sand and fucking disgusting animal and fucking disgusting road and bastard. I hate you dressed like that. I hate him. I hate him. It does make you angry here. It really doesn't make you so much angry. You don't make it. And you drive it around in South Carolina dressed like this. Yeah. Like every day we're like, we're gonna need to talk about the lack of your crap. Like if you got haircare here, you kind of understand them better sort of. Yeah, why they're so uncomfortable and miserable all the time sort of a suck. Ultimately though, it seems probably pushed Alec over the edge completely was when Maggie met with a divorced lawyer in Charleston in April of 2021. And this lawyer advised Maggie to start quote gathering numbers. 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, right? Saying this is the be all end all because Alex Dildo 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 Alex might have found a way to somehow avoid disclosing his finances in the Mallory Beach wrongful death suit. Maybe 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 and 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 fuck ups, some of them fatal fuck ups. 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. Uh huh. Maggie, therefore, had to go. But remember that Alec Murdoch was a lawyer. His family have 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 Mallory 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 Mallory Beach had become a story in the true crime world. You're welcome. I was one of these guys. 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 in him. Glad he's dead. I wish you could have died in jail. Yes, sure. Well, threats were being made by strangers. Low key threats, but threats nonetheless. It was also of course the Beach family themselves who were getting more and more frustrated with how slow the process was going in bringing Paul to justice. Finally, there was Anthony Cook, Mallory 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. I can't believe that's why it's important to keep your nanny's close. Keep your nanny's close. According to Paul's friends, the whole people were coming after Paul thing was Horsesho. Oh, total bullshit. Yeah, this town, right? And because I want to remind people of where this is and who these people are. Like Alec, the first thing he said was like, pop-hop have many enemies. You know, like, it was like the first thing and we'll get into it. They called him pop-hop. Right. Which is fucking weird. It's real where that's what we called my pop-hop. My, my grandfather, my pop-hop. Now as far as why Alec was so willing to use his son as a pawn in the murder of his wife, a pawn pawn. Paul had proved since the death of Mallory Beach that he was not only expendable, but a true liability. That's always a bad combo. Mm-hmm. Paul, yeah, being expendable and liability, holy shit. 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 O.J. Simpson until the end of his days. Some people just aren't that bright. People also just love money, access to a free boat. They love what someone else is paying for shit. So they will just go take it and decide to just deal with whatever company is there. Yeah. And 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. You're just driving a boat drunk. You never get to do it again. No. And you called your daddy again. And he'd 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 this fucking father. And then you just being like, you're just giving your never give your father too many reasons to fucking kill you because 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 Mallory 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. That's my personal theory for motivation as to why both Maggie and Paul were murdered that night. Heck of a theory. Next up 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 the big narrative revenge fueled by drug like get a drug network. That's another thing. You have assassins. Sure. You know, assassins came out to Hampton County. He really does it like and we'll get into it later, but you know, he really does try to introduce as many possible motives as he can think of. He's like, well, you know, there's crooked John. I will never blame crooked John for the black. But there's murder and Matthew. But that's just a big name is because there are how many sliders from White Castle. He can eat that's all that I could say, but we don't know where he was in time. Yeah, it's right. It is interesting that Paul killed Mallory in the same place that her last name is the beach. And then he got killed in the same place that is last name the dogs. Murdoch. That's an interesting way for parks. I love parks. I love parks. That's a view into Ed's mind. Like these the world like is just sort of like words floating around and he just gay. Do you have to connect them? Beach. Beach. She was there. Dog. Dog. I like dogs. I said dad on the show. She had a good say on a show. You're just lucky. There's nowhere's a browse. He's live. No, we don't know. Now, Alex woke up late and alone on the day of the murders. According to author Valerie Bauerline, Maggie was not living at Mozele by this point. Instead Maggie was out at the beach house in the D-Stope about an hour away. The only person at Mozele 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's sons for Alec, specifically Orange Pineapple Tango and Mountain Cooler because Alec got grumpy if the fridge wasn't always stalked with his favorite flavors. Mountain Cooler's good in a bitch. So big. It's so Pacific sun, but it's fucking awesome. I just like, what's the last time you had a Capri sun? I actually, 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, it's good because I like it. They hurt me now. Dude, I hate my mouth. That shit's like crack for the kids. You give it time. They all started to like rip into the trees and like, on at each other in the Larry. Yeah, that's why I don't think it was even that hot. See, they put it like over the edge. We could have been the Capri sun. Now we're getting to the Twinkie defense. 10 seconds is right. Down the jury there, Ron. Banka 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. Banka therefore fixed his collar and sent him out the door to his job at PMPED at about 1230 in the afternoon. I was going to hope you just say that Banka fixed his collar and then jumped on him and started biting at his neck. And then he started screaming and then electricity. Wow. Okay. Fucking fun. He, very often he did the thing. He supers are crazy. Very often the 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. I'm in his underwear, covered in fucking fast food wrappers, chauvin oxy in his mouth. No, 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 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. 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 fucked up at PMPED the same way that he'd fucked up with attorney Mark Tensley. You don't fuck 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 it 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 in the Alec's books and the chief financial officer had been asking a lot of questions much to Alec'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, Alec's phone rang. So almost like if it was in a movie, you'd say it was too convenient. You'd say this was fucking Deus Ex Machina. The call was from Alec's 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 Mozel that night. He got a hold of both of them and said that they all needed to go see Big Randy before he dies. He got come on home. He's got to go see Pippi. We're going to see Pippi. We got to go make sure we get that money. Yeah, to get Pippi Paul. Go get go kiss. Let them Paul Paul come see Pippi. How about us Pippi? Go get Pippi. Go get Pippi. Kiss. Give me that. He's like, give me a tree. Give me a tree. Give us. Give us. Give us. Give us. Show me the child. Oh. 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 fucking over. Well, yeah, I mean, when they're start when the CFO's asking questions, he ain't getting out of it. Yeah, because he also thought he just thought it would never happen. Yeah. 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 fucking 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, he, he doesn't feel emotions. Alec Murdock is one of those people that every single thing is a way to capital, capitalize on other people. So when that happened, he was like, fuck yeah. Yeah. When I got a hold of the Paul, Paul said, fuck it, cheer. Yeah, I'll be there later. And Maggie reluctantly agreed. But she texted a friend to say that Alex request was fishy and that she thought that Alec was up to something, but she didn't know what. And part of it's remember of why he's such a big fucking liar is because throughout all of this. And Maggie were the happiest we have ever been. We were nothing but every night we sang, I sang to her to sleep. 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, no, she was not living with you. Well, they were also keeping it far under wraps from just about everybody because even Blanca, their fucking 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 download. Well, she was smart. She fucking got her divorce lawyer in Charleston and different county. She didn't know all the side. That's how you got to do it. Yeah, 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 Mozel by that afternoon. And with both Maggie and Paul guaranteed to be at Mozel that night, Alec Murdoch presumably began siking himself up to murder his wife and youngest son. 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! Well, it's not in the text messages, right? No. So he probably just didn't want to mayor because he knew what he was going to do. And he didn't want to kill him. Well, I know. He was going to be a little bit near about it. He was going to be like, no, didn't know. How did it? Why did we come 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 to be like, hey, Buster, are you coming on out and Buster 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 duplicated was because he was, I want to say he was with friends. He was specifically not there. That wasn't the night that they were going to necessarily go to visit P.P. in Moomooie. We're never their fucking grandparents name is who fucking gives a shit, right? They were going to go visit them. That was 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 shit tinker in a skitter and whatever they do, right? Whenever they go, he say they go around, we miss around. I'm going to go with Paul. I say, you're on the ATV. You got to check the land. You got to go check. You got to go check the property. Speaking to baking in. We're going over here, going over and along over here. Yeah, you're trying to go around. We're going over here, talking to bird. You know what I mean? The goal is like something like fuck you, dude. And so 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 a surprise to see Maggie. And by the time all of that was happening, Paul was not surprised to see Maggie. Paul and Maggie texted that day because Paul, well, because we'll Paul had asked like, what are we eating? And she said, I'll bronch a mate of Steve stakes. Yeah, brought my account for a fried steak. But then she knew, yeah, but but yeah, Buster was in there. 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. Yeah, you were a real sudden thing. I like a nice old food deal. Now, Alec arrived back at Mozel around 640 pm 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 properties, specifically to look at some trees that their new groundskeeper had damaged. Paul, Gagelon like an idiot, took videos of his dad fucking around with one of the trees for Snapchat, because Paul was constantly on his phone. Because he had canceled his Facebook account because of the crimes, but he still loved his Snapchat. Yeah. Paul and Alec went back to the house at Mozel, 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 shit heads. So Paul could check on a dog that he was watching for his friend. Rogan Gibson. Oh, you mean Roro? Yeah. He's a fucking people. He's fucking waste of space. Do they call him Roro? Yes. This is a part of when he gets on the stand, Alec Morap. Roro, they don't talk like they're babies. They are infant, they infantilize everything to make it sound not as serious. They do everything like this. It's over familiarity. It's this thing. Meanwhile, they're all getting paid. Everyone of them is on the fucking payroll, but he's calling him Roro and Bing Bong and grandma fucking snappy and all this dumbass, Southern nicknames and each one of them. It's like, and they have to correct him on the stand because they're like, who's Roro? He's like, well, that's Rogan, blah blah blah. And they're like, you've never referred to him as Roro before. He's like, we all call him Roro. And there's Paul Paul and, you know, grandma Dippy and all this kind of shit, the fuck you. Yeah. It's this sort of like, it's this false, falseiness that is supposed to like, well, I wouldn't now cause a weth, I would say, you know, we will blast. We'll, yeah. We'll blast. You know, when I'll never consider us a wethy, all important family. I'm not, it's not. We don't think in terms of that. Yeah. Well, you want to make a jury like you seem simple. Well, then he crouches like this. He's so small, he's so delicate. Mm-hmm. Even though he's six foot four. Yeah. Alex 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 Mozel where he would quote unquote, discover the bodies. Oh, no. Oh, God. And so, Alex Maggie and Paul went out to the dog kennels a little before 845 that night. Maggie played with her dog Bubba and Paul went to go check on his friends adorable little chocolate lab cash who had an injured tail poor puppy. Now we don't know exactly when Alex began his short murder spree, but we do know that Paul was still alive at 848 pm because that is when he sent his last ever text. Do you want? Yeah, it's 845. 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 to one with lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. It is fucking awesome. Do you think that pushed him over the edge? Yeah. Yeah. Of course. With the minutes of sending that text, Paul Murdock would be dead. Real recommendation is that Chris Christoffer sent a star is born. Yeah, that's incredible. That's incredible. That's really great. And technically the Judy Garlander star is born is also a classic of cinema that you should watch ahead of time. I think about it with that one. Yeah. Isn't that the Chris Christoffer? Isn't Barbara Streisand and that is. Oh, yeah. No, she's incredible. I love Bob. I love that star is born. But it's Paul saying, it's a horse shit. Yeah. Another reason I'm glad he's fucking dead. I am happy that that was his last movie. Yeah. Now, Alec had two guns within that night out at the kennels, a shotgun in 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 because there were so many fucking guns on this property at all times that any one of them carry in one or two guns wouldn't have even married in a comment like, hey, what are you doing with those guns? Yeah, because they loved it. I was fine. I'll just sneak up on my family first. I got to remove my slide on sketches. Put on my compression socks so that my veins are making it nice. They're just gonna sneak out. Sneak, sneak, sneak out there. Bink, bink, bink, bink, bink, bink. Shhh. Heel, quiet. Like, dude. Hey, Dad. You wanna shoot some dogs? Yeah. Oh wow. So I'm one of the amazing ideas. 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 can see him doing like a, like around the corner and just, Blah! Mm-hmm. 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 blasts it, 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, man. 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. So he was saying it was an assassin, not like a murderer 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 cany family. Now, it's not 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 dude Alec planning on shooting his wife from a distance. Instead, it's speculated that Alec leave 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? I would like to smart 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 at the ground with tiny diamonds. It's thought that Maggie then fell to her hands and knees, where Alec 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 Mardak had removed both the possibility of divorce and his inconvenient son. Wow, I get it now. Wow. And this is what points to the fact that somebody who's never killed somebody before. They really are this is a very sloppy. It's extremely sloppy for a hit, but also he knows how to get away with this shit. He thought he did. Yeah. Obviously. Yeah, I think that what he did is that there was just he tried throwing too much too many ingredients into the suit, but I think he should have stuck with one story and gone with that. But he just he threw too much shit out there. Well, there was one thing he tried to pull back and it'd 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 Spon. He's been sent her a text saying he was going to go check on mama, Nady B. Right back. 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. She'd been the one who had gone down and removed the boat that had killed Mallory Beach from that crime scene. This was all before Alec arrived at his mother's house at 9.22 pm, 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 Mosel. I'm a skitter. I'm a skitter and a tanker. That's how I'm doing. You want a skitter? A dicker woman? Come on, come on. I'm here. I'm a skitter. I ain't got time to skitter. I got to go. I'm a skitter. I ain't got time to skitter. I ain't got time to skitter. I got to scoot. There's diversity in the skitter. Now let me explain. Yeah. And after that, I got about two hours of skedadling. Oh, yeah, skedadling, go. Alec then called Pulsephone a couple of times. Do you deliver Irish skedaddle? No, I'm sorry. I don't know. Alec then called Pulsephone a couple of times and texted Maggy. I don't know. I don't know. Alec then called Pulsephone a couple of times and texted Maggy a couple of times as well. Texting things like, I ain't calling 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 is close. Yeah. Yeah. I believe that was a John Marvin job. Well, according to one, I believe, YouTuber who sent a drone onto the Murdock property. He did capture video of John Marvin and a fuster removing guns from the property. Yeah. Yeah. And playing a day literally in the sunshine of the day. Yes. Finally though, Alec Murdock returned to Mozel at 10 p.m. and arrived back to the kennels at 10.05 with everything in place. Alec then placed his infamous call to 911 to give the performance of his life. And I remember Alec before I make this call. Okay. Assassin's? Have entered in Hampton County. How do you think about this? I'm gonna have to make some motivation. Assassin's of entering in Manhattan. I mean, him to county. All right. Oh, okay. No, Alec, actually, you don't know if there are assassins. We don't know. No, no, no, no. We are, we are, 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 could have a little reward of a couple oxy. You have a cabri son. The washroom down. And if I don't get arrested by the indenna night and I can have a bowl of food, you pay for this with the sugar on top. Now be nice to me. I could watch my favorite video. You could watch all the more. Compare videos. I love the old one. I think I'll go. You know what? I like that one. Where the hippo be shitting. Oh. Oh. Oh. A hippo be shitting. Oh. A hippo be shitting. Oh. Robby. Is that in the colorblind glasses? Alec. 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 I Been trying to figure out how to get my voice to do it. It's so hard There is like probably like a hint of like actual pain in there because he realizes what he's just Yeah, he just it was Eddie it was really hard on him Yeah, that's 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 They got me annihilated like what does it do to the annihilator? I think guess what he is alone. Yeah If you go through it all alone, you'll stop block up. He's got buster He's got his dad for another couple hours Now the first authority figure to arrive at Mozilla park 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 feet away lung 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 two years earlier Yeah, he's making it all up Alec also said that Paul have been getting threats and quote Yeah, he said he He's like Yeah, and this is like one of those one cop on the scene and you know the dead bodies are stolen the background and he's And Paul throw it out out of the media Lee throwing out like Certainly option I could cuffed yeah, that's what he was he wasn't he wasn't cuffed Yeah, they fucking went to his house. They did the little pleaded take him to the station Took a year Before cost to go on him for these murders But despite Alex 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 fucking jobs in this best is they and well Best as they could with all these fucking people around I can't believe it honestly You could like they've the fact that they even because he shot for all intensive purposes Oh, Jason Simpson was right Alec Murdock should have walked the fact that these guys actually put this all together is huge Hey, I mean that's the and I think it also tells you Sledges huge sletties use sletties huge, but it also tells you the it tells you why a Prostitution must have all of their fucking ducks at a row before they charge someone with a crime They have to have the case it's why it's 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 Murdock who is in Scots in the criminal justice system He is is the criminal justice system. I would see him on that witness stand. He is evasion Yeah, 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 Murdock's took control immediately the lead officer in this investigation had grown up Two counties away. They had no fucking clue who Alec Murdock was the right guy showed up 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 the Polymagic were killed by someone they knew all these little things matter All-sremember though at the time to Alec is throw it as badger round 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 Now by the time the South Carolina law enforcement division showed up that sled a group of a dozen civilians made up a family Friends and acquaintances the Murdox and already arrived But even though these people crowded up the scene and made it difficult to collect evidence Authorities still quickly surmised the Alec Murdock had indeed killed his wife and son out there. They just had to prove it Now Alec's interview with investigators on the scene conducted in Alex SUV was rife with lies half truths and wow fucking stories Most obvious lie was the Alec claim that he'd rushed to the bodies and taken both of their pulses to see if they were alive But if he'd done that he would have been both bloody and muddy Alec was squeaky fucking clean He was so clean they went under notice that he smelled like fresh laundry Yeah, because he went in change. Yes, and he went in shower Detectives also noted that Alec had freely admitted to handling Paul's phone without them asking if he had done so yeah He was looking out looking at 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 to I was just trying to I was trying to tell him as he he told one investigator They'd reach in a Paul's pocket to get the phone so he could check some I got I got I want to check some 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 back on the body this inconsistency was of course noted by investigators Yeah, cuz he knew he was all over his son's phone. Yeah, he was trying to get to something He's trying to see if he had recorded anything, but that fucker was locked up tight Cuz 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 his face 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. Mm-hmm. You know, and then we're like Yep, realize what he's done dropped it. Yep Well finally though in an attempt to throw as many suspects that investigate itters as possible Alec brought up their new groundskeeper a guy named CB row Alex said that row wasn't working out, but then tacked on an insane story that the groundskeeper has supposedly told Paul My thing is like I don't want to throw anybody under the bus here I don't know who would do something like this obviously, but That my I did hire a professional murderer On the theme Professional I mean he murdered for the government. So I don't know if that makes him a professional How do you call him temp to pump? Well supposedly this groundskeeper CB row had told Paul that when row is in high school He got into a fight with a bunch of black guys and an undercover FBI team undercover at rose high school had seen him fight and he was impressed by how he handled himself against black guys Wow, so we thought black guys black guys the FBI was like oh my god Nobody can fight black guys There's white black guys we need to hire them Because I'm afraid Nobody fights black guys like the FBI fights black guys That's Martin Luther King Jr His stance for fight black guys individually Well so impressed and this is according to Alex And Alex is telling this story in his SUV An hour after the cop showed up to find his wife and son's dead bodies in their outside of their fucking dog kennels I think he did it now Alex and so impressed was the FBI that they put row on an undercover team with three navy seals Who sold job was to murder black Panthers from myrtle Beach to Savannah and that's supposedly what row did before coming to work as the Murdoch's ground keeper Are isn't a grounds keeper like You don't hire one unless that he has some kind of like shady fake story Like you need they know that's you've got a grounds keeper unless he has a story like that. Yeah, well It helps yeah think about the guy that helps your dad. Yeah. How many horrific things is he told you none He doesn't tell me anything horrific because he knows to keep because he's actually done horrific things No You like he hasn't done those things he'd be investing the crimes. Yeah, you know You could the hire a grounds keeper that kills Panthers, you know in case any show up Um, well, you want the dog cat Panthers. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about sure. Yeah, but also you would you should rehome them You should be killing him. He did say specifically radical black Panthers. Although in my he might have been like they were Yeah, like a particular black Panthers Black Panthers No, no, no, no, he Then he used to have pipe to smoke oxy The old invite though when they were investigating him or or grilling him he's in the front seat Which I found very weird. Yeah, 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 boohoo and about I found it. I saw his brains and they're you know, they're grabbing on to his shoulder but they're also Very suspicious. Yeah, so let me actually did help me understand anytime a cops has helped me understand you're a trouble fucked yeah like Also just like putting their hand on his shoulder and stuff like that. It's I feel like is a good tactic I treat it they make him think he's winning and just let him keep talking dude You know, what's funny is that I actually have completely you've been reversed at just sitting here thinking about that Yeah, that makes a lot of sense It makes him really fucking comfortable. Yeah, it really mount makes him think that oh, I've gotten away with this already Haven't I and he can really starts fucking lying and then because the lying is what gets you later It's all of the peak and 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 alie Marlott You have to play good cop all the time because he's telling so many lies and he's just he just keeps talking because he wants to talk He thinks he's so fucking clever So you just keep this guy talking and he's eventually get a tell enough lies where you can just start tripping him up What he should have done. I should have just been fucking sad and puking and unresponsive as like anyone would have just lost their entire family Well, that was one of the big tells for the investigators on the scene immediately because they said that you know when you when they showed up to murder scenes usually 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 of time? Yeah, why are you talking to me? Yeah, why are you should be out there? Yeah, yeah, and Alex like Well, when we go sit down in my SUV for a little while, you know, maybe we can get chat and I'll tell you what's going on, you know It's been hard. No, you know, I 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 ol like oh he'd have to like someone to come on To his and shot a couple of his dogs. Yes, 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 broken in my house and killed my dog. I mean, I'd show an extreme amount of emotion Yeah, I honestly I'd be way more upset if something happened to car me than Paul Yeah, I mean I'd be way out kill You know something to car me. I'll fucking 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 he's more showing and he's showing more dog murder a level of emotion guys at home Ask your wife what she thinks if you're with your girlfriend or for wife just be like Who do you love more? This is a good stop the show right now and ask them right now Who would you be more sad about if they died the dog the pat or me? Yeah, do it right now ruin your afternoon All I know is I don't think I don't see Julie spoon feeding pumpkin in the my mouth. She does touchy Well back to allicon SUV After he told them about the groundskeeper and the black panthers and all that bullshit he added He didn't really think that their groundskeeper kill Paul Maggie, but you know row his history it's worth point now You might want to look into 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 seen 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 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 Please All this fucking 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 stuck back up And Alex did not take one with him to work that day that meant that Alec had to have had that Capri Sun that afternoon So investigators suspected that Alec downed one more sweet sweet Capri Sun And absent-mindedly dropped the empty bag like a fucking assassin Flicking away a cigarette just before he grabbed the shotgun and the AR 15 that he used to kill his wife and son Not Capri Oldman in the fucking professional He's so fucking hell Honestly, I can totally see Capri Suns can make me want to kill my family Well, investigators also spoke with Rogan Gibson Paul's friend the one who owned the dog the 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 here say it's not proof He didn't record the conversation But it did put Alec at the scene and it directly contradict the claim that Alec 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 o'clock that night and he wasn't there Fucking roro ruining everything So Teller was going on and fucking dick around for fucking grave Tell grow-grow or whatever these fucking idiots Southern people Yeah, yeah, come on. Come on. Come on. You're getting too passionate. Yeah, it's the best. Yeah, you're just you're just too sweaty I think it's the roro and the fine Pop out it's fine. It's fine. It's just a different way of referring to people. I hate pop out We can have a good time down there. No, of course. No, I'll show you a good time. Take the little nicknames Oh like nobody in Queens has fucking nicknames for each other Robbie two times You in the back 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 What so ever they were so sure of it And 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 Mallory Beach suit Canceled the upcoming hearings set for June 10th three days later. So he's just like Ah did it did it yeah Then of course the judge did this out of sympathy And this was extremely fortuitous for Alec because this was the hearing in which Mark Tensley 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 fucking getting out of this Yeah, cuz now he's so fucking down the oxy hole. He is no fucking. He is just a full Monster at this point. Yeah, but investigators were not the only people who were looking at Alec a bit 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 the third know Just before he died Just how big of a piece of shit his son Alec really was as Randy the third lay on his actual deathbed A visitor who knew about Alex money juggling told Randy the third that Alec had asked him for two loans in the weeks before the murders For no less than six hundred thousand dollars. Jesus fucking Christ after Randy the third was told about this and Was told about the murder of his daughter-in-law and grandson He supposedly grabbed the lapel of his visitors jacket pulled him close and in full southern drama form said quote What has become Hope this family Bring me to the brothel This family Unfortunately for any of the third was one of the last things he ever said because on Thursday June 10th Three 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 the third died at the age of 81 With his family's bullshit legacy fully and deservedly in tatters You know you failed Everything now Now the Murdoch double homicide quickly became national news and before long the deaths of Steven Smith glorious Satterfield and Mallory Beach were also being bandied about on Facebook posts Reddit threads and of course Podcast galore yeah, it was a podcasters feast It was one of my faith it's still one of my favorite stories in the world and it just kept giving yeah For Alex Bart he was continuing to insist that the murders were connected to the outrage over the boat wreck Suddenly pointing investigators towards Mallory's boyfriend Anthony Cook Maybe y'all to look at Anthony Cookboy But since there was no evidence to support the outside of 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 sure Fire kill shot was gonna put him in prison for good iron clad case. Yeah, and if Cook did it would have been in the kitchen Funny and funny Dot com stick it to the thing Shoot him in the head to drop him the swamp So he killed me by dogs I'm fine with it By dogs you mean like next to dogs or red dogs I want them to lick me That's Never be dogs killed well to put even more pressure on Alec Murdoch Investigators announced on June 22nd that they had reopened the Steven Smith murder citing new evidence gathered while investigating the double murder at Mozel They made sure stay in public the Steven Smith murder and the double murders at Mozel 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 triggered I mean they exhumed his body We found out that he definitely didn't die by being hit by a car well that well, I mean there's a man 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 in my very and then but again That's 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 Child like try to cover it up. Yeah, it's so rare that someone just sticks only their head into the road Yeah 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 paralegals at PMPED it found hundreds of checks made out to Alex fake forage account at Bank of America And these paralegals it compiled a damning case accusing Alec of stealing millions that him dead derites Net the case was presented to the partners all of the partners even Alex own brother had no choice But to fire Alec they couched it. However in Alex Oxe addiction because the oxe addiction had only gotten worse and more obvious after Maggie and Paul's death They all use this oxe ad addition as like a cover. Oh, yeah No, it was the only thing they had like is that like they give him a sweep it like sweep it away And there's also seem like it almost is it's like it's an insanity defense almost Because then it's like he wouldn't in his right mind. Yeah, he would have never have done this Yeah, so therefore don't send him to jail because 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-merge You know to move that fast. Hey, we're gonna get into it like the whole oxy thing because I mean because while he was an addict He was what you would call a very functional addict Yeah, he was also what we said before he's one of those guys that takes oxy and it makes him filled with energy Yeah, well the other thing though is that I think like you keep saying that he was gacked 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 fidgety-ness that's due to the ADHD I'm talking about the snort and the huff and and the lip sucking and that is what he does Yeah, yeah, that's different. We're in the car, but he's constant like no, no, no, look at me I can't fucking stand still for two seconds No, and look at the size of my ass. Wow He would talk about this. No, it was the snort. It's the snort and it's the back drip You can hear he has a back drip going on. There's something happening inside of him crying. You're snorting Yeah, he has no wetness. Yeah, when that when the cops showed up man. He was fucking clean. Yes, oxyclean Well, Alex brother was chosen to break the news that Alec was no longer welcome at PMPED telling Alec That he could resign or be fired Murdoch though like he was the fucking David Berkowitz of financial fraud just said quote I was new. I was going to get caught eventually. I'm surprised it took y'all that long How fucking prick? Yeah, like but also what he does It's humility. It's this thing again. I mean like, well That's a little mistake I made and I can't believe you guys run up on that one You know, I mean, there is egg on my face Does this thing is a boy to do oh the tangled webs we we scramble 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 to they didn't do anything until the lawyers lost money. Yes. This was September 4th 20. Yeah, they didn't even fucking Looking for a second couldn't give a fuck what happened to the little children that were paralyzed and the old people They literally just took all the money from it was when 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 A vintful 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 We're gonna prove that he was responsible for Maggie and Paul that out at Mozel that night quote things just got all fucked up Things just got all fucked up. Now fast eddie of course at hell no I ain't gonna fucking shoot you So Alex said that he was just gonna do it himself. He took off. I'm just gonna Well, I'm just doing my job. I don't do anything I'm doing I don't mean anybody else. We did that thing is like, you know fast eddie we're close right like you know It we're we're like brothers ain't me Okay, I'm gonna need you to shoot me in the head Yeah, right now. I'm gonna need you to shoot my pardon pardon right. Hey listen, you see this What is it? Mason? Well fast eddie drove after him, but when fast eddie caught up to Alec again Alec had stopped his car on an isolated stretch of road Ale got out but was supposedly holding a gun when he did so acting very erratically 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 Alex head because that's because it'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 I mean it does work in every western Because that's all fast eddie has seen He's never dealt with this before was fast on the draw Well, yeah, I don't think he was as I was a slow roll out When he fired the shot above Alex had fast eddie 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 do And that to that fast eddie pretty much said fuck this and he just left Fuck For three seconds he was so fucked up that he thought he was dead. Oh, yeah, of course. He was just like Oh my god heaven is just like Hampton County So No, that story is just dumb enough to be true But if that is indeed what happened then the knock on Alex 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 spins to his advantage So you have to 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 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 such an amazing turn of events. I remember you did like you ran into my office and you were like He faked two minutes to a hundred job and shoot him to make it shoot himself with that Oh There were no bullet holes in his car In the wound on his head was so superficial that it just needed to be cleaned then and bandage Have you seen it? 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, it's good gravel marks. Yeah But even though everyone gave him just a uh-huh sure whenever he told the story Alex still gave a description of the so-called shooter to a sketch artist and it just so happened That's the person that I like to scribe look a hell of a lot like Anthony cook Mallory beach's boyfriend And he came up with that shit like in fucking ten minutes Well, like that he's gonna fuck it that he's gonna 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 Why do I mean? God damn it. I'm bleeding. What would Pat Noss won't say Yeah This is when you just the first thing to describe someone who just tried to kill you is short Real real real real real real real real real so hot that's a height that their skin But you know why you don't want to say he's a white fella You know what I'll give you I'll give him one with the only piece of credit. It'll give Alex He didn't just put it on some random black guy. Hmm. He had every he definitely could have Didn't he didn't yeah, he didn't really good. Have you get a root a hole? But you remember when um I they sent that the sherry papini. Yeah, the whole thing shit You know making them go interrogate every single Mexican lady within 150 miles like what she did. Yeah You don't know why that's really it's kind of fine. Yeah, I guess there is that yeah, it's good to know he's not racist No one's out was at the hospital He pressured an employee to borrow their phone and he very stupidly used that phone to call fast eddy This is vicious call after Alex's vicious behavior led sled to search fast eddy's house where they found a ledger of a ledger drug deals that had All over it. Why is he writing these down? Yeah 5000 oxy many many pills for a legal oxy for Alex 10,000 pills getting more need to order more oxy for Alex It's so funny to listen to like fast eddy talk now because he Because he's got such a fucking idiot because he's I mean his trial guy is a groundskeeper No fast eddy 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 read She I know but fast eddy's like on the Netflix documentary Yeah, you know what they say I said drug dealer. I wouldn't know drug dealer like you know Every once in a while I get an envelope and I'd shake it and it sound like you know like a rastnik You know it sound like a rastnik because you got that it's just like I thought maybe the pills never I didn't take his pill to And then I drew just through the order back But I just every once in a while I go to a strip and I pick up a big box from this pale plane And I didn't know there was anything in it. I didn't check. I didn't check on that I didn't have no question. I thought we were selling the rockets One of my favorite things too. That's also the one where he was just like I asked Alan He's just money laundering and he said no yeah No, and I said I believe it whatever we're growing. No, I believe it Well, Sled also subpoenaed fast eddy's bank records and added the hundreds of checks written a fast eddy from Alex for the extremely suspicious amounts just under $10,000 to the ever growing investigation into Alex financial crimes and so with fast eddy's checks in the mix and Alex supposed attempted murder bringing the murder Name into the news once more Sled finally announced that there was a full criminal investigation into Alex funds Specifically, they were investigating the death of housekeeper Gloria satirfield and the handling of her estate And with the confirmation that Alex Murdoch had not only stolen from needy clients But it also profited off the death of his housekeeper The news media turned against Alex Murdoch Completely not even fox news is coming who's fucking a this time The final humiliation came and Alex was sued by PM PD who had no choice but to pay back all of the money that Alex had stolen from their clients Eventually the firm dissolved and reformed without the Murdoch name Which effectively erased the nearly centrally long legacy that Alex Murdoch's crooked family had worked so hard And so sleasily to build And so that prison call when he gets the word that they're changing the name of PM PD He's like, oh, I don't know why they had to call the trouble of that. Yeah, and you're like again You just don't fucking understand that you're a fucking multiple murderer you psychopath. Yeah and Randy four Yeah, I'd be so fucking mad Yeah You win everything yeah, cuz I mean I'll cast three brothers, you know like he's there's Randy the fourth there's John Marvin There's another one floating around out there Yeah, you're fucking I got a John Marvin suck my fucking dick. Yes, well, that's actually very a personal thing for someone to do Yeah, it's really is like they're quite intimate. I should think about that Yeah Actually, you know what you're right. Yeah, personally. I'm married the only person who can do that for me is my wife legally John Marvin should suck Randy fours dick With all this hanging over Alex. What do you think they call him buster? Exactly I'm sorry marks. It's fine. Well, all this hanging over Alex had he brought attorney dick Harputley and back into the fold along with attorney Jim Griffin to defend Harputley and in Griffin managed to get Allick into rehab by blaming all of his crimes on his oxy addiction But as soon as Allick got out of rehab He was arrested for his financial crime Final, huh? You know, we say let him go through rehab. They did. Yeah, well And that was very controversial in itself because 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 have all have to call in they are dwindling very quickly. Yeah, it's all it's all running out Now Allick 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 seven million So Allick was sent to the richland county jail incredibly though After Allick got his bearings he actually seemed to enjoy jail as author John Glad put it Allick was a lifelong hustler who adapted easily to life behind bars where Allick 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 Allick even bragged in jailhouse phone calls to his surviving son buster How he had mastered the jails barter economy buster listened Honestly sounding both bored and embarrassed as his father boasted about winning six soups For beef sticks and a bunch of crackers for betting on NFL games with other prisoners. That's great Now tell me can you kill me next I will be I am say when I was in jail. Mm-hmm I was very surprised at how little they all wanted to watch football We talked about this and they watch cops. Yeah, they watch cops and they want to and they love smallville And there's something we talk about almost his sleep over vibe sometimes if you're in jail No, yeah, but not where Alex Alex was because he was with the violent guys. Yes I also but I said this point he's not quite with the violent guys is he because he's in the jail for financial crimes right now Yeah, so he's he's he isn't but he is in gin pop because when he first got in he got into a he got a black guy Because he got into a fight with the guy over a weight machine 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 carpooling is 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 know like these guys are all just they're all completely Delusional he's also good as a call with John Marvin where he's just like talking about how hard it is for him to get his Ibu profan and he needs to get more Ibu profan because he's hit his Ibu profan limit And he's got shoulder issues because he's working out all the time you see him now. He's lost all their weight It's great, right and then he that's the problem is that he needs his brother to put money and another guy's Commissary so that he could get him to buy him Ibu profan for him which is also a crime He's so he's already breaking he's breaking wall the jail rules over the phone Willie nilly. Yeah, but as the months tick by with Alec and jail a waiting 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 Murdock 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 idiots birthday. It's always a birthday with these guys And sure enough when they finally said fuck it and just punched 0 4 1 4 and the polls 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's my son? Gaging how stupid is my son? What is he gonna do? What is he gonna do to fuck this up? You don't even like that style like you know like and then I bet you there's a hot second where he's like I might actually get away with this yeah, you're at the very least you know like it just gonna have to deal with the financial crimes Yeah, I'm not gonna have to deal with the murders man You know Alec was pissed off his hell when he found out the code was oh was this birthday? He's like I should have tried it I Or he's in there. He's like can't remember his birthday Well, I'm an ounce to Alec Paul had recorded a video at the dog kennel minutes before the murder Paul had tried a facetime with his friend Rogan to show Rogan his dogs tail injury just a couple of minutes before Of 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 watch the video of Paul trying to get a good shot of the dogs 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 pus face himself Alec Murdoch Colin after Bubba as well with his extremely distinctive voice This prove 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 Alec 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 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 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 A dickar put Leon had gamely decided to stay by Alec side until the end After Alec was charged with murder along with the dozens of other crimes Harput Leon agreed to defend him in this case as well for of course another sizable retainer He's getting his murder is uh, that's a bigger charge than financial crimes And so it was Harput Leon an attorney Jim Griffin at Alec side when his trial began in January of 2023 appropriately a portrait of Alex 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 Leon's original defense rested on Alex claimed that he had not gone out to the kinsle that night Prior to finding the bodies and dick had reportedly believed Alec when he said I didn't kill nobody has never out there Oh, no, no, 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 missed he also was taken in he wasn't so was Jim Griffin Like that like the way that Jim Griffin talks about and the first thing like fans of Alec in the first season of the Netflix documentary Before he was charged with the murders like the way Jim Griffin like he had to have felt like such a fucking moron. Yeah with how much How much confidence he had talking about Alec Murdoch's innocence. What'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 or bootle the bad person to call if you need help Is it a great fucking lawyer? Yep, if you got a you're not dead. We are not against defense attorneys here No, 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 by 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 Harputlian 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 Harputlian told the jury quote I was you 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 dicks 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 cockatiel I've got the lifeless Lifeless eyes of a plush doll covered in blood I would say that's true But if you do give him the death penalty I want to make sure we do shoot him It's a bit of a pet issue of man that we must shoot him in the head if he does get the dip in But listen now like 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 say It costs $40 in electricity to kill someone with the electric chair as $40 the bullets $15 easy to do and we're using the bullets anyway Leafel injection will not work on you you could take too much oxy It's got to he's got thin banks The solicitor in charge of prosecuting this case Craton waters didn't just have an amazing southern lawyer named this is Craton water solicit of the 14th district Yeah, he wasn't on the boat. Yeah, that's right dude that guy's a fucking murderer. Yes, also god damn good at his job Yeah, and he absolutely wiped the floor with Dick Harputlian in Jim Griffin He worked 12 hours a day Every day to make sure the Alec Murdoch went down. He does this thing too when he's cross examination Where he's like I'm gonna try to save you some time here and he's just like we're not saving any time here We're gonna do this as long as we want to do this. We're gonna sit here. You're not gonna cut the time down No, it's like It's watching him squirm now that fucking moron should never put himself on the fucking stand He really thought that his Lex Luther looking face was gonna win in that room Hmm, but it has so many times in the past. I know, but that's what he's good at convincing a jury to fucking 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 It's true Well besides the kennel video and the bloody shirt waters It 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 by Creighton 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 weave and he's he well He just sit it so casually like oh, what a tangled web we you know, you know, I'll go just oh what a tangled 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 Neatrial this just get beat by the bailiff He's gonna get it in jail. I mean the judge when he fucking sentenced him He brought it up when he's like you said oh what a tangled web we weave all right He just he hated it so much the judge actually brought it up in the sin and saying well it's because this idea again It's this cutesy folklore thing you killed your fucking family. Yeah, no folks. See this does not at folks Sinus has no place in a murder trial But when Alec Murdoch said oh what a tangled web we weave Creighton waters made Alec detail that tangled web He made him talk about his financial crimes He made him talk about all the bad shit that happened to his clients as a result of his financial crimes He even made him talk about his habit of using his volunteer solicitors badge to get out of drunk driving tickets But most of all creighton was able to prove that Alex claimed that he was fuzzy because of the oxy cotton That didn't hold water. See while Alec wasn't addict He was a fully functional addict who was regarded as an extremely competent lawyer throughout his decades of addiction By the end Alex attempt 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 six foot four Alec Murdoch to be the killer which discounted the fact that man is capable of crouching Instead this expert insisted that the shooter could have been no taller than five foot two Which to put it in a perspective area on a grandaise height what she do where she was she Also the Olsen twins. I'm fucking where were they yeah Where were those little girls Los Angeles probably oh wow New York The also New York they heard they're in the village Now by the closing arguments Dick Harput Leon was said to be a shell of his former self as Valerie Bauerline put it so well Harput Leon 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 than saying that the jury should vote not guilty because the state didn't have enough evidence To 100% Provalic Murdoch's guilt. We're having to apparently there's a big issue currently with jury Education's about the idea of what a shadow of a doubt means what that's why Casey Anthony went free Yes, and there's yeah, they're having a problem telling him it's being like No, it doesn't We're now going on to 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 gonna 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 Leon and Griffin it 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 Harput Leon. Oh Yeah, I got picked for Harput Leon. That was mine. I told you I'd be a picker. Oh yeah I could tell by the way she held that tea cozy coaster embodied But after the rest of the jurors assured this sweet moron that it was indeed Very possible and that it in fact happened Every single day somewhere on the surf god. You think the idea of a guck tea. Do you teaching her single handedly every single incident Of a million side. Yeah, that's gotta be amazing. Yeah, yeah, there's just a signal like this one I'm well gene simmits. It's just like Chris Yeah, Chris Watts and Chris Benoit and Chris Chris bad name Alex Murdock was finally found guilty Yeah, the murders of his wife and son and was subsequently sentenced to life in prison Three-hour jury deliberation three hours. I mean that's incredible And an hour of that was them convincing some moron 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 they are aggravating circumstances that have to be hit There are things that they do with like they flesh it out And I bet you 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 murder somebody And then they like pull out their uterus and choose with it and then like plays and they make their face a puppet and stuff like that I know they read the body they read the body a bunch They'll be like yeah, I'm aggravated now. Yeah, yeah, and then that's aggravating circumstance But if you just murder your family, I might be right size the result of p.o. T. L. G. I But it's when you just didn't hit and he didn't hit certain factors that activate the death penalty I think it's the last break that he ever got probably my bane As far as the peanut gallery in alic mardox life went his banker Russell Lafitte Negotiated a plea deal for his role in the embezzlement of funds and could be released from prison as early as 2027 And I find the treasure under the ex 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 dollars in restitution In addition to a term of 13 years in prison unlucky number And it is it is Those of course were Alex partners in his financial crimes again and again The question arises as to whether or not alic mardox had any partners in the murders Specifically ending cleaning up of the murders and while they cannot prove it The prosecution did believe that someone helped alic by at the very least Disposing of the gun somebody had to they didn't find them. Oh yeah, no where now You think the likely a suspect here would be fast atty, but I don't think alic would have trusted him with something this important No, I'd hide in the me slow. Yeah, I think if fast and he literally is just like The most I can do is pills Like the most you really want to fucking I'll want to do this for you, but you do not want me to do this But not helping you 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 a buster I Don't know of busters the sharpest crayon in the box. I don't think he's able to do it. Well listen to listen to this I think buster I've known he's an Eric Trump. I've known you 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 Yeah, I think busters 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 fucking do it. Yeah, you know, he just coasted And listen to this. Let's just skin it for a second if you'll remember buster's life was pretty much over after you 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 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 Butkiss but there is a very suspicious jale house phone call in which Alec seems to be asking buster to go out to mozell 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 mozell like say the murder weapons sled hadn't found anything just yet Let's listen to this call Nothing and greenfield I got you broken lady She is Well good y'all hunting We're going to this afternoon. Let me tell you what you all to do buster I think the damn Fears were full over there Mozell if you felt like going right there. I bet with nothing going on. I bet there's zero over them things Not me back They're gonna be for me. I was taking the beef for me Killer deer I'm not going right now there I don't blame it I'm just letting you know i'm buster also i wanted to tell you this I just remember this you know they Replan it as sunflower do you any interest in hunting that field? Yeah Do you care if If I let Jim do it? Matt You sure? Yes You become the call you if we hunt What I should be out that is Jim Jim who? Jim Griffith Oh, a lot of hunt deer out there. What are you talking about? No, I'm talking about I think no if you wanted to hunt dogs out there if you do Then I want you to do it if not then I'm gonna let him do it Yeah, you know, he's trying to facilitate a dove hunt What? So 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 because you just you want a dove hunt out there Mer Not at all Uh-oh Jim boy All right Now That call could be interpreted in multiple ways, you know, it could be Alex speaking in code what's dove hunt and what's deer hunt It also could be buster being simply reluctant to return to the place where his brother and brother were murdered Just so he could bag a deer Yeah, it was so that his father's insistence But there are some very interesting sentences and very interesting things that buster says For example how to facilitate a dove hunt That's a big one. Let me get to that here in a second First one what's that gonna do for me? How that's a very interesting like when he asks like you know What do you get like you want to go out and hunt deer because he's telling them that the deer feeders have been full out in Mozel 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 gonna do for me which is a weird thing to say that's a very strange thing to say Sure shit sounds to me like Alec want a buster to do something the 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 Alex 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 fuck that means. I grew up going on dove hunts. I've been on dozens of dove hunts I've been fucking shot on a dove hunt. You just shoot the doves right? The only thing you need to facilitate a dove hunt is a shotgun in 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 calls an audio medium just like this Which 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? No one has any idea what you're doing right now. Yes, it's exactly why it's because it's a prison call So it's physical prison call you go hold a piece of paper up against the window with the thing written on it And no one's gonna know what it is that you're saying. He is calling them from home. Yes, but they all or there Also calls where he goes in and this is a this is a phone call, but there are convert 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 Yeah, you can start this is the code Yeah, you can go and talk about the code code for dove hunt. Yeah, they do all time They did a Corey were cheating right now in the Corey 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 fucking plate glass So what you think the the guns are in the fucking sunflower field? I think they're in the river. Well, I mean the sunflower field does come up on the day of the murder They were out was it Paul and Alec The snapchat video that Paul took there's 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 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 field who knows but it does Sound extraordinarily suspicious. Yeah, there's just a lot of suspicious shit here too many family members have been murdered Yes, and 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 gonna give them credit now. Yeah, they earned that suspicion Now while it is unlikely that busters ever gonna be investigated or even questioned in the murders of his mother's brother Stephen 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 busters father and his father's father It used to coast through life. It's just as ruined tasteless and bloody as the wham bam Thank you, ma'am t-shirt the paul Murdoch was wearing on the night that Alec Murdoch killed him I gotta 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 fucking common sooner or later Just like Alec Murdoch yet But The public can get yourself a wham bam think you man sure yeah go to spread shirt and get the wham bam Don't get that shirt. That's all right. Sure fucking off spread. Don't get the wham bam If you want the only place to get that shirt is from a merch booth at a new gen concert. Yeah Or Spencer's get if you don't have a Spencer's gift local you can't buy that shirt Might be able to but I don't know if gad zoos is still open. You can maybe buy it there All paul ever did was finger somebody. Yeah, well, you know what a great fucking serious buddy Yeah, you have everyone really good work. Thank you. You know, Prady about glad Could probably never talk about these motherfuckers again We so until I tell you it's killed in prison. See what buster does or until the appeal Yeah, we never know. I mean as far the last I checked buster still like he lives I think in Beaufort a beautiful county. He just got married. He got married to Brooklyn Third yeah, his friends. We actually got many messages saying that they have played golf around buster They know where called buster goes shopping They know where he goes. Yeah, they know all the kind of stuff So buster's being very much so watch is that return to law school either I wonder why He's got to live somewhere, you know, well, hopefully he gets into politics. Yeah, let's let's hope so buster Merdoch our next attorney general We need some good Democrats in there Shake it off. Yeah, buster Merdoch Kyle Rittenhouse. 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