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

There's no place to escape to, this is the last talk on the left.

That's one of the cannonballs from started.

Well, now try, what's on trial?

Are you on trial?

No, not underneath.

Hot one, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, I can't even believe out the look.

How's the judge even holding his hammer?

Oh, this kind of case.

Don't give me the vapour.

Oh, you know what I love.

We got to know right now.

Podcasts are not on trial.

We're covering a capital crowd.

Welcome to the last podcast on the left, ladies and gentlemen.

I didn't get the sweater vest memo.

I'm sitting here with two pastel wearing sweater vest morons.

Do you know who I am?

Do you know who my daddy is?

I was listening to Strawberry Wine all morning getting in mood for today.

I don't care.

I love wagon wheel.

Wagon wheel makes me cry.

Seventeen.

They did my circumcision wagon wheel.

The usual 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 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 Yaya.

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 dickheart bootling, you're down here.

Oh, great.

If you're also in the prosecution, right?

The prosecution coming down here.

He's having Alec Murdock.

He's famous for trial.

He's a trial lower.

He was all ahead of the trial, or because you're a trial.

One man, he don't kill his whole damn family.

You see that?

I'm not seeing it.

I'm not seeing it.

I'm seeing it.

Because we have to separate it from Alec.

Because remember, Alec is up here being like, oh, wow.

The tales.

So what we weave.

Oh, the tales.

We weave.

Remember, that's a crying timber of a guilty man.

Yeah.

Have a...

Goddamn it, Danny.

Why'd you let me take that boat?

Not yet.

Not yet.

Not yet.

Not yet.

Not yet.

We've also got with us today the pastel...

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 a...

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.

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 sun immediately upon hearing of the crash.

And had 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 know that.

That is absolutely slandered.

No, I was just a skittering.

I just was a skittering and I was just a tinkering.

That's a big thing that's going to come up today.

A skittering and tinkering.

A lot of skittering 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 happen.

And that's a tragedy, and you know, of itself, Marcus.

Yes.

See, 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 were to put it simply a bunch of pieces of shit.

Yeah.

And someone needed to finally stand up and take them down.

When you openly kill a cute little blonde girl, that's it.

That's it.

That's a really it.

And in America, yeah, you're done.

You're done.

No matter what.

I found it interesting because for those of you that obviously you guys know I watch a lot of body cam footage

and a lot of trial footage, but 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 rewatch this, was all of the stuff with the solicitors badge.

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 solicitor's badge.

But then if you look at the paperwork of the badge, it's not volunteer at all.

He is a full official deputy of the 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.

And that's how he got behind everything.

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 it 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.

Right.

You can see him in the trial because he does it.

It's him because he also 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 him dead the rights and he was happy to do it.

Yeah.

Now, 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 III, and Buster.

Randy III got involved because he had allowed minors to consume alcohol at his home and leave drunk.

Buster was in it because he'd given Paul his old ID to buy alcohol underage.

The alcohol that Paul was drinking that very night.

And Alec was named because he had allowed his minor son to purchase and drink alcohol on a regular basis.

This was proved by the 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.

Yeah, I think it's gone and ain't gone.

No.

Yeah, because whenever these social media companies get subpoenaed, they flip.

They just, they give them magically have it all.

Yeah.

Apple's cool though.

Remember when they wouldn't give the money of those people?

Just give them their Dino.

Yeah.

They wouldn't hack the phone.

Yeah.

So get on them.

Get on them.

Now filing 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, boating under the influence, and manslaughter.

He's facing, I think, 25 years if he got the maximum sentence on all three.

And the guilty, could that's really what the guilty, like a 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 Murdock's were pulling out all the stops to get Paul out of serving a single day in jail.

For Paul's lawyer, the Murdock's called up an old friend of Alex grandfather.

Old Buster's friend with state senator Dick Harputlia.

Oh, there ain't no reason to be mad with all Harput.

He was just doing his job.

And all you want, he's a simple state senator.

That's all.

He's a simple said.

No, he got, he's just a friend.

Alex is friend.

Oh, bring the fucking firing squad back.

Dick Harput.

It's more humane than the Alexa tabs.

What I'm telling you, we got to bring back this firing squad and shoot these men in the hair.

Oh, so guess what?

He's a lot of fun too.

It's nice to see the hair.

It's blown on contact with the iron jacket bullet in it.

And have a melancholic bus.

And you know why not?

Let's just go and put on a lottery round here to see who or South Carolina's want to get in on that fine.

I'm going to go ahead and put my name in the back.

So I can find myself.

It's expensive electrocuting these people.

I have to finish that man.

I'm still going to kill his guilt.

At you interview, Dick Harputlia.

Yes.

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 Murdock family.

Yes.

There's no question about it.

He's known him pretty much his entire fucking life.

He was down.

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.

And he was like, yes, we were very close.

It's 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 could kill anybody you like.

He likes even even another white person.

Even another white person.

If he felt it was properly justified because his son was involved.

It was just a late term abortion.

That's all.

She was only 20 years.

That's fine.

When he comes down to it, they were Democrats.

Yeah, they were Democrats.

Don't forget Dick Harpoutley was a Democrat.

They love it.

We love abortion.

I love abortions.

I think they should be fucking mandatory.

I don't think kids should live.

I might say fuck them.

Yeah, I get it.

But he is still fighting very hard to get Alec his retrial.

Sure can happen.

Now, Dick Harpoutley and was a household name in South Carolina.

He was possibly the most well-known solicitor in the state.

Famously, Harpoutley and had been the one who had sent serial killer Pewy Gaskins to death row.

That's a factor.

And Harpoutley and had gained further fame after Gaskins had tried to have Harpoutley and three-year-old daughter kidnap.

But again, what do we know about Pewy Gaskins?

He was the liar and a moron.

He did actually try to get the kidnap.

He did?

Well, 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,

Harpoutley and 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 Harpoutley and's wife as ambassador to Slovenia of all places in 2021.

You don't get-

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 Harpoutley and had done someone a favor and added up power to do a favor.

I did.

I can have to get rid of all my merch.

I'm going to have to get rid of my Joe Biden dick sucking sleeves.

I'm going to have to get rid of my Joe Biden toe dick sucking sleeves.

You got a lot of dick sucking sleeves.

This is because honestly I get my arms get cold.

You really know.

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 dipshits on.

After said dipshits on had killed a young woman in a drunk boating accident.

Because that would be a waste of Paul's life, Marcus.

Oh, of course.

Yes.

Why would we ruin this young boy's life over one simple misunderstanding when one tiny, tiny mistake.

He's got so much future behind him.

And the Murdoch's still had enough money at their disposal to make it worth Harput Leon'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 Alex Murdoch was stealing from old people and children.

That's probably why our pool is trying to get him out again.

Yeah.

Because he had another half a million dollars.

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 Harput Leon's always been right.

The whole system's always been right.

And no one's ever abused it.

No one's ever done this wonderful, simple place.

No one would ever turn Hampton County into a place of murder.

No.

Now with Harput Leon'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 Murdochs were doing.

The Murdochs used every trick at their disposal to push Paul's trial back again and again.

And circumstances only worked more in the Murdochs 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?

Yeah.

Do you think that Alec Murdoch went to China?

Yeah.

Do you think that he went and he was just like, he forced thing, he was like,

he was like, where's the lamp?

Yeah.

I don't see where the lamp is where it's supposed to come from.

And he goes right in there and he says,

I'm going to cover my mouth, cover my dark dark eyes, cover my eyes.

Is there anyone around here that I need a bat?

Yeah.

I need a bat rest and we're around here.

Come meet my Pangolin.

Come meet my Pangolin.

And listen to Chinese.

Listen to Chinese.

They can't be able to see but your eyes are pink and juicy and cannot just,

I just want to lick them.

Let them go.

They go crusty, pink filled eyes.

Well, much of the beach family's hopes for justice,

forrested on the wrongful death suit but the constant delays had hardened the resolve.

So when it came to making the Murdoch's pay,

the beaches decided that they wouldn't settle for anything less than $10 million.

Yeah.

And the case did go to mediation in September of 2020.

But Alec opened 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 out trouble all that.

We don't want him to be getting into all that and wasting the court's time and wasting my time,

wasting your time.

Well, a lot of it's buried in the field.

Yeah.

That's why I said,

We don't want to waste everybody's time.

I'm going to find these documents.

I'm going to source these documents.

I'm going to read these documents.

I don't want to do that.

All right.

Let's go.

Let's go around.

Let's go around tippies.

All right.

All right.

Pickle shots on me.

Pickle shots.

Tensley, however, had no idea that even though Alec Murdoch had spent years

embezzling millions from the Murdoch firm, PM PD, Alex Finances,

where about as big of a mess is what you'd expect from a guy with an oxy habit

of dozens of pills a day.

See, by 2020, Alec was drowning in debt.

He'd also lost a ton of money in 2008 during the financial crash.

And he'd 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, too, is that 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.

Yeah.

So you just have to keep paying for the land.

It's because it's in the shitty county that your family made so awful.

Oh, it's because Hampton County's garbage.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

Well, Alex banker accomplice, Russo Lafitte, was moving massive amounts of money

stolen from Alex clients from account to account to keep this whole thing going.

From boat to boat, we move the loot.

Yeah.

Don't you worry.

I ain't got it covered in my five French slaves.

All right.

How about if we buried the money?

Take the gold from the park to the starboard.

Then back to the park.

Sorry, the money.

Well, even a quick glance at Alex records would show that Alec Murdoch was a crook.

And besides the financial shell game, Alec was also writing hundreds of checks

to his cousin, Fast Eddie.

Remember, he wrote, I think, 437 checks.

And definitely an ironic nickname.

Yeah, Fast Eddie.

Yeah.

And Fast Eddie was allegedly using that money to fund not only Alex Oxy habit,

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's life.

Because you know, these crimes and these trials, Eddie, you don't know it yet.

They're so embarrassing for the family.

And it's so hard for the family to go through.

My parents never found out about my trials.

See?

See, that's a stressful year.

I never did.

Yeah.

I didn't kill him.

That's a stressful year.

I didn't kill him.

It was time.

Well, you could make an argument that I killed my mother.

That's like every diabetes.

But that's as she died a diabetes.

She chose to have you.

You could have been an abortion.

That's right.

Well, she should have been if I was president of the United States of America.

That absolutely wouldn't have been.

And 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, antique 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, Alec's life began falling apart in all the ways that mattered most to Alec.

By mid-July 2020, Maggie emits rumors of Alec engaging in affairs both paid and unpaid.

I just like see him.

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, hi and shit.

She like comes in the living room.

And he's like, with a prostitute who's like stuck on his penis.

And he's just like, honey, I need her.

There's so just been a big ol' mistake.

I'm like, how many times she's done that?

How many afternoons were spent like that?

Fair enough.

Fair enough.

It's like Lloyd Bridge is an airplane.

I don't know.

I picked the wrong week.

Stop fucking prostitute.

Yes.

Stop swallowing up.

I almost got nervous.

I'm stuck inside of her.

Kind of like a raw wallet.

I was having a second to be shown pleased.

I need you to knock her out so that she relaxes because obviously right now she's very agitated.

Looking to get off.

So what you're 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 into their beach house on nearby Adisto Island.

Reportedly, she told a friend that she just couldn't stand to live with Alec and Emor.

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 caught in top,

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.

I still feel like Buster's too much of a water head to do fucking anything.

He doesn't mean that he wasn't there when something happened by accident.

I totally understand.

But Buster's had shaped like a portobello mushroom.

I just wanted to make fun of his head.

Yeah.

I get it now.

He was so ugly.

He looks like a light bulb.

He looks like the character from SpongeBob.

Yeah.

Patrick.

Yeah.

He's got that head.

And there's something about it.

I don't think his brain works right.

Yeah.

I don't know if he's even capable.

Well, I mean, we'll talk about it.

It's like his two pay is a jellyfish.

Sure.

Right from your brain.

Now, in addition to problems with Maggie and Paul,

Alex father, Randy III 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.

Again, likely using money stolen from the glorious Sadderfield 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 get 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 his,

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 rodent bastard.

I hate you dressed like that.

I hate him.

I hate him.

It does make you angry.

It really does.

It makes you so much angry.

I don't like it at all.

You drive it around in South Carolina dressed like this.

Yeah.

Like every day.

Like, we're gonna need to talk about the lack of your craft.

It's like you can't ever come 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 what probably pushed Alec over the edge completely was when Maggie met

with a divorce lawyer in Charleston in April of 2021.

And this lawyer advised Maggie to start quote gathering numbers.

Now, one of the themes that we brought up over and over again in this series

is that Murdoch's don't divorce.

Murdoch's do, however, murder.

Which brings us to the motivation behind not just the murder of Maggie Murdoch

on June 7th, 2021, but the murder of Paul Murdoch as well.

This year, this is just my personal theory on this.

I ain't saying this is the be all end all because Alec still to this day is not

said what his motivation was, nor is there any concrete proof for anything.

This is just what I think may have happened.

We do have an extremely detailed walkthrough of what they believe,

how the shootings went down that tells to me the story very clearly.

Now, Alec might have found a way to somehow avoid disclosing his finances

in the 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 Alec's 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.

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, and I'm glad he's dead.

I wish you could have died in jail.

Yes, that is true.

Well, threats were being made by strangers.

Low key threats, but threats nonetheless.

There 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 Hope 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.

It's town, right?

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, who's the first thing?

We'll get into it.

Yeah, they called him pop-hop.

Yeah, which is fucking weird.

What call you?

It's real weird.

That's what we called my pop-hop.

My, 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.

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 Alex 53rd birthday, authorities had stopped Paul

with a boat full of drunk kids from going out onto the water.

Instead of arresting Paul, the cops just took his booze

and called Alec to come take care of it.

He wasn't a minor at this point.

He was 22, but even so.

He was driving a boat drunk.

You never get to do it again.

No. And you called your daddy again.

And he, like, the whole daddy thing comes back into play.

Oh, 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.

And 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, you know, drug network.

That's another thing.

You have assassins.

Sure.

You know, assassins came out to Hampton County.

He really does it.

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 job.

I've never blamed crooked John for that.

But there's murder and Matthew.

And that's just a big name.

It's 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 at the time.

Yeah, it's right.

It is interesting that Paul killed Mallory in the same place that her last name is.

The beach.

Yes.

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 park.

I love park.

That's a view into Ed's mind.

Yeah.

You're the world.

Like, sees the world like it's just sort of like words floating around and he just gay.

Yeah, connect them.

Beach.

Beach.

Yeah.

She was there.

Dog.

Dog.

I like dogs.

I see dad on the show.

She had to have a good stay on the show.

You're just lucky.

There's nowhere as a browskees list.

No, we don't know.

Now, Alec woke up late and alone on the day of the murders.

According to author Valerie Bauerline, Maggie was not living at Mozel by this point.

Instead, Maggie was out at the beach house in the D-Stope about an hour away.

The only person at Mozel who was tending to Alec on June 7th was the housekeeper they'd

hired after Gloria died.

This woman, a former prison guard, was Blanca Simpson.

Person they completely underestimated.

Blanca was coming over that afternoon to stock up on Capri Suns for Alec, specifically

Orange Pineapple Tango and Mountain Cooler because Alec got grumpy if the fridge wasn't

always stocked with his favorite flavors.

Mountain Cooler is good in a bitch.

So bad.

It's no Pacific Sun, but it's fucking awesome.

I just like, what's the last time you had a Capri Sun?

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.

Yeah.

So they're like, they hurt me now.

Yeah.

I love my mouth.

Yeah.

It's like crack for the kids.

You give it to me.

I'll start to like rip into the trees and like on and each other is hilarious.

Yeah.

That's why I don't think it was even that hot to put Alec over the edge.

We could have been the Capri Suns.

Yeah.

Now we're getting to the Twinkie defense.

That's what I'm doing.

It was right.

Down the jury there.

Blanca showed up a little afternoon with the Capri Suns to find Alec getting ready

for work.

But she noticed that he looked extremely tired and disheveled.

Like he was still wearing his clothes from the night before.

Blanca therefore fixed his collar and sent him out the door to his job at PMPED at about

1230 in the afternoon.

Oh.

I was going to hope you just say that Blanca fixed his collar and then jumped on him and started biting

at his neck.

And then he started screaming and then electricity.

Wow.

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.

You know, in his underwear.

Yeah.

He's like fucking fast food wrappers chauvin oxy in his mouth.

Now we don't know for sure if Alec woke up that day planning to murder Maggie and Alec.

I actually don't think he did.

I 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 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.

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 is fucking Deus Ex Machina.

Yeah.

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 died.

You got to come on home.

You got to go see Pippi.

We are going to see Pippi.

We got to go make sure we get that money.

Yeah, to get Pippi Paul.

Yeah.

Go kick go kick slip.

Yeah, Paul Paul.

Come see Pippi.

Oh, there's Pippi.

Now go kick Pippi.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Give us.

Give us.

Show me the child.

All patients.

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.

When the CFOs ask in questions, he ain't getting out of it.

Well, yeah, because he also thought he just thought it would never happen.

Also, the other reason to get him out of it, I'm sure he's in his mind and gets all these people out of so many things is when you pretend to be the 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 doesn't feel emotions.

Like Murdoch is one of those people that every single thing is a way to capitalize on other people.

Sure.

So when that happened, he was like, fuck yeah.

Yeah.

When I got a hold of the pole, 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.

He's like, man, Maggie, we're the happiest we have ever been.

Yeah.

We were nothing, but every night we say, I sang to her to sleep.

I thought, I thought of a song and I made up a song each night a different song about how we could have met.

Yeah.

You know, like, no, she was not living with you.

Well, they were also keeping it far under wraps from just about everybody.

Cause even Blanca, they're fucking housekeeper seem 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.

Murdoch presumably began siking himself up to murder his wife and youngest son.

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Do you want to tell him how did he make sure that Paul and Maggie did not text buster about the

visit did Alex tell buster to stay away that night?

And if you did

Ali could give a reason?

Perhaps did Ali could give buster the real reading.

Buster well it's not in the text messages, right?

No.

So I probably just didn't want to mirror cuz he knew what he was going to do and he didn't

wanna kill.

Well,

I know you could be about it.

You could be like no.

They're not.

I sure was why we can 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

to fully 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 Moomui.

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 when 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.

Oh my god, Paul and I say, yeah, you're on the ATV.

You got to check the land.

You got to go check the property.

Stink the bacon in.

Yeah.

We're going over here, going, going over the log over here.

Yeah, you're trying to go for out, going over here, talking to bird.

You know what I mean?

The goal is like something like fuck you, dude.

And so I, I, that is why I think Buster literally just couldn't be there.

Paul was there for another reason.

Maggie was told to be there for another reason.

I think Paul was just 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 them, I just keep steaks.

Yeah, bro, can't, can't 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, that's a real, something like that.

I like a nice old food deal.

Now, I like arrived back at Mozilla 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 property,

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, then Paul and Alec went back to the house at Mozilla,

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 shitheads.

So Paul could check on a dog that he was watching for his friend,

Rogan Gibson.

Oh, you mean Roro?

These fucking people hate these fucking ways of space.

Do they call them Roro?

This is a part of when he gets on the stand, Alec Marock.

They don't talk like they're babies.

Because they are, it's just, 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 Bingbong and grandma fucking snappy and all this dumbass,

Southern nicknames in 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.

It's this sort of like, it's this false,

fulxiness that is supposed to like,

wealthy, I wouldn't now cause a wealthy.

I would say, you know, we will blast, we'll,

yeah, we'll blast, you know, and I'll never consider us a wealthy or 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, and then he crouches like this.

He's so small.

He's so delicate.

Even though he's six foot four.

Yeah.

Now, 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 Alec 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 Alec began his short murder spree,

but we do know the Paul was still alive at 848 PM,

because that is when he sent his last ever text.

Do you want?

Oh, yeah, it's 845, a friend of a friend of balls 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?

Because it's the worst of stars.

Yeah, of course.

With that minutes of sending that text, Paul Murdoch would be dead.

A real recommendation is that Chris Christopherson is star is born.

Yeah, that's incredible.

Yeah, that's incredible.

And technically, the Judy Garland, a store 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 Christopherson?

Barbara Streisand and that is, oh, yeah, no, she's incredible.

I love Bob.

A star is born.

But I remember Paul saying, it's a horse shit.

Yeah, another reason I'm glad he's fucking dead.

And I am happy that that was his last movie.

Now, Alec had two guns with him that night out at the kennels.

A shotgun in an AR-15 rifle, while Paul was in the small feedroom 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 skitchers.

I don't want my compression socks, so that my veins are making it noise.

I'm just going to sneak, sneak, sneak out there.

Hey, Dad! You want to shoot some dogs?

Yeah.

I want to shoot some dogs.

I want to shoot some dogs.

Yeah.

Oh, whether or not Alec was being sneaky,

once he laid the AR-15 in position,

he picked up the shotgun and approach Paul in the feedroom

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 blast.

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 at 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,

Wambam, thank you, ma'am.

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.

Like, I mean, like seriously.

Are there professionals there?

Yeah, but no, if there were,

no, if this was a, an assassin.

Oh, so he was saying it was an assassin,

not like a 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 canny 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 due to Alec planning on shooting his wife

from a distance.

Instead, it's speculated that Alec believed

that if he killed Paul and Maggie with two different guns,

then investigators would think there were two shooters.

Because what single person uses two guns

at the same crime scene?

I want the smarts 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 Murdoch had removed both the possibility of divorce

and his inconvenient son.

Wow, I get it now.

What, when, man, thank you, man.

No, just this whole scenarios.

When, man, thank you, man, and me, and me, and me.

And this is what points to the fact

that somebody who's never killed somebody before.

They really are, this is a...

It's very sloppy.

It's extremely sloppy for a hit,

but also he knows how to get away with this shit.

He thought he did.

Yeah, well, obviously.

Yeah, I think that what he did is that there was just...

He tried throwing too many ingredients into the soup,

but I think he should have stuck with one story and gone with that,

but he just 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 Smoam,

then sent her a text saying he was going to go check on Mama,

Neddy 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, he'd been the one who had gone down

and removed the boat that had killed Mallory Beach

from that crime scene.

Well, 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 Mozel.

I'm a skittering.

I'm a skittering out of tanker.

That's how I'm doing.

You want a skitter?

A dicker woman?

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

You're having this pill right here.

It's going to help you skitter.

You're a skitter before?

Right.

I said, now you're a skittering.

I ain't got time to skitter.

I got to go.

I'm going to rush.

I ain't got time to skitter.

I got a scoop.

There's diversity scoop in the skitter.

Now let me explain.

After that, I got about two hours of skedadling.

No, we got a skedadling goal.

Alec then called Paul's phone a couple of times.

Do you deliver Irish skedaddle?

No, continue.

Alec then called Paul's phone a couple of times.

And texted Maggie 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, well, I believe that was a John Marvin job.

Mm-hmm.

It could, well, I mean, according to one, I believe,

YouTuber who sent a drone onto the Murdoch property.

He did capture video of John Marvin and a fuster

removing guns from the property.

Yeah.

Yeah, it played a day literally in the sunshine of the day.

Yes.

Finally, though, Alec Murdoch 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 are you thinking about this?

Your motivation.

Assassin's of entering in Manhattan,

have to count it, all right?

What do I?

Oh, okay.

No, Alec, actually, you don't know if there are assassins.

We don't know.

No, no, no, no, no.

We blame no one.

We are just open to facts.

We're open to facts.

We're helping the investigation.

We're open to facts.

And after you make this call,

you could have a little reward of a couple oxy.

Oh, yeah.

What do you couple?

You have a capri sun.

You wash them down.

And if I don't get arrested by the end of the night,

and I can have a bottle of food,

you pay for this with the sugar on top.

Now be nice to me.

I can watch my favorite videos.

You can watch all of my favorite videos.

I love the old one.

But I think I'll get, you know,

I'm my favorite video.

I like that one where the hippo be shitting.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

Robby, is that in the color blind glasses?

I like the color blind glasses.

I also like the ones where the women are getting shot in the head.

Oh, my God, I killed my wife.

See me.

All right, let's hear the call.

Hey, I'm planning now on a little winter emergency.

This is Alex Madden.

I have 41, 47, Mozel Rose.

I need to police the passengers immediately

before my wife and child to stop the ambulance.

All right.

That's really all you need in here.

My wife and child have been shot badly.

It's just the way.

I've been trying to figure out how to get my voice

to do it.

It's so hard to...

I love it.

It's child have been shot badly.

There is like probably like a hint of like actual pain in there

because he realizes what he's just up.

Yeah, no, he just, it was Eddie.

It was really hard on him.

Yeah, that's what I don't think you understand.

It was super difficult for him to do it

and it really bummed him out.

We never think about the annihilators in a family annihilator.

Like, what does it do to the annihilator?

I think it's what he is.

Alone.

If you go through it all alone, don't stop.

He's got a blocker.

He's got Buster.

He's got Yihonda.

Yeah, he's got his dad.

And for another couple hours?

Yeah.

Now, the first authority figure to arrive at Mozel

parked near the dog kennels about 20 minutes

after Alec Murdoch made his call.

The deputy saw Paul's body first,

lying face down with his brains at his feet.

He then spotted Maggie,

who was 30 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 had been getting threats.

And quote,

He been getting like, like, a punch.

Yeah, he said he, he, he goes,

PUNCH!

He's getting like, PUNCH!

Yeah.

He's getting like, PUNCH!

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.

Alex immediately throwing out like,

they're taking out, yeah.

Who's that guy?

Who's that guy?

Which, oh, I got this big owl.

Yeah, help me get out.

I got it.

This early option, I could cuffed.

Yeah.

That's what he wasn't,

oh, he wasn't cuffed.

Yeah.

They fucking went to his house.

They did the little pleated

and take him to the station.

Mm-hmm.

Took a year before cops would go on him for these murders.

But despite Alec's best efforts,

investigators immediately noticed

a few things about the scene that didn't add up.

These are great cops tech.

This is one of those few stories where it's like,

the cops actually did their fucking jobs in this.

Best as they, well, best as they could

with all these fucking people around.

I can't believe it, honestly.

You could, like, the fact that they even,

because for all intents and purposes,

OJ Simpson was right.

Alec Murdoch should have walked.

The fact that these guys actually put this all together is huge.

Hey, I mean, and that's the,

and I think it also tells you.

Sled is huge.

Sled is huge.

Sled is huge, but it also tells you the,

it tells you why a prosecution 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 even so long.

Even though if you know,

even though you can know that someone has committed the murder

when you're dealing with somebody like Alec Murdoch

who is in sconce in the criminal justice system.

He is the criminal justice system.

You're not a man.

You gotta win.

You gotta see him on that witness stand.

He is a vision.

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 Murdoch's took control immediately,

the lead officer in this investigation

had grown up two counties away.

They had no fucking clue who Alec Murdoch was.

The right guy showed up.

No, yeah.

Under the supervision of an unbiased investigator,

the other deputies noticed that there were no signs of an ambush,

no footprints leading to or from the woods,

no obvious defense wounds,

and no signs of a struggle.

All this, of course, pointed towards the likelihood

that Paula Maggie were killed by someone they knew.

All these little things matter.

I'll remember, though, at the time too,

Alec is throwing his badge around.

So when they also first showed up,

the first thing is they go into his car

and you see the badge right on the dash.

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 Murdoch's had already arrived.

But even though these people crowded up the scene

and made it difficult to collect evidence,

authorities still quickly surmised the Alec Murdoch

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 Alec's SUV was rifled lies,

half-truths, and wow fucking stories.

Most obvious lie was that Alec claimed that he'd rushed to the bodies

and taken both of their pulses to see if they were alive.

But if he'd done that,

he would have been both bloody and muddy.

Alec was squeaky fucking clean.

That he was so clean,

they went on to notice that he smelled like fresh laundry.

Yeah, because he went and janked.

Yes.

And he went and showered.

Yes.

Detectives also noted that Alec had freely admitted

to handling Paul's phone without them asking if he had done so.

Yeah, he was just like, I was looking at him.

He'd also given two explanations to two officers

as to the reason why Alec, a former prosecutor,

had handled evidence at a murder scene.

He was like, I was just trying to, I was just trying to, I was just trying to,

he told one investigator that he'd reached in a Paul's pocket to get the phone

so he could check some, because 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, because 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.

Yeah, I 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.

You know, and then we're like, yeah,

realize what he's done dropped it.

Yep.

Finally though, in an attempt to throw as many suspects

that investigators as possible,

Alec brought up their new groundskeeper,

a guy named CB Row.

Alec said that Row wasn't working out,

but then tacked on an insane story

that the groundskeeper has supposedly told Paul.

My thing is, I don't want to throw anybody under the bus here.

I don't know who would do something like this, obviously,

but my, I did hire a professional murderer

to work on the theme.

He knew he was a professional.

I mean, he murdered for the government.

So I don't know if that makes him a professional.

How do you call him temp to poem?

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 Row's high school

had seen him fight.

And he was impressed by how he handled himself

against black guys.

Wow.

So we fought black guys.

Black guys.

The FBI was like, oh my god.

And nobody can fight black guys.

Hey, what's going on?

They're fighting black guys.

We need to hire them because I'm afraid of black guys.

Nobody fights black guys like the FBI fights black guys.

That's Martin Luther King, Jr.

It stands for fight black guys individually.

So impressed.

And this is according to Alex.

What's 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 the outside of their fucking dog kennels.

But 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 whose sole 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 he has some kind of like shady fake story, right?

You need to know that's you've got a grounds keeper

unless he has a story like that.

Yeah, well, I mean, it's fake.

It helps.

Right, 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.

Cause he knows to keep,

because he's actually done horrific things.

He did stuff.

He's like, he hasn't done those things.

He'd be investing the crimes.

You know, you could the hire a grounds keeper

that kills Panthers, you know, in case any show up.

Well, he want the cat Panthers.

Yes, that's what I'm talking about.

Sure.

Yeah, but also you would, you should re-home them.

You should be killing them.

He did say specifically radical black Panthers.

Although, in my, he might have been like,

they were radical black Panthers.

Yeah, like two-bular black Panthers.

Yeah, they did. Awesome.

Yeah, no, no, no, no.

Also being made to groom when you're black Panthers.

And then he used to have pipe to smoke oxy.

Yeah.

The old, when they were investigating him 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 boo-hoo

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, I see.

So let me, they actually didn't really help me understand.

Anytime a cop says help me understand.

You're a trouble, fuck, yeah.

Like, also just like putting their hand on his shoulder

and stuff like that, it's, I feel like, is a good tactic.

Just like treat him, 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 makes him think that,

oh, I've gotten away with this already.

I haven't I, and he can really start 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 Alec Murdock, 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 gonna tell enough lies

where you can just start tripping him up.

What he should have done is should have just been fucking sad

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 when you,

when they showed up to murder scenes,

usually relatives are inconsolable.

And they're like, why are you, they'd say things like,

why are you here?

Why aren't you out trying to find these people?

Why aren't you out trying to find them?

Why are you talking to me?

Why are you should be out there?

Yeah, yeah.

And Alec's like, well, when we go sit down in my SUV

for a little while and you know,

maybe we can get Chad and I'll tell you what's going on,

you know, it's, it's been hard.

You know, he talked about it like it was a,

he had the same feeling like it was something like,

like a building collapse on the farm

or if like something bad,

like that wasn't involving the death of your family.

He was just acting like it was just this big ol' like.

Oh, he'd have to like someone to come on

to and shot a couple of his dogs.

Yes.

That is the same level of emotion he was showing

was the level of emotion I would show

if someone had broken in my house and killed my dog.

I mean, I'd show an extreme amount of emotion.

Yeah.

Honestly, I'd be way more upset

if something happened to car me than Paul.

Yeah, I mean, I'd be way out killed.

He'd do 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 pant or me?

Do it right now, ruin your afternoon.

All I know is, I don't think,

I don't see Julie's spoon feeding pumpkin

in my mouth and she does tutsi.

So back to Alec in the SUV.

After he told them about the grounds keeper

and the black panthers and all that bullshit,

he added, he didn't really think

that their grounds keeper kill Paul Maggie,

but you know, Ro, his history, it's worth pointing out.

You might want to look into it, it's worth pointing out.

Now there was a fair amount of evidence at the scene,

but it would be an incredibly long time

before investigators could access it.

Most important, of course, was Paul's phone,

but investigators couldn't unlock it.

None of the Murdoch family knew the password

and Paul had never synced to the cloud.

And they also didn't want to keep trying passwords

and get locked out permanently.

The other big piece of evidence was quite possibly

the dumbest piece of evidence I've ever heard of

in a murder case found next to the gun rack

and the Murdoch gun room was what else,

but an empty bag of Capri's son.

Yeah, I don't know if it was Mountain Breeze

or Pineapple Cooler, doesn't say,

didn't say in the court documents.

It's Mountain Cooler and Pineapple Breeze.

Okay.

Thank you.

Please.

I don't want to get these letters.

So all this fucking sun heads out there.

Well, according to the testimony

of the Murdoch's housekeeper, Blanca,

there weren't any Capri's sons in the house

on the morning of June 7th, not until she stalked back up

and Alex did not take one with him to work that day.

That meant that Alec had to have had that Capri's son

that afternoon.

So investigators suspected that Alec downed

one more sweet, sweet Capri's son

and absent-mindedly dropped the empty bag

like a fucking assassin flicking away a cigarette.

Just before he grabbed the shotgun

and the AR15 that he used to kill his wife and son.

She's like, you're not an-

There's also how you take Capri old man

in the fucking professional.

Yeah, I honestly, I'm totally see Capri's sons

gonna make me wanna kill my family.

Well, investigators also spoke with Rogan Gibson,

Paul's friend, the one who owned the dog

that Paul was looking after.

Rogan said that he had spoken with Paul at the dog kennels that evening and he had heard

Alec and Maggie talking in the background.

Now that's hearsay, that's not proof.

He didn't record the conversation, but it did put Alec at the scene.

And it directly contradicted the claim that Alec 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

row, row, row ruining everything.

Yeah, fucking row, row, somebody coming by, somebody calling Grandma Stanley, Taylor was

going on and fucking dick her out of her fucking grave, tell, tell, tell, grow, grow or whatever

these fucking idiots, I, Southern people, I don't know, I love the Southern.

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 row, row and the fine.

Oh, it's fine.

It's fine.

It's just a different way of referring to people.

I hate Popeye.

We can have a good time down there.

No, of course.

No, we love you.

I'll show you a good time.

I hate the little nicknames.

Oh, like nobody in Queens has fucking nicknames to each other.

We have the fucking like face.

Yeah.

Robbie two times.

Yeah.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Jimmy Dexel.

Murdoch.

They were, in fact, so confident from the beginning that when they announced the double

homicide, they made sure to say without naming their suspect that there was no danger to

the public here whatsoever.

They were so sure of it.

The murders at the very least had the effect of taking the heat off Alec Murdoch in the

wrongful death suit that the beaches had filed against him because the morning after

the murders, the judge in the Mallory Beach suit canceled the upcoming hearings set for

June 10th.

Three days later.

He was 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, because now he's so fucking down the oxyhole, he is so fucking, he is just a full monster

at this point.

Yeah.

The writers 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 death bed, a visitor who knew about Alec's money

juggling told Randy the third that Alec had asked him for two loans in the weeks before

the murders for no less than $600,000.

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 visitor's jacket, pulled him close and in full southern

drama form said quote,

What has become hope this family you are my number one, come on, come on, bring me to

the brothel.

I'm fortunately 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.

And all Murdoch the third died at the age of 81 with his family's bullshit legacy fully

and deservedly in tatters.

You know, you failed.

That's it.

Yeah.

Everything.

Now the Murdoch double homicide quickly became national news and before long, the deaths

of Steven Smith, Gloria Satisfield and Mallory Beach were also being bandied about on Facebook

posts, Reddit threads and of course podcast galore.

Yeah.

It was one of my favorite stories in the world and it just kept giving.

Yeah.

For Alex part, he was continuing to insist that the murders were connected to the outrage

over the boat wreck, 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 going to put him in prison for a good iron clad case.

Yeah.

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

Funny.

Funny.

Funny.

Stick it to the thing.

Yeah.

It's fucking shoot him in the head.

Let's drop him a swamp.

So he should kill me by dogs.

I'm fine with it.

You.

By dogs.

You mean like next to dogs are red dogs.

I want them to lick me.

Oh, that's cute.

I'll never do that to you.

I never make dogs kill it.

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 to 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.

Yeah.

We found out that he definitely didn't die by being hit by a car.

Well, well, I mean, there's a, well, there is a, there's arguments about like they say

some say that, you know, the autopsy shows that he may have been hit with a side mirror.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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 childlike try to cover it up.

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

It's super rare.

It is.

Yeah.

And 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 had found hundreds of checks made out to Alex

fake forage account at Bank of America.

And these paralegals had compiled a damning case accusing Alex of stealing millions.

They had him dead to rights, and that the case was presented to the partners, all of

the partners.

Even Alex's own brother had no choice but to fire Alex.

They couched it, however, in Alex's oxy addiction, because the oxy addiction had only gotten

worse and more obvious after Maggie and Paul's death.

They all use this oxy ed addition as like a cover.

Oh, yeah.

No, it was the only thing they had that gave them a sweep it away.

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

Because then it's like, he wouldn't in his right mind, he would have never have done

this.

Yeah.

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 marriage.

Right.

You know, to move that fast.

Hey, we're going to 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 makes him

filled with energy.

Yeah.

The 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.

Yeah.

So a lot of his move, like constant movements and fidgetyness, that's due to the ADHD.

I'm talking about the snorten and the huffen and the lip sucking and that is what he does.

Yeah.

That's different.

We're in the car.

But he's constant.

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.

It's the snorten.

It's the back drip.

You can hear he has a back drip going on.

There's something happening inside of him.

Oh, when you're crying, you're snorting.

He's fucking, he has no wetness.

Yeah.

When the cops show it up, man, he was fucking clean.

Yes.

Oxy clean.

Ah.

That was good.

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.

Fucking prick.

Yeah.

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 what I mean?

There is egg on my face.

He does this thing.

What 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.

That's bad enough.

Yeah, it's bad enough.

But the day after Alec was told to leave, his now former firm called up sled, the South

Carolina Law Enforcement Division, PMPED laid out everything with sled to cover their own

asses.

And that, of course, triggered a full criminal investigation into Alec Murdoch.

Don't forget too.

They didn't do anything until the lawyers lost money.

Yes.

This was September 4th.

Yeah.

They didn't even fucking look into it for a second couldn't give a fuck what happened

to the little children that were paralyzed and the old people that he literally just took

all the money from.

It was when they finally took money from the inside and then they had to cover their own

asses.

So it did look like they were stealing money too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it was September 4th, 2021, which ended up being a very eventful day in Alec Murdoch's

life for multiple reasons.

On this day, Alec Murdoch also made his infamous call to his cousin, Fast Eddy, to engage in

activities involving firearms that are still somewhat of a mystery.

So according to Fast Eddy himself, Alec called him up and met him on the road.

After making a bit of small talk, Alec straight up asked Fast Eddy to shoot him in his big

dumb potato head.

As investigators, we're going to 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 Eddy, of course, at hell, no, I ain't going to fucking shoot you.

So Alec said that he was just going to do it himself and he took off.

I'm just going to do it.

Well, I'm just going to do it.

I don't do anything.

I don't do anything.