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[Music] it used to be weeks back in the good old days when i would have to find something
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to write about here in this quiet little town i'm michael dewitt jr managing editor at
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the hampton county guardian and then these murdoch incidents began and things haven't been quiet since then
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attorney alec murdoch said he was shot in the head while changing a tire on this road in hampton county south
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carolina then police arrested 61-year-old curtis smith police say murdoch hired smith to kill him he
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wanted you to kill him yeah he wanted me to kill him to make it look like a suicide
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manhattan why did you agree to sit down with us i think people should hear my side of it
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you'll hear a lot more from curtis smith the man accused of shooting high-profile
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attorney alex murdoch right here on this rural road in hampton county south carolina just one incident in a bizarre
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and tragic series of deadly events touching the murdoch family the shooting of alex murdoch comes
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nearly three months after his son and his wife were both found shot in colladen county first there's the double
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murder of his wife and son maggie and paul murdock my wife alex told investigators he came home and
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found him what is your name they were both shot multiple times my name is alex murdock
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do we really know who alex murdoch is i think we thought we did up until the double homicides we thought
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that alex murdoch was a this prominent wealthy entitled attorney when you are from a family that has been prominent
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for generations it comes with access and connections when maggie and paul murdoch were found
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dead who were the most likely suspects two common theories that were going around was one alex murder has something
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to do with it did he murder his wife and son no does he have any idea who did no
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the other theory was this was somehow related to the boat crash a crash that killed teenager mallory
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beach with murdoch's son paul allegedly drunk and at the wheel 911 we're in a boat crash on archer creek
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there's six of us and one is missing who's missing a female malory beach who was driving the boat
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you all know alex murdock that's his son good luck that's when he indicated that he
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couldn't be touched never set foot in jail do you feel that mallory has gotten justice
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i don't that's just hard to answer all i ever wanted was for him to get on the stand and say i'm sorry
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then there's another incident with a connection to the murdochs the mysterious death of 19-year-old
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stephen smith his body was found in a roadway with a wound to the head the rumors were that there were several
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young men in a truck the only name that was given to me was the murder name and of course everybody's kind of shot just
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say that out you know what i mean i don't think anybody will be charged with steven smith homicide
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multiple deaths with the connection to one family alec murdoch shot this past weekend himself of all the theories
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swirling around maggie and paul's murders what's the lead theory today now i'm hearing more popular theories
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that he was somehow involved in this this is like a whodunit playing out in real time on the internet in the age of
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social media like a john grisham novel come to life we're now in the third act and
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things have gotten weird how will it end with this story anything can happen [Music]