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foreign [Music] [Music] there used to be weeks back in the good old days when I had to find something to
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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 Murdock 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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may happen 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 college and County First there's the double
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murder of his wife and son Maggie and Paul Murdock Alex told investigators he came home and
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found him they were both shot multiple times it's not Alex Murdoch do we really know who Alex Murdoch is I
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think we thought we did up until the double homicides we thought that Alex murdick was a this prominent wealthy
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entitled attorney when you are from a family that has been prominent for Generations it comes with access and
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connections when Maggie and Paul Murdock were found dead who were the most likely
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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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solitary was this was somehow related to the boat crash that killed teenager Mal
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allegedly drunk and there's six of us and one is missing okay who's missing female Mallory
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bam who was driving the boat you all know Alex Murdock that's his son good luck that's what he indicated that he
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couldn't be touched never set foot into jail do you feel that Mallory has gotten
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Justice I don't that's just that's just hard to answer all I ever wanted was for him to
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get on the stand and say I'm sorry then there's another incident with a connection to the murdochs the
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mysterious death of 19 year old Stephen Smith his body was found in a roadway with a wound to the Head
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the rumors were that there were several young men in a truck The Only Name that was given to me was the murder name and
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of course everybody's kind of to say that out you know what I mean I don't think anybody will be charged
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with Stephen Smith's homicide shot this past weekend himself of all the theories swirling around Maggie and
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Paul's murders what's the lead Theory today now I'm hearing more popular theories that he was somehow involved in
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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 things have gotten weird how will it
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end with this story anything can happen [Music] thank you [Music] Paul Murdoch and his mother both found
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shot to death the shooting of Alex Myrtle Alex Murdoch was shot in the head over the weekend disgraced lawyer Alex
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Murdoch surrendered to Authority today one story practically dominated the new cycle in South Carolina's Low Country
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since 2021. it's a series of cases that the locals have dubbed the Murdoch Mysteries
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all somehow with the connection to a prominent and Powerful local attorney Alex Murdoch
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my wife and Tommy but how did it come to this Michael DeWitt editor of the Hampton
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County Guardian part of the gannet USA Today Network says Alex Murdoch came from a family that over Generations grew
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Deep Roots and amassed power and influence in this part of South Carolina the Murdoch's built an Empire of sorts
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here in the Lowcountry it began over a century ago when the family established a law firm three generations of Murdoch
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men also held the public office of solicitor the chief prosecutor Alex didn't continue that tradition Alex
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inherited the last name and the red hair and very little of the talent Alex worked as a volunteer prosecutor in
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the office but primarily he made a good living in the family law firm he married
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his college sweetheart Maggie and they had two sons Buster and Paul they lived the good life spending time at their
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1700 acre estate and two private islands they have now generations of political power and political support and contacts
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and access and with access comes power Seth Stoughton is a law professor at the University of South Carolina a powerful
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legal family in small town South Carolina has a lot of levers they can pull but in sept
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like someone was out to challenge that power with what appeared to be an attempt on Alex Murdoch's life according
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to his lawyer Alex Murdoch told investigators he was changing a flat tire right here on this Rural Road when
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a person in a pickup truck passed by asked Alex if he was having car trouble and then shot him in the head when I
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turned my back they tried to shoot me they shot me but incredibly just 12 Days Later
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on September 16th Alex Murdock appeared in court for allegedly trying to plan his own death by conspiring with this
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man Curtis Smith to shoot him did you shoot Alex Murdoch no when did you first meet Alex Murdoch
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about 35 years ago Smith a handyman says he is a distant cousin of Murdoch but only got to know Alex well a few years
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ago and says he started doing odd jobs for the family we talked on phone most days as chatting back and forth by
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different things you've described Alex as like a brother to you you're like a brother Jimmy
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Smith was released on Bond and now faces six felony charges in the shooting of Alex Murdoch
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Murdoch will face three charges in the shooting but with several ongoing investigations and lawsuits looming many
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wonder when and how this steep Fall From Grace will end Alex Murdoch's world unraveled and
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unraveled quickly it all started says DeWitt back in February 2019. things began unraveling for the Murdoch
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family with the boat crash we're in a boat crash on Arthur's Creek it was about 2 20 a.m six young friends
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who had been partying crashed a boat into a bridge one of them was 19 year old Paul Murdock there's six of us and
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one is missing another was 19 year old Mallory Beach who disappeared that morning who's missing a female Mallory
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beats the business she's in the water she was just this wonderful fun-loving happy girl
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and everybody loved her Lynn Revis and her niece Mallory were extremely close you always got a hug hello and a huggaba
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and the last thing she told me was she loved me as investigators later learned the Fatal
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night began around eight hours earlier at the Murdoch family's River home on a private island then 19 year old Paul
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Murdock gathered five friends for a night of partying among them were Connor Cook Connor's
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cousin Anthony cook and Anthony's girlfriend Mallory Beach all were underage say investigators and all were
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drinking alcohol just before they gathered Paul Murdoch used the ID of his brother Buster to buy
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beer at this convenience store and if you look at the video footage when Paul comes out of the store he's holding the
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beer up he's celebrating shortly after gathering at the river home they boarded the Murdoch family's
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boat and took off investigators with South Carolina's Department of Natural Resources would
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later use data from the boat's Garmin navigation system to create a timeline of events that led to the fatal crash
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around 8 PM the group arrived at a party at a house on the river just after midnight the six of them
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boarded the boat and headed toward downtown Beaufort Paul and Connor decided to go into this
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bar for a drink was very persistent not going up early dares and getting shot passenger Miley
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Altman later told police in this interview that the rest of them didn't want Paul to go in
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the person who he's strong they went in pounded a couple of shots somewhere around 1 30. see the video
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footage of them leaving the boat dock it appeared as if a couple of them were very intoxicated
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it was kind of a sad touching moment when you see Mallory and her boyfriend I think it's the last moment that
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anybody captured an image of her alive it was around 1 15 a.m when they took off again on the boat I was just driving
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doing donuts Miley Altman told investigators tempers were running short so Connor starts driving for a little
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bit and then Paul like he like stops Connor and he's like no this is Mama like let me drop
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that's all the bridge coming what Bridges Paul what bridge is this [Music] First Responders dash cam video captured
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the Mayhem uh where's everybody else at the bridge at the bottom of the bridge everybody was accounted for except uh
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we're still missing one what's her name everybody was crying scared shot just worried about their friend
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then Beaufort County deputy sheriff Stephen Domino was one of the first on the scene Paul Murdoch wasn't saying
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much but Mallory's very distraught boyfriend Anthony cook was talking to Deputy Domino
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after Domino got Anthony into his patrol car Paul Murdoch came into sight he was
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walking up from where the boat was right there away from me he actually tried to
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rush through me to get to Paul because I guess he saw him smiling or all smiling while Anthony's girlfriend's
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missing in the water correct well you funny that's when Anthony cook definitively
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identified the person he said was driving the boat you all know Alex Murdock that's his son
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good luck that's what he indicated that he couldn't be touched are you talking about Alex Murdoch's son good luck
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foreign tell me about February 24th 2019. I had got a phone call at about five o'clock that morning and
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my sister was calling to tell me that Mallory was lost that she had been in a boat crash and
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they couldn't vote Lynn Revis says erniece Mallory had already been missing for nearly three
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hours when her family finally learned the news but not from police one of my cousins had called our mom and wanted to
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know if she knew about the boat crash that Mallory had been in it everybody's on their way they all went
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to where it happened and I just couldn't go the search went on for days there was
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people from other states that came and they wanted help on the eighth day two volunteers
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Brothers found Mallory's body about five miles down the river from the crash site
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I was at home and someone called and said they had found her and I fell apart many in Hampton County were grieving
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says Michael DeWitt hundreds of people attended her funeral there were so many people
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it took like four hours to greet everybody I've never seen so many people Lynn says even the murdochs were there
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Paul was at Mallory's funeral and they even went to the to the cemetery when we buried her at the end of the weeks after
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that we're just waiting is someone going to make an arrest is there going to be a
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admission of guilt or responsibility they might never happen to Mallory the beach family filed
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a wrongful death suit against members of the Murdoch family now the beach family
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could depose the survivors about what led to the Fatal boat crash Paul was allegedly acting rash and Reckless those
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children say that They begged for him to stop and They begged just let us out and he refused
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and Mallory said she was scared yes and that hurts my heart then she was so terrified
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in her deposition Paul's then girlfriend Morgan Doty said Paul and I got into an
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argument because I didn't take his side he slapped her and spit on her she said and kept leaving the boat's wheel to
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fight with her whenever it was done she said he would go back and take over again authorities believe all that
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movement explains the last moments recorded by the boat's Garmin device at 2 20 am the Garmin recorded the boat
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slowing down and then speeding up seconds later the Garment shows the boat coming to an abrupt stop when it struck
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up piling over here at archers Creek Bridge in his deposition Connor Cook said that
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the morning of the crash he held back from telling investigators that Paul was driving the boat because he was afraid
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and while at the hospital being treated for a broken jaw he says he was told by Alex Murdoch that he didn't need to tell
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anyone who was driving Alex reportedly went from room to room to try to communicate with the other boat crash
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passengers and get them all on the same page a hospital security guard said he overheard Alex Murdoch on his cell phone
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say she's gone don't worry that hurt when I read that because we were asleep did not know
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anything what's going on instead of worrying about who's driving the boat let us know
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I think that from day one Ground Zero the effort was what can we do to get Paul out of this in fact in a
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recent lawsuit Connor Cook claims Alex Murdoch tried to frame him as the driver of the boat not Paul how can we create a
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cloud of confusion and say can you prove who was driving the boat at the hospital
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Paul Murdoch's blood alcohol level was tested by doctors treating him several hours after the crash the 19 year old
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was three times over the legal limit and was allegedly still acting out he was getting belligerent with the the nurse's
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staff according to court records just being loud and Troublesome but that morning and for weeks to come many felt
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that Paul Murdoch was not treated like a suspect in a crime we didn't think he was going to be charged
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why because it was taken so long we just didn't think we'd see that day and then for it to happen on our
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birthday nearly two months after the boat crash on what would have been Mallory's 20th
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birthday Paul was charged with three felony counts including boating under the influence of alcohol or drugs and
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causing the death of Mallory Beach he pleaded not guilty an officer of the Court came forward with handcuffs to a
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formerly arresting fingerprinting and they were waved away like we don't need that you know so he was never handcuffed
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in his booking photograph Murdoch is wearing his street clothes were you surprised that Paul Murdock never spent
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a day in jail I don't know how it happened um my personal opinion yes Bond was set at fifty thousand dollars
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and we see from news reports after this that Paul continued to live his lifestyle
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how you doing sir about a year later Paul got a speeding ticket while towing a boat the reason I pulled you over you
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were booking it yeah okay I got you at 78. 78 yes two years after charges were filed there
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was still no trial date set when on June 7th 2021 Alex Murdock called police and
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said he'd found his wife and son Paul shot dead Maggie and Paul Maggie is her name yes ma'am and please hurry
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[Music] June 7th 2021 as Paul Murdoch was awaiting trial in the death of Mallory
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Beach a fuselad of gunfire erupted on the Murdoch Family Estate at 10 07 PM a panic sounding Alex
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Murdoch called 9-1-1 saying he had just arrived home to find his wife of nearly 28 years Maggie and their son shot is he
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moving at all your son I know you said that she was shot but what about your son
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nobody's they're not neither one of them First Responders rushed to the Murdoch family hunting lodge a sprawling
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1770 acre property in Colleton County but it was too late 52 year old Maggie and her 22 year old son Paul were dead
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this place of Refuge where the family had spent their free time hunting and enjoying the outdoors where Paul had
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honed his shooting skills alongside his father and brother was now a gruesome crime scene
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describe the reaction of the community after the double homicide shock a lot of people know them so there was
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grief and and dismay from a lot of people Mallory Beach's aunts Lynn Revis was one
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of those people the thought of the horror that they went through I cried who would want to kill a mother and son
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that's what I can't stop thinking that we've thought about it too things like that shouldn't be happening in our
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little community but what happened in this little Community soon became vocational
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investigation into this double homicide continues and an international news a series of family tragedies began in June
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the South Carolina law enforcement division known as sled the state's top investigative agency took over the case
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the Colleton County coroner estimates that they were killed between 9 and 9 30 PM they were found fairly close to one
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another on the ground near the dog kennels was said to have spent a lot of time at
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the kennels with the hunting hunting dogs sources tell media that Maggie was killed with some type of automatic rifle
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like an AR-15 of some sort and Paul was killed with a shotgun and they were both
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shot multiple times Prime the South Carolina law enforcement division hadn't named any suspects but
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that didn't stop social media sleuths from espousing theories one Alex murder has something to do with
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it secretary was this was somehow related to the boat crash somebody wanted Justice that they didn't think
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they would get in the courts in relation to the boat crash I Alex claims to have
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an airtight Alibi he was at the hospital visiting his sick father when the shootings took place
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but Alibis can be deceiving says Professor Stoughton sometimes the person behind the murderer is not the same
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person as the one who pulls the trigger you think there could be a Hitman possibly
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we've certainly seen other cases where there are hired Killers Hired Guns I wouldn't want
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to suggest that is the case here but sometimes people are smart about how they do bad
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things some are asking if Alex hired the man now accused of shooting him did Alex ever try to hire you as a
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hitman no did you kill Maggie or Paul Murdoch no at a recent hearing I questioned the
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Murdoch family attorney dick harputlian about the double murder did he murder his wife and son no does he have any
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idea he did no recent reports about The Murdoch marriage have raised questions about a
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possible motive People magazine which cited unnamed law enforcement sources claimed it Maggie and Alex did
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not have a good relationship and they were going to get a divorce and she was Consulting with the Allentown attorney
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trust me I was with them for almost two years always affectionate always courteous you just a picture of a
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domestic Bliss and what about the oldest motive in the book money they didn't have any insurance they did
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not have they had no insurance they had no insurance okay getting to the truth in this case will
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be a challenge says Professor Stoughton investigators are going to have a hell of a time sorting through all of the
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possible explanations and motives given the different contacts and connections here I do not envy them that job
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as investigators were attempting to untangle the snarls of evidence in the double murders they came across yet
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another case with the connection to the Murdoch's the mysterious death of Stephen Smith
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foreign just 15 days after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdock sled made a stunning
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announcement they had found information while investigating the double murders that led them to open a new
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investigation into an old case the mysterious death of 19 year old Stephen Smith tell me who is Steven Smith
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Steven Smith was a young man living in Hampton County he had a sister they were twins
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openly gay and well-liked Stephen attended the same high school as Buster Murdoch they were in the same class but
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apparently traveled in different circles neither friends nor enemies after graduation Buster went to college to
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study government and international Affairs Stephen went to a community college to pursue his dream of becoming
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a nurse but all those dreams came to a sudden halt here on this two-lane Country Road sometime in the early
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morning hours of July 8 2015. what happened to Stephen has been the subject of rumors and speculation ever since
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Hampton County 911 where's your emergency uh passerby calls 9-1-1 I see somebody laying out and is it in the
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road or on the side of the road yeah somebody boy he didn't talk Stephen Smith was found dead at the
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scene from blunt force trauma to the Head Steven's yellow Chevy was found roughly
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three miles away his wallet inside the gas cap unscrewed initial reports by the highway patrol claimed Stephen ran into
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car trouble and was likely walking when he was struck and killed by a vehicle but recently released audio interviews
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shows some officers on the case did not agree with that hit and run Theory nothing at the scene appeared that it
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was a vehicular accident this is the voice of Trooper David Rowell walk both shoulders of the Highway East down West
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looking for any evidence didn't see anything that appeared to be vehicular involved there was no vehicle debris no
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broken headlight or or paint scrapes or anything when someone is hit by a car they're
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very frequently knocked out of their shoes Steven Smith's Shoes were still on when he was
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found they were still on and they were loose it certainly raises questions as to whether hit and run is the right
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conclusion [Music] I believe the hit and run scenario either the only damage to his body
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was his head when someone is struck by a car going at speed and I don't mean 70 miles an hour
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I mean even something like 25 30 35 miles an hour you fly bodies get pushed a long way the body rolls and moves and
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there's there's Road burn there's rash marks there's evidence often on the road Sandy Smith told Michael Dewitt's
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newspaper she believed her son was murdered she believed it was a hate Crown related in some way to his
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sexuality and in our interviews with her she pleaded to the public if anybody knows anything
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please I want answers investigators like Trooper Todd Proctor spent months talking to Steven's friends
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family and possible love interests trying to get those answers that I've talked to so far about
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kept coming up over and over again Steven's sister Stephanie heard that name multiple times I went into the
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store and a bunch of people kept coming up to me and they're like did you know the Murdock boys are behind it
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neither brother has ever been named a suspect and the Murdoch family attorney has not responded to 48 Hours request
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for comment on the Smith case but Smith family attorney Andy Savage said publicly the focus on the Murdoch family
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may be unfounded quote there are suspects we have in sight that are unconnected to Murdoch
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the pathologist ruled the blunt head trauma that killed Stephen could have possibly come from contact with the side
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view mirror of a passing truck former Trooper Todd Proctor told Fox News he didn't believe it then and he
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doesn't believe it now it looked like it was more staged um like possibly the body had been
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placed case was never solved and went cold until the house of Murdoch came crumbling down
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one brick at a time and it's almost been a case of episodic television where tune
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in this week and we'll see what's next from Hampton County home of the murdochs [Music]
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foreign [Music] on September 6 2021 two days after being shot Alex Murdoch found himself once
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again making front page news when he stunned the World by releasing this statement I have made a lot of decisions
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that I truly regret he said and announced he was leaving the law firm Alex Murdoch put out a statement saying
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he's going into rehab Alex Murdoch was now saying he has been addicted to opioids for two decades a surprise to
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many the idea of a 20 year old serious opioid addiction does not seem consistent with Alex Murdoch's
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successful practice as an attorney it wasn't only claims of drug abuse now staining Murdoch's reputation
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Murdoch has also been accused of stealing Millions from his own law firm and was asked to resign the day before
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he was shot Friday the law firm has a come to Jesus meeting with him we know you're
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allegedly stealing money you're out Saturday the reported shooting Monday Alice releases the statement
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saying I'm going into rehab [Music] then came Murdock had allegedly hired Curtis Smith
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he says it was to make his suicide look like murder so his son Buster could collect a 10 million dollar insurance
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payout I believe one of the initial statements was that because he did not know whether
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his life insurance would pay out in the event of a suicide he's a lawyer who is perfectly capable
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of reading his insurance policy Murdoch's confession Send Curtis Smith to jail for two days and until he posted
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a 50 55 thousand dollar bond for his alleged role in the shooting and another five thousand dollars for possession of
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methamphetamine found in his home when he was arrested they just arrested me based on what he said according to
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Curtis higher Curtis says he found a desperate man holding a gun he's then it would like this
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he said yeah you got to take care of this and I said well I can't do it he told me he turned his head I just
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grabbed his arm put it by his head to the gun for me Curtis says the gun went off in the
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struggle but he managed to take it from Alex and dispose of it then he got out of there as fast as he could why did you
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leave the scene I didn't know anything else do he was alive he was alive and the gun was out of his
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hand Curtis Smith's defense attorney Johnny McCoy some people would think call the police call someone well Alex
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Murdoch is the police he's a prosecutor Curtis didn't report anything because there's no crime if he saved his life
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on September 16 2021 facing charges of insurance fraud conspiracy and filing a false police report Alex Murdoch turned
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himself in no plea has been entered yet the fact that a Murdoch sat in a chair in a jumpsuit with handcuffs is
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something I've never seen in my lifetime despite the serious charges against him
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Alex Murdoch was released on twenty thousand dollars Bond and allowed to go back to rehab in Florida
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while there investigators were looking into all of his business dealings when the list of missing money and suspicious
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deaths orbiting Alex Murdoch's World grew longer and now included this woman Gloria
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Satterfield Gloria was the housekeeper for the Murdoch family for more than 20 years Ronnie Richter is an attorney for
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the she literally helped raise Alec murdaugh's Sons Paul and Buster in 28 2018 the 57 year old died after a
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trip and fall accident at the Murdoch estate the very same property where Maggie and Paul would be found dead in
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2021 what's been reported is that she was at the house that day on the front steps the dogs got a little rambunctious
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and gave her a push and she fell down the stairs back then satterfield's death was not
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questioned instead it was ruled natural and no autopsy was ever performed there's nothing natural about a 57 year
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old woman falling down a flight of steps and dying from head trauma at Gloria's funeral Murdoch did
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something very odd says Richter he recommended satterfield's son's file a wrongful death lawsuit against him
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Alex even steered them toward an attorney his former college roommate and Paul Murdoch's Godfather Corey Fleming a
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lot of trust was placed in both Alec and in Corey to do the right things and it really went South from the outset court
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documents show a 4.3 million dollar payout by Alex's insurance company but none of the money ever went to Gloria's
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family where did that money go well allegedly it went into Alex Murdock's pocket
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[Music] on September 15 2021 sled announced they were opening a criminal investigation
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into satterfield's death and the handling of her estate then on October 14th another twist in
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the Alex Murdoch case the new criminal charges the disgraced lawyer is facing Alex Murdoch then faced two felony
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charges Four's alleged role in the Satterfield insurance fraud no plea was entered in this case either
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but this time a judge ordered Alex Murdoch to be held without bond he's been in Richland County jail since
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October 16 2021 and the family of Mallory Beach hope Murdoch is investigated for obstruction of justice
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in the investigation into Mallory's death [Music] this is where Mallory is buried
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foreign of Mallory Beach there's just days where you just want to cry all day long The
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Grieving continues what would Justice possibly look like for your family now suit would be settled
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so we can get on with their lives because Mallory died almost three years ago and every time these stories come out
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like it happens all over again [Music] thank you charged with the murder of his new
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wife's two children did your father Chad dabel play any role in killing JJ and Tyler
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his children speak out together if he didn't kill them then why were their bodies found buried in her father's
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