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[Music] by this point Captain we have reached early September of 2021 in our timeline
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and Alec Murdoch's world is crumbling his wife and son are dead their murders unsolved and he's about to be sued in a
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civil wrongful death action that would give rise to a criminal investigation sled was looking into his family in
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connection with the Steven Smith case and he's still facing the wrongful death lawsuit from the Boating incident
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causing the death of Mallory Beach Randolph III his father was dropped as a defendant in that case when he died and
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Alec and Buster were refusing to settle now could it get worse for Alec Murdock oh yes I think that it can
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and this is because on Saturday September 4th at 1 34 PM Alec Murdock called 9-1-1
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soccer Hatchi Road okay what's the address on sarcastro I'm by the church what church
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what church are you talking about uh I don't know the name of it with the Red Roof
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oh okay what end of soccer had to rule because I don't know what you're talking about
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um at the Hampton County side okay what's going on I start I got a flat tire and somebody
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stopped to help me and when I turned my back they tried to shoot me oh okay will you shot yes but I mean I'm
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okay you shot where where were you shot at huh did they actually shoot you they tried to shoot you they shot me but okay
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wait you need EMF uh well I mean yes I I can't drive okay and I'm bleeding a lot where what
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part of your body uh I'm not sure somewhere on my head your head somebody just stopped for me
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man um for 9-1-1 okay still hey okay let me speak to him see if he can tell me exactly where you are
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at church okay yeah hurry please okay and what's your name I'm still here I'm still on the line with you what's
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your name Alex Murdock Alex Murdock yes ma'am and you see we're driving you got a flat tire somebody
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stopped to help you and they shot you well they pull over Yes Man like they were going to help me
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okay stay on the line with me we're gonna get some I'm bleeding pretty bad okay Missionary Church St John Missionary
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Church yes ma'am okay and can you give me a description of the person that shot you a shot at you
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yes ma'am I mean it was a a white fella uh I'd say a white male a fair amount younger than me
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uh really really short hair um you have an ambulance coming in there yes sir yes sir
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stay on the line I got them on the way you think one of y'all can drop me to the hospital
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yes sir you want to get the truck to get in this car and drive me they're going to drive me to the
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hospital ma'am ma'am I'm still here they they're on the way don't hang down hang out
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I think my favorite part of that call is when you know he's bleeding from the head and
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he's going ma'am are you are you still there well and the audio is not great but part of that is because Alec Murdock
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is trying to interact with the 9-1-1 operator who he called but also interact with a Good Samaritan
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that seemed to have stopped to come to his Aid so you hear at times he's talking with the driver of whatever
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vehicle that is and then getting back on the phone with the 9-1-1 Personnel well
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pretty trusting of a Good Samaritan after a supposed Good Samaritan just shot him in the head Yeah so basically
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what he's saying here is that he gets a flat tire and that he stops to change the tire when someone drives by in a
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truck and then asks Alec if he's having car trouble and Alex says before he could respond he hears a gunshot and
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that the person must have shot him so he's now calling this in and now we have another person who seems to have stopped
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at some point you know he's telling the 911 operator that they've agreed to drive him to the hospital but from my
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understanding Captain eventually Alec Murdoch is taken via air ambulance to the hospital they found him or picked
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him up in a nearby field and rushed him to the hospital I wonder if there was a second 9-1-1 call me yeah he eventually
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calls back and by the time they pick him up he's about seven miles from where he
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says the shooting took place and this is also when when the call first comes in from my understanding Captain he's about
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seven miles from his family's hunting lodge the location the property where Maggie and Paul were killed I just want
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to remind the audience and I want to remind myself this Murdoch Saga is was not written by
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the writers of Yellowstone this is not the Yellowstone podcast this is true crime garage
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and this [ __ ] is real it seems to me like the sheriff's deputies and sled agents who reported to the scene and
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processed it they were on scene obviously after the emergency Personnel arrived which it looked like it took a
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good amount of time before emergency Personnel to arrive it seems like there was some kind of confusion as to his
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exact location and then if he moved afterward that would explain the delay but afterwards shortly afterwards
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because this is phoned in as a shooting we have the sheriff's department as well
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as sled agents there on the scene processing the scene as well as Alec Murdoch's black Mercedes-Benz GL 450
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that he was driving that day looking for Clues and evidence so this looks to be this looks to be a situation that
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one might have possibly even expected right if you were of the belief that Maggie and Paul
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were dead I mean that we know that they're dead they're the victims of a shooting a double homicide
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and now Alec appears to have been targeted as well so this is when you really start to wonder was someone
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hunting down the murdochs and eliminating them one by one well obviously in the double murder case you
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can look at it in a sense and go well somebody's daughter died and this accidental death but the person
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that caused the accident seem to have no remorse whatsoever so you think initially the double
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homicide could be a Revenge killing for that but then we learn from the double homicide that there was these lawsuits
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in this insurance policy that should have been paid out to the sons of the housekeeper
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and wasn't so now this killing you could say is this still Revenge that maybe somebody didn't get the job done didn't
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kill all the family members to get revenge because of the boating accident that could be an angle that
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you're looking at but the other angle is what about these lawsuits and this insurance that was never paid nobody
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even told the family about the lawsuits is this revenge for that well by this point too we have the Steven Smith case
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where the Murdoch name has been publicly stated by sled again yes at this point it could
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be revenge for that as well I mean there's a there's a long list of people that hate these people and or would have
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reason to well yes and and think about it that's just three of the things we know of it's not like these are just the
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only three Shady things that have happened at the hands of the murdochs right it would be very difficult to
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believe that Alec Murdock was a perfect Saint up until this first incident now according to the state law enforcement
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authorities no weapon was found at the scene and there was a slice in one of Mr Murdoch's tires now at first you say
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well this makes sense Alec is now the Target or he was the target all along and someone got to him
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but there's some questions about Alex story first Alex Mercedes apparently has those run flat tires where you can drive
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for miles and miles and miles when you have a when the rest of us would have a flat tire
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and so basically the thought there is with that technology he would not have had to change the tire right then and
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there and then there's been other people in the community that said look the murdochs these people don't change
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their own tires and according to Crime online quote a knife reportedly used to slash the Murdoch's tires was found near
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the scene multiple sources claimed the knife was traced back to Murdoch on September 6th two days after the
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shooting with Alex still recovering remember he's in the hospital at this point recovering from that gunshot the
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law firm that his ancestors founded made a statement that Alec had resigned on September 3rd so this is the day
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before the shooting after the firm discovered that he was stealing from the firm with estimates of up to 10 million
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dollars in missing money this according to the Wall Street Journal yeah because this dumb ass was just not look he
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wasn't successful it wasn't successful in his life so he had to keep on coming up with Conway's to pay for this
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lifestyle again if you could maybe say he was rich but to me it's it wasn't he wasn't wealthy
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if that makes any sense he had all these properties but they all have payments and
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again 10 million dollars over time 10 million dollars you know how much crap you can buy to keep up with the
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Joneses well again that's an estimate they've brought in some forensic accountants to try to determine exactly
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how much money is missing it's probably 15 million 20 million that's what's interesting here though it's not to
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determine if money is missing it's how much money is missing now Alec is forced to resign that's what we're going to
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call that that's what they called it from The Firm after they confront him about him pilfering significant funds
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from the firm that his grandfather founded his wife and son are dead at this time he's facing Financial rune
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it was beginning to look like this drive-by shooting well maybe there's a chance this is some
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kind of suicide attempt by this point Alec is not well on the sixth after being released from the hospital he was
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only in the hospital for two days Alec checked himself into a rehab facility his attorneys released a statement that
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same day addressed to Alex family friends and colleagues that said quote the murders of my wife and son have
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caused an incredibly difficult time in my life I have made a lot of decisions that I truly regret
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I'm resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle that has been exacerbated by these murders I
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am immensely sorry to everyone I've heard including my family friends and colleagues I ask for prayers as I
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rehabilitate myself and my relationships now I had a source I guess I guess the whole drug aspect and going into rehab I
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believe it was uh I think it was methamphetamines it's reported that he has an opioid or had an opioid addiction
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I have a local source that has told me that was all made up now I I don't have any proof of it but
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I guess the the thought process there was if I blame it on a drug addiction because of the well these double murders
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were so bad on me that I started using opioids that that makes it look better than just I'm a complete scumbag and
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willing to do anything and willing to throw anybody under the bus to keep conning myself through this life
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well I think the general claim here is that he had already had this opioid addiction but because of the murders you
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know an addiction that was already spiraling out of control got significantly worse very quickly on
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September 8th the South Carolina Supreme Court suspended Alec Murdoch's license to practice law effective immediately
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two days later on the 10th with rumors swirling that Alec Murdoch tried and failed to kill himself Alex lawyers made
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a second statement that said Alec had an entry and exit wound and suffered a skull fracture in the shooting which was
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not self-inflicted quote Alec pulled over after seeing a low tire indicator light the statement read and it goes on
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to say a male driver in a blue pickup asked him if he had car troubles as soon as Alec replied he was shot
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well it gets worse on September 13th sled announced that it was opening an investigation into claims Alec had
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misappropriated funds from pmped as alleged by the law firm again this all starts off with a boating accident then
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a double homicide and then look back into a hidden run and also a look back into
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accidental death at the Murdoch's house so at this point sled is investigating all things Murdoch
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well it must have been exhausting for Alec to try to maintain his facade and keep up with all of these lies because
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from rehab Alec calls up sled and he admits that the shooting incident on the fourth was all engineered by him
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and this is because there was an insurance policy on his life that would pay 10 million dollars to his family if
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Alec were killed and of course by this point sadly his family is just the older son Buster this was quickly followed by
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an arrest made by sled sled arrested a Curtis Edward Smith AKA Eddie age 61 and charged him with assisted suicide
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assault and battery of a high aggravated nature pointing and presenting a firearm
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insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud Smith has also been charged with distribution of
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methamphetamine and possession of marijuana these ladder charges were because when they arrested Smith they
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found pot and meth during a search of his home well then I guess the big question now is who is Curtis Smith yes
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AKA Eddie so the charging documents state has followed that Mr Murdoch provided Curtis Edward Smith with a
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firearm and directed Mr Smith to shoot him in the head for the purpose of causing Mr Murdoch's death and allowing
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for the payment of a death benefit on September 4th 2021 Mr Smith followed Mr Murdoch to Old
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sakahatchee Road and shot Mr Murdoch as he stood in the roadway after shooting Mr Murdoch in the head Mr Smith drove to
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an unknown location where he disposed of the firearm on September 13 2021 Mr Murdoch provided a statement to sled
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admitting to the scheme of having Mr Smith murder him for the purpose of his son collecting a life insurance policy
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valued at approximately 10 million dollars on September 14 2021 Mr Smith admitted to being present during the
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shooting of Mr Murdoch and to disposing of the firearm afterwards now this Mr Smith is a former client of Alec
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Murdoch's he is also Alex distant cousin and I guess we'll call him Cousin Eddie as
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they are now calling him online and here's a whole nother twist to this thing shitter's fool Clark according to
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Alex lawyers Cousin Eddie is also Alex dealer maybe the drug addiction was not just made up maybe there is some truth
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to it of course Eddie denies being Alex dealer now a statement released by Alex attorneys will try to this is you know
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typical Alec Murdoch fashion we're going to try to lay blame on someone else for
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for his ill-conceived actions their statement says that on September 4th it became clear that Alec believed
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that ending his life was his only option today he knows that's not true for the last 20 years there have been many
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people feeding his addiction to opioids during that time these individuals took advantage of his addiction and his
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ability to pay substantial funds for illegal drugs one of those individuals took advantage of his mental illness and
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agreed to take Alex Life by shooting him in the head fortunately Alec was not killed by the gunshot wound Alec is
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fully cooperating with sled in the investigation into his shooting opioid use and the search to find the person or
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people responsible for the murder of his wife and son Alec is not without fault but he is just one of many whose life
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has been devastated by opioid addiction so Alec turned himself in Captain to the
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authorities and he was charged with insurance fraud conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and filing a false
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police report he was then released on twenty thousand dollars personal recognizes Bond he quietly returned to
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the rehab center in a location that his lawyers refused to disclose but of course his lawyers
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tried to paint Alex confession in a positive light telling the Today Show that he didn't want law enforcement
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spending more time on this fake crime instead of focusing on solving the murders of Maggie and Paul
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[Music] thank you [Music] [Music] all right cheers to everyone still with us part four and surprise surprise there's
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going to be another four parts this case never stops we really truly are yet to see when this case will stop
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or when any of these cases will have a conclusion to them so it's kind of a stay tuned situation here but at his
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bond hearing Cousin Eddie Smith he basically says is that the charges are all crap
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and he's going to make his way through the media and the media rounds and he's going to tell
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his side of the story or another twist to the whole Murdoch story on October 15th Smith claimed that Alec did not get
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shot did not get shot was his claim he said there was no conspiracy between the two of them instead he said he was an
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unknowing participant that Alec called him on September 4th and asked him to come do some work for him which he had
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done work for Alec Murdoch in the past handyman type stuff and he says that he met Alec on the road
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to where Alec orders him to shoot him and Smith says he refused now he told the New York Post quote I run over and
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we Wrestled a minute together me trying to get the gun away from him then the gun kind of went off above his head and
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I got scared to death and I ran to my truck and took off end quote he described the incident as the craziest
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situation I've ever been in and said that he believed he was set up to be the Fall Guy Smith told police he disposed
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of the gun he said he felt betrayed by Alex because Alec was blaming him for taking advantage of Alex illness and
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also Alec ratted him out for the shooting when Alec was the one who proposed the whole thing to begin with
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it's very unclear as to exactly what went down there that day in the middle of the road
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we have Cousin Eddie saying one story and we have Alec Murdoch saying another it's also unclear what kind of agreement
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or Arrangement was made between the two was it something that they had decided on in advance or as Cousin Eddie says he
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shows up on scene and is being told then and there that he's involved in something right on the Today Show Cousin
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Eddie said quote I didn't shoot him I'm innocent if I had shot him he'd be dead He's Alive okay tell me if I'm following
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this correctly he's basically saying yes I knew about this plot I knew about this scam
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but I didn't go through with it but Alex did and he shot himself he's saying that he knew about this plot when
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he showed up to the plot already in action right this wasn't something that according to Cousin Eddie that they
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agreed on well in advance this is something he's showing up on the scene and Alex like here you're going to shoot
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me and then they end up wrestling for the gun gun goes off Cousin Eddie gets scared and flees the scene now I I guess
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maybe he's scared and confused and then he disposes of the gun it's all a little
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weird that he goes forward with disposing of the gun and then just kind of sits there quietly sitting on his
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hands for days until Alec Murdoch starts telling a different story because leading up to this until Alec calls up
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sled and admits that hey this was a plot that I put together and here's my version of the events Alec
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Murdock and his lawyers up to that point were sticking to their guns of I was shot by somebody that showed up to to
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kill me on the side of the road they stuck with that for a few days well that's why my policy is just tell the
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truth you don't have to remember anything or just lie about everything which seems to be what Alec Murdock is
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doing you know there's there's so many questions here Captain it turns out that the weapon used was a 38 caliber
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revolver now who shot the gun is completely unclear you know did Alex shoot himself did they wrestle
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with the gun like Smith said why does Smith go out of his way to say that Alec was not shot
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when I mean he was I mean he was picked up and taken to the hospital where he stayed for two days if he wasn't shot
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there you know they would be releasing him immediately and his attorneys are saying that he's got
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a gunshot wound did anybody ever test you know GSR is a difficult science thing and I don't want
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to go too far into that because there is plenty of proof that even if you're just
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close to a gunshot you can have some gunshot residue on your person so I I guess you know you can call that into
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question did anybody test Alex hands but you know I don't know that that's going
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to get get us any further here this case should be called The Case of the wtfs right because it's just constantly what
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the f well some other weird questions here too a 9-1-1 caller who first called in the shooting
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this from my understanding is before Alec Murdoch called 9-1-1 this person told the dispatcher that
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there was a man standing in the road with blood on him and was waving his hands in the air and the caller says hey
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I didn't stop because it looked like a setup so this is Alec Murdock in the middle of the road seemingly waving for
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someone to stop to help him but we know he calls 9-1-1 later and this pastor buyer says this
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situation looked strange in like a setup so I wasn't going to stop but I'm a good
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person so I'll at least phone it into 9-1-1 right it's just bizarre why Alec Murdoch would
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delay calling 9-1-1 if he was shot badly like we're led to believe by the statements of his lawyers I mean I don't
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understand why he's trying to flag someone down it's almost like he needs a witness right like he needs someone
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there and of course at the end of the day we know that he did set this up even though there's a discrepancy in the
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stories between Cousin Eddie and Alec yes Clark but clearly someone's buying this story regardless
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of the different versions because we know that both Alec Murdock and Cousin Eddie were
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indicted by a grand jury so they're both charged in this incident the amount of greed in this story is almost
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unbelievable well and it all seems to be coming from the same person yeah the same source
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now we're going to fast forward a little bit because I don't want to get into all
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of the legal mumbo-jumbo about the lawsuits and and a lot of stuff that's taken place the the key thing that we
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need to hone in on here Captain is that later Alec Murdock is arrested again remember he was released after this
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latest incident that we discussed in September he was released on twenty thousand dollars Bond
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and he's arrested later and what we're going to have here is we're finally going to see a situation where the judge
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will recognize that Alec Murdoch is it's too dangerous to have him outside of of a prison or outside of a jail I
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should say he's going to have to face these charges he's going to have to go to trial but what they end up doing is
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ultimately they set his bond at seven million dollars and they deny him the opportunity to pay the 10 percent so he
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has to pay all of the 7 million basically it's like he's not getting out at all you know they set the amount so high
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that he cannot pay it right this is good for them well and you know what good for
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all involved because what I see here is an individual that when he's out people are dying people are getting shot at and
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this is regardless of who is responsible for all of this mess or for each of these little for each of the different
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parts of this story right if he's out it seems to me that either somebody else is
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going to get killed or somebody's going to come and try to take Alec Murdoch's life so this might be a good move for
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him as well to be locked up until he faces these charges from my understanding Captain the charges that
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he's facing forget about how much money he's supposed to pay back to all these people that he he built out of all this
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money over the years and he's never going to pay anybody back well I don't think he's ever going to get out of
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prison either if he is convicted on some of these charges or all of them main way
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he was making money in the first place was a lawyer and he's not going to be able to do that no I mean he's he's not
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able to practice law in the state of South Carolina so with all these events who is responsible I think we can
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if we start with the way we laid it out the boat accident I think we both are in
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agreeance Paul is responsible and obviously he showed zero remorse from statements of
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individuals that were there on the boat it appears that yes Paul was driving and
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he does not seem to be concerned with the tragedy of that incident right and where do you stand on the double
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homicide well so I I don't think that that any of these are easily answered and I think that
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there's there's a lot of suspicion that you can throw around everything that I have seen though Captain is Mallory
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Beach's family you know that's where one's mind goes to immediately they they lost their their
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daughter or their sister or you know their loved one yeah and so of course your mind goes there I've seen nothing
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but cooperation from Mallory Beach's family in in this whole situation you know they can't bring their daughter
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back but they're also not violent people these are reasonable good people who were struck by tragedy and it looks to
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me by the the actions of Paul Murdoch so I don't think that I see the Revenge angle here when it comes to the double
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homicide as far as the Satterfield case goes with Gloria Satterfield falling down the steps and and then
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unfortunately losing her life in the hospital two weeks later I think really the only weird part of that case is how
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Alec Murdoch stole money basically spearheaded this whole idea of well we need to sue me somebody needs to pay for
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this situation but I'm going to help you boys out and then he uses it to to make
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a bunch of money I believe it was probably an accident but the shameful part is that he saw an opportunity to
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try to take advantage of it and how could he win from somebody else's law well and there's some information out
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there that suggests that Gloria Satterfield was awake at times while she was in the hospital so there's a chance
00:35:23
that if there was something really different that happened in that situation that she would be able to
00:35:29
communicate that to someone before her before sadly that she passed away now in regard to the double homicide there was
00:35:38
some information that came out and this came out in early November from the Island packet one of the local news
00:35:46
sources out there that says a state grand jury is looking into a trail of money from Alec Murdoch alleged opioid
00:35:54
drug habit to a low country gang based in the Waterloo area and believed to be called the Cowboys
00:36:02
according to sources familiar with the investigation the money Trail linking Murdoch is allegedly in checks he wrote
00:36:10
to a person who in turn would write checks to couriers to buy drugs the sources said money paid to the couriers
00:36:18
is believed to have been used to buy the drugs from Cowboys gang Affiliates the drugs that we're talking about of course
00:36:26
were meth and opioids apparently Alec Murdock wrote more than two hundred thousand dollars worth of checks between
00:36:35
early June and early September of 2021. before then the amounts had only been about 10 to 20 000 per month
00:36:48
the scripts were always written to a go-between who apparently took checks basically Captain there's an idea here
00:36:58
that this is in large part the extent of his his drug problem and where he was getting some of
00:37:09
his drugs now this Cousin Eddie being his dealer and these checks it's all rather confusing but it also
00:37:19
kind of makes sense here too because if Alec Murdock was getting the amounts of money that we talked about that he
00:37:25
was hiding you know he's dispersing this money to accounts that he's in control of
00:37:31
when we're talking about millions of dollars where did all that money go so some of
00:37:38
it obviously on drugs well and it's it's easy to see a situation here where these
00:37:44
Cowboys or some other type of gang may have come in and sent a message to Alec Murdoch or the
00:37:55
double homicides were some kind of retaliation from this gang and also don't forget that they had multiple
00:38:01
properties so and it seems like on at least one property they had people working so you have those mortgages
00:38:09
those aren't small payments and then whoever's working at those properties that will as well well and there's also
00:38:16
some misdealings and strange things about some of the properties that they owned anyway that that they owned as
00:38:24
well and I'm a little unclear as to what some of this means there's bolstering theories that Alec was tied up with
00:38:34
gangsters and linked to the drug trade in the area and the connection there for Alec
00:38:42
Murdock is this Barrett T bulwear I believe is how you pronounce his last name he's a commercial fisherman who operated
00:38:51
Anna Buford for over 40 years according to his 2018 obituary and a close friend and Associate of Alec Murdoch's
00:39:01
according to fits news Alec was bulwear's legal representation and business partner before bulwear died
00:39:08
from cancer the two apparently were close friends who socialized together with their wives and attended South
00:39:16
Carolina basketball games together many times Alec and bulwear jointly owned several
00:39:22
real estate properties bulwear used to own that most sell property the one that eventually Maggie and Paul are killed at
00:39:32
there's information out there captain that says that in 2013 Alec paid bulwear's wife five dollars for that
00:39:39
property five dollars for that property well that's what we call a good deal that's a
00:39:46
good deal seems awfully Shady to me there was some kind of tax-free exchange transaction at the same time for another
00:39:54
property that was valued at seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars now what does this all have to do with Alec
00:40:03
his friends business associates and whatnot this there's thought that that property has a
00:40:11
landing strip and a large barn on this property so the thought here being that bulwear
00:40:19
was some type of Big Time drug Smuggler at one point in his life right and the Alec was kind of In Cahoots with him so
00:40:28
when you hear things like that you really start to wonder and struggle with how and who could be involved I mean how
00:40:36
deep does this thing run and how far back was Alec Murdock in these these Shady deals with these these other Shady
00:40:44
figures and was he the only one in the family that was involved or does this go back multiple Generations well and I
00:40:52
don't think that there's any question about Alec Murdoch's location of where he was the night when his wife and son
00:40:59
were killed but what we do know is that there was even though Alec Murdoch said that he was unaware of it
00:41:06
there was a life insurance policy there was an estate to be paid out from Maggie
00:41:12
Murdock and she had left everything that she owned to her husband this was based
00:41:18
off of a a will that was put together I believe in 2013. so she's leaving everything to her
00:41:25
husband so it's not that far-fetched to to wrap your head around the idea that maybe Alec Murdoch wanted his wife
00:41:34
killed so that he could benefit from it what have we seen this guy do time and time again he finds himself in these
00:41:42
situations or sets up a situation where he stands to profit and I don't know that I can tell you who
00:41:51
killed the Murdoch's I don't know that I can tell you who killed Stephen Smith or
00:41:56
even if Gloria Gloria Satterfield was murdered or if it was an accident but what I can tell you is everything that
00:42:03
we've reviewed over the past four episodes and everything that we were viewed in our research leading up to
00:42:09
these four episodes really kind of circles back to one thing a lot of the Murdoch's problems are all
00:42:15
in-house problems problems either between them or ones that they created themselves and when
00:42:22
they found themselves in a hole they couldn't stop digging they just kept digging and digging and digging and look
00:42:28
at the mess that we are in now look at the lives the the the senseless murders and the loss of life and the tragedy
00:42:38
here in this situation all all circling around a guy that was handed every break
00:42:44
in life he was given every opportunity in life to go out and do it the right way and he chose to do it the wrong way
00:42:53
time and time and time again where is the line for Alec Murdoch where is the line for his associates and where's the
00:43:02
line for some of his family as well have you ever seen the movie The Town yes and I'm going somewhere with this
00:43:10
it's just not a random Captain thought I kind of wonder if Alec got involved with people we know
00:43:19
he's involved with some people but if he got involved with a type of person at some point because this arrogance
00:43:27
that's coming from especially especially his son Paul that's learned somewhere I'm assuming he learned that from his
00:43:37
father and maybe just the Murdoch family in general and I just wonder if he got involved
00:43:44
with somebody and there's that scene in the town when Ben Affleck goes to the florist and says I'm done and he says
00:43:52
look look no I control you and basically I'll either clip your nuts or I'll do it
00:43:59
the chemical way and what he means by that is that he will get you good and doped up
00:44:05
and gets you to become an addict and I wonder if he just got wrapped up with the wrong people and the guy said okay I
00:44:14
could beat this guy up I could kill him I could kill his whole family that does nothing I'm going to torture this guy by
00:44:20
getting him so hooked on drugs that ruins everything around him and not just his nuclear family but the whole Murdoch
00:44:31
name for the rest of time that name because of how crazy and how many cases are involved in this
00:44:42
that name whoa be forever remembered because of these cases the problem with this case and and I mean we don't have
00:44:52
time to go through the whole list of them but the problem in these cases is is pretty simple to me one when I have a
00:45:00
situation and and see a situation where Alec Murdock is telling one story and then Cousin Eddie in regard to the
00:45:08
fake suicide attempt on Alec Murdoch's life when they are telling two completely
00:45:13
different stories it appears to me you know you could go and say all right well one of them's
00:45:19
telling the truth and one of them's lying it's not that clear man it's just simply not that clear it actually looks
00:45:26
even with the stories changing a couple of times they're still not in line here and we still have a situation where
00:45:33
Cousin Eddie disposed of the gun and he says Alec Murdoch was not shot his lawyers say he definitely was shot
00:45:42
why are those stories so incredibly different even after the fact of Alec Murdoch letting sled know hey I put
00:45:51
together some kind of fake plot here to kill myself and this was all to get some
00:45:55
insurance money for my son Buster when those stories remain that different still to this day it tells me one thing
00:46:03
both of them are lying why would both of them lie about that situation because both of them have something to hide and
00:46:13
this goes back to my belief that all of these problems a lot of these problems mainly the double homicide
00:46:21
are all in-house problems problems that were created by Alec Murdock and now we sit here and I I got two guys that I
00:46:31
already know are lying two that are telling separate stories I believe both of them to be lying and I
00:46:38
want to know the motivation for both of them to be lying and then the whole idea
00:46:44
of could Alec Murdock have arranged for his wife to have been killed I believe it's certainly possible right one thing
00:46:52
that's really interesting is we got some really smart people some really good agencies out there law enforcement
00:46:58
agencies that are going through his financials with a fine tooth comb so you would hope that it would be easy to find
00:47:06
but what we've already pointed out look at how much money is missing look at how much money is missing and
00:47:12
yeah I get it maybe he had a drug problem maybe he had all kinds of problems still
00:47:19
if he if you're going to hire someone to kill someone you have to pay somebody some
00:47:24
money and we know that he was writing checks or at least there's evidence to suggest
00:47:30
that he was writing checks to get drugs well if he's that dumb I hope he left the paper trail right to the person that
00:47:37
he hired or persons that he hired to show up at his property that night when Maggie was killed as fascinating as
00:47:44
all these twists and turns and all these possibilities in this case it just keep
00:47:49
going back to Stephen and Mallory and just think it's so sense so senseless and just the greed the greed of it all
00:48:01
why can't people strive to be better people and why can't people strive to have better character and a wealth of
00:48:10
character instead of a wealth of materialistic things well they do people do strive to
00:48:18
be better people people do strive to work hard and better themselves and those people unfortunately some of them
00:48:24
are not with us anymore Gloria Satterfield work to better herself to better her family she was a good person
00:48:32
working hard Mallory Beach had her whole life ahead of her she from a great family good people working
00:48:41
hard to do the right thing and Stephen Smith he wanted to be a doctor to help others
00:48:47
to help other people there are plenty of good people in this story unfortunately
00:48:52
because of some of the Murdoch's they're no longer with us this story also reminds me that eventually
00:49:00
bad people will be taken down and they have to live in the bed of mess that they made
00:49:08
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00:49:26
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00:49:43
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