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early September of 2021 in our timeline and Alec Murdoch's world is crumbling his wife and son are dead their murders
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unsolved and he's about to be sued in a civil wrongful death action that would give rise to a criminal investigation
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sled was looking into his family in connection with the Steven Smith case and he's still facing the wrongful death
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lawsuit from the Boating incident causing the death of mallerie beach Randolph III his father was dropped as a
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defendant in that case when he died and Alec and Buster were refusing to settle now could it get worse for Alec Murdoch
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oh yeah yes I think that it can and this is because on Saturday September 4th at
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1:34 p.m. Alec Murdoch called 911 H count 911 where's your emergency on um sah hatchee
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Road okay what's the address on sah hatchee Road I'm by the church uh what church what church are you talking about
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uh I don't know the name of it with the Red Roof okay what end of sock hat R cuz I
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don't know where you're talking about um at the Hampton County side okay what's going on I sto I got a
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flat tire and I stopped and somebody stopped to help me and when I turned my back they tried to shoot me oh okay were
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you shot yes but I mean I'm okay you shot where where were you shot at huh did they actually shoot you or
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they tried to shoot you they shot me but okay wait you need EMS uh well I mean yes I I can't
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drive okay and I'm bleeding a lot where what part of your body uh I'm not sure somewhere on my
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head your head some just stopped for me ma'am um for 911 okay still hey okay let
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me speak to him see if he can tell me exactly where you are Church okay R yeah hurry please okay and what's
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your name I'm still here I'm still on the line with you what's your name Alex Murdoch Alex Mur yes ma'am and you see
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you were driving you got a flat tire somebody stopped to help you and they shot you well they pull over yes man'
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like they were going to help me okay still on the line with me we going to get some I'm bleeding pretty
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bad okay St John's Missionary Church St John's Missionary Church yes ma'am okay and can you give me a description
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of the person shot you or shot at you yes ma'am I mean okay it was a okay a white fella
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uh I'd say a white me a fair amount younger than me uh really really short hair you have an ambulance coming man
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yes sir yes sir stay on the line I got them on the way you think one of y'all to the
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hospital can get in this car and drive me they're going to drive me to the hospital
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ma'am ma'am I'm still here sir they they're on the way don't hang don't hang out I think my favorite part of that
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call is when you know he's bleeding from the head and he's going ma'am are you are you still there well
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and the audio is not great but part of that is because Alec Murdoch is trying to interact with
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the 911 operator who he called but also interact with a Good Samaritan that seemed to have stopped to come to his
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Aid so you hear at times he's talking with the driver of whatever vehicle that is and then getting back on the phone
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with the 911 Personnel well pretty trusting of a Good Samaritan after a supposed Good Samaritan just shot him in
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the head Yeah so basically what he's saying here is that he gets a flat tire and that he stops to change the tire
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when someone drives by in a truck and then ask Alec if he's having car trouble and Alec says before he could respond he
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hears a gunshot and that the person must have shot him so he's now calling this in and now we have another person who
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seems to have stopped at some point you know he's telling the 911 operator that they've agreed to drive him to the
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hospital but from my understanding Captain eventually Alec Murdoch is taken via air ambulance to the hospital they
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found him or picked him up in a nearby field and rushed him to the hospital I wonder if there was a second 911 call
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made yeah he eventually calls back and by the time they pick him up he's about 7even miles from where he says the
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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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7 miles from his family's hunting lodge the location the property where Maggie and Paul were killed I just want to
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remind the audience and I want to remind myself this Murdoch Saga is was not written by the writers of Yellowstone
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this is not the Yellowstone podcast this is true crime garage and this [ __ ] is
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real it seems to me like the sheriff's deputies and sled agents who reported to the scene and processed it they were on
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scene obviously after the emergency Personnel arrived which it looked like it took a good amount of time before
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emergency Personnel to arrive it seems like there was some kind of confusion as to his exact location and then if he
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moved afterward that would explain the delay but afterwards shortly afterwards because this is phoned in as a shooting
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we have the sheriff's department as well sled a there on the scene processing the
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scene as well as Alec Murdoch's black Mercedes Benz GL450 that he was driving that day
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looking for Clues and evidence so this looks to be this looks to be a situation that one might have possibly even
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expected right if you were of the belief that Maggie and Paul were dead I mean that we know that they're dead they're
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the victims of a shooting a double homicide and now Alec appears to have been targeted as well so this is when
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you really start to wonder was someone hunting down the Murdock and eliminating them one by one well obviously in the
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double murder case you can look at it in a sense and go well somebody's daughter
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died in this accidental death but the person that caused the accident seem to have no remorse
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whatsoever so you think initially that double homicide could be a Revenge killing for that but then we learn from
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the double homicide that there was these lawsuits and this insurance policy that
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should have been paid out to the sons of the housekeeper and wasn't so now this killing you could say is this still
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Revenge that maybe somebody didn't get the job done didn't kill all the family members to get revenge because of the
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boating accident that could be a angle that you're looking at but the other angle is what about these lawsuits and
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this insurance that was never paid oh nobody even told the family about the lawsuits is this revenge for that well
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and by this point too we have the Steph Smith case where the Murdoch name has been publicly stated by sled again yes
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could could be revenge for that as well I mean there's a there's a long list of people that hate these people and or
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would have reason to too well yes and and think about it that's just three of the things we know of it's not like
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these are just the only three Shady things that have happened at the hands of the murdocks right it it would be
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very difficult to believe that Alec Murdoch was a perfect Saint up until this first incident now according to
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state law enforcement authorities no weapon was found at the scene and there was a slice in one of Mr Murdoch's tires
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now at first you say well this makes sense Alec is now the Target or he was the target all along and someone got to
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him but there's some questions about Alex story first Alex Mercedes apparently has those run flat tires
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where you can drive for miles and miles and miles when you have a when the rest of us would have a flat tire and so
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basically the thought there is with that technolog he would not have had to change the tire right right then and
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there and then there's been other people in the community that said look the murdocks these people don't change their
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own tires and according to Crime online quote a knife reportedly used to slash the Murdoch's tires was found near the
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scene multiple sources claim the knife was traced back to Murdoch on September 6th 2 days after the shooting with Alex
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still recovering remember he's in the hospital at this point recovering from that gun shot the law firm that his
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ancestors founded made a statement that Alec had resigned on September 3rd so this is the
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day 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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and missing money this according to the Wall Street Journal yeah because this dumbass was just not look he wasn't
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successful he wasn't successful his life so he had to keep on coming up with conways 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 if that makes any sense
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he had all these properties but they all have payments and again $10 million over
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time $10 million you know how much crap you can buy to keep up with the Joneses well again that's an estimate they've
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brought in some forensic accountants to try to determine exactly how much money is missing it's probably 15 million 20
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million that's what's interesting here though it's not to determine if money is missing it's how much money is missing
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now Alec is forced to resign that's what we're going to call that that's what they called it from The Firm after they
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confront him about him pilfering significant funds from the firm that his grandfather founded his wife and son are
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dead at this time he's facing Financial Ru it was beginning to look like this driveby
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shooting well maybe there's a chance this is some kind of suicide attempt by this point Alec is not well on the 6th
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after being released from the hospital he was only in the hospital for two days Alec checked himself into a rehab
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facility his attorneys released a statement that same day addressed to Alex's family friends and colleagues
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that said quote the murders of my wife and son have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life I have made a
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lot of decisions that I truly regret I'm resigning from my law firm and entering
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rehab after a long battle that has been exacerbated by these murders I am immensely sorry to everyone I've hurt
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including my family friends and colleagues I ask for prayers as I rehabilitate myself and my relationships
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now I had a source I guess I guess the whole drug aspect and going into rehab I believe it
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was uh I think it was methamphetamines it's reported that he has an opioid or had an opioid addiction I have a local
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source that has told me that was all made up now I I don't have any proof of it but I guess the the thought process
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there was if I blame it on a drug addiction because of the while these double murders were so bad on me that I
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started using opioids that that makes it look better than just I'm a complete scumbag and willing to do anything and
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willing to throw anybody under the bus to keep conning myself through this life well I think the general claim here is
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that he had already had this opioid addiction but because of the murders you know an addiction that was already
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spiring out of control got significantly worse very quickly on September 8th the
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South Carolina Supreme Court suspended Alec Murdoch's license to practice law effective immediately two days later on
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the 10th with rumors swirling that Alec Murdoch tried and failed to kill himself
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Alex's lawyers made a second statement that said Alec had an entry and exit wound and suffered a skull fracture in
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the shooting which was not self-inflicted quote Alec pulled over after seeing a low tire indicator light
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the statement read and it goes on to say a male driver in a blue pickup asked him
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if he had car troubles as soon as Alec replied he was shot well it gets worse on September
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13th sled announced that it was opening an investigation into claims Alec had misappropriated funds from
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PMP and as alleged by the law firm again this all starts off with a boating accident then a double
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homicide and then a look back into a a hidden run and also a look back into accidental death at the Murdoch's
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house so at this point sled is investigating all things Murdoch well it must have been exhausting for Alec to
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try to m maintain his facade and keep up with all of these lies because from rehab Alec calls up sled and he admits
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that the shooting incident on the 4th was all engineered by him and this is because there was an insurance policy on
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his life that would pay $10 million to his family if Alec were killed and of course by this point sadly his family is
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just the older son Buster this was quickly followed by an arrest made by sled sled arrested a Curtis Edward Smith
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AKA Eddie age 61 and charged him with assisted suicide assault and battery of a high aggravated nature pointing and
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presenting a firearm insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud Smith has also been charged with
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distribution of methamphetamine and possession of marijuana these latter charges were because when they arrested
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Smith they found p and meth during a search of his home well then I guess the big question now is who is Curtis Smith
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yes AKA Eddie so the charging documents State as 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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sah hatchee 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 13th 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 on September 14th 2021 Mr Smith admitted to being present during the shooting of Mr
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Murdoch and to disposing of the firearm afterwards now this Mr Smith is a former
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client of Alec Murdoch's he is also Alex's distant cousin and I guess we'll call him Cousin
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Eddie as they are now calling him online and here's a whole another twist to this
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thing [ __ ] full Clark according to Alex lawyers Cousin Eddie is also Alex dealer Maybe the drug addiction was not
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just made up maybe there is some truth to it of course Eddie denies being Alex dealer now a statement released by Alex
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attorneys will try to this is you know 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
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believed that ending his life was his only option today he knows that's not true for the last 20 years there have
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been many people feeding his addiction to opioids during that time these individuals took advantage of his
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addiction and his ability to pay substantial funds for illegal drugs one of those individuals took advantage of
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his mental illness and agreed to take Alec's Life by shooting him in the head fortunately Alec was not killed by the
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gunshot wound Alec is fully cooperating with sled in the invest instigation into
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his shooting opioid use and the search to find the person or people responsible for the murder of his wife and son Alec
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is not without fault but he is just one of many whose life has been devastated by opioid addiction so Alec turned
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himself in Captain to the authorities and he was charged with insurance fraud conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and
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filing a false police report he was then released on $220,000 personal recognizes
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Bond he quietly returned to the rehab center in a location that his lawyers refused to disclose but of course his
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lawyers 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
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us part four and surprise surprise there's going to be another four parts this case never stops we really
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truly are yet to see when this case will stop or when any of these cases will have a conclusion to them so it's kind
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of a stay tuned situation here but at his bond hearing Cousin Eddie Smith he basically says is that the charges
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are all crap and he's going to make his way through the media and the media rounds and he's going to tell his side
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of the story or another twist to the whole Murdoch story on October 15th Smith claimed that Alec did not get shot
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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 to where Alec
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orders him to shoot him and Smith says he refused now he told the New York Post qu I run over and we wrestled a minute
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together me trying to get the gun away from him then the gun kind of went off above his head and I got scared to death
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and I ran to my truck and took off end quote he described the incident as the craziest situation I've ever been in and
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said that he believed he was set up to be the Fall Guy Smith told police he disposed of the gun he said he felt
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betrayed by Alex because Alec was blaming him for taking advantage of Alex's illness and also Alec ratted him
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out for the shooting when Alec was the one who proposed the whole thing to begin with it's very unclear as to
00:28:35
exactly what went down there that day in the middle of the road we have Cousin Eddie saying one story and we have Alec
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Murdoch saying another it's also unclear what kind of agreement or Arrangement was made between the two was it
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something that they had decided on in advance or as Cousin Eddie says he shows up on scene and he's being told then and
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there that he's involved in something right on the Today's Show Cousin Eddie said quote I didn't shoot him I'm
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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 but I didn't
00:29:21
go through with it but Alec 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 fleas the scene now I I guess
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maybe he's scared and confused and then he disposes of the gun it it's all a little weird that he goes forward with
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disposing of the gun and then just kind of sits there quietly sitting on his hands for days until Alec Murdoch starts
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telling a different story because leading up to this until Alec calls up sled and admits that hey this was a plot
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that I put together and here's my version of the events Alec Murdoch and his lawyers up to that point were
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sticking to their guns of I was shot by somebody that that showed up to to kill me on the side of the road they stuck
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with that for a few days well that's why my policy is just tell the truth you don't have to remember anything or just
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lie about everything which seems to be what Alec Murdoch is doing you know there's
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there's so many questions here Captain it turns out that uh the weapon used was a 38 caliber revolver now who
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shot the gun is completely unclear you know did Alex shoot himself did they russle with the gun like Smith said why
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does Smith go out of his way to say that Alec was not shot when I mean he was I mean he was
00:31:05
picked up and taken to the hospital where he stayed for two days if he wasn't shot there you know they would be
00:31:11
releasing him immediately and his attorneys are saying that he's got a gunshot wound did anybody ever test you know GSR
00:31:20
is a a difficult science thing and I I don't want to go too far into that because there is plenty of proof that
00:31:27
even if you're just close to a gunshot you can have some gunshot residue on your person so I I guess you know you
00:31:36
can call that into question did anybody test Alex hands but you know I don't know that that's going to get get us any
00:31:42
further here this case should be called The Case of the wtfs right cuz it's just constantly what
00:31:49
the f well some other weird questions here too a 911 caller who first called in the shooting
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this from my understanding is before Alec Murdoch called 911 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 Murdoch in the middle of the road seemingly waving for
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someone to stop to help him but we know he calls 911 later and this passer Byer says this situation looked strange in
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like a setup so I wasn't going to stop but I'm a good person so I'll at least phone it into 911 right it's just
00:32:37
bizarre why Alec Murdoch would delay calling 911 if he was shot badly like we're led to believe by the statements
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of his lawyers I mean I don't understand why he's trying to flag someone down it's almost like he needs a witness
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right like he needs someone there and of course at the end of the day we know that he did set this up even though
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there's a discrepancy in the stories between Cousin Eddie and Alec yes Clark but
00:33:06
clearly someone's buying this story regardless of the different versions because we know that both Alec Murdoch
00:33:15
and Cousin Eddie were indicted by a grand jury so they're both charged in this incident the amount of greed in
00:33:23
this story is almost unbelievable well and it all seems to be coming from the same person yeah the same
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Source now we're going to fast forward a little bit because I don't want to get into all of the legal mumbo jumbo about
00:33:38
the the lawsuits and and a lot of stuff that's taking place the the key thing that we need to hone in on here Captain
00:33:45
is that later Alec Murdoch is arrested again remember he was released after this latest incident that we discussed
00:33:53
in September he was released on $220,000 bond and he's arrested later and what we're
00:34:00
going to have here is we're finally going to see a situation where the judge will recognize that Alec Murdoch is it's
00:34:10
too dangerous to have him outside of of a prison or outside of a jail I should say he's going to have to face these
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charges he's going to have to go to trial but what they end up doing is ultimately they set his bond at $7
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million and they deny him the opportunity to pay the 10% so he has to pay all of the 7 million basically it's
00:34:36
like he's not getting out at all you know they set the amount so high that he cannot pay it right this is good for
00:34:43
them well and you know what good for all involved because what I see here is an individual that when he's out people are
00:34:51
dying people are getting shot at and this is regardless of who is responsible for all of this mess or for each of
00:34:59
these little for each of the different parts of this story right if he's out it seems to me that either somebody else is
00:35:07
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
00:35:14
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 builk out of all this
00:35:27
money over the years well he's never going to pay anybody back well I don't think he's ever going to get out of
00:35:31
prison either if he is convicted on some of these charges or all of them the main
00:35:36
way 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
00:35:42
not able to practice law in the state of South Carolina so with all these events
00:35:48
who is responsible I think we could if we start with the way we laid it out the boat accident I think we both are in
00:35:58
ingredents Paul is responsible and obviously he showed zero remorse from statements of individuals that were
00:36:05
there on the boat it appears that yes Paul was driving and he does not seem to be concerned with the tragedy of that
00:36:15
incident right and where do you stand on the double homicide well so I I don't think that that any of
00:36:23
these are easily answered and I think that there's there's a lot of suspicion that you can throw around everything
00:36:31
that I have seen though Captain is mallerie Beach's family you know that's where one's mind goes to immediately
00:36:39
they they lost their their daughter or their sister or you know their loved one yeah and so of course your mind goes
00:36:47
there I've seen nothing but cooperation from mallerie Beach's family in in this whole situation you know they
00:36:56
can't bring their daughter back but they're also not violent people these are reasonable good people who were
00:37:05
struck by tragedy and it looks to me by the the actions of Paul Murdoch so I don't think that I see the Revenge angle
00:37:16
here when it comes to the double homicide as far as the saterfield case goes with Gloria saterfield falling down
00:37:25
the steps and and then unfortunately losing her life in the hospital 2 weeks later I think really the only weird part
00:37:33
of that case is how Alec Murdoch stole money basically spearheaded this whole idea of well we need to sue me somebody
00:37:41
needs to pay for this situation I'm going to help you boys out and then he uses it to to make a bunch of money I
00:37:48
believe it was probably an accident but the shameful part is that he saw an opportunity to try to take advantage of
00:37:55
it and how could he win from somebody else's loss well and there's some information out there that suggests that
00:38:01
Gloria saterfield was awake at times while she was in the hospital so there's a chance that if there was something
00:38:08
really different that happened in that situation that she would be able to communicate that to someone uh before
00:38:15
her before sadly that she passed away now in regard to the double homicide there was some information that came out
00:38:24
and this came out in early November from the Island packet one of the local news
00:38:29
sources out there that says a state grand jury is looking into a trail of money from Alec Murdoch alleged opioid
00:38:38
drug habit to a low country gang based in the waterl area and believed to be called the Cowboys according to sources
00:38:47
familiar with the investigation the money Trail L linking Murdoch is allegedly in checks he wrote to a person
00:38:54
who in turn would write checks to couriers to buy drugs the sources said money paid to the couriers is believed
00:39:02
to have been used to buy the drugs from Cowboys gang Affiliates the drugs that we're talking about of course were meth
00:39:11
and opioids apparently Alec Murdoch wrote more than $200,000 worth of checks between early
00:39:19
June and early September of 2021 before then the amounts had only been about $10 to
00:39:29
$20,000 per month the scripts were always written to a goet who apparently took checks basically Captain there's an idea
00:39:42
here that this is in large part the extent of his his drug problem and where he was getting
00:39:52
some of his drugs now this Cousin Eddie being his dealer and these checks it's all rather confusing but it
00:40:02
also kind of makes sense here too because if Alec Murdoch was getting the amounts of money that we talked about
00:40:08
that he was hiding you know he's dispersing this money to accounts that he's in control of well we're talking
00:40:15
about millions of dollars where did all that money go so some of it obviously on drugs well and
00:40:24
it's it's easy to see as situation here where these Cowboys or some other type of gang may have come in and sent a
00:40:36
message to Alec Murdoch or the double homicides were some kind of retaliation from this gang and also
00:40:43
don't forget that they had multiple properties so and it seems like on at least one property they had people
00:40:50
working so you have those mortgages those aren't small payments and then whoever is working at those properties
00:40:58
well as well well and there's also some Mis dealings and strange things about some of the properties that they owned
00:41:06
anyway that that they owned as well and I'm a little unclear as to what some of this means there's bolstering theories
00:41:16
that Alec was tied up with gangsters and linked to the drug trade in the area and
00:41:24
the connection there for Alec BDO is this Barrett T bware I believe is how you pronounce his last name he's a
00:41:32
commercial fisherman who operated at a Buford for over 40 years according to his 2018 obituary and a close friend and
00:41:42
Associate of Alec Murdock according to Fitz news Alec was bw's legal representation and business partner
00:41:51
before bware died from cancer the two apparently were close friends who so socialized together with their wives and
00:41:58
attended South Carolina basketball games together many times Alec and bware jointly owned several real estate
00:42:07
properties bware used to own that Mell property the one that eventually Maggie and Paul are killed
00:42:14
at there's information out there captain that says that in 2013 Alec paid bw's wife
00:42:22
$5 for that property $5 for that property well that's what we call a good deal that's a
00:42:29
good deal seems awfully Shady to me uh there was some kind of tax-free exchange transaction at the same time for another
00:42:38
property that was valued at $730,000 now what does this all have to do with Alec his friends business associates and
00:42:49
whatnot this there's thought that that property has a landing strip and a large barn on this property so the
00:43:01
thought here being that bware was some type of big-time drug Smuggler at one point in his life right and that Alec
00:43:09
was kind of In Cahoots with him so when you hear things like that you really start to wonder and struggle with how
00:43:17
and who could be involved I mean how deep does this thing run and how far back was Alec Murdoch in these these
00:43:25
shap deals with these these other Shady figures and was he the only one in the family that was involved or does this go
00:43:33
back multiple Generations well and I don't think that there's any question about Alec Murdoch's location of where
00:43:40
he was the night when his wife and son were killed but what we do know is that there was even though Alec Murdoch said
00:43:48
that he was unaware of it there was a life insurance policy there was an estate to be paid out from Maggie Mur
00:43:56
and she had left everything that she owned to her husband this was based off of a a a will that was put together I
00:44:04
believe in 2013 so she's leaving everything to her husband so it's not that far-fetched
00:44:12
to to wrap your head around the idea that maybe Alec Murdoch wanted his wife killed so that he could benefit from it
00:44:21
what have we seen this guy do time and time again he finds himself in these situ situations or sets up a situation
00:44:29
where he stands to profit and I don't know that I can tell you who killed the murdocks I don't know that I can tell
00:44:38
you who killed Steven Smith or even if Gloria Gloria saterfield was murdered or if it was an accident but what I can
00:44:46
tell you is everything that we've reviewed over the past four episodes and everything that we reviewed in our
00:44:51
research leading up to these four episodes really kind of circles back to one thing
00:44:56
a lot of the Murdoch's problems are all inhouse problems problems either between
00:45:02
them or ones that they created themselves and when they found themselves in a hole they couldn't stop
00:45:08
digging they just kept digging and digging and digging and look at the mess that we are in now look at the lives the
00:45:16
the the senseless murders and the loss of life and the tragedy here in this situation all all circling around a guy
00:45:26
that was handed every break in life he was given every opportunity in life to go out and do it the right way and he
00:45:35
chose to do it the wrong way time and time and time again where is the line for Alec Murdoch where is the line for
00:45:44
his associates and where is the line for some of his family as well have you ever
00:45:48
seen the movie The Town yes and I'm I'm going somewhere with this it's just not a random kept in
00:45:56
thought I kind of wonder if Alec got involved with people we know he's involved with some people
00:46:04
but if he got involved with a type of person at some point because this arrogance that's coming from especially
00:46:14
especially his son Paul that's learned somewhere I'm assuming he learned that from his father and maybe just the
00:46:23
Murdoch family in general and I just wonder if he got involved with somebody and there's that scene in
00:46:30
the town when Ben Affleck goes to the Florest and says I'm done and he says look look no I canol you and basically
00:46:40
I'll either clip your nuts or I'll do it the chemical way and what he means by that is that he will get you good and
00:46:48
doped up and gets you to become an addict and I wonder if he just got wrapped up with the wrong people and the
00:46:56
guy said okay I could beat this guy up I could kill him I could kill his whole family that does nothing I'm going to
00:47:02
torture this guy by getting him so hooked on drugs that it ruins everything around him and not just his nuclear
00:47:13
family but the whole muru name for the rest of time that name because of how crazy and
00:47:22
how many cases are involved in this that name will be forever remembered because of these cases the
00:47:32
problem with this case and and I mean we don't have time to go through the whole
00:47:36
list of them but the problem in these cases is is pretty simple to me one when I have a situation and and see a
00:47:45
situation where Alec Murdoch is telling one story and then Cousin Eddie in regard to the fake suicide attempt on
00:47:53
Alec Murdoch's life when when they are telling two completely different stories it appears to me you know you
00:48:01
could go and say all right well one of them's telling the truth and one of them's lying it's not that clear man
00:48:06
it's just simply not that clear it actually looks even with the stories changing a couple of times they're still
00:48:13
not in lined here and we still have a situation where Cousin Eddie disposed of the gun and he says Alec Murdoch was not
00:48:22
shot his lawyers say he definitely was shot why are those stories so incredibly different even after the fact of Alec
00:48:31
Murdoch letting sled know hey I put together some kind of fake plot here to kill myself and this was all to get some
00:48:39
insurance money for my son Buster when those stories remain that different still to this day it tells me one thing
00:48:47
both of them are lying why would both of them lie about that situation because both of them have something to hide
00:48:56
and this goes back to my belief that all of these problems a lot of these problems mainly the double homicide are
00:49:05
all inhouse problems problems that were created by Alec Murdoch and now we sit here and I I got two guys that I already
00:49:15
know are lying two that are telling separate stories I believe both of them to be lying and I want to know the
00:49:22
motivation for both of them to be lying and then the whole idea of could Alec Murdoch have arranged for his wife to
00:49:32
have been killed I believe it's certainly possible right one thing that's really interesting is we got some
00:49:38
really smart people some really good agencies out there law enforcement agencies that are going through his
00:49:44
financials with a fine tooth comb so you would hope that it would be easy to find
00:49:50
but what we've already pointed out look at how much money is missing look at how
00:49:55
much money is missing and yeah I get it maybe he had a drug problem maybe he had
00:50:00
all kinds of problems still If he if you're going to hire someone to kill someone you have to pay somebody
00:50:08
some money and we know that he was writing checks or at least there's evidence to suggest that he was writing
00:50:14
checks to get drugs well if he's that dumb I hope he left the paper trail right to the person that he hired or
00:50:21
persons that he hired to show up at his property that night when Maggie was killed
00:50:26
as fascinating as all these twists and turns and all these possibilities in this case I just keep going back to
00:50:34
Stephen and mallerie and just think it's so sense so senseless and just the greed
00:50:43
the greed of it all why can't people strive to be better people and why can't people strive to have better character
00:50:52
and a a wealth of character instead of a wealth of materialistic things well they do people do strive to
00:51:02
be better people people do strive to work hard and better themselves and those people unfortunately some of them
00:51:08
are not with us anymore Gloria saterfield worked to better herself to better her family she was a good person
00:51:16
working hard mallerie Beach had her whole life ahead of her she from a great family good people working hard to do
00:51:26
the right thing and Steven Smith he wanted to be a doctor to help others to help other people there are plenty of
00:51:33
good people in this story unfortunately because of some of the murdocks they're no longer with us this story also
00:51:40
reminds me that eventually bad people will be taken down and they have to live in the bed of mess
00:51:50
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00:52:10
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