Investigate Earth Conspiracy Podcast - Alex Murdaugh Shot! | Murdaugh Murders Podcast

Episode Date: September 4, 2021

Alex Murdaugh was found shot along a road in Hamptom County, SC. Alex was the father of Paul Muerdaugh and husband of Maggie Murdaugh. Paul and Maggie were murdered in June of 2021. This is all the news we have so far of Alex Muerdaugh being shot and the Murdaugh Murders.

Time, but I've been feeling this way for far too long. Welcome to Investigate Earth Podcast. I am your host, Chad, alongside my wife, Sherry. Sorry, I ran up the stairs and now I can't breathe. Hey, guys. Hope everyone's well on this Saturday afternoon. Yes, yes, for sure. So, guys, we came, this is kind of a break-in podcast.

It's not going to be a long podcast, but we definitely wanted to say what we know on Alex Murdoch being shot. He was shot today in Hampton, South Carolina. At approximately 1.30 p.m. Eastern Standard time. Yeah, approximately 1.30. So for those of you to don't know, Alex Murdole was the husband of Maggie Murdoch and the father of Paul Murdoch.

Both Maggie and Paul were shot June of 2021, just a few months back. It was a double murder on their property in Hampton County, South Carolina. Actually, it seems to be very close to where Alex Murdoch was shot today. It was a road. Road running, it's like, get your breath paper. Ran up the steps for it. What I've read, it was a road running parallel with Moselle Street, which was the property where the hunting lodge is located. Yeah, the hunting lodge is actually where Paul and Maggie were shot and murdered in June.

So it's fairly close to that. What we do know is that Alex's attorney via Alex's family members saying that Alex was driving to Charleston from Hampton. and he somehow got a flat tire and was changing it and was shot. Yeah, and so there was a lot of speculation throughout social media when this first broke, which was today probably a few hours ago. And a lot of people were speculating whether he killed himself because we didn't know from a lot of sources that he was shot in the head. And no one kind of knew, but actually someone posted a video in one of the groups on social media and they actually drove on the road that he appears to be,

was where he shot. Or his car was, yeah, where he appears to be shot, and his car was on the side of the road. And it did have a flat tire looking at the video. The tire was flat. And it also appeared that the window was either down or shot out, the back window. Yeah, it was probably shot out. I mean, especially when you hit a back window or any window,

usually it shatters completely. So you usually won't have a window still intact at all when it's shot. but, and that's dependent on, you know, the caliber of bullet. But so for those of you to don't know briefly, Paul and Maggie Murdoch were shot in June, as we were saying earlier. And Paul was 19 years old when he was driving a boat down in Beaufort area of South Carolina. And apparently a lot of people on the boat that night were pretty intoxicated. There were five or six people on the boat.

with him and and and just so you know this is kind of where everything starts with this family and the murders and everything else it's like a saga yeah so um so paul was driving the boat that night like i said this was what three years ago or so three or four years ago and he hit a pylon or a bridge basically a bridge pylon and one of the at a very fast speed yeah one of the women on the boat was thrown out of the boat and she was later recovered um five days later deceased. And so a lot of people knew or said that Paul was driving the boat that night. He did not get any breath liser or a breathalyzer or anything that we know of that night. I don't even think he went to jail. No, I think they took a picture at a courthouse and sent him home.

And so this is kind of where it all started because a lot of people speculated that, you know, Paul was being let off of it because of his family. Now, Alex and the Murdox, you know, down in the lower portion of South Carolina in the low country, they are very prominent family. Many of them are attorneys or district attorneys or they have a very long line of people in, you know, in the court system in as much, in as many as five counties near the low country. It's not just one. So they have a lot of power and influence. There was a lot of people that said that, you know, Alex, and this was actually recent reports that came out, that Alex Murdoch, which is the father and the husband, that he had told people to be quiet about whatever happened that night on the boat incident and so on and so forth.

Now, Paul was not even indicted on any charges until approximately three years later, I believe, or two and a half years later. And I think a big reason for that was because there was a lot of pressure and a lot of media pressure and a lot of speculation on, you know, was it being brushed or in a rug because of the powerful family? No one knew. but and so then you know literally in June I think Paul if I'm not mistaken was indicted in February March April somewhere around there and so he had a court case coming up and but yeah he was him and his mother were murdered at their farm and what it sounded like during the court case people were speculating that he was going to accuse other people of driving the boat and trying to get out of it that way yeah so there there's all these twists and turns in the story of like who did it

Who, you know. Yeah, but also, you know, if you're not breathless and you don't have any kind of, you know, blood alcohol tests or any of that stuff from what we know, I mean, it's tough to prove that he was drunk anyway. I mean, you might have witnesses if they testified. But that was if they testified. So anyways, they were murdered. Paul and Maggie were both shot by different weapons. One of them was a shotgun.

One of them was an AR-15, I believe, is what they said. And Alex Murdoch was the one that found Paul and Maggie the night of the murders. And actually, Alex was the one that called law enforcement and was on the phone 911. Those tapes are out there in the release, the 911 calls. And so now that was in June. And now here we are in September the 4th. Three months later. Yeah, Alex was found shot today alongside the road.

The weird thing is when the news first came out, news was reporting that law enforcement officials are saying that Alex was shot at a property on this particular road. But, you know, it doesn't appear if you look at. at the video the video is out there does not appear he was shot at a property it looks like he's on the side of a road it looks like the tires flat um there are evidence markers on the road there is crime scene tape on the road and um you know the evidence markers there's probably about five evidence markers on the road and typically that shows shell casings that's that's something you'll usually do when you when you have now not in all cases i mean could it show like evidence of like a tire jack or anything, would they like place those markers around those kind of things or no?

I mean, maybe probably not, but not in a road. I mean, you know, if looking at the video, you can't really see anything on the road where these, you know, evidence markers are. So which what that probably means. Yeah, typically it's always shell casings is what they'll show. And so, and if I'm not mistaken, the video looked like the front window was rolled up, correct? Right. And the back window was not. Yeah, which means it was probably shot out.

And it was on the driver's side back tire. is the tire that was flat. Yeah. So, you know, it was either the fact that, and I didn't look at the vehicle in the video, but what I would be curious is was Alex out of the vehicle when he was shot. Was he still sitting inside of the vehicle when he was shot? Because if he was out of the vehicle, you know,

his car could have bullet holes in it as well. Right. I think he was outside, but I'm speculating. Yeah, we don't know. And it's just weird that the way it was set up, the way his car was coming down the road, it just happened that the tire on that side where somebody could be passing on the other side would have easy access, you know? Yeah.

So, yeah, I mean, yeah, at first there was speculation as soon as this news came out that he could have shot itself. It doesn't appear right now that that's the case. What we do know is he was flown to Savannah. Some sorts of say flown. He probably was if he was in, you know, pretty bad shape. Because from that, from where they are to Savannah, that's probably a good, I don't know, 40 minutes, I would say. say. So that's a long ride for an ambulance. So if they had a helicopter available, I would assume they would have probably transported him. That's a trauma event. And there are reports just as of

right now, 6.01 p.m. on September 4th that he could possibly be deceased. That is just reports we're seeing out there. We don't know that for sure. We cannot confirm that he has died in the hospital or any of that stuff, but we are seeing that right now. We're seeing reports that say family members. Family members are saying that. That he's deceased. But we don't know that for sure. So what does this mean for the trial, or not the trial, but what does this mean for the whole case is the big question, you know, Alex was a prime suspect from what they were saying, not necessarily a prime, but, you know, many news reports, according to sources, was he was still a suspect. And, you know, what does that, what does that do to that whole thing, you know? Yeah, and it would have been

different if it was a suicide, then we'd know, okay, well, we still wouldn't know, but if it was a suicide and he shot himself in the head, then you could kind of draw conclusions, I would say that he was involved in this. Or possibly, yeah. Or possibly involved in the shootings of his wife and child. Yeah. But now seeing him shot and, you know, we can't confirm it for sure, but that kind of really takes that theory out of play.

Well, the other, the strange thing to me also is just the fact that, you know, you know, we said this in the previous podcast, but law enforcement has been very hush-lip about the whole thing. I mean, obviously during murder investigations, you do want to stay pretty close to your chest. You want to keep everything pretty close. But at the same time, when you have a potential murderer out there on the loose, regardless of whoever he's targeting, is still a very dangerous person. And when people are already in a position to where, you know, they've already killed two people, then that just makes them even more desperate, even more careless, even more dangerous.

So, you know, was the fact that Alex, if it's true and Alex was a suspect, did they just tunnel vision Alex as a suspect and and ignore a lot of other things. I mean, is that possibly why they haven't really talked to the media a lot and said, hey, if you got any evidence, if you got any of this, you got any of that.

Right. Because normally when there's a murder investigation, they let the public know if they're safe or not. And they're so hush-hush. People don't know if they should be worried if there's a mass murderer out there or if this was a target just to this family. Which it seems like it was, obviously now.

I mean, especially if he's shot now and it wasn't him. It was someone else. At any case, you know, if this makes three, there is a serial killer out here. Yeah, I mean, technically, yeah. Technically, three or more makes you a serial killer. Well, the weird thing is, as you said, where it looks like he was shot, and according to the, you know, according to the map data, it looks like he was right by Moselle Road, which is where. Parallel.

Yeah, parallel to Moselle Road. Mosel Road is where the hunting family, or the hunting lodge was where Paul and Maggie were murdered. and, you know, for me, it's like, you know, obviously if I know I'm not a suspect, like, I, it's got to be dangerous for them anyway. Exactly, because our family was murdered. Yeah. So it's just so weird. I don't know. Maybe he just didn't think about it if he was changing his tire.

Or maybe he just thought they were after Paul. Yeah. And so he was like, well, they're probably not going to come after me. But, you know, either way. But I think if he was shot, it must have been out of vengeance of some time. or he knew something about somebody that somebody didn't want him to tell. Like maybe. In case it went to trial.

Yeah. In case he went to trial and he was, you know, on trial. Maybe he would start talking about things he knew about other, you know, important people. I don't know. Yeah, because look, you got to remember this family is very prominent. They're very connected in the court system and the state system and whatever else. I mean, it is very, very strange what is going on. But, you know, what I would be doing, regardless, if I'm Buster or if I'm any of this other family, I would be probably not in the, not anywhere near those counties right now.

You know, and, you know, there are people saying, I've heard on social media, oh, well, someone just happened to see him passing by and they saw it was him and then they shot him. They had to turn around and shot him. Yeah, I very seriously doubt that. If anything, his tire was probably flattened on purpose. It was probably set up to where when he left, wherever he was, maybe. he was at the hunting lodge i don't know if he was at the hunting lodge i'm surprised they wouldn't have done it there but um you know did they set him up to where his tire would go flat and then they knew that they were probably following him and they were ready and as soon as he pulled over there it is

and then they turned around and came back yeah i mean no turned around what you mean well i'm just saying that you know people they didn't have to turn around they could have been following him yeah and just well i'm just saying from the speculations of people saying that someone turned around and came back who who said that though i mean just social media but how are they I don't know. That's what I just read. I'm not saying that happened. I don't know. I'm just saying that was what I read is somebody there's in multiple groups. They said that somebody drove past him turned around, came back and shot him. I mean, maybe a witness saw it. I don't know. Well, I mean, somebody, you know, even if you would have set up for his tire to be flat, then where he knew he was going to pull over, you know, you would probably still pull past him as he as he pulled over. But it's just crazy. You do this at 1.30 in the afternoon on a Saturday. I know it was a. you know a very deserted type of road but you know I'm sure some people are passing right it was very

close to 95 though highway 90 or i 95 runs you know straight down south Carolina and if you look at the map it's very close to 95 and so from what some of the family members were saying that were telling the attorneys that you know he was on his way to Charleston at the time when he had to pull over and try to change the tire so that's what we know so far like I said there are reports that he may be deceased or at this point, but we do not know that. I am curious what's going to happen as far as how is law enforcement

going to handle this one. Because if he was shot by somebody and they don't have a suspect and they don't know who it was. And they're being hush-hush about it. I'm just curious. Are you going to come out and try to get the public's help this time?

Are you going to ask anybody if they saw anything or if they know anything? It just doesn't make sense to me. I don't know why it's being investigated the way it is. I'm not there. I don't know what's happening in the investigation,

but, you know, if Alex has been a suspect this entire time, that pretty much means you don't have any other suspects. Mm-hmm. You know. Yeah. And, you know, at the same time, it's like, because of the Paul and Maggie Murdoch murders, you know, there were other cases open throughout this whole thing.

There was Stephen Smith, which was supposedly it was a hit and run that happened. And there was speculation that possibly the Murdox had something to do with that particular incident. I don't know. There were people that said it looked like a murder, not a hit-and-run. And then that's in all of our other podcasts. If you want to go back and listen to it. But they also kind of reopened his case. Yeah, they reopened the investigation after this double homicide. Yeah, to look and see if maybe that family had anything to do with the Paul and Maggie murders, which is crazy. Yeah, I mean, it's like, oh, okay. So you said it was a hit and run, but now you're looking at us for a suspect.

But now you're investigating me because everyone knows, you know, thinks. family killed my son. Yeah, and that was speculation. There's been other incidents that are tied to the family that people say and there's been reports on, but we don't know any of it's true or not. I don't know. It's a crazy story. This literally could be a freaking movie. Yeah, for sure.

It's very weird. It's so many tangles and turns and really, it could be whoever gets rights to this movie is going to be a... Wow. I mean, it's still crazy. And the movie is kind of playing out in front of our hours. It's like a real-life murder mystery. And, you know, this just makes it even crazier. So, guys, that's all we know right now as of 6.09 p.m. on September 4th.

As soon as something more credible or concrete comes through, we'll definitely do another one. Come back on, let you know what we find out or any of that stuff. And we'll kind of look into sources, too, of anybody we know that may have some inside information into this particular case. Right. And if anybody else out there listening has any kind of information at all, you know, you can always contact us too. Yeah, you can contact us at Contact and InvestigateEarthpodcast.com.

If you have any information, anything you've heard, anything you want to speculate, reach out to us, email us. You know, it's all anonymous. We'll never mention your name unless you want us to on air. But, yeah, feel free to reach out. Contact and Investigateearthpodcast.com. And like I said, we're going to do. on Facebook.

Yeah, we're going to do some research as well. We do on a newspaper slash, you know, news thing in South Carolina, which has nothing to do with, like, breaking news or any of that stuff. But it's one of the biggest in South Carolina as far as traveling tourism anyway. But we kind of keep that separate with this. But we will do some reaching out, see what we can find out and see how long it's going to take for anyone to know anything else from where it is. But I am very curious how law enforcement is going to respond to this. how they're going to interact with the media and the public, what information they're going to let the public know.

And part of this also is SLED, which is South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, is the one over the main investigation. And so they're usually already a lot quieter about stuff than local law enforcement will be or any of that stuff. So as soon as we know something else, we'll definitely let you guys know. And until then, try to enjoy your Saturday college football is back.

And we're going to watch some of that. But guys, until next time, we'll talk to you soon. Have a great Saturday. See you.