Last Podcast On The Left - Episode 649: Alex Murdaugh Part II - A Legacy of Liars

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

The boys continue the story of Alex Murdaugh as a legacy of corruption, addiction, and entitlement rots a family from the inside out. Every warning sign is dismissed, every mess quietly cleaned up, and every victim left behind. All leading up to a deadly boat crash that would crack open decades’ worth of corruption and lies. For Live Shows, Merch, and More Visit: www.LastPodcastOnTheLeft.comKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Last Podcast on the Left ad-free, plus get Friday episodes a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There's no place to escape to this is the last hot task. On the left. That's when the cannibalism started. So this is in South Carolina. No, this is South Carolina. I wanted to bring this up to Marcus. Did you see this? And I just want to do this here because, again, this is our biggest microphone that we have, you know, and I wanted to spread it all over.

You know, I did, but I did want to spread some awareness over an issue that I thought that would really pertain to you and pertain to a lot of our listeners. Okay. Have you heard about how ADHD is linked to big butts? Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah. No? It's because they sit down too much?

No, no, no, no. No, we don't. We really, we sit down very little. Oh, okay. We're always out moving. Bigger-looking butt. Picking up stuff all the time? Yeah.

The day after Christmas, this came out. It was a study that showed that... On boxing day? Yep. That autism and ADHD sometimes lends towards bigger butts. You know why? I can actually tell you why. We drop a lot of stuff.

So we're always having to bend down to pick stuff up. We're doing a lot of squats. You think it's body weight? We're very clumsy. Yeah. Well, I guess that explains it. Yeah. Sneaky sign of autism.

Yeah. So I have a massive ass. Oh my God. I didn't know. The therapist couldn't see it because you're always. sitting down when you talk to them. Well, apparently, though, no, actually, I'm rereading this wrong. It's because ADHD people sometimes have a postural issue called anterior pelvic tilt,

so their butt sticks out while they walk like a duck. Welcome to the last podcast on the left, ladies and gentlemen, my butt is exactly where it should be. Yes, it's massive. Yes, it's bubbly. Yes, it sticks out when I walk and, yes, I have posture problems. My name is Marcus Parks. I'm here with Henry Zabrowski, who's bringing the information to the people today. Thank you, Henry.

And so I say it's really amazing. All the kind of medical training I've received. I have to be expertise that I get in my dream. Just some of the most important medical information that can be disseminated right now in the 2020. Yes, and that is RFKKK. And we also had the man with the plan, Ed Larson. All right, and here's the plan. Go outside, get drunk, and yell at your sister.

Yeah. We are in South Carolina. Yeah. Sister, you mean my wife. Come on. Come on, y'all. It's South Carolina. Sorry, guys.

We're just getting it up now. And we're here for the continuation of the story of Alec Murdoch. Bang, bang, bang. So when we last left the life story of Alec Murdoch, the year was 1999. And his wife Maggie had just given birth to their second son, Paul. This was just after the family's move. to Hampton County, which had occurred against Maggie Murdoch's wishes. And we were all wondering what it's like to party in that year, while Nellie was telling us what

temperature it was in the room. 1999, a year to remember. Well, Maggie preferred to stay in Beaufort County, which, while it was still a part of South Carolina's low country, it was still relatively affluent. Beaufort was where the nice restaurants were, close to the country club. It was a place where Maggie could spend her days gossiping with other former sorority girls who were also settling in a lives of leisure with their new frat-boy husbands who were just starting their new frat-boy jobs.

But while the Murdoch family certainly had power across the entire low country, and throughout South Carolina to a certain extent, their true stranglehold was on Hampton County. Someone's got to own the mud? Yeah, can't just sit there, man. Because if not, them Native Americans, they're going to squat on it. Right? So, kids, you're going to want to put some kind of piece of paper underneath them feet, right?

Well, Hampton was where their law firm, PMPED, had their headquarters. But almost 30% of the population in Hampton County lived below the poverty line, which made them far easier to control and far easier to manipulate. And so, Alec Murdoch moved his young family to Hampton County in the late 90s, to rule in hell. And Maggie quickly began withering away into a depression

over the realization that this was where she was going to spend the rest of her miserable fucking life. You know, what are you going to do? You got to suck your way out.

That's what my mother did. Suck your way to the middle of the world. Right to Queens. Oh, yeah. All the great people in history suck their way into Forest Hills. Hey, Julia Roberts.

Fred Trump. Forest Hills is a big place. But Maggie's depression meant that Maggie neglected her two young children, Paul and Buster. These two little butt nuggets very quickly grew up to be terrors in their own right, because

they were living lives even more free of consequence than any Murdoch man who had come before. And if you're keeping track, this is Buster number two, named after the buster we discussed in the first episode. This is the buster that grew up to look like a stung Archie Andrews.

He's the one who inherited his father's uncanny valley skull shape in which their heads look like AI generated potatoes infected with a crimson alien spore. They look like mold covered pumpkins filled with coals from hell. I was going to say

walking around Easter eggs that leave Easter eggs to their own crimes. Buster's face is a crime. His entire head. is shape like a blood I'd say a period blood

flavored icy cone I hate that fuck no it definitely looks like he sleeps upside down yeah God I hate these fucks could you even find a pimple on a face that looks like a pimple? I don't know he's so ghastly white

someone will pop that fucker one day now Hampton County was indeed poor but much of that was due to the machinations of the Murdoch family They'd kept Hampton isolated from the rest of the country for going on a century by this point, partly so they could maintain control, but partly due to how their law firm, PMPED, made the majority of its money. As author Valerie Bowerline put it in her book, The Devil at His Elbow, the Murdoch law firm was an engine that ran on suffering,

specializing in personal injury and wrongful death in a place with no shortage of it. See, this is rural South Carolina. And if you've ever driven in South Carolina like we have or a state like it, you know that infrastructure is non-existent. I have never in my life seen so many road signs hanging off of the post, just missing one bolt. Like, it's everywhere in South Carolina. I always remember, you know, driving through Mississippi, one of the most, one of the biggest codes I've ever seen was just seeing a highway sign down in the middle of the highway

with just caution tape around it. And everyone was just driving around him like it wasn't a problem. Well, remember, I think that South Carolina can always rest on its laurels that it's not Alabama or Mississippi. Oh, everybody can't. Everybody can't. So can places like Ukraine and Haiti. Most of the earthquake, many places. Arkansas, you're on the fence.

You're going to watch it. We liked, we did like where we went. Where? Oh, in Mississippi. You know, in Huntsville. Alabama. Alabama. Yes, that was fine.

Yeah, you've never been to Arkansas. Yeah. No. A lot of these places, I will say, whatever you want to say about them, a lot of them do have a Publix. That's a big deal. True, true, true. But non-existent infrastructure went double in a county like Hampton. In Hampton County, most people drove broken down cars on crumbling roads to dangerous low-paying jobs,

working in unregulated industries that did not provide insurance. So when people inevitably got hurt or killed just going about their daily lives, the Murdoch firm, PMPED, was always quick to provide legal representation. It's also important to note it was a very large law firm. Yeah. So it wasn't just the Murdox that were making money off of the pain of the people of Hampton County. It was not. And there was a lot of people that very actively sought to keep their position in Hampton County. So I don't think it's just the Murdox.

kept it that way. I think it was all them flabby-ass white boys. Oh, the Murdox were just the M in P-M-P-E-D. There's still a P, a P, a P, and E and a D making money there, and all the associates working underneath them. By the time Alec Murdoch had set down Roots in Hampton with his young family in the early 2000s, P-M-P-E-D had found an extremely lucrative niche specializing in car crashes caused by defective tires manufactured by Bridgestone. You'll probably remember this. I know I do, yeah, when all the Ford Explore the tires kept exploding on the highway. I remember that.

Yeah. I hate driving. Yeah. Well, these tires had a tendency to separate high speeds, which naturally resulted in a lot of deadly accidents. But since South Carolina had lax venue laws that allowed lawsuits to be filed in any county where a corporation transacted business or owned property, Hampton County became a hub for high-value personal injury lawsuits, whether the accident happened in Hampton County or not. it didn't. Because of the Murdoch firm, the number of civil suits filed in Hampton County

courts were double what any other county in South Carolina saw, and the settlements were two to three times higher because PMPED rigged the juries. No one asked any questions either, because they just assumed if you live there, you just have bad luck. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I mean, you're here. Well, posing as defenders of the working class, the Murdoch firm would approach the relatives of jurors who are on civil cases. They would offer to help with traffic tickets and bill collectors. They of course didn't come right out with a quid pro quo, but the help was certainly enough to influence decisions. Now, these are small favors in the grand scheme of things. This stuff can go straight under the radar, but making a speeding ticket go away can mean the difference

between making rent that month or not in the life of a working class citizen. And it did the double duty of giving the Murdox a good reputation amongst the poor. And because they had such good class regulation, they really had figured that out in this part of the world. What they also know is that what you could do is make anybody

feel like a champion by giving them a little window into the amazing world that you have total access to as the higher class. So all you got to do is like, if you could get them scratched off a little fucking speeding ticket, that's the whole world to them. And you might make that person,

help you clean up a crime scene later on. You know, like, it's that easy. It means nothing. It's the misdirect, too, to let you get away with shit. It's kind of like, like, Julie used to work at BuzzFeed, and, like, when they were all told they weren't going to get health insurance, the way they told them is they gave them a Froyo machine. Yeah, I remember those.

Oh, yeah, yeah. And in your name, and instead of giving you guys a bonus, in your name, we have given these wooden blocks that represent trees. And it's the thing. You're like, this is horseshack. There's a fucking tax right off. Well, since the Murdoch firm had helped out so many people in small ways in order to get the verdicts they wanted, the regular folk in Hampton County would defend the Murdox when anyone had anything bad to say about them.

In other words, the Murdox had built a system where the poor kept each other in line for table scraps. Eventually, though, the jury tampering became unnecessary. The Murdoch firm had such a high success rate in civil cases, the corporations began to simply settle at the mere mention of PMPED, so cases stopped going to trial. But the drawback here is that without the jury tampering, the Murdox were no longer intervening in the lives of the poor. And local respect for the Murdoch family amongst the Hoy-Polloy began to shrink as the years went by.

Yeah, especially when he had shithead one and fuck face two. The two of them came out there. Having Paul roll around is not going to help. the reputation of your fucking family. No. Not to mention Alec was a fucking terror when he was Paul's age himself. They all were, but Paul and Buster 2 finally broke the rules of all rules.

Well, they got dumber every generation and they got worse every generation. They got less educated every generation because they just get pushed along. Yeah. And it's not just Buster and Paul. It really is Alec. Oh, no. Alex's bad. Oh, Alex's bad too.

But as we're going to get into, like, Alec let go of the wheel. Like, every other Murdoch before him knew that there was a balance here that you had to keep. There were certain illusions. Like, literally, the father's got to hold the line. Somebody's got to be disciplined here. You can't all be doing crimes. It's just how it goes. A true crime leader knows how to push and pull and do all the things you need to do to keep the house up.

There has to be the illusion. The illusion always must be maintained. When the illusion falls apart, then everything falls apart. Yeah, and liquor leads the violence. But when you start throwing all those drugs in there, man, it gets really fucked up. It does. Oh, yeah. Now, the lawyers at PMPED made quite a bit of money on these cash settlements because

every lawyer got a cut of up to 40% on each payout. Alec Murdoch soon became one of PMPED's most successful attorneys. and he was making well into seven figures through legitimate means alone by the time he was made a full partner in the early 2000s. After making partner, Alec began hosting political fundraisers on his family's island. And by 2005, Alec was counseling senators and governors. By the age of 40, Alec Merlock was one of South Carolina's most powerful trial attorneys, a man who could turn a $100,000 case into a million dollar settlement just by saying the name, Murdoch.

A defense attorney should not be allowed to hold a political fundraiser. Sure. And just a general rule. It stated by me. Now, Alec Murdoch was outwardly friendly and caring towards his clients. He made them feel comfortable, made them feel like he was going to take care of everything. But in reality, Alec Murdoch had no empathy whatsoever for these people, people who had been maimed, paralyzed, even killed as a result of their accidents.

For Alec Murdoch, the miseries of the poor. Poor unfortunate souls of Hampton County were simply a resource to be mined. And because Murdoch was a total sociopath, Hampton County became a consequence-free playground of debauchery for the entire Murdoch family. Now, to the community at large, Alec Murdoch appeared to be a quote-unquote good man. This is the stuff that makes my fucking blood boil. Oh yeah. This is the southern culture stuff that makes me angry. All the, yes ma'am, no ma'am, oh, let me get that for you, ma'am.

All of this talk, the way that they talk to their people that work for them, their help, quote unquote, where they pretend like they're all family. Yeah. And it's this whole thing which is such a bunch of fucking hypocrites. Yeah, they pretend your family and you keep them just poor enough to need you and act like they need. And do things for you that you don't want to do. Yeah. Well, Alec Murdoch coached his kids' sports teams. He remembered everyone's names and backstories, always asking how's your mama doing?

he generously tipped everyone with cash pulled from large stacks he kept in his SUV. And the general public, therefore, liked Alec Murdoch well enough. What does that sound like? It sounds like I don't know what it is. It reminds me of. There's something about a guy with a big bankroll that they all think is like, even though it's all fantasy and mirrors, that these southern cucks just seem to lap up like a bunch of horny dogs.

Well, that's because they're just going from fucking golf resort to golf resort, tipping out valet guys, and they're loving them. It honestly sounds great. Yeah. But where Alex's forefathers knew that you had to keep the poor on your side on a constant basis if you wanted to truly hold power in the South, Alec Murdoch treated the poor as an afterthought and focused mostly on other people in power. He figured you throw them 20 bucks here and there, that's all you need to do.

Out of everyone in the low country, Murdoch was most attentive with local law enforcement, the state troopers, the police officers, the sheriff's deputies, many of whom had fathers grandfathers who'd also worked with Alex's father and grandfather. And with the cops on his side, Alec could be reckless, driving his drunk as he wanted to drive, doing whatever drugs he wanted to do, and throwing punches whenever he felt like they needed to be thrown. Alec was also smart enough to play the game on a large scale. He became a huge contributor to whatever political party could do him the most favors,

even though he was technically also the leader of the local Democrats. But no matter of the party, the only way for a lot of the party, the only way for a lot of local sheriff, judge, representative, or even senator to get elected was to have the support of Alec Murdoch. And so with the public, the cops, the courts, and the legislature, all on his side, the stage was set for Alec Murdoch to become the biggest criminal the Murdoch family had ever seen, a man who not only embezzled millions from disadvantaged clients, but who was also involved in drug smuggling, prostitution, and eventually murder most. foul. Yeah, baby. You know what we like.

Dude, imagine if John Wayne Gacy came from the Murdoch family. I mean, he'd be probably the funniest one. Now, Alec Murdoch had moved to Hampton County because that's where the Murdoch name held the most power. And by 2005, Alec and his good old boy friends came to realize that they had built a world

where nobody was asking questions anymore. In fact, most people didn't even know to ask questions. How do we get there? I want to know to ask questions of me. Did I go untouched and unfettered in my crimes? Unfortunately, you entered entertainment in a world where there's nothing but questions. Oh, no.

And so, after years of working personal entry cases for PMPED, specializing in cases that sued corporations on behalf of the so-called little guy, Alec came up with a stupidly simple scheme in which he skimmed cash from his his client settlements on top of his already generous 40% cut. It's important to remember, the scam itself is the dumbest shit you can possibly imagine. You already get 40%, which is a cruel amount. All he has to do is lie to people, don't know what's going on. Let me get it to it.

But yeah, it is, yes, 40% is already an incredibly cool amount. But after enlisting, his college roommate, Corey Fleming, and a local banker named Russell Lafitte, as accomplices. It's a pirate name. It's a pirate name. We all know Gene Lafitte. Lafitte is a pirate name. And when he shows up and he's like, I'll take it into blue.

Like you know, like, we ain't got time for your, I got time for your sea base shenanigans right now, all right? All right. All right. Captain of the dark shadow. Okay, I need you to help me right now on this land-based crime. All right. This is what we're going to do. We're going to be selling jellyfish.

Yard. And the best part Is you can scam I'm on the peanut butter off Dyer! There's no glass Stegelact on the high seas. Hey now, I need to stop

spreading our secret plan here And your loud, powered voice. Well, after enlisting those two men As accomplices, Alec Murdoch just started lying to his clients About the size of their settlements. If a client got a $2 million settlement from Bridgestone because they'd been paralyzed

at the tires on their car exploded on the highway, for example, Murdoch would tell us clients, no, no, no, you didn't get $2 million. You got $1.7. Yeah. It's all the, you know how it is with the red tape and what you got to,

you know how it, you know, I wish it was more. I wish it was. I wish. You see one number and you think it's going to be that number, but never that number. It's a smaller number. They also, these are people who have never seen $10,000. No.

Oh, God, no. So 1.7 million? Like, great. Thank fucking God. I didn't live forever on this. And then he'll told, no, you can't. And then he's paying them out in installments in which he can do whatever he wants with the rest of the money. And they have no idea exactly. Because exactly, they've never seen $10,000 before.

So they get one $10,000 check and they're like, we're rich. Yeah. Yeah. And that $2 million check was deposited at Russell Lafitte's bank because Russell was also acting as a sort of middleman between Alec and his clients. Yeah. Yarr, come down. Give me your fine shells and tourists. We'll place him here down, here, TV towards.

His locker. I'm sorry. This is more just sort of our management style here in my face. I'm sorry to describe, to scare you with my native accent. If you want G-go, you can follow this map. To the X. It's over here. It's on the court of Faith in Bellevue.

It's actually. there's an ATM there. I'm sorry I'll be out next week. I'm going to our brunch in the West Indies. My cousins have a bar mitzvah. You're Jewish. How much for the daughter? Well, Lafitte

was the guy. Ugly a Murdoch daughter would have been. Let's continue. Yeah, what happened? There was never any female Murdox ever. You know why? It would have canceled itself out. Yeah, that baby would have fucking committed suicide the second it saw its own dough colored body. Well, Lafitte was the guy who took care of the so-called complicated stuff.

He was the ones that were like, no, no, no, no, these legal bills, you don't even need to see them. They're too complicated. They're so complicated. I'm the guy. I got to take care of that stuff. You got to get better. You got to get well. That's what you got to do.

You got to focus on your health. And I'm going to take care of it. How's your mama? How's your mama? She's doing good and blah, blah, blah. Exactly. And, of course, those legal bills were all. extremely exaggerated because

Alec Murdoch was also lying about, say, like experts that he'd have to hire. You're like, yeah, I had to hire a forensic expert. And he cost X amount. Yeah, he cost X amount. Never hired anybody. The point was, the clients were never in contact with the company itself, and they never saw the original check.

So when the $2 million check came in, the clients had no idea that Alec was putting the extra $300,000 in his pocket. But, of course, a little bit of a Vig to Russell. Lafitte and Corey Fleming. But because nobody was looking and nobody was asking questions, Alec Murdoch ran this scheme

for over 15 years and stole somewhere in the neighborhood of $11 million from needy clients. And you think like, okay, yeah, it's one point, he's taken, you know, a little bit off of $1.7 million.

That's the thing, though. These medical bills that these people had to pay were incredibly massive. They're huge because they didn't have insurance. And sometimes because Alec Murdoch stole their money, these people would die because the leftovers Alex

gave them weren't enough to give them the care that they needed. They'd be put in cut rate nursing homes and there was this one kid like there was a basketball star, got paralyzed. His ventilator was just turned off because he was in a shitty nursing home and he died. Yeah, and I think that

people should remember that if you're locked up with Alex Murdoch and you lost a family. member. But I think it's important to note here. We talk about escalation and where do these crimes come from, right? Like where do this come from? And you can only already see in just that his flat affect, right? The fact that these are people that are his, truly his constituents, these are the people

that grew up around his family. These are really a collection of a lot of people that are probably some of his extended family members and all these people they knew, people that they grew up with, that they were all in this, and he could look at them and lie so easily to their face for 15

years. Yeah. Shows you that, like, then that's 15 years of a scam. That gets fucking thick. I mean, $11 million, man, all you got to do is give 10 grand to the high school football team and everyone thinks you're a fucking hero. That's what he did. That's exactly what he did.

They would constantly give money to the local high school, which of course also kept Paul and Buster out of trouble to a certain extent, to a certain point. But that's how Alec used to always get out of trouble. Just give a little bit of money. But by the time Paul and Buster get up there, that act is starting to wear thin. Yeah, well, you know, Paul, obviously, if you look at his face, I'm going to go ahead and call it, the fetal alcohol syndrome.

Yeah, you've got those little wolf eyes. Now, instead of paying for his client's insane medical expenses, Alec used the settlements to pay for expensive hunting trips for the whole family, endless shopping sprees in Charleston for Maggie, and custom sports coats with monogrammed cumberbuns for Alec and his tubby sons. It's just true. Did you ever have a cumberbund? You seem like a cumberbund guy.

No, we never had money. I mean, Cumberbund. Yeah, for prom, I think I did. No, I never do big bands across the belly. Yeah. Because I only am, I'm not going to just be Dr. Robbotnik. I want to be cast as Dr. Robotic.

I would like to be, yes, I'd like to have to be a job or role I portray. Come usually goes in Henry's belly. The old-fashioned way. Well, where every generation of previous Murdox have been discreet with their money because they knew how precarious the balance of power really was, you don't show your ass too often, Alec was putting on constant, large, public displays of wealth and grandeur. and that did not go unnoticed by the community.

Then in 2005, another decision was made that brought Alec Murdoch standing in the public eye down even further. The same year that Alec began stealing from his clients, his father, Randy Murdoch III, was planning to retire as 14th Judicial Circuit Solicitor. Now, someone in Alex's family line had held this job for the past 85 years, and Alec had supposedly wanted the job since he was a child. But when it came time to hand,

and pick a successor, Randy Murdoch the third instead went with his assistant solicitor, Duffy Stone. Yeah. Or so the story goes. See, it's important to note that it's also said that the solicitor job could have been Alec Murdoch's if he really wanted it. But in order to get that job, Murdoch would have had to give up his position at PMPED because the laws had changed since his granddaddy's day.

Alec, however, had just figured out how to make more money than he knew what to do with using his skimming scheme. And I think it's far more likely that Alec Murdoch enjoyed going on expensive hunting trips with his dipshit sons a hell of a lot more than he liked prosecuting murders. Because prosecuting murders is hard. It's hard. And it don't make money. No. It does not. Either way, Alec Murdoch stepped aside from the solicitor job in 2005. And even though he was still given a volunteer solicitor's badge that he could flash whenever a cop pulled him over for driving drunk, the Murdox were out of the prosecution game in South Carolina for the first time in almost a century.

You want to know what my author theory is? What's that? He knows that if he steps down from PMPED, all of his crimes are going to come to light as well. Maybe it's very, very possible that he's sitting on top of, the only reason why, much like our beloved president, the most of the reason why he is even. being able to be outside of all the crime is because he's holding on to all of the evidence. It's all in his little belly. It's like right here. And he knows that if he leaves it for a second, someone's going to go digging around. That's very possible.

And it's not like he don't know Duffy Stone really, really well. Oh, no, it was definitely a contingent thing of like, if you don't take care of us, we're going to replace you. It was still, like, Randy still had his hand on the wheel. Like Duffy was a figurehead at best. And Randy was really very smart, but they flipped the story. I was listening to the Netflix documentary series in the second season. And Paul's girlfriend, now that he's dead, his ex-girlfriend, she said that they flipped the story, that the father, Randy, he had written the obituary about the wife to keep her in.

Right? He flipped the story. They cut all of the stuff about him being addicted to prostitutes for some reason. I wonder why. Well, I think, you know, I remember the girlfriend saying that. That story was, she said that Maggie had told her that story. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think Maggie flipped it. I think Maggie flipped it or the girlfriend was remembering it wrong.

Who knows? Yeah, and although that really goes in an obituary. My puppy, you know, my puppy loved his smile, which is why he loved hookers. You know, like, why be honest? He loved hookers. He liked hookers more than your family. You know, why? Because hookers are fun.

All these kids are just fucking, I mean another crime to pin on the family. Yeah, that is true. You know, what's fun is like all these Murdox that passed away, they all have obituaries. You can go and read and just laugh and laugh and have a nice time. We talked about Mike submitted a packet for Paul's obituary. Yeah, I wonder what they used on that.

Live from North Lane. Now, it was around the time that Alec Murdox stepped away from the solicitor position that it became apparent that Alex Sons, Buster, and Paul were going to be problems with a capital P. They were still children in the mid-2000s, but friends and family could already see that Paul Murdoch especially had a vicious temper that could be unleashed at any provocation, especially when it came to authority figures. Once when Paul was still just a small child, he threatened their housekeeper and nanny, Gloria Satterfield, with a kitchen knife, saying, quote, what are you going to do about it? You're going to do about it.

Yeah, it's fucking a child. I think he's like five or six, waving a kitchen knife. Gloria, who basically raised the boys after Maggie checked out, also routinely saw Paul kill frogs, squirrels, and lizards with glee when he was just out of diapers. But, I mean, you kill them, but not with glee. I mean, I tied him to bottle rockets.

Yeah. They had a good time to it. Lizards and frogs never a mammal. Never a mammal. Yeah, that's the thing. Once you move on to mammals, that's different. I'm not saying it's good. I'm just making a confession that I'm similar to this tiny little killer. Edward, I will join you and I will also, yes, make the confession. Confession, I also killed frogs. But there's a distinct difference because it didn't go on to more violence. Yes. Paul was going to show later on he would be very, he'd be very prone to violence and really would meet it out at a very young.

young age to any woman that was around him. But even though Gloria was doing her best to keep a lid on the fifth generation of Murdox, Maggie, who hated Hampton County with all of her heart, was constantly telling her sons that they were better than everybody else because they were Murdox, explicitly saying that the same roles that applied to others did not apply to them. Telling them this from the time they were small children. Makes them polite. Now, since Maggie was bored and miserable, she also used her children as entertainment.

Both Paul and Buster had filthy mouths as children. Very fond of the word motherfucker, which Maggie found hilarious. When Maggie enrolled them in a preschool group to try to socialize them, the two ran rough over every other kid, playing violently and calling everyone motherfuckers while Maggie laughed and laughed. Maggie realizes that she's the mother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just made her think of Alec. And so the Murdoch boys grew up in a world that was not only without consequence,

but a world where bad behavior was encouraged and rewarded. She just thought she is the epitome of what I have heard on the internet as termed as a boy mom. Yes. As an evil boy mom. Yeah. Where the boys could literally murder. Yeah. And she would love them more than ever.

Boys, the boys just being boys. Yep. You know, you got to let, yeah. And I've seen this, I saw this so much in the South. Oh, yeah. Absolutely terror of a child and the mother just laughing and laughing. My mom hates women. My mom actively dislikes and distrust swimming.

I was always told that if I got into a fight, it was totally okay and I wouldn't get in trouble if I didn't throw the first punch. But that's not a bad idea. You had a tough father. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But perhaps the worst thing Alec and Maggie Murdoch did when it came to fucking up their sons was how they treated alcohol. So when Paul and Buster became teenagers, Alec and Maggie just integrated their kids into their extremely drunken social lives. Paul, as young as 13, would drunkenly pick fights with grown men during public parties that his family threw on the sandbars of the Beaufort River.

And while a lot of us in the South drank at a young age, I'd think I have my first drink at 11 or 12, we usually, didn't do so with beer taken from the family cooler at our parents' insistence. It's too much. It's too much of this idea that we're all just equals and fun and hanging out when it's like, no, kids got to learn how to drink. Got the

thing is that you don't teach your kid out of drink ain't going to know how to drink. That's not true. I learned. Everybody learns. It's real easy to get alcohol. In America? It's easy to learn. I don't need, I didn't need my father. My father was wrong at it.

I'm way better at it than my dad was. I will say as horrible as this is, I imagine that these parties were filled with, like, judges. Yeah. And I just picture a red-headed, drunken, 13-year-old picking a fight with a judge. That's amazing. And it just has to, like, take it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do fine to be funny.

Yeah. Objectively, that's funny. That is funny. Well, Alex and... Shut your son up. Your son said, saying nasty stuff. Son, go over there and slap that judge. penis. Come on now.

Come on my boy going to slap it. We can do about it. We get due about it. You learned it from. Well, Alec and Maggie Murdoch were the so-called cool parents. Alec would give liquor to kids during holidays at his law firm's offices, and both he and Maggie would routinely get Paul and Buster's friends drunk at the parties they threw. Now, it was obvious at these parties very early on that Paul Murdoch was what you'd call a bad drunk.

Whenever Paul got intoxicated, which was incredible. often, as we can see from both his and his own mother's social media, his behavior would turn strange and unpredictable. Yeah, he would massively overdrink. Her whole account was just her Facebook account was just pictures of

Paul underage drinking. Everyone liking the pictures. It's just this... Him posing with like a bunch of jello shots. Yeah, and it's just like I just don't find it cute. No. I don't care about the drinking. I don't care about the drinking. The idea of your mother being involved in your own drinking

is such a lame, such a lame idea. Can you imagine wanting to be anywhere near your parents partying? How lame and pussy and just hacky life choices? Yeah. It is upsetting. Yeah. It is upsetting. I hate people that, I don't hate people that drink around their kids, but.

No, it's great. I drink around all these are people's kids. Yeah, well, they're not your kids. Yeah. They're not your kids. Yeah. And, like, you know, it's about, like, a beer here and there, whatever. But these people are getting fucking hammered.

Once jello shots are involved, once these weird oyster shots are involved, it's kind of fucking weird. Also, like, you know, if you're getting a 14-year-old into shooters, next thing you know, they're working on Epstein's Island. You know what I mean? You can't have a 14-year-old duo oyster shooters. Okay? It's too advanced.

The South is a very different place. Oh, I know. It's, yeah. I grew up in an environment. fairly similar to this. No, I understand. I'm not trying to even throw judgment. Yeah.

It's my mom, I was told as a little because my father used to go to have fun away from our family. Oh, because he couldn't have fun at home. So then when he'd come and be scary, that's what me, that was my mom taught me fun was scary. He shouldn't have fun because fun is being scary.

But that's the thing. What you didn't know is that dad can be scary anytime. Oh, yeah, you didn't know that. Like, you didn't know that you didn't have to wait for that. Like,

that's the thing if dad parties around you all the time. Dad can be scary anytime. Yeah, but the thing is that dad didn't understand. Dad was super fun when he was partying. Yeah. I didn't know that. Well, and if everyone's blackout drunk, no one remembers dad being super scary. No, except for the kids.

Mm-hmm. It haunts them. Well, when Paul Murdoch would become drunk, when he would get intoxicated, his eyes would become wide, unblinking, and black. And his fingers would spread out as if they were stuck. Now, it seems like no one's willing to admit this because everyone's like, oh, we don't know why we called him this. They know why. We know why they called him fucking Timmy. The finger thing is definitely where the nickname Timmy came from.

Yes, they're making fun of the mentally challenged characters. Yes. When Paul's fingers spayed out during intoxication, they very much look like the way that the mentally challenged character, Timmy on South Park would hold his hands, which is also how teenagers or say presidents hold their hands when they're making fun of disabled people. So when Paul Murdoch got dangerously drunk and he lost all control of his body, mind, and soul, his friends would laugh it off by saying that Timmy had arrived even when the drunkenness turned violent, which it often did. And I know every one of us has experienced a guy just like this. God, yes.

Every coming up, we all experienced that absolute, because now you can say it, that absolute royal pain in the ass. Yeah, the monster. Yes, that would use alcohol. You change your friend's name. Yes. I had a friend we would call Max every time we got Superhammer. He's now sober. And it was this funny thing because guess what happens?

They either become sober or bad things happen. Or they die. Pretty much across the board, bad things happen to people that are like this. And he is a, it's just an example of just that, just the worst little fuck to exist. I guess I'm going to go ahead and think that cocaine's involved because when the hands start getting all crazy, that's like a ghost thing. These boys couldn't do I legitimately think what they were doing is what teenagers do, which is drinking

an absolutely ungodly amount of liquor. They're right by the water. They were doing that but the thing was, is that Paul was diagnosed as ADHD. Maybe he had a big butt, I don't know, but... I didn't shit.

Let's look at the chorus. Dig him up. Roll up the crime scene photos. Pull up this photo where they put the phone back on his butt. Let's see. Let's see. He must have been real nervous. If you're looking at that, butt. He was prescribed adderol, and he, of course, abused the adderall.

So he wasn't doing Coke, but he was definitely taking much more adderall than he should in order to drink as much as possible. He also drank the shit out of his girlfriend a bunch. Yeah, a lot. Yeah, a lot. Yeah, Paul was, he slapped his previous girlfriend. I'm not sick enough for him. No, any... If you're hitting women at the age of 15 years old,

that is not a good sign. Yes. Yeah. You're probably not great upgrade. I think it might be it's not a good sign for the future. Yeah. It all starts when you pull a knife

on your babysitter and no one cares. That's what Ted Bundy did. Well, he didn't pull a knife, but he just placed knives around his babysitter while she was asleep. That's a different thing all together. That's art. He's created. And that's the difference between a Ted Bundy

and a pole Murdoch. Yeah. Now, Paul was by no means the only member of the Murdoch family with a substance abuse problem. Paul was obviously a violent alcoholic, but so was his father, Alec. Alec was said to be nice until he wasn't, a man with a legendary temper that only got worse with drink. He was quick to imagine a slight and quick to throw the first punch. But his behavior got even worse after he also became addicted to opioids. See, after a series of knee surgeries in 2002, Alec had been prescribed hydrocodone.

and he found that he liked painkillers quite a bit. By 2009, Alec had switched to oxycodone, and soon became just about as bad of an oxy addict as a man with near unlimited funds and no chance of getting prosecuted by the law can get. Now, Alec claimed that the oxy energized him, but by the time his sons were teenagers, Alec was fallen asleep in meetings

and unable to focus on legal proceedings due to his constant oxy intake. Additionally, the oxy also gave Alec Murdoch an insane sweet tooth. He was obsessed with Capri Sons. Always had to have just a full fridge of Capri Sons in the house at all times. It's like a 50-year-old man. If he did not have Capri Sons in the house, he would freak out.

He also ate bowl after bowl of kids cereals, ate fruit loops and fruity pebbles with spoonfuls of extra sugar added on top, and it was all mixed in with strawberry milk. That is fucking disgusting. As a fat man, that is disgusting. You know, I like my sweets, but I'm a savory boy. You know, when I want to go to town. You put bacon on your cereal. Also, we were going to talk a little bit about this, is that Oxy, yes, it is a relaxing, and it's a narcotic. Right?

Like, it has it was an opioid, right? So it has that thing where it's supposed to relax, so you's supposed to make you feel good. What Alex is saying is something I've heard for many people that have been specifically addicted to Oxy, which is much like they say about alcohol, there's something about like the way your body consumes it, about how some people, when alcohol turns you into a raving maniac, you know it is technically a depressant. Yes, it turns to, like, there are some people that react to it

and where it makes them like a raving maniac. It makes it so they black out, their body goes, they can do a bunch of stuff. Oxy can work the same way. So I actually think that when you're watching him skeetering and snorting and coughing and pick at himself and blinking and doing all this stuff, it's because he is gacked out of his mind.

He's legitimately all zapped up. And so I bet you he does fall asleep. Yeah. You know, in an opportune times. When he crashes. He's up all night slamming sugar. I bet you half the crashing is all the sugar he's eating. M.IP, yeah.

And all the fucking liquor that's also filled with sugar. But the liquor helps you go to sleep. Mm. Mm. Good night. Night. As far as who was providing Alec Murdoch with all this oxy, seems like he got a lot of it from his cousin, Curtis Edward Smith,

aka cousin Eddie. But for me, Curtis Smith will always be known by what was probably his drug dealer name. Fast Eddie. Wow. It's just like, you gotta come up with a less a name that isn't as suspicious. Yeah, a less illegal name.

Yeah, I'm not gonna think like, Fast Eddie, who's that? It's like, oh, it's my wife's OB, GYN. I would love to fucking. Since 40 girls an hour. Yeah, remember my wife's guy? I know, yeah, this is greasy Mike. Yeah, yeah.

Don't call me doctor. Call me Mike. Yeah, let's see the pussy, right? All right, I'm going to stir up some problems here. Let me warm up my feet. The Fast Eddie was a distant cousin of Alex who'd been seriously injured in a logging accident in 2007. While the two hadn't been close prior to the accident, Alec represented Fast Eddie in his personal injury case against the logging company.

The two became friends and Fast Eddie started doing odd jobs for Alex soon after. But Fast Eddie also got addicted to opioids because of his severe injuries. Long story short, Fast Eddie before long was manufacturing and selling drugs for an operation that was seemingly bankrolled by Alec Murdoch himself. And here's the proof. Starting in October of 2013, Alec Murdoch began writing checks to Fast Eddie for just under $10,000 each, because any amount above $10,000 would get flagged and reported as required by law. And so over the next eight years, Alec Murdoch would write almost 500 additional checks to Fast Eddie, most just under $10,000. By the end of it, Alec had written $2.5 million worth of checks to Fast Eddie.

Their family! Now, Alec claimed that all this money was used to just buy him Oxy for personal use. But after one reporter dead the math, the amount of money. money given to Fast Eddie would have been enough for Alec to do Oxy all day, every day, for 117 years straight. Wow, we're going to be relaxed forever until the sun explodes. Most likely, as prosecutors later alleged, the money given to Fast Eddie was used to manufacture and distribute narcotics with multiple accomplices all over the state of South Carolina.

Well, also, not so Fast Eddie would say in the documentary that a part of what what they were doing was a little bit of a money laundering thing that he pretended to know about. Yeah, because he kept asking, he was like, this isn't money laundering, right? Which is, again, just remember that that's, for you guys that are money laundering, that's how you get out of it. You always go, you've got to make sure to ask, now this ain't money laundering, right? I was long as they say, say no, cash check. Don't even think about it.

Just go like, just go, yeah, you're right. Oh, why don't I even ask? Because he was giving him some of the cash, too. So he'd get some. They'd split up the cash. Alec would go do whatever shady shit he was doing it. The other guy would get his cut. Everybody was getting cuts.

Yeah. And then Alec could always have his fat lot of cash in his car. Like always. Oh, yeah. Now, Fast Eddie was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to Alec Murdoch and drug smuggling. His connections to this world would also be how he obtained the property where the Murdoch family legacy would finally come to a bloody end. Purchased in 2013 in the small community of Islandon. Islander!

Welcome to Landberg. This large tract of land roughly twice the size of Central Park came to be named after the street where the property had its entrance. Investigators, prosecutors, and true crime buffs around the world would come to know the plot of land

where the Murdox lived, played, and died as Moselle. I hate places with one name. You know, Moselle? I hate places where they're like... You're on going down to Moseil? Like, just that idea of like, so you have to name your house like a city. That's how important your fucking house. But that was the name of the road.

Yeah, it was the name of the road. They called the property Moselle. Yeah. You know, I mean, like, sometimes you're like, oh, I'm leaving Trimble and I'm going to go over to this place. Yeah, but our houses suck. Yeah. This is his house. All right.

This is his Murdoch's house. All right. This is like, this different. He has fucking a compound. Yeah. It's a massive two-story house that sits on, yeah, it's like, I mean, it is, I think it's 1,700 acres. Like I said, it's twice the size of Central Park.

It's full of haunting. It's got, you know, water. It's got lake access. It's got water, not lake access. I think ocean access. It's, they've got their dog kennels there. They've got so much, so, so much in Moselle. Now, Mozel.

Each one of them had an F-150 on that, just on that. property and then they had so he had something like 45 cars. There's guns everywhere. Hundreds of guns. Yeah. Well you got to spend that 11 million dollars in something. Yeah. And that's the thing though is that they say like when they look at all of the money that Alec Murdoch embezzled and all of the money that was possibly coming in from drug money. They're like they have no idea where it all went. Like there's no they think they think that he may have actually put cash into PVC pipes and buried did around South Carolina.

And I would actually go and say that if you're in South Carolina right now, get your shovels. Just start digging. Get out to Moselle and start digging. Looking for that fucking money. I know it's there. Send pictures. Send money. When you find

the money, send the money. I wonder, I, but his trips were always so extravagant. He spent a lot of fucking money. You'd be surprised how much money you could. He had, what? He had crashed two boats. You know that, right?

Yeah. And Paul crashed another boat? No, yeah. No, there was a lot of boat crashes. Yeah, so it's like there's a lot of problems. He had several cars. He had trashed his, he had, Paul had three cars. But it still wasn't enough.

Like, it still was not enough to cover how much he embezzled and how much money he was just making with his fucking paycheck. Wow. God, we kind of figured this out, guys. Yeah. How do we embezzle against ourselves? Yeah, how do we be, yeah, how do we embezzle? Yeah. Because it's not going anywhere else.

What do we do with it? What crime do we commit? We'll have a meeting. Bob, why don't me and you have a meeting off mic, where we figure out how to embezzle from each other? Because we won't. That's for certain.

No. We certainly won't embezzle from ourselves. Now, Moselle had been bought from a Murdoch family friend named Barrett Boulware, whose family had been close to the Murdoch since the 1940s when they were all bootleg and moonshine. And Barrett Bull Ware, however, was said to be one of Southwere, South Carolina's most notorious drug smugglers. It's a name in the South that you hear. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, no, Barrett Bullwere, yeah. They'd say he sounds like a true detective character. He does. He sounds like the guy that led him to the Yellow King. Yeah. Well, Barrett Bullwere been a shrieper, and Moselle's access to open water made it easy to use large shrimp boats to travel from the smaller South Carolinian Islands to the mainland without raising any questions, which made it perfect for drug smuggling. By the 1980s, Bullware was South Carolina's Cannabis King. But the fun nearly came to an end when Bullware got busted as a part of Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs. The charges, however, were dropped when a key witness against Bullware just happened to step out into the road where he was struck and killed by a car.

What? Yeah. No, wait, what a crazy coincidence. Isn't it? Yeah. The whole case just went away. Wow. What a lucky guy!

You should have beware when you go out on the road. Beware of the Bullwheres. Especially if you're a high-level witness to a drug trafficking way. I'd say stay inside. And years later, Bullware got caught again, driving with seven pounds of weed and a fair amount of cocaine. And that's the thing, if you get caught with seven pounds of weed and cocaine in your car in South Carolina, most people go to prison forever. You get beat to death. Yes.

But those charges against Bullware, they also went away. Weird. But this time it was said that it was simply his close connections to the Murdox that set him free. By the time Bullware sold Moselle to Alec Murdoch in 2013, it was rumored that the two of them had purchased several islands off the coast of South Carolina for the purposes of drug smuggling. Now, it wouldn't be. This might be slander to even think that he would be paying off the cops.

Right? There's no way. Yeah, because it's not like his grandfather had already set the precedent of using the cops as his own personal gang to smuggle illegal substances throughout the country. Constantly did illegal parties where children drank and drugs were present while police and judges were there. It sounds like it's like a secret county with a giant fence around it for no one to get in. Yeah, literal fence around it. Yeah. Yeah. Now, in addition to access by water, Moselle also had its own air strip for small single-engine planes.

Every small town needs one. No, it's not even small town. This is their private, personal airstrip on their land. They needed it. How else are they going to fly places? Yeah. You know how guys in Hampton County? You don't need the county.

You got to fly everywhere. Where he's flying places. You know, I'm Hampton County. I got to go, oh, I got to get a Tuscal. Lusca, oh, I better take this to Wilmington, Delaware. Other pieces of shit places. Apologies to all our fans in Wilmington. I'm sorry, everybody.

Not Tuscaloosa, though, huh? No, no. I heard that. I saw that Mark. We understand. It's called an elephant that needs to go to a dentist. Let's continue. The Tuscaloosa.

Yeah, yeah. It's Mark's brother's shirt. Yes. It's pretty good. I'm a comedic historian. Well, according to what Paul Murdoch told his friends, Paul Murdoch was telling his friends, like, oh yeah, daddy's, he's flying in drugs. Oh, yeah. But drugs were allegedly not the only thing being flown in.

They were not the only cargo being brought to Moselle by air. According to multiple sources, sex workers were brought in on these single-engine planes for exclusive parties thrown at various locations around the low country, and it is a high likelihood that some of these women were trafficked. You do know that that is just trafficking because prostitution is already illegal. So just bringing them in is trafficking. True. So there's already, they already would be guilty of crimes. Let's say traffic against their will.

Yes. Okay. All right, I'll amend that. Well, they were told to do one thing that they were going to go there to do one thing. And then it turns out it's another thing. Well, Alec Murdoch was living an increasingly erratic double life. As our research team put it, it was very quickly becoming something like a southern version of Twin Peaks. This is when things get really dark.

Yeah, it's like a good. goofy version of the Goodfellas. It's like the breakdend, the Ray Leota breakdown. Alec was the type of guy who all in one day, score some pills, cheat on his wife, fix a few court cases, coach his son's little league game, host a wholesome afterparty

for the players' families, and then end the entire night with a debauchrous drug-fueled sex party that was attended by the elites. I'm tired at 4 o'clock on a workday. I'm tired. I don't know how they do all they get you some oxy. That's about to say, do you thought about oxy.

No. Like, ha. We can get you some oxy. I need drugs. Yeah, man. Yeah. Get into it, try it a little out, get clean, get oxy clean. Wow.

Call it that. Reportedly, Alec Mardock would host ultra-private get-togthers for local law enforcement, politicians, and legal professionals. Parties with the alcohol and the drugs flowed freely. Then, at some point in the evening, a high-class madam would bring out a group of of girls for the guest to choose from to do with what they wilt. Now, I won't you check out some of the

merchandise I've brought here? Obviously, they'll themselves buffer. Please, please, please. High class, madam. You're doing a pimp right now. I know what you think I'm doing, but you ain't seen my prize point there, Mark, do you not call this lady a pimp?

I'm a mother. I'm a mother first. All right, and the pimp. Second. Oh, those are females. breasts. Oh yes. Yes, you could not tell by my face or attire. Yeah, it's the hair that confusing. Yeah, I really did. Really good. I just thought they were final male breasts. Now, here's a girl with no legs. You can get

her to pussy real quick. Now, here's a girl with no hand. You can get to the tits real quick. No, but here's a girl with no face. She's just kind of sad. That keeps you going faster. It's nice about you. Look at the sad girl. Make the bone to go down. He goes back to the Are I making it wrong? Am I making it bad in here? I'm so happy they would hire this high class madam to come and host our sex party.

These sex parties are getting better all the time. This sex party is one of the best parties I've been to this year. I gotta say, when I put my glossy ejaculate across the mouth of that tender punches girl, I knew my God am I happy to be in God's a miracle.

Now, these sex parties, it sounds like a rumor. Sure. But there's a witness. A sex worker named Lindsay Edwards said that she attended several Murdoch parties in 2014 and 2015. Parties where men picked whatever woman they wanted before taking these girls to a private room. And on two occasions, Lindsay claims that Alec Murdoch picked her much to her regret. At first, Lindsay said that Alec was charming. And since she was indeed working, she agreed to have sex.

with them. But once they were alone, Lindsay said Alex's personality changed. His eyes became solid black. Same thing that people said happened to Paul when he turned dangerous. Alec then choked Lindsay against her will during the sexual encounter, coming very close to killing her. Now, Lindsay reported the violence to the madam, but the madam said that Alec Murdoch had special privileges, and Lindsay was obliged to provide Alec with whatever services he wanted. That we do, he paid $25 to make a squeeze. Okay, you got to understand, child. You know, like this character?

I mean, the character's good. I mean, the character's good. But it's bad, it's gross things she's saying. Yeah, she's saying awful. Try it again. You know how to do it when you want to make a child like a toothpaste tube. That's what we pay for. He likes to make them into two-case tube.

Not quite there. Give me another one. I don't know. Child. You know when you take a high. ketchup bottle, smack it on the bottom, smack it on the bottom. You're trying to make it a weird ketchup come out. Okay.

Slight giggle. Makes the ketchup come out of the sex worker. That's very nice. You did that. You said that. All right, and none of this is real. Also, when they say his eyes turn black, it's obviously he's on a lot of oxy and his pupils are dilated.

Oh, sure. No, exactly. No, he's not a demon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, his eyes are, yes, it's because he's so incredibly intoxicated. And they have beady, beady eyes to begin with. So when those pupils get big, it appears as if they are demonic. But Lindsay said that after the madam told her, this guy gets special privileges,

let him do whatever he wants. On the second encounter, Alec pulled Lindsay's hair so hard that he ripped it from her head. And he shoved a washcloth in her mouth while he had sex with her. Shortly after that, Lindsay quit sex work forever, but she never forgot. Alec Murdoch. And I don't mean that the parties didn't continue. That just means that she didn't go. He is no way, Marcus. He is no way he would do something like this.

It's not in his character. No. No, it's not in his character at all to throw sex parties where I'm sure at least one woman was killed by accident. Oh, yeah. After he'd shot his own family in the face. Yeah. Yeah.

And at the same time, the Alec is hosting private parties with politicians and lawyers. Paul Murdoch was becoming more and more of a constant source of stress. Friends of Alec and Maggie who had kids stayed away if they knew Paul was going to be around because they were afraid that Paul would negatively influence or even hurt their children. Paul's behavior was so bad that he was even kicked out of middle school, which is an incredible accomplishment in a town where the Murdoch themselves ran the school board. Like how do you get kicked out of a middle school? You don't need middle school. It's all pointless.

Oh, we know, we know. I never read. I don't read. Outside of school, though, Paul's cruelty got worse. Reportedly, when Paul got old enough to drive, he would run over dogs on purpose and take their collars as trophies. He'd also hide in the bushes at Mozel with a BB gun and shoot people working on the Murdoch property. But besides the expulsion, nobody ever admonished Paul for his behavior, because going against the Murdox meant that you not only had to go against the most powerful family in the county, but you also had to go against everyone else in the community who was defending the Murdox, or at least defending them for the time being. Where'd you hear that dog thing?

It was in a, I was at Valerie Bauerlein's book, I think. Yeah, it was one of those where he's, he was escalating wildly. And anybody that said different about him wanted just, they wanted it to be different. Yeah, yeah, anyone who said that, no, Paul was actually, Paul was actually like a good guy. you just didn't know Paul. No, like that means nothing. That either means that that person doesn't want Paul to be as bad of a person as they actually were or that person is complicit. Do you think Paul got his ass kicked a lot?

No. No, he didn't. I bet he did. No. They specifically, they ramped up the idea. So that's a part of the whole motive, right? They ramped up the idea that Paul was getting his ass beat and all these guys are coming after him. We're not there yet.

We're kind of, we're far ahead right now. Yeah, but even then, like, even when he was a. a kid, no. He would not get his ass. He was too... The family was too powerful. But he also liked getting into like he was also very violent. He was a fighter. He would start the fight. Yeah, he would start the fight. He's probably good at it.

Yes. Yes. Well, he thought he was. Yeah. And I'm sure there was caught a few people who let him win. Yeah. Maggie Murdoch, meanwhile, she was doing all she could just to keep it together. Alec had been keeping her reasonably satisfied by chartering private jets

for extravagant trips all over the world. paid for by money that Alec had stolen from his personal injury clients. But in this, Maggie never asked questions. And she knew nothing. Nothing. Really, what got Maggie most riled up was Alex habitual cheating, which he did not limit to sex workers. Maggie would keep close friends and extended family far away from Alec,

especially if they were brunettes. Because while we look at Alec Murdoch as a physically repulsive specimen in every way... He is objectively. Yeah. Some women did find Big Red attractive. even when he began calling himself Big Daddy. No one else called him Big Daddy, but he tried

to get people to start calling him Big Daddy, and it didn't catch on. It might have been the money. Yeah. You know, and then funny guys, funny guys. No, he was charming. Everyone knew that he was charming when he was trying to be so. Yeah. It was big guys. I mean, as a big man, some

women find that very attractive. No, sometimes a woman just wants to be with a big, scary man. Yeah. Because it's fun for them to be with. Yeah, they want to be with a scary, Sennie. And sometimes they want to be with a sexy poet. Sometimes they want to be with a man that is, yeah, he might be just as tall. He is around.

But eat your pussy until you're dead. Let's do women want, Henry. I think women want a little hunt. They want a little hut to bleed in, a little hut to eat in, one little hut to stretch in. And then one little hut to read the news in so I don't have to hear them crying. That last time sounds like it's your hub It's a rough one There's a lock on the outside

Now on the inside Well Maggie Kicked Alec out of the house For cheating again and again But Alec always managed to talk his way back inside Because as we said last episode Murdox don't divorce And she can't get cut off from all that good ass shit

She knows she's just going back to fucking wherever she came from If she leaves this arrangement here And she doesn't want it She has all of these super powerful people. Yeah, she'll make money in the divorce, but it's going to be a... What do we know about divorce? It's not good.

No, it's very difficult. And they still, you know, to their credit, no Murdox have ever gotten divorced. Yeah, wow. Technically, because your Buster got married. We can really look up to them. Buster's wife better look out. You know she sleeps at one eye open.

Oh, yeah, yeah. She's probably because you only got the one. Well, as Valerie Bauerline put it, Maggie Murdoch soothed herself with cocktails, and manicures and shopping and the beach because the cheating and the alcoholism were not the only problems. Eventually, Alex's oxy addiction would begin causing riffs

in the marriage. Come over here, sit on my pussy chopper. What does that have to do? Come on, sit on my pussy chopper. Is that what he called his... His penis. Come on here, shit in my pussy chopper. What does that have to do with his oxy addiction?

Chopper, chopper, chopin. Come on. I thought he called it as snatch it. No, no, no, no, that's what I call when my pussy chopper goes inside. It's horrible. Thank you. Every so often, Alec would try to quit Oxy when it looked like Maggie was about to leave,

and Alec would spend days shivering and vomiting in bed at Moselle with withdrawals. And afterward, he would tell Maggie, everything's different this time, and she would believe him until she or Paul would find bags of Oxy taped away in hiding places around the house. Paul actually became so good at finding his father's oxy stashes

that they started calling him the little detective. He's so good. You're so good at finding your father's illegal opioids. You're a little detective, aren't you? And the... Yeah, my little detective, give me a cigar! Now, even though Oxy was a bridge too far for the Murdoch family, alcohol was still all well and good,

and it made every single one of them aggressive. On occasion, these guys would get drunk and aggressive together, like the time that Alec and Paul tracked down a girl, who had turned down Paul's romantic advances. See, the girl that Paul liked had a boyfriend. And when Alec and Paul found them in a gas station in the boyfriend's car, after they rode around town getting drunker and drunker, they hooted and hollered while slamming their hands on the kid's vehicle.

And at one point, Alec repeatedly shouted for the boyfriend to, quote, Get out here and fuck my wife and child. Come fight my child. Find my child. He's been fought bad. I wish people would have filmed the fucking shit out of that. Yeah. But he had some get out here and fight my boy.

Fat my boy. Your dad ever take you to a fight? What do you mean? My dad drove me to a fight once. Like an actual fight or like a bare-knuckle like back alley thing? Yeah, I had to like fight this guy once and I had my dad drive me and drop me off at a McDonald's so I could fight this guy. Yeah. But he didn't show up, thank God.

Oh, that's nice. Yes, yeah. Yeah. So I was eventually called my dad and I'm like, all right, come get me. Now, my dad was constantly at work. He missed all that. I'm glad he was working. All my fights were private and brutal.

As they should be. Now, all this is to say that the Murdox were provably violent people who weren't above using violence to get what they wanted. It had been rumored for years that the Murdoch family were perfectly willing and capable of getting rid of people that were inconvenient. And that brings us to the case of Stephen Smith. Stephen Smith and his twin sister Stephanie were both in Buster Murdox class at Wade Hampton High. And Stephen and Buster had both been on the same Little League team when they were kids. But when they got to high school, Buster distanced himself because Stephen came out as proudly gay, which was a huge thing in a small town in South Carolina.

Dude, it's almost a homicidal choice. No, well, I don't want to discuss. I don't want to discourage kids from coming out. No, I feel very bad for Stephen. But he's good to do. Well, Stephen bravely endured all the abuse that came his way as a result. But despite the turmoil, he was still a straight-A student who remained a caring person to the end of his days who always lived life on his own terms. Now, even though Stephen was out and proud, Buster Still, according to one very gossipy high school teacher, took Stephen's help when Buster needed a science tutor.

Stephen's sister Stephanie, however, confirmed that Stephen had told her that these tutoring sessions with Buster had blossomed into a full-blown homosexual fling, which allegedly continued until they graduated high school. No proof of this, of course, but there are many people are saying things. Many people are saying things, and after what we already know, it's hard to discount some of the things, because Buster definitely looks like he loves to suck dick. He is, after all, a public figure. He is. Now, the summer after their first year in college, Stephen Smith had returned home from the technical school where he'd been studying to become a registered nurse,

and Buster had returned from his first year at Wofford College in Spartanburg. The Spartans aren't gay at all. Nothing gay about Greek warfare. There's been nothing gay about it. I don't care what anybody says about the Greeks. Nothing homosexual about their philosophy or life. Now that summer, Stephen had gotten into an altercation with a redneck with a guns and roses tattoo on July 4th. But Stephen had come out on scathed.

Stephen did not, however, survive the night of July 7th. And the day in question, as well as the night, is filled with mysterious events that still don't have any answers. And this all happened in 2015. That day, Stephen called up his sister Stephanie from a gas station asking for help because his car wouldn't start. When Stephanie showed up and popped the hood, she discovered that someone had unscrewed the battery connections and had unplugged the oil drain on Stephen's car. Now, since Stephen was an openly gay kid in a southern backwater, this sort of thing didn't face him too much, so he shrugged his shoulders and headed home to change. He said goodbye to Stephanie at exactly 6 p.m.,

but that was the last time that anyone would admit to seeing Stephen Smith alive. Now, we have absolutely no idea what happened that night. But just before 4 a.m., a tow truck driver was driving down a secluded road near Crockettville in Hampton County when he saw what he thought was a large dead animal lying in the middle of the road. He called 911 to report it, but when a deputy showed up 40 minutes later, he found the body of Stephen Smith, splayed out across the dividing line with his skull caved in. Now, a body in the road makes one think that this would be a hit and run, but there were no tire marks, no vehicular debris on the road, or anywhere on Stephen's body, and no paint scrapes anywhere. Stephen's knees were also resting together peacefully, as though someone had posed him,

as opposed to the usually mangled body that one sees after a hit and run, a body that tumbles down the road and leaves a long trail of blood and intestines. Yes. His loose-fitting shoes were also still on his feet. That also never happens in a hit and run. His shoes always fly off. Stephen had no broken bones other than his skull, of course, and the only blood on the road was

what had poured from his massive fatal head wound. And all of this pointed to the fact that Stephen had been killed elsewhere and dumped at this location. Could it possibly have been a very small car? Yeah, a flying car. It could have been

Ant-Man. Have you thought about it being Ant Man? It was an aunt man In a car the size of a baseball bat Yeah Now where on his head was the bruised Do you know?

In the back I think So he would have to like Lean his head So the back of his head would get hit by a car He would have had to have tried to headbutt a moving car With the back of his head But only that

And the rest of his body Would be unaffected So it is he obviously It's impossible that he was hit by a car He was beaten a death We know that he was beaten a death and he was left in the middle of the road for it to look like a hit and run.

And it sounds, but guess what that also sounds like? A childlike idea of covering up a crime. Sure. It sounds like a teenager's concept. Or an adult. Yeah, a dumb adult. Yeah. Well, I mean, dumb, it worked.

A dumb adult would hit it with the car, but just because nobody cared, there was no way to figure it out. The investigation is open again. Yes. Well, Stranger still that night was Stephen's car. It was found abandoned three miles away with an empty gas tank,

which made it appear as if Stephen had run out of gas and was walking to get help. The nearest gas station, however, was in the opposite direction, and the gas cap was open, as if someone had siphoned away all the gas, because it's the only reason why the gas cap will be open. How many times have you run out of gas and you go back the end? Do I go look at it? No, I can't see the gas in it. Yeah, no, no one does that.

No one goes and opens the gas cap. And then he just came from the gas station. Yeah, yeah, he had been at the gas station earlier that day. it's a good point. It's a very good point. Stevens' wallet was also left behind in his card. Something you'd think he would have brought his wallet with him if he was going for gas. Now in South Carolina, deaths like Stevens are investigated by the highway patrol, and it was immediately obvious to them that Stephen had big killed elsewhere

and dumped in the middle of the road, and that this did not involve a motor vehicle in any way whatsoever. But by 6.25 a.m., less than two fucking hours after the body was found by that first deputy, The Hampton County coroner had rushed through the autopsy and ruled Stephen Smith's death as an accidental hit and run. Almost as if someone told them, hey, this is an accidental hit and run. Why don't you make that happen as fast as you possibly fucking can? They also, or, hey, never truly put total laziness out. That is also, I mean, that is also.

But you guys wanting to wrap it up, have it be done. He was found on the road. Local gay kid we don't like. Hit and run. It was one person who was trying to wrap it up. But yeah, it was like, well, they're like, well, they asked it like, well, why do you think it was a hit and run? They was found in the road. Yep.

And that was it. That was the only evidence they had for it being a hit and run. They was found in a road. Sounds like a great coroner. Hey, man. He didn't even know why he does. Well, the troopers still investigating the scene were flabbergasted, but they couldn't do anything to change the coroner's mind. And by 9 a.m., the road where Stephen was found was reopened.

on the orders of Hampton County officials. Bodies found at 2.30 a.m., I think. Roads open again by 9. Yep. They just were like, well, that's over. They'll immediately just like, well, you know, hey, we think that, oh, you're not going to. All right, we'll go home. Yeah.

Get out the hose. Bye-bye. No one drives on the road anyway, obviously, if he was sitting out there for all those hours. And, you know, I'm going to understand if you're thinking, hey, this is an openly gay kid who's murdered in a southern town. Could have been anybody. Sure. Anybody might have killed him. And, you know, it also, I could also see you thinking like, all right, this is a case of the less dead.

You know, the coroner's just trying to get this body through and processed as fast as possible. He's a gay kid. No one gives a shit. Let's not have a murder on the books. But if it could have been anybody, why did the Murdoch family involve themselves so heavily in the investigation? Because reportedly, Randy Murdoch, the third, himself was on the scene before the whole thing got wiped. away and there were very few people who could put pressure

on the coroner in such a way as to file a bogus cause of death that fast. Now this is Randy the uncle or the grandfather? This is the grandfather. Grandfather. This is Big Randy. This is Randy the third. Big Daddy, big daddy. No, it's a big daddy's son. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. There's so

many of these fucking asses. As many deadies. As many deadies, many, yeah, that's Bustard, yeah. It's kind of nice of Alec to eliminate some of the guys we have to talk about. The community did actually come to the Smith family's side when the news broke, but the tenor changed when one name started coming up over and over again when people asked, who could have done such a thing?

That name, of course, was Buster Murdoch. They're all like, you know the Murdox? Yeah, and when the Murdoch name got involved, the people of Hampton County once again began self-policing themselves because the Murdox still had enough goodwill from helping out someone's daddy or someone's mama or someone's brother, sometime in the past where defending this family

had almost become a reflex. Now, was Buster violent, like notoriously as well? No, Buster was not notoriously violent. Not like Paul was. Buster could keep, Buster was actually probably the most level-headed,

at least as far as like outward appearance goes. Can I view? Of all of them. My view? Yeah. He's the weak, total weak pussy one that'll do whatever daddy says. Maybe.

He's the lead son. He's supposed to take over the family name. He's in law school. He's the one taking up the charge. By this point, Paul has already said he doesn't necessarily want to be a lawyer. He's already kind of focusing on his rural, dumb shit. I'm a fake country boy. Paul's still in high school.

And Buster just finished his freshman year undergrad. Yeah. But Buster's going to be the one, right? So I think that what Buster is a pussy. So Buster is, we more, Paul's a homicidal maniac. Yeah. Let's say Buster did get in a situation with Stephen Smith. this led to somewhere. My call is

that it was him and other boys that led to the death. It wasn't Paul on his own. Paul Buster. It was not, yes, it was not Buster in his own. Yeah. Yeah, he couldn't have been Bust. I just don't think he has the heart to do it. No, I think he's a pussy. I think that he put himself in a situation where all of his boys were all being like,

oh, you and Stephen, K-I-S-I-N-G. Well, let's get into it. Yeah. Yeah. Now, the first red flag, besides Randy the third presence at the crime scene, came when one of Alec Murdoch's older brothers called up Stephen's parents out of the blue to volunteer his services in investigating their son's death.

This was Randy the fourth. Another Randy. So to avoid confusion, I'm just going to call him the Murdoch brother. Okay, good, yeah. Now, this Murdoch did have a previous relationship with the Smith family. He'd represented Stephen Smith's father in a workman's comp claim

years before. So it wasn't the craziest thing that he called him up, But that didn't explain why this Murdoch was the second person to call the Smiths right after the coroner called them to tell them that their son was dead. Call number two. The coroner probably called the Murdox first. Well, I think the Murdox talked to the coroner before anyone. And I think because word was already cycling. Let's say the rumor, let's say it was just a rumor that Buster was involved.

And it was already circling. that's what they're immediately trying to suppress. This is where the solicitor angle comes in, because Randy is the ex-solicitor. He's going to get all this information before anyone else. Oh, I think that the entire plan was set into place before Stephen Smith's body was even found. Yeah.

Let's get into that. Now, the Smiths were, of course, suspicious about the Murdoch brother calling immediately after the coroner, but that didn't stop the Murdoch brother from showering the Smiths with calls over. the next few weeks offering to quote unquote help with their son's tragic death. Yeah, let's sue somebody. Let's sue somebody.

But really, he's looking for information and he's also trying to keep them close. Keep them close and put the focus of the investigation and the focus of their anger anywhere but towards the Murdoch name. And there were rumors that Stephen had been killed by homophobic cops, but the most persistent rumor was that the people behind Stephen Smith's murder had been, quote, them Murdoch. boys. Even though the coroner had tried killing the investigation, the state troopers had continued looking into Stevens' death because of the repeated mention of the Murdox. But just as soon as they started asking questions about the Murdoch boys specifically, a lot of people stopped answering questions altogether. But since the Murdox grip on the people of Hampton County have been slowly loosening, 10 people mentioned either Buster or Paul Murdoch's name during the investigation. All

although none of them had firsthand information. And, you know, I've grown up in a really small town, like, I know how this shit goes. One person says one thing and another person says another. And they just keep talking like, well, I'd ten people talk to all said tomorrow. I was like, well, yeah, those ten people all talk to the same fucking gossip. It's at the same thing. Doesn't necessarily mean that the Murdox were definitely involved. But it is interesting.

And what's really interesting about this is that the state troopers found that when they called up some of those people who've been willing to talk for follow-up interviews, they discovered that some of those informants very suddenly had gone on vacation. And those people never returned to Hampton County. They weren't killed. They just never moved back. Almost as if somebody had given him a shitload of money and said, get the fuck out of here. I also believe there is a, you know, nobody really wants to be the sticky wheel.

I think a lot of people think that like, oh, you know, it's easy to come at the Murdox. Let's say it's devil's advocate. It's easy to come at the Murdox because they're the local rich people. We're going to start a rumor mill about the boys, blah, blah, blah. But up until that point, previous generations, they held the respect of

the community. And they were genuinely liked by the community. And there's something about the switch. There's something about them extending themselves to say Buster and Paul, not Alec, none of the other old cryptic guys, that it's the

sons that have already created this reputation, obviously they have created a real reputation of violence or an aura of violence. Because why else would all of these people say those, there's so many other roughnecks. There's so many other pieces of shit

that you could rat out. Why is it always the Murdox if it's not something there? Yeah. And this Stephen Smith shit, it got swept under the rug pretty fucking fast and probably would have stayed there if Paul wasn't such a goddamn lunatic. Yes. Now, there are a ton of theories about what happened to Stephen Smith,

but there's unfortunately no evidence whatsoever proving any of them. One story goes that Buster and Stephen had continued at least a friendship after high school, and when Stephen ran out of gas on July 7th, he was still comfortable enough with Buster to call him for help. Now, it's proven that Buster had been playing in a softball tournament that night. Interesting. And it's theorized that maybe one of Buster's friends or even possibly Paul had seen or heard something that had embedded.

embarrassed Buster enough to inspire violence that night. The softball tournament detail is important because the autopsy performed on Stephen Smith, even though it still ruled his death as a result of a motor vehicle crash, it placed his cause of death as blunt head trauma. That sort of blunt head trauma someone gets, getting smashed in the head with a baseball bat. And the prevailing theory from the state troopers is that Buster and his friends may have seen Stephen walking down the road or,

standing near his car, and they bashed the bat, thus causing the fatal blunt head trauma. Maybe they had a couple of beers, and they thought it was really funny to do, to scare the dude as he on the side of the street. Oh, Buster's boyfriend, let's scare him, and then one of the guy, he does

the thing where he puts the bat out the window as they go, and he just... Yep, and very accent. Yeah, because the troopers don't believe that they were intentionally trying to kill Stephen. But even if they did it while it was driving, he would have had marks on other parts of his body when he fell. Unless you just went, but when he fell

yeah well he did have marks on another pipe there was some scrapes on his body like it's just not enough to say that he was dragged by a vehicle or struck and killed by a vehicle yeah but the thing is the troopers don't

believe that these kids were intentionally trying to kill Stephen but when they allegedly discovered that he was dead they may have loaded the body and dumped it in the road three miles away before Buster called his daddy or his granddaddy to fix it and fix it they did Because to this day, Buster has still never even been questioned in the death of Stephen Smith.

The investigation ended after only three months when word came down to the troopers from the very top to not pursue this investigation any further in any way whatsoever. And that's the thing is that there is, yeah, there is no proof here. But there is just so much cover up, such an insane amount of cover up. that it really does point towards the Murdox being involved in fucking some way or another. There's enough evidence to at least question them. Yes, very much so. If this was just a family and you heard this story, I'd call it was bullshit. But we got three bodies, right?

And so things couldn't have been going that well. Technically, we got five bodies. Yeah, so we're like, we got a lot of bodies here. So the fact that it led to at least one organized double murder tells me, that there might be some stuff bubbling under the surface. Oh, I'm sure there's plenty of the shit that people could find on these guys. Oof, man. It's a big property.

It's already there. We've already talked about a bunch of rumors. Yeah, but that's the thing is that we didn't, like, there's so many that I'm sure. Oh, yeah, think about the previous generations. Or when we get to the real helpful Murdoch brother. Mm-hmm. Now, at the same time that Buster may have gotten away with murder, Paul Murdoch was also barreling towards his first brush with suspicious accident.

dental death. See, by the age 18, Paul was drinking booze bought with Buster's ID every day. His girlfriend at the time, Morgan Dowdy, remembered a time when Paul drunkenly vomited in front of his parents, but the Murdox were unbothered by the whole affair. Morgan was also by this point on the business end of Paul Murdoch's drunken physical violence. In other words, Paul was increasingly out of control, and it is this lack of control that led some people to suspect that he may have had a hand in the death of the Murdoch's longtime housekeeper Gloria Satterfield. So on February 2nd, 2018, Gloria Satterfield was found at the bottom of the brick steps leading up to the Murdoch house at Moselle at 8.30 a.m. Her skull was crushed, a dozen of her vertebrae

were broken, several of her ribs were broken, and there was a hematoma on her brain. Now, again, we have no idea what really happened here. But Maggie apparently found Gloria. and called 911. And the call, Maggie was impatient, irritated, and somewhat put out by the whole affair, showing very little emotion towards the woman who had raised her children for 20 years. You know what she sounds like? She sounds like someone who's annoyed that her dog has eaten chocolate, and she's calling the vet to see if she needs to bring her in.

Legitimately, listen to the 911 calls across the board. If you want to really hear what a lie sounds like, listen to it, because Paul's also on that call. Oh, yeah, because Paul's present. Like, he's there. When he gets on the phone with the operator, he's annoyed that the operator is even asking simple questions. Like, the operator is asking, like, is she breathing?

Does she have a history of strokes? Paul's like, I don't know why you're asking me questions. It's literally what he's like, why are you asking me all these damn questions? He sounds intoxicated. Yeah, and it's 8.30 a.m. He could be partying all night. I don't know what the fuck it is. He sounds like a little, well, you definitely sounds like you've got bitch disease.

She was outside the house. house, right? Yeah, on the front steps. And it is February 2nd. She could have been scared by a groundhog. Oh, whoa. And he was coming out there and they were all like, get that damn, brownhouse.

That was a raspberry. They were shooting at the ground off. Stop giving us bad luck. Yeah. There's a lot of land. There's got to be ground. There has to be. Do we know where Dan Aykroyd was during all this? No.

Where was Dan Aykroyd? Where was he? I can't believe he's got divorced. Not a good sign, boys. all those out there who've seen Kettyshack 2. Yes. Mr. Westerhouse. So what do I

think of it? Why do I know they'll be like chai, chai golfing with that jammed up your crack? Well, paramedics arrived 20 minutes after they called 911 because Moselle was way the fuck out there. And while Gloria was able to give her name

and say that she had fallen down the steps, she could not or chose to not say exactly what had caused her fall. She literally didn't even say what happened. Remember that, guys. She could fucking communicate enough

and she didn't tell them. She gave them her address but would not tell them what happened. They say, how did you fall down this? And she said, I don't know. That's what she would say. Over and over again, I don't know. In the Hulu show,

they don't show her like getting killed by Paul with the way they do it. They still found a way to make them all look like assholes. They had her like lugging in all their luggage. after her in Tray. And then she couldn't handle all the luggage, and that's how she fell down the stairs. That's hilarious.

That's like, wow, a bell hop, Steph. But even though Gloria didn't say what happened, and Maggie didn't say what happened when she was on the phone with 911, they asked her what happened. She said, I don't know. Alec Murdoch began telling everyone that the dogs had caused the fall. He's really good at coming up with reasons for things. Yeah, he really is.

Yeah, he said that the dogs tripped her up. And she, oh, she was walking up them steps, and the dogs tripped her up. And, you know, it's just just what happens. Sometimes you've got as many dogs as we got around Moselle. Everybody loves dogs. It's just so weird. You can't blame my dog. You can't blame my dog.

And it's just finding interesting because nobody else said what happened. No. And, well, Alex said that Gloria had told him what had happened before the paramedics showed up, that he had gotten there and he had leaned down and she had looked up. She said, the dogs had tripped me. And he began telling everybody. That's what happened. He told her sons, that's what happened.

He told the insurance agents. That's what happened. But according to the groundskeeper at Moselle, Alex was never present before, during, or after the fall. He was never there. So Gloria couldn't have told him anything. Gloria, meanwhile, never regained consciousness. And after three weeks in the hospital,

where Maggie visited once, and the boys who Gloria had raised for 20 fucking years, They didn't visit her at all. Gloria Satterfield died a horrible death, leaving behind two sons of her own. Her brain just eventually went. Yeah. And she left. You know, and just because the sons didn't visit her doesn't mean that they're guilty.

It just, you know, they are assholes too. Massive. Mass of assholes. We can't discredit. How big a prick, Sam. We really can't overstate how big of massive pieces of fucking shit, dog shit. But nuggets. It's just too many examples. There's just so much stuff that at least on some level, whether it's evidence or not,

shows that these people are fucking sociopaths. Yeah. Now, the rumor, and again, it's all rumor here, was that Paul Murdoch had lost his temper and pushed Gloria down the steps because she'd found drugs in his room and confronted him about it. It was said that Paul proudly boasted about killing her to his friends and that he'd allegedly told other people around town that he was responsible. for her death. Again, this is all small-town gossip. But the interesting thing here is not with Paul,

but with Alec. See, just a month before Gloria died, Alec had taken out a large liability insurance policy on Moselle in anticipation of an accident just like the one Gloria suffered, a month before. And at Gloria's funeral, Alec approached her adult son and said, hey, if you want to get a lawyer to sue, me for wrongful death, well that's going to trigger the insurance policy. That payout's going to take care of all your mama's medical bills. It's going to leave a little something extra for you and the kids.

Because, as Alec put it, your kids are like family to me. Oh, bad son. Y'all are like family to me and I want to make sure you're taking care of. But that guy kills his family. Right, yeah. He's still a few years away from killing it. He's only planning it at this

point. He's like, it's just a twinkling his eye. Now, the lawyer that Alec recommended to the Satterfields was, of course, Corey Fleming. His, that was his partner in embezzlement. But Alec neglected to mention that Corey was his best friend and his former college roommate. And that's what makes this whole thing. Fishing is that he could have easily said, like, oh, yeah, I know Corey real well. I'd known him for forever.

But no, he's like, oh, I just, there's this lawyer you should call is Corey Fleming. You know, he'll take care of you. Yeah, it's like, no, he tried to act like it was somebody. he didn't know. Yes. Now, Gloria knows him if they're giving them the number. But he didn't want him. He's not like, this is my best friend. Yeah. Now, Gloria's family agreed to the scheme.

But as soon as the wheels started moving, the Satterfields were cut out of the process completely. Once Fleming filed the wrongful death suit, he secured a settlement check with the insurance company little over half a million dollars. But that money was then transferred not to the Satterfields, but to an account that Alec Murdoch had opened with the Bank of America a few years earlier because his scam had reached its next idiotic level. This was the account that he used solely for scamming people. This account had been opened under the name Richard A. Murdoch, sole proprietor doing business as Forge. Because Forge Consulting LLC, that was a legitimate financial holding company.

Yeah, that was his company. No, it wasn't. No, Forge Consulting LLC had nothing to do with Alec Mardock in any way whatsoever. It was a completely different, it was a different business. It was a paper sign in business, right? Yeah. It was like if you open up like a car dealership and called it, you know, Chevy, but it's not Chevrolet, but it's like Henry, doing business as Chevy. And so if someone writes a check to Chevy, you can cash that check because you're doing business as Chevy.

Yeah. The company's not Chevy. You don't work for Chevy. Just like Alec Murdoch didn't work for Forge Consulting LLC. But since he had this account that was simply called. Forge, he could tell people write out that check to Forge and he could pretend

like that check was going to the legitimate Forge Consulting LLC. But it wasn't going to the legitimate Forge Consulting LLC. It was going into his personal bank account over a Bank of America. What a great idea! It's just crazy if you have a phony business account,

don't call it Forge. Yeah. There's hilarious. Plager is a make. Welcome to crime syndicate business. I'm sorry, I'll just need the butt. And so Alec laundered the insurance money, gained from his housekeeper's brutal death through the forge account, and he kept every cent for himself,

except, of course, for a little big given to Corey Fleming. Now, Alec kept telling Gloria's family that he was working on it when they asked what was happening with the case. But without their mother's income, the Satterfield home was repossessed, and her family never even knew that the payout had happened until the news reported on Alex's financial crimes years later. He laundered the money off of the person who used to do laundry for him.

Yeah, yeah. The company called Forge, got a check that was given to him from it. This is crazy. This is like, you know what you're seeing here already? Auxi ideas. Like, this is a, this is a, this is Axy ideas. This man is just like, he is an ideas guy. He's like Tesla.

He is, yeah. It really, no, what it? It's like a fucking sophomore in a creative writing class. And you got to say, like, your metaphors are a little too on the nose. Yes. Just a little like laundering money. Forge. Jesus.

Fucking Christ. Hi, my name is Jimford imbezzler. It's easy. But out of all the suspicious death. surrounding the Murdoch family, there was none that did more to bring their sleasiness into the light than the one that occurred on February 24th, 2019, or technically the 25th. On the night of the 24th, Paul drunkenly crashed a boat into a bridge with five friends on board, and one, of course, did not survive. This is the incident that brought the Murdoch family to national attention.

Now, by this point, Paul was 19 years old and was basically, spending his life either drinking or hunting. And on the night in question, Paul was drinking. On the evening of February 24th, Paul was driving his father's 17-foot fishing boat, sea hunt. Cunt.

Shunt? No. Sea, hunt. Cunt. Cunt. Cunt. Okay, all right. Well, he was driving this fishing boat with two other young couples and his on-again, off-again

girlfriend. The girls were Morgan Dowdy, Miley Altman, and Mallory Beach. They were all close friends, lifelong friends. While the other two guys, Connor and Anthony Cook, were cousins. Connor was dating Miley. Connor was a nickname Cotton Top, I didn't know everyone called him, while Anthony was dating Mallory, although that relationship would end in tragedy before the night was through. Alex was called OxyContin Top.

Please continue. You got it, buddy. Wow. Now, even though Morgan had broken up with Paul by this point, because of the abuse, the other two girls had convinced her to go up the river with him that night to an oyster roast. Oyster roast is a low country tradition during the chilly winter months. Yeah, you just throw a bunch of oysters on a grill. Yeah, it's fine.

They got good oysters or whatever, but it's like one of those things where it's just, it's rich people pretending to be poor. Mm-hmm. Where they were taking sea hunt that night because, because Paul had already been drinking, and he'd wanted to avoid the inevitable DWI checkpoints on the road. And that also tells you a little bit about the Murdoch's waning power, because before Murdoch's going to blow right through a checkpoint.

Well, it's because he had already, there's already been a couple of run-ins. Many run-ins. Yes. Yes. Yes. And he's underage, too. Yes. And so, after funneling multiple beers at this party,

Paul decided that he wanted a nightcap at his favorite dockside bar Luther's rare well and done And these guys face fucking losers These two children show up to your bar And you pour them shots and shit Who are these fucking losers Working at all of these places

Eating and embedding these horrible children? It's a soft dude It's seriously It shows the video of Paul going up to that bar He slamming his hand on the bar Give me a shot! Give me a shot! Give me a shot! It's like, that was an older man They fucking poured him that shot.

He should have been, fuck you. Yeah. Get out of my bar. They're scared of him, man. Yeah. He's a 19-year-old. They're still scared of him. I know.

The young adults all hop back in the boat, and they took it down to Luther's where they had shots. By that point, Paul had drank enough where his evil alter ego, Timmy had come out to play. And after Paul got into a fight with a fellow bar patron and started kicking over chairs, the group finally left the bar at 1.13 a.m. Now, the other kids wanted to call an Uber home at this point, but Paul insisted that he wasn't going to leave his father's boat at the docks, and he absolutely refused to let anybody else drive.

So against all their better judgment, the other five young adults got back into the boat with Paul Murdoch out of either misplaced loyalty or fear. Also, just that there's a vibe of if we finally draw our line in the sand, when you deal with these types of guys, he's going to blow it up and make it so bad that no one's going to want to deal with it. No one wants to deal with how he's holding

all of their relationship hostage, and they don't want to deal with it because they don't want to challenge it. They're too young to understand. Well, they've dealt with it many, many, many times. Well, they haven't dealt with it. They've let it sit, and they've watched it happen. I mean, this is normal in a weird way.

It is. Until disaster strikes, you will keep making mistakes, you'll keep fucking up. You're a drunk kid who's never had consequences. I'm talking about the other guys too. All of them. Yeah. They were all in a fantasy world.

Yeah. They were in a bubble. Now, things devolved quickly once they got back out on the water. Paul began driving in circles just to annoy his friends. And when Morgan finally confronted him, he slapped her, spat on her, and called her a fucking horror. This stunned everyone into silence momentarily because they knew better than to push back when Paul was this drunk.

Just like on the idea that his buddies wouldn't just fucking knock him in the mouth. Yeah. Being like, fuck. Like, just for, even if you- Number him, he wouldn't even remember you did it. No, dude. Like, the idea that they didn't just chop him across the face. Also, you beat the shit out of him right now.

Everyone's still alive. And it ends. And it might end. It might be the ass beating that little shit needs to get. Yep. No, it's not going to end. He's just going to keep doing it. Yeah, until you beat him to death eventually.

That's the idea. You could shoot him in front of a bunch of dogs. Yeah. God, how lucky was Alec? Everybody wanted to kill Paul. And he got to do it? He was one. He was one.

The other thing that he stole from everyone in that coming. That's unfair. Well, finally at 2.20 a.m., Mallory reportedly told Paul that he was being fucking stupid. Paul stared daggers at Mallory, then slammed the boat's throttle all the way down while heading straight towards the bridge ahead. Everyone's. screamed as the boat hit the bridge's wood pilings. Three of the passengers slammed into the boat's boards, while Paul, Anthony Cook, and Mallory Beach were all ejected into the water.

While half of them lay bleeding and screaming in the boat, Paul and Anthony made their way to shore. Mallory Beach, however, was nowhere to be found. Now, Connor Cook found a working phone within 15 minutes and called 911 despite having a broken jaw. When the paramedics finally arrived and treated the other kids, most of them were screaming about finding Mallory, especially her boyfriend Anthony.

The only one who wasn't freaking out was Paul Murdoch, who just smiled and laughed at the entire situation. Anthony, of course, reacted badly to this. He lunged at Paul, yelling that his girlfriend was fucking gone. Too little too late. After that, Anthony was put in a cruiser, where he told deputies that the boy who'd been driving that boat that night was Alec Murdoch's son.

so good fucking luck. Deputies, however, had already been informed exactly who Paul was by who else, but Paul himself. Even though Paul reeked of alcohol after having no less than 19 drinks, that's estimated 19 drinks. Perimen. And even though it took four paramedics and two deputies to get Paul into an ambulance, and even though a girl was missing and presumed dead, no one at the scene gave Paul a field sobriety test. They did, however, let Paul borrow a phone so he could call his grandfather, Randy the third, the same grandfather who'd shown up at Stephen Smith's murder scene four years earlier when Buster was suspected.

Paul had always called Randy the Third when he was in trouble. Because he was super close to his grandfather. He was, and on this night, Paul explicitly told his grandfather that it had been cotton top who'd been driving. Because already the blame was starting to shift off of the Murdox. Fucking Cotton Top. still such a cuck that he thinks that Paul is innocent. He's all like all of this. No, not not him. The guy that's the guy in the Netflix documentary that I believe is Connor is the one that's all like, you don't know Paul. Now that's Anthony. That's a different one. It's not

to say that he thinks he's innocent. It don't know Paul. You don't know the real Paul. And he's like, yeah, you do. Yeah. It's not, yeah, it's not that he thinks he's innocent. He's just, I think he just doesn't want to let himself feel all of it fully. I get it. It won't take it to later on when he does something bad his own self. Yeah. When he doesn't check those emotions. You know, also when someone gets murdered, you kind of create a new opinion

about them and stuff because you feel bad about what happened to them and shit like that. Sure. Yeah. I guess. No, Cotton Top is quite angry in the documentary. Like, Kai, yeah, he's the one that's got the, so he got the huge scar on his face. Also, if he's this drunk and he was

that hard to get into the cop car, I really am pushing for his was on a lot of cocaine. I really think this kid was doing coke out the fucking wazoo. Have you never seen somebody just alcohol? We forget just how powerfully, powerfully destructive alcoholists. I saw going through all those good old boys in Tallahassee. I mean, it's possible.

You know, I'm not going to say it against him. I just feel like he would know how to get cocaine if he wanted it. It's possible. Now, both Randy the 3rd and Alec Murdoch knew that Paul was lying about who had been driving that night because Murdox did not give up control. So they arrived at the hospital at around 3 a.m. in full damage control mode. Instead of asking about the whereabouts of Mallory Beach

or even the condition of the other kids, Alec Murdoch went from room to roam to tell all the other boat passengers that when the investigators asked them who was driving, be a good idea if they just said, I don't know. He's just saying it out loud in a hospital with cameras

and all the same. He's just like, he's doing it. They're just walking. This is how much power they had. They're just walking in and out. They were saying, like, Alec Murdoch's not a doctor. He's walking in and out of all these rooms. Yeah, the only room Alec couldn't get into

was the one holding Paul's on again, off again, girlfriend Morgan Doughty. When Morgan saw Alex's terrifying red-headed potato face peering into the window of her hospital room, she told the nurse, keep that man as far away from me as possible. Because Morgan, she'd been dating Paul on and off for a few years. She knew exactly how the Murdoch family worked. But even her thing when she kind of even could be like, and I still was shocked when it was Mr. Alec.

And it's like, this fucking Southern thing. They're all still calling him Mr. Alec and all these things like he's not a fucking double murderer. It's just like he's not the Papu guy you knew. I'm sorry. He's not that guy. He never was.

But still, it's hard to get that out. It's hard to change your view of somebody. I get it. You know, after, we don't have the, you know,

yeah, we don't have the, the same... What is it? I don't know. What is the term for what that is? Right? What is the term?

Is it blind allegiance? You don't think it's going to happen to you, man. You know, you wish that it didn't, but it didn't. It's so crazy. It's a story you read about. It's not something that happens in your life, especially when you're so well, brought up well like they are. They just talk about them like the people out of Scientology talk about LRH.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there is definitely some indoctrination there. There's definitely, like, those people were raised their entire lives. to, you know, not necessarily to respect him and worship the Murdox, but to respect them. You know, it's hard to erase all that shit. Their grandparents told them to respect them. Yeah.

I get it. I get it. That just makes sense. Now, the Murdoch's plan was to keep all the kids from saying who'd been driving because if none of them said definitively that Paul Murdoch was behind the wheel, then maybe Paul could get out of it. Alec had also decided that they were going to sacrifice Connor Cook for Mallory's death if necessary, because it was quite obvious that Mallory Beach was gone forever, even if her body had not yet been found. It was actually in the Murdoch's best interest if Mallory's body was never found,

because if there was no body, there was no crime. And it speculated that the search was somewhat half-hearted as a result. But eight days after the boat crash, Mallory's corpse was found five miles from the site, tellingly, not by officials, but by volunteers, who had spotted Mallory's bright, blonde hair. Now Mallory Beach could have just as easily gone the way of Stephen Smith. The Murdoch name, however, had steadily been losing its power over the years, and Paul wasn't exactly the type of person that people wanted to defend. Additionally, this was the third person in four years whose death was connected to the Murdoch name.

Starting to really build up. It is. Where Stevens' parents couldn't get a single law firm to take their case after the Murdoch name was mentioned in 2015, an attorney named Mark Tinsley, jumped at the chance to represent the Beach family in a wrongful death suit against the Murdox in 2019. And as it went, Mark Tensley's involvement in this case would be the first domino to fall

in a series of events that would, two years later, lead to the brutal murders of Paul and Maggie Murdoch. And that, of course, is where we will pick back up next week for the conclusion to our series. Yes. Until he's murdered in prison. Yeah. Yes.

Well, that's more of a side stories thing. You guys can take that. Yeah, that's what we'll cover. Yeah, y'all can cover that. But, well, I am, God, they make me angry. Oh, God, yes. But you know what? I just think it's interesting.

I think it's endlessly fascinating. It is. I've been interested in this case since the very beginning. I covered it on side stories through the entire trial. And so I just feel like, I feel like I'm at the Olympics. Yeah. They're finally here. Yeah, it's like, I'm the curling.

I'm on the curling team. Yeah, man. can put this guy to bed after this. It'll be nice. Yeah. Big bed. It is a big bed. It's a twin bed. I imagine he's like spilling off the sides of it. He's super skinny. Yeah, yeah. It's a smaller bed now. Well, now that he doesn't have access to all the sugary stuff. He's super skinny. He's super skinny.

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