Murdaugh Murders Podcast - MMP Remastered #11 - Was Alex Murdaugh Actually Shot? Part One

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Starting point is 00:00:52 This is before me. So this was MMP 11. Was Elyke Murdoch actually shot part one? And I look back on this time when I was very much feeling like a crazy person every single day and feeling like I was in crazy upside-down world where I felt like the only one covering this because you weren't there. But you were saying the same things behind the scenes. Like there's no evidence of him being shot. Like why is everybody saying that he was shot by a random guy

Starting point is 00:01:27 and they're feeling sorry for him? Like, what is going on? This is insane. And God. Yeah, I was there. I just wasn't there for it wasn't there. Yeah, you're behind the same. Yeah, like, because that's the thing.

Starting point is 00:01:40 Like, I was so, like, I did not have a place to put all the anger that you and I were sharing behind the scenes about like, especially the part. And I was so grateful that you pointed this out. But once the source lies to you, like, they go into bad boy school. Like, they leave. Like, they're not your source anymore. Yeah. And Jim Greer. often lied about what, like, where ELEC was and what happened.

Starting point is 00:02:04 And they reported that he was at the wrong hospital. So reporters wouldn't go to the hospital, I guess, and they went to the wrong hospital. And it just, it seemed to have no effect on, on the credibility that media put on ELEC's defense team at the time. But what a fishy set of circumstances. I mean, right away, even law enforcement sources who might be like knee-jerk defensive of ELEC were like, that didn't happen. Right. Yeah. And it's like, I just could not believe for the life of me that people, that reporters kept believing Dick and Jim and kept pumping out these stories with whatever they say is true as a headline. And I will never forget, like a couple days after Dick and Jim made fools out of most reporters. And again, that was a reason why I at the time brought in a lot of people and gained a lot of,

Starting point is 00:02:59 listeners because I was the only one being like, what? This doesn't make any sense. I don't believe these people and something else is going on here. While everybody else was just like, ooh, Dick and Jim, what do you have to say about this? Okay, I'm going to write that story. There was also a PR team, don't forget. Yeah, right, and there was a whole PR team working for those stories. But I'll never forget a headline that was something along the lines of Alex Murdoch says that he's going to pay back.

Starting point is 00:03:29 all the victims and do you remember that it was a TV station yeah I do it was around the same time and I was like again that's like Alex Murdoch saying that he does not like the show about him murdering his family it is so stupid and ridiculous that we give this man so much air and so much breathing room and so much freaking grace that we still to this day there's still writing headlines about Alex Murdoch doesn't think that this is true and And it's like, he lies all of the time. These people are liars. And just like you said, I do not understand a world where a source would lie to me.

Starting point is 00:04:09 And I would just turn around the next day and write a story like they didn't just lie to me and make a fool out of me. If somebody lies to me and leads me into a wrong direction where I lead my listeners into it wrong direction. I am mad and not going to take not going to see them as credible and not going to write about them like they're credible. But that still to this day has not happened with Dick and Jim and reporters. Like they still act like they've been hunky dory all along and never lied to them once. Yeah. And then we're painted like Salem witches because we have boundaries. And we also, I mean, it just seems like common sense.

Starting point is 00:04:55 Once somebody does you dirty, you don't know when they're going to do you dirty again. And again, credibility. That's all we have is our credibility. But it doesn't seem to matter that, you know, Alex's defense team had none. And, you know, that's a real kick in the gut. I don't know if anyone shot Ehrlich Mardock.

Starting point is 00:05:15 I'll repeat that statement. I don't know if anyone shot Elyke Mardock. But ever since the alleged shooting, we've watched the former prominent. attorney's reputation unravel in front of us in real time. And again, the more we find out, the more disturbing it gets. My name is Mandy Matney, and I've been investigating the Murdoch family for more than two years now. This is the Murdoch Murdoch's podcast. Two weeks after Alec Murdoch appeared injury-free at his bond hearing in a suicide for hire scheme,

Starting point is 00:06:00 one big question remains in the made-for-Hawleywood Murdoch murder saga. Was Elyke Murdoch actually shot? The disgraced attorney appeared without a scratch at his Hampton County bond hearing 13 days after the alleged shooting, raising major questions about everything we heard from Murdoch's attorneys Jim Griffin and Dick Arpoutland this month. Is he actually in rehab? Was he ever shot? Where did all of his money go? Did he really have a drug problem? And what are they trying to distract us from?

Starting point is 00:06:38 To recap, on September 4, 2021, which was the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, news broke that Elyke Murdoch was allegedly shot. Almost immediately, sources close to the situation said that Ehrlich's story was suspicious and not adding up. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, which is the same agency that is investigating nearly all of the alleged crimes associated with the Murdoch family, released a statement the day after the shooting that said that ELEC's head wound was superficial. They never called him a victim. They never gave any suspect descriptions of the shooter, and they kept their statement simple,

Starting point is 00:07:14 which to me was a hint that the story that the Murdoch camp was feeding the media was false. Around the same time, Alec Murdoch's lawyers, Dick Harpoolian, and Jim Griffin started to embark on a week-long spin campaign in an attempt to control the narrative and make ELEC appear like the victim. They repeatedly fed the media a story that did not make sense that ELEC was changing a tire on the side of a rural Hampton County road when a man drove up to him and shot him. And then things got weirder. On Labor Day, that would be two days after the alleged shooting incident, a family spokesperson

Starting point is 00:07:48 released a statement saying that Ehrlich Murdoch was going into rehab and resigning from the law firm built by his family, and that would be P-M-P-E-D. The timing was interesting, considering that the story published about Murdoch's opioid addiction and issues at his law firm just hours before that statement was released. And then they issued an apology from Eleg, which was also very strange, considering he was supposed to be the victim of a shooting. In the statement, he said, I am immensely sorry for everyone I've hurt, including my family, friends, and colleagues.

Starting point is 00:08:20 Then he asked for prayers as he rehabilitates. So keep in mind, the Murdoch camp was really pushing this opioid addict storyline hard right after the alleged shooting, which they'd never done before. On that same day, PMPED, the law firm started by Ehrlich's great-grandfather in 1910, released a statement to the media claiming that Ehrlich Murdoch misappropriated millions of dollars from their law firm. They leaked that story to the New York Times as if they wanted the whole world to know. These allegations obviously raise a lot of questions about the double homicide. And for another recap, three months before the shooting, Elek Murdoch's wife and son were found murdered on the family's 1,700 acre property in Collison County, South Carolina. Now that we know that Ehrlich was stealing money from his own law firm and he had a hearing coming up in the boat crash lawsuit

Starting point is 00:09:13 that would force him to reveal his financial situation, it's clear that Ehrlich was facing an immense amount of pressure around the time of the double homicide. The question is whether that pressure has anything to do with the double homicide. And keep in mind, Elyke Murdoch is a person of interest in that investigation, and he has been the only one that law enforcement has referred to as a person of interest in the double homicide. Okay, so we're going to go back to Labor Day weekend. On that Monday, which would be two days after the shooting, Ehrlich was allegedly released. from the hospital and entered an out-of-state rehab. So on that same week, which would still be days after the Labor Day shooting, or alleged

Starting point is 00:10:01 shooting, shall I say, the South Carolina Supreme Court suspended Elyke Murdoch from practicing law due to evidence of misconduct that is under investigation. The next day, which would be September 8, 2021, a few days after the shooting, news broke confirming the first piece of this puzzle that this alleged shooting was. was basically sketch. Sources close to the situation told us that police recovered the knife that slashed Elyke Murdoch's tires from the alleged shooting scene.

Starting point is 00:10:33 And that knife was connected to Ehrlich Murdof. Harputlian and Griffin continued to serve the media spoonfuls of stories that didn't make sense. Harputlian claimed that Ehrlich had an entry and exit wound and was temporarily blinded in the shooting, while Griffin said that Elyke's skull was fractured, and his brain hemorrhawk's attorneys also told reporters that he was released from the hospital two days after the alleged shooting. So which is it? Was it a serious injury or was he released two days

Starting point is 00:11:03 later? The injuries certainly were not the only holes poked in the stories coming from the Murdoch camp this month. They told reporters that Ehrlich was airlifted to MUSC in Charleston, but he was actually flown to a hospital in Savannah. He told reporters that Ehrlich was changing a tire on the side of the road, but the Mercedes-Benz SUV had run flat tires that he was driving that day. They told reporters that Ehrlich was on his way to Charleston from Moselle, but the road what he was on was out of the way from that route. We appeared to be the only media outlet holding the lawyers to account and calling out their lies.

Starting point is 00:11:38 Everybody else was just running around acting like it was a normal thing. However, the Murdoch Spin campaign was abruptly thrown off course on September 10th when SLED officials arrested 61-year-old Curtis Eddie Smith. At Desjardin, we speak business. We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made-to-measure growth and expansion advice, and we can talk your ear-off about transferring your business when the time comes. Because at Desjardin business, we speak the same language you do.

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Starting point is 00:13:12 arrest broke late at night on September 10th, around 11 p.m. But just hours later, Dick Harputlian appeared on the Today Show the next morning, where he continued to push this opioid narrative. Harputlan claimed that Murdoch was trying to get off opioids on the morning of September 4th and decided to end his life. He called this guy who met him on the side of the road, agreed to shoot him in the head, and this fake car breakdown. 30 minutes later, this guy's shooting him in the head.

Starting point is 00:13:46 However, Eddie Smith tells a total. different story about what happened on September 4th, 2021. So who is Eddie Smith? I spoke with Eddie's attorney, Jared Bischett, who told me about his relationship with Alec Murdoch and what he was saying he was doing on September 4th, 2021. They met initially probably about, I think in excess of 30 years or so ago, when Eddie was participating in a other community or a or a church softball league and Alec was I think still in law school at the time and was maybe home for a summer or was living in the area or something along those lines and they played and knew each other casually then and then subsequently didn't have a lot of contact except maybe seeing

Starting point is 00:14:38 each other around town and socially and that kind of thing until mr. Murdoch represented him in a case i believe it was a work as a comp case approximately 70. years or so ago. Eddie was a logger for most of his life. He was in a logging business and got injured with his lower back, which happens unfortunately a good bit of times for folks

Starting point is 00:15:00 that work in that area. I said it was about six or seven years ago. And after that, he does what he can, sort of when he can. He'd do some light mechanical, light welding type stuff. He had a small shop there in the back of his house, and

Starting point is 00:15:16 he would do some work. For the murder box, for others and he would, sometimes it'd be for pay and then sometimes it would just kind of be as a favor for people. So here, Attorney Jarrett Boucher is telling me about what his client says happened on September 4th, 2021. He received a call from Alec Murdoch that asked if he could go to, I believe it was his parents' house, Mr. Murdoch's parents' house, and said to bring the truck, which was the, he understood to mean his wife. work truck and that work truck made Eddie believe that well he was coming to do some kind of odd job they eventually they did not I think he was in route to the parents house and then they met there

Starting point is 00:16:01 briefly or he may have called him back to redirect him and they went to Eddie followed him to another location and that's where he first encounters Mr. Murdoch in a suicidal very agitated state and he had a gun correct is what Eddie is saying and Eddie and possibly threatening to kill himself which is why Eddie reached for the gun correct that's right he was at that time Merlock was requesting that Eddie has essentially a system in shooting and wanted Eddie to shoot at that time to which he refused and the the state of Mr. Merlock just continued to deteriorate There was a struggle for the weapon that went off at some point. And, you know, after that very intense session,

Starting point is 00:16:54 Eddie left the scene, and Mr. Murdoch was still there with no physical signs of injury. According to Eddie Smith, he was not present when Alec Murdoch called 911 to report that he had been shot on old South Cajee Road near Barnville, South Carolina, at 134 p.m. on Saturday, September 4th. What's weird is that ELEC was driven away from the crime scene after calling 911 and transported via car by a couple of unknown, quote unquote, good Samaritans. This is weird that Ehrlich left the crime scene. And what's even weirder is that after calling helicopter companies, for hours, I figured out that a care flight helicopter actually was dispatched 12 minutes before the Hampton County Shepard. Sheriff's Office was dispatched to the scene. Now, this timeline is super strange because the Hampton County

Starting point is 00:17:50 Sheriff's Office should have been the lead law enforcement agency on scene that day. When for a shooting, they should have been dispatched immediately, which again also raises the question was he even shot. And it also raises a question, why was a helicopter called when two weeks later we don't see any signs of wounds. So when Curtis Smith was arrested, in arrest warrants, we learned that Elyke Murdoch admitted to setting up the suicide scheme so a son buster could collect a $10 million insurance policy. And this storyline just doesn't add up. What kind of a father would want to kill himself so his son, who just lost his mother and brother and a horrific double homicide, could collect insurance money? And why did he feel the need that he had to look like somebody

Starting point is 00:18:39 was shooting him. And how come we haven't seen any evidence that he was actually shot? Another thing that doesn't add up is that while the PR team said that Eddie Smith was Alec Murdoch's known drug dealer, Bouchette rejects that statement about his client and says it doesn't even make sense. What we can tell and what we know by what's been put into the public sphere already is that you know, something doesn't add up with this case. You know, the first thing is just the narrative that's been put out there that Eddie was Mr. Murdoch's, you know, long-time drug dealer, a drug dealer that apparently benefited to the tune of around $10 million, because I believe the statement was that the majority of the $10 million, which had been misappropriated from the law firm, had been used to pay for this opioid addiction. and by consequence, went to Eddie.

Starting point is 00:19:41 Eddie has little to no criminal record at all over the last 20 years, nothing drug-related, and so what that tells me is, you know, one of two things. Either Eddie is just one of the most successful drug dealers I've ever seen in terms of evading law enforcement, or, you know, he's not a drug dealer and certainly not a drug dealer that would have been able to supply and benefit from. the quantities, you know, that have been stated in that $10 million range. So when we, when we start with that, we know that that doesn't make any sense.

Starting point is 00:20:18 The second thing is that he doesn't have any criminal record. Nothing to suggest that Eddie would be complicit in a scheme and not just complicit would be active in a scheme, which would require him to shoot a fella in the head, presumably kill him, for what doesn't appear to be any personal gain. The allegations as best I can tell only allege that the supposed insurance proceeds would have gone to benefit Mr. Murdoch's son. There doesn't appear to be any real allegation

Starting point is 00:20:53 that there was an arrangement whereby Eddie would get some percentage of it. I mean, it just doesn't seem that he'd have any benefit to doing that. Then we look at the fact that the majority of the allegation or the substance of the allegations seemed to come from Mr. Murdoch, who was undisputedly in a serious opioid withdrawal or relapse or opioid episode of some kind. And so it's very concerning that they've placed so much credibility in his version of events, which don't seem to add up just because, you know, within a few days of this, this incident, he has no visible signs of either an injury or of operation to his head.

Starting point is 00:21:46 And I would think even a superficial gunshot wound to the hip, if that's even such a thing, would at least show where there had been some type of stitching or bandaging or, you know, hair shaves to access the area. None of that seems to be the case, so it's not even clear at this point that, um, Mr. Murdoch actually suffered a wound to the head. And if that's not established, then the entire scheme, the entire basis for the arrest starts to crumble and fall away. According to probable cause affidavits, the South Carolina law enforcement division

Starting point is 00:22:24 appeared to rely a lot on Ellick Murdoch's narrative for Smith's arrest. Considering the fact that Murdoch is an admitted drug addict on a downward spiral, who was also shown no physical signs of ever being shot, questions should be raised about Smith's charges too. Now two days after Smith was charged, Ehrlich was also charged with three felonies in this alleged suicide for hire scheme. In Hampton County Court that week, we watched two systems of justice play out in live action, one for people like Ehrlich Murdoch and one for people like Eddie Smith. Make their holiday

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Starting point is 00:23:58 Ehrlich didn't even bother to slap on a bandaid. His closely cropped hair provided. no cover for the presence of a head wound, nor was any part of a scalp shaved, which is what we would expect in this circumstance. And this bond hearing was less than two weeks after the alleged shooting. Oh, and several hours before Alex Bond hearing, it appeared like his bond had already been set for him online in the public index, which showed a $20,000 PR bond, which means that he wouldn't have to pay for it. Now, during the bond hearing, Creighton Waters, a prosecutor at the South Carolina Attorney General's office, argued that the bond should be much higher, a $100,000

Starting point is 00:24:40 surety, which means he would actually have to pay for it, or some of it. And he argued that ELEC should be considered a danger to the community. Your Honor, at this time, we would request $100,000 surety, as well as GPS. Your Honor, the reason for that, he has no prior record. However, While the charges here under the law are not violent, the underlying facts are violent. And they indicated, it was allegedly an intent to harm oneself, and that makes that person not only a danger to themselves, but that enhances the danger to the community in that regard. And indeed, they also have lost to literacy, and that means working with others for criminal activities. So that enhances the danger to the community. However, Dick Rputland, who is Murdoch's high-price attorney, argued that his client is not a danger to the community, but only a danger.

Starting point is 00:25:29 to himself. He painted Elyke Murdoch as a desperate broke drug addict while failing to mention how this desperate broke drug addict could afford him as an attorney. But anyways, he asked for a low bond and argued that his client didn't have any money. And guess what the judge set Elyke Murdoch's bond debt, $20,000, the exact amount that was online several hours before the bond hearing, which is not how it's supposed to work. Was there a fix-in before? for the bond hearing? And while the prosecutor asked for a GPS monitor, the judge denied that request also. So while L.A. Kermedk's bond was set at $20,000, Smith, on the other hand, was set at $55,000 cash. And there's one more thing I want to mention about the bond hearing before I put it to rest. And I'm only mentioning this because I was in the media today again. And I just have to say something on my podcast that what happened with Dick Harputlian at the bond hearing and his comment about me was not okay. For those of you who don't know, state senator Dick Harputlian, Elick Murdox lawyer, checked the room at the bond hearing and looked for me. He was caught on camera doing this.

Starting point is 00:26:46 So when I wasn't there for personal reasons that I will disclose in a book someday, he made an incredibly rude, sexist comment about me. Again, while national cameras were rolling. Alter sexual ego. Could it be. I believe. I'm very possible. He may be coming out with the judge, who does. Sorry.

Starting point is 00:27:37 So what you're hearing there is the media who wouldn't know the half of the story if it wasn't for me, laughing with him. The media has been gobbling up Dick Harputtlyan spin campaign and failing to hold him accountable for months, so it's not surprising to see this, but it's jarring to see across the board corruption from media to politics on full display. I have no idea what Dick meant by the statement that I am my boss's alter sexual ego, but I never want to hear my name come out of Dick Harputland's mouth along with the word sexual and my boss's name. That is disgusting and wrong, And to me, the statement implies that me, a woman, can't possibly be my own human separate from my boss, wolf folks. And it also shows me that while Dick Harputlian should have been preparing for his client,

Starting point is 00:28:33 he is thinking about me and who is going to hold him accountable in that room. Remember, also, Dick Harputlian is a Democrat state senator. He's an elected official who has a lot of power in South Carolina, including his influence that the media often, ignores his role in selection of judges in our state. He has not apologized to me for his sexist comments and appears like he thinks he doesn't have to. He has not earned the grace that the media constantly is giving him in this case, but he's highly quotable and entertaining to some of the media who would rather share a laugh with him than hold his feet to fire, as they should be doing.

Starting point is 00:29:13 It is no wonder our state is in shambles when we have reporters who will not hold the most powerful people in our state to account. I totally understand that I am not the victim in the story. I speak with the actual victims in the saga almost daily. And if any person in that crowd knew the victims like I did and knew their pain, they would not be laughing with Dick Harputlian. But this good old boy behavior must be called out. Otherwise, they're just going to keep good old boying. I made a big deal about the media covering this case because it's our job to exposed those contributing to the system that is failing so many people. But yet this Sunday, October 3rd, the state newspaper, one of the largest newspapers in South

Starting point is 00:29:57 Carolina, published a fan boy puff piece about the two quote-unquote bulldog attorneys, Jim Griffin and Dick Harpoutland. The piece was written by an old-school journalist named John Monk, and it basically praises the two attorneys while briefly mentioning this awkward comment and not mentioning that it's sex this and wrong. While they will do pup pieces like that, I will continue to expose the truth in this case wherever it leads. And while Alex might have gotten off easy in court this month, his battle with the law is far from over, both in the criminal and civil side of court. There are six criminal investigations related to the Murdoch family right now. And I will not rest until we get

Starting point is 00:30:40 answers for each of them. So stay tuned for the latest updates in this story. A special thank you to the Surge Restaurant Group for their gift certificate to Nectar Farm Kitchen. Following the story is hard, but being able to enjoy the most amazing meal that Nectar Farm Kitchen on Hilton Head Island was simply divine. I can't wait for Nectar Farm Kitchen to open and bluffton this winter. Check out Necterfarmkitchen.com to learn more. Stay tuned to the Murdoch Murders podcast for the latest updates in this insane saga. There's so much to unpack in this case, and Mandy works tirelessly to expose the truth. But the truth is, she works hard and she does get tired.

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Starting point is 00:32:21 and the only remaining open case having to do with Elyke Murdoch, the only remaining open case that has had charges filed, yeah, that we know of having to do with Ehrlich, is the roadside shooting debacle and cousin Eddie. And there have been so many theories about what, happened on that day and why they are taking so long to either drop charges against Cousin Eddie or take this to trial. What do you think is going to happen with this?

Starting point is 00:32:58 So I think if we're looking at what we know about the Attorney General's office and SLED, I think that sometimes things are held in reserve and I believe that this might be one of those things that they're holding in reserve, which isn't a right, like I don't agree with that tactic. But Elek is appealing his case. And for anyone who's been following that, you know that he has tried all sorts of shenanigans and thrown anyone he could under a bus that he is driving. And we just don't know where that stands and how far it's going to go. Because, you know, we can guess that if they do not get, and when their appeal on the state level, that they're going to keep taking it, you know, all the way to the Supreme Court. So I don't know.

Starting point is 00:33:39 You know, part of me wonders if there's a reason when it comes to the murder trial, if they're sitting on those charges. So that cousin Eddie, in case he's ever called as a witness, there's something to bargain with. But Mandy, has an insurance policy ever been found? No. Did Ehrlich have an insurance policy? No. And, I mean, again, this was something that made no sense to any person who has common sense. When you stop and think about it, why would a man who...

Starting point is 00:34:09 whose wife and son just died, want to kill himself so that his son gets a $10 million life insurance policy that we have no proof of him having. When there's also, he's a lawyer who raids insurance policies for a living, knows that he didn't have to stage a shooting, a murder, in order for a buster to have gotten the alleged $10 million in the alleged policy, which we don't think we are pretty sure it doesn't exist. I think we're sure. We're sure. It doesn't. Right. It's certainly not $10 million if it did exist. But I, again... But it's a progressive lie. It's a progressive lie because...

Starting point is 00:34:49 It was a progressive lie that was also enabled by SLED and the Attorney General's office because they put it as fact in their stupid affidavits that like all because of a $10 million insurance policy, according to Elyke Murdoch. And I do not see a world where, Cousin Eddie could actually go to trial for those charges when you look at the affidavits and their entire reasoning for charging him was just based on Alex Word. Yeah, 100%. We'll see, though. 2025, Mandy and Liz might turn into 2027, Mandy and Liz.

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Murdaugh Murders Podcast - MMP Remastered #11 - Was Alex Murdaugh Actually Shot? Part One

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