Transcript of Episode 649: Alex Murdaugh Part II - A Legacy of Liars

There's no place to escape to. This is the last hot task.

On the left. That's when the cannibalism started. Who was that?

This is in South Carolina.

No, this is South Carolina. I wanted to bring this up to Marcus. Did you see this? I just wanted to do this here because, again, this is our biggest microphone that we have, and I wanted to spread- It all over. 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. Have you heard about how ADHD is linked to big butts? Yeah.

Are you serious? Yeah.

Really? It's because they sit down too much?

No, no, no, no.

What is ADHD? We sit down very little. We're He's always out moving. Bigger-looking butt.

Maybe that's why he's picking up stuff all the time.

The day after Christmas, this came out. It was a study that showed that- Unboxing 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. We're always having to bend down to pick stuff up. We're doing a lot of squats. You think it's bodyweight? Because we're very clumsy. Bodyweight exercises? Yeah.

Well, I guess that explains it.

Yeah, a sneaky sign about it. Yes, 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 Zbrowski, who's bringing the information to the people today. Thank you, Henry.

I just want to say it's really amazing all the medical training I've received. I have the expertise that I get in my dream to some of the most important medical information that could be disseminated right now in the 2026s.

Yes, and that is RFKKK.

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.

We are in South Carolina. Sister, you mean my wife? Come on.

Come on, come on, yo. It's South Carolina. Sorry, guys. We're just getting it up now.

We're here for the continuation of the story of Alec Murdoch. 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.

We were all wondering what it's like to party in that year while Nelly was telling us what temperature it was in the room. 1999, a year to remember.

Well, Maggie preferred to stay in Buford County, which, while it was still a part of South Carolina's low country, it was still relatively relatively affluent. Bufert was where the nice restaurants were. It was 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.

So what's got to own the mud. That's right.

Yeah, you can't just sit there, man. Because if not, them Native Americans are going to squat on it. That's what it is. You're going to want to put some 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. 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. If you're keeping track, this is Buster number 2, named after the Buster we discussed in the first episode. This is the Buster that grew up to look like a bee-stung Archie Andrews. He's the one who inherited his father's uncanny valley skull shape in which their heads looked like AI-generated potatoes infected with a crimson alien spore.

They looked like mold covered pompkins 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 crime. His entire head is shaped like a blood, I'd say a period blood-flaved 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 gastly 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 Bauerlein 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. If you've ever driven in South Carolina like we have or a state like it, you know that infrastructure is nonexistent. I have never in my life seen so many road signs hanging off of the post, just missing one bolt. It's everywhere in South Carolina.

I always remember driving through Mississippi, 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 taper It was like, I'm not going to drive around it. Everyone was just driving around it 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.

Everybody can. So can places like Ukraine, and Haiti, both of you, earthquake, many places.

Arkansas, you're on the fence.

You're going to watch it. We did like where we went.

Where? Oh, in Mississippi?

Yeah, in Huntsman.

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 the big deal.

True, true, true. But nonexistent 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. 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. It wasn't just the Murdochs that were making money off of the pain of the people of Hampton County. It was not. There was a lot of people that very actively sought to keep their position in Hampton County. I don't think it's just the Murdochs that kept it that way. I think it was all them flabby-ass white boys.

The Murdoch were just the M in PM, P-E-D. There's still a P, a P, an E, and a D making money there, and all the associates working underneath them. Now, by the time Alec Murdoch had set down roots in Hampton with his young family in the early 2000s, PM, 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. When all the Ford Explores, the tires kept exploding on the highway. I remember that.

I hate driving.

It makes me excited. Well, these tires had a tendency to separate at 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. Usually, 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 2-3 times higher because PMPED rigged the juries.

No one asked any questions either because they just assumed, if you lived there, you just have bad luck.

Yeah, well, I mean, you're here.

Opposing 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. It did the double duty of giving the Murdochs a good reputation amongst the poor.

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. All you got to do is 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. It's that easy. It means nothing.

It's a misdirect, too, to let you get away with shit. It's like Julie used to work at BuzzFeed, and when they were all told they weren't going to get health insurance, the way they told them is they gave them a fro-io machine.

Yeah, I remember those. In your name, and instead of giving you guys a bonus, in your name, we have given these wooden blocks that represent trees. It's a thing. You're like, This is horse shit. There's no 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 Murdochs when anyone had anything bad to say about them. In other words, the Murdoch 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 Murdochs were no longer intervening in the lives of the poor, and local respect for the Murdoch family amongst the Huy Ploy began to shrink as the years went by.

Yeah, especially when he had Shithead One and Fuckface Two. The two of them came out there. Having Paul roll around is not going to help the reputation of your fucking family. That's for certain.

Not to mention, Alec was a fucking terror when he was Paul's age himself.

They all were. But Paul and Buster, too, 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. It's not just Buster and Paul. It really is Alec.

Alec's bad, too.

As we're going to get into, Alec let go of the wheel. Every other Murdoch before him knew that there was a balance here that you had to keep. There were certain illusions. Got to hold the line.

It's 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 Murdoch 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. Just a general rule. It's 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 unfortunate souls of Hampton County were simply a resource to be mined. 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 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. Okay, let me get that for you, man. All of this talk, the way that they talk to the people that work for them, their help, where they pretend like they're all family, and it's this whole thing, which is such a bunch of fucking hypocrites.

Yeah, they pretend your family, and you keep them poor enough to need you and act like they need you.

And do things for you that you don't want to do. Yeah.

Well, Alec Murdoch coached his kid's sports teams. He remembered everyone's names and back stories, always asking, How's your mama doing? He generously tipped everyone with cash pulled from large stacks he kept in his SUV. 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 Southern cucks just seem to lap up like a bunch of horny dogs.

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, Alex 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 and grandfathers who'd also worked with Alex's father and grandfather. 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 the party, the only way for a local sheriff, judge, representative, or even senator to get elected was to have the support of Alec Murdoch.

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 1814, 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?

A Can you 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. 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 wanted no one to ask questions of me. Did I go untouched and unfedered in my crimes?

Unfortunately, you entered entertainment in a world where there's nothing but questions. Oh, no. 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 client's settlements on top of his already generous 40% cut.

It's important to remember, the scam itself is the dumbest shit you could possibly imagine.

You already get 40%, which is a cruel amount.

He just takes the money. All he has to do is lie to people, don't know what's going on. Well, let me get it to it.

But yeah, it is. Yes, 40% is already an incredibly cruel amount. But after enlisting, his college roommate, Cory Fleming, and a local banker named Russell Laffitte as accomplices. I've never heard- It's a pirate name.

It's a pirate name.

We all know G. Laffitte. Laffitte is a pirate name. When he shows up and he's like, I'll take it into blue. The other man is going to be like, I got time for your sea-based shenanigans right now. All right, Laphine. 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 could scam them on the peanut butter out. Yard.

Yard. There's no glass Steegle act on the high seas.

Hey now, I need you to stop spreading our secret plan here in your loud, powered voice.

After enlisting those two 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 after the tires on their car exploded on the highway, for example, Murdoch would tell his clients, No, you didn't get $2 million. You got $1. 7.

You know how it is with the red tape and what you got it. I wish it was more. I wish it wasn't. You see one number and you think it's going to be that number, but never that It's a smaller number. They also...

These are people who have never seen $10,000. No. Oh, God, no. So 1. 7 million. They're like, Great. Thank fucking God. I can live forever on this.

When you're told, no, you can't. 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.

That $2 million check was deposited at Russell Lafitte's bank because Russell was also acting as a middleman between Alec and his clients. Yeah, yeah, come down.

Get me your fine shells and tours. We'll place them here down here, TV towards his locker. I'm sorry. This is more just our management style here in the face. I'm sorry to describe, to scare you with my native accent. If you want she gold, you can follow this map to the It's over here. It's on the course of eighth and Bellevue. It's at that. It's actually there's an ATM there. I'm sorry.

I'll be out next week.

I'm going to our branch in the West Indies. My cousin's having a bar mitzvah. How much for thee, daughter? Well, Lafitte was the guy- Which an ugly Murdoch daughter would have been. Let's continue.

Yeah, what happened? There was never any female Murdochs, 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, the feat was the guy who took care of the so-called complicated stuff. He was the one to say, No, no, no, no, no. These legal bills, you don't even need to see them. 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. How's your mama?

I'm going to take care of it. How's your mama? How's your mama? She doing good? And blah, blah, blah. Exactly.

Of course, those legal bills were all extremely exaggerated because Alec Murdoch was also lying about, say, experts that he'd have to hire. He's like, Yeah, I had to hire a forensic expert.

He cost X amount.

Yeah, he caused 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 extra $300,000 in his pocket. With, of course, a little bit of a vig to Russell Laffitte and Cory 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. You think like, Okay, yeah, it's at one point, he's taken a little bit off at $1. 7 million. That's 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. Sometimes, because Alec Murdoch stole their money, these people would die because the leftovers Alec gave them weren't enough to give them the care that they needed. They'd be put in cut-rate nursing homes. There was this one kid, he was a basketball star, got paralyzed. His ventilator was just turned off because he was in a shitty nursing home, and he died.

I think that people should remember that if you're locked up with Alex Murdoch and you lost a family member.

I think it's important to note here, we talk about escalation and where do these crimes come from? Where did this stuff come from? You can already see in just that, his flat affect. The fact that these are people that are 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. All these people they knew, people that they grew up with, that they were all in this. He could look at them and lie so easily to their face for 15 years. Shows you that... 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, Paul, obviously, if you look at his face, I'm going to go ahead and call it the fetal alcohol central. Yeah, you get 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 cumberbonds for Alec and his tubby sons. It's just true. Did you ever have a cumberbund? You seem like a cumberbond guy.

No, we never had money. I want one for prom. To be cumberbond. Yeah, for prom, I think I did. No, I never do big bands across the belly because I already am... I'm not going to just be Dr. Robotnik? I want to be cast as Dr. Robotnik. I would like to be, yes, I'd like to have to be a job or role I portray.

Sure. Cum usually goes in Henry's belly, not in.

The old-fashioned way.

Well, where every generation of previous Murdochs had been discrete 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 grandeour, 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 Alec's family line had held this job for the past 85 years, and Alec had supposedly wanted a job since he was a child. But when it came time to hand pick a successor, Randy Murdoch III 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.

I think it's far more likely that Alec Murdoch enjoyed going on expensive hunting trips with his dips shit 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 Murdochs 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 possible that he's sitting on top of the only reason why, much like our beloved President, the most 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. He knows that if he leaves it for a second, someone's going to go digging around.

That's very possible. 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. Randy still had his hand on the wheel. Duffy was a figurehead at best.

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. They flipped the story. They cut all of the stuff about him being addicted to prostitutes for some reason. I wonder why.

Well, I remember the girlfriend saying that. That story was she said that Maggie had told her that story. Yeah, flipped the story. Yeah, definitely. I think Maggie flipped it. I think Maggie flipped it, or the girlfriend was remembering it wrong. Who knows?

Yeah, and that alone, that really goes in an obituary.

Hi, Peppy. You know my papy loved to smile, which is why he loved hookers. 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 made another crime to pin on the family.

That is true. You know what's fun is all these Murdochs that pass 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. I wonder what they used on that. Live from Northland.

Now, it was around the time that Alec Murdoch stepped away from the solicitor position that it became apparent that Alec's 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, What are you going to do about it?

What are you going to do about it?

Yeah, it's fucking a I think he's 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 you kill them, but not with glee.

I mean, I tied them to bottle Rockets. They had a good time doing 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.

It's not. I'm just making a confession that I'm similar to this tiny little kill. Edward, I will join you, and I will also, yes, make the confession, I also killed frogs.

But there's a distinct difference because it didn't go on to more violence. Paul was going to show later on, he'd be very prone to violence and really would meet it out at a very 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 Murdochs, 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 Murdochs, 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 Mouse's 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, it just made her think of Alec.

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, as an evil boy mom, where the boys could literally murder, and She would love them more than ever.

The boys just being boys. I've seen this. I saw this so much in the South. It's just a fucking absolute terror of a child and the mother just laughing and laughing. My mom hates women.

My mom actively dislikes and distrusts women.

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.

You do, but that's not a bad idea. You're a tough father. Yeah.

But perhaps the worst thing Alec and Maggie Murdoch did when it came to fucking up their sons was how they treated alcohol. When Paul and Buster became teenagers, Alec and Maggie just integrated their kids into their extremely drunken social lives. Paul, as young would drunkenly pick fights with grown men during public parties that his family threw on the sandbars of the Buford River. While a lot of us in the south drink at a young age, I 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, there are kids.

Kids got to learn how to drink. That's the thing is you don't teach your kid how to to drink, ain't going to know how to drink.

That's not true. I learned. Everybody learns. It's really easy to get alcohol. In America, yeah. It's easy to learn. 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 it's horrible as this is. I imagine that these parties were filled with judges. Can you just picture a red-headed, drunken 13-year-old picking a fight with a judge? That's amazing. He just has to take it.

I I do find to be funny. Objectively, that's funny.

That is funny.

Well, Alec- Shut your son up. Your son said, saying nasty stuff.

Son, go over there and slap that judge's penis Come on now.

Come on. Slap his penis.

Pull your penis how my boy going to slap it.

What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do 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 incredibly 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 over drink. 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 him with 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. Could you imagine wanting to be anywhere near your parents partying? How lame and pussy and just hacky life choices.

I It is upsetting. Yeah. It is upsetting. I hate people that... I don't hate people that drink around their kids, but it's great.

I drink around all these other people's kids.

Yeah, but they're not your kids.

They're not your kids.

It's about 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 fucking weird.

I'm also like, if you're getting a 14-year-old into shooters, next thing you know, they're working on Epstein's You know what I mean? You can't have a 14-year-old do oyster shooters. It's too advanced.

The South is a very different place. Oh, I know. I grew up in an environment fairly similar to this.

No, I understand. I'm not trying to even throw judgment. I was told as a little because my father used to go to have fun away from our family because he couldn't have fun at home. Then when he'd come and be scary, that's what me... 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. You didn't know that. You didn't know that you didn't have to wait for dad. That's the thing. If dad parties around you all the time, dad can be scary anytime.

Yeah, but the thing is that dad, I understand, dad was super fun when he was partying. I didn't know that.

If everyone's blackout drunk, no one remembers dad being super scary.

Except for the kids.

It haunts them.

Well, when Paul 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.

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 character.

Yes. When Paul's finger splayed out during intoxication, they very much looked like the way that the mentally challenged character Timmy 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. 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.

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 could 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 Super Hammer. He's now sober.

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. It's just an example of just the worst little fuck to exist.

I got to say, I'm going to go ahead and think that cocaine because when the hands start getting all crazy, that's like a ghost thing.

No, 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. I didn't check.

Let's look at the course. Dig him up. Dig him up. Rob, pull up the crime scene photos.

Pull up this photo where they 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 Adderall, 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. In order to drink a lot more.

He also slapped the shit out of his girlfriend a bunch.

Yeah, a lot. Yeah, a lot.

Yeah, Paul, he slapped his previous girlfriend. I'm not sick enough for him. No. If you're hitting women at the age of 15 years old, that is not a good sign.

Yes. You're probably not great up for it.

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. He placed knives around his babysitter while she was asleep. That's a different thing altogether. That's art.

He's created that.

That's the difference It's between a Ted Bundy and a Paul Murdoch. 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 hydrocodon, and he found that he liked painkillers quite a bit. By 2009, Alec had switched to oxycodon, 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 Suns.

Always had to have just a full fridge of Capri Suns in the house at all times.

It's like a 50-year-old man.

If he did not have Capri Suns in the house, he would freak out. He also ate bowl after bowl of kid's 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.

I like my sweets, but I'm a savory boy. When I want to go to town, I 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. It was an opioid. It has that thing where it's supposed to relax you, it's supposed to make you feel good. What Alex is saying is something I've heard from many people that have been specifically addicted it to Oxy, which is much like what they say about alcohol, there's something about the way your body consumes it, about how some people, when alcohol turns you into a raving maniac- Even though it is technically a depressant.

Yes.

It turns you into... There are some people that react to it and where it makes them 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. I actually think that when you're watching him, skeetering and snorting and coughing and picking at himself and blinking and doing all that stuff, it's because he is gacked out of his mind. He's legitimately all zapped up. I bet you he does fall asleep 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.

It might be, yeah.

And all the fucking liquor that's also filled with sugar.

But the liquor helps you go to sleep.

Good night. As far as who was providing Alec Murdoch with all this Oxy, it seems like he got a lot of it from his cousin, Curtis Edward Smith, a. K. A. 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 got to come up with a name that isn't as suspicious.

A less illegal name.

I'm not going to think like Fast Eddie. Who's that? It's like, Oh, it's my wife's OB/GYN.

I would love to fuck you since 40 girls an hour. Have you met my wife's guy? I know, yeah. This is Greasy Mike. Hey, dude, don't call me Doctor. Call me Mike. Yeah, let's see the pussy, all right?

All right, I'm going to stir up some problems here.

Let me warm up my feet.

Now, 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, Alex 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 bankroll by Alec Murdoch himself. 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. Over the next eight years, Alec Murdoch would write almost 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 did the math, the amount of money given to Fast Eddie would have been enough for Alec to 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 they were doing was a little bit of a money laundering thing that he pretended I did not know about.

Yeah, because he kept asking. He was like, This isn't money laundering, right?

Which is, again, just remember that for you guys that are money laundering, that's how you get out of it. You always got to make sure to ask, Now this ain't money laundering, right? As long as they say no, cash to check. Don't even think about it. Just go, Yeah, you're right. 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, Alex would go do whatever shady shit he was doing it. The other guy would get his cut. Everybody was getting cuts.

Yeah, and then Alex could always have his fat wad of cash in his car, always.

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 Islington. Islington. Islington. 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 bops around the world would come to know the plot of land where the Murdochs lived, played, and died as Moselle.

I hate places with one name. You're Moselle? I places where they're like- You're not going down to Moselle? Just that idea of you have to name your house like a city. That's how important your fucking house is.

But that was the name of the road.

Yeah, it was the name of the road.

They called the property Moselle.

Well, I mean, it's like sometimes you're like, I'm leaving Trimble, and I'm going to go over to this place.

Yeah, but our houses suck. This is his house. This is Murdoch's house. This is different. This is fucking a compound.

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 as Central Park. It's full of hunting. It's got water. It's got Lake access. It's got water, not Lake access, I think Ocean access. It's Water access. They've got their dog kennels. They've got their They've got so much, so, so much in Moselle.

Each one of them had an F-150 just on that property. Then he had something like 45 cars.

There's guns everywhere.

Hundreds of guns. Yeah.

Well, you got to spend that $11 million on something.

Yeah. That's the thing, though, is that they say when they look at all of the money that Alec Murdoch embezzled and all of the money that was possibly coming in from drug... They're like, They have no idea where it all went. They think that he may have actually put cash into PVC pipes and buried it around South Carolina.

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 money. I know it's there. Send pictures. Send money. When you find the money, send the money. I wonder. But his trips were always so extravagant.

He spent a lot of money.

He still wasn't enough.

You'd be surprised how much money you could... He had what? He had crashed two boats. You know that, right? Yeah. Then Paul crashed another boat.

No, he had no... There was a lot of boat It's like, there's a lot of problems.

He had several cars. He trashed his... Paul had three cars.

But it still wasn't enough. 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 got to figure this out, guys. How do we embezel against ourselves? Yeah, how do we be...

How do we embezel? Because it's not going anywhere else.

Yeah. What do we do with it? What crime do we commit?

We'll have a meeting. Why don't me and you have a meeting off mic where we figure out how to embezel from each other.

Because we won't. That's for certain.

No, we certainly won't embezel from ourselves. Now, Moselle had been bought from a Murdoch family friend named Barrett Bouwer, whose family had been close to the Murdoch since the 1940s when they were all bootlegging moonshine. Barrett Bouhair, however, was said to be one of South Carolina's most notorious drug smugglers.

It's a name in the South that you hear.

Oh, yeah, Yeah, no, Barrett Buller. Yeah. He sounds like a true detective character.

He does. He sounds like the guy that led him to the Yellow King.

Well, Barrett Buller had been a shrimp-er, 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 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?

No, wait, what a crazy coincidence.

Isn't it? Yeah. The whole case just went away.

Wow. What a lucky guy.

You should beware when you go out on the road.

Beware of the bull wear.

Especially if you're a high-level witness to a drug trafficking wing. I'd say stay inside.

Years later, bull wear got caught again, driving with seven pounds of weed and a fair amount of cocaine. 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 Bouhair, they also went away. Weird. But this time it was said that it was simply his close connections to the Murdoch that set him free. By the time Bull Ware 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.

No, it wouldn't be. This might be a slander to even think that he would be paying off the cops.

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.

It wasn't like they constantly did illegal parties where children drank and drugs were present while police and judges were there.

It sounds like it's a secret county with a giant fence around it for no one to get in. Yeah, a literal fence around it.

Now, in addition to access by water, Moselle also had its own airstrip for small single-engine planes.

Every small town needs one.

No, it's not even small small town. This is their private personal airstrip on their land.

They needed it. How else are they going to fly places? You know how guys in Hampton County- You don't need the county.

You got to fly everywhere.

Where he's flying places. I'm Hampton County. I got to go, Oh, I got to get a Tuscaloosa. Oh, I better take this to Wilmington, Delaware. Other pieces of shit places.

Apologies. Apologies to all our fans in Wilmington.

I'm sorry, everybody. Not Tuscaloosa, though, huh?

No. I heard that. I saw that, Marcus. We understand. It's called an elephant that needs to go to a dentist. Let's continue.

The Tuscaloosa. Okay.

Yeah, it's Mark's Brother's show.

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, Oh, yeah, Daddy, 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 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. They already would be guilty of crimes.

Let's say trafficked against their will. Yes. Okay. All right. I'll amend that.

Well, they were 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 goofy version of the Goodfellas. It's like that break that's a Ray Liotta 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 after-party for the players' families, and then end the entire night with a debauchers drug-fueled sex party that was attended by the elites of the low country.

I'm tired at four o'clock on a work day. I'm tired. I don't know how they do all this.

We're going to get you some Oxy.

I was about to say, do you thought about Oxy?

No.

We can get you some Oxy.

I need drugs.

Yeah, man. Yeah.

Get into it. Try it a little loud.

Get clean. Get Oxy clean.

Wow.

That's why they call it that. Reportedly, Alec Murdoch would host ultra-private get-togethers for local law enforcement, politicians, and legal professionals. Parties where the alcohol and the drugs flowed freely. Then, at some point in the evening, a high-class madam would bring out a group of girls for the guests to choose from to do with what they wilt.

Now, I want you to check out some of the merchandise I've brought here. Obviously, this is 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 seeing my passport yet, John.

Marcus, do not call this lady a pimp.

I'm a mother. I'm a mother first, all right? And the pimp second.

Oh, those are female breasts. Oh, yes.

Yes, you could not tell by my face or attire.

The hair is confusing.

Yeah, it really did.

I just thought they were final male breast, another female breast.

Here's a girl with no legs. You can get her to the pussy real quick. Here's a girl with no hands. You can get to her titties real quick. No, but here's a girl with no face. She just got it sad. That keeps you going faster. It's nice about you look at the sad girl. Make your boner go down. You go back to the hacker. 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 got to say, when I put my glossy ejaculate across the mouth of that tender puncher's girl, I knew, my God, am I happy to be in God's America?

Now, these sex parties, it sounds like a rumor, 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. 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 Alec's personality changed. His eyes became solid black. Same thing that people said happened to Paul Well, when he turned dangerous. Alec then choked Lindsay against her will during the sexual encounter, coming very close to killing her. 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 what he do. He paid $25 to make a squeeze. Okay, you got to understand, child.

You like this character?

Was that good?

I mean, the character's good. But it's bad.

It's gross thing she's saying.

Yeah, she's saying awful. Try it again.

You know how I do it when you want to make a child like a toothpaste tube. That's what we pay for. He likes to make them in a toothpaste tube.

Not quite there. Give me another one.

I know what I was trying. You know when you take a Heinz ketchup bottle, speck it on the bottom, speck it on the bottom. You're trying to make it a real ketchup come on. Okay. It's an Alec Nug.

Slight giggle. Yeah.

It makes the ketchup come out the sex worker. That's very nice.

You did that. You said that. All right? 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, he's not a demon. No, his eyes are... Yes, it's because he's so incredibly intoxicated. They have beady, beady eyes to begin with. When those pupils get big, it appears as if they are demonic. 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. That don't mean that the parties didn't continue. That just means that she didn't go.

He's no way, Marcus. He's no way he would do something like this. It's not in his character.

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.

At least. After he shot his own family in the face. Yeah.

At the same time that 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 Murdochs themselves ran the school board.

How do you get kicked out of a middle school?

You don't need middle school. It's all pointless.

Oh, 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 Moselle with a Bibi gun and shoot people working on the Murdoch property. But besides the expulsion, nobody ever admonished Paul for his behavior because going against the Murdochs 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 Murdochs, or at least defend them for the time being. Where did you hear that dog thing? It was in the... It was at Valerie Bower Line's book, I think.

Yeah, I was one of those where he was escalating wildly. Anybody that said different about him, they wanted it to be different.

Yeah. Anyone who said, no, Paul was actually a cagoo You're a good guy. You just didn't know Paul.

No, 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 in what Paul did.

Do you think Paul got his ass kicked a lot? No.

No, he didn't.

I bet he did. No. It Specifically, they ramped up the idea. 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 far ahead right now.

Yeah, but even then, even when he was a kid, no, he would not get his ass.

The family was too powerful.

But he also liked getting in. He was also very violent. He was a fighter. He would start the fight. Yeah, he would start the fight.

He was probably good at it.

Yes. Well, he thought he was.

Yeah, and I'm sure there was quite 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.

She knew nothing.

Nothing. Really, what got Maggie most riled up was Alec's 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 It was very 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. Then funny guys, funny guys.

No, he It was charming. Everyone knew that he was charming when he was trying to be so. Yeah. Those big guys, I mean, as a big man, some women find that very attractive.

No, sometimes a woman just wants to be with the big, scary man. Yeah. Because it's fun for them to be with.

Yeah, they want to be with a scary senny.

Sometimes they want to be with the sexy poet. Sometimes they want to be with a man that is, yeah, he might be just as tall as he is round, but eat your pussy until you're dead.

What else do women want, Henry?

I think women want A little hut. 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 It sounds like it's your hut. It's a rough hub. There's a lock on the outside, not 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.

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 a divorce, but it's going to What do we know about divorce? It's not good.

No, it's very difficult.

They still, to their credit, no Murdochs have ever gotten divorced. Yeah, wow.

Technically, because Buster got married.

We can really look up to them. Buster's wife I better look out.

You know she sleeps with one eye open.

Oh, yeah. She's probably because she only got the one.

Well, as Valerie Bauerlein put it, Maggie Murdoch soothed herself with cocktails and manicures and shopping in the beach because the cheating and the alcoholism were not the only problems. Eventually, Alex's oxyaddiction would begin causing rifts in the marriage.

I'm going to 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.

Penis. Come on, sit on my pussy chopper.

What does that have to do with his oxyaddiction?

Chapa, chapa, chapa, chapa. Come on.

Come on, let me kill you. I thought he called it his 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. After it, he would tell Maggie, Everything's different this time, and she would believe him until she or Paul would find bags of Oxy taper away and 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. No.

He's so good.

You're I'm good at finding your father's illegal opioids.

You're a little detective, aren't you? Yeah, I'm a little detective. Give me a cigar. Yeah. Clive from your grave.

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. 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 hooded and hollered while slamming their hands on the kid's vehicle. At one point, Alec repeatedly shouted for the to, quote, Get out here and fight my boy.

Come buy my child, my wife and child. Come fight my child.

Come fight my child. He's been fought badly.

He's been fought badly.

I wish people would have filmed the fucking shit out of that.

Yeah, but he had some, Get out here and fight my boy.

You ever your dad ever take you to a fight? What do you mean? My dad drove me to a fight fight once.

Like an actual fight or like a bare-knuckle back alley thing?

I had to fight this guy once, and I had my dad drive me and drop me off at McDonald's so I could fight this guy. But he didn't show up, thank God.

Oh, that's nice.

Yeah. I just eventually called my dad and like, All right, come get me.

No, my dad was constantly at work. He missed all that.

I'm glad he was working.

All of my fights were private and brutal.

As they should be.

Now, all this is to say that the Murdochs 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. That brings us to the case of Steven Smith. Stephen Smith and his twin sister, Stephanie, were both in Buster Murdoch's class at Wade Hampton High. 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 huge thing in a small town in South Carolina.

Dude, it's almost a homicidal choice. I don't want to discourage kids from coming out. No, I feel Very bad for Steven, but he's good to do.

Well, Steven 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 Steven was out and proud, Buster Still, according to one very gossipy high school teacher, took Steven's help when Buster needed a science tutor. Steven's sister, Stephanie, however, confirmed that Steven 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, Steven 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 Woford 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 lifestyle.

Now, that summer, Steven had gotten into an altercation with a red neck with a Guns & Roses tattoo on July fourth, but Steven had come out unscathed. Steven did not, however, survive the night of July seventh. The day in question, as well as the night, is filled with mysterious events that still don't have any answers. This all happened in 2015. That day, Steven 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 connection and had unplugged the oil drain on Steven's car. Now, since Steven was an openly gay kid in a Southern backwater, this thing didn't faz him too much, so he shrugged his shoulders and headed home to change. He said goodbye to Stephanie at exactly 6: 00 PM, but that the last time that anyone would admit to seeing Steven Smith alive. Now, we have absolutely no idea what happened that night. But just before 4: 00 AM, a tow truck driver was driving down a secluded road near Crocketville 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 Steven Smith, 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 Steven's body, and no paint scraped steps anywhere. Steven'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. Steven 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. All of this pointed to the fact that Steven had been killed elsewhere and dumped at this location.

Could it possibly have been a very small car? Yeah, a flying car.

There is It could have been Ant man. Have you thought about it being Ant Man?

It was an Ant Man in a car the size of a baseball bat.

Now, where on his head was the bruised?

In the back, I think.

So he would have to 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 was- It's impossible that he was hit by a car. He was beaten to death. We know that he was beaten to death, and he was left in the middle of the road for it to look like a hit and run. It sounds, but guess what that also sounds like? A childlike idea of covering up a crime. Sure. It's 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 Steven's car. It was found abandoned three miles away with an empty gas tank, which made it appear as if Steven 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 to the end.

Then look at it and go, I can't see the gas in it.

No, no one does that. No one goes and opens the gas cap.

Then he just came from the gas station.

Yeah, he had been at the gas station earlier that day. It's a good point. It's a very good point. Steven's 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 Steven's are investigated by the Highway Patrol, and it was immediately obvious to them that Steven had been 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 AM, less than 2 hours after the body was found by that first deputy, the Hampton County coroner had rushed through the autopsy and ruled Steven 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?

Or, Hey, never truly put total laziness out.

That is also- That is also- A bunch of 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 It was one person who was trying to wrap it up, but yeah, it was like, Well, they asked, Well, why do you think it was a hit and run? That he was found in the road. That was it. That was the only evidence they had for it being a hit and run. That he was found in the road.

Sounds like a great coroner.

Hey, man, he didn't even know why he died.

Well, the troopers, still investigating the scene, were flabbergasted, but they couldn't do anything to change the coroner's mind. By 9: 00 AM, the road where Steven was found was reopened on the order of Hampton County officials. Bodies found at 2: 30 AM, I think. Road's open again by 9: 00.

Yeah, they just were like, Well, that's over. They were immediately just like, Well, hey, we think that... Oh, you're not going to... All right, we'll go home.

Yeah, get out the hose.

No one drives on the road anyway, obviously, if he was sitting out there for all those hours.

I'm understanding 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. I could also see you thinking like, All right, this is a case of the less dead. 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 Murdock III 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. This is Big Randy. This is Randy III. Big Daddy, big Daddy. No, It's a Big Daddy's son.

Okay, okay. There's so many of these fucking asses.

So many deadies. As many deadies, as many... Yeah, that's Buster.

It's nice of Alec to eliminate some of the guys we have to talk about.

The community The Tinner did actually come to the Smith family's side when the news broke, but the Tinner 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 Murdoch?

Yeah. When the Murdoch name got involved, the people of Hampton County once again began self-policing themselves because the Murdochs still had enough goodwill from helping out someone's daddy or someone's mama or someone's brother. Sometime in the past, we're defending this family had almost become a reflex.

Now, was Buster violent notoriously as well?

No, Buster was not notoriously violent. Not like Paul was. Buster was actually probably the most level-headed, at least as far as outward appearance goes of all of them. Can I view my view?

Yeah. He's the 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 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 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 Yeah, but Buster is going to be the one, right?

I think that Buster is a pussy. Buster is way more of Paul's a homicidal maniac. Let's say Buster did get in a situation with Steven Smith, and 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. Buster. Yes, it was not Buster on his own.

Yeah, it couldn't have been Buster. 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 Steven, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

Well, let's get into it. Now, the first red flag besides Randy III's presence at the crime scene came when one of Alec Murtaugh Murdoch's older brothers called up Steven's parents out of the blue to volunteer his services in investigating their son's death. This was Randy IV, another Randy. To avoid confusion, I'm just going to call him the Murdoch Brother. Okay, good. Now, this Murdoch did have a previous relationship with the Smith family. He'd represented Steven 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 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 Murdoch first.

Well, I think the Murdochs talked to the coroner before anyone.

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 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 Steven Smith's body was even found. 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 Let's sue somebody.

Let's sue somebody. But really, he's looking for information, and he's also trying to keep them close and put the focus of the investigation and the focus of their anger anywhere but towards the Murdoch name. There were rumors that Steven had been killed by homophobic cops, but the most persistent rumor was that the people behind Steven Smith's murder had been, quote, Them Murdoch Boys. Even though the coroner had tried killing the investigation, the state troopers had continued continued looking into Steven's death because of the repeated mention of the Murdoch's. 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 Murdoch's grip on the people of Hampton County have been slowly loosening, 10 people mentioned either Buster or Paul Murdoch's name during the investigation, although none of them had first-hand information. I'd grown up in a really small town I know how this shit goes. One person says one thing, another person says another. They just keep talking. It was like, Well, 10 people I talk to. All said, Murdoch. I was like, Well, yeah, those 10 people all talk the same fucking gossip.

They said the same thing. It doesn't necessarily mean that the Murdoch were definitely involved. But it is interesting. What's really interesting about this is that the state troopers found that when they called up some of those people who have been willing to talk for follow-up interviews, they discovered that some of those informants very suddenly had gone on vacation. Those people never returned to Hampton County. They weren't killed. They just never moved back, almost as if somebody had given them a shitload of money and said, Get the fuck out of here.

I also believe there is a Nobody really wants to be the sticky wheel. I think a lot of people think that, Oh, 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 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. 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 Murdoch if it's not something there?

This Steven 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.

Now, there are a ton of theories about what happened to Steven Smith, but there's unfortunately no evidence whatsoever proving any of them. One story goes that Buster and Steven had continued at least a friendship after high school, and when Steven ran out of gas on July seventh, 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. It's theorized that maybe one of Buster's friends, or even possibly Paul, had seen or heard something that had embarrassed Buster enough to inspire violence that night. The softball tournament detail is important because the autopsy performed on... Because the autopsy performed on Steven Smith, even though it still ruled his death as a result of a motor vehicle crash, it placed his cause of death as blunthead trauma. That blunthead trauma someone gets smashed in the head with a baseball bat. The prevailing theory from the state troopers is that Buster and his friends may have seen Steven walking down the road or standing near his car, and they bashed him with the bat, thus causing the fatal blunt head trauma.

Or maybe they had a couple and they thought it was really funny to do to scare the dude as on the side of the street. Buster's boyfriend, let's scare him. Then one of the guy does the thing where he puts the bat out the window as they go, and he just...

Yeah, very accent. Because the troopers don't believe that they were intentionally trying to kill Steven.

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 other parts. There was some scrapes on his body.

He just not in It's 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 Steven. 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 Steven 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. That's the thing, that there is no proof here, but there's just so much cover up, such an insane amount of cover up that it really does point towards the Murdoch being involved in fucking some way or another.

There's enough evidence to at least question them.

This is the thing. Yes, very much so.

If this was just a family and you heard this story, I'd call this bullshit. But we got three bodies, right? Things couldn't have been going that well.

Technically, we got five bodies.

Yeah, We're like, We got a lot of bodies here. The fact that it led to at least one organized double murder tells me that there might be some stuff bubbling under the surface.

I'm sure there's plenty of the shit that people could find on these guys.

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... 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.

Now, at the same time that Buster may have gotten away with murder, Paul Murdoch was also barreling towards his first brush with suspicious accidental death. See, by the age 18, Paul was drinking booze bought with Buster's ID every day. His girlfriend at the Morgan Dauety, remembered a time when Paul drunkenly vomited in front of his parents, but the Murdoch 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. 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. On February second, 2018, Gloria Satterfield was found at the bottom of the brick steps leading up to the Murdoch house at Moselle at 8: 30 AM. 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. In 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. He's there. When he gets on the phone with the operator, he's annoyed that the operator is even asking He's asking simple questions. The operator is asking, Is she breathing? Does she have a history of strokes? 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, it's 8: 30 AM. He It would be partying all night. Who the fuck knows?

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, right? Yeah, on the front steps. On the front steps. It is February second. She could have been scared by a groundhog.

Oh, He was coming out there and they were all like, get that game, man.

That was a surprise for people. They were shooting at the groundhog.

They were given us bad luck. There's a lot of land.

There's got to be groundhogs.

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 got divorced. Not a good sign, boys.

For all those out there who've seen Keddi Shack 2. Yes.

Keddi Shack 2. Mr. Westerhouse. What am I doing? Why do I know they'll be like, Chie, chie, golfing with that jammed up your crack?

Well, paramedics arrived 20 minutes after they called 911 because Moselle was way the fuck out there. 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. Damn. 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 said, How did you fall down this? 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 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 lugging in all their luggage after the trip. 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 was walking up them steps and the dogs tripped her up. It's just what happens. Sometimes you got as many dogs as we got around Moselle.

Everybody love dogs.

It's just It's so weird. You can't blame a dog. But I'm not murdering. You can't even blaming my dog. It's just find it interesting because nobody else said what happened. No.

Alex said that Gloria had told him what had happened before the paramedic showed up, that he had gotten there and he had leaned down and she had looked up. She said, The dog should treat me. 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. Gloria couldn't have told him anything. Gloria, meanwhile, never regained consciousness. 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.

She left.

Just because the sons didn't visit her doesn't mean that they're guilty. They are assholes, too.

Massive.

Massive assholes.

We can't discriminate. How big a prick Sam.

We really can't overstate how big a massive piece is of fucking shit, dog shit, butt 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. Just a month before Gloria died, Alec had taken out a a large liability insurance policy on Moselle in anticipation of an accident just like the one Gloria suffered a month before. 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 is 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, You kids are like family to me. Bad son. You all are like family to me, and I want to make sure you're taken care of.

But that guy kills his family. Not yet.

He's still a few years away from killing it.

He's only planning it at this point.

What are you thinking about it.

Just a twinkle in his eye.

The lawyer that Alec recommended to the Satterfields was, of course, Cory Fleming. That was his partner in embezelment. But Alec neglected to mention that Cory was his best friend and his former college roommate. That's what makes this whole thing fishy, is that he could have easily said, Oh, yeah, I know Cory real well. I've known him for forever. But no, he's like, Oh, there's this lawyer you should call. It's Cory Fleming. He'll take care of you.

Yeah, it's like, no. He tried to act like it was somebody he didn't know. Yes.

He obviously knows them 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 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 Murdoch in any way whatsoever. It was a completely different business.

It was a paper sign in business, right?

It was like if you opened up a car dealership and called it Chevy, but it's not Chevrolet, but It's like, Henry, doing business as Chevy. If someone writes a check to Chevy, you can cash that check because you're doing business as Chevy. But the company's not Chevy. You don't work for Chevy. No. 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, that's hilarious.

There's so many other things. There's so many. Played I'm going to get you a résumé. Welcome to crime syndicate business. I'm sorry. I just need the blood.

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 Cory Fleming. Now, Alex 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 laundry for him. The company called Forge got a check that was given to him from...

This is crazy.

This is like... You know what it is?

You know what you're seeing here, Eddie? Oxy ideas. This is Oxy ideas. This man is just like, he is an ideas guy. He's like, Tesla.

It's like a fucking sophomore in a creative writing class. You got to say your metaphors are a little too on the nose. Yes. Just laundering money. Forge. Jesus fucking Christ. Hi, my name is Jimford Embezler. It's easy. But out of all the suspicious deaths surrounding the Murdoch family, there was none that did more to bring their sleaziness 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. 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. See.

Unt.

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 Dauety, Miley Altman, and Mallory Beach. They were all close friends, lifelong friends, while the other two guys, Connor and Anthony Cooke, were cousins. Connor was dating Miley. Connor was a nicknamed Cotton Top. That's what everyone called him. While Anthony was dating Mallory, although that relationship would end in tragedy before the night was through.

Alex was called Oxy Cotton 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.

Where they were taking sea hunt that night because Paul had already been drinking and he'd wanted to avoid the inevitable DWI checkpoints on the road. That also tells you a little bit about the Murdoch's waning power, because before, Murdoch is going to blow right through a checkpoint.

Well, it's because there's already been a couple of run-ins.

Many run-ins. Yes. Yes. Many, many run-ins.

He's underage, too.

Yes. Yeah. 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 & Done.

And these guys, these 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 the soft, dude. It's seriously- Why they all just go? It shows the video of Paul going up to that bar, slamming his hand on the bar, doing the, Give me a shot.

It's like, that was an older man that fucking poured him that shot. He should have been, Fuck you. Yeah, well, the- 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 hopped 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 play. 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 AM. 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, It's 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. 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 It's 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 that didn't exist.

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. When Morgan finally confronted him, he slapped her, spat on her, and called her a fucking whore. This stunned everyone into silence momentarily because they knew better than to push back when Paul was this drunk.

Just on the idea that his buddies wouldn't just fucking knock him in the mouth. Yeah. Being like, Fuck.

You outnumber him, he wouldn't even remember you did it.

No, dude. 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. It ends. It might end. That might be the ass beating that little shit needs to get.

No, it's not going to end. He's just going to keep doing it.

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 the one. Another thing that he stole from everyone in that county. That's That's fair.

Well, finally, at 02: 20 AM, Mallory reportedly told Paul that he was being fucking stupid. Paul stared daggers at Mallory, then slam the boat's throttle all the way down while heading straight towards the bridge ahead. Everyone screamed as the boat hit the bridge's wood pilings. Three of the passengers slammed into the boat's boards while Paul, Anthony Cooke, 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 Cooke found a working phone within 15 minutes and called 911 despite 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 had 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, drinks. That's estimated, 19 drinks. Fair minimum. 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 III, the same grandfather who'd shown up at Steven Smith's murder scene four years earlier when Buster was suspected. Paul had always called Randy III when he was in trouble.

Because he was super close to his grandfather.

He was. 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 Murdoch's.

Fucking Cotton Top. Still such a cuck that he thinks that Paul is innocent. He's all like all of this shit.

No, not him.

The guy in the Netflix documentary that I believe is Connor is the one that's all like, You don't know Paul.

No, that's Anthony. That's a different one. It's not necessarily that he thinks he's innocent.

You don't know Paul. You don't know the real Paul. It's like, Yeah, you do.

Yeah. It's not that he thinks he's innocent. I think he just doesn't want to let himself feel all of it fully.

I got it. It won't take until later on when he does something bad, his own self, if he doesn't check those emotions.

Also, when someone gets murdered, you create a new opinion about them and stuff because you feel bad about what happened to them and shit like that.

Sure. I guess. No, Cotton Top is quite angry in the documentary. He's the one that's still got the huge scar on his face. That's the guy. Okay.

Also, if he's this drunk and he was that hard to get into the cop car, I really am pushing for 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- The amount of cocaine I saw going through all those good old boys in Tallahassee.

I mean, it's possible.

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 III and Alec Murdoch knew that Paul was lying about who had been driving that night because Murdoch did not give up control. So they arrived arrived at the hospital at around 3: 00 AM 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 room 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 this. They're just walking. This is how much power they had. They're just walking in and out. They're saying, Alec Murdoch is not a doctor. He's walking in and out all these rooms.

Yeah, the only room Alec couldn't get into was the one holding Paul's on-again, off-again girlfriend, Morgan Dauty. When Morgan saw Alec'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 even kept it like, and I still shocked when it was Mr. Alec. 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. We don't have the... We don't have the same- What is it?

I don't know. What is the term for what that is? What is the term? Is it blind allegiance? You don't think it's going to happen to you, man.

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 scienceology talk about LRH. Yeah.

I mean, there is definitely some indoctrination there. Those people were raised their entire lives to not necessarily worship the Murdoch, but to respect It's hard to erase all that shit.

Their grandparents told them to respect them.

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 as Steven 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 Steven's parents couldn't get a single law firm to take their case after the Murdoch name was mentioned in 2015, an attorney named Mark Tensley jumped at the chance to represent the Beach family in a wrongful death suit against the Murdochs in 2019. 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. That, of course, is where we will pick back up next week for the conclusion to our series.

Until he's murdered in prison.

Well, that's more of a side story thing. You guys can take that. That's what we'll cover. You 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. I've been interested in this case since the very beginning. I covered it in side stories throughout the entire trial. I just feel like... I feel like I'm at the Olympics. I feel like I've been- They're finally here. Yeah, it's like I'm on the curling team.

Yeah, man, you 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, but I'm I imagine he's spilling off the sides of it.

He's super skinny. Yeah, it's a smaller bed now. Well, now that he doesn't have access to all the sugary stuff.

He's super skinny.

There's plenty of sugar in jail. It's all honey bun.

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