Narrator: Previously on "American Greed"...
This is a John Grisham work of nonfiction.
Narrator: In South Carolina...
This case has been gripping the state for months.
Narrator: a well-respected attorney
from a prominent legal dynasty,
Alex Murdaugh is trusted by injured and grieving clients
to set things right.
Pinckney: He looked all of us dead in our eyes
and told us that we don't have anything to worry about.
Narrator: But behind the scenes,
this pillar of the community is allegedly stealing millions.
Taking things that you did not earn is stealing.
Narrator: Then, in 2019,
a tragic boat crash involving his son Paul...
lands the Murdaughs in the spotlight.
Bauerlein: It just quickly became clear
that things weren't what they seemed at first.
Narrator: Now a horrific double murder
helps break the spell of this once-powerful family.
We are learning disturbing new details
on that mysterious double homicide in South Carolina.
Narrator: And as light is shined upon Alex Murdaugh's family,
they're linked to probes involving corruption,
money-laundering, and multiple mysterious deaths.
Harris: It is grim, and it doesn't seem possible
that one family could be tied to that many deaths
in a short period of time.
Narrator: With pressure building,
Murdaugh embarks on a brand-new greedy scheme.
Reporter: A shocking new twist this morning in the case
of a high-profile family
at the center of an unsolved murder mystery.
Narrator: Now Murdaugh's alleged victims
and those who face him in court
take "American Greed" inside the story
as a powerful Southern dynasty comes crashing down.
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For years, prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh
has been hiding a deep, dark secret.
An avid hunter and a son of privilege
from one of his state's most powerful legal dynasties,
he's allegedly been stealing millions from his clients.
Working for a powerful law firm
started by his great grandfather over 100 years earlier,
he's been hiding his alleged scheme
with the help of his revered family name.
Bauerlein: It had been an anchor of the community for 100 years.
So who wouldn't give the benefit of the doubt
to the... the person who's the inheritor of that name?
Narrator: But in 2019, the deadly boat crash
involving Murdaugh's underage son, Paul,
threatens to shine a light on the powerful family.
Reporter: A Beaufort County grand jury
made it official today...
3 charges against 20-year-old Paul Murdaugh.
Narrator: As scrutiny builds, new revelations will forever
alter the Murdaughs' grip on power in the Lowcountry
and upend the attorney's alleged scheme.
Bamberg: If that boat crash never happened,
Alex Murdaugh would probably still be out here
smiling in people's face
while taking their wallet out of their back pocket.
Narrator: But Murdaugh's downfall
doesn't come all at once.
And as it unfolds, an unimaginable tragedy
will claim the lives of those closest to him.
By the summer of 2021, Murdaugh is in deep trouble.
A lawsuit involving his son Paul
and the boat crash that killed Mallory Beach
is threatening to cost him millions
and reveal the secrets hidden in his financial records.
On the night of June 7th, Paul, 22,
is home with his 52-year-old mother, Maggie,
at Moselle, the family's 1,700-acre hunting estate.
Bauerlein: Moselle is far from anything.
It's rainy. It's rural. It's dark.
Narrator: According to news reports, Paul and Maggie
are near the family's dog kennels
when shots ring out, shattering the moonlit quiet.
Bauerlein: Paul was killed
with two shotgun blasts at close range...
[ Gunshots ]
which is really unusual, because a shotgun is so powerful
that almost certainly being shot once is just...
It just is so catastrophic.
And then Maggie was shot
multiple times with an AR-type rifle.
[ Gunshots ]
It was ter... I mean, honestly, it was ter...
I'm told it was terrible.
Narrator: Authorities first learn of the crime
an hour after the killings.
Murdaugh's lawyer will later tell a reporter
that he has an "ironclad alibi,"
that he was visiting his parents at the time of the murders.
So, who could be responsible?
Bauerlein: From the beginning, investigators have said
almost nothing about this case.
Alex's lawyers have said he might be a person of interest,
but they've been adamant
that he had nothing to do with the homicides.
Narrator: A husband being a person of interest
is not unexpected
when a wife and son have been gunned down.
And at first, with his alleged financial crimes still buried,
Murdaugh is seen largely as a grieving husband and father.
Bauerlein: The homicides were shocking and horrific,
and the funerals were just
this massive outpouring of support and love.
The mother was killed. Her son was killed.
They're a prominent family. They've been in the news.
So there was a lot of sympathy.
Narrator: But sympathy will soon give way to scrutiny.
Every part of Murdaugh's life will now be dissected,
starting with the tragic incident
that first called attention to the Murdaughs' tight grip
on power in South Carolina's Lowcountry.
[ Boat engine revs, crashes ]
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Just after the drunken boat incident
involving Paul Murdaugh,
one of the survivors, Anthony Cook,
told police what he thought about the likelihood
of a Murdaugh ever being held to account.
It seems that Paul's longtime friend
may have been onto something.
According to lawsuits, Alex and his father
showed up at the hospital shortly after the crash,
and law-enforcement officials never breathalyzed Paul
that night or determined who was actually driving
at the time of the deadly collision.
Joe McCulloch is a former prosecutor
who now represents Connor Cook, one of the crash survivors.
Based on my experience as a prosecutor,
as a defense lawyer,
uh, as a professor at a law school here,
uh, I'd have to say I'd give them about a D...
or worse.
Narrator: The lead agencies declined to comment.
But having controlled the local prosecutors' office
for nearly a century,
the Murdaughs have deep ties with law enforcement.
This leaves some to wonder if these alleged missteps
can be chalked up to more than just chaos at the scene.
McCulloch: Well, I don't think there's a soul alive
that wouldn't say the Murdaughs were a close-knit group.
And it is a natural instinct, um,
for a family to protect family.
Narrator: Shortly after the killings at Moselle,
South Carolina newspapers report that a state grand jury
is probing possible obstruction of justice
involving the boat-crash investigation.
What they may be looking at is suggested in a lawsuit
filed by Connor Cook.
In it, Cook alleges that Alex Murdaugh
and others used their power
to attempt to pin the crime on him, not Paul.
They did this "through inadequate investigation,
a 'whisper campaign' in the Hampton County community,
and law enforcement misdirection and possible obstruction."
McCulloch: Whether there was influence brought to bear
for the benefit of anybody, for the benefit of the Murdaughs
or anyone else in this accident
and the extent to which it was known
that Paul Murdaugh was the driver of this boat;
the extent to which that played a role
in affecting this investigation, we're still looking at.
Narrator: Cook's suit remains open,
and Murdaugh has denied the allegations
that he improperly used his family's power
to aid his son.
But the obstruction of justice investigation
is just one of many new probes
that will cause people to take an even deeper look at Murdaugh,
the way he uses his family's power,
his alleged decade of thefts,
and the role of money in his family's double murder.
Up next...
after the deaths of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh,
law enforcement looks at another mysterious death
and an alleged cover-up that occurred years earlier.
Smith's mother has long contended
that the evidence tells a different story,
that perhaps her son was beaten to death
and the crime covered up.
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Narrator: Just days after the brutal murders
of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh,
news breaks of an obstruction of justice investigation
concerning the handling of Paul's involvement
in the deadly boat crash two years earlier.
Bauerlein: It just quickly became clear
that things weren't what they seemed at first,
that these homicides were...
Were potentially of a piece of something much bigger.
Narrator: This new twist
rattles the Murdaugh clan's teetering reputation
while also raising questions about their ability
to make problems disappear.
In a sworn deposition, Paul Murdaugh's friend
Connor Cook puts it this way...
"Anything they get in, they get out of."
But can the family maintain its grip on the levers of power?
Reporter: South Carolina authorities recently reopened
a 2015 cold case into the death of 19-year-old Stephen Smith.
Until recently, that case was an unsolved hit-and-run case.
But Smith's mother has long contended
that the evidence tells a different story,
that perhaps her son was beaten to death
and the crime covered up.
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Narrator: In the dark early-morning hours
six years before the double homicide
at the Murdaugh hunting property, Moselle,
on a stretch of road just a few miles away,
a passerby discovers a body in the road.
[ Telephone rings ]
When law enforcement arrives,
they discover the person in the road
isn't just injured but dead
and identify him as Stephen Smith,
a 19-year-old who grew up in Hampton, South Carolina,
and went to school with Alex Murdaugh's oldest son, Buster.
Mike Hemlepp is an attorney
who now works for Smith's mother, Sandy.
Stephen was very outgoing, very bright.
Um, he had good friends.
He was an outgoing, upbeat young man
with a very bright future in front of him.
Narrator: From the beginning,
state highway patrol investigators
make clear in their recorded case notes
what they think didn't happen to this well-liked young man.
Despite the initial findings of these investigators...
And much to their dismay...
A pathologist makes her own finding.
Hemlepp: The pathologist determined it was a hit-and-run
because the body was found in the road.
To date, as far as I know, that is the only evidence
that it was a vehicular collision.
To me, at first blush, I don't believe it was a car accident.
I believe he was... He was killed somewhere else,
and his body was planted there.
Narrator: The pathologist did not respond
to "American Greed's" request for comment.
A former prosecutor, Hemlepp is not alone
in doubting the hit-and-run theory.
Case files reviewed by "American Greed" show
that in 2015, one highway patrol investigator
chased down a rumor he heard repeatedly about
who might be responsible for Smith's death.
Nothing in the case file indicates the rumor
was ever substantiated.
To date, no one from the powerful Murdaugh clan
has been named as a suspect in Smith's death,
and neither Buster Murdaugh's attorney
nor the family spokesperson
responded to "American Greed's" request for comment.
What is clear however is that, for six years,
the Smith investigation goes nowhere.
Stephen's case had just kind of withered on the vine.
Narrator: But that all changes
after the events of June 7, 2021.
[ Rifle cocks, fires ]
I think after the murders of Paul and Maggie,
there had to be a microscope on Alex.
And so you start thinking about,
"Where did the Murdaugh name come up?"
Narrator: One place it comes up repeatedly
is the Smith case file,
where one investigator talks to a witness
about the family's wealth and power.
And in June 2021,
the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
says they're opening a new investigation
based on information collected during the probe
of the Murdaugh family double homicide.
They have not revealed what that information is.
But still, for Smith's family,
this new development provides a glimmer of hope
that whoever is responsible may finally be held to account.
Hemlepp: The whole Smith family does believe
that there is justice for Stephen somewhere.
And we know that people know.
We know that people have information
and if they want to come forward, they can.
♪♪
Narrator: Coming up...
Alex Murdaugh concocts a greedy new scheme
involving a gun and $10 million.
[ Gunshot ]
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Narrator: For years, the Murdaugh family
has dominated a portion of South Carolina
through their control of both a local prosecutor's office
and a private law firm known for winning big.
Following the recent murders of Alex Murdaugh's wife and son,
authorities have launched new investigations
into potential obstruction of justice
and into a mysterious death near Moselle,
the Murdaugh family hunting estate.
But Murdaugh's troubles are just getting started.
Back when the murders happened, right,
everybody... "What the heck is going on?"
And then you have the roadside shooting debacle.
Narrator: That debacle begins on September 2, 2021.
Though they did not respond to "American Greed's" request
for comment,
a lawsuit filed by Alex Murdaugh's revered law firm
says that on that day, employees of the firm
find evidence that the lawyer has been
stealing from his clients and his partners.
Having made this discovery about the attorney
whose family started the firm, they say they confront him,
he admits to the thefts, and he agrees to resign.
But he isn't leaving without a bang.
[ Gunshot ]
Following Murdaugh's claim that he's been
the victim of a driveby, he's airlifted to a hospital
where he's treated for a superficial head wound.
While he recovers, he seems to see that his story
of being shot by a random killer isn't hitting the target.
As soon as that happened, everybody is like,
"Oh, he faked that.
We live in the country.
People don't miss...
Okay, yeah, no, something's not right."
Narrator: Murdaugh later tells police
that after being unmasked by his law partners,
he decided to end his own life
and make some money while he was at it.
His attorney, Dick Harpootlian,
tells the "Today" show it's all part of an alleged scheme
by a broken man to collect
a $10 million life-insurance payout
for his lone surviving son, Buster.
He was in a dark, dark, dark place
and wanted to help his son in any way he c...
The remaining son, Buster, in any way he could.
And he thought this was the only way
he could leave him with anything.
Narrator: Harpootlian says that Alex thought
he couldn't collect on the insurance policy
if he killed himself.
So, Harpootlian says,
he asked someone else to pull the trigger.
Harpootlian: He called this guy
who met him on the side of the road,
agreed to shoot him in the head.
30 minutes later, this guy's shooting him in the head,
didn't try to persuade him not to do it,
didn't hesitate at all.
Narrator: But the shooting fails,
and a few months later, Murdaugh will tell a relative
about the moments after he was shot.
Once he begins to see things clearly,
Murdaugh makes a decision.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit,
nine days after the incident, he tells authorities
he set up his own shooting as part of a greedy scheme.
Reporter: NBC News has now learned that Alex Murdaugh
will turn himself into police today.
This comes after he admitted paying another man to shoot him
in an elaborate $10 million insurance scam.
Narrator: Coming up...
Caught dead-to-rights in a botched
murder-for-hire insurance plot worth millions,
accusations arise about the depths of Alex Murdaugh's greed.
Bland: Gloria Satterfield isn't one of those people
who was gonna get pushed down the stairs.
But we just don't know.
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Narrator: Paul and Maggie Murdaugh
aren't the first people to die due to a tragedy
at the family's 1,700-acre hunting estate, Moselle.
[ Telephone rings ]
Prosecutors say that in the months
that followed the death
of the Murdaugh's long-time employee,
Gloria Satterfield,
Murdaugh worked with his buddy, Cory Fleming,
to steal a half-million-dollar settlement from her sons,
Tony Satterfield and Brian Harriot.
For years, no one knows about the millions of dollars
Murdaugh has allegedly been stealing from them
and other clients.
But that's about to change.
Following the Murdaughs' recent string of tragedies,
a reporter uncovers a court filing revealing the settlement
paid by Murdaugh's insurers to the Satterfields.
It's news to them.
Hadwin: We saw where it came out that there was a settlement,
and we saw that it was a legal document
and it's like, "What do they mean, a settlement?
We never heard anything."
Alex didn't say anything to the boys or none of us.
They haven't given nothing at that time.
"Some money's been given somewhere.
This went somewhere. We need to find out."
So that's when my brother Eric called Eric Bland's law firm,
and, um, that's when the ball started rolling then.
Narrator: For a decade, prosecutors say Murdaugh
has been aided in his alleged financial crimes
through the good-old-boy network.
But Eric Bland is a Philly-born outsider,
and a tough-as-nails lawyer
who has made a career in South Carolina
going after other attorneys when they go rogue.
I'm a lawyer that sues lawyers, which is a rare thing to do.
Um, and when I heard the story, I did not believe it.
Narrator: Still, Bland and his partner take the case.
At first, Bland says they think a single insurance company
paid out a half million dollars meant for the Satterfield boys.
But he soon learn there's a second payout
from a second insurer
that brings the total settlement amount
to much, much higher.
Within a week and a half after getting subpoena responses
and starting to hear from other people,
uh, in the legal profession, I quickly learned
that it was more than $505,000
and it turned out to be $4.3 million.
Narrator: As he digs through records,
Bland sees that of this $4.3 million,
Murdaugh allegedly moved nearly $3.4 million
meant for Tony and Brian
through the account he's set up in the name
of a legitimate company called Forge Consulting.
They say they are totally unaware
of Murdaugh's use of their name.
I just couldn't believe it.
You're talking about $3.4 million.
This is not an insignificant amount of money.
Narrator: Following these discoveries,
Bland's firm files suit not just against Murdaugh
but against many other entities he says should have known
what the lawyer was up to and should have stopped him.
Everybody seemed to have dropped the ball
because the person standing before you comes with this,
um, reputation of honor and appearance of honor
wearing a suit and a tie.
"This guy would never do that.
So it doesn't say Forge Consulting,
it only says Forge.
It's okay. It's Alex Murdaugh."
Narrator: The Satterfield family's suit is filed
at the same time as Murdaugh's arrest on charges
related to his failed murder-for-hire plot.
And soon, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
announces they are investigating
more than just theft from Satterfield.
They want to know what caused her death.
Was it the dogs that Alex Murdaugh said it was?
You know, if I'm standing at the top of the stairs,
I can assure you, there's a line at least 500 yards long
for people who are ready to push me down the stairs.
Gloria Satterfield isn't one of those people
who was gonna get pushed down the stairs.
But we just don't know.
Narrator: To get more insight,
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigators
announce in 2022
that they plan to take an extraordinary step.
Reporter: Tonight, the housekeeper who died
after falling on stairs outside the home
of once-prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh
is set to be exhumed.
Not only we have to go through the pain of missing Gloria,
but now we have to go through the other pain
with having to disturb her and have her exhumed
and then have to go through all that again,
that we have to rebury her.
Narrator: Up next...
just when you think you've heard it all,
the Murdaugh story takes its wildest turn yet.
Is Alex Murdaugh a drug lord?
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Narrator: On October 14, 2021,
Alex Murdaugh is arrested in Florida
on new charges related to his alleged thefts
from the sons of Gloria Satterfield.
For the second time in just a month,
Murdaugh is in police custody this morning
facing two new felony charges.
Narrator: Days after he's booked into jail,
Murdaugh attends a bond hearing.
There, one of the Satterfields' attorneys, Eric Bland,
asks the judge to set a high bond amount
as a message to white-collar criminals.
The judge goes one step further, denying bond altogether,
and Murdaugh is sent to jail while he awaits trial.
As he lingers there, he tells his still-grieving son,
Buster, just how uncomfortable life has become
far away from his 1,700-acre estate.
Meanwhile, more clients who turned
to the once-respected lawyer for help
will learn that, like the Satterfields,
they've allegedly been victimized, too.
Among those who hear this unwelcome news
is the family of Hakeem Pinckney...
A deaf, quadriplegic young man.
Yeah, it was a shock to me
because he never looked like the type of person
that would do something of this nature... embezzler.
I just... I just don't see it in him.
Narrator: Prosecutors allege Murdaugh and others colluded
to steal approximately $1 million
from Pinckney's family.
According to their lawyer, Justin Bamberg,
in 2022, as compensation,
they received settlements of an undisclosed amount
from Murdaugh's former law firm and the local bank,
whose former C.E.O., Russell Laffitte,
is accused of helping Murdaugh steal
and launder their money.
Neither the firm nor the bank nor Laffitte
responded to "American Greed's" request for comment.
By early 2022, Murdaugh faces indictments
of taking approximately $8.5 million
from his law partners and more than a dozen clients,
including the Pinckney family and the Satterfields.
But many ask, "What was Murdaugh doing with all this money?"
The answer, prosecutors say, lies... at least in part...
With the man he allegedly hired to shoot him
by the side of the road... Curtis Edward Smith...
A.k.a. Cousin Eddie.
Smith is Murdaugh's former client
and a relative who has sometimes done odd jobs
for his distant cousin.
But attorney Eric Bland and others will see
that they have a strange financial relationship.
According to a state grand jury indictment,
between 2013 and 2021, Murdaugh wrote checks to Smith
and his close associates worth more than $2.4 million.
So, what happened to all that money?
Bland: Eddie Smith isn't a wealthy man.
Doesn't live a wealthy lifestyle.
Doesn't live in a mansion.
Doesn't drive a Mercedes.
Narrator: Murdaugh's attorneys offer an explanation.
It was uncovered that he had perhaps...
Well, not, perhaps... He had converted some client
and law-firm money to his own use, and, again,
spent most of that on opioids.
Narrator: They say their client has been addicted to oxycodone
for 20 years, and that Smith is his dealer.
But not everyone buys it.
Well, if you believe Dick Harpootlian,
he was consuming more opioids than 10 elephants
could consume over a 10-year period of time.
I don't believe that.
Narrator: Smith has pled not guilty to charges
that he aided Murdaugh in the murder-for-hire plot.
Though he would not be interviewed for this program,
he has denied helping Murdaugh shoot himself
and providing him with drugs.
But in June 2022, the story that has more twists
than a Lowcountry estuary takes another one.
[ Lightning and thunder crash ]
That month, a state grand jury charges Smith and Murdaugh
with laundering Murdaugh's money
through all those hundreds of checks to Smith.
They allege that a large chunk of it
has been used not just to consume,
but to acquire and distribute oxycodone.
[ Police radio chatter ]
In the wake of the boat crash and the Murdaugh double murder,
the once-respected lawyer has now been accused
of attempting to arrange his own killing for insurance money...
[ Gunshot ]
stealing millions from clients and his own firm,
and taking part in a years-long money-laundering
and drug-trafficking conspiracy.
The murders of his wife and son have also led
to a new investigation of obstruction of justice
in that boat-crash case,
as well as probes of the mysterious deaths
of Stephen Smith and Gloria Satterfield.
All this adds up to theories
about what Murdaugh might be capable of.
[ Rifle cocks ]
Up next...
how will it all end for Alex Murdaugh?
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Narrator: By the summer of 2022, a year has passed
since the gruesome murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh,
which remain unsolved.
Reporter: The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
has suggested their deaths were homicides
but have made no arrests related to their killings.
Narrator: Since Alex Murdaugh first called police
to report their deaths...
he's been accused of a wide swath of crimes.
For generations, the Murdaughs have ruled the area
surrounding Hampton County.
Now their name has been stripped from the law firm
Murdaugh's great grandfather started in the early 1900s.
Most folks around here are like me.
We grew up in working-class or poor families.
How do you think people feel about a family
with 100 years of generational wealth
not only getting wealthier off of doing these cases,
like Hakeem Pinckney where you make millions in fees,
but then you're also stealing millions, too?
Like, people are... People are pissed.
Narrator: As the months drag on, lawyer Eric Bland
and his law partner help the Satterfields
collect $7.5 million in settlements from various parties
who Bland says could have stopped Murdaugh's theft
but failed to do so.
Murdaugh himself has admitted he's liable
for $4.3 million taken from the sons of his former housekeeper.
Locked up at a jail in Columbia, South Carolina,
he still faces at least a dozen lawsuits
involving former clients,
Mallory Beach and the boat-crash survivors,
his firm, his insurer,
and those who say he owes them money.
But some of his alleged victims,
people who turned to him at the lowest points in their lives,
say no lawsuit will ever set things straight.
No, I'll never be made whole.
Narrator: Two of Murdaugh's alleged financial co-conspirators,
attorney Cory Fleming and banker Russell Laffitte,
who prosecutors say helped Murdaugh
steal and launder money,
are also charged in the case and have both pled not guilty.
Both Fleming and Laffitte have said
they are victims of Murdaugh's fraud and misconduct.
For his part, Murdaugh is facing 84 charges from 16 indictments
that could land him more than 500 years in prison.
Still, in a phone call from jail
with his surviving son, Buster, the once-prominent lawyer
seems to find humor about the many horrific crimes
he's been charged with.
In the coming months, the tally of illegal... stuff
that Murdaugh has "allegedly" done will only increase.
On July 12, 2021,
the South Carolina Supreme Court disbars Alex Murdaugh,
saying he's admitted to taking money
from his law firm,
stealing $4.3 million from the Satterfields,
and orchestrating his own shooting for insurance money.
Just days later,
the final shoe drops on the once-respected attorney.
Guthrie: Now to a dramatic twist
in a high-profile South Carolina murder case.
Alex Murdaugh is now charged
with the murder of his wife and son.
Narrator: On July 14th, a grand jury indicts Murdaugh
on charges of killing his wife with a rifle
and his son with a shotgun.
Following Murdaugh's indictment,
prosecutors say there's evidence showing him
with his wife and son... [ Gunshots ]
about an hour and 20 minutes before calling 911.
Reporter: Two sources close to the case
tell NBC News authorities have cellphone video
that they believe puts him at the scene of the murders
shortly before they took place...
Evidence that would appear to contradict
his previous timeline of events.
Narrator: At the bond hearing, prosecutor Creighton Waters
gives the first official hints
of how the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division,
or SLED,
made the case that many thought might never be cracked.
While not giving much away, Waters also hints at a motive...
That the murders were all about the money.
Murdaugh's attorneys have said
he had no reason to kill his wife and son,
that he loved both of them,
and that he was unfairly singled out
by law enforcement from day one.
Now Murdaugh's fate will be decided
before a jury of his peers at a courthouse
where generations of Murdaughs have wielded their legal power.
Whatever the outcome of Alex Murdaugh's many cases,
it's clear that the lawyer's actions have taken a toll
on his family's once-revered name.
Bland: The Murdaugh name has been burned up.
He has single-handedly destroyed
whatever goodwill and good deeds that family has ever done.
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