1 00:00:11,261 --> 00:00:13,263 [eerie music plays] 2 00:00:17,684 --> 00:00:19,811 [phone line rings] 3 00:00:20,562 --> 00:00:23,106 [operator 1] Hampton County 911, what is your emergency? 4 00:00:23,606 --> 00:00:27,277 [driver] Hello, I was just goin' down along Crocketville Road. 5 00:00:27,777 --> 00:00:29,529 I see somebody layin' out. 6 00:00:29,612 --> 00:00:32,449 [operator 1] And is it in the road or on the side of the road? 7 00:00:32,532 --> 00:00:33,658 [driver] In the road. 8 00:00:33,742 --> 00:00:36,369 - [operator 1] In the road? - [driver] Somebody's gonna hit him. 9 00:00:36,453 --> 00:00:38,663 [operator 1] We'll get an officer headed out that way. 10 00:00:38,747 --> 00:00:40,387 - [driver] Okay. - [operator 1] All right. 11 00:00:40,957 --> 00:00:42,417 [eerie music continues] 12 00:00:43,793 --> 00:00:48,715 [man 1] In 2019, our news outlet was on the front lines of the boat crash. 13 00:00:48,798 --> 00:00:51,009 And then in 2021, the double homicide. 14 00:00:52,343 --> 00:00:55,055 [eerie music continues] 15 00:00:56,014 --> 00:00:58,391 While covering the death of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, 16 00:00:58,475 --> 00:01:00,852 we'd received an anonymous tip on our website 17 00:01:00,935 --> 00:01:03,271 about a highway-patrol report 18 00:01:03,813 --> 00:01:07,317 for the death of Stephen Smith in 2015. 19 00:01:11,029 --> 00:01:12,530 Stephen Smith's body was found 20 00:01:12,614 --> 00:01:16,159 in the middle of a rural highway in Hampton County, 21 00:01:16,242 --> 00:01:19,329 right around the corner from where his car was later found. 22 00:01:21,206 --> 00:01:22,707 Started workin' sources. 23 00:01:23,666 --> 00:01:26,377 Who's Stephen Smith? What... What was his story? 24 00:01:27,253 --> 00:01:29,506 And that's when I started listening to the interviews 25 00:01:29,589 --> 00:01:32,467 those officers taped back in 2015. 26 00:01:34,886 --> 00:01:40,475 [man 2] Trooper Rowell, this incident that occurred on July the 8th of 2015, 27 00:01:40,558 --> 00:01:42,185 just kind of go through it with me. 28 00:01:42,268 --> 00:01:46,064 [Rowell] From what we've gathered so far, a nice, you know, young man 29 00:01:46,147 --> 00:01:48,900 had mechanical problems with his vehicle on the way home. 30 00:01:48,983 --> 00:01:53,238 Run outta fuel or had some kinda problem, and started walkin'. 31 00:01:54,072 --> 00:01:57,408 Um, I came out about 4:30 that mornin'. 32 00:01:57,492 --> 00:02:00,870 When I got up to the scene, I noticed a young, white male 33 00:02:00,954 --> 00:02:04,290 lyin' in the roadway with severe head trauma. 34 00:02:04,374 --> 00:02:09,170 Nothing at the scene appeared that it was a vehicular accident. 35 00:02:09,254 --> 00:02:12,966 No torn clothes. His shoes were still on his feet. 36 00:02:13,049 --> 00:02:15,051 Cell phone still in his pocket. 37 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:16,886 [Will] This is a dark country road. 38 00:02:18,388 --> 00:02:19,681 But if someone's gonna be 39 00:02:20,265 --> 00:02:22,142 the victim of a vehicular strike, 40 00:02:22,225 --> 00:02:24,435 you're probably not gonna find 'em in the road. 41 00:02:25,228 --> 00:02:28,606 You're probably not gonna find 'em with loose-fitting shoes still on them. 42 00:02:28,690 --> 00:02:32,193 [Rowell] Injuries that I noticed to this young man was to his head. 43 00:02:32,277 --> 00:02:34,362 [Will] Not gonna find them with the blood patterns 44 00:02:34,445 --> 00:02:36,030 the way they found the blood patterns. 45 00:02:36,114 --> 00:02:39,868 Probably not gonna find them, again, positioned the way he was positioned. 46 00:02:41,202 --> 00:02:44,747 People looked at this, and the report specifically questioned these things. 47 00:02:46,207 --> 00:02:48,001 The problem is, nobody dug deeper. 48 00:02:49,627 --> 00:02:51,387 [Rowell] Like I said, we don't know for sure. 49 00:02:51,421 --> 00:02:54,340 We haven't had anybody to tell us anything different. 50 00:02:55,258 --> 00:02:57,844 So I reached out to my sources at the agency, 51 00:02:58,344 --> 00:03:00,138 obtained a copy of the report, 52 00:03:00,221 --> 00:03:02,098 verified that it was authentic, 53 00:03:02,932 --> 00:03:04,225 and immediately noticed 54 00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:07,979 Buster Murdaugh was in the report. 55 00:03:21,451 --> 00:03:22,869 [Miley] Me and Mallory and Connor, 56 00:03:22,952 --> 00:03:25,455 we were in high school at the same time as Stephen. 57 00:03:26,789 --> 00:03:30,001 He was always a very sweet person, just always nice. 58 00:03:30,084 --> 00:03:32,086 Loved his friends. 59 00:03:32,670 --> 00:03:34,464 He was a happy person. 60 00:03:34,964 --> 00:03:37,967 [woman 1] Stephen and I became friends when I was in tenth grade. 61 00:03:38,051 --> 00:03:40,261 I just always thought he was so funny, 62 00:03:40,345 --> 00:03:42,180 and I admired his personality so much, 63 00:03:42,263 --> 00:03:45,558 because he just did not give a shit about what people thought about him. 64 00:03:46,559 --> 00:03:47,936 He was always himself. 65 00:03:48,019 --> 00:03:52,106 He was always, like, dancing around, and singin' and, you know, just hilarious. 66 00:03:53,316 --> 00:03:54,901 [Miley] I was stayin' with Mallory. 67 00:03:54,984 --> 00:03:58,404 It happened just a couple of roads away from where she lives. 68 00:03:58,488 --> 00:04:01,616 We were just like, you know, scared for someone to end up dead 69 00:04:01,699 --> 00:04:02,909 in the middle of the road. 70 00:04:02,992 --> 00:04:05,912 I mean, that's unheard of in, you know, Hampton County. 71 00:04:07,830 --> 00:04:11,167 [Olivia] When it first happened, when he first was killed, 72 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:14,629 the town rallied in such a very supportive way for the family, 73 00:04:14,712 --> 00:04:16,589 and wantin' to figure out what happened. 74 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:19,008 But then his case just disappeared. 75 00:04:21,678 --> 00:04:23,179 [Will] Stephen's case went cold. 76 00:04:24,555 --> 00:04:27,725 And his mom, Sandy Smith, hired a private investigator. 77 00:04:30,061 --> 00:04:33,731 [man 3] The first thing you wanna do as an investigator is see all the work 78 00:04:33,815 --> 00:04:36,442 that has been done prior to your involvement. 79 00:04:36,943 --> 00:04:40,154 In South Carolina, the highway patrol does all death investigations 80 00:04:40,238 --> 00:04:42,031 related to motor-vehicle accidents. 81 00:04:42,115 --> 00:04:44,951 So for the first few weeks, the highway patrol's hot and heavy, 82 00:04:45,034 --> 00:04:47,287 out interviewing as many people as they can. 83 00:04:47,787 --> 00:04:51,791 Associates of Stephen, friends of Stephen, schoolmates, so forth. 84 00:04:51,874 --> 00:04:55,211 [man 2] Case number on this will be CL-062. 85 00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:57,015 [man 4] Kinda wanted to touch base with you. 86 00:04:57,046 --> 00:05:01,884 It's in... Obviously it's in reference to the Stephen Smith murder investigation. 87 00:05:01,968 --> 00:05:05,638 - Do you know what I'm talkin' about? - [informant 1] Oh yes, sir. I do. 88 00:05:05,722 --> 00:05:08,641 [man 4] Just go ahead and tell me, you know, what you heard. 89 00:05:08,725 --> 00:05:12,186 [informant 1] From what I was originally told was he was struck by a car. 90 00:05:12,270 --> 00:05:13,313 This, that, and the other. 91 00:05:13,396 --> 00:05:15,440 [informant 2] I heard he got hit by a car. 92 00:05:15,523 --> 00:05:17,483 [informant 3] They say it was like a hit-and-run. 93 00:05:17,567 --> 00:05:20,361 I haven't really gotten all, like, one clear story. 94 00:05:20,445 --> 00:05:23,156 [man 4] I can tell you this. He didn't get hit by no car. 95 00:05:23,239 --> 00:05:26,784 [informant 2] Well, recently I heard that these 96 00:05:26,868 --> 00:05:29,162 two, maybe three young men were in a vehicle. 97 00:05:29,245 --> 00:05:33,458 I guess they were attemptin' to mess around with him or somethin' like that. 98 00:05:33,541 --> 00:05:38,046 But it's all rumor. Nobody claims to be the source of any information. 99 00:05:38,129 --> 00:05:39,449 They heard it from somebody else. 100 00:05:40,006 --> 00:05:43,384 [man 4] I need to try to find somebody who's willin', 101 00:05:43,468 --> 00:05:46,054 you know, to give me some solid information. 102 00:05:46,554 --> 00:05:50,099 And I understand... I understand your reservation. 103 00:05:50,183 --> 00:05:54,103 Because I've heard that people associated with his name 104 00:05:54,187 --> 00:05:55,688 have been goin' around, kinda... 105 00:05:56,564 --> 00:05:58,107 Not... Well... 106 00:05:58,191 --> 00:06:01,277 Kinda threatenin' or puttin' the heat on people, sayin', you know, 107 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:03,488 "Keep your mouth closed if you heard somethin'." 108 00:06:03,571 --> 00:06:07,200 [informant 4] She was like, "You'd never believe who I heard did it." 109 00:06:07,283 --> 00:06:10,328 And then she said his name and I was, like, really shocked. 110 00:06:10,411 --> 00:06:13,247 [informant 2] Y'all have heard I did hear names, and I'm... Um... 111 00:06:13,331 --> 00:06:14,665 Or heard a name. 112 00:06:14,749 --> 00:06:17,585 And that name was... He goes by Buster Murdaugh. 113 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:20,235 - Buster Murdaugh. - Buster Murdaugh. 114 00:06:20,296 --> 00:06:23,383 [informant 5] Everybody keeps comin' up to me and sayin' it was Murdaugh boys. 115 00:06:23,466 --> 00:06:25,426 [Steve] Over and over and over again. 116 00:06:26,886 --> 00:06:28,930 [informant 2] And when I originally heard this, 117 00:06:29,013 --> 00:06:31,349 I was thinking of the younger Murdaugh boy, 118 00:06:31,432 --> 00:06:32,632 Buster's little brother, Paul, 119 00:06:32,683 --> 00:06:37,397 because Paul's more the "my last name is Murdaugh and I can do whatever." 120 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:38,832 - Know what I mean? - [man 4] Yeah. 121 00:06:38,856 --> 00:06:40,149 [informant 2] Everybody's kinda 122 00:06:41,567 --> 00:06:44,278 shy to say that out, you know what I mean? 123 00:06:44,362 --> 00:06:45,362 Because of... 124 00:06:46,114 --> 00:06:48,741 of the... I don't wanna say power, but of the... 125 00:06:48,825 --> 00:06:51,494 The name, you know, it brings a certain standard 126 00:06:51,577 --> 00:06:53,454 when you say "Murdaugh" in Hampton County. 127 00:06:53,955 --> 00:06:56,195 [Steve] Listening to these interviews, it's pretty clear. 128 00:06:56,249 --> 00:06:59,961 Stephen's death is now intertwined with the Murdaughs. 129 00:07:01,129 --> 00:07:03,965 [man 2] So the only rumor you heard is possibly Buster havin' 130 00:07:04,048 --> 00:07:06,008 some type of relationship with Stephen? 131 00:07:06,509 --> 00:07:07,510 [informant 1] Yes, sir. 132 00:07:12,598 --> 00:07:15,768 [Sam] I was a science teacher at Wade Hampton. 133 00:07:16,561 --> 00:07:20,064 There was a rumor that Stephen and Buster were friends. 134 00:07:20,773 --> 00:07:22,275 Stephen was real smart, 135 00:07:22,358 --> 00:07:25,027 and had actually helped Buster with some papers, 136 00:07:25,111 --> 00:07:28,948 and, um, I guess tutoring him, for lack of a better word. 137 00:07:30,825 --> 00:07:34,203 [Morgan] Stephen Smith was gay, and he lived in Hampton County. 138 00:07:34,287 --> 00:07:36,747 God knows that couldn't have been easy on him, 139 00:07:36,831 --> 00:07:40,460 being from a town like that, though, where it's not really socially acceptable, 140 00:07:40,543 --> 00:07:42,879 and he probably got talked about. 141 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:46,924 There were so many rumors swirling around 142 00:07:47,008 --> 00:07:49,927 that Buster and Stephen were intimate together. 143 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:55,099 Being gay in the Murdaugh family would have been looked down upon. 144 00:07:55,808 --> 00:07:58,186 [informant 2] I've known the Murdaugh family, like I said, 145 00:07:58,269 --> 00:07:59,309 pretty much my whole life. 146 00:07:59,353 --> 00:08:01,481 Hampton's not a... Not a very big town. 147 00:08:01,564 --> 00:08:04,775 I feel like they wouldn't want anything happening to their reputation, 148 00:08:04,859 --> 00:08:07,236 or name, or anything like that. 149 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,156 As soon as the Murdaugh name was tossed into the mix, 150 00:08:10,239 --> 00:08:13,618 of havin' somethin' to do with, like, relationship-wise with Stephen, 151 00:08:13,701 --> 00:08:16,746 um, I feel like the view on his case changed entirely. 152 00:08:16,829 --> 00:08:20,791 It went from finding justice for Stephen to defending the Murdaughs 153 00:08:20,875 --> 00:08:23,675 and makin' sure that everyone knew that they had nothin' to do with it. 154 00:08:24,337 --> 00:08:27,256 Even if they had, like, people didn't want to consider that. 155 00:08:28,841 --> 00:08:32,970 [man 4] Can you tell me what you heard about the Stephen Smith incident? 156 00:08:33,054 --> 00:08:36,015 [informant 2] I don't know. It's strictly hearsay from all I know. 157 00:08:36,098 --> 00:08:38,392 [man 4] Well, I mean, at this point it's kinda, you know, 158 00:08:38,476 --> 00:08:40,102 we'll take whatever we can get. 159 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:43,689 The stories that went around that I've heard so many times 160 00:08:43,773 --> 00:08:45,816 were that Buster and Stephen 161 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:47,610 had a secret relationship, 162 00:08:47,693 --> 00:08:51,030 and they were wantin' to come out to Buster's family. 163 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:55,868 And then the rumors continued to flow about how, the night that Stephen died, 164 00:08:55,952 --> 00:08:59,080 he had been on the way home from school and his car had run out of gas. 165 00:09:00,998 --> 00:09:03,501 [informant 2] I just know that he said it was 166 00:09:03,584 --> 00:09:05,878 Buster and maybe one or two other people. 167 00:09:05,962 --> 00:09:08,422 They were ridin' down 601. 168 00:09:08,506 --> 00:09:10,174 Saw the car on the side of the road. 169 00:09:10,716 --> 00:09:12,343 I guess saw the boy walkin'. 170 00:09:12,927 --> 00:09:14,967 [Olivia] Rumor goes, Stephen felt comfortable enough 171 00:09:15,012 --> 00:09:16,097 to call Buster for help, 172 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:19,016 and Buster just so happens to be in the area 173 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:22,019 on the way home from a softball tournament with his friend. 174 00:09:22,728 --> 00:09:24,248 [informant 2] They were attemptin' to, 175 00:09:24,730 --> 00:09:26,774 I don't wanna say, you know, mess around with him, 176 00:09:26,857 --> 00:09:28,025 or somethin' like that. 177 00:09:29,277 --> 00:09:31,070 [Olivia] I believe that he picked Stephen up 178 00:09:31,153 --> 00:09:34,865 and was fooling Stephen into thinkin' they were takin' him home, 179 00:09:34,949 --> 00:09:37,702 but I think they got a little ways down the road, 180 00:09:37,785 --> 00:09:42,206 and that's when it all started to unravel. 181 00:09:43,374 --> 00:09:47,378 I believe that the Murdaughs did whatever the hell it took 182 00:09:47,461 --> 00:09:49,880 to keep everyone's mouth shut that night. 183 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:52,842 [informant 6] Someone told me that it was Buster, and I was like, 184 00:09:53,342 --> 00:09:57,179 nothing was gonna be done about it because of who he was. 185 00:09:57,972 --> 00:10:00,349 [woman 2] The day that Stephen passed away 186 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:04,186 Randy Murdaugh was the second person to call my dad, after the coroner. 187 00:10:04,270 --> 00:10:06,731 And he said he wanted to take the case 188 00:10:07,231 --> 00:10:09,525 and it would be free of charge and everything. 189 00:10:10,610 --> 00:10:11,652 It's kinda weird. 190 00:10:15,615 --> 00:10:18,200 [man 4] The Murdaughs know that. They know that he's... 191 00:10:18,284 --> 00:10:19,493 That he's on our radar. 192 00:10:19,577 --> 00:10:22,830 I'm gonna talk to Buster here soon and say, "Look, man, you know, 193 00:10:22,913 --> 00:10:24,373 you need to come clean about this." 194 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:27,168 "If it was an accident, you just need to come clean about it." 195 00:10:27,668 --> 00:10:31,547 You know? "Let's get this process out and let's get this family some closure." 196 00:10:32,423 --> 00:10:36,135 [Steve] I'd wanna talk to Buster. I-I'd wanna talk to Alex. 197 00:10:36,218 --> 00:10:38,638 But nothing happens in this case. Nothing. 198 00:10:39,138 --> 00:10:41,015 Nobody investigates anything anymore. 199 00:10:41,098 --> 00:10:43,893 This case just fades away. 200 00:10:44,477 --> 00:10:47,146 [Will] In the highway-patrol tapes, the Murdaugh name is mentioned 201 00:10:47,647 --> 00:10:49,523 numerous times by numerous people, 202 00:10:49,607 --> 00:10:51,984 but it doesn't appear anyone ever interviewed Buster 203 00:10:52,068 --> 00:10:54,528 or anyone else in the Murdaugh family. 204 00:10:54,612 --> 00:10:55,613 Why not? 205 00:10:56,739 --> 00:10:58,908 [Michael] Within one month of his body bein' found, 206 00:10:58,991 --> 00:11:02,620 we were hearin' all of these rumors about a possible Murdaugh connection. 207 00:11:02,703 --> 00:11:05,915 And I've learned as a reporter that if you hear the same rumors 208 00:11:05,998 --> 00:11:08,459 from different groups of people wherever you go, 209 00:11:08,542 --> 00:11:13,005 it's either a very good rumor or there's some truth to it. 210 00:11:14,215 --> 00:11:18,010 So we did a story in the Thanksgiving 2015 paper, 211 00:11:18,094 --> 00:11:21,931 and Sandy Smith basically appealed to the community. 212 00:11:22,014 --> 00:11:23,557 "My son was killed." 213 00:11:24,517 --> 00:11:28,437 "If you know somethin', please tell us." "We just want answers. We want closure." 214 00:11:29,021 --> 00:11:31,691 So we could not put the Murdaugh name in a story 215 00:11:31,774 --> 00:11:34,694 unless we wanted to face lawsuits. 216 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:40,408 We said, "A prominent, well-known family was rumored to be involved." 217 00:11:40,491 --> 00:11:42,201 Everybody knew who we were talking about. 218 00:11:42,284 --> 00:11:44,453 [mysterious music plays] 219 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:47,540 We published the story and we waited. 220 00:11:49,291 --> 00:11:52,002 People would come up to me in the Piggly Wiggly, pat me on the back. 221 00:11:52,086 --> 00:11:53,879 "We're so thankful you ran that story." 222 00:11:53,963 --> 00:11:56,340 "So proud of you to have the courage to do it." 223 00:11:56,424 --> 00:11:59,593 I mean, we did everything but put the Murdaugh name in the story. 224 00:11:59,677 --> 00:12:02,763 But the story did no good. Nobody ever came forward. 225 00:12:03,681 --> 00:12:05,725 [male interviewer] Tell me about Morgan. 226 00:12:05,808 --> 00:12:07,810 Because she was hearing that rumor 227 00:12:07,893 --> 00:12:10,104 and she just had started dating Paul. 228 00:12:10,604 --> 00:12:14,150 [Miley] Morgan told me she talked to the Murdaughs 229 00:12:14,233 --> 00:12:19,405 about the rumors with Buster, and his friends, and Stephen, 230 00:12:19,488 --> 00:12:21,824 and that Paul might have been with them. 231 00:12:22,658 --> 00:12:25,119 [Morgan] When I first started dating Paul, 232 00:12:25,202 --> 00:12:27,580 this girl had messaged me on Facebook, 233 00:12:27,663 --> 00:12:30,458 just letting me know that she had reasons to believe 234 00:12:30,541 --> 00:12:33,711 that it could've been Paul or Buster that had killed Stephen. 235 00:12:35,254 --> 00:12:39,091 Mr. Alex, Maggie, Buster, Paul and I, we were all home. 236 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,554 We were sitting in the kitchen. We had just gotten done eating. 237 00:12:44,555 --> 00:12:48,601 And then I asked him, I said, "Why is this girl saying this?" 238 00:12:49,685 --> 00:12:51,979 He kind of just laughed it off and they said, 239 00:12:52,938 --> 00:12:54,315 "We wouldn't kill that faggot." 240 00:12:54,815 --> 00:12:55,900 And I was like... 241 00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:58,611 [mysterious music continues] 242 00:13:01,489 --> 00:13:02,823 [Morgan] Looking back now, 243 00:13:02,907 --> 00:13:05,034 that was the first red flag that I ignored. 244 00:13:06,911 --> 00:13:09,079 But I was like, "They're the Murdaughs." 245 00:13:09,663 --> 00:13:12,666 Surely these people wouldn't just murder someone. 246 00:13:12,750 --> 00:13:14,752 [bright electronic music plays] 247 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:28,349 [phone dials] 248 00:13:28,432 --> 00:13:29,850 [phone line rings] 249 00:13:31,393 --> 00:13:33,062 [operator 2] 911, where's your emergency? 250 00:13:33,145 --> 00:13:36,357 [Maggie] My housekeeper has fallen and her head is bleeding. 251 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,109 - I cannot get her up. - [operator 2] Where'd she fall from? 252 00:13:40,611 --> 00:13:43,948 [Maggie] The... She fell going up the steps. The brick steps. 253 00:13:44,949 --> 00:13:46,867 [operator 2] Okay, so is she outside or inside? 254 00:13:46,951 --> 00:13:47,785 [Maggie] Outside. 255 00:13:47,868 --> 00:13:50,096 [operator 2] Okay, is she able to talk to you guys at all 256 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,914 or is she unconscious now? 257 00:13:51,997 --> 00:13:54,291 [Paul] She's not unconscious. She's just mumblin'. 258 00:13:54,375 --> 00:13:56,961 [operator 2] The other lady said she had tried to stand up 259 00:13:57,044 --> 00:13:58,379 and fell down again? 260 00:13:59,004 --> 00:14:01,131 [Paul] No, I was holdin' her up. 261 00:14:01,215 --> 00:14:02,132 [operator 2] Okay. 262 00:14:02,216 --> 00:14:04,820 [Paul] She told me to turn her loose and was trying to use her arm, 263 00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:06,136 but then she fell back over. 264 00:14:06,220 --> 00:14:08,472 [operator 2] Okay, do you guys know who she is? 265 00:14:08,556 --> 00:14:09,765 [Paul] She works for us. 266 00:14:09,849 --> 00:14:11,016 [operator 2] How old is she? 267 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:13,769 [Maggie] I'm not sure. Like, 58 maybe. 268 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:15,896 [operator 2] Do you know what her name is? 269 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:17,356 [Paul] Gloria Satterfield. 270 00:14:17,439 --> 00:14:20,734 [operator 2] Do you know if she's ever had a stroke or anything before? 271 00:14:20,818 --> 00:14:22,528 [Maggie] Ma'am, can you stop asking... 272 00:14:22,611 --> 00:14:25,447 [operator 2] I already have them on the way. 273 00:14:27,491 --> 00:14:30,035 [Valerie] Gloria Satterfield was the family maid, 274 00:14:30,619 --> 00:14:34,206 and in February of 2018, she was at the house. 275 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,043 And what her family were told 276 00:14:38,127 --> 00:14:43,299 is that she tripped over the family dogs on the stairs, and fell backward, 277 00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:45,885 and hit her head violently and died. 278 00:14:46,510 --> 00:14:51,640 She really wasn't responsive to us the whole time she was in the hospital. 279 00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:52,558 [woman 3] Yeah. 280 00:14:52,641 --> 00:14:55,352 From the day she got in the hospital to the day she died, 281 00:14:55,436 --> 00:14:57,521 she could not tell us what happened. 282 00:14:58,272 --> 00:15:01,358 [Morgan] I remember knowing that Miss Gloria was in the hospital. 283 00:15:02,276 --> 00:15:03,736 And Alex came home one day 284 00:15:03,819 --> 00:15:05,946 and he said that he just went and visited her. 285 00:15:06,030 --> 00:15:11,285 And then I think it was, like, two days later that, um, she had died. 286 00:15:12,953 --> 00:15:16,332 Paul took Gloria's death very hard. 287 00:15:16,916 --> 00:15:19,501 He cried and he hurt. 288 00:15:20,169 --> 00:15:23,255 I remember leavin' her funeral, and he was just in the truck with me, 289 00:15:23,339 --> 00:15:27,217 and he was just goin' over stories that he had with her, and memories, and... 290 00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:32,306 Um, so he was very affected by Gloria's death. 291 00:15:34,516 --> 00:15:36,894 But the day that I found out that she was tripped 292 00:15:36,977 --> 00:15:41,065 and she had broken ribs and a really bad brain injury, 293 00:15:41,732 --> 00:15:45,152 I just felt in my heart that, like, something had happened to her, 294 00:15:45,235 --> 00:15:47,112 and it wasn't by the dogs. 295 00:15:49,490 --> 00:15:53,410 Mr. Alex, he was a very hard person to read. 296 00:15:55,371 --> 00:15:59,166 And at the time, he was severely addicted to painkillers. 297 00:15:59,792 --> 00:16:03,212 You know, Paul would stay the weekend at the house 298 00:16:03,295 --> 00:16:05,422 and just make sure, like, his dad was detoxing. 299 00:16:05,506 --> 00:16:07,967 And I stayed there one time, and I was... 300 00:16:08,676 --> 00:16:12,262 Alex is already a really pale man, but you could see through him, 301 00:16:12,346 --> 00:16:14,598 'cause he's on the couch and he's just, like, 302 00:16:15,224 --> 00:16:19,269 rocking on the couch and completely pale. 303 00:16:19,353 --> 00:16:23,899 Like it was so... It was heartbreaking to watch, but Paul... 304 00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:26,068 Paul really wanted to help his dad. 305 00:16:26,151 --> 00:16:30,322 There was this time where Miss Gloria had found drugs 306 00:16:30,406 --> 00:16:33,575 taped in little baggies under Alex's bed in Hampton. 307 00:16:35,077 --> 00:16:38,205 Paul was really protective over his dad's health. 308 00:16:38,288 --> 00:16:40,207 Paul was aware of his drug use. 309 00:16:40,290 --> 00:16:43,293 So Gloria wanted to let Paul know, 310 00:16:43,377 --> 00:16:46,213 because Gloria was scared to go to Maggie about it. 311 00:16:46,296 --> 00:16:48,382 She might've been scared she was gonna lose her job, 312 00:16:48,465 --> 00:16:51,343 or Maggie would say that she was snooping or something. 313 00:16:51,427 --> 00:16:55,931 This was early 2018, within the same year that she had died. 314 00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:57,516 She knew too much. 315 00:16:57,599 --> 00:16:59,519 [male interviewer] You think Gloria knew too much 316 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,186 and that's why Gloria is not here? 317 00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:02,438 [Bill] Mm-hm. 318 00:17:02,521 --> 00:17:05,524 [Michael] When she died, I began hearin' rumors. 319 00:17:06,025 --> 00:17:07,693 I was at the hardware store one day, 320 00:17:07,776 --> 00:17:12,531 and somebody saw Maggie Murdaugh walk by, and they said, 321 00:17:12,614 --> 00:17:14,450 "There goes old Maggie Murder." 322 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:17,244 And I said, "Why are you callin' that lady that?" 323 00:17:17,327 --> 00:17:21,415 And they said, "Well, you know she pushed the housekeeper down the stairs." 324 00:17:21,915 --> 00:17:25,836 One version of the rumor was that Paul pushed the housekeeper down the stairs. 325 00:17:25,919 --> 00:17:27,588 One version was that Maggie did it. 326 00:17:27,671 --> 00:17:29,631 I never really understood it. 327 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:34,303 But, uh, there's been rumors, you know, hearsay, 328 00:17:35,304 --> 00:17:37,973 that Paul might've had somethin' to do with her death. 329 00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:41,852 And I'm... I'll tell you right now on the whole world, that's a lie. 330 00:17:42,436 --> 00:17:43,437 He, uh... 331 00:17:44,104 --> 00:17:45,272 He would never hurt her. 332 00:17:49,276 --> 00:17:50,986 [Morgan] I remember leavin' her funeral. 333 00:17:51,487 --> 00:17:53,989 Alex told Paul that he was gonna sue himself 334 00:17:54,073 --> 00:17:56,283 for wrongful death and give them the money. 335 00:17:56,366 --> 00:17:58,494 And he told Paul and I that directly. 336 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:01,705 [Ginger] Alex said that he was going 337 00:18:01,789 --> 00:18:05,542 to file a claim against his insurance company, 338 00:18:05,626 --> 00:18:08,295 because their dogs tripped Gloria up, 339 00:18:08,796 --> 00:18:11,090 so that he could help Gloria's sons out 340 00:18:11,590 --> 00:18:13,967 and look out for them, since they had lost a mother 341 00:18:14,051 --> 00:18:16,303 and it had happened on his property. 342 00:18:16,386 --> 00:18:18,388 [mysterious music plays] 343 00:18:21,725 --> 00:18:24,645 [Steve] I called the caretaker at the Murdaugh Moselle property, 344 00:18:24,728 --> 00:18:25,728 Ronnie Freeman. 345 00:18:25,771 --> 00:18:28,398 I wanted to ask him, was he around these people long enough 346 00:18:28,482 --> 00:18:32,111 to overhear conversation about Stephen Smith's death. 347 00:18:32,194 --> 00:18:34,113 The answer to the question was no. 348 00:18:34,196 --> 00:18:36,907 But during that interview, he brought up 349 00:18:38,283 --> 00:18:40,953 the whole situation involving Gloria Satterfield. 350 00:18:42,746 --> 00:18:44,748 [mysterious music continues] 351 00:18:45,916 --> 00:18:48,293 [Ronnie] Been gettin' to work at that time at 7:30, 352 00:18:48,377 --> 00:18:51,213 so Gloria probably come through at about 8:30. 353 00:18:54,591 --> 00:18:56,385 Walkin' up to the house, 354 00:18:57,177 --> 00:19:00,389 she got a McDonald's cup in one hand, her purse on her shoulder, 355 00:19:00,472 --> 00:19:01,974 like she does every morning. 356 00:19:02,516 --> 00:19:05,144 And then Maggie calls me within 15 minutes later. 357 00:19:05,894 --> 00:19:09,273 I asked her what the hell happened, and she was hysterical. 358 00:19:09,356 --> 00:19:11,942 "You gotta get here. Gloria fell. There's blood everywhere." 359 00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:15,487 Her feet were above her head. 360 00:19:16,363 --> 00:19:19,074 We needed to at least get her body horizontal. 361 00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:21,285 So Paul, you know, grabs her legs. 362 00:19:21,368 --> 00:19:24,538 I grab both of her shoulders to get her horizontal. 363 00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:30,169 [Steve] So then EMS arrives. And it's you, Paul, and Maggie. 364 00:19:32,004 --> 00:19:36,216 Investigative reports say Alex talked to Gloria, 365 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:38,468 and she said that the dog tripped her. 366 00:19:38,552 --> 00:19:40,971 [mysterious music continues] 367 00:19:41,054 --> 00:19:42,931 [Ronnie] That's not true. He wasn't there. 368 00:19:43,432 --> 00:19:47,853 [Steve] So then, you're saying that Alex is still not there when EMS leaves? 369 00:19:47,936 --> 00:19:49,021 [Ronnie] Correct. 370 00:19:50,731 --> 00:19:53,192 [man 5] I'm meeting with Alexander Murdaugh. 371 00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:55,611 Mr. Murdaugh, you understand I'm recording this statement? 372 00:19:55,694 --> 00:19:57,380 - [Alex] Yes. - [man 5] With your permission? 373 00:19:57,404 --> 00:19:58,924 - [Alex] Yes. - [man 5] Your full name? 374 00:19:58,989 --> 00:20:00,741 Richard Alexander Murdaugh. 375 00:20:01,241 --> 00:20:02,534 [man 5] And, um... 376 00:20:03,368 --> 00:20:04,703 Do you go by Alexander? 377 00:20:04,786 --> 00:20:05,704 I go by Alex. 378 00:20:05,787 --> 00:20:06,622 [man 5] Okay. 379 00:20:06,705 --> 00:20:09,374 How long would you estimate that Gloria had been doin' work 380 00:20:09,458 --> 00:20:11,168 for you and/or your family? 381 00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:15,130 [Alex] She's been workin' for our family for, 382 00:20:15,964 --> 00:20:16,965 hoo, 383 00:20:17,549 --> 00:20:21,220 close to 20 years, I would estimate. 384 00:20:21,303 --> 00:20:25,098 And no, she babysat my children when they were... 385 00:20:25,182 --> 00:20:27,559 When my youngest was an infant. So... 386 00:20:28,518 --> 00:20:30,604 [man 5] And were you able to speak with Gloria 387 00:20:30,687 --> 00:20:33,106 before she was taken away in the ambulance? 388 00:20:33,190 --> 00:20:34,691 - [Alex] I was. - [man 5] Okay. 389 00:20:34,775 --> 00:20:36,652 Did you ask her what happened? 390 00:20:36,735 --> 00:20:39,738 [Alex] She indicated that the dogs had caused her to fall. 391 00:20:39,821 --> 00:20:43,408 [man 5] Okay. So there was no witness to the chain of events. 392 00:20:43,492 --> 00:20:45,132 - [Alex] The fall itself? - [man 5] Right. 393 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:46,828 [Alex] No, sir. Not that I'm aware of. 394 00:20:46,912 --> 00:20:47,912 [man 5] Okay. 395 00:20:48,997 --> 00:20:52,376 In Paul's head, I think he really believed that his dogs tripped her, 396 00:20:52,459 --> 00:20:54,211 and that made himself feel better, 397 00:20:54,294 --> 00:20:58,131 knowing his dad was gonna do this great thing and sue himself, 398 00:20:58,215 --> 00:21:02,135 and make sure that her sons and that her family were gonna be okay. 399 00:21:03,178 --> 00:21:06,515 That's why I've never said anything about my suspicions. 400 00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:13,063 It's just super weird that within the same year she had found Alex's drugs, 401 00:21:13,146 --> 00:21:15,857 told Paul, Paul was forcing his dad to detox... 402 00:21:15,941 --> 00:21:17,359 Like, I just don't... 403 00:21:19,152 --> 00:21:20,737 I think somethin' happened to her. 404 00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:23,573 And I... And I don't think it was handled properly. 405 00:21:24,199 --> 00:21:27,911 [Will] Every one of these dead bodies has got a story that Alex Murdaugh tells 406 00:21:27,995 --> 00:21:29,454 that suits his needs, 407 00:21:29,538 --> 00:21:31,999 that maintains that empire that they built. 408 00:21:33,250 --> 00:21:35,669 You have a death in 2015 that's very suspicious. 409 00:21:35,752 --> 00:21:38,880 You have another one three years later, also suspicious. 410 00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:42,509 And then in the aftermath of Paul and Maggie's murder at Moselle, 411 00:21:42,592 --> 00:21:44,553 that's when the floodgates really open. 412 00:21:45,262 --> 00:21:47,055 [reporter 1] And now to more breaking news. 413 00:21:47,139 --> 00:21:49,850 This about that double-homicide investigation. 414 00:21:49,933 --> 00:21:52,019 Two members of a South Carolina family. 415 00:21:52,102 --> 00:21:56,898 State investigators have reopened a separate death investigation from 2015 416 00:21:56,982 --> 00:22:00,110 in connection with the deaths of Paul and Margaret Murdaugh. 417 00:22:00,193 --> 00:22:02,630 [reporter 2] The South Carolina Department of Law Enforcement, 418 00:22:02,654 --> 00:22:05,115 they would not say what evidence lead to that decision, 419 00:22:05,198 --> 00:22:07,993 or whether the Murdaugh family was involved in any way. 420 00:22:09,077 --> 00:22:13,332 Within a couple of weeks after the double homicides at Moselle, 421 00:22:13,415 --> 00:22:17,210 state investigators say, "We are reopening the investigation 422 00:22:17,294 --> 00:22:18,837 into the death of Stephen Smith, 423 00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:22,883 because of evidence we found investigating the double homicides." 424 00:22:23,884 --> 00:22:27,637 [reporter] The once prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, 425 00:22:27,721 --> 00:22:29,931 he now faces multiple accusations. 426 00:22:30,015 --> 00:22:33,352 [Valerie] There are multiple cases unraveling in the public eye. 427 00:22:33,852 --> 00:22:38,482 I think that Alex's world was slowly falling to pieces around him. 428 00:22:38,565 --> 00:22:40,942 He didn't know what to do. 429 00:22:42,069 --> 00:22:45,822 [Valerie] And then, behind the scenes, the Murdaugh law firm discovers that Alex 430 00:22:45,906 --> 00:22:48,742 was potentially misappropriating money from clients. 431 00:22:49,534 --> 00:22:51,828 They called him out on it and forced him to resign. 432 00:22:52,996 --> 00:22:55,749 [Michael] The law firm held a come-to-Jesus meeting and said, 433 00:22:55,832 --> 00:22:58,585 "We know you've been stealing money." 434 00:22:59,169 --> 00:23:00,796 "We're gonna investigate this, 435 00:23:00,879 --> 00:23:04,257 but even worse, you're no longer one of us." 436 00:23:04,341 --> 00:23:05,884 "We're gonna cut ties." 437 00:23:06,385 --> 00:23:09,971 "The law firm that your great-grandfather started is done with you." 438 00:23:10,055 --> 00:23:13,392 He learned that his world was about to unravel, 439 00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:16,186 and we gotta put ourselves in the mind of this character. 440 00:23:16,269 --> 00:23:18,730 Now Alex Murdaugh is a desperate man. 441 00:23:22,818 --> 00:23:24,111 [gunshot] 442 00:23:24,194 --> 00:23:26,029 [indistinct radio chatter] 443 00:23:32,994 --> 00:23:35,288 [Morgan] I was actually with Miley and Connor. 444 00:23:35,372 --> 00:23:38,542 Someone got a phone call that Mr. Alex had gotten shot. 445 00:23:40,752 --> 00:23:43,130 And me and Miley just looked at each other. 446 00:23:43,213 --> 00:23:44,881 It didn't seem real at the time. 447 00:23:45,882 --> 00:23:49,511 [Will] You get the text, "Alex Murdaugh shot, side of the road, Hampton County." 448 00:23:49,594 --> 00:23:52,389 And you're like, "What the... No." 449 00:23:52,472 --> 00:23:55,183 A mystery in South Carolina gets even deeper. 450 00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:59,229 Officials telling Fox News 53-year-old attorney Alex Murdaugh 451 00:23:59,312 --> 00:24:02,441 was shot and wounded today in Hampton County, South Carolina. 452 00:24:02,524 --> 00:24:03,733 No word on his condition. 453 00:24:03,817 --> 00:24:05,819 [reporter] Alex was airlifted to the hospital. 454 00:24:05,902 --> 00:24:08,280 He'd been shot in the head in broad daylight 455 00:24:08,363 --> 00:24:11,199 while he was changing a tire on the side of the road. 456 00:24:13,243 --> 00:24:18,081 [Will] We reported Alex Murdaugh was airlifted to hospital in Savannah. 457 00:24:19,124 --> 00:24:20,167 "No, no, no, no." 458 00:24:20,250 --> 00:24:22,794 "No, he was flown to Charleston, not Savannah." 459 00:24:22,878 --> 00:24:25,672 "FITSNews is wrong. They don't know what they're talking about." 460 00:24:25,755 --> 00:24:26,965 The guy was in Savannah. 461 00:24:28,341 --> 00:24:29,968 His lawyers lied 462 00:24:30,051 --> 00:24:32,846 to the reporters to keep them from goin' there. 463 00:24:33,763 --> 00:24:36,641 It's like, "Are they deliberately confusing us?" 464 00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:39,686 [Valerie] And then the 911 calls come out. 465 00:24:39,769 --> 00:24:41,396 [phone line rings] 466 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,065 [operator 3] Hampton County 911. What is your emergency? 467 00:24:45,233 --> 00:24:48,987 [Alex] I stopped. I got a flat tire, and I stopped, 468 00:24:49,070 --> 00:24:50,780 and somebody stopped to help me. 469 00:24:51,865 --> 00:24:53,783 And they tried to shoot me. 470 00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:55,035 [operator 3] Were you shot? 471 00:24:55,118 --> 00:24:56,118 [Alex] Yes. 472 00:24:57,329 --> 00:24:58,997 But, I mean, I'm okay. 473 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:00,165 I can't drive. 474 00:25:00,957 --> 00:25:01,958 [operator 3] Okay. 475 00:25:02,042 --> 00:25:03,627 [Alex] And I'm bleedin' a lot. 476 00:25:03,710 --> 00:25:05,837 [operator 3] Where? What part of your body? 477 00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:08,798 [Alex] I'm not sure. Somewhere on my head. 478 00:25:08,882 --> 00:25:10,342 [operator 3] What's your name? 479 00:25:10,425 --> 00:25:11,510 Alex Murdaugh. 480 00:25:14,554 --> 00:25:15,889 [operator 3] Alex Murdaugh? 481 00:25:15,972 --> 00:25:16,972 [Alex] Yes, ma'am. 482 00:25:18,433 --> 00:25:19,601 [operator 3] Oh, okay. 483 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,522 It took a couple of days for the story to completely unravel. 484 00:25:24,606 --> 00:25:29,236 Alex did not feel like he could go forward and continue down that path. Um... 485 00:25:29,736 --> 00:25:31,821 And he felt like ending his life. 486 00:25:31,905 --> 00:25:34,282 Alex acknowledged wrongdoing. 487 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:36,076 "It was an attempted suicide on my part." 488 00:25:36,159 --> 00:25:41,623 He figures his last play is to make sure that his surviving son, Buster, is okay. 489 00:25:41,706 --> 00:25:45,460 If he was going to end his life, he wanted it to benefit his son. 490 00:25:45,544 --> 00:25:52,008 So he has the idea to hire someone, who he knows, to, um, shoot him in the head. 491 00:25:52,092 --> 00:25:53,969 [caller] Yes, we're on 492 00:25:55,262 --> 00:25:56,721 Salkehatchie Road. 493 00:25:57,389 --> 00:26:00,225 There is a man on the side of the road with blood all over him. 494 00:26:00,308 --> 00:26:01,518 And he's wavin' his hands. 495 00:26:01,601 --> 00:26:04,145 [operator 4] He's just layin' there wavin' his hands around? 496 00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:06,523 [caller] He looks fine, but it kind of looks like a setup. 497 00:26:06,606 --> 00:26:07,691 So we didn't stop. 498 00:26:08,358 --> 00:26:09,651 [operator 4] I don't blame you. 499 00:26:10,151 --> 00:26:11,987 So all that was kinda strange. 500 00:26:12,070 --> 00:26:15,031 And then, a few days into it, 501 00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:16,992 people raised significant questions 502 00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:20,161 about the version that was coming from Alex's lawyers. 503 00:26:20,245 --> 00:26:23,915 [reporter] Joining us now, exclusively, is Alex Murdaugh's attorney. 504 00:26:23,999 --> 00:26:27,127 [attorney] He went to his drug dealer and asked him to shoot him, 505 00:26:27,210 --> 00:26:30,297 and within 30 minutes, his drug dealer had shot him in the head. 506 00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:34,551 The murder of, um, his son and wife, uh, 90 days ago 507 00:26:34,634 --> 00:26:36,928 uh, took a tremendous toll on him. 508 00:26:37,012 --> 00:26:39,180 Most people couldn't get through that. 509 00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:41,474 He got through it with the use of opioids. 510 00:26:42,809 --> 00:26:44,227 [Valerie] Within a couple weeks, 511 00:26:44,311 --> 00:26:48,648 Alex Murdaugh went to rehab for his secret opioid addiction. 512 00:26:48,732 --> 00:26:50,108 And almost immediately, 513 00:26:50,191 --> 00:26:53,445 police ultimately start looking into a former client of Alex's. 514 00:26:53,528 --> 00:26:54,738 Curtis Edward Smith. 515 00:26:54,821 --> 00:26:57,824 Curtis Smith is the man accused of shooting Alex Murdaugh. 516 00:26:57,907 --> 00:27:01,369 He appeared in front of a judge in Hampton County as well. 517 00:27:02,203 --> 00:27:05,999 Authorities say he's facing charges for assisted suicide, 518 00:27:06,082 --> 00:27:07,917 insurance fraud, and more. 519 00:27:08,918 --> 00:27:11,296 [Valerie] Curtis Edward Smith subsequently said, 520 00:27:11,379 --> 00:27:13,340 "I felt like I was bein' set up." 521 00:27:13,423 --> 00:27:15,675 "He called me out there to help him, I thought, 522 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:18,928 and then kind of, you know, staged this struggle with a gun." 523 00:27:19,012 --> 00:27:24,059 But he said he absolutely did not conspire with Alex to kill him. 524 00:27:24,142 --> 00:27:29,648 Does your client maintain utter and complete innocence in this case? 525 00:27:29,731 --> 00:27:32,651 - Go ahead. - If I'd have shot him, he'd be dead. 526 00:27:33,151 --> 00:27:34,151 He's alive. 527 00:27:34,569 --> 00:27:38,156 These reports that your client stole millions of dollars from the law firm. 528 00:27:38,239 --> 00:27:40,784 Did he use all of that money to buy drugs, 529 00:27:40,867 --> 00:27:44,287 or did he use some of the millions for other things? 530 00:27:45,872 --> 00:27:49,042 The vast majority of it, as I understand it, was used to buy drugs. 531 00:27:49,125 --> 00:27:51,252 [reporter] That's a lot of Oxy. 532 00:27:53,171 --> 00:27:56,174 [Will] Right, so who is Eddie Smith? Who is this cousin, Eddie? 533 00:27:56,758 --> 00:27:58,802 Well, we started doin' some diggin' on him, 534 00:27:58,885 --> 00:28:03,014 and what we found was over 160,000 in incremental checks, 535 00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:08,269 most of them under ten grand, from October 2020 to May of 2021. 536 00:28:09,104 --> 00:28:10,563 I did the math on the OxyContin. 537 00:28:10,647 --> 00:28:13,149 You know how much OxyContin that man could've bought? 538 00:28:13,858 --> 00:28:15,276 114 years' worth. 539 00:28:16,528 --> 00:28:18,530 And that's if he's a hard-core addict. 540 00:28:19,781 --> 00:28:24,035 He's not buying OxyContin with that. Maybe a little of it, but not all of it. 541 00:28:24,536 --> 00:28:26,371 Where'd it go? Where is that money? 542 00:28:27,455 --> 00:28:32,711 But the key takeaway is not necessarily where it is, but when it happened. 543 00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:36,339 He's not only depositing a check days before the double homicide, 544 00:28:36,423 --> 00:28:39,426 but Curtis Eddie Smith's getting checks directly afterward. 545 00:28:39,509 --> 00:28:42,303 Some of them totally more than $24,000. 546 00:28:43,179 --> 00:28:47,183 I'm told by sources the more credible theory, in theory, 547 00:28:47,267 --> 00:28:49,853 is that he was setting Eddie up, right? 548 00:28:49,936 --> 00:28:52,188 So he wasn't gonna ask Eddie to shoot him. 549 00:28:52,272 --> 00:28:54,441 He was gonna come, you know, 550 00:28:54,524 --> 00:28:57,152 make it look like Eddie came out there to shoot him, 551 00:28:57,235 --> 00:28:59,612 and then he had to shoot Eddie in his self-defense. 552 00:28:59,696 --> 00:29:03,408 I think it was... The whole thing is hinky from the word go. 553 00:29:03,491 --> 00:29:06,137 [male interviewer] And to make then Eddie the suspect in the murder? 554 00:29:06,161 --> 00:29:09,581 Mm-hm. And not just his... Not just his attempted murder, 555 00:29:09,664 --> 00:29:12,709 but somehow culpable in the murders of Maggie and Paul. 556 00:29:12,792 --> 00:29:14,794 [intriguing music plays] 557 00:29:18,673 --> 00:29:21,176 [reporter 1] SLED says they're looking at these allegations 558 00:29:21,259 --> 00:29:23,678 that Murdaugh misappropriated funds 559 00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:26,973 at the former law firm that his family founded. 560 00:29:27,056 --> 00:29:29,016 [reporter 2] As we were standing here moments ago, 561 00:29:29,058 --> 00:29:31,186 five vehicles, appeared to be law enforcement, 562 00:29:31,269 --> 00:29:33,897 pulled out of one of the entrances to the Moselle property 563 00:29:33,980 --> 00:29:35,315 here in Colleton County. 564 00:29:35,398 --> 00:29:38,002 We don't know what's going on. We're gonna work to figure that out. 565 00:29:38,026 --> 00:29:40,445 We do wanna say five law-enforcement vehicles 566 00:29:40,528 --> 00:29:41,988 just left this property here. 567 00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:43,823 [man 6] SLED announced 568 00:29:43,907 --> 00:29:47,660 that they were opening an investigation into Alex Murdaugh, 569 00:29:47,744 --> 00:29:50,163 to his financial crimes. 570 00:29:53,041 --> 00:29:55,418 That same day is the day that I got a tip 571 00:29:55,502 --> 00:29:58,797 that they were executing a search warrant at Moselle. 572 00:29:59,339 --> 00:30:01,633 So I figured it was worth driving out there, 573 00:30:01,716 --> 00:30:04,093 putting my drone up and seeing what I could get. 574 00:30:06,638 --> 00:30:10,141 And as I was pulling up, there were some official-looking trucks 575 00:30:10,225 --> 00:30:12,185 pulling out of the driveway and heading out. 576 00:30:12,268 --> 00:30:14,437 So I thought I really missed everything. 577 00:30:16,272 --> 00:30:18,316 It wasn't until a few days later, 578 00:30:18,399 --> 00:30:20,443 when I was really going through the footage 579 00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:23,571 and seeing what I got, that I noticed the guns. 580 00:30:23,655 --> 00:30:27,242 My first thought was, "This is a big deal." 581 00:30:27,325 --> 00:30:29,661 I got the tip that they were executing a search warrant, 582 00:30:29,744 --> 00:30:35,166 and now I have footage of them unloading eight guns out of the house. 583 00:30:36,292 --> 00:30:40,880 It clearly captured John Marvin carrying two uncased rifles out to the truck. 584 00:30:41,798 --> 00:30:43,758 They loaded up a few more things, 585 00:30:44,425 --> 00:30:46,135 drove over to the kennels, 586 00:30:47,095 --> 00:30:50,306 loaded up a hunting dog and a couple more things, and then left. 587 00:30:51,641 --> 00:30:55,311 John Marvin and Buster, it could be them going on a hunting trip. 588 00:30:55,395 --> 00:30:56,980 I'm not sure, you know. 589 00:30:57,063 --> 00:31:00,817 Knowing that a double homicide had recently occurred on that property, 590 00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:05,905 and there were Murdaughs taking guns off of the property, not the officials, 591 00:31:07,156 --> 00:31:11,244 it can obviously lead someone to speculate maybe one of these firearms 592 00:31:11,327 --> 00:31:14,497 or some of these firearms were pieces of evidence 593 00:31:14,581 --> 00:31:18,251 that could be used against the Murdaugh family in some capacity. 594 00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:24,674 [Will] If SLED had the murder weapons, we would know by now. 595 00:31:25,592 --> 00:31:27,472 Guns are missin'. They're still lookin' for 'em. 596 00:31:29,387 --> 00:31:31,389 In the aftermath of the roadside shooting, 597 00:31:31,472 --> 00:31:34,017 everyone realized he's lied, been caught lyin'. 598 00:31:34,684 --> 00:31:37,812 I think that was the moment people finally began to question 599 00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:42,025 whether Alex Murdaugh had something to do with the murders of his wife and son. 600 00:31:42,108 --> 00:31:44,986 Or at the very least, that he wasn't telling the truth 601 00:31:45,069 --> 00:31:46,362 about what happened to them. 602 00:31:46,863 --> 00:31:48,323 He's lyin' about somethin'. 603 00:31:48,823 --> 00:31:53,244 I began to have a bad taste in my mouth toward members of the Murdaugh family, 604 00:31:53,328 --> 00:31:55,079 like a lot of people in the community. 605 00:31:56,164 --> 00:31:59,542 And our coroner, Angela Topper, 606 00:31:59,626 --> 00:32:03,338 she goes back lookin' through Hampton County coroner records, 607 00:32:03,421 --> 00:32:06,382 and she stood up and pointed out 608 00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:11,137 there was something fishy about 2018, 609 00:32:11,220 --> 00:32:14,807 Gloria Satterfield, another case that went under the radar. 610 00:32:16,017 --> 00:32:18,561 She's seeing that this death was ruled natural, 611 00:32:18,645 --> 00:32:20,271 even though it was a trip and fall. 612 00:32:20,772 --> 00:32:23,232 She's seein' that there was no autopsy ever done. 613 00:32:24,484 --> 00:32:26,152 So she wrote a letter to SLED 614 00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:28,446 and asked SLED to help her investigate this. 615 00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:30,156 At the same time, 616 00:32:30,239 --> 00:32:34,327 SLED has got reason to investigate Alex's financial crimes. 617 00:32:34,827 --> 00:32:36,454 Eventually, the Satterfield family 618 00:32:36,537 --> 00:32:39,916 were readin' articles all over the state of South Carolina 619 00:32:39,999 --> 00:32:42,126 about how there was a death settlement. 620 00:32:42,794 --> 00:32:45,421 Her sons didn't know anything about a settlement. 621 00:32:45,922 --> 00:32:49,425 They're lookin' at each other and said, "I didn't get any money, did you?" 622 00:32:50,259 --> 00:32:53,888 Whenever that came out and it was in the paper, 623 00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:55,181 and Eric called me 624 00:32:55,264 --> 00:32:57,517 and he said, "Something isn't right." 625 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,395 It was like, "Holy cow." 626 00:33:00,478 --> 00:33:02,855 'Cause the boys, they haven't seen anything. 627 00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:06,442 Nothin'. Not one red cent. 628 00:33:06,943 --> 00:33:09,278 [man 7] There appeared to be a lawsuit. 629 00:33:09,362 --> 00:33:13,032 Money was recovered, and none of it was paid to the clients, 630 00:33:13,533 --> 00:33:15,576 which seemed to be an impossibility. 631 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:18,121 So we said, "We will talk to the Murdaughs." 632 00:33:18,204 --> 00:33:20,873 And we were expecting we were gonna get this response 633 00:33:20,957 --> 00:33:23,918 where they would say, "Oh, absolutely. There's just a misunderstanding." 634 00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:27,088 "The money's in a bank account." Or, "It was put in a trust." 635 00:33:27,588 --> 00:33:28,589 And we got silence. 636 00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:31,968 And so the next thing we did was we filed a lawsuit immediately 637 00:33:32,051 --> 00:33:34,303 because we needed subpoena power 638 00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:36,472 to be able to get documents and information. 639 00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:41,602 And we learned that Alex Murdaugh was not practicing law. 640 00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:44,480 Alex Murdaugh was practicing stealin' money. 641 00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:49,444 At the end of the day, Alex recovered $4.3 million. 642 00:33:49,527 --> 00:33:52,905 Our clients got none of that money. 643 00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:54,741 Zero. 644 00:33:56,492 --> 00:33:58,972 [Ginger] It's just puttin' the knife in us and cuttin' it deep. 645 00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:00,037 It perturbs me. 646 00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:05,043 I get really PO'ed knowing that's what's happened now. 647 00:34:05,543 --> 00:34:08,796 He used her name. My sister. 648 00:34:10,423 --> 00:34:13,593 [Bland] His law firm suspected him. We confirmed it. 649 00:34:14,385 --> 00:34:17,764 This was not his first time that he was gonna misappropriate money 650 00:34:17,847 --> 00:34:19,682 from other clients of the Murdaugh firm. 651 00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:23,436 We have evidence that he did it many times predating this. 652 00:34:23,519 --> 00:34:26,230 You don't lose your virginity at $4.3 million. 653 00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:31,319 Alex Murdaugh has misappropriated millions and millions of dollars, 654 00:34:31,402 --> 00:34:34,697 and it's a fraud that began in 2015, 655 00:34:34,781 --> 00:34:39,035 and was the vehicle to steal the Satterfield's money in 2019. 656 00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:41,954 [Bland] Ronnie and I met with SLED. 657 00:34:42,455 --> 00:34:44,123 We contacted the FBI. 658 00:34:44,207 --> 00:34:48,086 And so were we the genesis for these criminal charges 659 00:34:48,169 --> 00:34:50,755 to be brought against Alex Murdaugh? Absolutely. 660 00:34:54,842 --> 00:34:57,011 [reporter 1] We have breaking news into our newsroom. 661 00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:58,846 The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division 662 00:34:58,930 --> 00:35:01,849 have taken Alex Murdaugh into custody. 663 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,019 This is Murdaugh's new mug shot. 664 00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:07,814 These charges stem from a SLED investigation 665 00:35:07,897 --> 00:35:12,902 into misappropriated settlement funds in the death of Gloria Satterfield. 666 00:35:12,985 --> 00:35:16,405 [reporter 2] Authorities accusing him of stealing millions in insurance money, 667 00:35:16,489 --> 00:35:19,659 which was meant to go to the sons of Gloria Satterfield, 668 00:35:20,243 --> 00:35:23,955 his family's longtime housekeeper, who died after a purported 669 00:35:24,038 --> 00:35:28,501 trip-and-fall incident at the Murdaughs' South Carolina home in 2018. 670 00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:30,586 [indistinct chatter] 671 00:35:33,548 --> 00:35:35,967 [Will] So in October of 2021, 672 00:35:36,050 --> 00:35:40,179 Murdaugh appears before South Carolina circuit court judge Clifton Newman. 673 00:35:40,263 --> 00:35:43,099 I am going for a denial of bond at this time. 674 00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:51,357 [Will] No one... No one in that courtroom expected him to deny Alex Murdaugh's bond. 675 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,900 No one saw this comin'. 676 00:35:53,901 --> 00:35:56,237 That was the point Alex Murdaugh realized, 677 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,575 "Wait a minute, this system that's been enabling me..." 678 00:36:03,452 --> 00:36:05,496 Suddenly they can't count on it anymore. 679 00:36:16,007 --> 00:36:18,718 [Michael] Alex Murdaugh is in a jail cell. 680 00:36:18,801 --> 00:36:20,595 No secrets are safe now. 681 00:36:20,678 --> 00:36:23,973 [reporter] Alex pleaded the Fifth, refusing to answer accusations 682 00:36:24,056 --> 00:36:27,143 that he embezzled potentially millions of dollars 683 00:36:27,226 --> 00:36:30,730 from his family's lucrative law firm and his clients. 684 00:36:30,813 --> 00:36:35,193 In October, the Court heard evidence that Buster was gambling in Las Vegas 685 00:36:35,276 --> 00:36:39,822 and selling off assets to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars 686 00:36:39,906 --> 00:36:40,907 for his father. 687 00:36:40,990 --> 00:36:43,701 [Valerie] There have been some pictures entered into evidence 688 00:36:43,784 --> 00:36:49,248 of John Marvin and Buster at the casino out in Las Vegas, 689 00:36:49,332 --> 00:36:51,417 right at the same time that Alex Murdaugh 690 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:52,627 is in the county jail. 691 00:36:54,170 --> 00:36:55,755 [Alex] Did you get to gamble any? 692 00:36:56,756 --> 00:36:59,342 [Buster] Yeah. Yeah, so I did go gambling, and then, 693 00:36:59,425 --> 00:37:03,846 the next day, there was an article created about how I'm misusing funds. 694 00:37:06,432 --> 00:37:07,432 [Alex] By gamblin'? 695 00:37:08,517 --> 00:37:11,604 [Buster] Yeah. Someone took a picture of me and John Marvin in the casino. 696 00:37:12,104 --> 00:37:13,397 [Alex] You're kiddin' me. 697 00:37:13,481 --> 00:37:14,482 [Buster] Uh-uh. 698 00:37:15,942 --> 00:37:18,945 [Alex] What a fuckin'... Are you kiddin' me? 699 00:37:19,695 --> 00:37:20,695 [Buster] No. 700 00:37:21,113 --> 00:37:22,490 [Alex] How'd they recognize you? 701 00:37:22,990 --> 00:37:25,576 [Buster] Apparently, I'm a national figure, I think. 702 00:37:26,953 --> 00:37:31,415 Listening to the jailhouse calls has been fascinating, just to hear Alex. 703 00:37:31,499 --> 00:37:34,377 Sometimes, you know, you're aware that you're being taped. 704 00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:36,879 But then, after a certain point, 705 00:37:37,463 --> 00:37:40,675 I think you start to fall into a natural pattern of conversation 706 00:37:40,758 --> 00:37:45,137 and talk about your Super Bowl winnings of, you know, meat sticks in the canteen. 707 00:37:46,222 --> 00:37:49,141 [Alex] Hey, I hit nine out of 11 games on... 708 00:37:49,934 --> 00:37:52,561 Sunday. Nine out of 11, that's pretty damn hard. 709 00:37:53,437 --> 00:37:54,437 [Buster] Yeah. 710 00:37:54,855 --> 00:37:57,692 [Alex] I won, like, six soups, 711 00:37:57,775 --> 00:37:59,193 four beef sticks... 712 00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:00,361 [Buster] Well, that's good. 713 00:38:02,905 --> 00:38:04,198 [phone line ringing] 714 00:38:04,282 --> 00:38:05,741 [machine] Your party has answered. 715 00:38:05,825 --> 00:38:08,577 - With a prepaid collect call from... - Alex. 716 00:38:08,661 --> 00:38:12,164 [machine] All phone calls are subject to monitoring and recording. 717 00:38:13,082 --> 00:38:14,667 - [Buster] Hello? - [Alex] Hey, bud. 718 00:38:14,750 --> 00:38:20,256 Jim and them told me they, the grand jury, indicted a bunch more things 719 00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:21,632 on the last Friday. 720 00:38:21,716 --> 00:38:23,634 But you know that's just overkill, right? 721 00:38:24,677 --> 00:38:25,928 [Buster] Yeah, I mean... 722 00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:29,015 [Alex] I mean, they're just trying to pile it on me now, you know that. 723 00:38:29,515 --> 00:38:31,475 [Buster] Yeah, I'm aware. 724 00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:32,810 [Alex] But I can take it. 725 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,231 Stephen Smith and Gloria and all that bullshit. 726 00:38:37,732 --> 00:38:41,027 Are they still tryin' to say out there, there are some mysteries 727 00:38:41,110 --> 00:38:42,778 surrounding Gloria's death? 728 00:38:42,862 --> 00:38:44,280 About how she died? 729 00:38:44,780 --> 00:38:46,157 [Buster] Sayin' what now? 730 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:49,952 [Alex] About how she died. Are they still tryin' to make some innuendo there? 731 00:38:51,245 --> 00:38:52,747 [Buster] I don't know. I, um... 732 00:38:54,373 --> 00:38:56,500 [Alex] They still sayin' anything about Stephen Smith? 733 00:38:56,584 --> 00:38:59,062 - [Buster] I don't think... - [Alex] They still connecting to us? 734 00:38:59,086 --> 00:39:00,963 [Buster] Yeah, I don't think anybody 735 00:39:01,714 --> 00:39:02,923 took to heart any of that. 736 00:39:03,007 --> 00:39:04,592 [Alex] SLED say there's no connection? 737 00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:07,511 [Buster] No. SLED has not released anything. 738 00:39:07,595 --> 00:39:10,723 They wouldn't even... They didn't even release a statement about... 739 00:39:12,433 --> 00:39:14,894 What was this most recent thing? Um... 740 00:39:15,436 --> 00:39:18,439 Something came out not long ago, talkin' about how there's been, like, 741 00:39:18,939 --> 00:39:20,983 a breakthrough in evidence... 742 00:39:24,278 --> 00:39:25,363 to do with, like, 743 00:39:26,572 --> 00:39:27,782 the homicides. 744 00:39:31,327 --> 00:39:34,121 [Will] We're comin' up to a year since this crime took place, 745 00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:36,832 and we're just now startin' to hear about forensic evidence 746 00:39:36,916 --> 00:39:40,252 that links Alex Murdaugh directly to the scene of this crime. 747 00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:42,838 Will Folks. How are you, sir? 748 00:39:44,090 --> 00:39:46,092 [eerie music plays] 749 00:39:48,928 --> 00:39:52,473 [Will] The coroner says that Paul and Maggie were killed at around 9:00 p.m. 750 00:39:52,973 --> 00:39:56,435 According to Alex Murdaugh, he was not at Moselle until 10:07 p.m. 751 00:39:56,519 --> 00:39:58,896 and finds his wife and son murdered. 752 00:39:58,979 --> 00:40:00,398 [eerie music continues] 753 00:40:01,190 --> 00:40:02,900 According to our sources, 754 00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:04,985 high-velocity impact spatter, 755 00:40:05,069 --> 00:40:07,530 some kind of fluid on Alex Murdaugh's clothes, 756 00:40:07,613 --> 00:40:10,783 places him at Moselle when the murders occur. 757 00:40:11,826 --> 00:40:13,744 It's not necessarily what it is, 758 00:40:13,828 --> 00:40:17,873 it's where it puts him at the moment Maggie and Paul were killed. 759 00:40:18,624 --> 00:40:20,584 There's no other place he could've been 760 00:40:20,668 --> 00:40:22,670 than with at least one of these victims 761 00:40:22,753 --> 00:40:24,046 at the moment they died. 762 00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:27,716 So the next thing we got was the video 763 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,303 from Paul Murdaugh's cell phone at 8:44 p.m. 764 00:40:32,346 --> 00:40:35,266 Now the video on Paul's phone, you can't see Alex on it, 765 00:40:35,349 --> 00:40:36,809 but you can hear him talking, 766 00:40:36,892 --> 00:40:39,895 and the time stamp is right before the murders took place. 767 00:40:41,147 --> 00:40:42,690 A second piece of evidence 768 00:40:42,773 --> 00:40:47,445 that conclusively places Alex Murdaugh at the scene of the murders 769 00:40:47,528 --> 00:40:49,655 at or around the time they happen. 770 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,074 And this breaks this thing wide open 771 00:40:52,158 --> 00:40:54,410 as it relates to Alex's potential involvement. 772 00:40:54,493 --> 00:40:58,873 Because for the first time, we know he was there when it happened. 773 00:41:00,332 --> 00:41:04,128 Maybe he didn't kill his wife and son. We don't know that for sure. 774 00:41:04,211 --> 00:41:07,089 But we know he was there when they died. 775 00:41:07,173 --> 00:41:10,801 We know he knows something about what happened to them. 776 00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:14,013 [reporter] High-velocity spatter 777 00:41:14,096 --> 00:41:16,557 is associated with the use of a high-velocity weapon, 778 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,560 like a rifle, especially used at close range. 779 00:41:19,643 --> 00:41:22,855 FITSNews also first reported that Paul Murdaugh's phone 780 00:41:22,938 --> 00:41:24,857 was found on his body at the scene. 781 00:41:24,940 --> 00:41:29,487 And we've confirmed with that same source that on that phone there is video 782 00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:33,782 which contains audio of Alex Murdaugh talking with his wife, Maggie, 783 00:41:33,866 --> 00:41:35,618 close to the time of the murders. 784 00:41:35,701 --> 00:41:39,371 Alex Murdaugh is not seen on the video, but he is heard speaking with her. 785 00:41:39,455 --> 00:41:43,751 And that recording has a time stamp, which could be key to the investigation. 786 00:41:44,376 --> 00:41:45,920 [Michael] One of my editors suggested, 787 00:41:46,003 --> 00:41:48,214 go ahead and write a breakin'- news thing 788 00:41:48,297 --> 00:41:51,008 in case Alex Murdaugh is charged with homicide. 789 00:41:52,468 --> 00:41:54,178 And I can't bring myself to do it. 790 00:41:54,678 --> 00:41:57,223 That's an awful thing to even wrap your head around, 791 00:41:57,306 --> 00:42:00,935 that a man could kill his wife and child, and if it's true, 792 00:42:01,685 --> 00:42:03,270 this is the fall of a dynasty. 793 00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:04,813 This is a fall from grace. 794 00:42:06,982 --> 00:42:10,528 [reporter 1] Alex Murdaugh is used to walking into court as a lawyer, 795 00:42:10,611 --> 00:42:12,947 but this week, he's not only been disbarred, 796 00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:17,493 now he's facing two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife and his son. 797 00:42:17,576 --> 00:42:20,746 [reporter 2] Now Murdaugh's legal team immediately responded to this 798 00:42:20,829 --> 00:42:23,290 this afternoon, with a statement saying, in part, 799 00:42:23,374 --> 00:42:26,710 "Alex did not have any motive whatsoever to murder them." 800 00:42:26,794 --> 00:42:29,838 "We are immediately filing a motion for a speedy trial." 801 00:42:31,298 --> 00:42:32,550 [attorney] We are here today 802 00:42:32,633 --> 00:42:36,637 on the case of the State versus Richard Alex Murdaugh. 803 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:40,349 He has been indicted by the Colleton County grand jury 804 00:42:40,432 --> 00:42:44,019 for 2022 G.S. 15-592. 805 00:42:44,103 --> 00:42:46,355 That charge is for the murder of Maggie Murdaugh. 806 00:42:47,189 --> 00:42:52,486 2022 G.S. 15-593, that is for the murder of Paul Murdaugh. 807 00:42:54,029 --> 00:42:55,823 Uh, Richard Alex Murdaugh. 808 00:42:55,906 --> 00:42:58,409 If that is your name, please raise your right hand. 809 00:42:59,785 --> 00:43:01,829 Do you waive reading of the indictments? 810 00:43:01,912 --> 00:43:02,912 Yes, sir. 811 00:43:03,581 --> 00:43:05,708 What say you, Richard Alex Murdaugh? 812 00:43:05,791 --> 00:43:07,501 Are you guilty or not guilty 813 00:43:07,585 --> 00:43:10,254 of the felonies wherein you stand indicted? 814 00:43:10,337 --> 00:43:11,380 Not guilty. 815 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,675 - How shall you be tried? - By God and my country. 816 00:43:14,758 --> 00:43:15,758 Thank you. 817 00:43:17,094 --> 00:43:19,305 [judge] Bond will therefore be denied. 818 00:43:19,972 --> 00:43:21,181 Right, thank you all. 819 00:43:28,981 --> 00:43:30,649 [Morgan] I think Mr. Alex, 820 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,903 facing all this heat from the media, from the court... 821 00:43:34,987 --> 00:43:40,909 He's about to be exposed from all angles of cheating and lying and stealing. 822 00:43:40,993 --> 00:43:42,494 I do believe that Alex Murdaugh 823 00:43:42,578 --> 00:43:43,996 would kill Paul and Maggie. 824 00:43:47,374 --> 00:43:51,128 I don't care who you are, what you've done, no one deserves that. 825 00:43:52,713 --> 00:43:55,382 [Anthony] Everything that Mr. Alex's going through right now. 826 00:43:55,466 --> 00:43:59,261 If all of that's actually true, then, you know, 827 00:43:59,345 --> 00:44:02,056 you kinda... You kinda get what you ask for. 828 00:44:02,973 --> 00:44:04,850 Everybody's sufferin' for those mistakes, 829 00:44:04,933 --> 00:44:09,480 and some mistakes are a lot bigger than others and that you can't take back. 830 00:44:11,649 --> 00:44:16,654 I lost a really, really big piece, uh, of my heart. 831 00:44:19,865 --> 00:44:21,533 You know, I was lost. 832 00:44:23,702 --> 00:44:27,748 Started partyin' again, you know, like I was a teenager. 833 00:44:27,831 --> 00:44:31,085 You know, I... You know, I acted stupid for a while. 834 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,629 I tried to run away from everything. 835 00:44:36,048 --> 00:44:39,176 I don't know, I just think everybody's kinda got the wrong idea 836 00:44:39,259 --> 00:44:40,678 about what's goin' on. 837 00:44:41,887 --> 00:44:46,725 I've heard all kinds of stuff. I've heard people say that Paul deserved to die. 838 00:44:46,809 --> 00:44:50,688 He made a mistake, and, yeah, there's a lot of people sufferin' for it, 839 00:44:50,771 --> 00:44:53,607 but nobody deserves to die. 840 00:44:55,734 --> 00:45:00,781 [Morgan] After the boating accident and Paul and Maggie's murders, 841 00:45:00,864 --> 00:45:03,951 everyone as a community was very shook. 842 00:45:05,494 --> 00:45:07,913 I've hit a lot of low points. 843 00:45:07,996 --> 00:45:09,665 You're tryin' to cope, 844 00:45:09,748 --> 00:45:12,710 but you're also tryin' to be a regular 20-year-old. 845 00:45:13,961 --> 00:45:15,546 To be able to sit here today 846 00:45:16,130 --> 00:45:19,925 and to tell my story 847 00:45:20,676 --> 00:45:22,928 without having to be scared anymore, 848 00:45:23,011 --> 00:45:25,389 and going through all the suppressed emotions 849 00:45:25,472 --> 00:45:27,891 and the stuff that I try to forget, 850 00:45:27,975 --> 00:45:29,935 I think that's strength. 851 00:45:32,271 --> 00:45:36,608 Our relationship's changed drastically after four years. 852 00:45:38,026 --> 00:45:40,529 It was hard for me to start hangin' out with Miley again 853 00:45:40,612 --> 00:45:44,450 after we lost Mallory, just because I felt guilty in a way. 854 00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:47,536 Miley and Mallory, they were best friends too, 855 00:45:47,619 --> 00:45:51,582 and I didn't want it to feel like anyone was replacing anyone 856 00:45:51,665 --> 00:45:53,125 in each other's lives. 857 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:59,339 [Miley] We're one of the only ones that understand what we're goin' through. 858 00:45:59,923 --> 00:46:05,012 I mean, I think about her every day, and it's hard to move on without her, 859 00:46:05,554 --> 00:46:08,056 but a good way to honor her... 860 00:46:08,140 --> 00:46:09,808 ...is keepin' her name alive. 861 00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:20,235 [Morgan] What justice looks like for me now 862 00:46:20,319 --> 00:46:23,655 is getting the answers that we need. 863 00:46:24,156 --> 00:46:25,824 I wanna know what happened to Gloria. 864 00:46:25,908 --> 00:46:29,244 [reporter] South Carolina authorities say they received permission 865 00:46:29,328 --> 00:46:33,165 from a Satterfield estate lawyer to exhume the body of Gloria Satterfield 866 00:46:33,248 --> 00:46:36,001 and further investigate the circumstances of her death. 867 00:46:36,084 --> 00:46:38,295 I wanna know who killed Paul and Maggie, 868 00:46:38,378 --> 00:46:40,214 and who killed Stephen. 869 00:46:43,258 --> 00:46:45,886 I still think that Mr. Alex is hiding things, 870 00:46:45,969 --> 00:46:48,305 and if you ever meet him, 871 00:46:49,348 --> 00:46:51,225 I'm sure you'd get that feeling too. 872 00:46:55,354 --> 00:46:56,897 [phone line rings] 873 00:46:58,857 --> 00:47:00,359 [machine] Your party has answered. 874 00:47:00,442 --> 00:47:03,946 All phone calls are subject to monitoring and recording. 875 00:47:06,573 --> 00:47:08,450 - [Alex] Hey. - [Buster] Hey. 876 00:47:08,534 --> 00:47:09,660 [Alex] What you doin'? 877 00:47:10,410 --> 00:47:11,787 [Buster] Nothin'. What's up? 878 00:47:12,871 --> 00:47:14,873 [Alex] Hey, Bus, I meant to ask you, 879 00:47:16,083 --> 00:47:18,752 did Netflix put somethin' out about all this? 880 00:47:24,049 --> 00:47:26,051 [theme music plays]