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[mysterious music plays]
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[woman 1] The Lowcountry,
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this place that we call home...
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it's a beautiful place.
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[mysterious music continues]
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But there's a dark side.
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[indistinct conversation]
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[woman 2] It didn't have to happen.
They should've made it home.
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They should've made it home safe.
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[woman 1] Anthony loved Mallory,
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and Anthony knew
how much Mallory loved him.
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[Anthony] Paul was outta-his-mind drunk.
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[woman 3] We had all, like,
made it a point to say to him,
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"You need to let Connor drive
or you need to let Anthony drive."
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But he wouldn't listen to anybody.
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[woman 1] Everyone was like,
"Paul don't drive,"
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and Paul would snap back, and be like,
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"Well, this is my fucking boat,
and I know this river,
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and you're not driving my boat."
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[Anthony] The boat
was just steady makin' circles.
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We were just round and round,
zigzaggin', arguin', you know.
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Everybody's mad.
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He would just leave the wheel unattended.
Connor would have to come up and grab it.
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[Anthony] All I could hear
was her screamin',
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and then the bow of the boat stood up.
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I heard a scream, and then a bang.
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- [operator] 911, where is your emergency?
- [Anthony] Paul, what bridge is this?
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[woman 3] Everything was going crazy.
People were screaming.
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[woman 1] It fucking hurts!
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[Anthony] Soon as I got on the bank...
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[gasps]
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...Miley came running straight up to me
and asked, "Where's Mallory?"
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And then that's
when we all started screamin' for Mallory.
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[woman 3] Mallory!
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Where the fuck is Mallory?
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[Anthony] Bo, you fuckin' smilin'
like it's fuckin' funny?
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My fuckin' girlfriend's gone, Bo!
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[reporter 1] Five made it ashore alive,
19-year-old Mallory Beach did not.
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[Anthony] Do y'all know Alex Murdaugh?
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[deputy] I know that name.
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[Anthony] That's his son.
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Good luck.
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[reporter 2] The controversy
isn't about the crash,
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but why Murdaugh
hasn't been booked into jail.
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[man 1] This was a family
that you didn't want to mess with.
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They could have something
swept under the rug,
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and no one would ever know about it.
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[reporter 3] Paul Murdaugh observed
driving grossly intoxicated.
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[reporter 4]
Some in the community questioning
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if the family used their connections
to protect Paul.
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[man 2] He wanted to make sure that
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lips were sealed.
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It does say in the Old Testament,
"An eye for an eye."
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I think Paul was afraid.
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- [gunshot]
- [woman whimpers]
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[operator] Hampton County 911,
what's your emergency?
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This is Alex Murdaugh.
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My wife and child have been shot badly.
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[woman 1] The boy I dated
for four years was murdered.
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I mean, this is scary.
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How did so many people lose their lives?
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[operator] 911, where's your emergency?
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[driver] I see somebody layin' out
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in the road.
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Why did he not kill me too?
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[gunshot]
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[man 3] Everybody has a skeleton
in the closet.
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I'm thinkin', "A skeleton in the closet?
What the hell's he talkin' about?"
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[Anthony] I did hear names.
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[man 4] She was like,
"You'd never believe who did it."
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[woman 4] Her head is bleeding.
I cannot get her up.
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[operator] Do you guys know who she is?
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[woman 4] Ma'am,
can you stop asking all these questions--
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[man 1] Five bodies in six years
tagged to this family.
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That is absolutely frightening.
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[intriguing music plays]
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[reporter 5] Still no sign
of a teenager thrown overboard.
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The boat she and five friends
were riding on
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hit a piling in Archers Creek.
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19-year-old Mallory Beach hasn't been seen
since 2:00 Sunday morning.
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Meanwhile, dozens of family members
and friends have been standing by,
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hoping for a miracle.
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[Mallory] Where's Mal?
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- Lily, where's Mal?
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Where's Mal?
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Your ear don't itch. Where's Mal?
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Says my name is Mallory.
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[announcer] Enjoys playing softball
and playing with her friends.
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Her ambition is to become a veterinarian.
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[Anthony] I met Mallory when we were kids.
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My sister and her sister
were best friends,
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and even if we didn't like it,
we were kind of stuck together, you know.
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[man 5] They'd go to church with us
and we'd carry 'em to Sunday school.
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Anthony's dad built my first house.
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[babbling]
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Mallory was about three or four years old
and jumpin' on the trampoline
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while we were tryin' to work.
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[Anthony] I'd honestly say
me and Mallory were probably best friends
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before we were anything, you know?
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[Miley] He was always scared of her.
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He was scared to date her.
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Because she was intimidating to him.
[laughs]
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[Beverly] She brought out a side of him
that we had not seen in a long time.
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[laughter]
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[girl] Mallory!
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[Anthony] I was,
you know, a little bit of a partier.
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When I finally changed all that
and settled down,
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it really did make me happy.
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As we got older, we both knew
that we wanted to be together.
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[Miley] They started datin', New Year's.
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She was like, "Oh my gosh, like, finally."
She loved him so much.
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♪ Hands up, they're playin' my song ♪
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♪ The butterflies fly away ♪
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[Miley] I mean, it's Mallory.
Like, how can you get any better than her?
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My friends are Miley...
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[Miley] Mallory's my best friend
since Pre-K.
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She came up to me and told me I was pretty
and, um, the rest is history.
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I was just this little shy girl.
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She was this little fireball,
just talking nonstop.
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And Morgan, she came later in life.
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Once we got to know Morgan,
we just started to hang out a lot more.
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We became really close.
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The first time I met Mallory,
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we had gone to a party.
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Hey, I like that one.
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[Morgan] Mallory came right up to me
and she complimented my shoes,
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so I knew we were gonna be
really good friends after that.
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Morgan, Miley, and Mallory.
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We are all M's.
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We all have really big personalities
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and so, like, they all kind of just
mesh into, like, one,
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and we'd feed off of each other.
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The girls were all really good friends,
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and then so were the boys.
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[Anthony] Connor was my cousin,
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That's been my best friend
since I can remember.
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If I was hangin' with Connor,
I was hangin' with Miley and Mallory.
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How are you supposed to do that?
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[woman 5] I don't know. [laughs]
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[Miley] It just worked out perfectly.
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I was dating Connor,
Mallory was dating Anthony,
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and Morgan was dating Paul.
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I felt like an outsider
whenever I started high school.
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And that's where I met Paul.
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He was in my history class.
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Like, our energies kinda matched.
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We would just have fun,
just the two of us,
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and we would just goof around.
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So I think it was
his playful personality that really...
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That brought me into him at first.
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[Morgan] Get him, Sam!
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We started dating my junior year.
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[Anthony] Paul had never had a girlfriend.
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I think I probably
got on her nerves a little bit
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'cause I showed up so much.
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There was a few times when she was like,
"I wish this stupid joker would go home."
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You know? Like, I was always intrudin'.
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I liked Morgan,
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and they loved each other,
and I was happy for 'im.
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I've known Paul since I was a kid.
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We did from A to Z together.
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Huntin', fishin'.
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I loved bein' around Paul.
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And Morgan, I'm sure she fell in love
with his personality fast.
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Just as funny of a person
as you'll ever meet.
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[Morgan] ♪ Hey! ♪
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[Paul] ♪ Hey! ♪
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[woman 6] Paul was always there.
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Valentine's Day, birthdays,
and everything else, with gifts.
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[Bill] Banners for the prom.
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The things he would do.
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It was like he's this wonderful young man.
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[pleasant music plays]
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We're dating.
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You want your families to mingle,
but my family wasn't from around here.
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[chuckles]
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We're both from Long Island.
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I'm a nurse in a prison.
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I'm a landscape architect and designer.
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We keep to ourselves.
We all work and just do our thing.
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I had no idea who he was.
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[mysterious electronic music plays]
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[man 1] Hampton County is a beautiful,
wonderful part of South Carolina.
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Nobody ever comes here
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unless you are from here.
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Everybody knows everybody.
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And everybody knows who the Murdaughs are.
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Because the Murdaugh family
run the biggest law firm in town.
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The Murdaugh family
has been around Hampton County for years.
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It all started
with Paul's great-great-granddad,
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Randolph Murdaugh Sr.
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And then it went to Randolph's son,
Buster Murdaugh.
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And finally it went to Randolph Murdaugh,
Paul's granddad.
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All of them had the law firm together,
and then they served as solicitors.
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A solicitor is basically
a lead prosecutor or district attorney.
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And so, for over a century,
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the Murdaughs were law and order
here in the 14th circuit.
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They ran both sides of the legal ledger,
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from civil cases to criminal cases.
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They had a network
that varied from judges and lawyers,
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to law enforcement, to sheriffs,
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to the average man on the street
who served on the jury.
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They were the law in this area.
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And at times, they were above the law.
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[light music plays]
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[Morgan] My family and Paul's family
came from a different class.
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They just came from
two totally different worlds, I think.
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There was really
no togetherness with our families.
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I loved Paul, and I wanted to be
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what he wanted me to be,
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and I wanted to be what
his family wanted me to be.
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[Bill] I mean,
they took her to the Kentucky Derby.
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They took her
to the final four of basketball.
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Deep-sea fishing for marlin in Guatemala.
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So they were always going somewhere.
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[light music continues]
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[Morgan] I'm taking you
by the house that Paul grew up in.
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Where is this?
That's Randolph Murdaugh's house.
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So this first driveway
is Paul's old driveway.
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You can't see it. It's a big house.
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They have a private drive.
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They have multiple different houses.
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One example is Moselle.
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I think it's like a thousand acres
that are owned by Alex,
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and it's like on the outskirts of Hampton.
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Moselle was my paradise.
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Me and Paul,
we'd set catfish lines, go huntin'.
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I mean, you never got bored.
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[Morgan] Paul was
really big into hog hunting,
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so he had a bunch of dogs.
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They had a tractor shed
where they'd keep their equipment under.
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They had a skinning shed,
they had multiple ponds.
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You know,
what country boys would usually do.
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It was just, tear it up and have fun.
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They had an airplane, so they had actually
like a landing strip for the plane,
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and then the plane
would land inside of the shed
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that had a door that opened up.
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[male interviewer] What was the strip for?
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Well, the way Paul told it,
it was for everything you could imagine.
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Drugs and strippers and everything.
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You can't believe
everything Paul says neither, you know.
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[Morgan] It's like a massive playground
for Paul.
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We were always there.
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[quiet music plays]
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[Morgan] Here's the law firm.
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Every year, Hampton County
hosts a watermelon festival,
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and it's just a big gathering.
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They shut down the streets.
They have vendors, food, and like drinks.
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Um...
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But Alex always allowed us to go
to the firm and sneak in the back door.
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And so we'd go into Alex's office,
and he always had handles of liquor
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that he would offer to us
and the law firm partners' children.
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And when I say children,
we were probably, like,
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around 16 to 14 years old.
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Um...
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And that's the back entrance
we would always go in.
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Yeah.
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I didn't come
from a family that drank a lot.
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Like, my dad would probably
have a drink here and there, but...
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I never saw my parents drunk.
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And so whenever I came
around the Murdaughs, like, it was so...
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It was very normal for them to be drinking
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and just have a lot of alcohol,
like, always stocked in the house.
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Um...
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But just for, like,
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Paul and I,
being the age that we were, like,
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they were okay with us drinking,
and they would always get us alcohol.
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And that's when I really started to drink.
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[boy] Oh shit, bro.
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[Morgan] Alcohol definitely changed Paul
in his manner and...
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Um...
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We called Paul "Timmy" when he was drunk.
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That's his name
that Anthony Cook actually gave him.
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It was just a random name,
just for, you know...
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He was just a different person,
'cause he wasn't Paul anymore.
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He was just... Hey, that's Timmy.
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[boy] Damn, son!
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[Morgan] He would go
from being, like, sweet,
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and then, like, two drinks in,
he'd be a completely different person.
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What do you have to say for yourself?
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Three billfish, right, babes.
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[Morgan] No.
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Give some quality life advice, Paul.
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All right.
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Get you an SC Wahoo Series boat,
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'cause you don't stand a chance.
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[Morgan] Okay.
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- SC Wahoo Series.
- [Morgan] Okay.
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He would... He would start doin'
some weird things with his hands, but...
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the biggest thing
I looked at was, like, his eyes.
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It was like
he was lookin' through you, you know?
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But all it was, was he was tryin' his best
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to understand what you're sayin',
you know?
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Because he's so drunk that he...
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He can't really function.
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People would say, "He looks scary."
You know what I'm sayin'?
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"He looks like he's about to kill me."
No, he's just tryin' to understand you.
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What the fuck?
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What the fuck? Did you see that?
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One thing a lot of people know about Paul
is he liked attention.
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Uh...
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And I think...
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I think that was
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where that drinkin' part came from.
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Something troubled him enough
to make him drink the way he drank.
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You drink like that to escape something.
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[Diane] You know, you do wonder with Paul.
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Did he truly know
that drinking as much was bad?
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Did he truly know that there really
are consequences when you do something?
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You know? Because maybe he didn't.
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I don't know.
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Morgan said that a couple of times
she would try to tell his mom, Maggie,
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about how Paul would be drinking too much,
and she would kind of just blow it off.
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[Bill] His family just
looked the other way,
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and thought it was funny, and...
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That would've put
such a blemish on the family.
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They didn't wanna choose
that option and say,
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"Let me send him to a rehab."
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[indistinct cheers and chatter]
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[Morgan] I felt like Maggie, as a mother,
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she wasn't as loving on to Paul
as she was on to Buster,
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and I feel like she was
a very detached mother from Paul.
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Buster is Paul's older brother.
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[applause]
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[announcer]
Richard Alexander Murdaugh Junior.
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[scattered cheers]
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[Morgan] Buster went to Wofford.
He graduated, perfect. Maggie loved it.
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He was in a fraternity. She ate it up.
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He went to law school,
and she was over the freakin' moon.
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Buster wanted
the life that his father had.
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He wanted to be a big-name lawyer.
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He wanted to have
the wealth and the power.
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He was following his father's footsteps.
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Paul never really wanted to be a lawyer.
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Paul was more like
the black sheep of his family,
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and I think that he thought
that his parents thought
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that he was a disappointment.
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For Paul, the acceptance and the love
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came from Miss Gloria.
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She worked
for Randolph and Libby for years.
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And that's why Alex and Maggie
had her start working for them.
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I see Gloria as being Paul's second mom,
and she basically raised Paul.
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She was with him
from the time that he was two.
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Paul really clung to her
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because Gloria gave Paul
what Maggie didn't.
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[Anthony] Miss Gloria was one
of the best ladies you'll ever meet.
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She took care of Paul
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like no family member ever did.
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Miss Gloria would've walked
off the end of the moon
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for Paul Murdaugh.
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Paul loved Gloria.
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And, actually,
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I don't remember him
having a picture of anybody in his wallet,
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but he had a picture of Gloria
in his wallet.
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[Morgan] But when Paul
started getting older,
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that's when his reckless behavior
became much worse,
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and he was always getting in trouble.
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Paul confided
in his grandfather Randolph so much.
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Any time Paul got into any trouble,
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he would call his granddad.
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And from there, like,
Randolph would call Alex,
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and then they'd come up
with a storyline, basically.
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When I tell you it's like,
you snap your fingers and it was gone,
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that's how it was.
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Obviously, yes, I was dating him,
but I knew he was a troublemaker.
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And it kind of made some people worried
and weary of Paul coming around.
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[indistinct chatter]
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Mallory and Paul were friends.
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Like, they... They got along really well.
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Like, not really well,
but, like, they got along.
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It was almost kind of like they...
That she tolerated Paul.
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Miley hated Paul.
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It wasn't really like a friendship.
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In the beginning,
I was like, "Morgan likes him,
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so obviously there's
something to like about him."
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But at the same time, this is not,
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like, someone that I think that,
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first of all,
should be dating one of my best friends,
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second of all, we should be hanging around
whenever he's this intoxicated.
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Because it's not only dangerous for him,
but it's dangerous for us.
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[intriguing music plays]
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[Morgan] One time, we were comin' home
from this Christmas party,
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and we got in the truck,
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and he told me
I needed to get out of the driver's seat.
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And I was like, "Why?"
And he's like, "I'm driving."
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And we got in this huge fight,
and Paul was being really aggressive.
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And at first, he was drivin'
like it was gonna be okay and that
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we'd make it home safely.
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And on that turn, Paul lost control
and wrecked us into a ditch.
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[intriguing music continues]
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The truck was, like, sideways.
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He had so many guns in his car,
so, like, guns were everywhere.
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Beer cans were everywhere.
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00:21:39,798 --> 00:21:43,635
So I dial 911,
and Paul hangs it up and throws my phone.
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And Paul calls Randolph.
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He tells him exactly where we're at,
and then... Then, he calls his dad.
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And then Randolph,
Alex, and Maggie showed up.
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Before they even checked on us,
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they opened the back of the truck
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00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:01,987
and they took out all the guns,
401
00:22:02,070 --> 00:22:06,616
and they cleared the bed of the truck
and the floors of all these beer cans.
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00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,414
I'm like, "Are you kidding?"
And they're like, "Did you call 911?"
403
00:22:12,497 --> 00:22:14,333
I was like, "Yeah."
And they were like, "Why?"
404
00:22:21,548 --> 00:22:23,508
[Morgan] They kept tryin'
to talk to me and, like,
405
00:22:23,550 --> 00:22:25,135
tell me that I didn't need to call 911
406
00:22:25,218 --> 00:22:27,471
'cause I could've gotten
their son in trouble.
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00:22:29,222 --> 00:22:31,016
We could've been dead, but,
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00:22:32,267 --> 00:22:33,810
you know, nothin' came of it.
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00:22:38,148 --> 00:22:40,192
[Miley] It was
kind of a strange relationship.
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It wasn't normal in the way
that they fought with each other.
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00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:47,824
It was very uncomfortable for,
like, other people to witness.
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He would just break up with her,
you know, for the weekend,
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00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:54,039
then get back together with her
and things like that.
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00:22:54,122 --> 00:22:57,084
They were just like nothing
you would want anybody close to you
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or that you love to go through.
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00:22:59,461 --> 00:23:01,755
Me and Mallory were both like,
"You need to be done."
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And then, like,
we'd convince her that she was.
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And then for some reason
it was like she would always go back.
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00:23:07,260 --> 00:23:09,846
And it was very frustrating
to see her do that,
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as one of her best friends.
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00:23:11,223 --> 00:23:16,186
[Morgan] I think that our relationship
is just something that, like,
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I really clung to just because
when it was good, it was really good.
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00:23:20,774 --> 00:23:22,734
But when it was bad, it was just...
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00:23:25,612 --> 00:23:26,612
It was really bad.
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00:23:27,948 --> 00:23:30,909
Our relationship had gotten,
like, really physical and...
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00:23:31,910 --> 00:23:32,911
Um...
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00:23:34,371 --> 00:23:36,373
Then I broke up with him,
428
00:23:36,456 --> 00:23:40,127
but then Paul would just do
and say anything
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00:23:40,210 --> 00:23:43,255
to make up for what had happened.
430
00:23:45,841 --> 00:23:47,843
I'm sorry. And...
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00:23:48,385 --> 00:23:50,637
So, like, I knew that, like...
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00:23:53,140 --> 00:23:57,018
And just being, like,
a young 16, 17-year-old girl, like...
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00:23:58,937 --> 00:23:59,980
I don't know.
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00:24:00,730 --> 00:24:04,317
You have this picture of just,
like, a relationship in your head,
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00:24:04,401 --> 00:24:08,363
and I just feel like I looked past it
because what I really wanted was, like,
436
00:24:08,989 --> 00:24:10,323
the Paul that I knew.
437
00:24:14,202 --> 00:24:17,414
Gloria knew how Paul was,
and she had seen him at...
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00:24:17,998 --> 00:24:19,791
Every emotion, every step of life,
439
00:24:20,292 --> 00:24:21,292
she was there.
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00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:23,879
Gloria was like,
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00:24:24,671 --> 00:24:27,299
"You know how he is,
and you're either gonna have to learn
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00:24:27,382 --> 00:24:29,759
how to deal with his temper,
or you need to get out."
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00:24:29,843 --> 00:24:31,136
I remember her saying,
444
00:24:31,219 --> 00:24:34,055
"Baby, it's okay to love someone.
Love 'em from a distance."
445
00:24:34,139 --> 00:24:38,810
"But if it's gonna hurt you more
to be with them, then you need to go."
446
00:24:40,395 --> 00:24:43,523
Yeah, I got really worried one night,
and it was, um...
447
00:24:44,191 --> 00:24:45,317
[sniffs]
448
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,904
We were celebrating Buster's graduation.
449
00:24:51,948 --> 00:24:53,700
We were staying at a hotel.
450
00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:56,411
He had been so intoxicated.
451
00:24:58,038 --> 00:25:01,625
We had finally gotten to bed,
and for some reason Paul kept kicking me.
452
00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:05,670
I yelled at him,
and then he got on top of me,
453
00:25:05,754 --> 00:25:07,923
and I just remember him screaming,
454
00:25:08,757 --> 00:25:10,300
"I told you to shut up."
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00:25:10,926 --> 00:25:12,552
Just holding down my throat.
456
00:25:12,636 --> 00:25:17,140
I just remember then he, like, punched me
really hard, like, in the knee right here.
457
00:25:17,891 --> 00:25:18,891
And...
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00:25:20,310 --> 00:25:21,311
Um...
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00:25:22,479 --> 00:25:23,605
I am sorry. [cries]
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00:25:33,657 --> 00:25:34,783
[Morgan] In 2019,
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00:25:34,866 --> 00:25:38,370
I was just working at Retail Therapy,
selling clothes.
462
00:25:38,870 --> 00:25:40,830
Miley, Mallory,
and I were all working there.
463
00:25:40,914 --> 00:25:43,083
Paul and I, I was ready to get out.
464
00:25:43,166 --> 00:25:45,877
But at the same time my mind...
I was so back and forth.
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00:25:46,962 --> 00:25:49,172
[Miley] She would come to work and,
you know,
466
00:25:49,256 --> 00:25:51,550
you could tell
she'd been cryin' or something,
467
00:25:51,633 --> 00:25:54,803
and me and Mallory would both
just be like, "This isn't normal."
468
00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:58,139
"We're both in relationships
and neither of us are going through this."
469
00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:00,100
"We don't think you need to be with him."
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00:26:00,183 --> 00:26:03,603
I was like,
"You are more important than him."
471
00:26:05,355 --> 00:26:09,609
[Morgan] Mallory was my support, you know,
system, just because she saw me every day.
472
00:26:12,529 --> 00:26:15,574
Mallory made it a lot easier, um, for me.
473
00:26:15,657 --> 00:26:17,492
["Hold On" by Wilson Phillips plays]
474
00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:20,203
♪ Gonna make you wanna turn around
And say goodbye ♪
475
00:26:20,287 --> 00:26:21,329
♪ Say goodbye... ♪
476
00:26:21,413 --> 00:26:24,541
[Morgan] I mean, she'd make sure
that I was always laughing.
477
00:26:25,667 --> 00:26:27,377
She'd be so extra about it.
478
00:26:28,461 --> 00:26:30,880
And I'd cry at work and she'd just hug me,
479
00:26:30,964 --> 00:26:35,176
or she would just send me
really uplifting messages and just, like,
480
00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:40,265
reminded me that I am someone without him,
and that it's gonna be okay.
481
00:26:40,348 --> 00:26:41,808
[quiet organ music plays]
482
00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:46,438
Having Mallory and Miley, just...
483
00:26:46,521 --> 00:26:48,940
They were friends that really cared.
484
00:26:49,816 --> 00:26:51,818
[indistinct background chatter]
485
00:26:53,695 --> 00:26:55,447
Good. Sit up straight.
486
00:26:55,530 --> 00:26:57,532
[quiet organ music continues]
487
00:27:02,829 --> 00:27:04,205
Anthony's my first cousin.
488
00:27:05,582 --> 00:27:09,586
I'd say probably my closest cousin,
honestly.
489
00:27:09,669 --> 00:27:13,256
Me, Anthony, Miley, Mallory.
We all started hangin' out together.
490
00:27:14,090 --> 00:27:17,302
If Miley was off doin' something
or whatever with her family,
491
00:27:17,385 --> 00:27:20,055
then it was always
me and Mallory hangin' out.
492
00:27:21,097 --> 00:27:23,099
I knew Mallory before I knew Miley.
493
00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:29,648
[female interviewer] How does it feel now
to talk about the incident?
494
00:27:30,148 --> 00:27:32,108
Uh... We're not gonna get into that.
495
00:27:33,568 --> 00:27:35,570
[quiet organ music continues]
496
00:27:36,321 --> 00:27:40,116
Do I think that maybe
497
00:27:41,993 --> 00:27:45,455
some things could've happened
a whole lot differently?
498
00:27:46,206 --> 00:27:49,459
I can look at you
right here today and tell you,
499
00:27:49,542 --> 00:27:50,542
yes.
500
00:27:51,586 --> 00:27:53,088
[quiet organ music fades out]
501
00:28:02,806 --> 00:28:04,182
[Morgan] February 2019,
502
00:28:04,265 --> 00:28:08,061
a friend had messaged us,
wanting us to go to the oyster roast.
503
00:28:09,729 --> 00:28:13,024
[Anthony] Oyster roast is just the kind
of the things you do in Lowcountry
504
00:28:13,108 --> 00:28:14,943
when it starts to get a little bit cold.
505
00:28:15,026 --> 00:28:17,070
You know, you roast oysters.
506
00:28:18,154 --> 00:28:22,158
Mallory asked me, you know,
"Hey. Everybody else wants to do this."
507
00:28:22,242 --> 00:28:23,368
"Can we go?"
508
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,495
And I said, "No."
509
00:28:25,578 --> 00:28:28,456
It was cold.
I didn't wanna be goin' to a party.
510
00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:30,709
Mallory wanted to go bad, you know.
511
00:28:30,792 --> 00:28:33,461
She, um, gave a little puppy-dog face,
you know,
512
00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:36,256
and asked again, and I finally gave in.
513
00:28:38,299 --> 00:28:41,678
[Morgan] Paul was messaging me.
"Your girlfriends are goin'."
514
00:28:41,761 --> 00:28:43,805
Like, "You need to be with me."
515
00:28:43,888 --> 00:28:47,934
I felt like Paul was more,
like, guilt-tripping me into going... Um...
516
00:28:48,810 --> 00:28:52,731
But I mainly went
to go be with my best girlfriends.
517
00:28:55,483 --> 00:28:58,244
[male interviewer] Why do you think
the decision was to take the boat?
518
00:28:58,945 --> 00:29:01,114
Just to be spontaneous.
519
00:29:04,701 --> 00:29:08,747
I've made the trip up and down
Beaufort River a thousand times.
520
00:29:10,081 --> 00:29:12,250
I had never been that far.
521
00:29:13,376 --> 00:29:14,461
Paul and Connor
522
00:29:14,544 --> 00:29:16,796
knew what they were doin',
so I trusted 'em.
523
00:29:18,089 --> 00:29:20,341
[Morgan] We just docked the boat
at one of the docks,
524
00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:24,262
and from there I think everyone
kinda started drinkin' pretty early.
525
00:29:24,763 --> 00:29:27,015
Right before we left,
Miley and I were on the dock
526
00:29:27,098 --> 00:29:29,642
and we looked back, and Paul had a funnel,
527
00:29:29,726 --> 00:29:32,103
and he was just funneling beer.
528
00:29:36,775 --> 00:29:39,736
[Miley] And then we just took off
on the boat to go to the oyster roast.
529
00:29:42,530 --> 00:29:44,741
On the way there, it was freezing.
530
00:29:44,824 --> 00:29:47,243
Me and Mallory were sitting on the cooler,
531
00:29:47,327 --> 00:29:49,829
so, like,
we had to get up to get people drinks.
532
00:29:49,913 --> 00:29:51,915
[intriguing music plays]
533
00:30:01,007 --> 00:30:02,592
[Miley] We pulled up to the dock.
534
00:30:02,675 --> 00:30:05,470
We'd gotten there later
because it took us so long to get there.
535
00:30:05,553 --> 00:30:07,764
[Morgan] We left the cooler on the boat,
536
00:30:07,847 --> 00:30:09,307
and we'd go back and forth
537
00:30:09,974 --> 00:30:13,186
from the dock
to get our alcohol out of the boat.
538
00:30:13,978 --> 00:30:17,357
[Anthony] There was quite a few people
that made the comment,
539
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,068
"Hey, this thing got late, you know.
It's cold."
540
00:30:21,444 --> 00:30:25,198
"Might not be a very good idea
to drive the boat back."
541
00:30:26,908 --> 00:30:29,619
We had several people offer to drive us.
542
00:30:29,702 --> 00:30:31,830
Leave the boat and they would drive us.
543
00:30:32,330 --> 00:30:34,999
I think Paul was just
a little too proud to do that.
544
00:30:35,708 --> 00:30:39,838
[Morgan] Even if someone was to take
the keys from Paul and be like,
545
00:30:39,921 --> 00:30:43,550
"You're not getting on that boat,"
Paul would have a conniption.
546
00:30:43,633 --> 00:30:46,594
And Murdaughs
don't really get told "no" much.
547
00:30:47,470 --> 00:30:50,640
I know that Miley, Mallory,
and I should've been smart enough
548
00:30:50,723 --> 00:30:51,808
to just stay.
549
00:30:52,392 --> 00:30:54,644
I'll never stop regretting that we didn't.
550
00:30:54,727 --> 00:30:56,729
[foreboding music plays]
551
00:30:59,941 --> 00:31:02,694
[Morgan] We left around 12:00.
552
00:31:04,237 --> 00:31:07,156
[Miley] After the oyster roast,
me and Connor did get into an argument.
553
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,284
We were arguing
about him going to the bar.
554
00:31:09,367 --> 00:31:13,371
You know,
Paul and Connor wanted to make a pit stop
555
00:31:13,454 --> 00:31:14,831
nobody else wanted to make.
556
00:31:14,914 --> 00:31:16,916
[intriguing music plays]
557
00:31:19,168 --> 00:31:21,045
[Morgan] Paul wanted to go to the bar,
558
00:31:21,129 --> 00:31:24,632
and when Paul gets set on something,
like, it's gonna happen.
559
00:31:24,716 --> 00:31:28,511
There wasn't no talkin' him out of it.
There wasn't no stoppin' him.
560
00:31:30,305 --> 00:31:32,025
[Morgan] So we actually get
to the Day Dock,
561
00:31:32,056 --> 00:31:33,850
which is downtown Beaufort.
562
00:31:33,933 --> 00:31:35,935
[intriguing music continues]
563
00:31:36,853 --> 00:31:39,105
And we were just waiting
for the boys to get back.
564
00:31:40,398 --> 00:31:43,026
At that time,
Mallory and Anthony were so new
565
00:31:43,109 --> 00:31:45,737
and they were in that,
like, honeymoon stage.
566
00:31:46,487 --> 00:31:50,116
They were obsessed with each other,
and they were on their own little swing.
567
00:31:50,199 --> 00:31:51,326
Just talkin'.
568
00:31:51,409 --> 00:31:54,829
Miley and I were probably talkin'
about how much we hated Paul and Connor.
569
00:31:59,876 --> 00:32:02,337
[Miley] After leaving Luther's,
570
00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:05,006
Paul comes out and,
571
00:32:05,089 --> 00:32:06,716
like, plastic chair right next to him,
572
00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:08,343
and he just flips the chair over.
573
00:32:08,426 --> 00:32:10,803
I remember him, like,
comin' back and him just, like,
574
00:32:10,887 --> 00:32:13,973
raising his arms and sprawling his hands.
575
00:32:14,057 --> 00:32:15,777
[Miley] That's a dead giveaway,
pretty much,
576
00:32:15,808 --> 00:32:18,811
that he was the whole Timmy alter ego.
577
00:32:19,729 --> 00:32:21,522
He was outta-his-mind drunk.
578
00:32:22,273 --> 00:32:25,026
[Miley] We had all made it a point
to, like, say to him,
579
00:32:25,109 --> 00:32:28,029
"You need to let Connor drive
or you need to let Anthony drive."
580
00:32:28,112 --> 00:32:30,073
But he wouldn't listen to anybody.
581
00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:33,076
Everyone was like, "Paul, don't drive."
582
00:32:33,159 --> 00:32:36,037
It's late, it's cold. We wanna get home.
583
00:32:36,621 --> 00:32:38,957
[Anthony] We talked about
gettin' an Uber or somethin'.
584
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,584
But, uh, Paul didn't wanna leave
his boat there,
585
00:32:41,668 --> 00:32:43,670
didn't trust leavin' his boat there,
586
00:32:43,753 --> 00:32:45,838
and I'm not gonna
587
00:32:47,173 --> 00:32:49,550
just leave everybody else, you know?
588
00:32:50,134 --> 00:32:51,678
I'm not gonna leave
589
00:32:51,761 --> 00:32:54,931
Connor, Miley, Morgan, Paul.
590
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,601
[Miley] We got back on the boat
to go home.
591
00:33:02,271 --> 00:33:04,232
[Morgan] Everyone was like,
"Paul, don't drive,"
592
00:33:04,315 --> 00:33:06,150
and Paul would snap back and be like,
593
00:33:06,234 --> 00:33:09,487
"Well, this is my fucking boat,
and I know this river,
594
00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:10,947
and you're not driving my boat."
595
00:33:11,030 --> 00:33:13,032
[intriguing music continues]
596
00:33:15,201 --> 00:33:18,913
The way Paul was driving
was honestly terrifying.
597
00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:21,290
[Anthony] The boat
was just steady makin' circles.
598
00:33:21,374 --> 00:33:24,794
We were just round and round,
zigzaggin', arguin', you know.
599
00:33:24,877 --> 00:33:26,295
Everybody's mad.
600
00:33:26,379 --> 00:33:28,631
[Miley] Paul would just
leave the wheel unattended.
601
00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:30,466
Connor would have to grab it.
602
00:33:31,175 --> 00:33:33,261
I literally stood up and yelled at him,
603
00:33:33,344 --> 00:33:36,180
"If you're not gonna
let anybody else drive, take us home."
604
00:33:36,264 --> 00:33:38,224
He got in my face and pointed at me, like,
605
00:33:38,307 --> 00:33:40,601
"You just need to shut the fuck up
and sit down."
606
00:33:40,685 --> 00:33:43,062
Anthony was getting extremely pissed.
607
00:33:43,146 --> 00:33:46,983
I yelled at Paul, Morgan, Miley, Connor.
I yelled at all of 'em.
608
00:33:47,066 --> 00:33:48,826
[Morgan] Paul is yelling at me
and he's like,
609
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:50,403
"Why don't you have my back?"
610
00:33:50,486 --> 00:33:52,613
And I was like,
"Why would I have your back?"
611
00:33:52,697 --> 00:33:55,408
"You're screaming at us
and you're not making sense."
612
00:33:55,491 --> 00:33:56,951
"You're acting crazy."
613
00:33:57,452 --> 00:34:00,288
And he looked at me and he said,
614
00:34:00,371 --> 00:34:01,789
"You know what's crazy?"
615
00:34:02,957 --> 00:34:06,002
"Your father not making enough money
to support your family."
616
00:34:07,962 --> 00:34:12,050
I started crying,
and that's when, uh, Paul got in my face,
617
00:34:12,133 --> 00:34:14,677
and he just started screaming, and, uh,
618
00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:17,638
that's when Paul slapped me.
619
00:34:20,558 --> 00:34:21,558
Then, um...
620
00:34:27,106 --> 00:34:28,106
Sorry.
621
00:34:29,358 --> 00:34:32,862
You know, you could tell by the way
he did it that it wasn't the first time.
622
00:34:32,945 --> 00:34:36,449
It's just heartbreaking to see
one of your best friends be abused
623
00:34:36,532 --> 00:34:37,742
in front of your face.
624
00:34:37,825 --> 00:34:40,787
I was like, "You can't hide it anymore
from any of us."
625
00:34:40,870 --> 00:34:42,455
"Like, this is not okay."
626
00:34:43,122 --> 00:34:45,917
At that moment in time,
everybody was like, "You know what?"
627
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:46,834
"Let's just go."
628
00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:49,295
You know, we went from that idle to...
629
00:34:50,671 --> 00:34:52,131
The bow of the boat stood up.
630
00:34:59,388 --> 00:35:02,475
[Miley] He would just leave the wheel
when we were goin' full speed.
631
00:35:02,558 --> 00:35:05,645
[Anthony] Connor would
just reach over there from the side
632
00:35:05,728 --> 00:35:07,313
and straighten the wheel up.
633
00:35:07,396 --> 00:35:09,857
[Miley] Connor came up to me
and he told me he loved me,
634
00:35:09,941 --> 00:35:12,360
and I could tell,
like, he was gettin' scared too.
635
00:35:12,985 --> 00:35:16,823
Miley screaming, "Connor, Connor,"
and I felt her grab me.
636
00:35:16,906 --> 00:35:17,949
I slid down.
637
00:35:18,032 --> 00:35:20,743
I put my feet up, pulled Mallory to me.
638
00:35:20,827 --> 00:35:23,947
[Miley] I was looking at this bridge
and I was like, "We're about to hit this."
639
00:35:23,996 --> 00:35:25,998
[Anthony] I heard a scream,
then I was out.
640
00:35:26,082 --> 00:35:27,082
[scream]
641
00:35:35,716 --> 00:35:38,469
[Morgan] Everything was going crazy.
People were screaming.
642
00:35:40,429 --> 00:35:42,509
- [Anthony] As soon as I got on the bank...
- [gasps]
643
00:35:43,558 --> 00:35:46,727
...Miley came runnin' straight up to me
and asked, "Where's Mallory?"
644
00:35:47,436 --> 00:35:49,897
Then that's when we all
started screamin' for Mallory.
645
00:35:49,981 --> 00:35:51,691
[Miley] Mallory!
646
00:35:52,358 --> 00:35:54,402
[Morgan] Where the fuck is Mallory?
647
00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:03,911
[Morgan] Anthony stayed in the water
as long as he could.
648
00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:06,330
He would come up. He would go down.
649
00:36:07,957 --> 00:36:10,334
I jumped back in the water
over and over and over.
650
00:36:11,043 --> 00:36:13,796
[Miley] The water under the bridge,
it was goin' so fast.
651
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,718
[Anthony] I was goin' against the current.
There you are, scared for your life.
652
00:36:18,801 --> 00:36:20,219
It's either do or die.
653
00:36:22,305 --> 00:36:24,223
[Connor] I just remember wakin' up.
654
00:36:24,307 --> 00:36:28,269
First thing I could do
was just get on my phone and call 911.
655
00:36:28,352 --> 00:36:30,104
[operator] 911, where's your emergency?
656
00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:32,773
[Connor] We're in a boat crash
on Archers Creek.
657
00:36:32,857 --> 00:36:34,358
[operator] You're by the bridge?
658
00:36:34,984 --> 00:36:37,862
[Connor] There's only one bridge
in Archers Creek.
659
00:36:37,945 --> 00:36:41,574
[operator] Did you crash into the bridge?
660
00:36:41,657 --> 00:36:44,785
[Connor] We're under the only bridge
in Archers Creek.
661
00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:47,872
[operator] All right,
so you're under the bridge, okay.
662
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,626
[Morgan] Mallory! Mallory!
663
00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:53,002
[Connor] Please send someone.
664
00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:54,879
[operator] No, we're comin', okay?
665
00:36:54,962 --> 00:36:57,006
[Anthony] I walked up
to the top of the bridge.
666
00:36:57,089 --> 00:37:00,718
I remember seein'
blue lights comin' from both directions.
667
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:03,721
[Morgan] It was cops that came first.
668
00:37:03,804 --> 00:37:06,307
[indistinct conversation]
669
00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:08,392
[operator] The one missing is a female.
670
00:37:09,393 --> 00:37:12,855
I just sat in the boat, bleeding.
671
00:37:13,439 --> 00:37:15,942
It hurts! It fucking hurts!
672
00:37:17,026 --> 00:37:19,946
So the cop that came up to me,
he's like, "You're gonna be okay."
673
00:37:20,029 --> 00:37:23,324
He kept patting my back, and I was like,
"Tell me y'all found Mallory."
674
00:37:23,407 --> 00:37:26,911
And he said,
"No, we haven't found Mallory yet."
675
00:37:26,994 --> 00:37:30,289
I remember my face bein' really warm.
676
00:37:30,790 --> 00:37:32,875
My bottom teeth
were in front of my front teeth.
677
00:37:32,959 --> 00:37:34,252
I knew somethin' wasn't right.
678
00:37:34,752 --> 00:37:36,796
[Miley] Paul was only in his underwear,
679
00:37:36,879 --> 00:37:39,924
and his only concern
was calling his granddad.
680
00:37:40,007 --> 00:37:43,302
- [Paul] Can I use your phone?
- [officer 1] I ain't got my phone on me.
681
00:37:43,386 --> 00:37:44,762
[Paul] You ain't got your phone?
682
00:37:44,845 --> 00:37:47,126
[officer 1] No, you dropped yours
in the grass back there.
683
00:37:47,181 --> 00:37:48,599
[Paul] That don't surprise me.
684
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:52,520
I remember Anthony just like,
"You did this. This is all your fault."
685
00:37:53,145 --> 00:37:55,856
[Anthony] Bo, you fuckin' smilin'
like it's fuckin' funny?
686
00:37:55,940 --> 00:37:56,941
[officer 1] Sit down.
687
00:37:57,024 --> 00:37:59,318
[Anthony]
My fuckin' girlfriend's gone, Bo!
688
00:37:59,819 --> 00:38:01,696
Hope you rot in fuckin' hell!
689
00:38:04,782 --> 00:38:06,325
He's just agitated.
690
00:38:07,034 --> 00:38:08,536
[Miley] It took them 15 to 20 minutes
691
00:38:08,619 --> 00:38:10,830
to get Paul
to actually get in the ambulance.
692
00:38:10,913 --> 00:38:14,125
And he's not really responding
to me or any of us.
693
00:38:14,750 --> 00:38:19,005
[Miley] Once we were actually on our way,
Paul called his granddad and was like,
694
00:38:19,088 --> 00:38:22,717
"Yeah, we were in a boat accident."
Like, "Oh yeah, they can't find Mallory."
695
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,177
And was just like,
"It was Cotton Top that did it."
696
00:38:25,261 --> 00:38:26,929
Cotton Top is Connor's nickname.
697
00:38:27,722 --> 00:38:29,265
[Connor] I was like, "Really?"
698
00:38:29,932 --> 00:38:32,184
I wanted to beat the shit out of him,
699
00:38:32,268 --> 00:38:33,477
because I wasn't drivin'.
700
00:38:33,561 --> 00:38:37,481
[Anthony] Mom, y'all need
to come to Beaufort, quick.
701
00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:41,378
[Beverly] Obviously, when you get a call
in the middle of the night,
702
00:38:41,402 --> 00:38:42,778
you know something's wrong.
703
00:38:43,612 --> 00:38:46,449
[Anthony] What if she's at the bottom
of the river, man?
704
00:38:46,949 --> 00:38:49,118
[Beverly] All he could say is,
"We can't find Mallory."
705
00:38:49,201 --> 00:38:52,371
"They can't find Mallory."
And I said, "We're comin'."
706
00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:54,540
"We'll be there.
We're comin' as fast as we can."
707
00:38:55,291 --> 00:38:57,752
[officer 2] We've got
water search and rescue out.
708
00:38:57,835 --> 00:39:00,546
The Parris Island Fire Department's out.
709
00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:03,174
They've all got
their water assets out there looking.
710
00:39:03,257 --> 00:39:04,633
Anthony kept sayin',
711
00:39:04,717 --> 00:39:06,385
"Has somebody called Mr. Phillip?"
712
00:39:06,469 --> 00:39:07,970
"Has somebody called Miss Renee?"
713
00:39:08,054 --> 00:39:10,848
"Do it right now,
because they need to know."
714
00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:14,310
[officer 1] Last name's Beach.
Melanie? Mallory?
715
00:39:14,894 --> 00:39:17,063
I was just askin' about Mallory's family.
716
00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:20,316
I do have phone numbers,
but I don't wanna make that phone call,
717
00:39:20,399 --> 00:39:21,609
and I don't know...
718
00:39:24,445 --> 00:39:26,447
[mobile phone rings]
719
00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:30,910
[mobile phone clatters]
720
00:39:34,330 --> 00:39:36,332
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