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Hampton County 911,
what is your emergency?
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Hello, I was just goin' down
along Crocketville Road.
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I see somebody layin' out.
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And is it in the road
or on the side of the road?
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In the road.
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- In the road?
- Somebody's gonna hit him.
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We'll get an officer
headed out that way.
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- Okay.
- All right.
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Trooper Rowell, this incident
that occurred on July the 8th of 2015,
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just kind of go through it with me.
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From what we've gathered so far,
a nice, you know, young man
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had mechanical problems
with his vehicle on the way home.
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Run outta fuel or had some kinda problem,
and started walkin'.
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Um, I came out about 4:30 that mornin'.
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When I got up to the scene,
I noticed a young, white male
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lyin' in the roadway
with severe head trauma.
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Nothing at the scene appeared
that it was a vehicular accident.
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No torn clothes.
His shoes were still on his feet.
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Cell phone still in his pocket.
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Injuries that I noticed
to this young man was to his head.
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Like I said,
we don't know for sure.
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We haven't had anybody
to tell us anything different.
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Case number on this
will be CL-062.
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Kinda wanted
to touch base with you.
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It's in... Obviously it's in reference
to the Stephen Smith murder investigation.
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- Do you know what I'm talkin' about?
- Oh yes, sir. I do.
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Just go ahead and tell me,
you know, what you heard.
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From what I was originally
told was he was struck by a car.
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This, that, and the other.
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I heard he got hit by a car.
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They say
it was like a hit-and-run.
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I haven't really gotten all,
like, one clear story.
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I can tell you this.
He didn't get hit by no car.
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Well,
recently I heard that these
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two, maybe three young men
were in a vehicle.
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I guess they were attemptin' to mess
around with him or somethin' like that.
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I need to try to find
somebody who's willin',
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you know,
to give me some solid information.
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And I understand...
I understand your reservation.
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Because I've heard that people
associated with his name
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have been goin' around, kinda...
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Not... Well...
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Kinda threatenin' or puttin' the heat
on people, sayin', you know,
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"Keep your mouth closed
if you heard somethin'."
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She was like,
"You'd never believe who I heard did it."
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And then she said his name
and I was, like, really shocked.
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Y'all have heard
I did hear names, and I'm... Um...
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Or heard a name.
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And that name was...
He goes by Buster Murdaugh.
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{\an8}-Buster Murdaugh.
- Buster Murdaugh.
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{\an8}Everybody keeps comin' up
to me and sayin' it was Murdaugh boys.
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{\an8}And when I originally heard this,
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{\an8}I was thinking
of the younger Murdaugh boy,
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Buster's little brother, Paul,
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because Paul's more the "my last name
is Murdaugh and I can do whatever."
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- Know what I mean?
- Yeah.
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Everybody's kinda
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shy to say that out, you know what I mean?
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Because of...
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of the... I don't wanna say power,
but of the...
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The name, you know,
it brings a certain standard
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when you say "Murdaugh" in Hampton County.
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So the only rumor you heard
is possibly Buster havin'
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some type of relationship with Stephen?
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Yes, sir.
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I've known
the Murdaugh family, like I said,
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pretty much my whole life.
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Hampton's not a... Not a very big town.
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I feel like they wouldn't want anything
happening to their reputation,
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or name, or anything like that.
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Can you tell me what you heard
about the Stephen Smith incident?
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I don't know.
It's strictly hearsay from all I know.
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Well, I mean,
at this point it's kinda, you know,
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we'll take whatever we can get.
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I just know
that he said it was
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Buster and maybe one or two other people.
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They were ridin' down 601.
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Saw the car on the side of the road.
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I guess saw the boy walkin'.
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They were attemptin' to,
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I don't wanna say,
you know, mess around with him,
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or somethin' like that.
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Someone told me
that it was Buster, and I was like,
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nothing was gonna be done about it
because of who he was.
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{\an8}The day that Stephen passed away
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{\an8}Randy Murdaugh was the second person
to call my dad, after the coroner.
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{\an8}And he said he wanted to take the case
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{\an8}and it would be free of charge
and everything.
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{\an8}It's kinda weird.
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The Murdaughs know that.
They know that he's...
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That he's on our radar.
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I'm gonna talk to Buster here soon
and say, "Look, man, you know,
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you need to come clean about this."
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"If it was an accident,
you just need to come clean about it."
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You know? "Let's get this process out
and let's get this family some closure."
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Tell me about Morgan.
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Because she was hearing that rumor
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and she just had started dating Paul.
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911, where's your emergency?
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My housekeeper has fallen
and her head is bleeding.
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- I cannot get her up.
- Where'd she fall from?
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The... She fell going up the steps.
The brick steps.
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Okay,
so is she outside or inside?
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Outside.
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Okay,
is she able to talk to you guys at all
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or is she unconscious now?
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She's not unconscious.
She's just mumblin'.
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The other lady said
she had tried to stand up
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and fell down again?
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No, I was holdin' her up.
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She told me to turn her loose
and was trying to use her arm,
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but then she fell back over.
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Okay,
do you guys know who she is?
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She works for us.
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How old is she?
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I'm not sure. Like, 58 maybe.
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Do you know what her name is?
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Gloria Satterfield.
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{\an8}Do you know if she's ever
had a stroke or anything before?
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{\an8}Ma'am, can you stop asking--
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{\an8}I already
have them on the way.
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{\an8}You think Gloria knew too much
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{\an8}and that's why Gloria is not here?
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Been gettin' to work
at that time at 7:30,
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so Gloria probably come through
at about 8:30.
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Walkin' up to the house,
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she got a McDonald's cup in one hand,
her purse on her shoulder,
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like she does every morning.
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And then Maggie calls me
within 15 minutes later.
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I asked her what the hell happened,
and she was hysterical.
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"You gotta get here.
Gloria fell. There's blood everywhere."
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Her feet were above her head.
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We needed to at least
get her body horizontal.
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So Paul, you know, grabs her legs.
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I grab both of her shoulders
to get her horizontal.
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So then EMS arrives.
And it's you, Paul, and Maggie.
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Investigative reports
say Alex talked to Gloria,
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and she said that the dog tripped her.
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That's not true. He wasn't there.
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So then, you're saying that Alex
is still not there when EMS leaves?
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Correct.
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I'm meeting
with Alexander Murdaugh.
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Mr. Murdaugh, you understand
I'm recording this statement?
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- Yes.
- With your permission?
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- Yes.
- Your full name?
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Richard Alexander Murdaugh.
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And, um...
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Do you go by Alexander?
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I go by Alex.
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Okay.
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How long would you estimate
that Gloria had been doin' work
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for you and/or your family?
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She's been workin'
for our family for,
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hoo,
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close to 20 years, I would estimate.
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And no, she babysat my children
when they were...
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When my youngest was an infant. So...
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And were you able
to speak with Gloria
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before she was taken away
in the ambulance?
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- I was.
- Okay.
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Did you ask her what happened?
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She indicated that the dogs
had caused her to fall.
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Okay. So there was no witness
to the chain of events.
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- The fall itself?
- Right.
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No, sir. Not that I'm aware of.
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Okay.
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Hampton County 911.
What is your emergency?
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I stopped.
I got a flat tire, and I stopped,
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and somebody stopped to help me.
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And they tried to shoot me.
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Were you shot?
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Yes.
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But, I mean, I'm okay.
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I can't drive.
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Okay.
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And I'm bleedin' a lot.
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Where?
What part of your body?
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I'm not sure. Somewhere on my head.
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What's your name?
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Alex Murdaugh.
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Alex Murdaugh?
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Yes, ma'am.
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Oh, okay.
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Yes, we're on
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Salkehatchie Road.
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There is a man on the side of the road
with blood all over him.
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And he's wavin' his hands.
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He's just layin' there
wavin' his hands around?
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He looks fine,
but it kind of looks like a setup.
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So we didn't stop.
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I don't blame you.
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And to make
then Eddie the suspect in the murder?
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I am going for a denial of bond
at this time.
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Did you get to gamble any?
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Yeah.
Yeah, so I did go gambling, and then,
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the next day, there was an article created
about how I'm misusing funds.
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By gamblin'?
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Yeah. Someone took a picture
of me and John Marvin in the casino.
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You're kiddin' me.
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Uh-uh.
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What a fuckin'... Are you kiddin' me?
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No.
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How'd they recognize you?
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Apparently,
I'm a national figure, I think.
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Hey, I hit nine out of 11 games on...
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Sunday. Nine out of 11,
that's pretty damn hard.
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Yeah.
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I won, like, six soups,
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four beef sticks...
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Well, that's good.
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Your party has answered.
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- With a prepaid collect call from...
- Alex.
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All phone calls are subject
to monitoring and recording.
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- Hello?
- Hey, bud.
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Jim and them told me they, the grand jury,
indicted a bunch more things
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on the last Friday.
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But you know that's just overkill, right?
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Yeah, I mean...
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I mean, they're just trying
to pile it on me now, you know that.
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Yeah, I'm aware.
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But I can take it.
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Stephen Smith and Gloria
and all that bullshit.
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Are they still tryin' to say out there,
there are some mysteries
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surrounding Gloria's death?
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About how she died?
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Sayin' what now?
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About how she died. Are they still
tryin' to make some innuendo there?
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I don't know. I, um...
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They still sayin' anything
about Stephen Smith?
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- I don't think--
- They still connecting to us?
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Yeah, I don't think anybody
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took to heart any of that.
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SLED say there's no connection?
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No.
SLED has not released anything.
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They wouldn't even... They didn't even
release a statement about...
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What was this most recent thing? Um...
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Something came out not long ago,
talkin' about how there's been, like,
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a breakthrough in evidence...
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to do with, like,
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the homicides.
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Your party has answered.
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All phone calls are subject
to monitoring and recording.
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- Hey.
- Hey.
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What you doin'?
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Nothin'. What's up?
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Hey, Bus, I meant to ask you,
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did Netflix put somethin' out
about all this?