[telephone rings]
[dispatcher] Hampton County 911, where is your emergency?
[woman] Yes, um, we're on Salkehatchie Road,
and there is a man on the side of the road with blood all over him
and he's waving his hands.
He looks fine, but it kind of looks like a setup,
so we didn't stop.
[dispatcher] I don't blame you. Let me get my deputies to see what's going on.
[officer] The female says he was driving a Mercedes-Benz SUV kind of truck.
[chatter on the radio]
-[officer] How are you doing? -Hey, how are you?
[officer] Good. What happened?
[Becky] It was Labor Day weekend,
and I got a phone call from a friend of mine in Hampton
who said that Alex had been shot.
And the first thing I thought was,
well, the person who shot Maggie and Paul had found Alex.
Alex had gone to the hospital,
and they're not quite sure who shot him.
A mystery in South Carolina gets even deeper.
Officials telling Fox News 53-year-old attorney Alex Murdaugh
was shot and wounded today in Hampton County, South Carolina.
No word on his condition.
[reporter] Alex was airlifted to the hospital.
He'd been shot in the head in broad daylight
while he was changing a tire on the side of the road.
[Becky] Alex's story kept changing all in one day.
I believe we found out that Cousin Eddie was involved.
[Eddie] Yeah.
I never was a quiet person.
Name's Curtis Edward Smith. Everybody calls me Eddie.
Come on, baby.
Damn.
I met Alex in the late '80s, you know, uh, early '90s.
I knew his father, which I'm half Murdaugh.
Don't tell nobody. [laughs] Really, don't.
I was friends with Alex, and I also done a bit of work for Alex over the years.
Running errands for him or doing a little minor work,
like general land clearing type of work,
cutting canals or waterways through properties
so it gets proper drainage.
He called me about 10, 10:30 in the morning, asking what I was doing.
I said, "Nothing, just worked late."
He said, "Can you run over this way a minute?"
He told me to meet him at the funeral home in Varnville.
Looked up, he's coming down the road.
He pulled the sun visor around to where it was in his window, you know,
and he rolls his window up,
so I'm looking at him through a hole like this.
I said, What are you doing?"
He goes, "Well… I don't need to be seen in town."
And he said, "Well, I'm being watched."
I said, "Well, who's watching you?" He said, "SLED."
And I said, "Why are they watching you for?"
He said, "Well, you know, about what happened."
I said, "You mean out at Moselle?"
He said, "Yeah." I said, "Man, what did happen?"
He said, "Things just got all fucked up."
Just like that.
He said, "You love me?" I said, "Yeah, like a brother."
"I'd do most anything for you."
He said, "I need you to shoot me and kill me."
"That ain't happening. Not today, not tomorrow. It ain't happening."
And he just… So he just, "Well, I guess I got to try to do it myself."
He takes off.
I went after him.
I just… I just followed him out of just pure concern,
you know, as much as anything else is.
Good Lord, Maggie and Paul was already dead.
Mr. Randolph died three or four days later.
The family don't need a whole lot more going on.
And when I pulled up there, and I rolled the window down,
he's coming up to my window with a gun.
I figured I'd scare some sense into him.
I fired it up in the air.
All 6'5" or 6'7" of him just
hit the asphalt like that.
That's where that spot on the head comes from,
from the rocks sticking up on the side of the road,
not from a bullet bounced off his head from less than six foot behind.
But he had told me… I said, "Why'd you want me to shoot you?"
"Because they're gonna be able to prove
that I was responsible for Maggie and Paul."
And I knew I hadn't shot him.
I knew there wasn't no blood on him, there wasn't no blood on me,
so I went home.
[mysterious music plays]
[chatter on radio]
-[officer] How are you doing, sir? -Hey, how are you?
-[officer] What happened? -I got shot.
[officer] Tell me more about what--
[Alex] I was… I'm going down the road. I had a tire go flat. I pulled over.
And this car went by me.
And I didn't pay a lot of attention to the truck,
but then it turned around, came back.
A real nice guy, acted like,
and I turn my head, and, I mean, boom.
[Eddie] Then, six, seven days later,
State Law Enforcement Division here started to come around
asking me a bunch of questions and everything.
That's when I found out that I was supposed to have shot him
in the back of the head with a .38.
Agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
have arrested 61-year-old Curtis Edward Smith of Colleton County.
State authorities say Smith planned the shooting.
Now the question remains, who is Curtis Smith,
and did he have any ties to the Murdaugh family before all this?
[producer] What did it feel like to see that on the news?
[tense music plays]
It was just disheartening. I mean, it really was.
I mean, I had… I'd never been in no trouble…
with the law.
The law ain't up my behind all the time. They ain't out at my house.
They ain't pulling me over and searching me for "drugs."
I never had tried to talk to an attorney or nothing.
I talked to SLED without an attorney. I had nothing to hide from 'em.
I really didn't take it seriously, to be honest with you.
I knew I hadn't shot his ass,
but he damn sure tried to tell everybody I did,
or he told everybody I did.
[Creighton] The roadside shooting brought Eddie Smith into the picture,
and Alex was trying to put this on Smith,
but that was about to come unraveled for Alex.
[tense music continues]
[Becky] Eddie was called "the fourth Murdaugh."
He helped the Murdaughs clean up whatever they needed cleaning up with.
Eddie and Alex were cousins somewhere down the line,
and from what I've heard, they were involved in financial fraud.
That involved cashing of checks. That involved drugs, probably.
[producer] Are you a drug dealer?
Nope.
If I was a drug dealer, I wasn't a good one. I only had one client.
And that was Alex Murdaugh.
-[producer] What did you do? -Nothing.
Other than me running errands for him.
It started late 2015, early 2016.
I was over at the office one day. I don't remember why I was over there.
He had an envelope that needed to go to Beaufort.
I threw it on the seat, and I heard that "sh-ka, sh-ka, sh-ka."
Rattling, you know?
I knew damn well there wasn't no snake in there.
The sound that a pill bottle would make
when it was half full or whatever, you know?
And I never really looked at the name on the envelope or nothing.
I just assumed it was going to law offices down there.
It was an hour and a half, and I made 200 bucks.
I'm just riding around, you know.
He asked me to go to the airport to meet people.
Different airports around South Carolina, Georgia. You know, small airports.
I'm pretty sure that Buster and Paul both knew of the drugs.
[tense music continues]
I think everybody knew that there was a problem
with Alex's drug problem.
It was like,
we knew, but we didn't discuss it.
I don't know how much. I… I know it was quite a bit.
He had drugs all over the place.
He would have it everywhere.
It was small, little baggies.
Sometimes, they'd have the residue,
and sometimes, you know, there would be a pill in there.
Alex would sometimes leave the baggies. I guess they would fall out of his pocket.
Maggie knew something was up,
but I believe that she didn't know the extent.
[Valerie] So the rumor mill in Hampton County
is that it involved cartels,
potentially money laundering.
And then we've heard rumors about the property owner
who was a close friend of the Murdaughs and owned the property before they did.
There's significant evidence
he may have been involved in drug trafficking.
He was not convicted,
but he was charged with a crime in drug trafficking,
and the witness died just before the trial.
Another theory, I think, that the defense used was drug smuggling
and drug people coming to kill off the family,
to pay for any debts that they might have owed.
[Kenneth] Look, I have worked a lot of death scenes,
from street gangs to outlaw motorcycle gang hits
to self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
I mean, I've worked a lot of bad, bad stuff.
I've never seen it done that way.
In my opinion, it was not an organized hit.
You wouldn't have seen
all those wounds on Ms. Maggie.
It would have been "tap, tap." It would have been over.
It was the work of an amateur or a person that didn't think it out.
[Creighton] Then there was this idea
that Alex was involved in a criminal element or the drug community.
There's still a lot of pending investigations going on,
and we don't comment on pending investigations.
We don't comment on grand jury information.
We also know about the internet. People can write whatever they want.
So we have to be careful that when we draw connections,
that there's actual evidence of those connections.
[producer] Can we talk about the checks?
You cashed a lot of checks for Alex.
Can you speak to that?
He was always walking around with three or four checkbooks.
I cashed a lot of checks for him.
There was a lot them over an eight or ten-year period.
I asked him several times. I said, "This is not money laundering, is it?"
"Nope, just doing me a favor."
"You're cashing my check out of my account."
And all the checks I got was out of his account.
I was trying to figure out how to get out of it.
I wanted out, and when I told him, said, "Look, I'm not doing this anymore,
I'm not gonna be your errand man, so to speak…"
He knew my daughter. He knew I'd put her through school, her education.
And in her route to work, she has to go through a couple of neighborhoods
that's not the best neighborhoods to have to drive through.
And it was like, "Well, is Nicole still working at USC?"
That kind of deal.
So, you know, "I've got you here, and I'm going to keep you here."
I mean, there never… there never was an outright threat.
It was just implied.
There was absolutely nobody,
nobody in four or five counties around here
that I could have went and sit down with and told them what was happening,
that they wouldn't have locked me up in an insane asylum.
That simple.
There's 88 years as a solicitor, and they still got power.
Four generations in one family.
That's unheard of.
The defense also tried to say early on that Eddie Smith, Cousin Eddie,
may have had a motive to come and… and kill the family.
Oh no. It got real heavy real fast.
It seemed like it was all being put off on me.
I was responsible for all of it. I shot Maggie and Paul. Uh…
I stole everybody's money, and I didn't know who everybody was.
[producer] In the month leading up to the June 7th double homicide,
a cashier's check was paid to you
ten days before the murders.
What was that amount for?
As far as the checks that was cashed before or after the murders,
that was… that was $25,000, as you see.
Uh, you know, he would give me the checks, told me to put 'em in a checking account.
He was writing checks back off of 'em. I cashed and give him the money back.
But… that's before it happened, so I mean…
I didn't have no knowledge of what was going to happen.
So I mean, I wouldn't have thought nothing more about it.
[tense music plays]
[producer] Did you help kill Paul?
Nope.
[producer] Did you help kill Maggie?
Nope.
No way I could've known that was gonna happen and stood by and let it happen.
There's nobody deserves that.
[tense music plays]
[Alan] I've probably never felt more pressure in my life to get a case right.
At that time, there was no sufficient evidence
to indict Alex in the murder of Paul and Maggie.
We had known all along this is not gonna be as much a DNA case
or a fingerprint case
or a tire track case or things like that,
that people conceive, from watching shows, like CSI, that exist in every case.
But there's a kind of evidence that's just as good,
and that is the digital evidence, the digital footprint that we all have.
Until that time, we were not able to get into Paul's cell phone
to understand what Paul was doing in his final minutes.
[Creighton] We had information through Rogan Gibson, a close friend of Paul's.
He'd been on the phone with Paul at the kennels the night of the murders.
But we knew that was not going to be enough.
Paul's phone had been locked, and nobody had the password.
We have what they call a partial download, um, because we don't have the passcode.
-Do you know his passcode? -I don't.
He was super secretive with that cell phone.
[Creighton] Another attempt was made with the Secret Service.
Then somebody tried his birthday and, pop, the thing came right open.
It didn't just open up the phone, but it opened up our case.
That is where we found the infamous kennel video.
[judge] Call your next witness.
[Creighton] Thank you, Your Honor. We call Rogan Gibson.
Rogan's testimony was… was one of the ones that I made sure to watch.
Rogan is one of the most loyal people that I have ever met.
We grew up together.
He'd give you the shirt off his back, for sure.
Tell me, how old were you when you got to know Paul Murdaugh?
[Rogan] I've known him all my life.
[Creighton] Were you close friends with Paul until the day he was murdered?
[Rogan] I was.
[Creighton] Did you get close with the rest of the family?
[Rogan] I was.
Like a second family.
-[Creighton] Like a second family to you? -Yes, sir.
Rogan is an old neighbor, old friend of the family.
He was living out of town at the time.
And he needed someone to take care of his new puppy, Cash, for him,
and Paul was doing that.
Paul, he was actually filming his buddy Rogan's dog,
who had something wrong with the tail.
They're down at the kennels.
Paul tried to FaceTime him,
but there was testimony that the signal's very weak.
So instead of FaceTiming with the dog,
he takes this video.
Your Honor, at this time, I'm gonna play defense exhibit 297 for this witness.
[Paul] Get back. Get back.
Sit, Cash. Come on, sit. It's okay. Come here.
Come here, Cash.
Come here.
Cash.
[Maggie] Hey, he's got a bird in his mouth.
[man] He's got a rock.
[Paul] Hey, Bubba.
-[Maggie] It's a guinea. -[Paul] There's a chick there.
[Alex] Come here, Bubba!
I knew she'd gone to the kennel.
I was at the house.
[officer] The last time you saw Paul and Maggie is when y'all were eating supper?
Yes, sir.
After dinner, Maggie and Paul went to the kennels?
I stayed on the couch.
[Alex] Come here, Bubba!
There was a hush that just laid over the whole courtroom.
There was a silence, like an audible gasp,
and then I could notice people kinda inching up, trying to lean in.
Were they hearing this correctly?
[Creighton] Did you recognize the voices on there?
-[Rogan] I did. -[Creighton] What voices did you hear?
[Rogan] Paul's, Ms. Maggie, Mr. Alex.
[Creighton] Can you point out Alex Murdaugh,
the person whose voice you recognize in this video, in this courtroom?
Right there in the gray jacket.
[Creighton] Let the record reflect he's identified the defendant.
There was Maggie. There was Paul. There were the dogs.
The chicken and Bubba. And then there was Alex.
[Blanca] When I saw the video, it was like an eerie feeling.
I heard Paul messing with Cash,
and then I hear Maggie call, talking about, "It's a guinea."
And then, all of a sudden, I hear him calling Bubba.
[Alex] Come here, Bubba.
When I heard the voice, I… I… I automatically knew.
I knew it was him.
That 8:44 video is the linchpin of the whole homicide case
because we know that Maggie and Paul and Alex
are all prolific users of their phones.
And in a matter of minutes,
their phones stop all meaningful activity forever.
Between that 8:44 and 8:49 window,
prosecution was adamant that's when they died.
Alex Murdaugh was there
approximately two minutes before Maggie and Paul were murdered.
This was a piece of information that he did not think was important
for law enforcement to know for over a year.
[Valerie] Gosh, I get chills. I mean, it was haunting to see second by second.
We don't know if those were her last words, but they were among her last.
Paul had that last bit of evidence that was so important.
It was Paul's testimony in a way.
[Anthony] Even though I haven't seen or talked to Paul in three years,
it was like I could, plain as day, see every bit of it.
Paul hollering at the dog.
I mean, it was just like I was there.
I felt like I could… I could picture everything.
He sounded happy to me,
and, uh,
that actually brought a little peace to me, I guess.
[Morgan] Just knowing those were their last moments…
I think that was hard,
and I think it's probably why I watched it so many times.
Ms. Maggie going down to the kennels, I think about that a lot.
She never did that.
If it was dark, she would be in the house.
Ms. Maggie was a scared person.
If Mr. Alex wasn't home, she'd make Paul sleep in the bedroom right next to hers.
She'd go around and lock every door, every window.
I feel like she would have been called down there for a reason.
You know, it's hard.
I just didn't want Mr. Alex's face to be the last thing that Paul saw.
I didn't want him to be murdered at all,
and I think that I battled myself a lot on that internally.
I would think about a million different people that it could have been.
I'm… Like, Mr. Alex killed Paul and Maggie.
The video that was found on Paul's phone proved
that he was definitely in the vicinity and not where he was saying he was,
but I can't tell you that I think he killed his child.
[Valerie] This crucial window, this crucial time when their phones stop,
he says he wasn't there, and we know he was there.
[Becky] Thinking back to the very beginning of the trial,
the family came in.
There was more of a lightheartedness.
Alex would turn around and talk to them.
They would be fist-bumping. They would be talking, hugging.
[Paul] Get back.
[Becky] After the video, there was worry, there was concern.
I think Alex Murdaugh wanted to take the stand.
He wanted to testify because he believed
he could manipulate that jury like he had done so many other times.
I think letting Alex Murdaugh take the stand was a bad move,
but I don't know that they had a choice.
You may call your next witness.
[attorney] Thank you, Your Honor.
The defendant, Richard Alexander Murdaugh, wishes to take the stand.
[Valerie] I remember sitting there thinking,
"Is he gonna prove to be
kinda this magical personal injury lawyer that his reputation was?"
I do remember swearing in Alex.
It seemed like he was racing to get to the stand.
He anticipated the oath, and he answered before I even finished.
I'm Alex Murdaugh.
M-U-R-D-A-U-G-H.
Good morning.
[attorney] Mr. Murdaugh,
on June 7th, 2021, did you take this gun or any gun like it
and shoot your son Paul in the chest
in the feed room at your property off Moselle Road?
[Alex] No, I did not.
[attorney] Mr, Murdaugh, did you take this gun or any gun like it
and blow your son's brains out on June 7th or any day or any time?
[Alex] No, I did not.
Mr. Griffin, I didn't shoot my wife or my son any time, ever.
[Alex] Come here, Bubba.
[attorney] Mr. Murdaugh, is that you
on the kennel video at 8:44 p.m.
on June 7th, the night Maggie and Paul were murdered?
[Alex] It is.
[attorney] Were you at the kennels at 8:44 p.m.
on the night Maggie and Paul were murdered?
I was.
[attorney] Did you lie to SLED Agent Owen
that the last time you saw Maggie and Paul was at dinner?
I did lie to them.
[attorney] Why?
You know, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave."
But once I told a lie,
I had to keep lying.
[Alan] One of the things I found astonishing, as a father and as a husband,
if I leave my house and two minutes later, somebody comes in
and brutally murders everyone in my family,
the one thing I'm gonna be thinking and screaming is,
"If only I'd been there."
"If only I'd been there two minutes longer, I could have saved them."
At no point in his cross-examination did he have any remorse
about literally missing his wife and son's murderers
coming in there and brutally murdering them.
[Valerie] So, in the end, Alex was his own counsel.
There's no doubt in my mind
Alex's testimony hurt his lawyers' case.
[Creighton] When you had a conversation with Ms. Shelly after the fact,
you actually asked her to say that you were there longer than 20 minutes.
You know, I heard Shelly's testimony. I…
[Alex] I believe Shelly to be a good person.
We may have discussed how long I was there.
At that point in time, if I thought I was there 45 minutes,
I may have said I was here 45 minutes, but…
You know, I can't tell you.
He just told a lie because I would never say that if it was not true.
One of the things that stood out about this trial
is that some of the most effective,
heart-wrenching, memorable witnesses were women.
Shelly,
and certainly Blanca.
A lot of times, the defense will request that a jury visit a crime scene.
I believe the defense, in this particular case,
wanted the jury to see how big Moselle was,
how things in the case had lined up.
[somber music plays]
[Valerie] The defense very much wanted
the jury to go to Moselle, and the prosecution agreed.
So the last morning,
the judge arranged for a field trip for the jury.
It was decided there would be a press pool.
So one videographer,
and then one still photographer, and one print reporter.
I was fortunate to be chosen to go.
Don't think there's been a trip like that since the OJ jury went to Brentwood.
This just had resonance nationwide, internationally.
I wanted to make sure that I was seeing and describing
and getting it right for people
and helping explain this kind of momentous trip.
[somber music continues]
[Valerie] One of the first things that I did
was to try to establish the distance between where Maggie fell and Paul fell.
It was just hard to imagine.
I printed out the exhibit that showed where the bodies were found.
You know, Maggie saw everything, and she saw who did it,
from right at that point where she fell.
I remember walking over to the feed room, and then walking back and forth,
counting my steps like, "How far are we?"
It was like 12 normal steps away.
That's exactly how far she was from where he fell.
And, um, we weren't given really any specific instructions,
so I went into the feed room.
Paul would have been standing about five feet in when he was shot.
So I stood as close to where I thought he'd been shot as possible,
and what I realized…
He would not have been able to see,
at least that first shot, who shot him.
But then, if you stumble forward,
there's no doubt he saw who…
who blew the brain out of his body.
[Becky] I had a feeling from our time together with the jury out at Moselle
that it was not gonna take our jury long to make the decision in this case.
It's just called that woman's intuition.
That's when I went into my own office
to be preparing for what we were about to do as far as reading the verdict.
And I called a friend of mine who is the Hampton County clerk of court.
I said, "I don't know if I can do it. I'm gonna get Judge Newman to do it."
"I just don't know that I can do it."
She says, "Honey, you're just gonna read it like any other verdict."
When the jury went back, uh, I was at peak exhaustion.
I think that we felt like we just laid it all out there.
We'd done everything we could do.
[Valerie] The jury broke, and it had been a long day.
I went over to the media center to try to get ready
with whatever we thought the story was gonna be.
And I can remember Dick, Jim, and the defense team
kind of wandering into the media center.
While we were standing there,
Dick got word that the jury had requested monitors for exhibits,
which he took as a positive sign.
[Becky] I had a knock on the door that said the jury is ready to come out.
We're gonna let Judge Newman know
that everyone's ready and gathered in the courtroom.
The jury went back less than an hour.
In short order, you know, allayed the doubts of the doubtful
and said, "We don't need dinner. We're ready."
It was hard to fathom that we'd have a resolution one way or the other.
-Have you reached a verdict? -[jury foreperson] Yes, sir, we have.
-Is it unanimous? -[foreperson] Yes, sir, it is.
All right, if you will pass it up to the clerk, who will pass it to me.
[Becky] He perused over and scanned the verdict forms,
and then he handed it to me.
He said, "Madam Clerk, would you please read the verdict?"
I was very intently being looked at by the defense team, by the family,
really by everyone in the courtroom and probably all over the world.
I just took a breath,
and then I started reading from the indictment,
from the very top to the very bottom, not wanting to miss a thing.
The State of South Carolina, County of Colleton,
in the Court of General Sessions,
in the term of 2022 July,
the State vs. Richard Alexander Murdaugh, Defendant,
indictment for murder…
[tense music plays]
…guilty verdict.
[Becky] You could feel a silence.
And even though no emotion was shown in the courtroom by the family,
I was told that when they got back to the room
that was the holding place for the family to gather,
Buster did break down and fall to his knees and just cried.
I knew my verdict by the time I went back there.
We voted a couple of times.
There were questions about the guns.
Another young lady, she couldn't believe that he did it,
'cause she couldn't believe that a person could kill their own family.
That's what she just kept saying.
And when we voted again,
it was unanimous.
I felt I made the right decision.
I felt we made the right decision.
[Creighton] When I heard Ms. Becky read that guilty verdict,
as I looked down, the team down this way and law enforcement behind us,
I'm just so glad that we didn't put all these folks through all of this
and not get, um, the justice that we thought Maggie and Paul deserved.
[Alan] When the verdict came in guilty, it was total vindication.
Total vindication that I made the right decision.
Total vindication that our team did the right thing,
got the conviction, and proved a lot of naysayers wrong.
Mr. Murdaugh, if you'll come.
The court for sentencing.
This has been, perhaps, one of the most troubling cases,
not just for me, as a judge,
uh, for the State, for the defense team,
but for all of the citizens in this community.
We have a wife who's been murdered,
a son savagely murdered.
But, amazingly, to have you come and testify
that my wife and son and I were out, just enjoying life…
Not credible, not believable.
The expression you gave on the witness stand,
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave," what did you mean by that?
I meant when I lied, I continued to lie.
[judge] All right, Mr. Murdaugh,
in the murder of your wife, Maggie Murdaugh,
I sentence you for the term of the rest of your natural life.
For the murder of Paul,
whom you probably loved so much,,
I sentence you to prison for the rest of your natural life.
Those sentences will run consecutive.
And officers may carry forth on the imposition.
[somber music plays]
[music fades]
[Becky] We thought that, after the verdict,
that it would be a lightheartedness,
that there would be an easiness, more so, in Hampton.
But it opened up a whole other Pandora's box of questions.
I get asked, "Did Alex have help in the murder of Paul and Maggie?"
If he had help, we would have pursued it.
The gathering storm was coming for him,
and he needed to do his last desperate act to save himself
and to preserve his own personal legacy.
And the price he was willing to pay was the murder of Paul and Maggie.
I do think Alex pulled the trigger.
And then I think he had help with
cleaning up everything that needed cleaning up,
and what we had left was the crime scene that took us to the trial.
[Morgan] I think it was premeditated for a really long time.
In the back of my mind, I feel like he might have had some help.
I do think he was the decision-maker though.
I can't think about it, because I'll get sketched out.
The only comment that I have on that situation is
I think that there is another person,
and maybe even more, but there's at least one more person
that needs to be facing the same charges that Mr. Alex's facing,
because I don't think that Mr. Alex could have shot his own child.
Really, we don't know why did he do it, you know.
Maybe one day, he might tell people.
Only he knows why he did it.
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[producer] Do you think that Alex had help?
I don't want to answer that question.
I… I don't…
I… I… I don't feel comfortable answering that question.
I thought of him as a brother.
He… he… he fooled me. He fooled a lot of people.
If Mr. Randolph had been living, none of this would have happened.
Don't think because he's in jail, it's over with.
This is just a bump in the road.
[somber music continues]
[Blanca] I miss when we were at the house by ourselves.
She didn't have to pretend to be anything but Maggie with me,
and I miss that.
I'll never have a friend like that.
I don't know what else to say. I mean, I'm…
She's not here, he's not here,
and I got the dog.
[somber music continues]
Only us.
I guess…
[Blanca sniffs]
I guess it's just us now.
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