1 00:00:08,049 --> 00:00:10,260 [telephone rings] 2 00:00:11,344 --> 00:00:13,930 [dispatcher] Hampton County 911, where is your emergency? 3 00:00:14,514 --> 00:00:17,392 [woman] Yes, um, we're on Salkehatchie Road, 4 00:00:17,475 --> 00:00:20,645 and there is a man on the side of the road with blood all over him 5 00:00:20,729 --> 00:00:22,147 and he's waving his hands. 6 00:00:22,230 --> 00:00:24,649 He looks fine, but it kind of looks like a setup, 7 00:00:24,733 --> 00:00:25,650 so we didn't stop. 8 00:00:25,734 --> 00:00:29,487 [dispatcher] I don't blame you. Let me get my deputies to see what's going on. 9 00:00:29,988 --> 00:00:34,034 [officer] The female says he was driving a Mercedes-Benz SUV kind of truck. 10 00:00:35,201 --> 00:00:39,247 [chatter on the radio] 11 00:00:39,330 --> 00:00:41,166 -[officer] How are you doing? -Hey, how are you? 12 00:00:41,249 --> 00:00:42,542 [officer] Good. What happened? 13 00:00:45,670 --> 00:00:47,005 [Becky] It was Labor Day weekend, 14 00:00:47,088 --> 00:00:50,300 and I got a phone call from a friend of mine in Hampton 15 00:00:50,383 --> 00:00:52,385 who said that Alex had been shot. 16 00:00:52,469 --> 00:00:54,888 And the first thing I thought was, 17 00:00:54,971 --> 00:00:58,808 well, the person who shot Maggie and Paul had found Alex. 18 00:00:59,434 --> 00:01:01,227 Alex had gone to the hospital, 19 00:01:01,311 --> 00:01:04,230 and they're not quite sure who shot him. 20 00:01:04,314 --> 00:01:06,900 A mystery in South Carolina gets even deeper. 21 00:01:06,983 --> 00:01:10,945 Officials telling Fox News 53-year-old attorney Alex Murdaugh 22 00:01:11,029 --> 00:01:14,157 was shot and wounded today in Hampton County, South Carolina. 23 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:15,408 No word on his condition. 24 00:01:15,492 --> 00:01:17,410 [reporter] Alex was airlifted to the hospital. 25 00:01:17,494 --> 00:01:19,412 He'd been shot in the head in broad daylight 26 00:01:19,496 --> 00:01:22,332 while he was changing a tire on the side of the road. 27 00:01:23,124 --> 00:01:26,127 [Becky] Alex's story kept changing all in one day. 28 00:01:26,211 --> 00:01:29,380 I believe we found out that Cousin Eddie was involved. 29 00:01:42,268 --> 00:01:43,103 [Eddie] Yeah. 30 00:01:43,853 --> 00:01:45,480 I never was a quiet person. 31 00:01:46,523 --> 00:01:49,400 Name's Curtis Edward Smith. Everybody calls me Eddie. 32 00:01:52,112 --> 00:01:53,113 Come on, baby. 33 00:01:54,364 --> 00:01:55,281 Damn. 34 00:01:55,365 --> 00:02:00,286 I met Alex in the late '80s, you know, uh, early '90s. 35 00:02:00,787 --> 00:02:03,540 I knew his father, which I'm half Murdaugh. 36 00:02:03,623 --> 00:02:06,459 Don't tell nobody. [laughs] Really, don't. 37 00:02:07,961 --> 00:02:11,631 I was friends with Alex, and I also done a bit of work for Alex over the years. 38 00:02:12,841 --> 00:02:16,386 Running errands for him or doing a little minor work, 39 00:02:16,469 --> 00:02:18,638 like general land clearing type of work, 40 00:02:19,597 --> 00:02:22,475 cutting canals or waterways through properties 41 00:02:22,559 --> 00:02:24,185 so it gets proper drainage. 42 00:02:33,736 --> 00:02:37,115 He called me about 10, 10:30 in the morning, asking what I was doing. 43 00:02:37,198 --> 00:02:38,867 I said, "Nothing, just worked late." 44 00:02:38,950 --> 00:02:41,244 He said, "Can you run over this way a minute?" 45 00:02:41,995 --> 00:02:45,707 He told me to meet him at the funeral home in Varnville. 46 00:02:46,708 --> 00:02:48,501 Looked up, he's coming down the road. 47 00:02:50,211 --> 00:02:54,048 He pulled the sun visor around to where it was in his window, you know, 48 00:02:54,132 --> 00:02:55,383 and he rolls his window up, 49 00:02:55,466 --> 00:02:58,052 so I'm looking at him through a hole like this. 50 00:02:58,136 --> 00:02:59,345 I said, What are you doing?" 51 00:02:59,846 --> 00:03:03,183 He goes, "Well… I don't need to be seen in town." 52 00:03:06,519 --> 00:03:08,730 And he said, "Well, I'm being watched." 53 00:03:08,813 --> 00:03:11,482 I said, "Well, who's watching you?" He said, "SLED." 54 00:03:13,109 --> 00:03:15,111 And I said, "Why are they watching you for?" 55 00:03:16,237 --> 00:03:18,740 He said, "Well, you know, about what happened." 56 00:03:18,823 --> 00:03:20,533 I said, "You mean out at Moselle?" 57 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:23,828 He said, "Yeah." I said, "Man, what did happen?" 58 00:03:23,912 --> 00:03:25,997 He said, "Things just got all fucked up." 59 00:03:27,332 --> 00:03:28,249 Just like that. 60 00:03:28,958 --> 00:03:31,294 He said, "You love me?" I said, "Yeah, like a brother." 61 00:03:31,377 --> 00:03:32,879 "I'd do most anything for you." 62 00:03:33,379 --> 00:03:35,423 He said, "I need you to shoot me and kill me." 63 00:03:35,506 --> 00:03:39,677 "That ain't happening. Not today, not tomorrow. It ain't happening." 64 00:03:40,553 --> 00:03:44,766 And he just… So he just, "Well, I guess I got to try to do it myself." 65 00:03:44,849 --> 00:03:45,767 He takes off. 66 00:03:46,768 --> 00:03:47,769 I went after him. 67 00:03:47,852 --> 00:03:51,022 I just… I just followed him out of just pure concern, 68 00:03:52,148 --> 00:03:53,942 you know, as much as anything else is. 69 00:03:54,025 --> 00:03:56,277 Good Lord, Maggie and Paul was already dead. 70 00:03:56,361 --> 00:03:58,947 Mr. Randolph died three or four days later. 71 00:03:59,030 --> 00:04:00,865 The family don't need a whole lot more going on. 72 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:05,245 And when I pulled up there, and I rolled the window down, 73 00:04:05,328 --> 00:04:07,247 he's coming up to my window with a gun. 74 00:04:07,330 --> 00:04:09,332 I figured I'd scare some sense into him. 75 00:04:11,292 --> 00:04:12,543 I fired it up in the air. 76 00:04:13,127 --> 00:04:15,171 All 6'5" or 6'7" of him just 77 00:04:16,297 --> 00:04:17,507 hit the asphalt like that. 78 00:04:18,007 --> 00:04:20,093 That's where that spot on the head comes from, 79 00:04:20,176 --> 00:04:22,804 from the rocks sticking up on the side of the road, 80 00:04:22,887 --> 00:04:26,766 not from a bullet bounced off his head from less than six foot behind. 81 00:04:27,850 --> 00:04:30,895 But he had told me… I said, "Why'd you want me to shoot you?" 82 00:04:32,313 --> 00:04:33,815 "Because they're gonna be able to prove 83 00:04:33,898 --> 00:04:36,067 that I was responsible for Maggie and Paul." 84 00:04:37,151 --> 00:04:38,653 And I knew I hadn't shot him. 85 00:04:39,195 --> 00:04:42,156 I knew there wasn't no blood on him, there wasn't no blood on me, 86 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:43,324 so I went home. 87 00:04:43,783 --> 00:04:45,785 [mysterious music plays] 88 00:04:48,955 --> 00:04:55,128 [chatter on radio] 89 00:04:55,253 --> 00:04:57,380 -[officer] How are you doing, sir? -Hey, how are you? 90 00:04:57,463 --> 00:04:59,340 -[officer] What happened? -I got shot. 91 00:05:01,092 --> 00:05:03,177 [officer] Tell me more about what-- 92 00:05:03,261 --> 00:05:09,475 [Alex] I was… I'm going down the road. I had a tire go flat. I pulled over. 93 00:05:10,226 --> 00:05:12,812 And this car went by me. 94 00:05:12,895 --> 00:05:15,315 And I didn't pay a lot of attention to the truck, 95 00:05:15,398 --> 00:05:17,608 but then it turned around, came back. 96 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:20,987 A real nice guy, acted like, 97 00:05:21,612 --> 00:05:26,451 and I turn my head, and, I mean, boom. 98 00:05:28,995 --> 00:05:30,413 [Eddie] Then, six, seven days later, 99 00:05:30,496 --> 00:05:32,957 State Law Enforcement Division here started to come around 100 00:05:33,041 --> 00:05:35,126 asking me a bunch of questions and everything. 101 00:05:35,209 --> 00:05:37,795 That's when I found out that I was supposed to have shot him 102 00:05:37,879 --> 00:05:39,547 in the back of the head with a .38. 103 00:05:40,048 --> 00:05:42,592 Agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division 104 00:05:42,675 --> 00:05:47,305 have arrested 61-year-old Curtis Edward Smith of Colleton County. 105 00:05:47,388 --> 00:05:49,766 State authorities say Smith planned the shooting. 106 00:05:49,849 --> 00:05:52,435 Now the question remains, who is Curtis Smith, 107 00:05:52,518 --> 00:05:55,855 and did he have any ties to the Murdaugh family before all this? 108 00:05:55,938 --> 00:05:58,232 [producer] What did it feel like to see that on the news? 109 00:05:58,316 --> 00:06:00,318 [tense music plays] 110 00:06:02,403 --> 00:06:05,114 It was just disheartening. I mean, it really was. 111 00:06:05,198 --> 00:06:07,700 I mean, I had… I'd never been in no trouble… 112 00:06:09,827 --> 00:06:10,787 with the law. 113 00:06:10,870 --> 00:06:14,332 The law ain't up my behind all the time. They ain't out at my house. 114 00:06:14,415 --> 00:06:17,251 They ain't pulling me over and searching me for "drugs." 115 00:06:19,295 --> 00:06:23,174 I never had tried to talk to an attorney or nothing. 116 00:06:24,258 --> 00:06:28,304 I talked to SLED without an attorney. I had nothing to hide from 'em. 117 00:06:29,097 --> 00:06:32,266 I really didn't take it seriously, to be honest with you. 118 00:06:33,726 --> 00:06:35,353 I knew I hadn't shot his ass, 119 00:06:35,436 --> 00:06:37,563 but he damn sure tried to tell everybody I did, 120 00:06:37,647 --> 00:06:39,107 or he told everybody I did. 121 00:06:40,108 --> 00:06:42,902 [Creighton] The roadside shooting brought Eddie Smith into the picture, 122 00:06:42,985 --> 00:06:45,822 and Alex was trying to put this on Smith, 123 00:06:45,905 --> 00:06:48,241 but that was about to come unraveled for Alex. 124 00:06:48,324 --> 00:06:50,159 [tense music continues] 125 00:06:50,243 --> 00:06:52,370 [Becky] Eddie was called "the fourth Murdaugh." 126 00:06:52,870 --> 00:06:57,041 He helped the Murdaughs clean up whatever they needed cleaning up with. 127 00:06:57,125 --> 00:07:00,545 Eddie and Alex were cousins somewhere down the line, 128 00:07:00,628 --> 00:07:05,633 and from what I've heard, they were involved in financial fraud. 129 00:07:06,134 --> 00:07:10,096 That involved cashing of checks. That involved drugs, probably. 130 00:07:11,389 --> 00:07:12,849 [producer] Are you a drug dealer? 131 00:07:13,349 --> 00:07:14,183 Nope. 132 00:07:14,725 --> 00:07:15,560 Nope. 133 00:07:15,643 --> 00:07:18,729 If I was a drug dealer, I wasn't a good one. I only had one client. 134 00:07:20,481 --> 00:07:21,899 And that was Alex Murdaugh. 135 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:24,527 -[producer] What did you do? -Nothing. 136 00:07:25,445 --> 00:07:27,405 Other than me running errands for him. 137 00:07:33,578 --> 00:07:37,165 It started late 2015, early 2016. 138 00:07:37,790 --> 00:07:40,668 I was over at the office one day. I don't remember why I was over there. 139 00:07:40,751 --> 00:07:43,171 He had an envelope that needed to go to Beaufort. 140 00:07:44,255 --> 00:07:47,967 I threw it on the seat, and I heard that "sh-ka, sh-ka, sh-ka." 141 00:07:48,050 --> 00:07:49,802 Rattling, you know? 142 00:07:49,886 --> 00:07:52,180 I knew damn well there wasn't no snake in there. 143 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,391 The sound that a pill bottle would make 144 00:07:55,475 --> 00:07:57,643 when it was half full or whatever, you know? 145 00:07:59,020 --> 00:08:02,315 And I never really looked at the name on the envelope or nothing. 146 00:08:02,398 --> 00:08:04,901 I just assumed it was going to law offices down there. 147 00:08:04,984 --> 00:08:07,403 It was an hour and a half, and I made 200 bucks. 148 00:08:08,029 --> 00:08:09,697 I'm just riding around, you know. 149 00:08:11,949 --> 00:08:14,160 He asked me to go to the airport to meet people. 150 00:08:14,243 --> 00:08:17,497 Different airports around South Carolina, Georgia. You know, small airports. 151 00:08:18,498 --> 00:08:23,461 I'm pretty sure that Buster and Paul both knew of the drugs. 152 00:08:23,544 --> 00:08:25,880 [tense music continues] 153 00:08:28,758 --> 00:08:32,136 I think everybody knew that there was a problem 154 00:08:32,845 --> 00:08:36,265 with Alex's drug problem. 155 00:08:36,849 --> 00:08:37,683 It was like, 156 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:41,896 we knew, but we didn't discuss it. 157 00:08:42,939 --> 00:08:45,816 I don't know how much. I… I know it was quite a bit. 158 00:08:46,943 --> 00:08:49,153 He had drugs all over the place. 159 00:08:50,321 --> 00:08:51,906 He would have it everywhere. 160 00:08:51,989 --> 00:08:54,825 It was small, little baggies. 161 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:57,036 Sometimes, they'd have the residue, 162 00:08:57,119 --> 00:08:59,914 and sometimes, you know, there would be a pill in there. 163 00:09:00,957 --> 00:09:05,211 Alex would sometimes leave the baggies. I guess they would fall out of his pocket. 164 00:09:05,836 --> 00:09:07,755 Maggie knew something was up, 165 00:09:09,715 --> 00:09:13,094 but I believe that she didn't know the extent. 166 00:09:14,637 --> 00:09:16,722 [Valerie] So the rumor mill in Hampton County 167 00:09:16,806 --> 00:09:18,516 is that it involved cartels, 168 00:09:18,599 --> 00:09:20,226 potentially money laundering. 169 00:09:21,143 --> 00:09:24,397 And then we've heard rumors about the property owner 170 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,943 who was a close friend of the Murdaughs and owned the property before they did. 171 00:09:29,026 --> 00:09:30,486 There's significant evidence 172 00:09:30,570 --> 00:09:32,863 he may have been involved in drug trafficking. 173 00:09:32,947 --> 00:09:34,073 He was not convicted, 174 00:09:34,156 --> 00:09:37,702 but he was charged with a crime in drug trafficking, 175 00:09:37,785 --> 00:09:40,538 and the witness died just before the trial. 176 00:09:41,330 --> 00:09:46,168 Another theory, I think, that the defense used was drug smuggling 177 00:09:46,252 --> 00:09:49,297 and drug people coming to kill off the family, 178 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:52,091 to pay for any debts that they might have owed. 179 00:09:54,260 --> 00:09:57,847 [Kenneth] Look, I have worked a lot of death scenes, 180 00:09:57,930 --> 00:10:02,226 from street gangs to outlaw motorcycle gang hits 181 00:10:02,310 --> 00:10:05,104 to self-inflicted gunshot wounds. 182 00:10:05,187 --> 00:10:07,898 I mean, I've worked a lot of bad, bad stuff. 183 00:10:07,982 --> 00:10:10,067 I've never seen it done that way. 184 00:10:11,652 --> 00:10:14,572 In my opinion, it was not an organized hit. 185 00:10:15,323 --> 00:10:17,116 You wouldn't have seen 186 00:10:17,199 --> 00:10:19,118 all those wounds on Ms. Maggie. 187 00:10:20,328 --> 00:10:23,080 It would have been "tap, tap." It would have been over. 188 00:10:23,164 --> 00:10:26,334 It was the work of an amateur or a person that didn't think it out. 189 00:10:26,417 --> 00:10:27,877 [Creighton] Then there was this idea 190 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:32,048 that Alex was involved in a criminal element or the drug community. 191 00:10:32,548 --> 00:10:34,842 There's still a lot of pending investigations going on, 192 00:10:34,925 --> 00:10:37,011 and we don't comment on pending investigations. 193 00:10:37,094 --> 00:10:39,639 We don't comment on grand jury information. 194 00:10:39,722 --> 00:10:43,601 We also know about the internet. People can write whatever they want. 195 00:10:43,684 --> 00:10:47,146 So we have to be careful that when we draw connections, 196 00:10:47,229 --> 00:10:49,273 that there's actual evidence of those connections. 197 00:10:51,359 --> 00:10:53,110 [producer] Can we talk about the checks? 198 00:10:54,695 --> 00:10:56,113 You cashed a lot of checks for Alex. 199 00:10:57,740 --> 00:10:58,866 Can you speak to that? 200 00:11:01,285 --> 00:11:03,579 He was always walking around with three or four checkbooks. 201 00:11:04,497 --> 00:11:05,831 I cashed a lot of checks for him. 202 00:11:05,915 --> 00:11:08,209 There was a lot them over an eight or ten-year period. 203 00:11:11,420 --> 00:11:15,049 I asked him several times. I said, "This is not money laundering, is it?" 204 00:11:15,716 --> 00:11:18,511 "Nope, just doing me a favor." 205 00:11:18,594 --> 00:11:21,138 "You're cashing my check out of my account." 206 00:11:21,972 --> 00:11:24,225 And all the checks I got was out of his account. 207 00:11:24,934 --> 00:11:27,353 I was trying to figure out how to get out of it. 208 00:11:28,062 --> 00:11:34,902 I wanted out, and when I told him, said, "Look, I'm not doing this anymore, 209 00:11:34,985 --> 00:11:38,030 I'm not gonna be your errand man, so to speak…" 210 00:11:39,532 --> 00:11:43,661 He knew my daughter. He knew I'd put her through school, her education. 211 00:11:44,453 --> 00:11:49,500 And in her route to work, she has to go through a couple of neighborhoods 212 00:11:49,583 --> 00:11:51,961 that's not the best neighborhoods to have to drive through. 213 00:11:52,962 --> 00:11:56,340 And it was like, "Well, is Nicole still working at USC?" 214 00:11:58,676 --> 00:11:59,593 That kind of deal. 215 00:12:00,219 --> 00:12:04,682 So, you know, "I've got you here, and I'm going to keep you here." 216 00:12:04,765 --> 00:12:07,643 I mean, there never… there never was an outright threat. 217 00:12:08,853 --> 00:12:09,979 It was just implied. 218 00:12:11,021 --> 00:12:13,941 There was absolutely nobody, 219 00:12:15,067 --> 00:12:18,779 nobody in four or five counties around here 220 00:12:19,488 --> 00:12:23,451 that I could have went and sit down with and told them what was happening, 221 00:12:23,534 --> 00:12:26,078 that they wouldn't have locked me up in an insane asylum. 222 00:12:28,456 --> 00:12:29,415 That simple. 223 00:12:30,666 --> 00:12:34,795 There's 88 years as a solicitor, and they still got power. 224 00:12:35,504 --> 00:12:37,131 Four generations in one family. 225 00:12:39,133 --> 00:12:40,217 That's unheard of. 226 00:12:43,304 --> 00:12:47,349 The defense also tried to say early on that Eddie Smith, Cousin Eddie, 227 00:12:47,433 --> 00:12:51,479 may have had a motive to come and… and kill the family. 228 00:12:52,855 --> 00:12:55,524 Oh no. It got real heavy real fast. 229 00:12:56,150 --> 00:12:58,027 It seemed like it was all being put off on me. 230 00:12:58,110 --> 00:13:01,989 I was responsible for all of it. I shot Maggie and Paul. Uh… 231 00:13:03,616 --> 00:13:06,577 I stole everybody's money, and I didn't know who everybody was. 232 00:13:08,537 --> 00:13:11,499 [producer] In the month leading up to the June 7th double homicide, 233 00:13:11,582 --> 00:13:14,084 a cashier's check was paid to you 234 00:13:14,668 --> 00:13:17,463 ten days before the murders. 235 00:13:17,546 --> 00:13:18,881 What was that amount for? 236 00:13:19,590 --> 00:13:23,219 As far as the checks that was cashed before or after the murders, 237 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:27,014 that was… that was $25,000, as you see. 238 00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:32,686 Uh, you know, he would give me the checks, told me to put 'em in a checking account. 239 00:13:32,770 --> 00:13:36,357 He was writing checks back off of 'em. I cashed and give him the money back. 240 00:13:37,066 --> 00:13:40,736 But… that's before it happened, so I mean… 241 00:13:41,779 --> 00:13:44,156 I didn't have no knowledge of what was going to happen. 242 00:13:44,782 --> 00:13:46,951 So I mean, I wouldn't have thought nothing more about it. 243 00:13:47,034 --> 00:13:48,911 [tense music plays] 244 00:13:53,082 --> 00:13:55,000 [producer] Did you help kill Paul? 245 00:13:56,293 --> 00:13:57,127 Nope. 246 00:13:59,421 --> 00:14:01,006 [producer] Did you help kill Maggie? 247 00:14:01,507 --> 00:14:02,341 Nope. 248 00:14:03,884 --> 00:14:07,763 No way I could've known that was gonna happen and stood by and let it happen. 249 00:14:08,597 --> 00:14:10,057 There's nobody deserves that. 250 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:16,856 [tense music plays] 251 00:14:19,692 --> 00:14:23,487 [Alan] I've probably never felt more pressure in my life to get a case right. 252 00:14:23,988 --> 00:14:26,323 At that time, there was no sufficient evidence 253 00:14:26,407 --> 00:14:28,534 to indict Alex in the murder of Paul and Maggie. 254 00:14:29,493 --> 00:14:33,372 We had known all along this is not gonna be as much a DNA case 255 00:14:33,455 --> 00:14:34,623 or a fingerprint case 256 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:36,584 or a tire track case or things like that, 257 00:14:36,667 --> 00:14:41,297 that people conceive, from watching shows, like CSI, that exist in every case. 258 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:43,465 But there's a kind of evidence that's just as good, 259 00:14:43,549 --> 00:14:46,677 and that is the digital evidence, the digital footprint that we all have. 260 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,889 Until that time, we were not able to get into Paul's cell phone 261 00:14:49,972 --> 00:14:52,266 to understand what Paul was doing in his final minutes. 262 00:14:53,350 --> 00:14:57,187 [Creighton] We had information through Rogan Gibson, a close friend of Paul's. 263 00:14:57,271 --> 00:15:00,900 He'd been on the phone with Paul at the kennels the night of the murders. 264 00:15:02,818 --> 00:15:05,362 But we knew that was not going to be enough. 265 00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:09,658 Paul's phone had been locked, and nobody had the password. 266 00:15:09,742 --> 00:15:14,788 We have what they call a partial download, um, because we don't have the passcode. 267 00:15:15,372 --> 00:15:17,625 -Do you know his passcode? -I don't. 268 00:15:17,708 --> 00:15:21,170 He was super secretive with that cell phone. 269 00:15:22,004 --> 00:15:24,840 [Creighton] Another attempt was made with the Secret Service. 270 00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:28,427 Then somebody tried his birthday and, pop, the thing came right open. 271 00:15:28,510 --> 00:15:30,888 It didn't just open up the phone, but it opened up our case. 272 00:15:30,971 --> 00:15:33,557 That is where we found the infamous kennel video. 273 00:15:34,224 --> 00:15:35,851 [judge] Call your next witness. 274 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:38,062 [Creighton] Thank you, Your Honor. We call Rogan Gibson. 275 00:15:46,487 --> 00:15:51,450 Rogan's testimony was… was one of the ones that I made sure to watch. 276 00:15:51,533 --> 00:15:54,536 Rogan is one of the most loyal people that I have ever met. 277 00:15:55,037 --> 00:15:56,038 We grew up together. 278 00:15:56,121 --> 00:15:58,582 He'd give you the shirt off his back, for sure. 279 00:15:59,083 --> 00:16:01,752 Tell me, how old were you when you got to know Paul Murdaugh? 280 00:16:02,252 --> 00:16:03,963 [Rogan] I've known him all my life. 281 00:16:04,046 --> 00:16:07,049 [Creighton] Were you close friends with Paul until the day he was murdered? 282 00:16:07,132 --> 00:16:07,967 [Rogan] I was. 283 00:16:08,050 --> 00:16:10,386 [Creighton] Did you get close with the rest of the family? 284 00:16:10,469 --> 00:16:11,345 [Rogan] I was. 285 00:16:11,428 --> 00:16:12,471 Like a second family. 286 00:16:12,554 --> 00:16:14,682 -[Creighton] Like a second family to you? -Yes, sir. 287 00:16:15,182 --> 00:16:18,602 Rogan is an old neighbor, old friend of the family. 288 00:16:18,686 --> 00:16:20,229 He was living out of town at the time. 289 00:16:20,312 --> 00:16:24,108 And he needed someone to take care of his new puppy, Cash, for him, 290 00:16:24,191 --> 00:16:25,651 and Paul was doing that. 291 00:16:25,734 --> 00:16:29,571 Paul, he was actually filming his buddy Rogan's dog, 292 00:16:29,655 --> 00:16:31,699 who had something wrong with the tail. 293 00:16:31,782 --> 00:16:32,866 They're down at the kennels. 294 00:16:32,950 --> 00:16:34,451 Paul tried to FaceTime him, 295 00:16:34,535 --> 00:16:37,037 but there was testimony that the signal's very weak. 296 00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:39,456 So instead of FaceTiming with the dog, 297 00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:40,749 he takes this video. 298 00:16:41,333 --> 00:16:46,255 Your Honor, at this time, I'm gonna play defense exhibit 297 for this witness. 299 00:16:52,886 --> 00:16:54,221 [Paul] Get back. Get back. 300 00:17:02,604 --> 00:17:06,400 Sit, Cash. Come on, sit. It's okay. Come here. 301 00:17:08,318 --> 00:17:09,278 Come here, Cash. 302 00:17:10,779 --> 00:17:11,655 Come here. 303 00:17:12,614 --> 00:17:13,449 Cash. 304 00:17:13,949 --> 00:17:16,118 [Maggie] Hey, he's got a bird in his mouth. 305 00:17:16,201 --> 00:17:17,286 [man] He's got a rock. 306 00:17:18,287 --> 00:17:19,371 [Paul] Hey, Bubba. 307 00:17:21,290 --> 00:17:23,834 -[Maggie] It's a guinea. -[Paul] There's a chick there. 308 00:17:25,502 --> 00:17:26,462 [Alex] Come here, Bubba! 309 00:17:27,129 --> 00:17:28,922 I knew she'd gone to the kennel. 310 00:17:29,006 --> 00:17:30,257 I was at the house. 311 00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:33,427 [officer] The last time you saw Paul and Maggie is when y'all were eating supper? 312 00:17:33,510 --> 00:17:34,344 Yes, sir. 313 00:17:34,428 --> 00:17:37,556 After dinner, Maggie and Paul went to the kennels? 314 00:17:37,639 --> 00:17:39,141 I stayed on the couch. 315 00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:40,768 [Alex] Come here, Bubba! 316 00:17:49,610 --> 00:17:52,196 There was a hush that just laid over the whole courtroom. 317 00:17:52,696 --> 00:17:55,491 There was a silence, like an audible gasp, 318 00:17:56,033 --> 00:18:00,120 and then I could notice people kinda inching up, trying to lean in. 319 00:18:00,204 --> 00:18:01,789 Were they hearing this correctly? 320 00:18:02,623 --> 00:18:04,583 [Creighton] Did you recognize the voices on there? 321 00:18:04,666 --> 00:18:06,710 -[Rogan] I did. -[Creighton] What voices did you hear? 322 00:18:07,211 --> 00:18:09,296 [Rogan] Paul's, Ms. Maggie, Mr. Alex. 323 00:18:10,047 --> 00:18:11,715 [Creighton] Can you point out Alex Murdaugh, 324 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:14,968 the person whose voice you recognize in this video, in this courtroom? 325 00:18:15,052 --> 00:18:16,470 Right there in the gray jacket. 326 00:18:17,179 --> 00:18:19,681 [Creighton] Let the record reflect he's identified the defendant. 327 00:18:24,937 --> 00:18:28,190 There was Maggie. There was Paul. There were the dogs. 328 00:18:28,899 --> 00:18:31,610 The chicken and Bubba. And then there was Alex. 329 00:18:33,612 --> 00:18:37,616 [Blanca] When I saw the video, it was like an eerie feeling. 330 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,578 I heard Paul messing with Cash, 331 00:18:42,162 --> 00:18:45,374 and then I hear Maggie call, talking about, "It's a guinea." 332 00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:49,586 And then, all of a sudden, I hear him calling Bubba. 333 00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:50,671 [Alex] Come here, Bubba. 334 00:18:51,213 --> 00:18:54,341 When I heard the voice, I… I… I automatically knew. 335 00:18:55,050 --> 00:18:56,135 I knew it was him. 336 00:18:57,177 --> 00:19:00,931 That 8:44 video is the linchpin of the whole homicide case 337 00:19:01,014 --> 00:19:04,184 because we know that Maggie and Paul and Alex 338 00:19:04,268 --> 00:19:06,520 are all prolific users of their phones. 339 00:19:06,603 --> 00:19:08,230 And in a matter of minutes, 340 00:19:08,313 --> 00:19:11,733 their phones stop all meaningful activity forever. 341 00:19:13,485 --> 00:19:15,529 Between that 8:44 and 8:49 window, 342 00:19:15,612 --> 00:19:17,573 prosecution was adamant that's when they died. 343 00:19:17,656 --> 00:19:19,741 Alex Murdaugh was there 344 00:19:20,492 --> 00:19:23,328 approximately two minutes before Maggie and Paul were murdered. 345 00:19:23,412 --> 00:19:27,666 This was a piece of information that he did not think was important 346 00:19:27,749 --> 00:19:30,669 for law enforcement to know for over a year. 347 00:19:31,628 --> 00:19:36,133 [Valerie] Gosh, I get chills. I mean, it was haunting to see second by second. 348 00:19:36,925 --> 00:19:40,262 We don't know if those were her last words, but they were among her last. 349 00:19:40,345 --> 00:19:42,890 Paul had that last bit of evidence that was so important. 350 00:19:42,973 --> 00:19:44,516 It was Paul's testimony in a way. 351 00:19:45,976 --> 00:19:50,355 [Anthony] Even though I haven't seen or talked to Paul in three years, 352 00:19:50,439 --> 00:19:53,734 it was like I could, plain as day, see every bit of it. 353 00:19:55,235 --> 00:19:57,196 Paul hollering at the dog. 354 00:19:57,279 --> 00:19:59,531 I mean, it was just like I was there. 355 00:19:59,615 --> 00:20:02,618 I felt like I could… I could picture everything. 356 00:20:02,701 --> 00:20:04,077 He sounded happy to me, 357 00:20:05,037 --> 00:20:05,913 and, uh, 358 00:20:07,789 --> 00:20:10,417 that actually brought a little peace to me, I guess. 359 00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:14,171 [Morgan] Just knowing those were their last moments… 360 00:20:16,173 --> 00:20:17,507 I think that was hard, 361 00:20:18,008 --> 00:20:20,677 and I think it's probably why I watched it so many times. 362 00:20:21,762 --> 00:20:24,890 Ms. Maggie going down to the kennels, I think about that a lot. 363 00:20:26,016 --> 00:20:27,184 She never did that. 364 00:20:27,684 --> 00:20:29,811 If it was dark, she would be in the house. 365 00:20:30,771 --> 00:20:32,356 Ms. Maggie was a scared person. 366 00:20:32,439 --> 00:20:36,526 If Mr. Alex wasn't home, she'd make Paul sleep in the bedroom right next to hers. 367 00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:39,696 She'd go around and lock every door, every window. 368 00:20:40,489 --> 00:20:43,283 I feel like she would have been called down there for a reason. 369 00:20:44,326 --> 00:20:45,327 You know, it's hard. 370 00:20:45,827 --> 00:20:49,206 I just didn't want Mr. Alex's face to be the last thing that Paul saw. 371 00:20:50,457 --> 00:20:52,334 I didn't want him to be murdered at all, 372 00:20:52,417 --> 00:20:56,088 and I think that I battled myself a lot on that internally. 373 00:20:56,171 --> 00:20:59,841 I would think about a million different people that it could have been. 374 00:21:01,051 --> 00:21:03,178 I'm… Like, Mr. Alex killed Paul and Maggie. 375 00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:08,350 The video that was found on Paul's phone proved 376 00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:12,062 that he was definitely in the vicinity and not where he was saying he was, 377 00:21:12,145 --> 00:21:15,565 but I can't tell you that I think he killed his child. 378 00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:22,114 [Valerie] This crucial window, this crucial time when their phones stop, 379 00:21:22,656 --> 00:21:25,492 he says he wasn't there, and we know he was there. 380 00:21:28,328 --> 00:21:30,831 [Becky] Thinking back to the very beginning of the trial, 381 00:21:30,914 --> 00:21:32,374 the family came in. 382 00:21:32,874 --> 00:21:36,003 There was more of a lightheartedness. 383 00:21:36,086 --> 00:21:37,921 Alex would turn around and talk to them. 384 00:21:38,005 --> 00:21:41,049 They would be fist-bumping. They would be talking, hugging. 385 00:21:43,719 --> 00:21:44,553 [Paul] Get back. 386 00:21:44,636 --> 00:21:47,973 [Becky] After the video, there was worry, there was concern. 387 00:21:49,808 --> 00:21:52,978 I think Alex Murdaugh wanted to take the stand. 388 00:21:53,061 --> 00:21:55,230 He wanted to testify because he believed 389 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:58,692 he could manipulate that jury like he had done so many other times. 390 00:21:58,775 --> 00:22:02,112 I think letting Alex Murdaugh take the stand was a bad move, 391 00:22:02,195 --> 00:22:04,031 but I don't know that they had a choice. 392 00:22:04,114 --> 00:22:05,532 You may call your next witness. 393 00:22:08,452 --> 00:22:09,786 [attorney] Thank you, Your Honor. 394 00:22:10,871 --> 00:22:15,459 The defendant, Richard Alexander Murdaugh, wishes to take the stand. 395 00:22:17,544 --> 00:22:19,212 [Valerie] I remember sitting there thinking, 396 00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:20,756 "Is he gonna prove to be 397 00:22:20,839 --> 00:22:24,634 kinda this magical personal injury lawyer that his reputation was?" 398 00:22:24,718 --> 00:22:26,219 I do remember swearing in Alex. 399 00:22:26,887 --> 00:22:29,473 It seemed like he was racing to get to the stand. 400 00:22:29,556 --> 00:22:32,976 He anticipated the oath, and he answered before I even finished. 401 00:22:33,852 --> 00:22:34,936 I'm Alex Murdaugh. 402 00:22:35,437 --> 00:22:38,106 M-U-R-D-A-U-G-H. 403 00:22:39,524 --> 00:22:40,359 Good morning. 404 00:22:44,488 --> 00:22:45,447 [attorney] Mr. Murdaugh, 405 00:22:46,615 --> 00:22:52,412 on June 7th, 2021, did you take this gun or any gun like it 406 00:22:53,538 --> 00:22:56,124 and shoot your son Paul in the chest 407 00:22:56,208 --> 00:22:59,169 in the feed room at your property off Moselle Road? 408 00:22:59,252 --> 00:23:00,379 [Alex] No, I did not. 409 00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:04,883 [attorney] Mr, Murdaugh, did you take this gun or any gun like it 410 00:23:05,592 --> 00:23:11,098 and blow your son's brains out on June 7th or any day or any time? 411 00:23:11,181 --> 00:23:12,140 [Alex] No, I did not. 412 00:23:12,641 --> 00:23:17,604 Mr. Griffin, I didn't shoot my wife or my son any time, ever. 413 00:23:18,772 --> 00:23:19,731 [Alex] Come here, Bubba. 414 00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:21,608 [attorney] Mr. Murdaugh, is that you 415 00:23:22,317 --> 00:23:24,528 on the kennel video at 8:44 p.m. 416 00:23:24,611 --> 00:23:27,406 on June 7th, the night Maggie and Paul were murdered? 417 00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:28,323 [Alex] It is. 418 00:23:29,282 --> 00:23:31,785 [attorney] Were you at the kennels at 8:44 p.m. 419 00:23:31,868 --> 00:23:33,537 on the night Maggie and Paul were murdered? 420 00:23:33,620 --> 00:23:34,454 I was. 421 00:23:36,248 --> 00:23:38,291 [attorney] Did you lie to SLED Agent Owen 422 00:23:38,375 --> 00:23:41,837 that the last time you saw Maggie and Paul was at dinner? 423 00:23:42,629 --> 00:23:43,713 I did lie to them. 424 00:23:44,756 --> 00:23:45,757 [attorney] Why? 425 00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:53,682 You know, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave." 426 00:23:53,765 --> 00:23:55,517 But once I told a lie, 427 00:23:56,393 --> 00:23:57,644 I had to keep lying. 428 00:23:59,604 --> 00:24:02,983 [Alan] One of the things I found astonishing, as a father and as a husband, 429 00:24:03,608 --> 00:24:07,571 if I leave my house and two minutes later, somebody comes in 430 00:24:07,654 --> 00:24:09,781 and brutally murders everyone in my family, 431 00:24:10,532 --> 00:24:13,034 the one thing I'm gonna be thinking and screaming is, 432 00:24:13,118 --> 00:24:14,327 "If only I'd been there." 433 00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:17,581 "If only I'd been there two minutes longer, I could have saved them." 434 00:24:17,664 --> 00:24:22,210 At no point in his cross-examination did he have any remorse 435 00:24:22,294 --> 00:24:24,921 about literally missing his wife and son's murderers 436 00:24:25,005 --> 00:24:27,048 coming in there and brutally murdering them. 437 00:24:28,133 --> 00:24:30,635 [Valerie] So, in the end, Alex was his own counsel. 438 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,305 There's no doubt in my mind 439 00:24:33,388 --> 00:24:36,016 Alex's testimony hurt his lawyers' case. 440 00:24:38,268 --> 00:24:41,271 [Creighton] When you had a conversation with Ms. Shelly after the fact, 441 00:24:41,354 --> 00:24:45,942 you actually asked her to say that you were there longer than 20 minutes. 442 00:24:48,403 --> 00:24:50,655 You know, I heard Shelly's testimony. I… 443 00:24:52,616 --> 00:24:55,076 [Alex] I believe Shelly to be a good person. 444 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,163 We may have discussed how long I was there. 445 00:24:58,246 --> 00:25:02,083 At that point in time, if I thought I was there 45 minutes, 446 00:25:02,167 --> 00:25:05,295 I may have said I was here 45 minutes, but… 447 00:25:06,796 --> 00:25:08,340 You know, I can't tell you. 448 00:25:08,423 --> 00:25:13,094 He just told a lie because I would never say that if it was not true. 449 00:25:18,225 --> 00:25:20,435 One of the things that stood out about this trial 450 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,646 is that some of the most effective, 451 00:25:22,729 --> 00:25:25,357 heart-wrenching, memorable witnesses were women. 452 00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:26,775 Shelly, 453 00:25:27,859 --> 00:25:29,611 and certainly Blanca. 454 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:38,662 A lot of times, the defense will request that a jury visit a crime scene. 455 00:25:39,704 --> 00:25:42,707 I believe the defense, in this particular case, 456 00:25:42,791 --> 00:25:45,835 wanted the jury to see how big Moselle was, 457 00:25:45,919 --> 00:25:49,506 how things in the case had lined up. 458 00:25:59,975 --> 00:26:02,352 [somber music plays] 459 00:26:10,235 --> 00:26:12,237 [Valerie] The defense very much wanted 460 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,365 the jury to go to Moselle, and the prosecution agreed. 461 00:26:15,448 --> 00:26:17,325 So the last morning, 462 00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:20,537 the judge arranged for a field trip for the jury. 463 00:26:20,620 --> 00:26:22,539 It was decided there would be a press pool. 464 00:26:22,622 --> 00:26:24,040 So one videographer, 465 00:26:24,124 --> 00:26:27,502 and then one still photographer, and one print reporter. 466 00:26:28,545 --> 00:26:30,880 I was fortunate to be chosen to go. 467 00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:37,637 Don't think there's been a trip like that since the OJ jury went to Brentwood. 468 00:26:37,721 --> 00:26:41,141 This just had resonance nationwide, internationally. 469 00:26:44,728 --> 00:26:47,981 I wanted to make sure that I was seeing and describing 470 00:26:48,064 --> 00:26:49,899 and getting it right for people 471 00:26:49,983 --> 00:26:52,944 and helping explain this kind of momentous trip. 472 00:26:53,028 --> 00:26:55,030 [somber music continues] 473 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,242 [Valerie] One of the first things that I did 474 00:26:59,326 --> 00:27:04,289 was to try to establish the distance between where Maggie fell and Paul fell. 475 00:27:04,789 --> 00:27:06,249 It was just hard to imagine. 476 00:27:09,836 --> 00:27:13,965 I printed out the exhibit that showed where the bodies were found. 477 00:27:14,924 --> 00:27:19,054 You know, Maggie saw everything, and she saw who did it, 478 00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:21,723 from right at that point where she fell. 479 00:27:22,265 --> 00:27:27,020 I remember walking over to the feed room, and then walking back and forth, 480 00:27:27,103 --> 00:27:29,105 counting my steps like, "How far are we?" 481 00:27:29,189 --> 00:27:32,192 It was like 12 normal steps away. 482 00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:34,944 That's exactly how far she was from where he fell. 483 00:27:36,112 --> 00:27:39,032 And, um, we weren't given really any specific instructions, 484 00:27:39,115 --> 00:27:41,534 so I went into the feed room. 485 00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:49,459 Paul would have been standing about five feet in when he was shot. 486 00:27:49,542 --> 00:27:53,046 So I stood as close to where I thought he'd been shot as possible, 487 00:27:53,129 --> 00:27:54,339 and what I realized… 488 00:27:55,215 --> 00:27:57,050 He would not have been able to see, 489 00:27:57,967 --> 00:28:00,762 at least that first shot, who shot him. 490 00:28:01,262 --> 00:28:03,098 But then, if you stumble forward, 491 00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:06,851 there's no doubt he saw who… 492 00:28:07,936 --> 00:28:10,689 who blew the brain out of his body. 493 00:28:17,112 --> 00:28:21,366 [Becky] I had a feeling from our time together with the jury out at Moselle 494 00:28:21,449 --> 00:28:25,537 that it was not gonna take our jury long to make the decision in this case. 495 00:28:26,162 --> 00:28:28,415 It's just called that woman's intuition. 496 00:28:29,457 --> 00:28:31,668 That's when I went into my own office 497 00:28:31,751 --> 00:28:36,047 to be preparing for what we were about to do as far as reading the verdict. 498 00:28:36,131 --> 00:28:40,760 And I called a friend of mine who is the Hampton County clerk of court. 499 00:28:40,844 --> 00:28:44,222 I said, "I don't know if I can do it. I'm gonna get Judge Newman to do it." 500 00:28:44,305 --> 00:28:45,849 "I just don't know that I can do it." 501 00:28:45,932 --> 00:28:48,560 She says, "Honey, you're just gonna read it like any other verdict." 502 00:28:51,604 --> 00:28:55,692 When the jury went back, uh, I was at peak exhaustion. 503 00:28:55,775 --> 00:28:58,069 I think that we felt like we just laid it all out there. 504 00:28:58,153 --> 00:28:59,571 We'd done everything we could do. 505 00:29:00,488 --> 00:29:02,907 [Valerie] The jury broke, and it had been a long day. 506 00:29:03,658 --> 00:29:06,786 I went over to the media center to try to get ready 507 00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:08,747 with whatever we thought the story was gonna be. 508 00:29:08,830 --> 00:29:11,416 And I can remember Dick, Jim, and the defense team 509 00:29:11,499 --> 00:29:13,543 kind of wandering into the media center. 510 00:29:14,794 --> 00:29:15,920 While we were standing there, 511 00:29:16,004 --> 00:29:20,759 Dick got word that the jury had requested monitors for exhibits, 512 00:29:20,842 --> 00:29:22,510 which he took as a positive sign. 513 00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:27,056 [Becky] I had a knock on the door that said the jury is ready to come out. 514 00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:28,516 We're gonna let Judge Newman know 515 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,978 that everyone's ready and gathered in the courtroom. 516 00:29:32,061 --> 00:29:35,398 The jury went back less than an hour. 517 00:29:36,232 --> 00:29:39,360 In short order, you know, allayed the doubts of the doubtful 518 00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:41,529 and said, "We don't need dinner. We're ready." 519 00:29:42,864 --> 00:29:46,367 It was hard to fathom that we'd have a resolution one way or the other. 520 00:29:46,868 --> 00:29:50,288 -Have you reached a verdict? -[jury foreperson] Yes, sir, we have. 521 00:29:50,371 --> 00:29:52,749 -Is it unanimous? -[foreperson] Yes, sir, it is. 522 00:29:52,832 --> 00:29:58,087 All right, if you will pass it up to the clerk, who will pass it to me. 523 00:30:03,551 --> 00:30:06,721 [Becky] He perused over and scanned the verdict forms, 524 00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,348 and then he handed it to me. 525 00:30:08,848 --> 00:30:11,810 He said, "Madam Clerk, would you please read the verdict?" 526 00:30:11,893 --> 00:30:17,941 I was very intently being looked at by the defense team, by the family, 527 00:30:18,024 --> 00:30:21,653 really by everyone in the courtroom and probably all over the world. 528 00:30:22,779 --> 00:30:23,738 I just took a breath, 529 00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:25,907 and then I started reading from the indictment, 530 00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:29,619 from the very top to the very bottom, not wanting to miss a thing. 531 00:30:29,702 --> 00:30:32,914 The State of South Carolina, County of Colleton, 532 00:30:32,997 --> 00:30:35,083 in the Court of General Sessions, 533 00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:40,588 in the term of 2022 July, 534 00:30:40,672 --> 00:30:44,259 the State vs. Richard Alexander Murdaugh, Defendant, 535 00:30:44,342 --> 00:30:45,844 indictment for murder… 536 00:30:45,927 --> 00:30:47,929 [tense music plays] 537 00:30:49,055 --> 00:30:50,723 …guilty verdict. 538 00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:55,478 [Becky] You could feel a silence. 539 00:30:56,980 --> 00:31:00,650 And even though no emotion was shown in the courtroom by the family, 540 00:31:00,733 --> 00:31:03,111 I was told that when they got back to the room 541 00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:06,197 that was the holding place for the family to gather, 542 00:31:06,281 --> 00:31:11,411 Buster did break down and fall to his knees and just cried. 543 00:31:13,037 --> 00:31:15,248 I knew my verdict by the time I went back there. 544 00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:18,084 We voted a couple of times. 545 00:31:19,794 --> 00:31:21,713 There were questions about the guns. 546 00:31:22,714 --> 00:31:26,009 Another young lady, she couldn't believe that he did it, 547 00:31:26,092 --> 00:31:29,846 'cause she couldn't believe that a person could kill their own family. 548 00:31:29,929 --> 00:31:31,639 That's what she just kept saying. 549 00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:34,100 And when we voted again, 550 00:31:35,018 --> 00:31:36,060 it was unanimous. 551 00:31:36,144 --> 00:31:37,896 I felt I made the right decision. 552 00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:39,689 I felt we made the right decision. 553 00:31:40,523 --> 00:31:43,568 [Creighton] When I heard Ms. Becky read that guilty verdict, 554 00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:48,531 as I looked down, the team down this way and law enforcement behind us, 555 00:31:48,615 --> 00:31:52,160 I'm just so glad that we didn't put all these folks through all of this 556 00:31:52,243 --> 00:31:56,581 and not get, um, the justice that we thought Maggie and Paul deserved. 557 00:32:00,418 --> 00:32:04,464 [Alan] When the verdict came in guilty, it was total vindication. 558 00:32:04,964 --> 00:32:07,634 Total vindication that I made the right decision. 559 00:32:07,717 --> 00:32:10,887 Total vindication that our team did the right thing, 560 00:32:10,970 --> 00:32:13,973 got the conviction, and proved a lot of naysayers wrong. 561 00:32:23,691 --> 00:32:25,526 Mr. Murdaugh, if you'll come. 562 00:32:26,402 --> 00:32:27,779 The court for sentencing. 563 00:32:31,824 --> 00:32:36,996 This has been, perhaps, one of the most troubling cases, 564 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,708 not just for me, as a judge, 565 00:32:41,668 --> 00:32:44,754 uh, for the State, for the defense team, 566 00:32:44,837 --> 00:32:48,841 but for all of the citizens in this community. 567 00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:53,554 We have a wife who's been murdered, 568 00:32:54,722 --> 00:32:56,975 a son savagely murdered. 569 00:32:58,434 --> 00:33:00,812 But, amazingly, to have you come and testify 570 00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:06,234 that my wife and son and I were out, just enjoying life… 571 00:33:06,943 --> 00:33:09,070 Not credible, not believable. 572 00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:12,115 The expression you gave on the witness stand, 573 00:33:12,740 --> 00:33:17,829 "Oh, what a tangled web we weave," what did you mean by that? 574 00:33:18,496 --> 00:33:21,249 I meant when I lied, I continued to lie. 575 00:33:23,584 --> 00:33:24,836 [judge] All right, Mr. Murdaugh, 576 00:33:24,919 --> 00:33:27,964 in the murder of your wife, Maggie Murdaugh, 577 00:33:29,173 --> 00:33:32,885 I sentence you for the term of the rest of your natural life. 578 00:33:33,928 --> 00:33:35,304 For the murder of Paul, 579 00:33:36,305 --> 00:33:38,391 whom you probably loved so much,, 580 00:33:39,934 --> 00:33:43,396 I sentence you to prison for the rest of your natural life. 581 00:33:44,188 --> 00:33:47,025 Those sentences will run consecutive. 582 00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:52,447 And officers may carry forth on the imposition. 583 00:33:52,530 --> 00:33:54,532 [somber music plays] 584 00:34:18,097 --> 00:34:19,182 [music fades] 585 00:34:24,854 --> 00:34:27,899 [Becky] We thought that, after the verdict, 586 00:34:27,982 --> 00:34:30,068 that it would be a lightheartedness, 587 00:34:30,151 --> 00:34:33,071 that there would be an easiness, more so, in Hampton. 588 00:34:33,696 --> 00:34:39,410 But it opened up a whole other Pandora's box of questions. 589 00:34:41,370 --> 00:34:45,208 I get asked, "Did Alex have help in the murder of Paul and Maggie?" 590 00:34:46,209 --> 00:34:47,919 If he had help, we would have pursued it. 591 00:34:48,002 --> 00:34:50,046 The gathering storm was coming for him, 592 00:34:50,129 --> 00:34:53,591 and he needed to do his last desperate act to save himself 593 00:34:53,674 --> 00:34:55,676 and to preserve his own personal legacy. 594 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,680 And the price he was willing to pay was the murder of Paul and Maggie. 595 00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:02,058 I do think Alex pulled the trigger. 596 00:35:03,184 --> 00:35:05,144 And then I think he had help with 597 00:35:05,812 --> 00:35:08,397 cleaning up everything that needed cleaning up, 598 00:35:08,481 --> 00:35:12,985 and what we had left was the crime scene that took us to the trial. 599 00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:17,365 [Morgan] I think it was premeditated for a really long time. 600 00:35:18,699 --> 00:35:21,410 In the back of my mind, I feel like he might have had some help. 601 00:35:22,411 --> 00:35:24,580 I do think he was the decision-maker though. 602 00:35:27,458 --> 00:35:29,877 I can't think about it, because I'll get sketched out. 603 00:35:30,586 --> 00:35:33,756 The only comment that I have on that situation is 604 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,260 I think that there is another person, 605 00:35:37,343 --> 00:35:40,388 and maybe even more, but there's at least one more person 606 00:35:42,098 --> 00:35:46,811 that needs to be facing the same charges that Mr. Alex's facing, 607 00:35:47,937 --> 00:35:50,815 because I don't think that Mr. Alex could have shot his own child. 608 00:35:51,315 --> 00:35:53,985 Really, we don't know why did he do it, you know. 609 00:35:54,068 --> 00:35:56,279 Maybe one day, he might tell people. 610 00:35:56,362 --> 00:35:58,072 Only he knows why he did it. 611 00:35:58,156 --> 00:35:59,907 [somber music plays] 612 00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:02,660 [producer] Do you think that Alex had help? 613 00:36:05,955 --> 00:36:08,541 I don't want to answer that question. 614 00:36:11,752 --> 00:36:12,920 I… I don't… 615 00:36:17,216 --> 00:36:20,052 I… I… I don't feel comfortable answering that question. 616 00:36:21,053 --> 00:36:22,555 I thought of him as a brother. 617 00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:28,436 He… he… he fooled me. He fooled a lot of people. 618 00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:33,900 If Mr. Randolph had been living, none of this would have happened. 619 00:36:34,901 --> 00:36:37,778 Don't think because he's in jail, it's over with. 620 00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:40,865 This is just a bump in the road. 621 00:36:41,991 --> 00:36:43,993 [somber music continues] 622 00:36:57,965 --> 00:37:00,676 [Blanca] I miss when we were at the house by ourselves. 623 00:37:02,053 --> 00:37:05,264 She didn't have to pretend to be anything but Maggie with me, 624 00:37:06,682 --> 00:37:07,642 and I miss that. 625 00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:13,648 I'll never have a friend like that. 626 00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,401 I don't know what else to say. I mean, I'm… 627 00:37:20,154 --> 00:37:21,822 She's not here, he's not here, 628 00:37:22,823 --> 00:37:24,075 and I got the dog. 629 00:37:24,158 --> 00:37:26,160 [somber music continues] 630 00:37:28,329 --> 00:37:29,205 Only us. 631 00:37:31,540 --> 00:37:32,375 I guess… 632 00:37:33,501 --> 00:37:34,502 [Blanca sniffs] 633 00:37:34,585 --> 00:37:35,962 I guess it's just us now. 634 00:37:36,045 --> 00:37:37,129 [somber music fades] 635 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:43,302 [somber music plays] 636 00:38:26,095 --> 00:38:27,471 [somber music continues] 637 00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:23,027 [music fades]