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Double-Killer Alex Murdaugh in Court NOW · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grease Alex Murdog. Yes, it's not
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  Speaker 1: over yet. Have you ever seen an action or a
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  Speaker 1: horror movie where the killer or the monster dies and
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  Speaker 1: everything calms down, all of a sudden they rise up
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  Speaker 1: again and go after the protagonist. That's what's happening here.
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  Speaker 1: He's back again, and right now he is in court.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Alex Murdog in court again. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: see grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being
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  Speaker 1: with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM one eleven.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, take a listen to our friends at WISTV.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the courtroom today for the first time since
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  Speaker 2: being convicted of killing his wife and son earlier this year,
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  Speaker 2: Murdoch is making his initial appearance in federal court after
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  Speaker 2: a grand jury indicted him on nearly two dozen financial
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  Speaker 2: related charges. They range from fraud to money laundering. The
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  Speaker 2: indictment alleges during Murdoch's time as an attorney, he came
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  Speaker 2: up with three schemes to take money and property from
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  Speaker 2: his clients. Murdoch is currently serving two life sentences for
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  Speaker 2: the murders of his wife and son.
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  Speaker 3: If convicted on.
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  Speaker 2: These federal charges, he could add four hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 2: more years onto his current sentence and be fined up
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  Speaker 2: to thirteen million.
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  Speaker 1: Dollars money, money, money, and more. From our friends at
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  Speaker 1: wh NS Fox.
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  Speaker 4: This barred attorney Alec Murdoch set to make an appearance
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  Speaker 4: here in Charleston on twenty two federal charges. Court documents
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  Speaker 4: state the hearing is set to take place in at
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  Speaker 4: the US Courthouse. Last week, Murdoch was indicted by a
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  Speaker 4: federal grand jury on account of conspiracy to commit wire
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  Speaker 4: and bank fraud, one count of bank fraud, a total
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  Speaker 4: of five counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy
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  Speaker 4: to commit wire fraud, and fourteen counts of money laundering.
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  Speaker 4: He's currently in prison for the twenty twenty one shooting
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  Speaker 4: deaths of his wife Maggie and son Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me an incredible panel, but first to Jennifer Wood,
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  Speaker 1: director of research at fitznews dot com. You can find
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer on Twitter at Indie Jen Underscore, Jennifer, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being with us. He's back. Why won't he go away?
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  Speaker 1: Why is he in court?
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  Speaker 5: It's like the guest that keeps on giving. I guess,
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  Speaker 5: I mean it, I don't and I don't think they're
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  Speaker 5: done with them. I mean, there's just it's just a
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  Speaker 5: maze of criminality that they're reading through.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the thing is so many crimes. Eric Bland
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  Speaker 1: joining me, attorney for Sandy Smith and Gloria Sadderfield's son,
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  Speaker 1: founder partner of Bland Richter Attorneys at Law, also co
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  Speaker 1: host of Cup of Justice podcast, which is awesome. Eric Bland,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. Shouldn't you be in
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  Speaker 1: court fighting for Alex Murdock's victims right now? I feel
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  Speaker 1: very honored here with us. What's happening? Why is he
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  Speaker 1: back in court?
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  Speaker 6: Because one my partner's going to be there in Charleston,
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  Speaker 6: and so I have another engagement this afternoon, so I
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  Speaker 6: couldn't make it, but my partner's going to argue in
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  Speaker 6: connection with his bond. This is the first foray of
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  Speaker 6: the federal authorities taking a grab at Alex, and I
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  Speaker 6: agree that this is not the end. You know, there's
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  Speaker 6: income tax issues, there's other victim issues, but this is
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  Speaker 6: the first foray that the federal government has taken a
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  Speaker 6: whack at Alex. I think it's probably they were nervous
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  Speaker 6: about some maybe some Statute of limitations issues, but this
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  Speaker 6: concerns the Saturfield case, the Pliler sisters, and the Picknies,
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  Speaker 6: and it was very telling a lot that happened last week.
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  Speaker 6: One is Corey Fleming played his co conspirator, But two
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  Speaker 6: de car made the statement that Alex is cooperating with
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  Speaker 6: both federal and state authorities and he does not believe
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  Speaker 6: there will be a trial on these charges, which tells
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  Speaker 6: me when Dick used the word cooperating, Alex is talking
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  Speaker 6: and that's all we ever wanted from Alex is to
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  Speaker 6: start talking.
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  Speaker 7: Well well, well, wait, wait, wait, you know, Eric Bland,
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  Speaker 7: for such a successful lawyer as you are, I think
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  Speaker 7: you need to be more specific talking.
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  Speaker 1: For most people, that means they're actually telling you something.
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  Speaker 1: For Alex and Murdoch, it means nothing. Didn't you sit
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  Speaker 1: in the courtroom. Wasn't that you right behind me in
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  Speaker 1: the courtroom? And this guy his mouth was moving, but
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  Speaker 1: all that came out was trash, garbage. It was like
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. It was all lies, lies. I should
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  Speaker 1: have taken it, straighten it up. So him talking and
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  Speaker 1: it is nothing to me.
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  Speaker 6: It does mean something to the authorities if he provides
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  Speaker 6: documentation or proof. Obviously his words are hollow and everybody
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  Speaker 6: knows that. And it was telling because when Russe Laffitte,
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  Speaker 6: through his lawyers, said that he was cooperating, the state
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  Speaker 6: immediately came out and said, no, we're not getting good
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  Speaker 6: cooperation from him. When Dick made that statement, neither the
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  Speaker 6: federal government nor the state government contradicted that. So for
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  Speaker 6: this to work, not only does Alex have to have
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  Speaker 6: to talk, but he has to provide the proof or
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  Speaker 6: tell the agencies where to find that proof. And I
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  Speaker 6: suspect that Alex has information on other lawyers, on judges,
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  Speaker 6: and in particular his law firm, because what I have
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  Speaker 6: heard is he is very not pleased with the fact
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  Speaker 6: that Ronnie Crosby and Mark Ball took a hatchet to
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  Speaker 6: his head in that murder truck.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're really talking inside baseball. You're not telling me
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  Speaker 1: who any of these characters are in a nutshell. Briefly,
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  Speaker 1: you're saying, Murdoch is angry because people testified against him,
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  Speaker 1: and there are a trial.
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  Speaker 6: What people Ronnie Crosby and Marked all his law partners,
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  Speaker 6: Ye hard him much harder than he anticipated. And you
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  Speaker 6: saw the cross examination of Dick carpoot Leon against Ronnie Crosby,
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  Speaker 6: and it got very personal, and Ronnie Crosby made a
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  Speaker 6: personal and fifth made it personal. And from what I
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  Speaker 6: have been told, Alex is not pleased. And so the
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  Speaker 6: only way Alex can get any kind of accommodation, and
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  Speaker 6: it's not going to be an accommodation where he gets
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  Speaker 6: out of jail. It'll be some kind of accommodation where
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  Speaker 6: he's serving his time, because he's going to serve it
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  Speaker 6: in a state prison. He's not going to be like
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  Speaker 6: Cory Fleming and be able to serve it in a
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  Speaker 6: federal prison. He has to give good cooperation. And the
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  Speaker 6: fact that we didn't hear from Emily Linehouse or Creighton
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  Speaker 6: Waters to contradict Dick is a very telling revelation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to break that down. I think what
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  Speaker 1: he's saying is that Alexan Murdog claims to be cooperating
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  Speaker 1: in financial crimes, and that is why he's in court
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  Speaker 1: right now. It's happening now. This is a federal indictment
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  Speaker 1: for money fraud. Why do we care about that when
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  Speaker 1: I've got two dead people lying in the dog kennels
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  Speaker 1: at Mozelle his hunting lodge. That's just the tip of
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  Speaker 1: the iceberg. Also, we learn that Alexi Murdog is going
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  Speaker 1: to be forced to answer questions under oath regarding the
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  Speaker 1: death of a third person, Tingrel Mallory Beach. But to
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  Speaker 1: circle back with high profile lawyer Eric Bland, I heard
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  Speaker 1: you say that your partners are going to be in
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  Speaker 1: court today to argue. Did you say bond?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well he's got it. He's going to be arranged.
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  Speaker 6: Then obviously he won't get bond because he's already convicted,
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  Speaker 6: but they have to set some kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of bond, right, Okay, And I've said got it, got it.
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  Speaker 1: He's in jail on a life sentence plus more. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going anywhere, I hope.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Just recently we learned about a guy up in his seventies,
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  Speaker 1: a millionaire who has a mansion in Algarve across the ocean,
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  Speaker 1: and he actually had schemed a hatched a plot with
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  Speaker 1: the cooperation of others to escape jail. Let's talk one
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  Speaker 1: moment about jail house safety. This guy, Alex Murdog, will
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  Speaker 1: stop at nothing to get out of jail. Jennifer Wood
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  Speaker 1: joining me, director research Fitznews dot Com. Jennifer, where is
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  Speaker 1: the courthouse at which he will be today. It's a
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  Speaker 1: federal courthouse.
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  Speaker 5: Correct, It's a federal courthouse in Charleston, So they'll be
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  Speaker 5: transporting him from McCormack Cructional Institution, which is the state penitentiary.
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  Speaker 5: He's been a signed than.
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  Speaker 1: with Nancy Grease and Chris mcdonnah joining me. A director
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  Speaker 1: of the Cold Case Foundation dot org, former homicide detective
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  Speaker 1: having investigated nearly three hundred homicides, host of YouTube channel
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  Speaker 1: The Interview Room, Chris mcdona, I've had escapees. Now. A
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  Speaker 1: perfect time to try to escape is when you're at
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  Speaker 1: the courthouse. Think Ted Bundy, who jumped out the window
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  Speaker 1: of the courthouse law library, or during transport and I'll
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  Speaker 1: use Bundy again as a matter of fact, when Ted
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  Speaker 1: Bundy was being transported to a court hearing, there is
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  Speaker 1: some conjecture that he tried to escape but it didn't work,
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  Speaker 1: but that was foiled. Long story short, Chris mcdonna, you've
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  Speaker 1: got both of those factors weighing in for Alex Marna
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  Speaker 1: going back and forth to the jail. Now we'll say
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  Speaker 1: this the federal courthouse, and I was a federal law
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  Speaker 1: clerk to a judge for two years. It has very
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  Speaker 1: tight security. It's like a fortress.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and so Nancy, the one thing to always keep
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  Speaker 9: in mind is for folks is he's got nothing to
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  Speaker 9: lose at this point, even though you know he's playing,
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  Speaker 9: you know, I'm cooperating I'm doing this, I'm doing that.
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  Speaker 9: The fact is, you know, he's convicted for a double homicide,
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  Speaker 9: so that puts him in a new level of security risk.
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  Speaker 9: And so the courthouse, in of its shelf, the transport
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  Speaker 9: position of this is the most important. And then of
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  Speaker 9: course when they escort, any escorts are going to have
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  Speaker 9: to they're going to have to have him shackled on
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  Speaker 9: both the ankles and the waist. And then when they
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  Speaker 9: put him into the courthouse, they may even put a
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  Speaker 9: and a shock belt on him just to lower that
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  Speaker 9: risk in of itself. Yeah, so he is still a
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  Speaker 9: high risk potential for escape, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and another thing, who do you think he's friends
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  Speaker 1: with nuns and priests and virgins? No, other people just
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  Speaker 1: like him on the outside that may owe him, that
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  Speaker 1: may try to facilitate some full fated escape plan. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Bland, I would not put it past him.
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  Speaker 6: I will now you're wrong, You're wrong. Nancy's not going
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  Speaker 6: to do it today because his best hope of ever
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  Speaker 6: getting some kind of app is the reversal of the
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  Speaker 6: murder conviction. If he tries to scape before that is heard,
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  Speaker 6: he's dead meat. So if the murder conviction gets reversed.
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  Speaker 6: Then there's the possibility on the financial crimes that he
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  Speaker 6: provides tremendous cooperation in taking down a lot of people,
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  Speaker 6: and maybe he gets a thirty year sentence and with
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  Speaker 6: good time. Because it's not life without parole, it may
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  Speaker 6: be reduced to let's say nineteen, that's twenty three years
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  Speaker 6: or twenty one years. He's fifty three years old. He'll
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  Speaker 6: get out when he's seventy two. That's the only gauntlet
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  Speaker 6: that he could find himself possibly getting out of prison.
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  Speaker 6: And if he tries to escape before that murder conviction
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  Speaker 6: is heard on appeal, it's the kiss of death for him.
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  Speaker 6: So I disagree with you.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Bland. I didn't say I thought he would do
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  Speaker 1: it because I don't think you will, but not for
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  Speaker 1: the accurate reason you just pointed out. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: just chicken. I mean, look who he killed, unarmed woman
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  Speaker 1: and unarmed son.
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  Speaker 6: But he is a narcissist, So don't put anything past
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  Speaker 6: the narcissist. So you're right about that, to discuss it definitely,
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  Speaker 6: because he's a narcissist.
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  Speaker 10: Well, he's also a career criminal, yes he is, and
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  Speaker 10: all of his friends are criminals. Anybody that's not a
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  Speaker 10: criminal just like him, like his dope dealer cousin Eddie,
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  Speaker 10: have left him or testified against him. Guys, Not only
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  Speaker 10: is Alexa Mardauc in court today in federal court for
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  Speaker 10: dozens of financial crimes.
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  Speaker 1: The only reason I care about that money is I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go to the victims' families. It's the only
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  Speaker 1: reason I care about it. But also he is set
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  Speaker 1: to testify under oath. If you can believe anything this
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  Speaker 1: guy would ever say in the case of Mallory Beach,
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  Speaker 1: teen girl now dead. Do you remember that case? Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to our cut two three two.
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  Speaker 3: We just crass in a boat.
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  Speaker 1: Are you in the water?
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  Speaker 6: Are you we're in the boat?
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  Speaker 8: You have no one?
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  Speaker 11: I'm taking o pay I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Falling reference to a disabled I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: A boat crash.
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  Speaker 12: I heard.
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  Speaker 3: The six people on board. They currently have one missing.
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  Speaker 12: All right.
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  Speaker 6: It's an Archer's Creek which is right there off of
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  Speaker 6: Paras Island.
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  Speaker 3: There's a bridge on Paras Island.
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  Speaker 6: They're underneath it. Your crashed into the bridge and more?
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  Speaker 1: Were you here? Connor Cook talking not a murdog because
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  Speaker 1: the murdog was too drunk to talk. Take a listen
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  Speaker 1: to sixteen, Oh what little of Richard Bridges? Please fire
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  Speaker 1: an Hello, We're in a boat crash on Arthur's Creek.
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  Speaker 6: Only we're in a boat, crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Are you in the water?
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  Speaker 5: Are you We're in the boat at the helm of
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  Speaker 5: that boat.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Murdog later gunned down by his father, which effectively
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  Speaker 1: cut off one line of legal pursuit against Paul Murdoch
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  Speaker 1: and the Murdog estate. It was settled quietly after the murders,
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  Speaker 1: just as Alex Murdock had planned. But in that nine
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  Speaker 1: one one call, you hear people screaming, You hear confusion,
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  Speaker 1: they realized Mallory Beach is no longer on the boat.
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  Speaker 1: Murdog too drunk to call. Connor Cook calling in the
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  Speaker 1: nine to one one call. Jennifer Wood joining me from
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  Speaker 1: fitznews dot Com. I was struck when I went out
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  Speaker 1: on the water with water red to look at those
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  Speaker 1: huge cement pilings that Paul Murdog sped right into, throwing
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  Speaker 1: Mallory Beach off into the water. She remained in the
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  Speaker 1: water for three days before her body was found, unrecognizable
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  Speaker 1: and bloated. Could you describe what happened? In the crass,
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Wood.
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  Speaker 5: I believe I read. I believe I read he was
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  Speaker 5: at thirty miles an hour. And if you look at
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  Speaker 5: that creek in that bridge, I mean, that is just
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  Speaker 5: that's so fast for a boat in that creek going
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  Speaker 5: through those pilings. There's not a lot of room. And
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  Speaker 5: I mean he he hit hard. They were all injured
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  Speaker 5: to some degree in Mallory Malory unfortunately drowned.
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  Speaker 1: To Doctor Michelle Duprey joining us a forensic pathologist, medical
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  Speaker 1: examiner and also the author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide.
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  Speaker 1: You can find her at d Michelle dupremd dot com
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  Speaker 1: and she shot to the national forefront during the Alexa
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  Speaker 1: Murdog trial and has taken part in the proceedings regarding
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  Speaker 1: the autopsy of teen boy Stephen Smith, also tangentially connected
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  Speaker 1: to the Murdoch case. Doctor Dupree, thank you for being
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  Speaker 1: with us. You and I went out to the water.
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  Speaker 1: Describe what exactly happened to this teengirl, Mallory Beach.
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  Speaker 11: Well, Nancy, we did go out and as you may recall,
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  Speaker 11: this is it's really a narrow part of the river.
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  Speaker 11: It's also very dangerous at night when there is no
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  Speaker 11: lights around. There was no running lights on the boat.
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  Speaker 11: There were six young adults in the boat. Paul, the driver,
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  Speaker 11: was going at an incredibly high rate of speed, especially
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  Speaker 11: for that area, and slammed into these create boat concrete
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  Speaker 11: peer piling and it actually ejected at least three of
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  Speaker 11: these people out of the boat, Mallory never to be
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  Speaker 11: found recently. I mean, it was just horrific. It was
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  Speaker 11: terribly stupid to be doing something like that. But as
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  Speaker 11: we know, Paul was very intoxicated.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that the other friends on the boat
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  Speaker 1: were screaming and begging him to stop driving, to slow down,
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  Speaker 1: and he actually slapped one of the other girls on
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  Speaker 1: the boat that the girl was begging him to stop
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  Speaker 1: or to slow down or let somebody else's drive. Joining
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  Speaker 1: me phil otim boating accident reconstruction. I don't like the
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  Speaker 1: accident boating crash because when you get drunk, and these
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  Speaker 1: were underage, by the way, when you get this drunk
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  Speaker 1: and you start boating at high speeds for a boat,
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  Speaker 1: this is a very narrow waterway, and they were heading
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  Speaker 1: toward a bridge and you would have to maneuver between
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  Speaker 1: two giant cement support beams to get under the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't do that, He sped right into these cement pilings.
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  Speaker 1: Phil owner of H two TO Investigations, former law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: and you can find him at H two O investigations
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Phil, thank you for being with us. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've studied the Mallori Beach boating crash, and right
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  Speaker 1: now the court has decided Alex Murdog will be forced
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  Speaker 1: to answer questions regarding that case. Hopefully the Beach family
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  Speaker 1: will get ahold of some of that Murdog money before
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  Speaker 1: it all goes out to debtors to whom he owes money. So,
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  Speaker 1: Phil Odom, after you've analyzed the beach crash, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think.
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  Speaker 13: I think that Paul Murdog was extremely intoxicated. There was
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  Speaker 13: a GPS unit that was on his vessel at the
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  Speaker 13: time which indicated the last record of speed was twenty
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  Speaker 13: nine miles per hour. Is Michelle stated there was no
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  Speaker 13: lights on the bridge. I have not been out to
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  Speaker 13: the scene to know how narrow the pilings are from
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  Speaker 13: each other. However, from the pictures that I viewed, even
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  Speaker 13: during daylight hours, thirty miles an hour to try to
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  Speaker 13: go through those pilings is an unreasonable speed. So you
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  Speaker 13: mix those two. You've just got a recipe for disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, we're talking about the horrible death of teen girl
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Mallory Beach. Take a listen to our cut two, three four,
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  Speaker 1: played by WJCL. Authorities, search teams, friends and family search
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  Speaker 1: for an entire.
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  Speaker 3: Week until.
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  Speaker 11: It's your emergency.
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  Speaker 1: We think we found her.
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  Speaker 14: Beach's body was found on March third, twenty nineteen, in
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  Speaker 14: a marsh near the Broad River boat landing.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke with the boat rescue that were called out
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  Speaker 1: the night of the crash, got up out of their
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  Speaker 1: beds in the middle of the night to start looking
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  Speaker 1: for Mallory's body, hopefully trying to find her still alive,
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  Speaker 1: and they searched for days until March three, when her
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  Speaker 1: body is found. Time Stories with Nancy Grace two doctor
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  Speaker 1: Michelle dupre pathologist and author Dodgor Duprix. I recall that
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  Speaker 1: Mallory Beach died of drowning, not from a blow to
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  Speaker 1: the head. Does that make sense to you.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, Nancy, it does. She was probably obtunded. She had
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: been drinking. She was thrown from the boat violently. She
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  Speaker 11: is in the water. She is probably struggling. She is
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  Speaker 11: taking water in so, yes, chances are that she did drown.
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  Speaker 11: Even if she did hit her head, she would dive
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  Speaker 11: most likely from the drowning from taking in the water
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  Speaker 11: and not being able to get out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure how her body wasn't found. It
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: was not from lack of trying for that many days.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Chris McDonough, veteran homicide detective. Her body was taken by
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the currents in that channel and moved, moved fairly quickly.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And there are also there's a lot of growth, marshes
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and tall grasses on the side of the water and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a perfect place for a body to lodge and be
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: almost untraceable, unfindable.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: When typically in a drowning situation like this, obviously the
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: body immediately is going to start sinking, and if there
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: is a current flow at the bottom of.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: That river, then it will move.
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: That body, typically in various directions, and there can be
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: you know, places where the body would get lodged. And
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: then once the body starts to the gases start to expand.
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: The essentially what happens is the body, you know, becomes buoyant.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: And it sounds like in this situation, it sounds like
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: in this situation he was under the water. Uh, we
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: don't know how in terms of if she was unconscious,
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: et cetera. But you know, doctor prech assessment of that is.
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  Speaker 9: And then when she comes up, you know she is discovered.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: One other thing, Nancy real fast. Going back to Paul
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  Speaker 9: and Connor on the boat. Remember when they left that dock,
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: they almost hit another bridge first. It's reported that Connor
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: corrected him and got him through that bridge real fast,
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: and that's when he started going in circles, and so
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: there's a lot of emotion. He was just fired up,
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: and that's when he took it out on the other
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: female on the boat there. So he not only hit
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: one bridge, he almost hit two bridges that night.
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  Speaker 1: Again, so many days passed before her body was found,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and let me tell you it was not for lack
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: of trying. Take a listen to our cut two five
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  Speaker 1: four from WJCL.
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  Speaker 14: The row of cars behind me are the friends and
• 25:55
  Speaker 14: family of the missing teen who gathered here at eight
• 25:58
  Speaker 14: this morning to pray for her a safe return. Of
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: the Department of Natural Resources told WJCL twenty two News
• 26:05
  Speaker 14: that right now they have seven dive crews, two helicopters,
• 26:08
  Speaker 14: and about ten patrol boats all looking for nineteen year
• 26:11
  Speaker 14: old Mallory Beach. The family told me today she disappeared
• 26:14
  Speaker 14: after a boat she was riding in crashed here Sunday
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  Speaker 14: morning in Archer's Creek near the Parris Island Marine Depot.
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  Speaker 14: And the DNR also told me that they've had about
• 26:22
  Speaker 14: eight other agencies at the local and state level reaching
• 26:26
  Speaker 14: out to aid in this search, and they say one
• 26:28
  Speaker 14: of the biggest challenges in this search specifically is the
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: changing conditions of where they're looking right now, they're working
• 26:34
  Speaker 14: at twelve hour shifts from seven in the morning to
• 26:36
  Speaker 14: seven at night to find her.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Interesting that video actually captures Mallory Beach just before the crash,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and it captures Paul Murdog drunk and stumbling. Take a
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: listen to two five five our friends at Fox Carolina.
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  Speaker 8: This surveillance video was captured near the New Day Doc
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  Speaker 8: in Beaufort. You can see Beach here walking with her boyfriend.
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  Speaker 8: Also pictured friend Connor Cook, who made the nine to
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  Speaker 8: one one call that night, and Paul Murdall, who appears
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: to be stumbling. Beach exits the frame last scene smiling
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: and laughing. The video was taken at one thirteen am
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  Speaker 8: on February twenty fourth, twenty nineteen, about an hour before
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: the crash.
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  Speaker 1: What bridges, Oh what Brigard?
• 27:22
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: What word?
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: Night Rich emergency We ran a boat crash on Arthur three.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And the immediate reaction of the other people on the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: boat to Paul murdog is very telling. Take a listen
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: to our cut two one eight dash Can video.
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  Speaker 5: Well you're just smiling like.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Boats funny.
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  Speaker 15: To sit down.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Let me decipher what you just heard. You are hearing
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Anthony Cook, the boyfriend of Mallory Beach, saying, Bro, you
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: e f and smile like it's effing funny, And Paul
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Murdich is just sitting there smiling. This says after Malory
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Beach has been thrown overboard, hit her head on cement
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: pilings and ultimately drowns, and the cops says sit down,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: sit down, and he screams, my f and girlfriend's gone. Bro,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: you think it's effing funny. They make him sit down,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and Cook says, I hope you wrot in e f
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in hell now. Another ominous premonition I believe is in
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: our cut to seventeen, where we hear everyone on the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: boat saying he'll never get in trouble for this. Take
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: a listen, you.
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  Speaker 3: Smiling like funny sit down boats. You all know L Murdoch,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: that's his son.
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  Speaker 15: That's so grabbing.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Good look to Eric Bland, high profile lawyer out of
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the South Carolina jurisdiction but practices all over, who is
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: representing many of the victims connected to the Murdoch family.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: That night, the people on the boat said, he'll never
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: pay for this. He's a murdog.
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  Speaker 6: Nancy. It's just it's chilling. It was bone chilling for
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: me just to hear that. I had forgotten that. And
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: you know, as the two years or well at now
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: the three four years have elapsed and we've seen who
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: this family really is. They are completely, all of them,
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: all of them out of touch with regular society, with
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: regular morais and values.
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  Speaker 11: It is.
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  Speaker 6: It's not surprising that a lot of these things are
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: coming out now and we're seeing them from Paul and
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Buster and obviously Alex. Maggie we didn't see as much,
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: but of course no one really gave testimony about any
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: bad qualities that Maggie had, and I'm not saying she
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: had them, but we've seen Paul, Alex and Buster, we've
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: seen a little bit from the brothers. This is a
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: family that is completely out of touch with the rest
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: of society.
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  Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: And when you hear the actions of Alex Murdog the
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: night of the crash, it will make your blood run cold.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: He goes to the hospital after these teens are raced
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: to the hospital, and instead of trying to help them,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: he hovers over their bed their beds, sneaks into their
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: rooms to get them to change their testimony and not
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: cooperate with police, as opposed to being concerned and out
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: there looking for Mallory Beach. Karen Starting me well known
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: psychologist joining us out of Manhattan trauma and crime expert
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: at karenstart dot com as Karen with a C. Karen
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: is within a family. The children learn this behavior from
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: their parents.
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  Speaker 12: Well, of course, Nancy, because listen to what's going on.
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  Speaker 12: You're saying he's out of touch, but he really wasn't,
• 31:23
  Speaker 12: or someone said he's out of touch, He's not out
• 31:25
  Speaker 12: of touch. He knew enough to show up at that
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  Speaker 12: hospital and here you're talking about a missing girl, right
• 31:33
  Speaker 12: and he's running around from room to room trying to
• 31:37
  Speaker 12: make sure that nobody testifies against his son. So he's
• 31:41
  Speaker 12: very much in touch with protecting his son and making
• 31:46
  Speaker 12: sure they're not caught. And that's what their family was like.
• 31:50
  Speaker 12: They pushed everything to make sure that things worked on
• 31:55
  Speaker 12: their side for their benefit, and they understood good how
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: to do that with the law. I had to manipulate,
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: how to just do whatever they could to make sure
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  Speaker 12: that people would not be able to testify if they
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: possibly could do that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when you hear the damage to the boat, you're
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: going to be shocked that on the scene, no breathalyzer
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: was administered to Paul Murdoch. Remember these people, they're at
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the scene, the AMTS, the cops. They all know Alex
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Murdoch as a legal heir in South Carolina, and no
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: breathalyzer was administered to his son, Paul Mardag. After they
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: see this, take a listen to two fifty seven Fox.
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  Speaker 8: Carolina dispatch calls also paint a picture of Mallory's final moments.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: They we're driving at a high rate of speed in
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: the water in a boat.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: That female was sitting on her boyfriend. They hit the bridge.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: He is now missing the frock left.
• 33:04
  Speaker 13: Five, which could be the court pocket. The driver shop
• 33:07
  Speaker 13: is good, open from the nose all the way to
• 33:09
  Speaker 13: put back where they fixed for the gap where they
• 33:13
  Speaker 13: boat actually came a part at the theme.
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: D n R officers took these photos aboard the boat
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: the next day, showing coolers filled with drinks still on
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  Speaker 8: ice and emptied bottles and cans left behind.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Yet no breathalyzer at the scene. Take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: two three six wc BD DO.
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  Speaker 16: Documents show that none of the responding officers administered a
• 33:34
  Speaker 16: sobriety test, despite reports that Paul was visibly intoxicated and
• 33:38
  Speaker 16: his blood levels were taken at four am when Paul
• 33:40
  Speaker 16: was at the hospital. Several hospital workers documented about Paul's behavior,
• 33:45
  Speaker 16: as well as his father Alex Murdall and grandfather Randolph
• 33:48
  Speaker 16: Murdle has troublesome and belligerent.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Union crashing the marriage crash into that Rock or.
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 16: New information from scdn R shows that Paul was consuming
• 34:03
  Speaker 16: alcohol earlier that day leading up to the crash, buying
• 34:06
  Speaker 16: drinks of gas station, going to parties, and drinking at
• 34:09
  Speaker 16: local bars.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: He was drunk all ri Take a listen to two
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  Speaker 1: five eight Fox Carolina.
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  Speaker 8: After the crash, four of the five teens were rushed
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: to Bufort Memorial Hospital. A nurse stated Paul Murdall was
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: quote only wearing boxers and that he was grossly intoxicated
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: and belligerent, adding that he appeared to be quote the
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: most intoxicated and uncooperative of those involved. The hospital took
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: a blood test from Murder around four m that showed
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: Murdaw's BAC set at zero point two eighty six. That's
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: more than three times the legal limit.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Two Doctor d Prie, what is point two eighty six? Explain?
• 34:45
  Speaker 11: That is an extremely high level of alcohol at Someone
• 34:49
  Speaker 11: with that level of alcohol is going to be visibly impaired.
• 34:52
  Speaker 11: They're going to have obviously poor judgment, their reflexes are
• 34:55
  Speaker 11: going to be pretty much neil. They are going to
• 34:58
  Speaker 11: be so drunk that can hardly stand up.
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  Speaker 1: But what did Murdog do that night? Take a listen
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to our cut two four nine. This is Murdog on
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the stand under oath for whatever that counts for with
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Alex Murdog, listen, did you generally walk around.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: With your bassinating out of your popka? Generally speaking, those sir,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I did not.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Or only when you wanted some advantage from it?
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Did I want some advantage from wearing it like that.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Did I hanging out in my pocket when I wanted
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: an advantage? Yes, I may have. I certainly may have.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: What advantage does you want when?
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: Then?
• 35:45
  Speaker 15: I don't even recall this, mister Waters, But if I
• 35:49
  Speaker 15: was wanting some advantage as you say it, I guess
• 35:54
  Speaker 15: And I don't remember this, but I guess I would.
• 35:57
  Speaker 15: Would you know, as I said, a badge has a
• 36:02
  Speaker 15: warming effect with other law enforcements.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: A warming effect. Eric Bland, what's that supposed to me?
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: It has a fixing effect and not a warming effect.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: He's trying to flex his authority to get around protocol.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: The fact that you can interfere with an investigation, the
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: fact that you can break yellow tape and get inside
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: of a crime scene, or get your friends in your
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: house after your wife and son are murdered at a
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: crime scene, That's what it is. It's called the fix.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Nancy Well, thank goodness, there was actually a video from
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the hospital. Because Murdoch said he didn't remember anything like that.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Listen to two fifty see to.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: This jury that there was any intention or purpose to
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: you doing that at the hospital on the night of
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: the boat rack.
• 36:49
  Speaker 15: I'm saying I don't remember using that badge.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: And I specifically remember you know, I'm sorry, go.
• 36:58
  Speaker 15: Ahead, and you asked you such a remember what that
• 37:02
  Speaker 15: like when I when I went into the room with
• 37:04
  Speaker 15: the kids, that I pulled my badge out, And I
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: know that I did not do.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: That, No, because it was on your pocket like that. Correct,
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: It's on my pocket like that right then?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: And then listen to two five one murder being questioned
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: by prosecutor creating Waters about trying to convince the other
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: chains not to testify.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: When I got there, I went to Paul Paul.
• 37:26
  Speaker 15: When I left Paul Paul, I went to Morgan Dowdy,
• 37:29
  Speaker 15: who was like a daughter to Maggie and I had
• 37:33
  Speaker 15: dated Paul for a long time. And I went to Morgan.
• 37:38
  Speaker 15: Morgan had an injury to her hand that that was
• 37:42
  Speaker 15: that was bad, and she was very upset about Mallory
• 37:48
  Speaker 15: and they were working on her. So I left her room.
• 37:51
  Speaker 15: I went back to Paul Paul. At some point in time,
• 37:54
  Speaker 15: I know that I went to Connor's room, and I
• 37:56
  Speaker 15: believe those are the only rooms I went to.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: And I can't tell you that with certainty.
• 38:02
  Speaker 13: While you're wearing that badge like that, did you tell
• 38:04
  Speaker 13: any of the kids who are in the boat ragging
• 38:06
  Speaker 13: not to cooperate with law enforcement.
• 38:08
  Speaker 15: I never told anybody not to cooperate with law enforcement.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Well that's not what they said. So who do we believe?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: And I remember he's referring to Paul Paul. That would
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: be Paul Murdog, the son he murdered. Trying to avoid
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: financial ruin because of this boat crash, Alex Murdog set
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to testify under oath in the Mallory Beach case. We
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: only pray the victims' families get some of the Murdog
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: money what's left of it. We wait as justice unpoles.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,