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Timeline of the Alex Murdaugh Murder Case · Murder Files Unsealed

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Speaker 1: I want you to imagine, just for a second, a
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dynasty that is so deeply entrenched and like so incredibly
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wealthy that it just feels completely untouchable. Right. I mean,
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I'm trying about a real life Southern Gothic thriller here,
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the kind where the line between the villains and the
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actual law enforcement doesn't just blur, but it completely vanishes.
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Speaker 2: Oh totally. It sounds like something straight out of a
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premium cable drama, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, yeah, exactly. Imagine a world where the people who
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are actively breaking the laws are the exact same people
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passed with upholding them.
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Speaker 2: You naturally, picture like the Spanish moss and that stagnant
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summer heat, sprawling rural estates, and just generations of dark
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secrets buried just beneath the surface.
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Speaker 1: Right. But the crazy thing is it isn't fiction. So
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for this deep dive, I want you to visualize a massive,
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shadowy map of South Carolina's low country.
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Speaker 2: Oh. I love a good string map.
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Speaker 1: Right, picture this map in your mind. It is just
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crisscrossed with red string, connecting these tiny rural courthouses to
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massive private hunting estates.
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Speaker 2: Tying tragic fatal accidents to hidden bank accounts.
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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, and linking the absolute highest echelons of the
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legal profession to well staggering acts of deception.
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Speaker 2: And right at the very center of that dense web
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of redstring is just one singular name, which is Alex Murda.
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Speaker 1: So we are tracing the complete dizzying timeline of the
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whole Alex murdaw saga. It is a lot to cover,
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it is, and our mission today, the reason we are
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doing this specific deep dive right now, is to unpack
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the seismic breaking news from May thirteenth, twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Right the absolute unthinkable moment exactly.
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Speaker 1: This is the moment where the South Carolina Supreme Court
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stepped in reviewed this case of the century and completely
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overturned Alex Murda's double murder convictions. Okay, let's umpack this.
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We really have to because to understand how a double
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murder conviction of this magnitude just gets thrown out by
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a state supreme court. Yeah, we have to go all
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the way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we definitely can't start in the court room.
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Speaker 1: No, we have to start with the soil this entire
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story grew in.
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Speaker 2: We absolutely do, because you know, at its core, this
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isn't just a true crime story about a horrific night
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at a dog kennel. It is a profound case study
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on privilege. I mean, it's a harsh examination of the
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whole illusion of the American dream, oh for sure. And fundamentally,
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it is a story about how the absolute integrity of
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our judicial system was tested to its breaking point.
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Speaker 1: Yea.
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Speaker 2: And what's really crucial to understand here is that the
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system wasn't just tested by the defendant sitting at the
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defense table.
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Speaker 1: No, it was tested from the inside exactly.
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Speaker 2: It was compromised by the very people operating inside the
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court itself.
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Speaker 1: So let's look at the deep historical roots of the
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Murdaw family in the Low Country.
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Speaker 2: Right, because context is everything.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. When we read the headlines about a state Supreme
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court vacating a murder conviction, it's so easy to think
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of Alex Murda as just you know, another high profile defendant.
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Speaker 2: Just a guy who hired good lawyers.
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Speaker 1: Right, But we have to understand the absolute, unchecked power
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that this man and his family held for his entire life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the word dynasty is thrown around a lot in
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the media, but here, I mean it is genuinely the
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only accurate term. Right, we are talking about generational power
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that gripped South Carolina's fourteenth Judicial Circuit for over a century,
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over one hundred years, over one hundred years, and we
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should probably define what the fourteenth circuit actually is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, please do.
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Speaker 2: It is this massive geographic area. It encompasses rural Hampton, Collton, Allendale, Jasper,
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and Beufort counties.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so a huge shuck of the stake.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, And for three successive generations, Alex Murdau's family effectively
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ruled this jurisdiction. His great grandfather, his grandfather, and his
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father all served consecutively as the solicitor.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, I want to pause right there for you listening,
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because terminology really matters here. Yeah, when we say solicitor
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in South Carolina, we're talking about the chief prosecutor for
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the circuit, right exactly. This isn't just like an honorary
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title or some mid level bureaue A.
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Speaker 2: Far from it. The solicitor is the ultimate arbiter of
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the local criminal justice system.
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Speaker 1: They decide everything, they really do.
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Speaker 2: They are the person who decides who gets investigated, who
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gets charged with a crime, what specific level of crime
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they get charged with and you know who gets offered
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a plea deal? Right, They hold the literal keys to
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the jailhouse. They dictate the flow of justice.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: So when one single family holds that specific, incredibly powerful
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office for over one hundred years, it creates an unparalleled,
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almost invisible web.
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Speaker 1: Of influence right over basically everybody over.
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Speaker 2: Local law enforcement, dredges, county clerks, and just the community
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at large. The murder on nime was basically synonymous with
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the law itself, which.
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Speaker 1: Brings us to Alex. He was like the heir apparent
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to this legacy, but he took a slightly different path
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he did. He didn't become the solicitor like his father
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and grandfather. Instead, he joined the immensely powerful family law firm.
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Speaker 2: Right Peters, Murdaw, Parker, Eltzroth and Dietrich.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, usually just referred to locally as PMPED Yeah. And
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he became a highly prominent personal entry lawyer there. And
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he was known for securing these massive, multimillion dollars settlements
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for his clients.
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Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely, he built a staggering financial empire right alongside
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the family's existing political one. In the context of a
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law firm. Alex was what you call a rain.
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Speaker 1: Maker, bring in the big bucks exactly.
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Speaker 2: He was bringing in huge amounts of money through civil litigation,
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and he was absolutely leveraging the very reputation his family
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had built in the criminal courts.
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Speaker 1: Ow.
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Speaker 2: So well, think about it. If you are a massive
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corporation or like an insurance company, facing a lawsuit in
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the fourteenth Circuit and the plaintiff's lawyer is a murdaw
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oh wow, right, a family that literally controls the local
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legal apparatus, you are highly motivated to settle that case
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for a massive premium.
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Speaker 1: Because you know you can't win in their backyard exactly.
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And he used that premium, all that money to build
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what looked to the outside world like the ultimate flawless
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American facade.
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Speaker 2: The perfect leg.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. He had this sprawling, seventeen hundred acre estate, this
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massive property called Moselle. Oh. His shoes, yeah, the custom
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hunting dogs, the fleet of boats, all the luxury vehicles.
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He married his wife, Maggie back in nineteen ninety one.
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They had two sons, Buster and Paul. If you just
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drove past their lives or you know, looked at their
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family portraits, it looked entirely perfect, but.
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Speaker 2: That facade was hiding a profound systemic rot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it really was.
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Speaker 2: While he was actively playing the role of the wealthy, successful, untouchable,
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a Southern aristocrat, Alex Murdaw was secretly nursing a severe,
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devastating opioid addiction, right and to fuel that addiction, and honestly,
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more importantly, to maintain the incredibly expensive lifestyle that his
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ego demanded, he engaged in a pattern of systematic breath
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tape theft.
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Speaker 1: The numbers detailed in our sources are just staggering. I mean,
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he didn't just skim a little off the top of
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his firm's profits.
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Speaker 2: No, not at all.
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Speaker 1: The estimates of his thefts eventually reached over twelve million.
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Speaker 2: Dollars twelve million.
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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, and the victims make this so much worse.
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He wasn't stealing from faceless multinational corporations or hedge funds,
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right exactly.
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Speaker 2: He was stealing directly from his own clients, people who
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had come to him specifically because they were horribly injured, paralyzed,
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or incredibly vulnerable.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's so awful.
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Speaker 2: He stole from his own law partners. He stole from
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lifelong family friends.
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Speaker 1: He was actively exploiting the exact people he had taken
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an oath to protect as an attorney.
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Speaker 2: There were dozens of victims spread over a decade.
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Speaker 1: You know, it reminds me of walking onto a Hollywood
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studio lot. What do you mean, Well, you look down
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a street and the buildings look beautiful and solid from
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the front, but the second you step around back, you
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realize it's an illusion. Right, It's all just cheap wood,
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flimsy scaffolding and empty space. Hold up a painted front.
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Speaker 2: That's a great analogy.
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Speaker 1: That was the Murdaw Empire. It was completely propped up
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by stolen money. But I have a really hard time
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wrapping my head around the logistics here.
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Speaker 2: It is hard to fathom.
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Speaker 1: I mean, how does someone steal twelve million dollars in
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a small, tight knque community without anyone noticing. Was it
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a pervasive fear of the family name or was it
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just sheer blind trust.
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Speaker 2: If we connect this to the bigger picture, we can
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really see the mechanics of how generational power actually operates
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on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Okay, unpack that.
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Speaker 2: It creates a localized halo effect in these rural counties,
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the murdaws weren't just seen as lawyers. They were viewed
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as permanent institutions. Right when an institution hands you a
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settlement check and says, you know this is your money,
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less our standard fees and medical areas, you don't demand
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an independent audit, You don't question it exactly, You don't
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ask to see the firm's internal ledger. You just thank
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them for their help.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: The assumption of their integrity was so deeply baked into
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the community's psyche that traditional accountabilities simply didn't apply to them.
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Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense.
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Speaker 2: And yes, fear played a massive role as well. If
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you aggressively question the murders, you might very well find
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yourself on the wrong side of the very legal system
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they controlled.
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Speaker 1: Right, so you have this remarkably stable, albeit completely fraudulent existence.
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He's successfully balancing the opioid addiction, the massive embezzlement, the
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sprawling mozellea estate, and this whole public persona of illegal titan,
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a lot of spinning plates. But then the outside world
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starts intruding. Between twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen, outside forces
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start knocking on the door. Right the accidents two tragic
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fatal accidents occur, and they begin to demand a level
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of intense financial scrutiny that his stolen wealth and his
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fragile scaffoldings simply couldn't withstand.
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Speaker 2: This is exactly where the insulation of his extreme privilege
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begins to crack.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The first major fracture happens on February twenty six, twenty eight.
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Gloria Sadderfield, who was the family's longtime housekeeper and nanny,
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died after a report of fall down the brickstairs at
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the Mozelle.
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Speaker 1: Estate, which is just awful.
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Speaker 2: Initially, this was just treated as a tragic, heartbreaking accident.
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Speaker 1: And she wasn't just anonymous staff right, She had worked
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for them for decades. She practically helped raise his two children.
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But what Alex allegedly did in the aftermath of her
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death is just chilling. According to the court records, Alex
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approached her grieving sons at her funeral.
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Speaker 2: At her funeral, yes.
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Speaker 1: At the funeral, he convinced them to let him handle
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a wrongful death claim against his own homeowner's insurance policies,
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which is wild on the surface. If you don't know
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the truth, it sounds like he's being incredibly benevolent rich Yeah,
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like he's stepping up, Like, let me make sure you
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boys are taken care of financially after your mother's tragic accident.
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Speaker 2: That was exactly the pitch he made, but the reality
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as it painfully emerged years later was entirely different and
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highly calculated. Oh so he orchestrated a lawsuit against himself. Essentially,
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he secured millions of dollars in insurance payouts that were
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legally meant to compensate Sadderfield sons for the loss of
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their mother. Okay, but he pocketed the money.
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Speaker 1: Wait, Becka, walk us through the actual mechanics of that.
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Because insurance companies don't just like hand over a briefcase
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of cash, right, No, they write checks to specific entities.
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How did the sons not know millions of dollars had
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been paid out in their names?
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Speaker 2: Sure? So it was a highly sophisticated deception involving banking mechanisms.
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When a large settlement is reached, the money often goes
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to a legitimate settlement management company.
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Speaker 1: Right to hold it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like a well known firm called Forge Consulting. Well
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Alex actually created a fake, fraudulent bank account doing business
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as Forge.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 2: So when the insurance company issued the massive settlement checks,
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Alex directed them to be made out to Forge.
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Speaker 1: So the insurance company thinks it's going to the legit firm.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. The insurance company thought they were paying the legitimate
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consulting firm to manage the Sun's money. But Alex just
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took those checks, deposited them into his fake Forge account,
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and used the money to pay off his own debts
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and fund his lifestyle.
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Speaker 1: That is just wow.
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Speaker 2: The Sadderfield sons never saw a dime, and because the
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lawsuit was resolved quietly, they had no idea the money
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even existed.
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Speaker 1: That's heartbreaking, it really is.
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Speaker 2: This specific act of breathtaking betrayal became central to the
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financial crime cases that would eventually consume his life.
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Speaker 1: It is so incredibly dark and as horrific as that
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Sadderfield theft is. The scaffolding didn't completely collapse right then.
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Speaker 2: No, he bought himself some time.
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Speaker 1: He got away with it temporarily. The real catastrophic blow
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happens exactly a year later, February twenty fourth, twenty nineteen.
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The boat crash.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Paul Murda, Alex's youngest son is nineteen years old
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at the time. After a night of heavy underage drinking,
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a deeply intoxicated Paul is allegedly driving the family's boat
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through the dark, winding waterways of the Low Country, which
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is so dangerous extremely he crashes it violently into a
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bridge piling. The sheer impact of the crash throws several
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of the young passengers into the freezing dark water, and
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one of those passengers, a nineteen year old woman named
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Mallory Beach, goes missing. Her body is found days later.
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She was killed in the crash.
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Speaker 1: It's a localized earthquake. I mean. Paul is eventually charged
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with boating under the influence causing death right, but because
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he's a murdaw, he remains out on bond awaiting trial. However,
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the pending criminal charges against Paul aren't the only problem.
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Speaker 2: For hours, No, not at all.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they might not even be the biggest immediate
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threat to his empire. Mallory Beach's grieving family files a
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civil lawsuit.
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Speaker 2: Yes the civil suit.
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Speaker 1: They sue Alex Murdau personally, among others, because it was
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his boat and he allegedly facilitated or turned a blind
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eye to the underage drinking that led to the.
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Speaker 2: Crash, and this civil lawsuit acts as a ticking time
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bomb under Alex's entire life.
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Speaker 1: Why is that so dangerous for him?
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Speaker 2: We have to look at how civil litigation actually works.
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There's a phase called discovery. Unlike a criminal trial, where
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you have the right to remain silent, in a civil suit,
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the plaintiffs have the immense legal power to demand your
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financial records. They need to see what assets the defendant
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actually has to pay potential damages. The Beach Family's lawyers
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were aggressively, relentlessly pursuing Alex's finances.
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Speaker 1: Which is his worst nightmare exactly.
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Speaker 2: They filed motions demanding to see his bank accounts, his ledgers,
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his actual net worth.
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Speaker 1: And he absolutely cannot show them those books because if
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he turns over his bank statements to the Beach families lawyers,
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those statements will immediately show that he is millions of
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dollars in the hall yep, and that he has been
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actively systematically stealing from his clients to cover it up.
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The Sadderfield, theft, the fake Forge account, all of it
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would be exposed in the discovery process.
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Speaker 2: All of it.
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Speaker 1: It feels like the sadderfield. Theft was a crime of
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opportunity fueled by utter hubris. This boat crash civil suit,
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I mean that was the iceberg that hit the Titanic.
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Speaker 2: That's a great way to put it.
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Speaker 1: How much of his subsequent actions over the next few
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years were driven by pure panic.
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Speaker 2: Panic is the right word, but it's a very specific,
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suffocating kind of panic. In financial forensics and fraud investigation,
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we often talk about bleedout pressure.
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Speaker 1: Bleedout pressure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Alex is bleeding out financially. He has multiple open,
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gaping wounds. Yeah, he has to keep stealing new money
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from new clients just to pay back the old money
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he stole from previous clients. Oh wow, just to keep
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his own law firm partners from noticing the discrepancies. It's
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a classic Ponzi style. Pressure is now a civil court
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judge is on the verge of ordering him to open
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his books to outside lawyers. He's cornered completely. And add
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to this the physiological reality that his severe opioid addiction
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is likely ravaging his cognitive function and his emotional regulation.
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His ability to rationally manage these dual apocalyptic crises. The
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impending exposure of his entire criminal life, the destruction of
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his family's legacy, and his son's impending felony trial is
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completely compromised. He is backed into a dark corner and
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the walls are closing in on him rapidly.
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Speaker 1: Which brings us directly to the catalyst, the absolute boiling point.
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June seventh, twenty.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one, the day everything changed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. The mounting pressure from the civil suit discovery, combined
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with sudden intense internal scrutiny at his own firm, finally
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reps on a single rainy night at the Mozilla State.
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Speaker 2: The minute by minute timeline of this specific day is
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critical to understanding everything.
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Speaker 1: That follows walk us through it.
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Speaker 2: Because on the very morning of June seventh, the chief
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financial officer of PMPD, Alex's own family firm finally confronts
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him in his office.
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Speaker 1: Wow, his own firm, Yes.
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Speaker 2: They have noticed glaring financial discrepancies. The CFO explicitly asks
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Alex to explain where nearly eight hundred thousand dollars in
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missing legal fees has gone.
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Speaker 1: That is the map striking the powder cake.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He is confronted by his own firm in the morning,
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and that same evening the timeline tightens like a noose.
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Speaker 2: It really does.
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Speaker 1: Maggie, his wife, who had actually been staying at a
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different family property near the coast, arrives at the Mozelle estate.
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Alex had called her, reportedly asking her to come to
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Mozelle so they could travel together to visit his ailing
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father in the.
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Speaker 2: Hospital, but Maggie felt uneasy about the request.
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Speaker 1: Did she really?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we know from the digital records that she texted
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a friend that night explicitly saying that Alex sounded fishy
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and that she felt he was up to something.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that is so haunting. It is, And then we
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have the digital breadcrumbs that tell the story. The physical
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evidence couldn't.
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Speaker 2: The timeline is so precise.
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Speaker 1: Roughly eight point four to four pm, Paul takes a
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seemingly innocuous Snapchat video of a dog down at the
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property's dog kennels. It's just a short clip sent to
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a friend. But in the background of that video you
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can clearly hear voices, and one of those voices, which
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prosecutors later definitively proved, was Alex Murdos.
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Speaker 2: This is the definitive, inescapable piece of evidence in the
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entire saga. Why is it so crucial because Alex would
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later emphatically claim to investigators that he left Mozelle for
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his mother's house around nine pm without ever going down
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to the kennels that.
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Speaker 1: Evening, right his alibi exactly.
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Speaker 2: He claimed he hadn't seen them for hours. He claimed
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he returned later, drove down to the kennels shortly after
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ten pm and discovered the bodies.
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Speaker 1: And he calls nine one one at tennis six pm.
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The audio of that call is just haunting. He sounds
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completely hysterical, shouting to the dispatcher, my wife and child
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have been shot badly.
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Speaker 2: And the scene he describes to the dispatcher. The scene
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the police find when they arrive in the dark is
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incredibly gruesome.
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Speaker 1: What did they find?
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Speaker 2: Maggie, who was fifty two, had been shot multiple times
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with a rifle, specifically a three hundred blackout style weapon. Paul,
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who was twenty two, was shot with a shotgun at
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close range. Both suffered catastrophic, instantly fatal head wounds.
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Speaker 1: But the police find no weapons. None. The local law
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enforcement arrived to a completely chaotic, compromised crime scene. It's
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raining heavily that night, which is actively washing away blood,
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footprints and potential forensic evidence. It was a mess, and
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to make matters exponentially worse, Alex's family members, friends, and
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law partners start arriving at the estate and they essentially
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trample all over the crime scene area before the South
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Carolina Law Enforcement Division or SLED can properly secure the perimeter.
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Speaker 2: Despite the absolute chaos of the scene and the deference
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historically shown to the Murdoff family, SLID very quickly views
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Alex as a person of interest. I mean they had to, yeah,
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because the digital telemetry, his cell phone data, the GPS,
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and his vehicle tracking his movements, and most importantly, that
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voice captured in Paul's snapchat video places him squarely at
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the scene during the exact, highly narrow, critical window when
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the murders had to have happened.
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Speaker 1: Here's where it gets really interesting to me. I want
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to talk about the weapons. Okay, Yeah, two distinct, very
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different murder weapons, a shotgun and an assault style rifle.
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If Alex executed this horrific crime alone, as the state
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eventually alleged y used two guns, was switching from a
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shotgun to a rifle, a calculated, cold blooded move to
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frame two phantom shooters.
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Speaker 2: To throw off the police.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, to make it look like a revenge hit squad
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came for Paul because of the boat crash. Or was
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it just the frantic, messy improvisation of a desperate man
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grabbing whatever unsecured guns were lying around the kennel.
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Speaker 2: The prosecution's theory ultimately leaned toward the latter, framed heavily
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by the overarching financial motive. Right, they argued that these
20:38
dual murders were an unimaginably gruesome smoke screen. Remember the timeline,
20:43
the eight hundred thousand dollars confrontation that very morning, the
20:47
ticking cloth, the impending financial disclosures, and the boat crash
20:50
lawsuit that were due within days. The state forcefully argued
20:53
that Alex killed his wife and son to generate an
20:56
overwhelming wave of public and professional sympathy. He needed a
21:00
tragedy so profound, so unthinkable, that it would immediately halt
21:05
all financial inquiries. He needed his firm to back off.
21:09
He needed the civil lawyers to give him space. He
21:12
desperately needed to buy himself time.
21:14
Speaker 1: But the tragedy didn't buy him time. It did the
21:17
exact opposite.
21:18
Speaker 2: It really did.
21:19
Speaker 1: Instead of permanent sympathy, and a reprieve from the audits.
21:22
The murders brought the full, unforgiving weight of the state's
21:26
investigative apparatus crashing down on Alex.
21:28
Speaker 2: Sled was everywhere.
21:30
Speaker 1: Sled wasn't just looking at the murders. They started looking
21:33
at his entire life, and what follows between late twenty
21:36
twenty one and twenty twenty two is a truly bizarre,
21:39
surreal spiral where his decades of hidden financial crimes explode
21:44
violently into public view.
21:45
Speaker 2: The speed of the spiral is staggering.
21:47
Speaker 1: Oh it's so fast.
21:48
Speaker 2: Just months after the murders, on September fourth, twenty twenty one,
21:51
the narrative takes a bizarre turn. Alex makes national headlines again.
21:55
He is found on the side of a rural South
21:57
Carolina road with a gunshot wound to the head.
21:59
Speaker 1: First glens. It looks like the Phantom killers are back exact.
22:01
The narrative seems to be that whoever killed Maggie and
22:04
Paul has returned to finish off the Murdoff family, but
22:08
the wound is superficial, very superficial, and soon, under pressure,
22:12
Alex actually admits that he staged the entire roadside shooting.
22:16
Speaker 2: He admitted it.
22:17
Speaker 1: He hired a former client, a man who got drugs
22:19
from him, to shoot and kill him on the side
22:22
of the road, and the reason so that his surviving son,
22:26
Buster could collect a ten million dollar life insurance payout.
22:30
Speaker 2: It is an incredible, almost unbelievable admission. He admits to
22:33
orchestrating a hit on himself.
22:35
Speaker 1: It's just wild.
22:36
Speaker 2: The accomplice is charged and Alex's carefully constructed reality shatters completely.
22:40
His firm publicly forces him out, and the following month,
22:44
on October fourteenth, twenty twenty one, law enforcement finally catches
22:47
up with him. He is arrested in a rehabilitation facility
22:50
in Florida.
22:51
Speaker 1: He was ostensibly there to get treatment for his severe
22:53
opioid addiction. But the arrest in Florida isn't for the
22:56
murders of his family, and it isn't for this staged
22:59
roadside shooting. No, it's for the Gloria Sadderfield fraud. It's
23:03
for the millions he stole from his dead housekeeper's sons
23:06
using that fake Forge account the first Domino exactly, And
23:09
once that seal is broken, the indictment's pouring like an avalanche.
23:13
Fraud forgery, embezzlement, tax evasion, the total number of victims,
23:17
and the sheer staggering amount of muddy balloons to epic proportions.
23:22
Speaker 2: He is formally stripped of his law license and disbarred,
23:25
and finally, on July fourteenth, twenty twenty two, while he
23:28
is already sitting in jail facing over a hundred financial
23:31
charges across state and federal jurisdictions, a grand jury officially
23:35
indicts him on two counts of murder and two weapons
23:38
charges for the deaths of Maggie and Paul.
23:41
Speaker 1: Throughout all of these indictments, his severe opioid addiction becomes
23:45
a central complex character in the story.
23:47
Speaker 2: It really does.
23:48
Speaker 1: It is fascinating to watch how he tries to use
23:51
it as a shield. Whenever he is caught in the
23:55
lined sled about being at the kennels, he blames it
23:58
on opioid induced paranoid right. But at the same time,
24:01
the prosecutors expertly use his addiction as a sword. They
24:05
point to the addiction as the insatiable furnace that burned
24:07
through his millions, providing the relentless financial fuel for his
24:11
ultimate desperation.
24:12
Speaker 2: It's a tragic irony but if you look closely at
24:14
the pattern of behavior here, it's remarkably consistent. How so well,
24:19
the roadside shooting incident in September perfectly mirrors the prosecution's
24:23
theory of the June's seventh murders. Both were extreme, highly
24:27
violent events orchestrated by Alex to violently manipulate a situation
24:31
when he felt trapped.
24:32
Speaker 1: Wow.
24:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was trying to stage manage his own death
24:35
to secure an insurance payout, just as the state argued
24:38
he stage managed his family's deaths to secure sympathy and
24:41
distraction from his financial ruin.
24:43
Speaker 1: That's a huge parallel.
24:45
Speaker 2: It reveals a man who genuinely believes he can write
24:48
the script of reality, no matter how chaotic, destructive, or
24:52
deadly that script has to be.
24:54
Speaker 1: In that deeply ingrained belief that he can always write
24:57
the script and talk his way out of any consequence
24:59
takes right into the Collington County Courthouse in Walterborough, the
25:03
trial of the century January to March of twenty twenty three.
25:06
He's facing over one hundred financial charges waiting in the wings,
25:10
but this specific trial is the ultimate reckoning for the
25:12
murders of his wife and son.
25:14
Speaker 2: The scene in Walterborough was electric. You had a formidable,
25:17
almost theatrical cast of legal characters.
25:20
Speaker 1: Tell us about them.
25:21
Speaker 2: Judge Clifton Newman, known for his incredibly stern, commanding presence
25:26
and deep legal intellect, presided over the trial. The prosecution
25:30
was led by Creighton Waters from the State Attorney General's Office,
25:34
a prosecutor who meticulously, painstakingly wove the decades of financial
25:38
crimes into a cohesive motive.
25:40
Speaker 1: For murder and the defense.
25:42
Speaker 2: On the defense side, Alex had hired two absolute titans
25:46
of the South Carolina bar Dick Carputlian and Jim Griffin.
25:50
Speaker 1: The media spectacle was massive. It felt like every news network,
25:53
every true crime documentary crew, and every legal analyst in
25:57
the country was camped outside that courthouse. Oh, it was
25:59
a circle, and they watched the prosecution build a case.
26:02
It was entirely circumstantial, but as Judge Newman later called
26:05
it overwhelming. Let's talk about that for a second. Circumstantial
26:09
evidence gets a bad rap and pop culture, but legally
26:12
it can be incredibly powerful.
26:13
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the state had no direct eyewitnesses to the murders.
26:17
They never found the murder weapons, but they had mountains
26:20
of digital forensics. They brought in expert witnesses to lay
26:24
out the cell phone data, the pedometer steps on Alex's phone,
26:27
and the vehicle telemetry step by step showing his exact
26:31
movements contradicted his sworn statements.
26:33
Speaker 1: It's hard to argue with the pedometer.
26:35
Speaker 2: Very hard. They presented the financial witnesses to establish the crushing,
26:39
bleedout pressure he was under that very day. They introduced
26:43
a blue rain coat found at Alex's mother's house that
26:45
tested positive for gunshot residue.
26:48
Speaker 1: Wow.
26:48
Speaker 2: And above all, they played that snapchat video over and
26:51
over again, definitively placing his voice at the kennel's just
26:55
minutes before the murders, utterly shattering his ironclad alibi.
27:00
Speaker 1: The defense fought back hard. I mean they had to.
27:02
They pointed to the chaotic, rain soaked crime scene, arguing
27:06
that evidence was destroyed or cross contaminated. They argued that
27:09
sled's initial investigation was fundamentally sloppy and biased from the start.
27:14
They challenged the state's timeline and brought in their own
27:17
experts to dispute the interpretation of the blood spatter.
27:20
Speaker 2: He really tried everything.
27:22
Speaker 1: They hammered on the theory that multiple shooters must have
27:25
been involved to use two different weapons so efficiently against
27:28
two moving targets in the dark.
27:30
Speaker 2: And then came the turning point of the entire trial.
27:33
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
27:34
Speaker 2: On February twenty third, against the conventional wisdom of almost
27:37
every defense attorney watching, Alex Murdau took the witness stand.
27:41
Speaker 1: Such a huge risk.
27:42
Speaker 2: For two grueling days, he subjected himself to brutal, relentless
27:47
cross examination by Creighton Waters.
27:49
Speaker 1: He sits up there and he admits to almost everything else.
27:52
It's a surreal performance, it really was. He admits to
27:55
stealing millions. He admits he looked his vulnerable clients in
27:58
the eye and lied to them. He even finally admits
28:01
that he was at the kennel's that night, completely abandoning
28:04
the alibi he had sworn to for two years.
28:07
Speaker 2: Just dropped it completely.
28:08
Speaker 1: Yeah. He blames the lie on paranoia from the opioids
28:11
and mistrust of sl Day, But on the core issue,
28:15
the murders, he looks directly at the jury and insists,
28:18
I did not shoot my wife or my son.
28:20
Speaker 2: It was a monumental, historic gamble.
28:22
Speaker 1: So what does this all mean? Did taking the stand
28:25
actually seal his fate because to me watching a play out,
28:29
it felt like he thought he could charm the jury
28:32
exactly the same way he had charmed his injury clients,
28:35
his law partners, and the local judges for decades. He
28:38
thought he still had the magic touch.
28:40
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly right. You have to look at
28:42
the psychology of a man who has essentially never lost
28:45
an argument in his home county.
28:46
Speaker 1: Never.
28:46
Speaker 2: He has spent his entire life in a jurisdiction where
28:49
his family name acts as a master skeleton key, seamlessly
28:53
opening any door and shutting down any inquiry. He genuinely
28:56
believed his own powers of persuasion were infallible, but when
29:00
he took the stand, the context had shifted entirely. He
29:04
was facing a jury that had just sat through weeks
29:06
of agonizing evidence detailing how effortlessly, convincingly and sociopathically he
29:11
lied to the people closest to him for years. Exactly
29:14
when he tried to weave a brand new narrative for them,
29:16
shifting his story to fit the new digital evidence, they
29:19
simply refused to buy it.
29:21
Speaker 1: This superpower had vanished, and the proof is in the
29:24
deliberation time. On March two, twenty twenty three, after a
29:29
grueling six week trial filled with complex forensic and financial testimony,
29:34
the jury deliberated for less than three hours, less than
29:38
three hours to convict him on all accounts, two murders
29:41
and two weapons charges.
29:42
Speaker 2: Amazing.
29:43
Speaker 1: The next day, Judge Newman sentences him to two consecutive
29:46
life sentences. The gavel comes down, he is hauled off
29:50
to state.
29:50
Speaker 2: Prison, and that seemed to be it.
29:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the flicks documentaries drop, the true crime podcast
29:55
wrap up their seasons. The public breeze a sigh of relief,
29:58
feeling justice was served, and moves on. The scaffolding has
30:02
finally completely collapsed.
30:03
Speaker 2: But it hadn't because behind the scenes, away from the
30:07
cameras on the national spotlight, an officer of the court
30:10
had allegedly tainted the very foundation of that lightning fast verdict,
30:14
which brings us to the plot twist. Oh, this is wild,
30:16
the twenty twenty sixth Supreme Court reversal.
30:18
Speaker 1: This is the part of the story that truly breaks
30:20
your brain because in September twenty twenty three, just months
30:23
after the trial ended, Murda's defense team drops an absolute bombshell.
30:28
Speaker 2: A huge one.
30:29
Speaker 1: The file a motion alleging that the Callington County Clerk
30:32
of Court, an elected official named Rebecca Becky Hill, had
30:36
actively tampered with the jury during the trial.
30:39
Speaker 2: The allegations laid out in the defense's motion were staggering.
30:42
The defense presented sworn affidavits from actual juror stating that
30:46
Becky Hill, the person entirely responsible for the jury's logistics,
30:51
their meals, their schedule, and their well being during the trial,
30:54
had been having private, highly inappropriate conversations with them.
30:58
Speaker 1: Oh wow. Ui.
31:00
Speaker 2: Alleged she told them not to trust Alex when he testified.
31:03
She allegedly told them to watch his body language closely
31:06
implying he was deceptive. She made comments implying that the
31:09
defense's case was just smoke and mirrors designed to confuse them.
31:13
Speaker 1: Wait, let me just pause here. The cloak of court
31:15
is supposed to be an administrative role, right. Yes, they
31:18
swear in witnesses, they handle the paperwork. They are absolutely
31:21
not supposed to be interacting with a jury about the
31:23
substance of the case.
31:24
Speaker 2: That is strictly prohibited. They are an officer of the court.
31:28
Their interactions with the jury must be strictly administrative. But
31:31
her alleged motive makes it even more shocking. Why would
31:35
a county clerk risk her career to push a jury
31:38
toward a guilty verdict. Why, according to the allegations, she
31:41
wanted to write a book about the trial, a book. Yes,
31:45
she wanted a guilty verdict to secure a lucrative publishing deal.
31:49
She literally wanted a better, more definitive ending for her
31:53
true crime book.
31:54
Speaker 1: The legal system had to react to this. You can't
31:57
just ignore sworn affidavits of jury tampering. In early twenty
32:01
twenty four, there was an evidentiary hearing. Because Judge Newman
32:04
had retired by this point, the state brought in former
32:08
Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, Gene Toll,
32:11
to preside over this specific hearing.
32:13
Speaker 2: A very heavy hitter.
32:14
Speaker 1: Yes, after hearing the testimony from the jurors and from
32:17
Becky Hill herself, Judge Toll made a very specific, highly
32:21
technical legal finding. She acknowledged on the record that Becky
32:25
Hill's comments to the jury were improper and inappropriate, but
32:28
she ultimately denied murdaw a new trial, ruling that the
32:31
comments were not outcome determinative. So Toles basically saying yes,
32:36
the clerk broke the rules, but the evidence against Alex
32:39
was so overwhelming that the jury would have convicted him anyway.
32:43
It's essentially a no harm, no foul.
32:44
Speaker 2: Ruling, exactly in appellate law that is known as the
32:48
harmless error doctrine. Courts recognize that no trial is perfectly flawless.
32:54
If an error occurs, but the judge determines it didn't
32:56
change the ultimate outcome of the verdict, the conviction stands.
33:00
Judge Toll ruled that Hill's tampering was a harmless error
33:03
in the grand scheme of the overwhelming evidence.
33:06
Speaker 1: But the defense doesn't give up. They appeal Judge Caull's
33:09
decision to the State Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Becky Hill's own
33:13
life spirals out of control.
33:15
Speaker 2: He really does.
33:16
Speaker 1: By December twenty twenty five, amidst multiple investigations into her
33:20
conduct and ethics, she resigns from her position as clerk
33:23
in disgrace. She eventually pleads guilty to criminal charges of destruction, perjury,
33:27
and misconduct in office, resulting in probation.
33:30
Speaker 2: And that guilty police sets the stage perfectly for the
33:32
South Carolina Supreme Court. They hear the defense's appeal on
33:36
February eleventh, twenty twenty six, and then the shockwave hits
33:40
on May thirteenth, twenty twenty six. They issue a unanimous
33:44
five to zero decision. Unanimous, they completely overturn Judge Toll's ruling,
33:49
and they officially vacate Alex Murdau's murder convictions.
33:53
Speaker 1: A five zero decision the highest court in the state
33:56
in total agreement. I want to read a bit of
33:58
the legal reasoning here, because Chief Justice John Kittridge's written
34:02
ruling is absolutely.
34:03
Speaker 2: Stating, Oh, he didn't hold back.
34:05
Speaker 1: He writes that Hill leveraged her authority as the jury's
34:08
caretaker to commit shocking jury interference. He said she placed
34:12
her fingers on the scales of justice by deliberately attacking
34:16
Murdo's credibility outside the court room.
34:18
Speaker 2: What's fascinating here is the core constitutional principle the Supreme
34:21
Court is defending.
34:22
Speaker 1: Okay, unpacked that for us, this is where we.
34:24
Speaker 2: Move past the true crime drama and into the bedrock
34:27
of American jurisprudence. Judge Toll's standard was whether the pampering
34:32
changed the outcome the harmless error doctrine right, But the
34:35
Supreme Court said essentially that doctrine doesn't apply here because
34:38
jury tampering by an officer of the court is not
34:40
a harmless error. It is a structural error.
34:42
Speaker 1: Let me try an analogy to explain the difference. Think
34:45
of the justice system like a sterile operating room. Okay,
34:48
the surgeon the prosecutor might be performing exactly the right
34:52
procedure on the right patient. The evidence might be perfect.
34:56
But if a nurse walks in and starts throwing dirt
34:59
on the surgical instruments, the entire surgery is contaminated.
35:03
Speaker 2: That's a great visual.
35:04
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if the surgeon's technique was flawless or
35:07
if the patient needed the surgery. The environment itself is
35:10
compromised and you have to throw the instruments out, scrub out,
35:14
and start over.
35:14
Speaker 2: That is a perfect analogy. That is precisely how Appellet
35:18
law used structural errors in a trial. A structural error
35:22
is a defect in the constitution of the trial mechanism itself.
35:26
Speaker 1: Right.
35:26
Speaker 2: It defies analysis by harmless error standards because it affects
35:29
the framework within which the trial proceeds. A clerk of
35:32
court is an officer of the court. Yeah, when an
35:35
officer of the court actively campaigns for a conviction behind
35:38
closed doors. The sterile environment of the jury room is
35:41
hopelessly contaminated. If the Supreme Court let that stand, it
35:45
would set a terrifying legal precedent.
35:47
Speaker 1: It really would.
35:48
Speaker 2: It would signal that court staff can manipulate verdicts, intimidate jurors,
35:53
or advocate for a side as long as the state
35:55
has enough evidence to point to later, the Supreme Court
35:58
had to strike it down to protect the system itself.
36:00
Speaker 1: It makes sense.
36:01
Speaker 2: Even if you assume the defendant is absolutely one hundred
36:04
percent guilty, the process itself must remain pure. The constitutional
36:09
safeguard of a fair and impartial jury is universal. It
36:12
applies to an innocent person, and it must applied equally
36:15
to a disgraced, embezzling former dynasty air.
36:20
Speaker 1: So the murder convictions are completely gone, at least for now.
36:24
But as we pivot to the financial reckoning of what
36:26
lies ahead, we need to be very clear about one thing.
36:29
Alex Murda is not walking out of prison.
36:32
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not.
36:33
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court reversal does not mean he is a freeman.
36:36
Speaker 2: Far from it. While the Complex Murder Appeals and the
36:38
Becky Hell drama were playing out. The bill for his
36:41
decades of financial crimes finally came due.
36:43
Speaker 1: The piper had to be paid.
36:45
Speaker 2: In November twenty twenty three, he accepted a plea deal
36:48
and was sentenced to twenty seven years in state prison
36:50
for the myriad of financial frauds, including the Atterfield case.
36:54
Then in twenty twenty four, the federal government stepped in.
36:57
He received a forty year federal sentence for why fraud,
37:00
bank fraud, and money laundering.
37:02
Speaker 1: Wow.
37:03
Speaker 2: These sentences run concurrently but functionally. Given that he is
37:07
in his late fifties, he is serving a life sentence
37:10
for the money he stole. Furthermore, he has been legally
37:13
ordered to pay roughly eight point seven million dollars in
37:16
restitution to his many victims.
37:18
Speaker 1: But the Sate of South Carolina isn't letting the murders go.
37:21
Attorney General Alan Wilson has already promised an aggressive retrial
37:24
as soon as possible. Right, but an upcoming retrial is
37:27
going to look vastly different from the twenty twenty three
37:29
spectacle in Walterborough.
37:30
Speaker 2: It has to be different. The defense hailed the Supreme
37:33
Court ruling as a massive vindication of due process, and
37:37
they already know their strategic playbook for the retrial.
37:39
Speaker 1: What's the strategy They are going.
37:41
Speaker 2: To fight tooth and nail to severely limit the introduction
37:44
of his financial crimes. In the first trial, Judge Newman
37:48
allowed the state to spend days detailing the embezzlement to
37:51
establish motive. It took up a huge portion of the trial.
37:55
Speaker 1: It was almost the whole first half exactly.
37:57
Speaker 2: In a retrial, a new judge might rule that de
38:00
telling one hundred different financial frauds is highly prejudicial to
38:03
a jury deciding a murder case and limit the prosecution
38:07
strictly to the forensic events of June seventh.
38:10
Speaker 1: And there are massive logistical nightmares for the state. They
38:13
will almost certainly need a change a venue. Finding a fresh,
38:17
impartial jury in Calton County or honestly, anywhere in South
38:21
Carolina who hasn't watched the Netflix series, listened to the podcasts,
38:26
or already formed a rigid opinion about his guilt is
38:28
going to be nearly impossible.
38:30
Speaker 2: Oh, finding a jury will take forever.
38:32
Speaker 1: And let's not forget the sheer financial cost to the
38:34
taxpayers of Callton County to host another multi week, high
38:38
security mega.
38:39
Speaker 2: Trial in amidst all the legal maneuvering, we must remember
38:42
the human toll in all of this. For the families
38:45
of the peripheral victims, the Sadderfields, the Beach family, this
38:49
process just continually drags on. They are perpetually seeking closure
38:53
in a justice system that keeps resetting. And there is
38:56
Buster Murda, the surviving sun who has largely still out
39:00
of the public eye, trying to live a private life
39:02
while his family's name and the gruesome details of his
39:05
mother and brother's deaths are dragged through the courts year
39:08
after year.
39:09
Speaker 1: But to keep coming back to the prosecution's central problem
39:12
in or retrial. If the state is severely limited in
39:15
using his massive financial crimes as the motive in the
39:18
next trial, how do they explain the why to a
39:21
brand new jury.
39:22
Speaker 2: That is the million dollar question.
39:24
Speaker 1: How do you convince twelve people that a man brutally
39:26
executed his wife and son without showing them the crushing
39:30
financial pressure he was under. Without the financial motive, it
39:33
makes no sense.
39:34
Speaker 2: This raises an important question not just about legal strategy,
39:37
but about the intersection of media, true crime, and jury integrity.
39:42
The state's case relies entirely on that financial pressure to
39:45
make the horrific murders make logical sense. Without it, the
39:49
defense can easily argue that the murders were a random,
39:52
tragic act of violence by unknown assailants, perhaps tied to
39:55
the boat crash. Finding an impartial jury in twenty twenty
39:59
six or twenty two twenty seven to navigate these complex
40:01
evidentiary rules for a case they've already watched play out
40:04
on television will be a monumental, almost unprecedented legal hurdle
40:08
for the Attorney general.
40:10
Speaker 1: It is an epic, incredibly tragic arc. We started with
40:14
the untouchable rulers of the fourteenth Judicial Circuit, a century
40:18
of generational power dictating the law. Yeah, and we end
40:21
with a man sitting in a federal penitentiary for fraud,
40:25
waiting for a second trial for the brutal murder of
40:27
his own family, all because a court clerk wanted a
40:31
better ending for her true crime book.
40:32
Speaker 2: It perfectly illustrates how privilege can completely insulate you for decades,
40:36
but when accountability finally arrives, it can dismantle everything you've built.
40:40
The murderal family bent the rules of their community for generation,
40:43
ay sure, but they were finally brought down by modern
40:46
digital forensics, relentless media scrutiny, federal financial oversight, and ironically,
40:51
the rigorous application of appellet law.
40:54
Speaker 1: It really proves that truth is always always stranger than fiction.
40:59
No screen red could pitch the staged roadside shooting, the
41:03
stolen millions from a loyal housekeeper via a fake bank
41:06
account and a clerk's book deal bringing down a historic
41:09
murder conviction.
41:10
Speaker 2: The studio would reject it for being far too unrealistic.
41:13
Speaker 1: They really would. It reminds us that no one is
41:15
above the law, but equally, and crucially, as the Supreme
41:18
Court fiercely ruled in twenty twenty six, no one is
41:22
beneath the protection of a fair trial.
41:24
Speaker 2: I want to leave you with a final lingering paradox
41:26
to mull over.
41:27
Speaker 1: Okay, let's hear it.
41:28
Speaker 2: Think about this. The very financial crimes that prosecutors say
41:32
motivated Alex Murdau to commit murder, the stealing, the fraud,
41:36
the absolute desperation to hide his theft are the exact
41:39
same crimes that guarantee he will likely die in federal
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prison regardless of what happens in the murder retrial. Ow
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does that make the upcoming multimillion dollar retrial a necessary
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moral quest for justice for Maggie and Paul. Or is
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it merely a symbolic legal battle for a definitive truth
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we might never fully uncover.
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Speaker 1: That is the big question hanging over the Low Country
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right now. Thank you for joining us on this deep
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dive into the Murda saga. The scaffolding might be completely
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on the floor, but they are clearly still picking up
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the pieces. Keep questioning the narratives you see in the news,
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look closely at what's holding up the facades around you,
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and we'll catch you next time.