i could see his brain all and i ran over to maggie and actually, i think i tried to turn paul over first. alex mourmurdaugh. double murder mystery. the evidence will show he was there. he would be covered in blood. there was no blood. for the first time, those closely tied to this shocking st story sit down together. every lawyer at this table is on trial. it s a good feeling to be connected to the power. until it comes back to bite you. powerful family. series of unsolved killing. how many families do you know that have five dead bodies in their orbit? murdaugh s housekeeper died in 2018 in a slip and fall at murdaugh s home. he used gloria s death to enrich himself. 19-year-old stephen smith was found dead on the side of a road. i want justice. good evening. i m randi kaye. tonight, for the first time, alex murdaugh s victims and alleged victims, their lawyers, and local reporters who for years have been covering every detail of this ca
indicted murdaugh on about 90 charges or so. in terms of schemes to defraud victims totaling nearly $8.8 million. or so. he s also been indicted, as you know, on the two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of his wife and son. as lawyers practicing for quite some time in this state, what do you make of that? proud. proud of our legal system. proud of our attorney general. proud of our judges. i want to add something. yeah. i am not proud. i am angry. i m very angry. you asked how we feel about this? alex threw all of us under the bus. the entire world is looking at south carolina, and every lawyer at this table is on trial because of greed and avarice. i represent the family of a 19-year-old kid who was poor, who was brutally murdered and left on the side of the road. who gave a crap about that in
room and say something, and it was like, your mood is gone because you couldn t stop laughing or smiling. he would light up a room. he had plans and dreams. yes. he started at a tech school to become a nurse. did you know the murdaugh family? stephen played little league one year and randolph and alex were his coach. you know, and that s how i met them. and stephen went to school with buster. buster is alex murdaugh s eldest son. the stephen smith case was reopened by s.l.e.d. as a result of something that was found at the double murder scene for maggie and paul murdaugh. so stephen died. and he was found july 7th of 2015. rumors were everywhere. everywhere. this is a small county. it s impossible that people didn t know what happened. people talk. what the talk has always been
to pokes holes in the idea that alex murdaugh would have washed his clothes after allegedly killing his wife and son. let me ask you in your mind s eye that night june 7 did he look like somebody he don t just blown his son head off spatter everybody. i can t say for sure. alex murdaugh s lawyers declined to participate in the interview prior to the trial but release a statement saying to cnn we are confident that he will be acquitted. alex continues to hope that everyone responsible for maggie and paul s death will eventually s brought to justice, this trial will probably be one of the most watched since oj murdaugh s trial in connection to mallory beach s wrongful death lawsuit yet to be scheduled. sled did open a new investigation into glory satterfield s death, the murdaugh s housekeeper and plan to he can say assume her body, alex murdaugh admitted in court to stealing the insurance fund that belonged to glory s estate,
store. that s what put me in the middle to be able to know everyone. we call him jj. jordan jinks, ginger harriott, and sandy smith grew up in the rural county of hampton, south carolina. less than 3,000 people live in the town of hampton. one thing about hampton also, i mean, genuine people live there. all your friends children come to your house and they call you mom. right. hampton is also the hometown of alex murdaugh. what was alex murdaugh like as a young boy? kind of rough. but a typical friend. i mean, we were both interested in hunting and fishing and stuff like that. we were kids. i mean, we went all through school together. so i just thought he was alex. he was loud and he was just alex. alex, he just seemed arrogant and conceited and like i m better than you.