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you appreciate them, but at the same time you have to beware of them because if something goes down, you're going to be the one in trouble, not them. >> good evening, everybody. andrew davis out here in hampton county right now with a story that really everybody is talking about. we now know officially that alex murdaugh was shot. >> alex murdaugh was changing a tire on the side of the road in rural hampton county saturday when a car passed him, turned around, and someone shot him in the head. >> this is when you wonder if they just started making things up or it was a soap opera som...

i said there is a life beyond this and you need to be here for your family and buster loves you and we all support you 100%. he told me he had an opioid addiction and had been struggling with it for many years and it was very expensive. >> the patriarch of the family making big decisions as he recovers from a gunshot wound. >> the murders have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life. i made about decisions i truly regret. i am resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle that has been exacerbated by these murders. after he was shot the first thing he did ...

and the writer and broadcaster chris morris. welcome to the programme. the united states has an outsized fascination with murder mysteries. the trial that is playing out in walterboro, south carolina has it all. in the dock is the 54—year—old high—powered attorney, alex murdaugh, who stands accused of murdering his wife maggie and their 22—year—old son paul. the pair were shot dead in 2021 in the grounds of the family's hunting lodge in hampton, 60 miles west of charleston. phone rings. hampton county, what's your emergency? indistinct. 147 moselle road. i need the police a...

>> this is a southern version of a mafia story. >> enough evil had been done by the family. it's gone too far this time. >> i have an alex murdaugh on the line. hampton is a small raul community, very few stop lights, country folk. >> generations and generations of families, the same families. >> not a whole lot going on, you know. not a whole lot of jobs. a lot of poverty. >> people like me, we work for our money. we wasn't born with a silver spoon in our mouth. >> nobody ever had any reason to leave that part of south carolina, and nobody had any reason to come to that part of sou...

>> good evening, everybody. andrew davis out here in hampton county right now with a story that really everybody is talking about. we now know officially that alex murdaugh was shot. >> alex murdaugh was changing a tire on the side of the road in rural hampton county saturday when a car passed him, turned around, and someone shot him in the head. >> this is when you wonder if they just started making things up or it was a soap opera somewhere. it seems like it's a tv show more than it seemed like real life, because in this case, how does this get more unusual? and then was it the sam...