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were the coaches of the team. he was, how do i put it, like you could tell he had money by the way he acted, and like privileged but not like a snobby, privileged person. he was quiet when i was around him. >> i don't really know buster that well. i mean, we see him, you know, whenever he's down with john or that sort of thing. >> that's very rare. >> right. i mean, i haven't had conversations about his life goals or where he sees himself in 20 years. >> you just don't really hear a lot about buster. he's paul's older brother. he went to wofford college in south carolina. he was kind of slated to follow in his father's footsteps. >> paul and buster were night and day. jacob and esau. paul was the outdoor guy.

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>> he was getting into an influential group at that time. it wasn't something typical of his past. with the information that we gathered, you could only presume what name would have been brought up. it would possibly have been the murdaughs. >> now, who passed this information on to you that buster was involved in this? >> [ bleep ] >> and did he say where he heard that from or how he was backing that up? >> no, sir. >> so he just said, oh, i heard buster did it. >> yes, sir. >> did he say how he did it or what happened? >> no, he didn't. yes, he did. he said they beat him up and threw him out of the truck. >> beat him up and threw him out of the truck? >> yes, sir. >> one of the rumors that we heard was that buster and a couple other guys had been out seeing stephen and they'd gotten

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>> i heard that these two, maybe three, young men were in a vehicle. they were riding down 601, saw the car on the side of the road, i guess saw the boy walking. they turned back around. i guess they were attempting to, i don't want to say, you know, mess around with him or something like that, and stuck something out the window and it, you know, hit him in -- i don't know if it hit him in the head or the back or where it hit him. and then that's pretty much all i heard. i did hear names. i heard a name, and that name was, he goes by buster murdaugh. >> i went to school with buster. and when we were younger, stephen played baseball with buster and a few classmates. and buster's grandfather and dad

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Alex becomes the target of a violent attack; authorities question the family's involvement in past deaths.

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uninterested and uncaring, which also i think speaks to a classic martyrdom mentality of thinking he was completely above the law and that ignoring the problem would make it go away. >> i hate to only be able to give you hearsay, but the main thing is whether that is the case or not the case, there is still somebody that lost a child, lost a brother, lost a family member, and that's just not right. i hope y'all can get this figured out. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, let's give this family some closure, you know. appreciate you taking the time to talk to me. i'm going to go ahead and stop this recording. >> there's different stories and different versions out there. i've heard paul. i've heard buster. those names have been brought up numerous times consistently by people. but there's nothing we can point

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along a deserted road when he said he was changing a flat tire. now we are learning what actually happened may be even more unbelievable. >> law enforcement now believes that he conspired with curtis smith to kill him as a part of an insurance fraud scheme. >> everything has just been mind-boggling because you know someone for so long and then a completely different side of him comes out.>> he apparently asked curtis smith, who is friends with him and has done jobs for him, to murder him so that he can get the insurance money to give to buster, his son. >> if he died his living son would have received an estimated $10 million as a part of a life insurance policy. >> he did not think it would pay if he committed suicide, so he wanted him to do the job for him so his son would get the money.>> when i heard about the suicide attempt i did not know

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>> can you tell me what you heard about the stephen smith incident? >> i just heard that one of my classmates did it. >> and who was that? >> buster murdaugh. >> i don't want to drag somebody's name through the mud unless it's necessary. in this case, the murdaugh's name was brought up at least a dozen times, possibly more. so when you have that name constantly brought up, you know, you have to take it serious. >> what i'm seeing is that a lot of people seem a little hesitant to speak about buster or the murdaughs in general. do you kind of see that? >> yes, sir. because when someone told me that it was buster, you know, it was like they were saying if it's him, nothing was going to be done about it because of who he was. >> just go ahead and tell me what you heard.

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buster liked to hunt, but he was a studious person and took his studies seriously. what i'm told by people who were close to him that, you know, buster was the favorite child. >> when i originally heard this, i was thinking of the younger murdaugh boy, buster's little brother paul, because paul's more of the, i won't say troublemaker, but he's a little more, my last name is murdaugh, i can do whatever, you know what i mean? >> yeah. >> so when i first heard it, it was buster. it kind of caught me off guard because he's never been that type of person. >> we found a document for seniors at wofford saying where they're going, and he said he was going to work for the family law firm in the summer and then go to the university of south carolina law school. we don't really know what happened after that. >> he kind of just disappeared, like, after everything happened with stephen. like, you didn't hear about him. it's like a ghost.

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asked curtis eddie smith, who is friends with alex, who has done jobs for alex, to murder him so he can get the insurance money to give to buster, his son. >> if murdaugh died, his living son would have received an estimated $10 million as part of a life insurance policy. >> he didn't think it would pay if he committed suicide, so he wanted eddie to do the job for him so his son would get the money. >> when i heard about the suicide attempt, i didn't know if i believed it or not. the story about it all, it's kind of confusing. paying someone to come shoot you and then he misses. >> where we live, people don't miss. it don't matter if you're talking about a deer or a person, they don't miss. >> well, the suspect accused of shooting alex murdaugh in a failed murder-fraud plot claims he is being set up to be the fall guy. >> curtis smith says it was

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you have to take it serious. >> what i'm seeing is that a lot of people seem a little hesitant to speak about buster or the murdaughs in general. do you kind of see that? >> yes, sir. because when someone told me that it was buster, you know, it was like they were saying if it's him, nothing was going to be done about it because of who he was. >> just go ahead and tell me what you heard. >> i heard that these two, maybe three, young men were in a vehicle. they were riding down 601, saw the car on the side of the road, i guess saw the boy walking. they turned back around. i guess they were attempting to, i don't want to say, you know, mess around with him or something like that, and stuck something out the window and it, you know, hit him in -- i don't know if it hit him in the head or the back or where it hit him.

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