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You're watching CNBC On Demand.
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In this American Greed special.
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This is such a wild story. The unsolved
double murder of a prominent attorney's
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wife and son is making new headlines.
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An unprecedented tale of small town
power.
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If you had a problem, they can make it
go away. But then you owe them.
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And big -time greed.
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Alex preyed on his victims who were his
clients. They're right in front of him.
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For a century, the Murdochs, a powerful
family of lawyers and prosecutors, hold
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a tight grip over a large swath of South
Carolina.
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You didn't want to be on the other end
of what they were working on.
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But behind the aura of respectability...
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Prosecutors say Alec Murdoch is hiding a
trove of devious schemes worth nearly
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$20 million.
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Have you ever heard of a case where the
defendant and the plaintiff's lawyer get
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together and say, we're going to take
all the money?
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Prosecutors say his crimes extended to
an eight -year money laundering and
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painkiller rate.
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For years, Murdoch seems untouchable.
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But when tragedy strikes...
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His alleged crimes come out of the dark.
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He never looked like the type of person
that would do something of this nature.
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And into the light.
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It's yet another twist in a stunning
series of events devastating the well
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-known family.
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And the once powerful attorney finds
himself linked to death.
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After death.
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After death.
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Now Murdoch's victims and those who face
off with him in court take American
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Greed inside the story that's almost
impossible to believe.
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This is a John Grisham work of
nonfiction. You cannot make any of this
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because it's all true.
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In the early morning hours, in the misty
winter dark, security cameras roll as
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19 -year -old Paul Murdock emerges from
a boat, saddles up to a bar, and quickly
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downs two shots.
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The son of Alec Murdock, a prominent
attorney from a powerful legal dynasty
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based in Hampton, South Carolina, Paul
is used to getting and doing whatever he
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wants.
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Well, the Murdoch family is just a
legendary name in that part of the world
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100 years. And essentially, we're the
power brokers, not just in Hampton, but
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the region for a very, very, very long
time.
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After swaggering out of the bar, Paul is
seen arguing with some of the five
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friends who've joined him for this night
out on the water in his father's boat.
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To other members of the party, the
gravity of the moment seems unclear.
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You see Mallory and Anthony, her
boyfriend, you know, laughing, holding
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It's very poignant. It almost gives me
chills to think about because you know
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you're watching the last moments of this
young woman's life.
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It's tough to watch, honestly.
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When authorities arrive, the missing
girl's boyfriend, Anthony Cook, lets
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know how unlikely it is that Paul, or
any Murdoch, will ever face justice in
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this deadly incident.
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You all know Alec Murdoch?
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That's his son.
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Good luck.
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Alec Murdoch may seem above the law to
people who know him.
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But the death on his boat begins to
shine a light on his family that could
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him down.
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You can see him sitting there and the
walls start closing in because now he
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his entire family was under a level of
scrutiny that they had never, never
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experienced in the life of that family.
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In the months that follow his son's boat
crash, An unprecedented tale of power
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and greed will be revealed.
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It's got family drama. It's biblical.
It's Shakespearean. It's just
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Even the setting of the Murdoch's real
-life southern Gothic tale feels like
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something out of a novel.
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Well, Hampton County is in what we call
the low country. It is a different world
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in a very real sense.
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It's almost a trip back in time to
Mayberry.
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The biggest building is Alec Murdoch's
old law firm.
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Everyone knows what the firm is. For
many years, there was never a sign out
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front, and guess what? There's still
not.
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It's not necessary.
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For almost nine decades, three
generations of Murdoch served as
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also known as solicitors, over Hampton
and four surrounding counties.
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The job makes them the main power
brokers in the area.
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Justin Bamberg is an attorney who will
represent many of Alec Murdoch's alleged
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victims.
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You didn't want to be on the other end
of what they were working on or what
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wanted. You know, I mean, they've run
the 14th Circuit Solicitor's Office for
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100 years.
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Tapped in, tied in, that's law
enforcement, that's EMS, that's all the
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who could make your life difficult.
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It's a type of power that comes in handy
at the personal injury law firm the
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Murdochs run in tandem with the
Solicitor's Office.
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Valerie Borlein is a Wall Street Journal
reporter now writing a book about the
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Murdoch family.
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The solicitor gets to decide who gets
prosecuted for a case.
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If you had a problem or run in with the
law and you went to the Murdoch firm,
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they can make it go away sometimes, but
then you owed them.
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According to attorney Justin Bamberg,
the ability to decide how and when the
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is enforced as solicitors
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gives the Murdochs a leg up at their
private law firm when they try a case
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before a local jury.
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What do you think people are going to
do? You go to pick your jury and there's
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the mother of this boy who the
solicitor's office could have dropped
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on and didn't because solicitor Murdoch
looked out.
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Well, people are going to pay it
forward.
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The case that came to the Murdoch law
firm because...
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if you had a personal injury lawsuit,
you were going to win.
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And you were probably going to win more
money than you would anywhere else.
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A case in Richland County that would
settle for $500 ,000 could just as
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settle here for $5 to $10 million.
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Alec Murdoch is born into this dynasty
of wealth and influence in 1968.
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When he becomes a lawyer in 1994,
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Murdoch uses his gift of gab and his
powerful name to build his own book of
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clients.
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Joe McCullough will later file suit
against Alec Murdoch.
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He was a lawyer who, based on his
reputation and the family's strength of
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reputation, probably enabled him to
settle many, many cases without ever the
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fear of having to try the case.
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According to an archived version of his
firm's website, Murdoch's practice
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focuses on personal injury law, where he
purports to help clients injured or
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killed in accidents or by defective
products.
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All of these clients are in terrible
need of an experienced advocate to fight
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for them.
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It's absolutely the lowest point for
most of these folks' lives.
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And he's just that regular run -of -the
-mill country white guy from around
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here. Hey, Bo.
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I'm going to take care of you. You don't
have anything to worry about. I promise
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you. I got you.
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Among the clients who turn to Alec
Murdoch for help is the family of Hakeem
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Pinckney. A young deaf man, Pinckney's
life is upended in a horrific car
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accident in 2009 that also involves his
mother, Pamela.
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Hakeem had got thrown out on his head,
so he ended up having a spinal cord
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injury from that. They operated on him.
He became a quadriplegic.
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He ended up in a facility in Augusta,
Georgia, on a ventilator.
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Pamela Pinkney says a friend refers her
to a lawyer who kindly meets her at the
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hospital where she, too, is recovering.
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It's Alec Murdoch.
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He looked all of us dead in our eyes and
our face and told us that we don't have
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anything to worry about.
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He's our attorney and that he has our
best interest.
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He would never do anything to hurt us,
and he's like family to us.
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I just took his word as his bond. That's
what I did.
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Like many in the Hampton area, Pinckney
thinks the Murdoch name is one that can
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be trusted.
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And who could blame her?
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After all, the family has been the law
here for nearly a century.
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But as the saying goes, absolute power
corrupts absolutely.
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Alec's clients were never his best
interest.
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His best interest was always his pocket.
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Up next, the depths of Alec Murdoch's
alleged fraud revealed.
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If you have a criminal mind, That's the
bag sitting right in front of you. And
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later, the tragic crash that threatens
to topple the Murdoch dynasty forever.
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In the low country of South Carolina,
attorney Alec Murdoch has all the
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trappings of wealth and success that his
well -known last name implies.
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It's all on display on his wife Maggie's
Facebook page.
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There, pictures show her husband
standing outside a private plane,
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black -tie affairs in New York.
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sitting courtside at University of South
Carolina basketball games, and
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vacationing with his whole happy family.
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There are also shots of the Murdoch clan
riding around in a variety of boats and
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other toys at the family's home and
hunting property, Moselle.
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Moselle is 1 ,700 acres. That's 20
minutes from town, practically. A lot of
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hunting, really good hunting property
out there.
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Murdoch is an avid hunter, and it's here
in the sprawling woods that he
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entertains friends and associates.
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But behind his lordly existence,
prosecutors say Murdoch is using his
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powerful legal legacy to lure in
trusting clients so he can rob them
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After the Pinckney family's horrific car
crash in 2009,
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They turn to Murdoch, believing he will
work to get them what they deserve.
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Then, in October 2011, Hakeem Pinckney,
just 21, dies in a
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nursing home.
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That was, it was like someone just
ripping my heart out of my body.
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While Pinckney is left to bury her son,
prosecutors say Murdoch senses
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opportunity.
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helping the family sue a tire company
whose faulty product allegedly caused
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crash.
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The tread separated from around the
tire, and that was the nature of us
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the accident.
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Prosecutors say in an indictment that
the Pickneys received a multimillion
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-dollar settlement from the tire
manufacturer.
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It progressed very fast.
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It settled out of court. We didn't even
go to court.
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The Pickneys get some of their money,
and Murdoch collects hefty fees for
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representing them.
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But prosecutors say he wants more.
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Two months after Hakeem Pickney's death,
prosecutors say he begins working with
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Russell Lafitte, an executive at a local
bank, to skim from the family.
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These two old friends then allegedly use
a large chunk of the Pickneys'
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settlement,
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as their own personal slush fund.
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The bank has not been implicated in any
criminal wrongdoing, and neither its
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legal representative nor Lafitte, who
has pled not guilty to state and federal
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charges, responded to American Greed's
request for comment.
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But Bamberg says he knows exactly what
Murdoch and the banker were up to.
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This is money that was intended to
compensate
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people who had lived through one of the
most traumatic experiences, if not the
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most traumatic experience most people
can imagine.
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And their money got taken.
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And the people involved didn't care one
way about a
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broken -hearted mother or the memory of
a deaf, quadriplegic young man.
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Indictments say Murdoch is just getting
started in a years -long scheme to steal
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from his suffering clients.
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Alec Murdoch was strategic.
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He picked people who wouldn't question
him.
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He picked people who were trusting. And
he picked minorities.
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One was a longtime friend of the family.
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he had a state trooper that came to him
for help that he allegedly took
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money from.
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Murdoch allegedly hides his theft by
telling clients that their settlement
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amount is less than it actually is, that
he can't disperse their money until
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their litigation is completed, and that
their money is being used to pay for
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medical bills, private investigators,
and accident reconstructions.
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No one seems to question him.
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Alex preyed on his victims who were his
clients. They're right in front of him.
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And there's millions of dollars that
come his way every year.
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And if you have a criminal mind, that's
the bank sitting right in front of you.
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According to the South Carolina Supreme
Court, Murdoch has admitted to stealing
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millions from clients and his own law
firm.
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With no one keeping tabs on the lawyer,
whose last name stands for the law in
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the Lowcountry, prosecutors say
Murdoch's crimes go on for years.
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It's hard to believe that this guy had
the arrogance to think that he wasn't
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going to get caught, that he just
continued to do it over and over again,
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then you're like, how could he not think
he was going to get away with it?
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Up next.
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A sudden death at Murdoch's house.
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And the lawyer gets away with his
biggest score yet.
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You know, oftentimes somebody steals
with a pen. It's just as dangerous as
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somebody steals with a gun.
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For years, Alec Murdoch has been living
high on the hog thanks to his alleged
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theft from suffering clients, who turn
to him at the lowest points in their
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lives.
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Like plenty of people of wealth and
privilege, Murdoch is too busy for some
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jobs.
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Out at Moselle, the family's 1 ,700
-acre hunting estate, he employs a woman
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named Gloria Satterfield to work for his
family as a nanny and housekeeper.
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Her sons, Tony Satterfield and Brian
Harriet, say taking care of others is
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she does best.
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Loving, kind, you know, comforting,
protective mother.
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The love she shows her own children is
said to extend to Murdoch, his wife
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Maggie, and their two boys, Paul on the
left and Buster on the right.
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You know, she took pride in what she'd
done, and she wasn't just a housekeeper.
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She was more than that. She was family.
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She did it for Alex's son and Buster and
Paul. Like, they were hers.
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But after years on the job, on February
2, 2018, at the brick steps
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leading into the house at the Murdoch's
rural estate, tragedy strikes.
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My housekeeper has fallen and her head
is bleeding. I cannot get her up.
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Hello?
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Yeah, can you ask the patient what kind
of pain she's having?
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Ma 'am, she can't talk.
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She's cracked her head and there's blood
on the concrete and she's bleeding out
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of her left ear. Do you know what her
name is?
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Gloria Satterfield.
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Three weeks after her accident at the
Murdoch home, Satterfield's life comes
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an end.
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That day...
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When I went to leave her, I told her I
love her and I'll see you tomorrow.
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And that's when she said, I love you
too, and that was it.
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That's the last words we had.
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For the family, it's an unimaginable
tragedy.
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But prosecutors and others allege that
Murdoch knows how to find the silver
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lining.
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Eric Bland will later represent
Satterfield's sons.
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That Alex is such a devious person, such
an evil -minded person, that he
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thinks in ways that normal people don't
think. And so from the start, I believe
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that he saw this as a financial avenue
for him to be able to recover money.
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Murdoch's devious scheme to steal from
the Satterfields begins when he does
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something most lawyers would never do.
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He openly accepts blame for his
employee's death by saying his dogs
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her fall.
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He just said that the dogs tripped her
up, and that's all we knew. And if
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questioned us, just to tell them that
they could talk to him.
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The Satterfield family says that after
admitting fault, Murdoch tells them he
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wants to make things right financially.
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The lawyer has a big insurance policy,
and he tells the family he wants to help
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them file a claim against him so they
can collect whatever settlement might
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come.
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He's like, hey, you know, I know she's
going to have some medical bills and
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stuff, you know, so let me try to, you
know, help you out with that.
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But prosecutors say Murdoch is more
interested in helping himself to the
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insurance proceeds.
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To do so, he knows he can't represent
the boys and go after his own insurer.
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He needs to set them up with a lawyer,
one who he can trust.
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He was like, you know, I can't represent
you through myself because it would be
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like a conflict of interest. So, you
know, I'm going to send you to my buddy
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be for, you know, Corey Fleming.
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Corey Fleming's LinkedIn profile says he
once worked for Murdoch's father.
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And there's plenty Murdoch doesn't
reveal about the depth of their
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He didn't tell them that he grew up with
Corey, that they went to college
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together, that Corey was the godfather
of Paul, his son.
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According to a lawsuit, once Fleming
begins to represent the Satterfields, he
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asks Murdoch's insurer to pay up.
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And Murdoch leans on the company to make
sure they do.
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Alex said to his insurance company, if
you don't settle within the policy
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limits, this case is going to go to
trial.
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I'm going to be before my jurors, and
I'm going to stand up and tell them it's
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my fault, my responsibility for Gloria's
death.
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As the insurer gets closer to writing a
big check, Murdoch knows he can only
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pocket the money if the boys never learn
that there's been a payout.
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Tony is then serving as personal
representative, or PR, for his mother's
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The job means he'll approve any
settlement that Murdoch's insurer
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As the insurance payment gets closer,
Murdoch asks a local banker named Chad
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Westendorf to take over the position.
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Today is February 22nd, 2022.
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The time is approximately... As
Westendorf will later make clear in a
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deposition, his only qualification seems
to be his friendship with Murdoch. What
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made you more qualified to be PR than
Tony?
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I don't know.
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Okay. What was your job?
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As PR, tell me what you were supposed to
do.
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I don't know.
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Westendorf has not been charged with any
criminal wrongdoing and did not respond
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to American Greed's request for comment.
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But once he's been put in place, the
Satterfield boys are left completely in
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dark. How many times did you meet with
Tony Satterfield or Brian Harriot?
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I didn't. How many times did you ever
speak to Tony or Brian?
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I didn't.
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how many documents did you send to Tony
and Brian in connection with the work
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that you did as personal representative
of the estate of Gloria Satterfield?
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None.
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Now Murdoch can really get to work.
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According to Eric Bland, the day after
Westendorf is appointed as the new PR,
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The banker asks a judge to approve a
settlement from Murdoch's insurer to
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and Brian for a half million dollars.
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But prosecutors say Murdoch and Fleming
keep the money for themselves.
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You know, you have serial gunslingers,
you have serial killers. He's just a
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serial pen slinger. And, you know,
oftentimes somebody steals with a pen,
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just as dangerous as somebody steals
with a gun.
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Up next, the devious scheme prosecutors
say Alec Murdoch concocts to hide his
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thefts and the client who's allegedly
left to suffer. And Alex watched Brian
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Harriot get pushed out on the street
while he's sitting on this money.
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To get his hands on a half -million
-dollar settlement belonging to the
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Satterfield boys, attorney Alec Murdoch
can't just write himself checks.
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That would be too obvious.
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He needs a way to move their funds to
himself that looks legit.
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In personal injury cases with payouts,
lawyers sometimes help their clients set
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up what's called a structured
settlement.
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A fund that will pay out chunks of money
over time instead of delivering it all
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at once.
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And the leading provider of that service
in this part of the world is Forge
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Consulting. And they have a big office
in Columbia, the capital.
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Forge Consulting, the real Ford, is a
150 ,000 % valid company.
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Alec figured out a way to take advantage
of the good name of Forge Consulting by
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creating his own.
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personal accounts in the name of Forge,
which then allowed him to steal people's
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money.
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To do this, prosecutors say in multiple
criminal indictments, Murdoch simply
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opened accounts at Bank of America
claiming he's doing business as Forge.
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The prosecutors say that he created this
entity, this bogus Forge, to hide money
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and to...
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make it look like he was sending the
settlement dollars to the place it was
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supposed to go.
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There's a brilliance in its simplicity.
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It's like he spent more time thinking
about being a criminal than just being a
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lawyer for his clients.
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In 2018, the Satterfields lawyer,
Murdoch's friend Corey Fleming, receives
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a $505 ,000 check from Murdoch's insurer
for a settlement that's kept secret
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from Gloria's sons.
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Fleming did not respond to American
Greed's request for comment and has pled
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guilty to charges related to the theft
from the Satterfields.
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But prosecutors allege that he passes
most of the settlement money he gets
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Murdoch's insurer right back to Murdoch.
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He wrote a check for $403 ,500 to Forge,
not the
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real Forge Consulting, but to Forge.
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And that money was sent to a P .O. box
in an envelope without a cover letter.
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Alex got that money, and then he would
endorse the check or put for deposit
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and deposit that forged check in a
personal bank account. And it never got
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clients. That's the crime.
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And the boys, what did they get?
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Zero dollars. Have you ever heard of a
case where the defendant And the
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plaintiff's lawyer get together and say,
we're going to take all the money.
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And none of it is going to go to the
clients.
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Prosecutors say Murdoch concocts the
Forge scheme in 2015.
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He allegedly uses it to disguise his
thefts from an injured state trooper, a
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family friend, and others who have been
hurt or killed in tragic circumstances.
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In all, prosecutors allege in separate
indictments Murdoch steals more than $7
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million from more than a dozen clients
between 2011 and 2020.
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Meanwhile, Eric Bland says Murdoch shows
no remorse about the way his alleged
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thefts affect his suffering victims.
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Just so you know, just the darkness of
Alex.
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Brian Harriot.
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His mother and him lived in a mobile
home that was financed by a bank.
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After Gloria died, there was no money to
pay the mobile home, and the bank
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foreclosed on it. And Brian was pushed
out on the street.
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When my mom died, the trailer wasn't
finished.
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My mom wasn't finished buying it.
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Other than my uncle's an ass, I had
nowhere to go. Nothing to drive.
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I mean, no job.
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Alex was aware of that, and Alex watched
Brian Harriot get pushed out on the
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street while he's sitting on his money.
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That seems of little concern to Murdoch,
who keeps living the good life.
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For now.
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Coming up, tragedy strikes.
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And Murdoch has every reason to fear.
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He's savvy. He knows that. And he knows
he's got a lot to hide.
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For a century, the Murdoch clan has
ruled a section of South Carolina's low
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country. In recent years, Alec Murdoch
has allegedly been using the
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respectability that comes with his last
name to steal from clients who turn to
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him during the darkest chapters of their
lives.
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But an event occurs in 2019 that will
eventually lead to Murdoch's total
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unraveling.
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On a chilly evening, Murdoch's son Paul
and five of his friends take to the
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water in his father's boat.
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Joe McCullough represents Connor Cook,
one of the young men on the boat with
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Paul that night.
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The plan, I think, was to enjoy an
afternoon and evening on the Murdoch
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which was not an unusual occurrence.
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At the helm is Paul Murdoch, who is just
19.
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Patrick Carr represents Anthony Cook,
who was also on the boat with his
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girlfriend, Mallory Beach.
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Paul, because of his family's
generational wealth and success, you
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access to a lot of toys and things that
perhaps other youth in Hampton
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County did not have.
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According to multiple lawsuits, that
night Paul has access not only to the
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family boat.
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but to his older brother Buster's ID and
to his mother's credit card, which he
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uses to purchase alcohol.
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After attending an oyster roast on an
island, the night continues with more
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drinking for Paul and his best friend
Connor Cook.
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So they docked the boat, and then Connor
and Paul went to a bar.
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And the bartender had said, you know,
they had two shots each, Jagerbombs and
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lemon drops.
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and we're in and out of the bar in a
matter of minutes.
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After they leave, security camera
footage shows them as they meet up with
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girlfriend, Morgan Dowdy, Connor's
girlfriend, Miley Altman, and another
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Anthony Cook and Mallory Beach.
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According to depositions back on the
boat, things take a dark turn.
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I don't think that a group of 19 -year
-olds Going out on a boat and drinking
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that unusual, unfortunately.
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It became ugly, though, when Paul
crossed over to this other kind of crazy
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drunk, mean drunk that he was known to
be at times.
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Depositions and statements to police say
that on that chilly February night, the
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young Murdoch strips down to his boxer
shorts, does 360s in the boat.
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and gets into a fight with his
girlfriend over his erratic driving.
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His girlfriend at the time, Morgan, has
said in court that he, you know, he got
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in her face, he spit on her, he slapped
her.
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He was very, all the kids said he was
very drunk and very obnoxious.
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And the hospital records show that his
blood alcohol level was three times the
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legal limit here.
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In no fit state, the ill -fated boat
ride continues.
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Well, you know, the waterways down there
are, it's a complicated place to boat.
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You really need to know what you're
doing to avoid going aground or striking
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something. Just after 2 a .m., disaster
strike.
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With Mallory Beach missing, police,
search and rescue teams, EMS, and
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firefighters rush to the scene.
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When police arrive, Mallory's boyfriend,
Anthony, makes it clear who he believes
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is to blame.
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He's very distraught and he sees Paul
being attended to by other law
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enforcement officers.
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As angry as he sounds, Cook goes on to
tell officers he thinks a Murdoch will
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face few consequences.
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He
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knew
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that Paul, because of his family name
and family connections,
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perhaps would get a different treatment
under the law in terms of criminal
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prosecution than you or I would.
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When Paul and three other boat crash
survivors are taken to a hospital,
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records say Alec Murdoch shows up with
his father, former solicitor Randolph
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Murdoch III.
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According to a witness statement,
Randolph Murdoch tells his grandson Paul
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shut the fuck up.
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And witnesses at the hospital later tell
investigators that Alec Murdoch appears
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to be on a clear mission to orchestrate
everyone getting on the same page.
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He knows the implications of if Mallory
Beach is not found and the worst comes
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to pass. And he knows the kids were on
his boat.
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And then you layer on, oh, my gosh, this
is going to bring a huge amount of
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scrutiny to our family. He's savvy. He
knows that.
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And he knows he's got a lot to hide.
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Coming up, the walls close in on Alec
Murdoch.
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It had to cross his mind that, man, this
case is not going to resolve and people
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are going to dig into my finances.
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For nearly a decade, Alec Murdoch has
allegedly been ripping off clients
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unchecked. But in 2019, a tragedy
involving his son Paul threatens to
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upend the scheme prosecutors say he's
been running for years.
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A week after the Murdoch boat slams into
a bridge, Mallory Beach's body is found
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in a marsh a few miles from the crash
site.
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The coroner's office has scheduled an
autopsy to confirm and identify the
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of death.
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It's not long before the young woman's
family files a lawsuit against Alec
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Murdoch, claiming he should have known
Paul was purchasing alcohol illegally.
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With plenty to hide, the revered
attorney has a lifetime of legal
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letting him know This could spell
trouble. It had to cross his mind that,
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man, this case is not going to resolve.
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These people are out for everything that
they should get.
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And people are going to dig into my
finances.
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According to prosecutors.
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Inside Murdoch's financial records are a
series of transactions revealing a
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decade of alleged theft from clients.
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But this is not the only pressure he
faces.
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In April 2019, the South Carolina
Attorney General indicts Paul Murdoch on
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count of boating under the influence, or
BUI, causing death, and two counts of
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BUI causing great bodily injury.
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People are beginning to ask questions
about Murdoch and how his family uses
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their power to protect their own.
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20 -year -old Paul Murdoch will be in
court on May 6th to face three charges,
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all connected with the boating crash
that killed Mallory Beach back on
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24th. But the controversy for many isn't
just about the crash itself, but why
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Murdoch hasn't been booked into jail.
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Walking free despite the felony charges
he faces, Paul pleads not guilty.
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And the Murdochs hired two of the best
defense lawyers in South Carolina to
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represent their son.
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They don't come cheap.
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On top of this expense, Alec Murdoch's
insurer, Philadelphia Indemnity, also
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filed suit in federal court saying they
don't have to cover him for his alleged
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liability in the boat crash.
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It's around this time that prosecutors
allege Murdoch kicks his thefts into
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gear, stealing money, they say, from
both his clients and the firm that bears
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his family name.
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But due to the Mallory Beach lawsuit, he
can't stave off the inevitable.
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There was a key hearing in the boat
crash case on June the 10th.
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And it was a really come -to -Jesus type
hearing.
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Ellick was under enormous pressure to
release his financials, something that
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he'd been avoiding and avoiding for many
months.
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But the June 10th hearing will not
occur.
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On the next episode of this American
Greed special, with Alec Murdoch's
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fraud in danger of being revealed, his
hunting estate becomes the site of a
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gruesome double murder.
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It makes everybody wonder what's next,
what's going on here. His life in
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tatters, Murdoch admits to a greedy new
scheme involving his own bizarre
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roadside shooting.
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And when I turned my back, they tried to
shoot me.
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As scrutiny builds, investigators link
the Murdochs to new cases.
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I believe he was killed somewhere else.
And his body was planted there.
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And take a closer look at past frauds.
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They said that Gloria died of natural
causes. And I'm just telling you, a fall
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down the stairs is not a natural cause.
And attempt to bring Alec Murdoch to
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justice.
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What say you, Richard Ellick Murdoch?
Are you guilty or not guilty of a felony
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for ending a stand in a diaper?
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Not guilty.
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