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[Anne Emerson] Gloria satterfield
was the murdaugh housekeeper.
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Gloria saw the murdaughs
as part of her extended family
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so, when Alex
came up to the boys
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at the funeral of
their mother and said,
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"I'm going to pay you
through my insurance,
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because your mother
died on my property..."
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They believed him.
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They trusted him implicitly,
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that he was going to do
the right thing by them.
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In 2019,
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when the boys find out
that there's a settlement
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of over half a million
dollars, they were shocked.
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Gloria's sons know
nothing about him.
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[Anne Emerson] To
understan the full picture here,
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we have to go back in time.
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In 2015, six years before the double
murders of Paul and Maggie murdaugh
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Alex allegedly
opened a bank account
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with bank of america,
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and it was called, "forge."
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Forge is also the name
of a very legitimate group
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that handles these
kind of settlement claims.
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[Man] Forge consulting is a
settlement funding compan out of Atlanta
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for people who are coming
into large settlements.
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It manages your money
for you, in a sense,
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by doling out money in
small amounts over time,
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rather than giving you
a lump sum of money.
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So, any lawyer that
hears the name forge
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is gonna immediately
identify with forge consulting.
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[Michael virzi] That made I look as though
the settlemen went through forge consultin
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in a legitimate,
settlement funding annuity.
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But instead, that was
his personal bank account.
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[Man] So after
Gloria dies in 2018,
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Alex murdaugh
approaches Gloria's sons
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and pitches them
an idea to sue him,
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so that they can get wrongful
death settlement money on her behalf
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and be taken
care of financially.
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[Virzi] Alex did, in
fact, represent them
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in the lawsuit against himself.
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It's ethically impermissible,
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but it's not
physically impossible.
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He did it,
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with co-council Cory Fleming
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they would agree to be
represented by Cory and Alex
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[man] But Alex did not
make known to Tony satterfie
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that this was someone
who he had been close to
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for the better part
of three decades.
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[Virzi] And instead of
bein loyal to his clients
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and making sure that Brian
and Tony were taken care of,
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he apparently did
whatever Alex told him to do
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Cory Fleming came
to them and said,
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"this is complicated stuff.
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Let's get a business
person involved.
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Let's get someone
else to represent
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your mother's estate,"
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because somebody has to go in
front of the judge and say, "this is okay."
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[Emerson] And the
boys say, "yes, of course.
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If we need to have a
personal representative,
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we'll have a personal
representative."
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So, we introduce a new
character to this whole scenario,
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and that's a man
named Chad westendorf.
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He's a vice president
at palmetto state bank.
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He's a very powerful
man in a powerful position.
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Once Chad westendorf is
the personal representative
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he does not have to
talk to the boys anymore
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about what's going on
with the settlement money.
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That's the last the boys hear
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about where that
money actually is.
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So within 24 hours of Chad
westendorf taking on this new role,
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Cory Fleming files the first
claim against Alex murdaugh
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for $505,000.
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But there were two insuranc
settlements that happened.
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[Virzi] So, the first settlement
approval was the $505,000,
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and then murdaugh
also had another policy.
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And that money is a
substantial amount.
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That's $3.8 million.
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Both of the insurance companies
pay a total of $4.3 million.
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And by bringing
Chad westendorf in,
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they were able to keep
it from the satterfields.
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[Emerson] Once it's passed through
Chad westendorf, Cory Fleming,
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within this "forge"
bank account,
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it ends up in the hands
of Alex murdaugh.
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Chad westendorf and Cory
Fleming say that they had no party
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to this whole alleged scheme
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to defraud the satterfields.
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Each says that he's a
pawn of Alex murdaugh.
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[Virzi] The satterfields
didn't know until years late
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that there was any
settlement at all.
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They learned
about the first part
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of the settlement, the $500,000,
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when it was reported
by a local reporter
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who was looking
into the boat crash.
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[Emerson] Tony and his
broth get a lawyer involved
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to find out what's happened
to their mother's money,
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the money that was
supposed to come to them.
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There's gonna be a paper
trail when it comes to money.
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There were checks, and
when checks are deposite
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there's ink on the back that says
exactly what bank account it went to,
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and those records exist,
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and those records
are discoverable.
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Right? You can always
find where the money went.
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[Gregg Roman] Tony satterfield,
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because of the unsolved
deat of his mother,
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still does not know what
actually happened on that day.
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The only thing he knows is he
was robbed by Alex murdaugh,
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an attorney who was supposed
to represent his interest.
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[Woman] After Maggie
and pau were murdered,
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when everything came out
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of Alex doing what he
did to Tony and Brian,
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I was in disbelief.
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He's always been like family...
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And I just couldn't belie
that he did this to these boys.
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To this day, I still
can't believe it.
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[Virzi] Seeing that name, "forge,"
and realizing what he had done,
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the first thing some
of us thought was,
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"this can't be the
first time, right?
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Is there more?
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Are there more
victims out here?"
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[Virzi] You can hide
financial crimes for a while
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but you get that one drop
of sugar in the glass, and...
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The evidence is gonna be there to
make the rest of it fall to the bottom.
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[Woman] When you start tracing
money and you get in people's financials,
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and you know who
they're paying money to
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the books are open.
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You can't put the
genie back in the bottle.
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You better go ahead and
just fess up and tell the truth.
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[Drew Tripp] All this
troubl with Alex murdaugh,
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once that all
starts snowballing,
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there is mounting evidence
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he was potentially involved
in more criminal behavior
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than what was presently known.
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It appears that he had spent
years and years defrauding people.
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And so, we're starting
to se a lot of these people
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starting to come
out of the woodwork.
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One of the more
heartbreaking cases to emerge
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after the revelations
of the satterfields
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was lieutenant Tommy Moore...
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A state highway patrol
trooper for south Carolina
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who was involved in a
terrible accident on the job.
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This was three years
before the murders
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of Maggie and Paul murdaugh
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the accident happened during what
we called "snowmageddon" down here.
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It probably snows
once in a blue moon.
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A major snowstorm, for us..
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In January 2018.
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[Man] The road was
iced over in most places,
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and we had wrecks galore.
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I was parked completely off
the road with my blue lights on.
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The next thing I knew,
I just felt a big jolt,
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and my seat broke and
threw me backwards.
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Trooper Moore said that when that
car slammed into the back of him,
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he knew something
was very wrong.
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[Lt. Thomas Moore] I had an
extreme amount of pain in my neck,
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and it basically felt like I was
being shocked with electric current.
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[Emerson] After the accident
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the doctors diagnosed
him with a sprained neck.
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So he gets treated for that
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but the pain never
really goes away,
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and workman's comp is just
diagnose and treating a sprained neck.
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[Lt. Moore] Things
were not getting better.
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They were getting worse.
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It just felt like a
hopeless situation.
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[Emerson] Trooper
Moore had to do something,
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so he paid out of pocket and
went and saw a doctor for himself.
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And what he discovers is
tha it's not just a sprained nec
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[lt. Moore] I had some fractures,
um, and that I needed surgery,
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basically, now.
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The workman's comp
denied my claims,
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and that they were
not paying for surgery.
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And so I knew, you know,
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at that point, somebody's
got to pay the bills.
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Nobody's gonna do it for fre
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trooper Moore could not afford
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to just take on that
kind of expense.
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He needed a lawyer,
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and he says that a friend of his
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pointed him toward
Alex murdaugh.
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[Lt. Moore] He was
confiden I had a case.
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He was confident that everything
would be okay in the end.
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[Emerson] One of the things
that trooper Moore said to m
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was that he trusted
Alex murdaugh implicitly.
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There was never any
doubt in his mind, he said,
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that Alex murdaugh
would do the right thing.
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[Lt. Moore] I had
neck surgery after that.
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It was well over $250,000,
to my understanding.
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[Emerson] Meanwhile, Alex murdaugh
is filing clai on behalf of trooper Moore
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with the insurance companies,
trying to get a settlement.
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My insurance was $100,000
coverage, and that's what they paid out.
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[Emerson] That is money that
is delivered to trooper Moore,
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but before he
deposits that check
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in his own bank account,
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he gets specific instructions
from Alex murdaugh.
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[Lt. Moore] When he asked
m to bring him the check,
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I had no qualms about it.
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I gave it to him because
I w told that's how it work.
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He told me that it would
have to be endorsed by me
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and would have to be in
some kind of frozen account.
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[Emerson] Moore
says that Alex says,
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"we're gonna put
it into an account
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that can't be touched
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until all of the litigation
surrounding your accident
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is finished."
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Months go by.
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He hears nothing about
where his money is.
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He was running up
debt and credit card bills.
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He would call and ask
and was told the same story
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that he just needed to wait
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trooper Moore never
stopped waiting.
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Trooper Moore
never got that money.
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That $100,000 check, it didn
go into a protected account
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it went into the forge account.
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That money went
into the same account
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that Alex allegedly used
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for the Gloria
satterfield money.
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It's unethical to
deceive people,
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and when you start thinking
you can get away with things,
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and you start getting
away with things,
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you start trying to get
away with more things.
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[Emerson] Pmped
says that they found out
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that there were some irregularities
going on in their law firm.
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It was money that had been
misappropriated, they said,
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from clients' accounts,
as well as their own.
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[Lt. Moore] The murdaugh
law firm called me and said
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"look, Tommy. There's a problem.
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Your money's been taken...
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And it's going to be replaced.
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We're putting it
back in the account,
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but it was taken.
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It was taken by Mr. Murdaugh
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and we're not gonna
hang you out to dry."
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[Tripp] Is this something
that Alex murdaugh
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had been doing for years?
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Did he come up
with this on his own,
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or was this something
that was taught him?
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Was he brought into this,
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or was he the mastermind behind?
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[Roman] Alex murdaugh,
someone who's seen
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as the protector
of Hampton county,
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who's now become
the swindler in chief
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of Hampton county.
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He stole from people he
was supposed to protect.
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It's hard to imagine a
clearer and more obvious case
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of a lawyer's breach
of duty to his client.
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He stole money.
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I wonder how much of any of this
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Maggie knew or suspected
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before Paul and
Maggie being murdered.
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She purportedly had seen an
attorney for a divorce earlier.
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Um, it wasn't because
of things like this
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[Tripp] Alex murdaugh's
attorneys have denied
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that Maggie had been
seeing a divorce attorney,
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but this is really
kicking into high gear
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around labor day, about
three months after the murders.
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[Emerson] What was
happenin behind the scenes
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was enormous in
Alex murdaugh's life.
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Partners of the pmped law firm,
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that's Alex murdaugh's law firm,
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the family law firm...
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They discovered that
there was money missing
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they says that there
is a suspicious check
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that shows up on his desk,
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and that money has
been taken out of clients'
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and the firm's own accounts
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and his brother and his fellow
law partners confront him.
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[Tripp] Alex met with
his brother, Randy,
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and another partner
at the pmped law firm.
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[Emerson] They confronted Alex
murdaugh about embezzlement.
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"What have you been doing?
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What's going on here?"
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[Roman] Everything
starts to fall apart.
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You lie and you lie
and you lie and you lie,
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and you expect your narrative...
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To somehow be the truth?
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And then, what
happens is something
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that no one else
could've ever predicted.
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[Tripp] Pmped forces Alex
to resign from his position
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with his own family's law firm,
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based on his apparent
embezzlement of funds from the law firm
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and stealing of settlement
money from clients.
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This is a law firm that goes
back more than a century.
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His own great-grandfather had
actually founded this law firm.
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[Tripp] Alex now exposed
misdeeds of stealing from clients
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and stealing from his law firm.
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He says his world
was caving in that day,
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the same way it had
three months earlier
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when his wife and
son had been killed.
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[D'Michelle dupre] This is
massive fall from grace, devastation.
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Alex has certainly never
been in this position before.
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The family has never
been in this position before.
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All of the sudden, everything
has basically turned upside down.
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[Emerson] There is so much
happening at the same time
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coming to a head for
Alex murdaugh in his life.
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Not only is he dealing
with the double murders,
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he's dealing with lawsuits
from the fatal boat crash.
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He's dealing with
accusation of embezzlement
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from his own law firm.
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The state law
enforcement division's
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looking into the death
of Stephen Smith,
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based on information
that they gathered
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during the investigation of Paul
and Maggie murdaugh's murders,
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and they're looking into
Gloria satterfield's death.
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To fall this hard and this
fast for Alex murdaugh
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was an incredible
amount of pressure.
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[Phone ringing]
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[Emerson] He was on
his way to Charleston.
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He was driving his
late wife's Mercedes,
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and he gets a low pressure
alert on the car's dashboard.
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So 911 dispatches, of
course, emergency personnel,
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um, and law
enforcement, as well.
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[Emerson] This is
labor day weekend,
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and in the middle of this day,
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we get an alert that Alex
murdaugh has been shot.
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And I got on the
phone with Jim Griffin,
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who was Alex murdaugh's lawyer,
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and said, "Mr. Griffin,
what's happened?
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What's happened?
He's been shot."
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"Yes, he's been shot. He
was on the side of the road.
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They're trying to get him
to a hospital right now.
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I just got off the phone
with his brother, Randy."
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I said, "is he alive?"
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"Yes, he's alive. We
don't know what condition
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my initial reaction was,
"maybe one of the people
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that he had wronged finally
came back and dealt with him."
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They were an older
since of justice.
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[Emerson] We were told
right after the double murde
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that the community
wasn't in danger.
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There was a huge concern
that something was going on,
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uh, that someone was taking a hit
out on the murdaughs at this point.
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[Tripp] It's just flooring.
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And it sends your mind
into overdrive, like, "whoa."
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[Roman] There are so many
questions as it relates to the events
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between the beginning of June when
Alex murdaugh's family members are killed
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and September 4th, 2021
when he was shot in the head.
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[Dupre] The car that
Alex was driving at the time
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can go 50 miles with a flat tire
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before ever being changed.
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The road that he was on,
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supposedly going, I think
he said, to Charleston,
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is not the road that locals
would take to go to Charleston.
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We have been taken on so
many twists and turns in this story
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and we're still finding
out what the details are.
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Every single day we
wake up to check the press,
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to check the newspapers,
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to be looking at what's
going to happen next.
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Now, the bizarre chain
of violence surrounding
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a prominent south
Carolina legal family.
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Attorney Alex murdaugh
is expected to survive
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after being shot in
the head yesterday.
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It seems that the members of their
family are being targeted by someone.
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Who that is remains to be seen.
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[Brian foley] Certainly,
the shooter has got to be
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concerned that the
victim has survived,
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uh, a gunshot to the head.
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[Reporter] There's so much
mystery surrounding this family,
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it's hard to imagine
that this is random.
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Right after Alex murdaugh has
been in this roadside shooting,
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information starts tumbling out
that it's not just that straightforward.
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Pmepd says that they
found o that there were some
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irregularities going
on in their law firm.
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And they confronted
Alex murdaugh about it.
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[Reporter] Alex's bother ran issued
a statement on the situation saying,
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[reading]
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"In stealing by manipulating
his most trusted relationships."
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[Emerson] Randy murdaugh
says that his brother has do
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some things that he
needs to be accountable for.
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That was a devastating
momen in that murdaugh dynasty.
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There are also several
sled investigations going on.
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And the unsolved double murders.
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At that point, Alex
makes a decision that
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he's going to come clean.
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[Tripp] That's the time tha
the apparent opioid addictio
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is first put out there
by Alex's attorneys.
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[Reporter] In a statement tonight,
Alex murdaugh writes in part, quote,
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"the murders of my wife
and son have caused
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an incredibly
difficult time in my life.
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I have made a lot of
decisio that I truly regret.
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[Reading]
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Alex murdaugh is now checked
in to a rehabilitation facility
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and is recovering after
being shot this past weekend.
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It was at least another
week before Alex murdaugh
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told law enforcement another
version of what happened
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on old salkehatchie road.
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Basically, in rehab,
he told officers that
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he hired a man named
Curtis Edward Smith
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to help him commit suicide
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so it would look like
somebody else shot him.
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[Tripp] He had just a
schem to have himself killed
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so that his son, buster,
will get a $10 million
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life insurance policy
settlement upon Alex's death
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Alex believing that if he
committed suicide himself
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the policy would not pay out.
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According to Alex's attorneys,
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that's the only way
out that he saw.
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[Reporter] South Carolina lawyer,
Alex murdaugh turned himself in
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after being accused of
arranging his own death
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for $10 million in insuranc
money that his son would get
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everyone was shocked
by the, sort of fake,
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suicide-for-hire
thing that happened,
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so yeah, there's no telling
what's going to happen next.
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[Tripp] Alex and Curtis
edd Smith are arrested.
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Both on charges
of insurance fraud
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related to the failed
assisted suicide attempt.
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Agents with the south Carolina
law enforcement division
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have arrested 61-year-old
Curtis Edward Smith
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of colleton county.
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State authorities say Smith planned
the shooting with Alex murdaugh
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so that murdaugh's
surviving son could collect
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a $10 million life
insurance policy.
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After shooting
murdaugh in the head,
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investigators say Smith
drov to an unknown location
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where he disposed of the weapon.
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[Emerson] Curtis Edward
Smith's nickname is cousin eddy.
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He's not a close
familial relationship,
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to Alex murdaugh, but
he's certainly part of the clan.
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Alex's lawyers called eddy
Smith Alex's long time drug dealer.
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That is not what eddy Smith
described himself as to me.
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Eddy Smith described
himself as a buddy,
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a brother, to Alex murdaugh.
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[Emerson] According
to eddy Smith,
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he said he couldn't believe
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when he was arrested
on these charges.
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Because he said what happene
was very different that day
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he says that he went
to old salkehatchie road
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after Alex murdaugh
called him and said,
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"can you please
come?" And he did.
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And he saw his friend in a
l of distress and very upset.
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When Alex pulled out the gun
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they grappled and
the gun did go off.
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And it did graze the
back of Alex's head,
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but he was fine, to the
point where he drove off.
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He wasn't going there
to kill Alex murdaugh,
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according to eddy's lawyers
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he was going there to save him.
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Everyone around this guy
seems to die except him
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when, coincidentally,
he wants to die.
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That's the big
question, Lawrence.
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How does a guy, that
you hire to kill you, misses?
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How does he fail at that?
That's the lead to me.
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[Tripp] So, Alex's bond
hearing is in mid-September
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related to the assisted
suicide attempt
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and insurance fraud scheme.
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He was driven straight from rehab
to the Hampton county courthouse.
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[Emerson] It was a reversal
of fortune for Alex murdaugh
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this was a very powerful,
well-respected lawyer
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who had graced these courtrooms
many, many times before.
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He was in handcuffs. He
was wearing prison garb.
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So, where was the gunshot wound?
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Is what everybody
wanted to know.
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When people are
staring at a back of a head
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and you can't find a wound,
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it was incredibly hard
for people to understand
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what really happened
to him that day.
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[Roman] Alex murdaugh
has been so cold
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and so calculating
and so deliberate,
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and every single
action in his life
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from the time that
he became a lawyer
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to the time that he allegedly
tried to engineer his own death.
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[Emerson] After this
hearing, he is allowed
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to leave the state
of south Carolina
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and go to rehab down in Florida.
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That's when the state starts
preparing its case against him.
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There are several allegations
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that they've been looking into.
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Multiple investigations
tha they are still working on.
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[Tripp] The state police
announce they're investigati
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Alex murdaugh
for financial crimes.
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Potential theft of funds
from clients, his law firm.
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[Emerson] As Alex
is sitting in rehab,
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this money that he
allegedly misappropriated,
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starts coming to light.
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Now, the state is ready
to charge him again.
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[Tripp] He's indicted
again in October
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on criminal charges related
to the death of Gloria satterfield
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after it's revealed
Alex murdaugh stole
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roughly $4.3 million from
Gloria satterfield's estate
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State police in Florida
are there, waiting on him
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to pick him up as he walks
out of the rehab facility.
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And they're preparing
to extradite him back
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to south Carolina
to face charges.
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[Emerson] When this
bond hearing happens,
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it is literally a
packed courtroom.
481
00:31:23,115 --> 00:31:25,275
In just a period
of a few months,
482
00:31:25,284 --> 00:31:28,394
it has turned into an
international media circus.
483
00:31:28,387 --> 00:31:33,017
And there are literally stations
from all over the country.
484
00:31:34,493 --> 00:31:36,933
You can feel the
pressure and the tension
485
00:31:36,929 --> 00:31:40,829
of what's going on with the
prosecutors and the lawyers.
486
00:31:42,635 --> 00:31:46,235
The courtroom's also
filled with the satterfields.
487
00:31:46,305 --> 00:31:48,935
The sons of Gloria satterfield.
488
00:31:51,110 --> 00:31:53,010
[Indistinct]
489
00:31:53,012 --> 00:31:55,782
Your honor, we're here,
uh, today in the case of
490
00:31:55,781 --> 00:31:57,851
state verses Richard
Alexander murdaugh
491
00:31:57,917 --> 00:32:03,247
and he is here for a bond setting
on two county arrest warrants.
492
00:32:03,322 --> 00:32:06,392
We expected that
the satterfield's lawyer
493
00:32:06,392 --> 00:32:08,632
would be making a
speech saying, you know,
494
00:32:08,727 --> 00:32:12,057
"these are terrible crimes
against the satterfields."
495
00:32:13,565 --> 00:32:18,595
Your honor, my partner and I have
been doing legal malpractice for 30 years.
496
00:32:18,604 --> 00:32:21,874
And we have never seen
such a breach of trust.
497
00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:26,040
A man who stole money,
from the very family
498
00:32:26,111 --> 00:32:30,481
of the housekeeper
that helped raise his kids.
499
00:32:30,482 --> 00:32:33,182
He had all that money. He
absconded with that money.
500
00:32:33,185 --> 00:32:35,145
He transferred it to
his personal accounts.
501
00:32:35,220 --> 00:32:37,220
And he used it for
his own personal use.
502
00:32:40,092 --> 00:32:41,672
[Emerson] What we
didn't expect was when
503
00:32:41,694 --> 00:32:44,064
the prosecution came
forwar and said that,
504
00:32:44,096 --> 00:32:46,896
"we believe that there
are multiple crimes
505
00:32:46,899 --> 00:32:50,129
that allegedly were
committed by this man."
506
00:32:50,202 --> 00:32:53,102
[Creighton waters] Um, your
honor, this is an ongoing investigation.
507
00:32:53,105 --> 00:32:55,305
Your honor, this is
the tip of the iceberg.
508
00:32:55,307 --> 00:32:58,237
Um, it is, uh, this is an
ongoing investigation
509
00:32:58,343 --> 00:32:59,583
and I think there is
going to be four more that
510
00:32:59,578 --> 00:33:02,748
we will reveal as we
review these records.
511
00:33:02,848 --> 00:33:05,078
[Emerson] The judge wanted
to know why they though that
512
00:33:05,084 --> 00:33:07,584
so, there was a
sled agent there.
513
00:33:07,586 --> 00:33:11,246
And, for a sled agent to com
forward and talk to the judg
514
00:33:11,323 --> 00:33:13,093
it was an incredibly
tense moment.
515
00:33:13,092 --> 00:33:17,492
You could literally feel this
packed courtroom lean in.
516
00:33:19,698 --> 00:33:22,368
The south Carolina law
enforcement division, we are
517
00:33:22,368 --> 00:33:24,398
we are investigating
multiple different allegations
518
00:33:24,403 --> 00:33:26,643
or investigations
at this point in time
519
00:33:26,672 --> 00:33:29,642
to include the Stephen Smith
death, which you're aware of,
520
00:33:29,741 --> 00:33:32,541
um, the actual cause of
Mrs. Satterfield's death,
521
00:33:32,611 --> 00:33:34,141
um, we are looking into that.
522
00:33:34,246 --> 00:33:36,576
Um, the financial case
that you're here with today
523
00:33:36,582 --> 00:33:39,282
and numerous other financial
investigations dealing with,
524
00:33:39,284 --> 00:33:42,654
with fraud or possible
other criminal actions.
525
00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:47,588
That's not to say that there won't be
additional charges brought forth in the future.
526
00:34:15,487 --> 00:34:17,187
[Emerson] The
judge issued no bond.
527
00:34:17,189 --> 00:34:20,389
And when he said "no bond,"
528
00:34:20,392 --> 00:34:24,062
you could hear the
gasp in the courtroom.
529
00:34:24,129 --> 00:34:26,499
There was no way we could
have expected the judge to,
530
00:34:26,498 --> 00:34:30,398
literally, say that Alex murdaugh
was gonna remain behind bars.
531
00:34:32,304 --> 00:34:35,014
[Eric bland] I think it's
a good day for justice.
532
00:34:35,007 --> 00:34:38,577
We're pleased. We thought
that Alex is a danger to,
533
00:34:38,577 --> 00:34:41,777
not only our
clients, but society.
534
00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:45,120
We think it's a good decision
and it's just a good day,
535
00:34:45,217 --> 00:34:47,247
uh, for justice in our country.
536
00:34:49,721 --> 00:34:52,561
[Roman] Alex murdaugh
faces charges against him
537
00:34:52,624 --> 00:34:55,034
for a muloo of
different alleged crimes.
538
00:34:55,027 --> 00:34:59,797
For insurance fraud
to swindling to theft.
539
00:35:00,999 --> 00:35:04,799
Not to mention lawsuits
whic are knocking on his door.
540
00:35:05,804 --> 00:35:07,304
[Emerson] What we
were told when he was
541
00:35:07,306 --> 00:35:09,466
lead out of the
courtroom in handcuffs
542
00:35:09,475 --> 00:35:12,535
was that he was
going to go under
543
00:35:12,611 --> 00:35:14,681
a psychological evaluation
544
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,350
to see what kind of
state he was really in.
545
00:35:17,449 --> 00:35:21,749
So, immediately we were thinking,
how long would this actually hold?
546
00:35:21,820 --> 00:35:24,620
How long would they
hold Alex murdaugh in jail?
547
00:35:31,296 --> 00:35:34,796
I don't know if I've ever seen a life
unravel faster than Alex murdaugh's.
548
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,430
[Reporter] Murdaugh is
facing new charges, now,
549
00:35:37,503 --> 00:35:39,403
for scamming millions
of dollars, allegedly.
550
00:35:39,404 --> 00:35:43,244
Not only did he now
have the double murders
551
00:35:43,341 --> 00:35:45,011
hanging over everything.
552
00:35:45,010 --> 00:35:49,250
He was also still dealing
wi this fatal boat crash
553
00:35:49,314 --> 00:35:53,354
and being sued by
Mallory beach's mother.
554
00:35:53,418 --> 00:35:57,088
As one case is uncovered,
another one is uncovered.
555
00:35:57,089 --> 00:35:59,489
And these are financial crimes.
556
00:35:59,491 --> 00:36:01,831
All kinds of new
information coming out
557
00:36:01,894 --> 00:36:03,694
practically by the week.
558
00:36:03,695 --> 00:36:08,665
Investigations that are now
circling the murdaugh family.
559
00:36:08,667 --> 00:36:12,597
Now the charges start
snowballing for Alex murdaug
560
00:36:12,604 --> 00:36:16,244
his family founded this
firm that he was tangled with.
561
00:36:16,308 --> 00:36:18,908
And apparently he was
stealing money, as well.
562
00:36:18,911 --> 00:36:20,941
[Linda hiers] You think
you know a person.
563
00:36:20,946 --> 00:36:25,416
But then you turn around an
see him as this person here
564
00:36:25,417 --> 00:36:28,747
I don't know what went
wrong or what happened.
565
00:36:28,754 --> 00:36:33,594
But, you know, he's not the
person that I grew up with.
566
00:36:33,592 --> 00:36:37,692
[Brant] This is a pandora's
box that's already open.
567
00:36:37,696 --> 00:36:39,896
I think the best thing to do
568
00:36:39,898 --> 00:36:42,528
is for everyone to tell
everything they know.
569
00:36:42,601 --> 00:36:45,501
Just put it out there
and let the chips fall.
570
00:36:51,410 --> 00:36:55,110
[Tripp] Several more indictments
from the state grand jury come down
571
00:36:55,113 --> 00:36:57,953
on more financial crime charges.
572
00:36:58,049 --> 00:37:01,419
And this time the
judge did set bond.
573
00:37:01,486 --> 00:37:05,086
[Reporter] The judge
set his bond at $7 million.
574
00:37:05,090 --> 00:37:09,390
Judge Lee did site concerns
about murdaugh's flight risk
575
00:37:09,394 --> 00:37:12,404
[Emerson] That number,
$7 million, was allegedly
576
00:37:12,397 --> 00:37:18,197
the amount of money that was stolen
from various clients of Alex murdaugh.
577
00:37:18,203 --> 00:37:20,943
Murdaugh's lawyers say
setting it that high is basically
578
00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:23,509
the same as not
granting bond at all.
579
00:37:29,948 --> 00:37:33,948
[Emerson] The fall from grace for
Alex murdaugh has been substantial.
580
00:37:33,952 --> 00:37:37,592
His brother's suing
him and he sits in jail.
581
00:37:37,589 --> 00:37:41,489
He has been suspended
indefinitely as a lawyer
582
00:37:41,493 --> 00:37:44,293
in the state of south Carolina.
583
00:37:44,296 --> 00:37:48,496
His name is no longer
on the family law firm.
584
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:52,500
Even though it was Peters
murdaugh Parker eltzroth and detrick's,
585
00:37:53,405 --> 00:37:55,265
it was known as
the murdaugh firm.
586
00:37:55,274 --> 00:37:57,714
So, removing that
name is significant.
587
00:37:59,678 --> 00:38:05,478
[Tripp] All those years of
well-earned cache and clout
588
00:38:05,484 --> 00:38:10,754
now thrown away by
the actions of one partner.
589
00:38:10,756 --> 00:38:13,386
Suspended attorney Alex
murdaugh has confessed
590
00:38:13,392 --> 00:38:17,692
to wrongdoing for the first time
since facing a mountai of legal troubles.
591
00:38:17,696 --> 00:38:22,696
He agreed that he owes $4 million to
the family of his former housekeeper.
592
00:38:22,701 --> 00:38:25,141
There are new victims in
the murdaugh money mess.
593
00:38:25,236 --> 00:38:27,336
Twenty-seven new charges
related to money fraud.
594
00:38:27,406 --> 00:38:31,536
Wire fraud, there's bank fraud,
there's mail fraud, there's conspiracy.
595
00:38:31,643 --> 00:38:33,783
Facing more than a
dozen new indictments.
596
00:38:33,779 --> 00:38:36,149
Now facing 21
additional charges...
597
00:38:36,181 --> 00:38:38,921
Five new indictments.
Money laundering, forgery,
598
00:38:38,917 --> 00:38:41,687
breach of trust, and
computer crime charges.
599
00:38:41,687 --> 00:38:43,387
Now facing more than 70 charges.
600
00:38:43,388 --> 00:38:46,018
[Reporter] And murdaugh
faces 75 total charges
601
00:38:46,024 --> 00:38:50,264
and stands accused of defrauding
victims out of more than $8 million.
602
00:38:57,102 --> 00:38:59,802
[Roman] While it was
despicable what Paul murdaug
603
00:38:59,805 --> 00:39:02,405
did the evening
Mallory beach was killed,
604
00:39:02,407 --> 00:39:04,937
Alex murdaugh was
100 times more evil.
605
00:39:06,244 --> 00:39:09,014
He stole from people he
was supposed to protect.
606
00:39:09,014 --> 00:39:13,454
He crashed his family's
four-generation legal dynasty.
607
00:39:13,551 --> 00:39:16,191
And now he faces
dozens of criminal acts
608
00:39:16,188 --> 00:39:18,388
because the people
he was supposed to help
609
00:39:18,390 --> 00:39:20,820
he has cursed and he has ruined.
610
00:39:20,892 --> 00:39:23,962
[Virzi] People with power start
believing they can get away with things.
611
00:39:24,028 --> 00:39:25,828
Right? They can
get away with things
612
00:39:25,830 --> 00:39:29,500
because their family's been running
this listers office for generations.
613
00:39:31,269 --> 00:39:35,439
To me, these are the kind of people
we should be more suspicious about.
614
00:39:37,876 --> 00:39:43,406
[Emerson] There's just so many investigations
that we' still waiting for answers on
615
00:39:43,415 --> 00:39:46,615
every time we
turn over one rock,
616
00:39:46,618 --> 00:39:48,618
we just find another
rock to turn over.
617
00:39:54,793 --> 00:39:56,733
[Roman] The murdaugh family saga
618
00:39:57,696 --> 00:39:59,796
started with the
death of Mallory beach.
619
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:13,040
The boat crash was the
kindle, the tinder, and the fuel
620
00:40:13,111 --> 00:40:15,411
that exposed the
corruption and nefariousness
621
00:40:15,414 --> 00:40:17,914
of the Alex murdaugh empire
622
00:40:32,097 --> 00:40:34,027
[Dupre] Paul was
driving the boat.
623
00:40:34,032 --> 00:40:38,032
Paul was with Gloria satterfield
and then Paul was killed.
624
00:40:38,036 --> 00:40:40,766
The murders of Maggie
and Paul were the catalyst for
625
00:40:40,772 --> 00:40:43,312
the investigation
into Stephen Smith.
626
00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:50,152
[Brant] My heart breaks
for Sandy Smith because
627
00:40:50,215 --> 00:40:53,775
Sandy doesn't know at
who's hand her son died.
628
00:40:53,785 --> 00:40:56,085
And she deserves to know.
629
00:40:56,087 --> 00:40:58,457
So I hope somebody
can find it in their heart
630
00:40:59,691 --> 00:41:00,591
to tell the truth.
631
00:41:00,592 --> 00:41:02,032
Just, just tell the truth.
632
00:41:14,039 --> 00:41:16,369
Honestly? I don't know.
633
00:41:16,374 --> 00:41:17,814
I don't know what
happened to Gloria.
634
00:41:18,944 --> 00:41:22,354
Tony and Brian, they
had lost their mom.
635
00:41:22,447 --> 00:41:24,477
I don't care how much
money is involved.
636
00:41:24,483 --> 00:41:26,653
It's not going to
bring their mom back.
637
00:41:34,793 --> 00:41:39,703
[Emerson] The breadth
and the width of the scandal
638
00:41:39,698 --> 00:41:43,298
and the deaths
that surround it...
639
00:41:43,301 --> 00:41:46,641
This is a case that I don't
think we're ever going to see
640
00:41:46,738 --> 00:41:47,938
anything like it again.
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