Alec Murdoch
Appearances
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Were you living a wealthy lifestyle? I just don't know what you mean by wealthy.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Well, it's hard for me to know exactly what you want.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I'm a defendant in a civil case involving my son. I told you about the boat wreck.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
And there were some motions coming up in that on Thursday, and I was mostly just getting ready for those things.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Maggie had gotten home, and we sat down and we ate supper. I know that Maggie went to the kennels. I don't know exactly where Paul went, but he left the house too.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
And I was watching TV, looking at my phone, and I actually fell asleep on the couch. OK.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I was certain that I heard them pull up. I had the impression that a car pulled up. Okay.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I got to the house. I went inside. Nobody was there. I got in the car. I went back to the kennels, and, you know, I saw Maggie, and I saw Paul laying down. I knew, you know, I didn't know. You know, I knew it was bad. I went over there and, you know, I saw it. Could he tell you anything about what happened?
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I don't know of any direct threats between any of the people on the boat specifically, but I do think there's been a small amount of yip-yap between a couple of them, but not recently.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I remember lying to Tony Satterfield and I remember looking him in the eye on many occasions.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
A murder mystery in South Carolina taking a bizarre turn. Alec Murdoch was shot in the head and wounded. It's like, what?
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Mr. Griffin, I didn't shoot my wife or my son any time, ever.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Well, once I lied, I continued to lie, yes, sir. Why? Oh, what a tangled web we weave.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Oh, what a tangled web we weave. But once I told a lie, I had to keep lying.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Did you kill Paul? No, I did not kill Paul. So does that mean that I am a suspect? I don't have anything that points to anybody else at this time.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Alec Murdoch was shot in the head and wounded on a rural country road.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I want to let you know, because of the scene, I did go get a gun and bring it down here. It's in your vehicle? Do you have any guns on you at all? No, sir. It's leaning up against the side of my car.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I told him that things were getting ready to get really bad and that I would be better off not here.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
The judge in this case saying that he has to surrender his passport.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I went to the house and they weren't home, which was odd. I tried to call. Okay. And then I knew they had been down here before I left to go to my mom's.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
It was earlier tonight. I don't know the exact time, but I left. I was probably gone an hour and a half from my mom's, and I saw them about 45 minutes before that.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I rode around with Paul for two hours this afternoon in the pickup truck. That's your son, Paul? Okay.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I laid down, took a nap on the couch probably, I don't know, 25, 30 minutes.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Was it you? At 9 o'clock? Yes, sir. No, sir. Not if my times were right. Who do you think it could have been? I have no idea.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
No, I did not. Mr. Griffin, I didn't shoot my wife or my son any time.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Well, what a tangled web we weave. But once I told the lie, and I told my family, I had to keep learning.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
Normally, when these paranoid thoughts would hit me, I could take a deep breath real quick and just think about it, reason my way through it.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
No, I came in here and I left one time and I came back.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
No, I don't think that I went to the bathroom. No, I didn't get on a treadmill.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
I was going to check on my mom. But specifically what I was doing, I don't know.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
And as I sit here today, that I believe that boat wreck is the reason why Paul and Maggie were killed.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
You got a lot of factors in there, Mr. Waters, all of which I do not agree with, but some of which I do.
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Like, when I came back here, I mean, I pulled up and I could see him, and... You know, I knew something was bad. I ran out. I knew it was really bad. My boy over there, I could see it was,
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Actually, I think I tried to turn Paul over first. Then I went to my wife, and I mean, I could see... Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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True Crime Vault: Murdaugh Family Murders
None that I know of. The only thing that what comes to my mind is my son Paul was in a boat wreck. A couple years ago.