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- If you didn't
know the Murdaughs,

you wasn't from Hampton.

And whether you knew 'em
or not, they knew you.

- Where the Murdaughs go,
death seems to follow.

- There is no justice
in Hampton County.

Yeah, if it come out of Hampton,

it's not going nowhere.

- People that
could just erase it

like it never happened.

- This is a Southern
version of a Mafia story.

- Enough evil had been
done by the family.

It's gone too far this time.

No.

- The Lowcountry is a
different part of the world

and a different part
of South Carolina.

Hampton in particular
is a small,

sparsely populated town.

- Hampton is a small
rural community,

very few stoplights,

country folk.

- We've had generations and
generations of families,

the same families.

- Not a whole lot
going on, you know?

Not a whole lot of
jobs, a lot of poverty.

- People like me, we
work for our money.

We wasn't born with a
silver spoon in our mouth.

- Nobody ever had
any reason to leave

that part of South Carolina,

and nobody ever had any reason

to come to that part
of South Carolina.

- Small towns generate
big fish in small pools.

- Hampton is pretty much
historically dominated

The Murdaughs.

- Murdaugh. That
name means power.

- They're a great
American family

who has a successful law firm.

Had deep roots in
their community.

- Money, position, power.

The Murdaughs have had
control of Hampton County

for close to a century.

- They have held the
position of the prosecutor...

The solicitor, we call it...
Through four generations.

- Everyone knows that they are

the lawyers in the area.

The Murdaughs are
the justice system.

- Kings of the Lowcountry.

- Literally what took
100 years to build

crumbled...

in one year.

- A mystery in the Lowcountry:

a mom and son found dead,

the circumstances still unknown.

- We're still learning more
about what exactly happened

behind these gates of
this hunting lodge.

What we do know is,
a high-profile family

has lost both a
mother and a son,

both shot and killed.

Detectives were called
in just after 10:00 p.m.,

where they found
two bodies inside:

22-year-old Paul Murdaugh

and his mother, Maggie Murdaugh.

Their bodies were found
by Maggie's husband

and Paul's father, Richard
Alexander Murdaugh.

- The investigation into their
murders was extremely closed.

Authorities were being
very tight-lipped

about what evidence
they had gathered,

how they exactly
they even had died.

It was all very
shrouded in mystery.

- While the Murdaugh family
owned hundreds of acres

in this area, the people
who are their neighbors

wouldn't talk much
about the family

or exactly what happened,

just saying that they
were good people.

When the murders happened,

the town stopped
talking completely.

It was truly this sort
of ghost town feel of,

"We can't say anything about
it because either we're scared,

or we know too much,
or we could be next."

- You felt the dome
over this little county

starting to crack.

And since that time,

it pretty much has
broken wide open.

Paul did some bad stuff.

None of that warrants
being killed that way.

And I think that was
the one big question.

There's something
that's not being told.

- I just can't imagine
anybody being hated that much.

- It was shocking to hear
about Paul and Maggie.

But it's like, at the same time,

you can only do so much bad

until somebody finally just
takes it in their hands.

- In my opinion, you couldn't
ask for a better childhood

than Hampton, small town.

You know, that's not what
a lot of people like,

but I wouldn't have
it any other way.

Me and Paul, we
started hanging out

probably when I was in
fifth or sixth grade.

Couldn't ask for, you
know, a better friend.

One of our favorite things
to do was go to the river.

Everybody's got
boats, so, you know,

you just call somebody and go.

So us six did that
a lot, for hours.

- They were all
childhood friends.

They all grew up together.
They were all extremely close.

There is Anthony Cook

and his girlfriend
Mallory Beach,

Connor Cook and his
girlfriend Miley Altman,

and Morgan Doughty and her
boyfriend Paul Murdaugh.

A very South Carolina
group of friends

that would do a lot of
outdoor activities together.

- In the Lowcountry,

you go fishing,
and you go boating,

and sometimes those activities

may involve a little bit

of alcohol consumption as well.

So provisions were made
by some of these kids

to get beer and to get alcohol.

Paul Murdaugh used his
older brother's ID.

- He'd walked out and
then lifted the 12-packs

up over his head in celebration.

- And off they went
in the Murdaugh boat

and headed towards a destiny

that they could not
possibly have imagined.

- Just take us through

how y'all met up that
night and what y'all did.

We want you to tell
us what you're sure

and certain about what you saw.

- Mm.
- Okay?

- Everybody was drinking.

Ain't no denying it, hiding it.

It was just the thrill

of going on a long
boat ride at night.

Then for some reason,
Paul and Connor

decided they wanted
to make a pit stop

at a bar on the way,

and I definitely knew
that wasn't a good idea.

- I tried to stop
that from happening,

but there wasn't
much I could say.

- Paul was like
the puppet master.

People listened to him
because of who his dad was.

People were afraid of him
because who his dad was.

- Wasn't anything too good
that I've ever heard about him

that people would say.

They would say Paul
was very arrogant,

entitled,

always got his way.

You could tell he
was a "rich kid."

- Like, he had a temper,

and he liked to
control everybody.

And if you didn't
do what he wanted,

he had friends that
would back him up

to do his dirty work.

- Whoo!

- He always did a
few things that I...

You know, don't really
feel comfortable.

I'm not going to talk
bad about him, you know?

He was a good guy.

- And we grew up
with Paul's family.

- We did.

One thing that we have tried

to instill in our children is,

you're friends
with the Murdaughs,

but at the same time,

you have to beware of them,

because if something goes down,

you're gonna be the one
in trouble, not them.

- A lot of people in town

would not let their
kids hang out with Paul

because of the
reputation they all have.

- His mother, Maggie,
she taught her children,

"Do whatever you want to do.

It's okay because
of who you are."

They raised them to know

that they were
above anyone else.

The law did not pertain to them.

- It's a scary thought,
because you know

they have that much power.

- You said you noticed that...

Paul was getting kinda drunk?

- When we left the dock,

things were starting
to catch up.

Late, cold, foggy.

I mean, everybody
had been drinking.

Wasn't smart.

Paul was drunk,

too drunk to be driving a boat.

- Paul was drunk, and
Paul was much worse

when he had alcohol in him.

Then Timmy shows up.

- Paul had an alter ego
name for him of Timmy

when he became intoxicated.

They would know that Timmy
is coming to the surface,

because they would notice
how his hands reacted.

- His hands would be such

that he can't bend his fingers,

or he can't make a fist.

His hands are sort of

spread out wide with his
fingers spread out wide.

- They knew that there
was a turn at some point,

that this wasn't the Paul
that they normally knew

but became this Timmy
character that did things

that don't sound
especially appetizing.

- Paul was being really
mean to a girlfriend,

slapping her a time or two,

spitting in her face.

- Paul starts acting out.

I mean, he's just
doing stupid stuff,

like he starts driving the
boat around in circles.

- This had ceased
to be a joyride

and had now become

a very frightening
concern for their safety.

- Some of them were
huddled down in the bottom

because of, A, the
way Paul was acting

but also the speeds
that they were going.

This guy is angry, he's bitter,

and I think it became a
battle somewhere in there

that Connor wanted to
take him off the wheel.

And he wouldn't have any of it.

- Watch out!

- I remember the commotion,

the scream,

and the bang.

We hit the pylons on
one side of the bridge,

and when I came to, I was on
the other side of the bridge.

Miley...

came running down there
to me...

And asked me where
my... Mallory was.

It's so
much fucking blood!

- Hey, I got a
description of that female

for the boat accident.
- Okay.

- All right, it's gonna
be a 19-years-of-age

white female.

Blonde hair. Pink shirt.

She was last seen in the water,

but they cannot see her now.

- Come on.

- When the phone
rang that night,

I almost didn't answer it.

But, you know, you
get a phone call

in the middle of the
night, it's scary.

- As soon as I heard his voice,
I knew something was wrong.

I loved her for a
long time, you know,

long before I said it.

She always made it very known

how she felt about me.

I was just playing
with her, you know.

I wouldn't say
anything just ever.

And I don't know,

one day I... you know, I
just looked at her and...

said, you know,

"All right, Mal, I love you,"

and it didn't register
to her at first.

And she was like, "Wait, what?

What'd you just say?"

But I mean, it was...

Love is one thing,

and saying it's another.

- Paul's first thought was,
"Let me call my grandfather

Randolph Murdaugh,"
the former solicitor

who knows all the law
enforcement there.

Paul was thinking two
steps ahead, which is,

"I'm gonna need help,

and my grandfather's the best
person to give it to me."

- When we got there,

Anthony was shaking
and shivering, and...

He didn't want to go.

He did not want to go.

- Anthony is obviously
overcome with anger and guilt

at the fact that his
girlfriend is missing.

He sees Paul

coming within a close physical
proximity to where he is.

- He has some very telling
admissions on camera.

- Paul was driving the boat

and the fact that Paul was
responsible for the fact

that Mallory was missing.

- Oh, that's... trust me.

- He had seen the past where
Paul got out of trouble

because of who he was.
- Yeah.

- And Paul knew that,
so he's just grinning,

smiling, walking away.

- Historically,
Murdaughs have been able

to do what they want

when they want, how they want

without deference to the
other people around them.

- I feel like justice
has been done.

Truth has been vindicated.

It shows that the
people of Jasper County

support law and order.

- Many people would
know a solicitor

more as a district attorney,

but instead of just
one county or one city,

he would have charge of five
different counties in our area.

The Murdaugh dynasty
starts with Randolph I.

Then it goes to the man
we know as Old Buster,

then Randolph III,

and then Alex himself.

- To really understand
the influence

that the Murdaughs
had in this community,

you really have to go
back to Old Buster.

He was the longest,

most influential
Murdaugh member.

- As bad a case
as I've ever seen,

and I've been
solicitor 44 years.

- I tended to think of
that part of South Carolina

as his duchy.

People there had to give tribute

to Buster Murdaugh.

- If Buster Murdaugh liked you,

he'd try to help you
every way he could.

If Buster didn't like you,

he'd try to hurt you
any way he could.

- I knew Buster
personally growing up,

and the stories about Buster
taking care of people...

Very real.

And a lot of people to tell you,

"Yeah, Buster could
have somebody taken out

in a minute."

- You didn't want to get
on the Murdaughs' bad side.

It would be beneficial to stay
out of the Murdaughs' radar.

- The Murdaughs
were like the Mafia.

You know you just
don't mess with 'em.

- We will be seeking
the death penalty.

The South Carolina code provides

that under certain
circumstances that you can...

- They're the ones who
determine who gets prosecuted,

who gets tried.

Is the death penalty sought?

So not only do you have
the power over the people.

You've got power
over the system.

- When you combine
that with the fact

that for a number
of these decades,

the Murdaughs were allowed
to have a civil practice

while they had the
criminal authority.

- Peters, Murdaugh,
Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick

has been helping families
in Hampton County

and the South Carolina
Lowcountry since 1910.

If you or someone in your
family has suffered a loss

or has been personally injured,

call us at Peters, Murdaugh,
Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick,

where our attorneys are devoted

to serving your legal needs.

- The combination operated

to their great
financial advantage.

- Some people say "PMPED."

Most regular people
just call it "the firm."

- Some people probably
don't even know

what those letters stand for.

All they know is
the M, Murdaugh.

- The main thing I'll remember
about the law firm is,

when I walked in the
doors, just how...

big it was.

You walk in. You're
like, "Oh, yeah,

these people know
what they're doing."

- You have a law firm that makes

millions and millions
of dollars a year

and is the biggest thing going
in Hampton County, basically,

other than government
and, in fact, probably...

In some ways, probably had
more power than the government.

- Without a doubt,

Alex Murdaugh was a good lawyer.

He was talented.

He was a very dominating person

and maybe even a
little bit of a bully.

- I myself grew up with Alex.

His personality was,
he should be top dog

in everything.

- He walks into a courtroom.

He's gonna point out,

well, that's his dad's
picture on the wall.

That's his grandpa.

And he's gonna make sure

that you know who he is.

He is going to
push his dominance.

- You could see that
smirk on his face

that would tell you he's
just lying through his teeth,

trying to be nice to you.

He's always been one to
scheme and manipulate,

and you could always tell
that you better watch him,

because you don't know whether
what he was telling you

was the truth or not.

- Alex knew all
the state troopers.

He socialized with them.

Tickets to football games,

tickets to basketball games,

stuff like that that
just reminds them,

"Hey, I'll do for you
whatever I can do to help you,

but in return, I
expect the same."

For example, if he works a wreck

and the trooper is on the scene

and he says that the fault
was this particular driver

and Alex needs it
to be switched,

that report is
gonna get modified.

That's corruption.

- Connor said, "Daddy,
we've had an accident.

I need you and Mama to come
to the Beaufort Hospital."

- Connor Cook had a very
significant jaw injury...

That required some
surgical intervention

and treatment.

Morgan Doughty had a
very severe hand injury.

Paul was... I believe
there's a quote

from his grandfather that said

he was drunker
than Cooter Brown.

- They had to restrain
Paul in the ambulance

and ended up putting
him in his own ambulance

because he was...

- Intoxicated that bad.

Fighting them... he was
fighting me and other people.

- Yeah, they couldn't
gain control of him.

- Paul Murdaugh was
laughing at points.

He was joking with people.

He was completely
unfazed by the fact

that his friend was missing.

- He was just so
drunk at the hospital

that he was hitting on the nurse

who was trying to make sure

that he was set up
in his hospital bed.

- He was acting
out to the nurses

and various emergency
room personnel,

just really obscene and
not appropriate behaviors.

Alex Murdaugh and his father,

the former solicitor
Randolph Murdaugh,

arrived at the emergency room,

and they were trying
to quarantine Paul off

and prohibit him from
being interviewed

by law enforcement.

- There appeared to be an
effort by Alex Murdaugh

to try and influence
the direction

of this investigation,

perhaps to subvert
the investigation.

- Takes about an hour to drive

from Hampton to
Beaufort Hospital.

We're both crying.

We started getting
phone calls from Alex,

and in that hour, he called
three, four, five times,

trying to convince us

that Connor was
driving the boat.

- The push became, is there
a way that we can show

that Paul was not driving?

- What you have to do
for a criminal case

is establish reasonable doubt,

so if you can create doubt

that Paul was actually
driving the boat at the time,

then he's not gonna
get convicted.

- When we did arrive
to the hospital,

Alex was already there,
Randolph was already there,

trying to orchestrate
everything.

Alex was telling me
how, with his influence

over the judges and
juries and all this,

how, "Don't worry."

He was gonna take
care of Connor.

Make more sense to me
for him to be telling us

how he is using his resources
to find this missing child,

but no, no, that's what...

That wasn't on his mind at all.

Somebody heard Randolph
say, "Well, she's gone.

We don't need to
worry about her."

- Alex is walking
around the hospital

telling the passengers not
to say anything to police.

Nobody said, "Alex
came to my room

to check on my condition,
to see if I was okay."

They said, "Alex came to my room

to tell me not to say who
was driving the boat."

Alex apparently
talked to Connor,

and Connor said, "He
was trying to get me

"to say I was driving

and take the blame for
this instead of Paul."

- Paul had called his
grandfather Randolph

from the ambulance,

and Connor heard
Paul tell Randolph

that Cotton Top was
driving the boat.

That's Connor's nickname,
so Connor knew right then

what they were trying to do.

- Alex Murdaugh and his father

were trying to
arrange for a lawyer

to represent Connor Cook.

- And Alex said, "I
know the perfect guy,"

so that's how we got
introduced to Cory Fleming.

- Cory Fleming was a
pretty well-known lawyer

and a good lawyer.

Very soon after their first
meeting with Mr. Fleming,

they discovered that he was
Alex's son Buster's godfather.

- Cory Fleming is
his son's godfather.

It's his college roommate.

It is one of his best
friends out there,

so he was trying to direct
them to use Cory Fleming

because he knew it
would benefit him

and that Cory would lead
them, theoretically,

in the right direction.

Alex clearly was trying to
use his people, his situation

to control the entire event.

- We didn't have a clue that
he and Alex go back to college

and were roommates
and best friends

and Cory's the godfather
of one of Alex's children.

We didn't know any of that.

- He already had
the plan in motion,

and we fell for it.

- Mm-hmm.

- He was relieved of duty

pretty quickly thereafter

when those relationships
became known to the Cooks.

- It was actually pretty hard
for him to find an attorney

that would represent Connor.

- Because of who
they were up against.

- "We're not going against
the Murdaughs, no."

- The first two
lawyers we spoke to

told us that if Buster
Murdaugh was still alive,

we wouldn't have to
worry about all of this,

because Connor would
already be crab bait

and there wouldn't be a problem.

- Meanwhile, first
responders were focused

on trying to save Mallory

and not registering
that we're going to need

to make this into a crime
scene now, not later.

The Murdaughs said, "We
know what could happen next,

and we need to
protect ourselves."

They circled the wagons better
than law enforcement did.

- That night at
the accident scene,

when they had taped it off,

Mallory's parents wanted
to go down to the water,

and they wouldn't let
anybody past that tape.

And Mr. Randolph
and Maggie came up,

and they lifted the tape
and let them go right under.

- The boat itself
was now recognized,

hours later, to
be a crime scene.

- There's been descriptions made

of efforts to get the boat

away from the
scene of the crash.

The local law enforcement
officers there

enlisted the help of a
member of the Murdaugh family

to bring the trailer
to the scene.

- Strikes me as a bit odd

that the Department
of Natural Resources

would not have trailers,

since I would assume that agency

has hundreds of boats.

It's a little astonishing
that a family member

could get anywhere near
the scene of the crime.

- We knew some of the law
enforcement that were there,

and we knew that they
were close friends

with the Murdaugh family.

It's always been
that way, because...

if you were in law enforcement,

you were close friends
with the Murdaughs.

- It appears that some
evidence is missing:

Paul's clothing,
Paul's cell phone,

items from the boat that
should have been preserved.

- Some of the evidence has...

disappeared.

Certain DNA evidence that
we know was collected

is now unaccounted for.

How that occurs is
a mystery to me.

- A lot of the local
people were like,

"We know there's
nothing you can do,"

so we just kind of give up hope

and just let whatever
happens happen,

because we've seen
it so many times.

- DNR officials are
still holding out hope

that Mallory will be found safe.

They have been searching
for three full days,

and that search area expands
with every day, they say,

making it much
harder to find her.

Hope, though, has
begun to dwindle

for her family and for
rescuers out there.

- Every day, we were pretty much

the first ones there
and the last to leave.

One particular day,

I was having an emotional moment

and just wanted to be
by myself for a minute.

And so I got in the truck,

and I was watching
the helicopter

and praying and looking
out at the water.

And I heard somebody
get in the back.

Turned around, and it
was Maggie Murdaugh.

My first thought was,

she's getting in
the truck with me

to make everybody else see that,

but then she started
questioning me

and my opinion about things.

And one of the
things she said was,

"What do you think will happen
if they never find her?"

I mean, how can
you even say that?

Like, I can't think that way.

My Lord, what... you know, I
want her to be found alive,

and I'm not entertaining
this conversation.

So she waited a few minutes,
and then she got out.

And that was the last
time I ever talked to her.

I saw her... a few times,

like, in the grocery
store or whatever,

but I made sure I
went the other way,

because I didn't want to
entertain any conversation.

And so I just stayed away.

- It was a Sunday.

That was the...

That was the only day
that I didn't go...

to the bridge.

- Yesterday, after one week,
the search for Beach ended.

- It's the conclusion
that family and friends

of Mallory Beach feared

after praying for a
week for a miracle

that maybe she had
survived that boat crash

and would be found alive.

- It took me months

to really believe it.

And...

sometimes it still
don't feel real.

You know, just...

I guess that probably
happens for everybody.

- Your children go through
a lot of things in life.

You lose people, and...

things happen.

A lot of people have tragedies.

But for him, he
didn't just lose her.

He lost her right
out of his arms.

He had her one second,

and the next second,
she was gone,

and he never saw
her again, ever.

- If you got a phone call saying

that your girlfriend was
just killed in a car wreck,

it wouldn't be near as bad as...

losing her out of your own arms.

There's no comparison.

- I like to consider
myself lucky.

Yeah, it sucks that
I lost her, but...

at the same time,

I was the one she
loved before she left.

- Two months ago,

Hampton County
teen Mallory Beach

died from a boat crash.

- The young man accused
of driving the boat

when it crashed, Paul Murdaugh,

was arraigned today.

- He was charged with felony
boating under the influence

that causes a death.

So he was facing literally
55 years in prison.

- The big question became,
who was driving the boat

when it hit the bridge?

Based upon the evidence,

there's no way the
state could have proved

Paul was driving the boat at
the time of the collision.

I say that based upon written
statements by these witnesses.

Paul's girlfriend
said, "Paul drove.

"He was very intoxicated
as well as Connor.

"We putted around
until Connor took over.

We slammed into the bridge."

Anthony Cook says,
"Paul got defensive

"and started yelling
at everyone else,

"so Connor tried to
calm everyone down

and let him drive the boat."

It's interesting
what Connor Cook

said at the hospital.

The officer asks, "Connor,
who was driving the boat

at the time of the collision?"

Connor says, "I don't know."

"Connor, who was
driving the boat

at the time of the collision?"

"I don't know."

- I said, "Connor,
is there any chance

that you were
driving the boat?"

And he's like,
"What, Mom? No."

- Alex told him to
say he didn't know

who was driving the boat.

If Connor was asked, not
to say, "No, I wasn't."

To say, "I don't know."

- It was devastating
to know that somebody

that was supposed to be that
good of a friend of mine

would be willing to try
to sacrifice my child

to save his.

Oh, it brought me to reality.

- Murdaugh's bond was
set by presiding judge

Steven S. John at $50,000.

- It was the moment
after the judge said

yes, the charges
were going to stand

that the bailiff
came with handcuffs

and Paul's eyes lit up.

They got big, and they went,

"Somebody's coming with
handcuffs to handcuff me.

Who do they think they are?"

And they stopped it.

The lawyers were
able to stop it.

And it doesn't make any sense
that you didn't get that,

that he never spent a moment

not in a jail cell,
even, but getting booked.

They took his mug shot

in the hallway of
the courthouse,

and he walked out that day.

And I think that's rubbed a
lot of people the wrong way.

What you got from a
lot of people was,

"It's the Murdaughs.
Nothing's going to happen."

- I think it was shocking
to a lot of people

in Hampton County that he
was even charged with a crime

and shows how serious
this crime was.

But even though he was
waiting to stand trial,

a lot of people didn't think
it was actually gonna happen.

- A lot of people felt that
there was too much delay

and that Paul's able
to go to college.

He was bullied a fair amount.

He would walk into
class, and people would

blow the horn at
him and yell at him

and just cuss him and
shoot him the bird.

A lot of people in
the public thought

there will not be any justice
until Paul gets convicted.

- I got a call from one
of my sources that said,

"You won't believe
this, but..."

- A prominent family
here in South Carolina

dead after what's being
called a double homicide.

- You just sit there with
a blank look on your face,

going..."What happened?"

- Paul and Maggie
Murdaugh were found dead

at their family hunting lodge.

- It was... shocking.

Time stood still. I remember
exactly where I was.

- Both mother and son
were shot and killed

execution style.

Investigators note

both were shot multiple times.

- Dumbfounded by it.

You can't express the reaction.

And then, of course, you
start asking questions.

- A small Lowcountry
community remains in shock,

left with more
questions than answers.

- The family asking
for the public's help.

- In the Lowcountry,
a community gathered

for funeral services being held

for 52-year-old Maggie

and her 22-year-old
son, Paul Murdaugh.

- There were so
many people there,

and my wife was afraid

for our safety going
to the funeral.

And she was concerned about
law enforcement being there,

because we didn't know
what had happened.

- The service starts,

and Maggie Murdaugh's
sister-in-law

starts talking about,

like, what a loving
and warm person

Maggie Murdaugh was,

how she loved her sons
more than anything.

And then for Paul, they had
a partner at the law firm,

and in his first
remarks, he mentioned

that he actually hadn't
seen Paul in a while.

So the guy that they
have speak for Paul

was a law firm member

who hadn't seen Paul in a while.

I don't know if people
really got to know

who Paul really was,

which is a shame, you know?

I mean, people
are more than just

their worst things about them.

- Anything he did or said ever

was gonna be scrutinized,
maybe, by his family,

because you have to be this way.

You have to act this way.

I think Anthony almost
felt sorry for him

for some of that, because
every little thing you do

is based upon who you are.

- No.

No.

It was...

I wanted to,

but I figured there was
probably a little bit...

Too much drama
would be involved.

You know, and I've made my peace

without having to
go to the funeral.

- Anthony has since told us that

one of the days
out at the bridge

that Paul did make
contact with him.

- He looked at me

dead in my eyes when...

there wasn't nobody
paying attention

and apologized

and said, "You know I love you,"

and I said, "I love you too,

and I... You know,
it's all good,"

and I had to walk away.

But that was it.

A lot of people
try to make it out

like it never really
fazed him, but it did.

He knew deep down.

I think there's a lot
of people out there

in the world that
heard a lot of things,

but if you didn't
know him like I did,

you wouldn't
understand, you know,

'cause he really
was a good person.

- Usually murders
are solved, you know,

within days or weeks.

And if they don't get
solved within days or weeks,

I think a large
percentage go unsolved.

- Still no arrests
more than a week

after the mother and son

from an influential

South Carolina family

were shot and killed.

- I think this may

very well be related

to the death of Mallory Beach.

People begin to think
another Murdaugh

is gonna get away
with something.

So what was the motivation

other than anger or revenge?

- Many people, me included,

thought that this was the act

of some delusional vigilante.

- My instincts tell
me that this was

a targeted hit meant
for the young victim,

22-year-old Paul Murdaugh.

Two weapons were used,

a shotgun and an assault rifle.

Now, I find it very
difficult to believe

that unless you're
a Hollywood actor

pretending you're
carrying two long guns

that one person did this.

- Paul was shot two times
at very close range.

Maggie is shot multiple times.

Then there were two last shots
while she was on the ground,

at close range.

What it appears to be is
that Paul was a target

and that Maggie came
up on what had happened

and was a witness.

- I called Connor
and his parents,

and I said, "You may rest
assured that law enforcement

"will be calling you,

"because they're
gonna be calling

"every person in the boat
and their family members

to learn whether
everyone has an alibi."

- Is there a nexus between
the death of Mallory Beach

in 2019

and the death of Paul Murdaugh?

- This case has become
so convoluted, so crazy,

so many twists and turns to it,

because every time you
think it's finished,

there's another turn.

- It's another bizarre twist

in the story of the
Murdaugh family.

Investigators are looking
into another crime

connected to another
family member.

- Good evening, everybody.

Andrew Davis out here

in Hampton County right now

with the story that
really everybody

is talking about.

There's a massive investigation

going on right now.

Multiple shell
casing signs here,

ten at least.

We now know that it was
somewhere after 1:30 today

that Alex Murdaugh
was shot in the head.