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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.