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- If you didn't
know the Murdaughs,

you wasn't from Hampton.

And whether you knew them
or not, they knew you.

- They've been the solicitors
nonstop for 100 years.

- Money, position, power.

- Kings of the Lowcountry.

- You're friends with them,
and you appreciate them,

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.

- The body of a woman found
near the Broad River Boat Ramp

is Mallory Beach.

- Paul Murdaugh,
the person accused

of driving the boat at
the time of the crash,

was arraigned.

- Paul Murdaugh pled not guilty

to all three felony
charges against him.

- What you got from
a lot of people was,

"It's the Murdaughs.

Nothing's going to happen."

- A lot of people in
the public thought

there will not be any justice
until Paul gets convicted.

- Paul and Maggie
Murdaugh were found dead.

- Investigators note both
were shot multiple times.

- People begin to
think another Murdaugh

is gonna get away
with something.

- This case has become
so convoluted, so crazy,

so many twists and turns to it.

Every time you
think it's finished,

there's another turn.

- Three months after Alex
Murdaugh's wife and son

were killed in June,

Murdaugh himself
was shot in the head

over the weekend
in broad daylight.

- Good evening, everybody.

Andrew Davis out here in
Hampton County right now

with the story that really
everybody is talking about.

We now know officially that
Alex Murdaugh was shot.

- Alex Murdaugh was changing
a tire on the side of the road

in rural Hampton County Saturday

when a car passed
him, turned around,

and someone shot
him in the head.

- This is when you wonder

if they just started
making things up

or it was a soap
opera somewhere.

It seems like it's a TV
show more than it seemed

like real life,
because in this case,

how does this get more unusual?

And then was it the same person

that shot Maggie and
Paul, or what may happen

as you spin through your mind?

- Murdaugh called 911 shortly
after 1:30 in the afternoon

to report he'd been shot.

He was airlifted to a hospital
in Savannah for treatment.

- There was an entry
and exit wound.

Murdaugh's skull was fractured,

and there was minor
brain bleeding as well.

- When I first got that call,

I was fearing for the worst,
like, "Oh, my God, like,

"He was just killed
like another...

You know, another
death in this family?"

- It's a long,
twisted, crazy tale

of awful things for this family,

for everybody concerned.

But what we know right
now, SLED is investigating.

Hampton County sheriffs
are investigating.

Alex is right now, hopefully,
expected to recover.

- My initial thought is,
"What the hell is going on?"

I was shocked beyond belief

and bewildered and concerned,

because if someone is
trying to kill him,

the family needs to know,

because they are concerned
for their safety.

- Someone's going
through great distances

to punish this family.

They didn't think

Maggie and Paul were enough.

I'm sure there's a
couple enemies out there.

A lot of people hold grudges.

The list of it could be endless.

How many family members
has he put in prison?

How many people are mad that...

You know, of the
"privileged state"?

- At the time, the
investigator told me,

"We didn't find a gun."

His tire had been slashed.

It certainly is very disturbing

that there would be
vigilantes out there

who just was going to take
justice into their own hands.

- This is yet another tragic
event for the Murdaugh family.

This past June, Alex Murdaugh
found his wife, Maggie,

and youngest son,
Paul, shot to death

at the family's Colleton
County property.

No suspects have been arrested.

- In any sort of
death investigation,

it's extremely common
for investigators

to immediately look
at who had grudges

on the people that have died.

Paul was awaiting trial
for Mallory Beach's death,

so it would make sense for
SLED to immediately look

at all of the boat crash
victims and their families

to see if they had any
sort of involvement.

At the end of the
day, SLED deemed

that none of them were suspects,

which created a
bigger question of,

well, then who would want
to hurt these people?

But this was not the first time

that the Murdaughs
had been implicated

in some sort of crime.

- Ah.

- I was taking my dad to work,

and we were taking
Sandy Run Road.

We pull up to a scene.

We didn't know what it was.

We just seen state troopers

all around the road, no lights.

Cars are just sitting
there running.

Finally, after waiting,
like, 15 minutes,

we took the long way.

I dropped my dad
off, and I was like,

"Hey, I'm gonna try to
take that way back home,"

'cause it's a small town.

If you see something
like that, you...

You're gonna be nosy.

So I went back through.

They were still there.

So I took the other
back way home.

- I think I heard it on
the radio at, like, 7:30.

I called,

and Stephanie answered.

I said, "Are y'all okay?

"I heard that somebody
had threw a body out

on Sandy Run Road."

- She was like, "Who
do you think it is?"

I said, "I don't
know," but I was like,

"Mama, did you hear
from Stephen any?"

I was like, "Stephen
never came home."

- And that's when I knew...

Yeah, that it was him.

Stephen was a
rambunctious person.

He just... he always
made you smile.

His quirkiness.

He was intelligent and
dramatic sometimes.

He could fake cry in a minute.

In public.

- Growing up with a twin,

like, there was
never a dull moment.

I was the shy one.

He was the more outspoken one.

- He knew hisself.

He knew who he wanted to be.

He knew who he was.

He just was a fun person,

like that annoying big
brother that you just love.

- You know how, like, you
see in movies and stuff

there's always the popular group

and then there's, like, the
odd ones that don't fit in?

Well, we were the odd ones.

We were kinda,
like, the outcasts,

but at the skate rink,
that was our safe place.

So we could be who
we wanted to be,

and you didn't have to worry
about somebody coming in

and trying to beat
you up or jump you

just because you were different.

The first time I met
Stephen, we were all dancing.

And he loved to dance.

Like, he could move.

He just... he was the
center of attention,

and everybody would
just follow along.

Most of the popular groups

were people's family
that had money,

big names like the Murdaughs.

If your name's not
powerful, like my last name,

compared to the Murdaughs,
it's on the bottom.

You're either here,
or you're here.

So it's like, I'm
here.

It's like, some people can
just do whatever they want,

and then they just throw
their last name out there

and then they get away with it.

I guess if you don't have
money, you're a nobody.

If I did half the things that
the Murdaughs are accused of,

I would be under the jail cell.

- We didn't have a lot,
you know, growing up,

but Stephen understood something

that a lot of kids
don't understand

in that this is not forever,

that we were deserving
of more, and that...

a dream is what you make it.

- He didn't let nobody get
in his way of what he wanted.

He said he was gonna
start out in nursing

and work his way up to a doctor

because he wanted to go overseas

to help children that
don't have doctors.

And he would have been it.

He would have been the
best, 'cause he always...

What he put his mind
to is what he did.

- Investigators
in Hampton County

are still piecing together clues

after a teenager was found dead

beside a rural road.

They said it appears to
have been a hit-and-run

that killed 19-year-old
Stephen Smith.

- A young white male
lying in the roadway

with severe head trauma.

- I was a first sergeant.

I received a call
early in the morning,

before my shift started,

saying, "We think there's
been a hit-and-run

involving a pedestrian."

When I get on scene,
the Sheriff's Department

is already there.

So is the coroner.

I looked at his injuries.

I walked the scene to
look for vehicle parts.

I mean, that road,
essentially, was clean.

Nothing on it...

No parts, no glass, no
fragments, no anything.

I was confident when I left,

this is not a wreck.

This is murder.

No one has ever, that I worked
with on the Highway Patrol,

think this is a hit-and-run.

But the Sheriff's
Department and the coroner,

they saying it is a wreck,

and the only reason
it's a wreck,

according to them, is because
his body was in the road.

No other evidence.

We are the ones that
specialize in wrecks,

not Sheriff's Department,

not the coroner,

but they essentially refused

to take the case back

and investigate it as foul play.

When you think of
what's going on,

that seems like...

somebody's trying to
cover something up.

- That morning when
they found Stephen,

Joel, Stephen's dad,

was called in to go to the
Sheriff's Department at...

Like, 8:00.

And then before the
sheriff came in,

Randy Murdaugh was calling.

He was doing a workman's
comp claim for Joel,

and so he called Joel

and offered to investigate.

All he wanted was
his electronics,

his passwords, his Facebook,

and he didn't ask any questions,

just, "I just need
those electronics."

It just didn't make no sense.

And then when I was
going to the funeral home

to set up arrangements,

I seen Randy Murdaugh
and Alex Murdaugh

on the scene where
Stephen's body was.

Stephen's body left
the roadway at 9:30,

and it had to be about...

10:30, 11:00 the same day.

- I heard Randy Murdaugh
went to the scene,

and Joel said that he told him

that he'll represent
him for free.

But why was he there
in the first place?

How did he know...

that Stephen was killed?

- PMPED, by and large,

made money as a
personal injury firm.

Why would they want to
help Stephen Smith's family

with a death investigation?

You wouldn't put
yourself out there

to try to help or damage
control a situation,

like it kind of seemed
that Randy was doing,

unless you're trying
to save your own family

from something.

- The Murdaugh law firm did
have an investigator show up.

After a couple days had gone by,

we're out there still
trying to comb that scene

to try to find something

because no other law enforcement

is willing to help.

He shows up with a camera

and wants to come
in the crime scene.

I said, "I'm sorry. You
can't come in here."

I told him if he wanted
to take pictures,

he could take them
after we were gone.

But it wasn't about
taking pictures.

It was about seeing
what we were doing

to try to get one step ahead.

It's the only thing
that makes sense to me.

If you wanted pictures,

you could have got
those at any time.

Makes you wonder, is
Murdaugh involved in that?

- The Stephens case...

We know very little

or at least,
certainly, publicly.

His body was found in
the middle of the road.

He had blunt force
trauma to his head.

They were able to
locate his car,

which was several miles away,

parked on the side of the road.

The car was not running.

The gas cap was off and hanging,

the implication being
that he was walking home

to his father's house.

The pathologist
had issued a report

that it was a hit-and-run.

She said that the reason she
thought it was a hit-and-run

is 'cause his body
was found in the road.

- When they told me that
Stephen got hit by a car,

You know, I told them, I
said, "No, he couldn't have."

Growing up, me and Stephen,

we walked the
roads all the time.

It didn't matter
what time it was.

We'd sneak out the house

and walk down our
rural country road

3:00, 4:00 in the morning.

If a car came, we would
jump in the woods.

You know, we were more afraid
of what was on the road

than what was in the woods,

'cause Stephen always
said, you know,

nobody's gonna kidnap
his sexy behind.

So we always just...

We were cautious.

- Stephen was different.

When he got to high school,

that's when people
started noticing

that he wasn't like them.

- The family knew ever
since Stephen was a little

that he would possibly
come out as being gay,

but he never really
told anybody.

We just knew, so we just
accepted, you know, who he was.

That didn't make a difference.

You know, Stephen
was still Stephen.

- It was hard.

I mean, he couldn't, like,

really go out and be hisself.

Hampton was such a small,
prejudiced community.

So he got bullied a little bit,

but he never let it bother him.

- Being gay is...

the worst thing
to be around here.

They gonna shun you.

You get shut out the community,

and people talk
about you so bad.

- You can't feel safe
in a little county.

You can't feel safe,

because everybody
knows your name,

and everybody knows
your business.

- The coming out process
is really hard to describe,

and straight people will
never understand it.

The looking and
checking yourself,

"Am I being noticed?"

The scanning the room to
see whether there's danger.

A young man like Stephen,
who may have been

more openly effeminate,

he probably did that
on a constant basis.

- Stephen opened the door
for a lot of kids our age

to come out and be proud
of being different.

He helped other people come
out about being gay or bisexual

even when it was hard
at home to be accepted.

He was the strong one coming up.

Like, it's okay to be different.

Not everybody has to like you.

- Stephen put his own
crown on his head,

and he wore it proudly.

I think he liked standing out.

- I've always
taught my children,

you be who you are
and what you are.

You don't have to
explain nothing to me.

But Stephen had to be different

because he had to hide more...

Not from us but
from other people.

- South Carolina, like
every state in the country,

homophobia is not gone.

I mean, it's there, and I
think every young person

who is coming out, one
of their greatest fears

is that they'll be the victim
of a crime of violence.

- This is Corporal Duncan,

South Carolina Highway
Patrol MAIT OC.

Case number on this
will be CL-062-15.

It's a reference to a
collision in Hampton County

on Sandy Run Road.

There was not a whole lot
done in that investigation

until, you know,
MAIT became involved.

We are an investigative unit

specifically in the
area of car accidents.

As far as evidence here,
there's only evidence

of where the body was found.

There's no parts to a car or
truck or any other vehicle.

I also took pictures of
the body at the mortuary.

There is some
scrapes and scratches

on his left and right
arm, on his knuckles,

some across his face.

But his injuries pertain
to his head area.

Does not appear to
be, in my opinion,

struck by a vehicle.

There were several red
flags from the start

in this investigation.

Things that were not there
should have been there.

For example, there's no glass.

With that type of force,
there would be glass

on the ground or
possibly in the body.

There's no tire marks.

There was no paint
from the vehicle,

no oil transfer.

The phone didn't even
fall out of his pocket.

Phone didn't shatter.

The way the body's
laying in the roadway...

There's no tumble to the body.

The blood itself, it's
just a pool of blood.

When you have a body
that is hit by a car

traveling at 55 miles an hour,

they're gonna tumble
down the road,

so why aren't there spots

in different areas
of the roadway?

- Generally, if a
pedestrian is hit,

they don't keep their shoes on.

This guy still had his shoes on.

He really didn't
have type of injuries

you would see when somebody
lands violently in the road.

It essentially looked as
though he was dropped there.

- His vehicle was three
miles from where he was at.

Because it was classified
as a hit-and-run,

it was never dusted for
prints or tested for DNA.

- When they said that
he ran out of gas,

I'm like, "He had a phone.

"He could have called me.

He's called me
plenty of times."

- The car was out of gas,

but did somebody go out
there and drain the gas

and make it look like
it was out of gas?

Or was it really
legit out of gas?

- Why would you
unscrew the gas cap

and not put gas in the car?

And the fact that he left
his wallet in the car?

- If you're walking
to go get gas,

why did you leave
your money in the car?

And if he was gonna get gas,

he was walking in
the wrong direction.

- There was so much
about the wallet,

the phone, the car.

Why wouldn't you just
stay with the car,

make a phone call?

It did not make any sense.

It was very frustrating
from the start,

because it's like a puzzle.

But we were missing
a whole lot of pieces

that we should have
not been missing.

- Me and my older brother,

we went to the funeral home

and seen Stephen in the morgue.

It wasn't my brother.

His face was gone.

He was so beautiful on one side,

but then the other side,
you couldn't even tell.

When we made arrangements,
I told my mom and dad,

"I don't want to offend anybody,

but I do want to leave
the casket open."

I was like, "If that's the last
time I got to see my brother,

"it's gonna be the last
time everybody else

"has to see my brother

so they can live with
what I have to live with."

Just like Emmett Till's mother,

I wanted to...

pretty much make
that same remark.

Like, "Look what they
did to my brother.

"You just left him in
the middle of the road

like a piece of trash,
like he didn't matter."

And my dad, he
couldn't handle it.

When we had the service,

he didn't go near
him, 'cause he just...

He couldn't bear seeing his...

son like that.

- I wanted everybody to see
what they did to my child.

'Cause somebody did this.

- As we started
the investigation,

we were pretty much
starting with nothing

except for a body and a car.

So we started where we thought

we needed to, you
know, with friends,

last person who
talked with Stephen.

- It was very frustrating,

because people that
you wanted to talk with

wouldn't talk with you or
just avoided you altogether.

They would say, "Well,
this is a small community.

You don't understand."

I had known about the Murdaughs

through years of being
in law enforcement.

The Murdaughs were
very supportive

of law enforcement
and first responders,

so I knew that they were
a very powerful family

in that area.

- When their name
started coming up,

I knew immediately, okay,

we need to talk with
others about this.

- The Murdaughs have had so
much control of that area

for so long, you know,

they've built a relative empire.

They have, you know, friends,
connections everywhere.

- That's the political
aspect of it,

making sure that you
take care of the people

who take care of you.

Let them know, say,
"Hey, you know,

"you're part of this
family, this institution,

"and we want to make
sure that we continue

"to do the things
that's gonna empower us

"to maintain dominance in
not only this community

but in this region
and statewide.

- It's a whole network.

They can pick up
the phone and call

and somebody will
do them a favor,

make some phone calls for them,

things like that, so...

And that's just kind of
how it is around here.

- This direct line
to law enforcement

and the legal system in
general in Hampton County

is so direct that the Murdaughs

knew of Stephen's
death before, probably,

some of even Stephen
Smith's family members did.

I mean, it just makes it
seem like there was something

that the Murdaughs
knew that investigators

or the public didn't know.

- Our investigators went around
and talked to these people.

And they said, "Yes,
we heard these things."

Well, a lot of these people
disappeared after that.

They didn't answer their phone.

They weren't at their residence.

It was as though
some of these people

just upped and left town.

- There was talk some of
these people were paid

to leave town, paid vacation,

that they were incentivized
to not be available,

to not present possible evidence

that would lead to an answer.

- Regular people don't
want to talk about this

if they know them.

They're afraid of something,

whether it's
retaliation physically,

whether it's monetarily,

whether they could do
something to their job,

to their position,
to their family.

- I don't want to drag

somebody's name through the mud

unless it's necessary.

In this case, the Murdaughs'
name was brought up

at least a dozen
times, possibly more.

So when you have that name
constantly brought up,

you know, you have
to take it serious.

- I went to school with Buster,

and when we were younger,

Stephen played baseball

with Buster and
a few classmates.

And Buster's grandfather and dad

were the coaches of the team.

He was... how do I put it?

Like, you could
tell he had money

by the way he acted,

kind of, like, privileged

but not like a snobby
privileged person.

He was quiet when
I was around him.

- Yeah, I don't really
know Buster that well.

I mean, we see him, you know,

whenever he's down with John
or that sort of thing, but...

- That's very rare.
- Right.

I mean, I haven't
had conversations

about his life goals

or where he sees
himself in 20 years.

- You just don't really
hear a lot about Buster.

He's Paul's older brother.

He went to Wofford
College in South Carolina.

He was kind of slated to follow
in his father's footsteps.

- Paul and Buster
were night and day,

Jacob and Esau.

Paul was the outdoor guy.

Buster liked to hunt, but
he was a studious person

and took his studies seriously.

And what I'm told by people
who were close to him,

you know, that Buster was the...

Buster was the favorite child.

- We found a document
for seniors at Wofford

you know, saying
where they're going,

and he said he was gonna work

for the family law
firm in the summer

and then go to the University
of South Carolina Law School.

We don't really know
what happened after that.

- He kind of just disappeared,

like, after everything
happened with Stephen.

Like, you didn't hear about him.

He was like a ghost.

- I would kind of
check his Facebook,

and I would never see
no activity anymore.

Like, no activity.

And then they said that
he went away for school.

He went out the country.

- When we started
investigating Stephen,

where he's been or
who he'd been with,

I was told by Sandy
that before he died,

Stephen was planning
on going on a trip.

- He said that he was
going deep-sea fishing,

I think, the third week in July

with a prominent person.

That's all he said. He
wouldn't give a name.

But he was murdered
before he could go, so...

- He said he was
messing with a man

from Hampton County
that was high in power

and that everybody would
be shocked at who it was.

I think his words were,

"If I say who this is,

the whole Hampton County
is gonna be shook."

- He was getting into
an influential group

at that time.

It wasn't something
typical of his past.

With the information
that we gathered,

you could only presume

what name would've
been brought up.

It would possibly have
been the Murdaughs.

- One of the rumors
that we heard

was that Buster and a
couple of other guys

had been out, seen Stephen,

and they got in some
type of argument

and that a 2x4 or a bat was used

to strike Stephen
in the head area

and that's what
caused his death.

- Yes, and we
actually looked at it,

and it is consistent with some
type of blunt force object.

- Early on, apparently,

there were attempts
to talk to Buster.

In the United States,
we can't compel somebody

to talk to law enforcement,

and if somebody exercises
their right to remain silent,

there's very little
law enforcement can do.

- Buster was not
making a big point

to either be a part
of the investigation

or try to dispel rumors.

He seemed to be extremely
uninterested and uncaring,

which also, I think,
speaks to, like,

a classic Murdaugh mentality

of thinking he was
completely above the law

and that ignoring the problem
would make it go away.

- There's different stories

and different
versions out there.

I've heard Paul.

I've heard Buster.

Those names have been
brought up numerous times

consistently by people.

But there's nothing we
can point to and say,

"Mm-hmm, that's what happened."

- My family kind of separated

after Stephen died.

My mom took it hard.

My dad took it real hard,

but it was more
of an in silence.

Like, the day
Stephen died was...

the same day that
my dad died inside.

- Joel kind of just gave
up on life after that.

In his last days, he said
that he was seeing...

Stephen was coming to visit him,

and I think he just...

He couldn't cope.

- It was three months exact.

The coroner said
that he passed away

of a heart attack in his sleep.

- I just think he just
died of a broken heart.

- I still remember seeing
Joel in the casket.

And you could just tell

he wasn't at peace,

'cause he wanted to know
what happened to his child.

The day he died, he told me,

"Them Murdaughs
killed my son."

He would tell anybody.

Or you could've asked Joel,

"Joel, what happened
to your son?"

"The Murdaughs killed my
son because he was gay."

"How do you know?"

"I know my son.

I know he was seeing Buster."

"How can you prove it?"

"I can't, but I just know

them Murdaugh boys
killed my boy."

- There was rumors of that.

I don't know if it was true.

If Buster was gay, he would
have never came out about it.

I don't think his family
would've approved of it

either, so...

Because they are a big name.

- Joel knew 100% in his
heart it was Buster.

- There's no need to do that.

The police have got
ties with them Murdaughs

all the way from
their great-granddad

to their granddad
to their daddy.

They all got pull
through the law.

When they found Paul
and his mama dead,

they had everybody
from Colleton County,

Hampton County there
investigating it.

Stephen dies,

they just put him in a body bag.

He was hit by a
car. Who cares?

It's that name. They got pull.

- Being the underdogs in town,

I guess, in their
head, we're nothing,

so who's gonna notice
nothing being gone?

- Sandy had to stand by herself

seeking justice for Stephen

because those in authority

didn't feel like they
were accountable to them

to commit to solving this.

Poor people were not
treated the same in Hampton,

and that's a tragedy
not just for the victims

but for that community.

- I knew Stephen was not gonna
get justice in Hampton County.

Several people...

Several families have
not gotten justice

in Hampton County.

- After Paul and
Maggie were murdered,

SLED called my mom

and told her that they were
reopening Stephen's case.

- For what reasons,
we don't know,

but it is back open.

And that gives us hope.

- I found it real curious

when they brought
up Stephen Smith.

What did they find?

Did they find
something on a phone?

Did they find something
on the property

that relayed Stephen Smith's
death to the Murdaugh family?

- Law enforcement hasn't
released anything new

about what led to the death
of 19-year-old Stephen Smith

or explained why the
mysterious murders

of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh

in the Lowcountry
of South Carolina

led to his case being
reopened six years later.

- That was very
surprising to me.

There's no explanation.

Maggie and Paul's
death was so shocking,

and as things unfolded and
more information came out,

it was so clearly an event

in a much, much,
much larger story.

- And now to the new details

on the deepening mystery
over the shooting

of a prominent South
Carolina lawyer

just months after his
wife and son were killed.

- South Carolina law enforcement

announcing an arrest.

- Curtis, you have
anything to say?

- Officers from South
Carolina law enforcement

arrested 61-year-old
Curtis Smith

for the September 4th
roadside shooting.

- Alex represented Curtis Smith,

who was a logger who
got hurt on the job.

But he definitely didn't match

the description of
the alleged attacker.

- I got called probably
within ten minutes

of that shooting
getting reported.

I knew instantaneously

that Alex's story...

Pardon my French...
That was bullshit.

- From the start, the
details of the shooting

made many suspicious.

It happened in broad daylight
along a deserted road

when Alex Murdaugh says he
was changing a flat tire.

Now we're learning
what actually happened

may be even more unbelievable.

- Law enforcement now believes

Murdaugh conspired with
Curtis "Eddie" Smith

to kill him as part of an
insurance fraud scheme.

- Everything with Alex

has just been mind-boggling,

'cause you know
someone for so long,

and then a completely different
side of them comes out.

- Alex Murdaugh apparently
asked Curtis "Eddie" Smith,

who is friends with Alex,
who has done jobs for Alex,

to murder him so he can
get the insurance money

to give to Buster, his son.

- If Murdaugh died,
his living son

would have received an
estimated $10 million

as part of a life
insurance policy.

- He didn't think it would
pay if he committed suicide,

so he wanted Eddie
to do the job for him

so his son would get the money.

- When I heard about
the suicide attempt,

I didn't know if I
believed it or not.

The story about it all
is kind of confusing.

Paying someone to come
shoot you and he misses?

- Where we live,

people don't miss.

It don't matter
if you're talking

about a deer or a person.

They don't miss.

- Well, the suspect accused
of shooting Alex Murdaugh

in a failed murder fraud plot

claims he is being set
up to be the fall guy.

- Curtis Smith says it was
September 4 when his friend

South Carolina attorney
Alex Murdaugh called,

claiming he needed help.

Smith says Murdaugh was
like a brother to him,

so he didn't think twice
before heading to meet him.

- Alex went through
all this trouble

to establish such
an insane story.

Every single part of it,

everything that he said that day

ended up being a hoax.

- Trying to say
someone shot at him

and then trying to say that
it was a suicide attempt...

I don't believe for
a minute any of that.

I think he's trying
to make it look like

he was an intended victim.

- In a matter of hours,

this whole thing just changed,

and it was just like,
you shake your head,

and what is going
on with this guy?

What else is he hiding?

- Honestly, I think there's
still a lot to come out.

- The situation
we're in right now,

tell me how you're feeling.

- Do you see the
truth coming forward?