Ben Kissel

And that's a tragedy in and of itself, Marcus.

Yes.

See, because of the Murdoch's connections, the authorities were doing their best to make Paul's many crimes go away.

But after years of the Murdoch's expecting people in the low country to either fall in line at their word or remain too terrified to speak up at all, an attorney named Mark Tinsley had finally decided that the Murdoch's were, to put it simply, a bunch of pieces of shit.

And someone needed to finally stand up and take them down.

He had both.

It was a volunteer solicitor's badge.

Assistant solicitor.

I think that's what it was.

No.

Now, Mark Tinsley took the Beaches case after most of the other attorneys in the low country had turned them down, but not because Tinsley was an outsider.

To the contrary, Mark Tinsley had dealt with the Murdochs plenty and had even once considered Alec Murdoch to be a friend.

But Tinsley was a man of at least some principle, and he had finally soured on Alec Murdoch's cynicism after practicing law with him for years.

Tinsley was particularly disturbed by how easily Murdoch could summon tears during closing arguments.

A couple of times, after fake crying, Murdoch would sit down next to Tinsley and ask him, quote, I know you don't think that was too much now, do you?

Yeah, like a fucking asshole.

Just a little bit.

Well, he had to.

Yeah.

Now, Tinsley said that he also took the case because he had a daughter around Mallory Beach's age.