Ben Kissel

Well, even a quick glance at Alec's records would show that Alec Murdoch was a crook.

And besides the financial shell game, Alec was also writing hundreds of checks to his cousin Fast Eddie.

Remember, he wrote, I think, 437 checks.

Yeah, Fast Eddie, yeah.

And Fast Eddie was allegedly using that money to fund not only Alec's oxy habit, but also finance operations for a potentially massive drug ring with tentacles throughout South Carolina.

In other words, disclosing his finances was the absolute last thing that Alec Murdoch would want to do.

And the pressure to fix everything, somehow, someway, began to slowly build over the next year of Alec's life.

You'd be in the Mudder Museum right now.

Even though Tinsley had filed this motion, making it likely that others were going to look under the Murdoch financial hood, Alec was in too deep to stop the game now.

He continued embezzling and defrauding his clients.

He never paused once.

Not even after the murders he kept doing it.

And underneath all this mounting stress, Alec's life began falling apart in all the ways that mattered most to Alec.

By mid-July 2020, Maggie, amidst rumors of Alec engaging in affairs both paid and unpaid... I just, like, see him.

Maggie moved out of Moselle and their beach house on nearby Edisto Island.

Reportedly, she told a friend that she just couldn't stand to live with Alec anymore.

At the same time, Paul Murdoch's trail of destruction over the years was starting to be spoken about more openly.

When boat crash survivor Connor Cook, oh, Cotton Top, the one they originally tried to blame the whole thing on.

They kept trying to blame it on him.

When he gave his deposition in the boat case, he alluded to the other mysterious deaths that have been linked to the Murdoch family in recent years.