Ben Kissel

Now, one of the themes that we brought up over and over again in this series is that Murdochs don't divorce.

Murdochs do, however, murder, which brings us to the motivation behind not just the murder of Maggie Murdoch on June 7th, 2021, but the murder of Paul Murdoch as well.

And this here is just my personal theory on this.

I ain't saying this is the be all end all because Alex still to this day has not said what his motivation was, nor is there any concrete proof for anything.

This is just what I think may have happened.

Now, Alec might have found a way to somehow avoid disclosing his finances in the Mallory Beach wrongful death suit.

Maybe he might even be able to put it off indefinitely.

I think it was pushing.

He was pushing and pushing and pushing it.

But a divorce would trigger a full audit of his finances, an audit that he could never get away from.

And Maggie was almost certainly about to file for divorce.

Plus, with so many other humiliations piling up, including Paul and Buster's respective fuck-ups, some of them fatal fuck-ups, I don't think that being the first Murdoch to divorce was going to sit well with Alex's ego.

Maggie, therefore, had to go.

But remember that Alec Murdoch was a lawyer.

His family had prosecuted dozens of murder cases over the decades, and Alec Murdoch knew how murder cases worked.

He knew, for example, that he would be the main and only suspect if Maggie Murdoch was the only murder victim, because nobody else had the motive to kill Maggie Murdoch.

Paul Murdoch, however, was a different story altogether.

See, the Murdoch name had not shielded Paul Murdoch from criticism in the death of Mallory Beach like it had so many Murdochs before.

But more importantly, no other generation of Murdoch had also had to contend with the scourge of social media.

The death of Mallory Beach had become a story in the true crime world.