Ben Kissel

You're welcome.

I was one of these guys.

Yeah, and plenty of people inside and outside the Lowcountry were weighing in all over the internet quite aggressively on this rich boy who was getting away with killing a pretty young girl.

Well, threats were being made by strangers.

Low-key threats, but threats nonetheless.

There was also, of course, the Beach family themselves, who were getting more and more frustrated with how slow the process was going in bringing Paul to justice.

Finally, there was Anthony Cook, Mallory Beach's boyfriend, who was also on the boat that night and had since cut ties with Paul completely.

In other words, while there was only one person with motive to murder Maggie Murdoch...

Many, many, many people had the motive to murder Paul Murdoch.

And so while Maggie was ultimately the target, Paul provided a revenge narrative that Alec hoped would throw cops off his personal scent.

They called him Pawpaw.

That's what we called my Pawpaw.

My grandfather, my Pawpaw.

Now, as far as why Alec was so willing to use his son as a pawn in the murder of his wife.

A pawn pawn.

Paul had proved since the death of Mallory Beach that he was not only expendable, but a true liability.

That's always a problem.

Bad combo.

Yeah, being expendable and a liability.

Holy shit.