Ben Kissel

Paul had proved to Alec that he could not be trusted.

Because Paul had not only continued to drink heavily on a near constant basis, Paul had also continued drinking on boats with friends.

And if you ask why people still hung around Paul in this environment after a girl had been killed, you might as well ask yourself why young blonde women continued hanging out with OJ Simpson until the end of his days.

Some people just aren't that bright.

Yeah.

And near the end of May, right around the time of Alec's 53rd birthday, authorities had stopped Paul with a boat full of drunk kids from going out onto the water.

Instead of arresting Paul, the cops just took his booze and called Alec to come take care of it.

He wasn't a minor at this point.

He was 22, but even so.

No.

Yeah.

Well, this had been at least the second time that Paul had been caught by the police operating a motor vehicle while drunk since the death of Mallory Beach.

That's just the second time he'd been caught by the cops.

But because Paul was a Murdoch, the cops kept letting him go.

So Alec knew that it was only a matter of time before Paul killed again.

Now, coincidentally, this incident on the boat occurred just about a week or two before the murder of Paul and Maggie.

So it seems to me that this was the thing that made Alec decide that his son was too much of a liability to continue the Murdoch name and was therefore expendable.

And that's my personal theory for motivation as to why both Maggie and Paul were murdered that night.

He really does, and we'll get into it later, but, you know, he really does try to introduce as many possible motives as he can think of.

All these guys.