Ben Kissel

But it's likely that once Maggie saw her youngest son lying on the ground with his brain splattered all over the place, Alec had already fired, shooting her in the stomach and upper thigh.

Another bullet went through her wrist, shattering her tennis bracelet, which scattered the ground with tiny diamonds.

It's thought that Maggie then fell to her hands and knees, where Alec shot her again with the fatal bullet, one that was powerful enough to go into her chest and travel all the way up her body into her brain.

Alec then walked up and fired one more shot into her head, execution style, to make sure the job was done.

And by splitting his wife's skull open with that last bullet, Alec Murdoch had removed both the possibility of divorce and his inconvenient son.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that what he did is that there was just he tried throwing too much too many ingredients into the soup.

But I think he should have stuck with one story and gone with that.

But he just he threw too much shit out there.

After committing the murders, Alec also committed to his alibi.

After changing clothes, he called Maggie's phone, then sent her a text saying he was going to go check on Mama and that he'd be right back.

Interestingly, in quick succession, Alec then called his son Buster, a fellow attorney named Chris Wilson, and his youngest brother,

John Marvin.

John Marvin also was quite adept at cleaning up crime scenes.

In the past, he'd been the one who had gone down and removed the boat that had killed Mallory Beach from that crime scene.

Well, this was all before

Alec arrived at his mother's house at 9.22 p.m., about 30 minutes after the murder.

Alec then went up to check on his mom, then spent a small amount of time watching TV with his mother's caregiver, who said Alec looked fidgety.

Alec was only at his mother's house for 20 minutes before leaving to head back to Moselle.