Geordie Crawford
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He was kind of rejected by the tribe.
He was seen as very troublesome from that point onwards.
And it was like they kind of couldn't hide all of his problems anymore.
He was really exposed.
And you have to also remember that
He was still a kid, you know, he was still a teenager.
And it seems the way the entire situation was handled was so detrimental to him and his mental health.
He was never convicted.
And I think behind the scenes, Alec was also dealing with a serious drug problem, which he had been hiding for about 20 years.
So he was addicted to opioids.
And apparently he was spending like 50 grand a week on pills, which is just...
How can you even get your head around how many pills that must be and what it must be like to lead this double life?
And that addiction, he says, made him paranoid, dishonest and at the end of the day, financially desperate.
And I think the more money you have, the more money you spend and the more money you need,
So it was around then a year after the boat crash when everything began to crumble for Alec himself.
So investigation started into his finances and it was revealed that he'd been stealing client money and creating fake bank accounts and this whole different world that he was involved in.
And it seems like
At this point, he became absolutely desperate.
And in 2021, just two years after the boat crash,
Paul and Maggie were shot dead at the family home.