Valerie Bauerlein
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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He owed people thousands of dollars that he could never pay back, which is a huge amount of money in those days.
And he rode up on the railroad tracks, and when the train is coming dead at him, blowing the whistle, high speed, he leans out the window and waves.
And the next morning, the coroner's inquest is held.
The coroner is a protege of his who he found.
The sheriff is a protege of his.
Remember, he'd been the solicitor at this point.
This is 1940, so he'd been in power for 20 years.
All these people convened, and the coroner's jury was, at that time, five white men within a few miles of where it happened, so all people he knew.
They heard evidence from the engineer, from the conductor.
I don't know.
He had plenty of time to move.
We were blowing the whistle.
It was hundreds of yards away.
He waved at us.
They heard all that evidence, and they said it was an accident.
And the next thing that happened was his son, Randolph Murdock Jr., who was also a lawyer, a new lawyer, sued the railroad company for wrongful death and got an immense judgment, a record-setting judgment at that time that reestablished the family fortune.
And so it is no small thing to say that that family was founded on fraud.
That dynasty was founded on fraud.
That goes back to 1940.
Was he ever caught?
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