Valerie Bauerlein
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372 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Valerie Bauerlein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Old Buster is what Alex's grandfather is called, Randolph Murdoch Jr., and Old Buster ran the largest bootlegging ring in the South, and he ran it out of the Colleton County Courthouse where we had Alex trial.
But yes, he was finally, the feds finally, the Department of Justice came down from Washington and charged Old Buster and about 20 of his legion, including the sheriff, a bunch of deputies, with running this bootlegging ring.
And that was in 1955.
And they held what they called the trial of the century in Charleston.
And in the end, as they're reading the verdicts from the jury, almost every name, guilty, guilty, guilty.
You get to Buster Murdoch, not guilty.
And he took over again as solicitor, was never out of office after that.
And what's extraordinary is that the feds were very clear that he had rigged the jury.
Isn't it crazy?
There's so many echoes in the Alec Murdoch story to every generation in the past to me.
From the jury box, if you look out to the back of the room, on the big back wall was a portrait of old Buster Murdoch, and he's holding a lit cigar in his hand because he was never without one.
And the judge had it taken down from the wall so as not to put his thumb on the scale either way, whether the jurors might love the Murdoch dynasty or resent it.
Well, you know, he was always going to be a lawyer.
It was never in question.
There's a front page story in the Hampton County Guardian from, I think, when he was five or six.
The fourth generation is touring the courthouse today with his father.
It was ordained.
But he was the type of lawyer who...
who practiced personal injury law, was the bread and butter of that practice.
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