Valerie Bauerlein

So what happened was he was driving back from a poker game in Yemesee, a little town right on the Hampton County line. At one in the morning, hottest day of the summer, 90-some degrees, he stops short of his home and turns onto a deserted train tracks and is at the base of it.

And as the train is coming, and y'all, if you grew up in a small town near a railroad, you know what time the train comes through. The train is coming north. And you can hear it for miles. It's coming north. It's bearing down on this train tracks. He speeds up onto the tracks themselves and they're blowing the whistle. They're flashing the light. It's a clear moonlit night.

And as the train is coming, and y'all, if you grew up in a small town near a railroad, you know what time the train comes through. The train is coming north. And you can hear it for miles. It's coming north. It's bearing down on this train tracks. He speeds up onto the tracks themselves and they're blowing the whistle. They're flashing the light. It's a clear moonlit night.

And as the train is coming, and y'all, if you grew up in a small town near a railroad, you know what time the train comes through. The train is coming north. And you can hear it for miles. It's coming north. It's bearing down on this train tracks. He speeds up onto the tracks themselves and they're blowing the whistle. They're flashing the light. It's a clear moonlit night.

And they see he sees them. And instead of like driving off, he waves at them. And what happens is there's a coroner's jury, and the coroner, of course, was a protege of Randolph Sr. The sheriff was a protege of Randolph Sr. There was an inquest the next morning, and guess what? The local coroner's jury found that in spite of the testimony of the engineer and others, it was an accident.

And they see he sees them. And instead of like driving off, he waves at them. And what happens is there's a coroner's jury, and the coroner, of course, was a protege of Randolph Sr. The sheriff was a protege of Randolph Sr. There was an inquest the next morning, and guess what? The local coroner's jury found that in spite of the testimony of the engineer and others, it was an accident.

And they see he sees them. And instead of like driving off, he waves at them. And what happens is there's a coroner's jury, and the coroner, of course, was a protege of Randolph Sr. The sheriff was a protege of Randolph Sr. There was an inquest the next morning, and guess what? The local coroner's jury found that in spite of the testimony of the engineer and others, it was an accident.

And it cleared the way for Randolph Murdoch Jr., Alec's grandfather, to sue the railroad for the equivalent of millions of dollars, which is what he did successfully.

And it cleared the way for Randolph Murdoch Jr., Alec's grandfather, to sue the railroad for the equivalent of millions of dollars, which is what he did successfully.

And it cleared the way for Randolph Murdoch Jr., Alec's grandfather, to sue the railroad for the equivalent of millions of dollars, which is what he did successfully.

Randolph Murdoch Jr. is old Buster. And old Buster was a real force to be reckoned with. He was solicitor from 1940, when he was 25 years old, to 1986. So Roosevelt to Reagan. And he even stayed in that office beyond that time. The legislature finally essentially forced him. They created a rule that essentially forced him to retire, but he kept going into the office as a volunteer solicitor.

Randolph Murdoch Jr. is old Buster. And old Buster was a real force to be reckoned with. He was solicitor from 1940, when he was 25 years old, to 1986. So Roosevelt to Reagan. And he even stayed in that office beyond that time. The legislature finally essentially forced him. They created a rule that essentially forced him to retire, but he kept going into the office as a volunteer solicitor.

Randolph Murdoch Jr. is old Buster. And old Buster was a real force to be reckoned with. He was solicitor from 1940, when he was 25 years old, to 1986. So Roosevelt to Reagan. And he even stayed in that office beyond that time. The legislature finally essentially forced him. They created a rule that essentially forced him to retire, but he kept going into the office as a volunteer solicitor.

So Randolph Murdoch Jr., Old Buster, Alec Murdoch idolized him. He told many people that he wished he'd been born in Old Buster's day because in those days, what you said was what the truth was. And Old Buster, he ruled with an iron fist. He was one of those guys that would rather be feared than loved.

So Randolph Murdoch Jr., Old Buster, Alec Murdoch idolized him. He told many people that he wished he'd been born in Old Buster's day because in those days, what you said was what the truth was. And Old Buster, he ruled with an iron fist. He was one of those guys that would rather be feared than loved.

So Randolph Murdoch Jr., Old Buster, Alec Murdoch idolized him. He told many people that he wished he'd been born in Old Buster's day because in those days, what you said was what the truth was. And Old Buster, he ruled with an iron fist. He was one of those guys that would rather be feared than loved.

So Old Buster, I was able to pull 900 pages from the National Archives of the records from his trial, his federal trial. The feds charged him with bootlegging, actually running the largest bootlegging ring in the South. He was the ringleader. They charged two dozen people. Old Buster, Ellick's grandfather, was charged with leading this entire ring in Colleton County.

So Old Buster, I was able to pull 900 pages from the National Archives of the records from his trial, his federal trial. The feds charged him with bootlegging, actually running the largest bootlegging ring in the South. He was the ringleader. They charged two dozen people. Old Buster, Ellick's grandfather, was charged with leading this entire ring in Colleton County.

So Old Buster, I was able to pull 900 pages from the National Archives of the records from his trial, his federal trial. The feds charged him with bootlegging, actually running the largest bootlegging ring in the South. He was the ringleader. They charged two dozen people. Old Buster, Ellick's grandfather, was charged with leading this entire ring in Colleton County.

And he was accused of taking a cash bribe in the hallway of the Colleton County Courthouse, which is the hallway that we went in and out every day of Ellick's Murdoch trial. He was accused of intimidating witnesses, buying off witnesses, and eventually of tampering with the jury by buying off the foreman. And he was one of the only people in that entire weeks-long federal trial that was acquitted.