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Chapter 1: What is the context of the Alex Murdaugh case discussed in this episode?
There's no place to escape to. This is the last podcast. On the left. That's when the cannibalism started. Now, now, trial. What's on trial here? Are you on trial? Hot, hot. Hot one today. Hot one. Lord, Lord, Lord. I can't even believe how the judge even holding his hammer. Oh, this kind of case don't give me the vapors. Oh, you know what I love? We got to know right now.
Podcasts are not on trial here today. We're covering the capital crime of more and more.
Welcome to the last podcast on the left, ladies and gentlemen. I didn't get the sweater vest memo. I'm sitting here with two pastel wearing sweater vest morons.
Do you know who I am?
Do you know who my diddy is? I was listening to Strawberry Wine all morning, getting in the mood for today.
Listen, all right, I don't care. I love Wagon Wheel. Wagon Wheel makes me cry. 17. They did my circumcision to Wagon Wheel. They use the Wagon Wheel. I wish I could have gotten my face more red.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like that's what I'm really missing.
Hey, we can always stop and just put you under a lamp for a couple hours.
Oh, there it is. There it is. There's that wind burn from illegally driving a boat. Yeah, I'm going to meet you by the dogs.
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Chapter 2: What were the events leading up to the trial of Alec Murdoch?
No.
No. Now, Mark Tinsley took the Beaches case after most of the other attorneys in the low country had turned them down, but not because Tinsley was an outsider. To the contrary, Mark Tinsley had dealt with the Murdochs plenty and had even once considered Alec Murdoch to be a friend.
But Tinsley was a man of at least some principle, and he had finally soured on Alec Murdoch's cynicism after practicing law with him for years. Tinsley was particularly disturbed by how easily Murdoch could summon tears during closing arguments. A couple of times, after fake crying, Murdoch would sit down next to Tinsley and ask him, quote, I know you don't think that was too much now, do you?
Yeah, like a fucking asshole.
You should see him in the trial because he does it. It's him because he also stops the sniffle and then a snort. Because it seems to be he laid off the oxy for the trial.
Just a little bit. Well, he had to. Yeah. Now, Tinsley said that he also took the case because he had a daughter around Mallory Beach's age. But it seems like the moment that Tinsley truly said, fuck this guy concerning Alec Murdoch was when Alec boxed Tinsley out of a million dollar fee on a big case. You don't fuck with a lawyer's money. Nope.
After that, Alec Murdoch was open season as far as Mark Tinsley was concerned. So Tinsley jumped at the chance to take Murdoch down when the Beaches gave him the opportunity.
You know, and it's like, it was such an open, clear that he was going to win. Yeah. You know, everyone knew it. And he's like, I'm going to get this motherfucker. I got him dead to rights. And he was happy to do it. Oh, yeah.
Now, by the end of March, Mark Tinsley had filed a wrongful death suit against multiple members of the Murdoch family for the death of Mallory Beach. He limited it to people above the age of 21 because Paul was still a minor when the crash occurred. Specifically, Tinsley filed against Alec, Randy III, and Buster.
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Chapter 3: How did Mark Tinsley challenge the Murdoch family's influence?
This, of course, greatly angered attorney Mark Tinsley, who saw exactly what the Murdochs were doing. The Murdochs used every trick at their disposal to push Paul's trial back again and again, and circumstances only worked more in the Murdochs' favor when the court shut down in 2020 due to what? Crime. COVID. What? Remember?
Do you think that they had something to do with COVID coming here? Yeah. Do you think that Alec Murdoch went to China? Yeah. Do you think that he went and he was just like, he first thing, he was like, where's the lab? I want to see where the lab is. Where's the most coffee? And he goes right in there and he's just like, I want a coffee. I want a coffee in my mouth. Coffee in my dark, dark eyes.
Coffee in my eyes. Is there anyone around here that I can eat a bat? Can I eat a bat somewhere around here? Come meet my pangolin. Hey, man.
Now listen to me, Chinese lady. Listen to me, Chinese lady.
I can't help but see, but your eyes are pink and juicy, and I just want to lick them. Let us look at those big old crusty pink-filled eyes.
Well, much of the Beach family's hopes for justice therefore rested on the wrongful death suit, but the constant delays had hardened their resolve. So when it came to making the Murdochs pay, the Beaches decided that they wouldn't settle for anything less than $10 million. Yes. Now, the case did go to mediation in September of 2020, but Alec opened negotiations. He's always got a fucking bit.
He theatrically turned out his pants pockets like a hobo and then said, You can't get any money from me because I don't have any.
I'm broke.
Yeah. Yeah. It's because he was moving his money into his wife's name. Well, Mark Tinsley believed that this statement was bullshit one way or another. So he filed a motion that would force Alec Murdoch to disclose his net worth and provide a detailed breakdown of his finances.
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Chapter 4: What evidence suggests Alec Murdoch's guilt in the murders?
In other words, disclosing his finances was the absolute last thing that Alec Murdoch would want to do. And the pressure to fix everything, somehow, someway, began to slowly build over the next year of Alec's life.
Because, you know, these crimes and these trials, Eddie, you don't know it yet, but they're so embarrassing for the family. And it's so hard for the family to go through. My parents never found out about my trials.
See?
See, that's how stressful they were. They're dead.
I didn't kill them. That's how stressful they were. I didn't kill them. It was diabetes. Well, you could make an argument that I killed my mother. That's different.
Because I gave her diabetes and then she died of diabetes. She chose to have you. You could have been an abortion. That's right. Which you should have been if I was president of the United States of America. Absolutely would have been.
And so would have I. If I was an abortion, they would have taxidermied me and put me on a wall.
You'd be in the Mudder Museum right now.
Slapping it out for using a new, like, Ed Gein tea cozy.
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Chapter 5: What evidence connects Alec Murdoch to the crime scene?
Because I'm afraid of black guys.
Nobody fights black guys like the FBI fights black guys. That's Martin Luther King Jr. Yeah, it stands for fight black guys individually.
Ah!
Well, so impressed. And this is according to Alec. And Alec is telling this story in his SUV an hour after the cops showed up to find his wife and son's dead bodies outside of their fucking dog kennels. I don't think he did it.
Alex saying, so impressed was the FBI that they put Roe on an undercover team with three Navy SEALs whose sole job was to murder Black Panthers from Myrtle Beach to Savannah. And that's supposedly what Roe did before coming to work as the Murdoch's groundkeeper.
Isn't a groundskeeper like... You don't hire one unless he has some kind of shady fake story, right? It's not a groundskeeper unless he has a story like that.
Yeah. It's fake. It helps, right?
Yeah. Think about the guy that helps your dad. Yeah.
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Chapter 6: How did investigators uncover Alec's lies during the trial?
How many horrific things has he told you? None. He doesn't tell me anything horrific. Because he knows to keep because he's actually done horrific things. Yeah. Because he hasn't done those things, he'd be confessing to crimes. You know, it's good to hire a groundskeeper that kills panthers, you know, in case any show up. Well, you want the cat panthers. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Sure.
But also, you should re-home them. You shouldn't be killing them.
He did say specifically radical black panthers. Although he might have been like, they were radical black panthers. Tubular black panthers. Yeah, they were awesome. No, no, no.
And then he used a half pipe to smoke Oxy. When they're investigating him or grilling him, he's in the front seat, which I found very weird.
Yeah, he's in the front seat and there are people in the back seat that are reaching up and he's crying and boo-hooing about, I found it, I saw his brains.
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Chapter 7: What were the key pieces of evidence against Alec Murdoch?
And they're grabbing onto his shoulder. But they're also... Very suspicious. Yeah. So let me... They actually didn't really... Help me understand. Anytime a cop says, help me understand... You're in trouble.
You're fucked. Like... Also, just like putting their hand on his shoulder and stuff like that, I feel like is a good tactic.
Just like treat him, make him think he's winning and just let him keep talking. Dude, you know what's funny is that I actually have completely even reversed it just sitting here thinking about that. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. It makes him really fucking comfortable. It really makes him think that, oh, I've gotten away with this already, haven't I? And he can really start fucking lying.
And then because the lying is what gets you later. It's all of the putting it all back together.
Well, they know that they all have to play good cop all at the same time with it. Like with Alec Murdoch, you have to play good cop all the time because he's telling so many lies and he just keeps talking because he wants to talk. He thinks he's so fucking clever.
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Chapter 8: How did the jury reach a verdict in Alec Murdoch's case?
So you just keep this guy talking and he's eventually going to tell enough lies where you can just start tripping him up.
What he should have done is should have just been fucking sad and puking and unresponsive as like anyone would who just lost their entire family.
Well, that was one of the big tells for the investigators on the scene immediately, because they said that, you know, when you when they showed up to murder scenes, usually relatives are inconsolable. And they're like, why are you? They say things like, why are you here? Why aren't you out trying to find these people? Why aren't you talking to me?
Why you should be out there?
Yeah. Yeah. And Alex, like, fuck. Why don't we go sit down in my SUV for a little while? You know, maybe we can get chat and I can tell you what's going on. You know, it's it's been hard.
No, he talked about it like it was a he had the same feeling like it was something like like a building collapse on the farm or if like something bad like that wasn't involving the death of your family. He was just acting like it was just this big old like.
Oh, he'd acted like someone had come on and shot a couple of his dogs. Yes. That is the same level of emotion he was showing was the level of emotion I would show if someone had broken into my house and killed my dog.
I mean, I'd show an extreme amount of emotion. Yeah, I know. I actually, honestly, I'd be way more upset if something happened to Carmie than Paul. You know what I mean? I'd be way, I'd kill him.
If you do something to Carmie, I'll fucking kill you. Yeah, but I would say I'm going to show more emotion if my wife was murdered than if my dog was murdered. Yeah. And he's more showing... Yeah, that's a great question. And he's showing more dog murder level of emotion.
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