Alex Murdaugh's Life in Prison and Web of Crimes and Lies - A "True Crime Christmas" Special | Ep. 974
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and today's true crime Christmas special. Today, we are diving deep into the case of Alec Murdoch, and there are updates in this incredible case, believe it or not. His story begins much earlier than the crimes that made national headlines over the past few years, and no one has covered the story quite like the Wall Street Journal's Valerie Borlein, who wrote the book, The Devil at His Elbow. We get into everything from Murdoch's family history to the details of his downfall and the new info. Lumen is the world's first handheld metabolic coach.
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This is probably something they won't be expecting. Thank you, Lumen, for sponsoring this episode. Valerie, welcome. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Okay, so this is all so fascinating. And one of the most eye-opening things I read was about Alec Murdoch's background. He comes from a long line of deeply... ethically problematic people, which I did not know. All you ever heard about him was that he came from this very storied family. They were lifelong solicitors or like the prosecutors in their town in South Carolina, very well respected. They controlled everything. It was far more nefarious than that. Can you take us back?
Oh, it absolutely was. I mean, I think one of the biggest surprises I had researching this book was that every crime that was eventually convicted of had some echo in the past. And that includes like violence against women or overtures of violence against women. That includes insurance fraud, like by the side of the road, there was an act of insurance fraud that started the family dynasty, stealing from clients, drug trafficking. There were echoes in the past for every single crime we're talking about, even a boat wreck that caused really a traumatic injury. So that surprised me too. It wasn't just Ellick. It was the history going back to 1920 of this family.
Yes. I mean, it really does show you, if you have a family, a father, a grandfather who are committing crimes and teaching you either explicitly or implicitly that that's okay, your odds of becoming a criminal are obviously much higher. But hello, women of the world, pay attention. Pay attention to your spouse, the guys you're dating. It can work the other way around too. And What they come from, who they come from. So his great-grandfather, Randolph Murdoch Sr., basically committed suicide and insurance fraud at the same time? Mm-hmm.
That's right. And I was in Hampton just last week. I actually was standing at the train tracks just south of Almeda, where the home place that Ellick went the night of the homicides. His great grandfather, Randolph Senior, was a very prominent man. I mean, every meal he ate was front page news. Like, where was he now? He was the district attorney for four counties in the low country of South Carolina. He was very sick. He was 53 years old. He was dying. He was at the end of his life. He had kidney failure at a time when there was no cure, right? There was no dialysis. He was broke. He had been a big investor in a bank, and then the bank failed. And through the depression, he was just...
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