you know, and that s how i met them. and stephen went to school with buster. buster is alex murdaugh s eldest son. the stephen smith case was reopened by s.l.e.d. as a result of something that was found at the double murder scene for maggie and paul murdaugh. so stephen died. and he was found july 7th of 2015. rumors were everywhere. everywhere. this is a small county. it s impossible that people didn t know what happened. people talk. what the talk has always been was that stephen had some sort of a relationship with a murdaugh. and that was going to get out. so they took him out? think how courageous stephen was. you re talking about a young man who is homosexual, who isn t hiding it, is very proud of who he is. you re talking about a small
it created a loyalty. a loyalty and it creates a culture of silence basically. for sure. alex murdaugh, a lawyer himself, worked at his family s law firm since he graduated law school in 1994. all four of you graduated from the university of south carolina school of law, correct? yes. alex murdaugh graduated from the same school. randy and i graduated together. his brother? yes. growing up, the murdaughs, even in a different county, people knew who they were. i have stories i will tell you. i was talking toy a ing to a la said his old law partner got a call from old buster. buster is the nickname of alex murdaugh s grandfather, a
maggie and alex murdaugh married in august of 1993. around that time, they had two kids, buster and their youngest son paul. that s when they met gloria satterfield. we grew up close. ginger is gloria s younger sister. how close was gloria very much. she baby-sat for them before she started doing housekeeping. paul was about 13 months old. he was just starting to walk. she would wear skirts all the time and he would walk around and hold her skirt while she was doing the housework and stuff. she pretty much raised him, him and buster. she thought the world of maggie. double murder mystery. this morning, investigators trying to find who killed two members of one of south carolina s most prominent legal families. what about the murder of
alex murdaugh s grandfather, a solicitor who served for 46 years. buster said, counselor, i know you can help me out here, my boy s gotten into some trouble and needs to be gotten out of it and i know you can handle it. so the lawyer jumped right on it and within an hour he d made the calls like we could do in the good old days and make problems go away. and he called buster back and he said solicitor, i ve got it taken care of, it s all gone. he said what do i owe you? he said solicitor, i don t need to be paid, you know, this is a favor. and he said buster then said to him, well, you know, counselor, if you ever need to kill a man, you bring him to hampton county. and whether that was true or false, maybe a joke, that was the reputation and that is what that community has dealt with for decades.
solicitor who served for 46 years. buster said, counselor, i know you can help me out here. my boy has gotten into trouble. he needs to be gotten out of it. i know you can handle it. the lawyer jumped right on it. within an hour, he made the calls like we could do in the good old days and make problems go away. he called buster back. i got it taken care of. it s gone. what do i owe you? he said, solicitor, i don t need to be paid. this is a favor. he said, buster then said to him, you know, counselor, if you ever need to kill a man, you bring him to hampton county. whether that was true or false, maybe a joke, but that was the reputation. that s what that community has dealt with for decades. that law firm did a great