this is a southern version of a mafia story. enough evil had been done by the family. it s gone too far this time. i have an alex murdaugh on the line. hampton is a small raul community, very few stop lights, country folk. generations and generations of families, the same families. not a whole lot going on, you know. not a whole lot of jobs. a lot of poverty. people like me, we work for our money. we wasn t born with a silver spoon in our mouth. nobody ever had any reason to leave that part of south carolina, and nobody had any reason to come to that part of south carolina. small towns generate big fish in small pools. hampton is pretty much historically dominated by one family, the murdaughs. murdaugh, that name means power. they are a great american family who has a successful law firm and had deep roots in their community. money. position. power. the murdaughs have had control of hampton county for close to a century. they have held the position of t
when he became intoxicated, they would know that timmy is coming to surface because they would notice how his hands reacted. he gets drunk a lot and that s kind of like he just is a whole other person when he s drunk and he, like, does this thing with his hands where he, like, spreads them apart and like he can t keep them together. his hands would be such that he can t bend his fingers or he can t make a fist. his hands are sort of spread out wide with his fingers spread out wide. every time he drinks, it s, like, it gets out of hand like that where he doesn t know what he s doing and he, like, you know, does, like, the hand thing. they knew that there was a turn at some point, that this wasn t the paul that they normally knew, but became this timmy character that did things that don t sound especially appetizing. paul was being really mean to his girlfriend, slapping her a time or two, spitting in her face. paul starts acting out. he s just doing stupid stuff like he star
people there had to give tribute to buster murdaugh. if buster murdaugh liked you, he d try to help you every way he could. if buster didn t like you, he d try to hurt you any way he could. i knew buster personally growing up, and the stories about buster taking care of people very real. and a lot of people will tell you, yeah, buster would have somebody taken out in a minute. you didn t want to get on the murdaughs bad side. it would be beneficial to stay out of the murdaughs radar. the murdaughs were like the mafia. you know you you just don t mess with em. we will be seeking the death penalty. the south carolina code provides that, under certain circumstances, that you can they re the ones who determine who gets prosecuted, who gets tried. is the death penalty sought? so not only do you have the power over the people, you ve got power over the system. when you combine that with the fact that, for a number of these decades, the murdaughs
he s doing and he, like, you know, does, like, the hand thing. they knew that there was a turn at some point, that this wasn t the paul that they normally knew, but became this timmy character that did things that don t sound especially appetizing. paul was being really mean to his girlfriend, slapping her a time or two, spitting in her face. paul starts acting out. he s just doing stupid stuff like he starts driving the boat around in circles. this had ceased to be a joy ride and had now become a very frightening concerned for their safety. at one point, like, paul kept on, like, hitting the the throttle and, like, anthony stood up and was, like, take me to the nearest dock because if you re going to keep driving like this, then i m just gonna get an uber from somewhere. and, like, paul was, like, this is my boat. and anthony was, like, let me drive. and paul is, like, no. like, i m not going to let you drive. so, at this point, paul takes