i need the police. my wife and child have been shot badly. alex murdaugh soon to be on trial. alex murdaugh accused of killing his wife and son. this trial will be one of the most watched since o.j. for the first time, those tied to this shocking story sit down together. every lawyer at this table is on trial. it s a good feeling to be connected to the power. until it comes back to bite you. powerful family, unsolved killings. how many families do you know that have five dead bodies in their orbit? the housekeeper died in 2018 in a slip and fall at murdaugh s home. he used gloria s death to enrich himself. 19-year-old steven smith was found dead on the side of the road. i want justice. good evening. i m randi kaye. many here in south carolina and around the country are left with so many questions. questions those close to the alleged crimes, which include financial fraud and murder, have been trying to answer. tonight, for the first time, alex murd
million they never got a dime. what do you make of that? to learn that he used gloria s death to enrich himself is horrible. it s a heartbreaking story. ruthless. ruthless is a word for it. people wonder, how did they go and they steal all the money. well, they had practice. what did happen? well, the story is tragic. august 2009, there s this bad wreck. everybody is tremendously injured. ha hakeem, he was deaf. now he is a quadriplegic. they didn t know about alex or the murdaughs like that. they get referred there. alex murdaugh represented
members of the family and sued the makers of the tires over the crash. according to the family lawyer, when the settlement money came in, greed took over. he had a settlement and then he chose to not pay it to hakeem s family, allegedly. there ain t no allegedly. this is what happened. some of the money went where it was supposed to go. a large portion of it didn t. approximately $1 million. alex murdaugh s alleged accomplice was russell lafette, a former ceo of a bank. murdaugh convinced the family to hire him as their conservator and then funneled the money through the bank back to himself. a scheme they allegedly contacted with this woman. we were on i95 coming through
$309,000 was withdrawn. the check was made out to palmetto s state bank instead of ha hakeem s family. the check in question was discovered by murdaugh s law firm. they include the 60,000 check that was paid to palmetto state bank. the memo says it was for a conservator s fee. every penny of this money was intended for these people to be able to take care of themselves. legal council for the bank also said they are deeply concerned of the troubling allegations regarding hakeem settlement funds and are looking