neighborhood, and the people who are their neighbors would not talk about the family or what happened, just saying they were good people. it was truly a ghost town feel of we can t say anything about it because either we are scared or we know too much or we could be next. you felt the dome over this little county starting to crack, and since that time it pretty much has broken wide open. paul did some bad stuff. i think that was the one big question, there s something that s not being told. i can t imagine anybody being hated that much. it was shocking to hear about paul and maggie, but it was, like, at the same time, you can only do so much bad until somebody finally takes it in their hands.
people was it s the murdaughs. nothing is going to happen. i think it was shocking to a lot of people in the county that he was even charged with a crime, and shows how serious this crime was. but even though he was waiting to stand trial, a lot of people didn t think it was actually going to happen. a lot of people felt that there was too much delay, and that paul should be able to go to college. he was bullied a fair amount. he would walk into class and people would blow the horn at him and yell at him and just cuss him and shoot him a bird. a lot of people in the public thought there will not be any
murdaugh, arrived at the emergency room and they were trying to quarantine paul off and prohibit him from being interviewed by law enforcement. there appeared to be an effort by alec murdaugh to try and influence the direction of this investigation, perhaps to subvert the investigation. take about an hour to drive from hampton to beaufort hospital. we re both crying. we started getting phone calls from alex. and in that hour, he called three, four, five times trying to convince us that connor was driving the boat. the push became is there a way that we can show that paul was not driving? what you have to do for a criminal case is establish reasonable doubt. so if you can create doubt that paul was actually driving the boat at the time, then he s not going to get convicted. when we did arrive to the
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i tried to stop that from happening, but there was not much i could say. paul was like the puppet master. people listened to him because of who his dad was. people were afraid of him because of who his dad was. wasn t anything too good i ever heard about him that people would say. they would say paul was very arrogant, entitled, always got his way. you could tell he was a rich kid. he had a temper and he liked to control everybody. if you didn t do what he wanted, he had friends that would back him up to do his dirty work. he always did a few things like that. i don t really feel comfortable i m not going to talk bad about him. he was a good guy. we grew up with paul s family. we did. one thing we have tried to