i don t know exactly where paul went, but he left the house, too. okay. how did maggie get down there? i don t know exactly. but on normal occasions, she would drive, drive a buggy, drive a four wheeler, or very common for her to walk. okay. how about paul? paul wasn t much of a walker, but he would use all of the others. okay. i mean, could be any way, you know? i don t know exactly. i wish i could help you with that. so they left and went down to the kennels? well, maggie went to go to the kennels? and paul left? i m assuming paul left, because, you know, of what happened. i assume paul went to the kennel. and what did you do once maggie and paul left? i stayed in the house. i was watching tv, looking at my phone, and i actually fell asleep on the couch. okay. what time did you woke up? i don t know exactly what time, but when you will get my phone, i think one of the first things i did when i got up was call maggie because i was going to my mo
did you steal divert the fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not quite sure how i let myself get where i got, but it came from you know, i battled addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldn t what type of addiction are you referring to? my addiction is to opiate pain killers, specifically oxycodone, oxycontin. when did you first become dependent or addicted opiods? oxycodone or opiods in general? opiods in general. i m not sure of the exact date. i can give you a timeframe. i hurt my knee really bad playing football in college. i had a knee surgery. the medical science at the time was such that the surgery didn t work, bottom line. it just didn t last. within a couple years of that i started having a lot of knee troubles. ultimately i had to have a couple of surgeries, but the last surgery i ha
lead lawyer of one of them. i helped my dad in the other four. still a part of preparing the case? yes, sir. still a part of gathering the evidence and putting it together for trial? in a criminal case, we didn t do much the gathering of the evidence. we took what law enforcement had gathered. putting it together for the criminal trial, correct? yes, sir. presenting evidence in court? yes, sir. giving jury arguments? i did the closing argument in one of them, yes, sir. did you ever have any cases that you prosecuted that went short of a jury trial, either pled out or were dismissed for some reason? you know, i m sure that at some point over between 1998 and 2021 that i took some plea, but as we sit here today i can t specifically remember that, and i don t ever remember working a case up for trial that didn t go to trial, but i m sure at some point in time i was involved in some level of a guilty plea or guilty pleas. you would agree with me that t
good evening, everybody. andrew davis out here in hampton county right now with a story that really everybody is talking about. we now know officially that alex murdaugh was shot. alex murdaugh was changing a tire on the side of the road in rural hampton county saturday when a car passed him, turned around, and someone shot him in the head. this is when you wonder if they just started making things up or it was a soap opera somewhere. it seems like it s a tv show more than it seemed like real life, because in this case, how does this get more unusual? and then was it the same person that shot maggie and paul or what may happen as you spin through your mind? murdaugh called 9-1-1 shortly after 1:30 in the afternoon to report he d been shot. he was airlifted to a hospital in savannah for treatment. there was an entry and exit wound. murdaugh s skull was fractured and there was minor brain bleeding as well. when i first got that call, i was fearing for the worst, lik
this is a film about storytelling, about how we tell the story of our country s past. why do we want to believe one version and not another? maybe because it makes us feel safe at night. there is one episode of america s history that is told very differently, depending on who you are and where you live. it is the story of our civil war and what came after. the hot winds of war blew across the land. made of it, a country divided. friend turned into foe. brother fought against brother. it was such a long and drawn out struggle. and the feeling on both sides was so intense. we re all just romantics, lost in contemporary times you might say. every one of us feels like we were born 125 years too late. to introduce myself, my name is rachel boynton. this is nelson walker. we are independent documentary filmmakers. we re making a film about how we tell the story of the civil war. we re filming in different schools all over virginia and we re going to place this with a deep