>> 911, where's your emergency? >> i need the police and an ambulance immediately. i've been up to it now. it's bad! 4147 moselle road. this is alex murdaugh. >> if you didn't know the murdaughs, you wasn't from hampton. and whether you knew 'em or not, they knew you. >> where the murdaughs go, death seems to follow. >> there is no justice in hampton county. if it come out of hampton, it's not going nowhere. >> people that could just erase it like it never happened. >> this is a southern version of a mafia story. >> enough evil had been done by the family. it's gone too far this time. >> colleton, i have an alex murdaugh on the line calling from 4147 moselle road. >> i've been gone! i -- i just came back. my wife and child have been shot badly! >> and you're sure they're not breathing? >> sure. oh -- nobody. they're not -- neither one of them is moving. please hurry ! >> the low country is a different part of the world, different part of south carolina. hampton, in particular, is a small, sparsely populated town. >> hampton is a small rural community, very few stop lights. country folk. >> have generations and generations of families -- same families. >> not a whole lot going on. you know? not a whole lot of jobs. 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 ever had any reason to come to that part of south caroline. >> small towns generate big fish in small pools. >> hampton is pretty historically dominated by one family -- the murdaughs. >> murdaugh -- that name means power. >> they're a great american family -- who has a successful law firm. 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 prosecutor, the solicitor we call it, through four generations. >> everyone knows that they are the lawyers in the area. the murdaughs are the justice system. >> kings of the low country. >> literally, what took a hundred years to build crumbled in one year. >> a mystery in the low country. a mom and son found dead. the circumstances still unknown. >> we're still learning more about what exactly happened behind these gates of this hunting lodge. what we do know is a high profile family has lost both a mother and a son, both shot and killed. >> detectives were called in just after 10 p.m. where they found two bodies inside. twenty-two-year-old paul murdaugh, and his mother, maggie murdaugh. their bodies were found by maggie's husband and paul's father, richard alexander murdaugh. >> the investigation into their murders was extremely closed. authorities were being very tight-lipped about what evidence they had gathered, how exactly they even had died. it was all very shrouded in mystery. >> while the murdaugh family owned hundreds of acres in this area, the people who are their neighbors wouldn't talk much about the family or exactly what happened, just saying that they were good people. >> when the murders happened, the town stopped talking completely. it was truly this, sort of, ghost town feel of -- we can't say anything about it because either we're 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. none of that warrants being killed that way. yeah, i think that was the one big question. there's something that's not being told. >> i just can't imagine anybody being hated that much. >> it was shocking to hear about paul and maggie. but it's like, at the same time, you can only do so much bad until somebody finally just takes it in their hands. >> my opinion, you couldn't ask for a better childhood than hampton, a small town. i know that's not what a lot of people like, but i wouldn't have it any other way. me and paul, we started hanging out probably when i was in fifth or sixth grade. couldn't ask for a -- you know, a better friend. one of our favorite things to do was go to the river. everybody's got boats so, you know, you just call somebody and go. so us six did that a lot -- for hours. >> they were all childhood friends. they all grew up together. they were all extremely close. there's anthony cook and his girlfriend, mallory beach, connor cook and his girlfriend, miley altman, and morgan doughty, and her boyfriend, paul murdaugh. very south carolina group of friends that would do a lot of outdoor activities together. >> in the low country, you go fishing and you go boating. and sometimes those activities may involve a little bit of alcohol consumption as well. so provisions were made by some of these kids to get beer and to get alcohol. paul murdaugh used his older brother's id. >> he'd walked out and then lifted the twelve packs up over his head in celebration. >> and off they went in the murdaugh boat and headed towards a destiny that they could not possibly have imagined . >> just take us through how you all met up that night and -- and what you all did. we want you to tell us what you're sure and certain about. what you saw. okay? >> so we were over at a friend's house. we left from chechessee, which is paul's house, in his boat. >> everybody was drinking. ain't no denying it, hiding it. it was just the three of them going on a long boat ride at night. then for some reason, paul and connor decided they wanted to make a pit stop at a bar on the way in. i definitely knew that wasn't a good idea. >> at first, like, we didn't want to go, but paul was, like, a little drunk and he wanted to go and his girlfriend, morgan, they kind of, like, got into it, fighting about it and, you know, he just was very persistent about going up to luther's and getting a shot. he's, like, very persistent. whenever he wants to do something, he's gonna do it. >> i -- i tried to stop that from happening, but there wasn't much i can say. >> paul was like the puppet master. people listened to him because of who his dad was. people were afraid of him because who his dad was. >> wasn't anything too good that i've 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. and 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 that i -- i don't really feel comfortable. i'm not going to talk bad about him. he was a good guy. >> yeah. we grew up with paul's family. >> we did. one thing that we have tried to instill in our children is you're friends with the murdaughs, but at the same time you have to beware of them because if something goes down, you're going to be the one in trouble, not them. >> a lot of people in town would not let their kids hang out with paul because of the reputation they all had. >> his mother, maggie, she taught her children -- do whatever you want to do. it's okay because of who you are. they raised them to know that they were above anyone else. the law did not pertain to them. >> that's a scary thought because you know they have that much power. and we know 80% of couples sleep too t or too cold. introducing thnew sleep number climate360 smart bed. the only smart bed in the world that actively cools, warms, and effortlessly responds to both of you. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. proven quality sleep. only from sleep number. moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. and, they felt dramatic and fast itch relief some as early as 2 days. that's rinvoq relief. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal, cancers including lymphoma and skin cancer, death, heart attack, stroke, and tears in the stomach or intestines occurred. people 50 and older with at least one heart disease risk factor have higher risks. don't take if allergic to rinvoq, as serious reactions can occur. tell your doctor if you are or may become pregnant. disrupt the itch and rash of eczema. talk to your doctor about rinvoq. learn how abbvie can help you save. ♪ the caggiano's. a family of long island brewers. harvests their own ingredients, on their own turf. there's a story in every piece of land. run with us on a john deere mower and start telling yours. as a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. so start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for small business: comcast business mobile. flexible data plans mean you can get unlimited data or pay by the gig. all on the most reliable 5g network. with no line activation fees or term contracts. saving you up to 60% a year. and it's only available to comcast business internet customers. so boost your bottom line by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >> you said you noticed that paul was getting kind of drunk? >> you know, he was just kind of, like, swaying a little bit. couldn't tell that he was, like, drunk before, but then he, like, started, like, yelling at morgan and, like, i knew, because he does that when he's drunk. he just -- was just being rude to everybody. >> when we left the dock, things were starting to catch up. late, cold, foggy. i mean, everybody had been drinking, wanting some more. paul was drunk -- too drunk to be driving the boat. >> paul was drunk and paul was much worse when he had alcohol in him. then timmy shows up. >> paul had an alter ego name for him of timmy. 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 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 off his shirt. like, he's just, like, walking around all buff and stuff. and then so connor starts driving for a little bit. and then paul, like, he, like, stops connor and he's, like, no, this is my boat. like, let me drive it. >> some of them were huddled down in the bottom because of, a, the way paul was acting, but also the speeds that they were going. this guy is angry. he's bitter. and i think it became a -- a battle somewhere in there that connor wanted to take him off the wheel. and he wouldn't have any of it. >> he was, like, riding it close to, like, sailboats that were parked and doing donuts and morgan was, like, saying how she was done with him. and then he just started calling, like, a [ bleep ] and then was, like, you're such a [ bleep ] and all this kind of stuff. i saw the bridge coming. at the last second, like, i, like, screamed. >> i remember the commotion. scream and a bang. we hit the pylons on one side of the bridge. and when i came to i was on the other side of the bridge. um -- miley came running down there to me and asked me where my -- mallory was. >> mallory was just, like, nowhere to be seen. like, it was just like she disappeared. then paul came out and he was just in his underwear. and he tried to help morgan. she was, like, get away from me. like, i'm fine, but mallory is missing. i was, like, call 911. >> what bridge is -- paul, what bridge is this? what the [ bleep ] are we gonna do? paul, what bridge is this? >> 911, where's your emergency? >> we're in a boat crash on archer's creek. >> y'all, there's so much blood! oh, my god. there's so much [ bleep ] blood. >> there's six of us and one is missing. >> where the [ bleep ] is mallory? >> okay, i've got a description of that female for the boat accident. okay, all right. it's going to be 19 years of age, white female, blonde hair, pink shirt. she was last seen in the water but they cannot see her now. [ sirens ] >> come on. >> did they find mallory? [ bleep ] >> sit right here. we've got everybody coming out here. you're my concern, okay? >> [ bleep ] >> listen! i told you -- you're not in trouble. >> it ain't even about that! i need to call my mom. i need to call her. >> when the phone rang that night, i almost didn't answer it. but -- you know, you get a phone in the middle of the night, it's scary. >> mom. y'all need to come to beaufort, quick. >> as soon as i heard his voice, i knew something was wrong. >> mom, there's 50 cops here, coast guard, everything. we can't find mallory. it's been 30 minutes, mom. i don't know what to do, mom. we can't find mallory. i loved her for a long time. long before i said it. she always made it very known how she felt about me. i was just playing with her. you know, i wouldn't say anything -- just -- ever. and i know one day i -- you know, i just looked at her and said, you know, i -- but i love you. and it didn't register to her at first and she was -- wait, what did you just say? but -- i mean, that was -- love is one thing and saying it is another. >> what's your last name, buddy? >> murdaugh. >> it's m-u? >> r-d-a-u-g-h. >> okay. and what's your first name? >> paul. >> have you been checked out by the ambulance? >> yeah, i'm fine. hey, can i use your phone? >> paul's first thought was let me call my grandfather, randolph murdaugh, the former solicitor who knows all the law enforcement there. paul was thinking two steps ahead, which is -- i'm going to need help and my grandfather is the best person to give it to me. >> when we got there, anthony was shaking and shivering and -- -- he didn't want to go. he -- he did not want to go. >> anthony is obviously overcome with anger and guilt at the fact that his girlfriend is missing. he sees paul coming within a close physical proximity to where he is. >> get that [ bleep ] right there away from me. >> he has some very telling admissions on camera. >> the last time i grabbed my girlfriend and got down on the bottom of the boat, paul was driving. i begged and begged and begged and begged to let me drive. >> paul was driving the boat and the fact that paul was responsible for the fact that mallory was missing. >> why you [ bleep ] smiling like it's [ bleep ] funny! my [ bleep ] girlfriend's gone! do you think it's [ bleep ] funny? hope you rot in [ bleep ] he ain't going to get in no [ bleep ] trouble. >> he had seen the past where paul got out of trouble 'cause of who he was. >> yeah. >> and paul knew that, so he's just grinning, smiling, walking away. >> equal know alex murdaugh? >> oh, yeah, i know the name. >> that's his son. good luck. that's why new dove bh now has 24-hour renewing micro moisture for continuous care. new dove body wash. change is beautiful. 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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 were allowed to have a civil practice while they had the criminal authority. >> peters, murdaugh, parker, eltzroth & detrick has been helping families in hampton county and the south carolina low country since 1910. if you or someone in your family has suffered a loss, or has been personally injured, call us at peters murdaugh parker eltzroth & detrick, where our attorneys are devoted to serving your legal needs. >> the combination operated to their great financial advantage. >> some people say p-m-p-e-d. most regular people just call it "the firm." >> some people probably don't even know what those letters stand for. all they know is the 'm' -- murdaugh. >> the main thing i'll remember about the law firm is when i walked the door is just how -- big it was. you walk in, you're like, oh yeah, these -- these -- these people know what they're doing. >> you have a law firm that makes millions and millions of dollars a year and is the biggest thing going in hampton county, basically, other than government. and, in fact, probably in some ways probably had more power than the government. >> without a doubt, alex murdaugh was a good lawyer. he was talented. he was a very dominating person and maybe even a little bit of a bully. >> i, myself, grew up with -- alex. his personality was -- he should be top dog in everything. >> he walks into a courtroom, he's going to point out, well, that's his dad's picture on the wall. that's his grandpa. and he's going to make sure that you know who he is. he's going to push his dominance. >> you could see that smirk on his face that would tell you, he's just lying through his teeth trying to be nice to you. he's always been one to scheme and manipulate and you could always tell that you better watch him because you don't know whether what he was telling you was the truth or not. >> alex knew all the state troopers. he socialized with them. tickets to football games. tickets to basketball games. stuff like that that just reminds them, hey, i'll do for you whatever i can do to help you. but in return i expect the same. for example, if he were to wreck and the trooper is on the scene and he says that the fault was this particular driver, and alex needs it to be switched, that report was going to get modified. that's corruption. >> connor said, daddy, we've had an accident. i need you and mamma to come to the beaufort hospital. >> connor cook had a very significant jaw injury -- that required some surgical intervention and treatment. morgan doughty had a very severe hand injury. paul was -- i believe there's a quote from his grandfather who said he was "drunker than cooter brown." >> they had to restrain paul in the ambulance and ended up putting him in his own ambulance because he was -- >> intoxicated that bad. fighting them. he was fighting them. >> he couldn't -- they couldn't gain control of him. >> paul murdaugh was laughing at points, he was joking with people, he was completely unfazed by the fact that his friend was missing. >> he was just so drunk at the hospital that he was hitting on the nurse who was trying to make sure that he was set up in his hospital bed. >> he was acting out to the nurses and various emergency room personnel. just really obscene and -- and not appropriate behaviors. alex murdaugh and his father, the former solicitor, randolph 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 alex 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 hospital, alex was already there. randolph was already there trying to orchestrate it. alex was telling me how with his influence over the judges and jurors and all this, how -- don't worry. he's going to take care of connor. make more sense to me for him to be telling us how he is using his resource to find this missing child. but no. no. that wasn't on his mind at all. somebody heard randolph say, well, she's gone. we don't need to worry about her. >> recycles walking around the hospital telling the passengers not to say anything to police. nobody said alex came to my room to check on my condition to see if i was okay. they said alex came to my room to tell me not to say who was driving the boat. alex apparently talked to connor, and connor said he was trying to get me to say i was driving, and take the blame for this instead of paul. >> paul had called his grandfather, randolph, from the ambulance and connor heard paul tell randolph that "cottontop" was driving the boat. that's connor's nickname. so connor knew right then what they were trying to do. >> alex murdaugh and his father were trying to arrange for a lawyer to represent connor cook, and alex said i know the perfect guy. so that's how we got introduced to cory fleming. >> cory fleming was a pretty well-known lawyer and a good lawyer. very soon after their first meeting with mr. fleming, they discovered he was alex's son, buster's, godfather. >> cory fleming is his son's godfather. it's his college roommate. it is one of his best friends out there. so he was trying to direct them to use cory fleming because he knew it would benefit him. and that cory would lead them, theoretically, in the right direction. alex clearly was trying to use his people, his situation, to control the entire event. >> we didn't have a clue that he and alex go back to college and were roommates and best friends and cory's a godfather of one of alex's children. we didn't know any of that. >> he already had the plan in motion, and we fell for it. >> he was relieved of duty pretty quickly thereafter when those relationships became known to the cooks. >> it was actually pretty hard for him to find an attorney that would represent him -- >> because they knew what they were up against. >> -- not going against a murdaugh -- no. >> the first two lawyers we spoke to told us that -- if buster murdaugh was still alive, we wouldn't have to worry about all of this because connor would already be crab bait and there wouldn't be a problem. >> meanwhile, first responders were focused on trying to save mallory and not registering that we're going to need to make this into a crime scene now, not later. the murdaughs said we know what could happen next and we need to protect ourselves. they circled the wagons better than law enforcement did. >> that night at the accident scene when they had taped it off, mallory's parents wanted to go down to the water and they wouldn't let anybody past that tape. and mr. randolph and maggie came up and they lifted the tape and let them go right under. >> the boat itself was now recognized, hours later, to be a crime scene. >> there's been descriptions made of efforts to get the boat away from the scene of the crash. the local law enforcement officers there enlisted the help of a member of the murdaugh family to bring the trailer to the scene. >> strikes me as a bit odd that the department of natural resources would not have trailers, since i would assume that agency has hundreds of boats. it's a little astonishing that a family member could get anywhere near the scene of the crime. >> we knew some of the law enforcement that were there and we knew that they were close friends with the murdaugh family. it's always been that way because -- if you were in law enforcement, you were close friends with the murdaughs. >> it appears that some evidence is missing. paul's clothing, paul's cell phone, items from the boat that should have been preserved. >> some of the evidence has disappeared. certain dna evidence that we know was collected is now unaccounted for. how that occurs is a mystery to me. >> well, a lot of the local people were, like, we know there's nothing you can do. so we just kind of give up hope and -- and just let whatever happens happen because we've seen it so many times. you always get the whole home not part of it but the whole upstairs the whole downstairs the whole fridge and the whole secret nap room because is it really a vacation home if you have to share a house with a host? 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no problem. yeah. success starts with intuit quickbooks. >> d&r officials are still holding out hope that mallory will be found safe. they have been searching for three full days, and that search area expands with every day, they say, making it much harder to find her. hope, though, has begun to dwindle for her family and for rescuers out there. >> every day we were pretty much the first ones there and the last to leave. one particular day, i was having an emotional moment and just wanted to be by myself for a minute. and so i got in the truck and i was watching the helicopter and praying and looking out at the water. and i heard somebody get in the back. turned around and it was maggie murdaugh. my first thought was -- she's getting in the truck with me to make everybody else see that. but then she started questioning me and my opinion about things. and one of the things she said was -- what do you think will happen if they never find her? i mean, how can you even say that? like, i can't think that way. my lord. what -- i want her to be found alive! and i'm not entertaining this conversation. so she waited a few minutes and then she got out. and that was the last time i ever talked to her. i saw her a few times, like in the grocery store or whatever, but i've made sure i went the other way because i didn't want to entertain any conversation. and so i just stayed away. >> it was sunday. that was the -- that was the only day that i didn't go to the bridge. >> yesterday, after one week, the search for beach ended. >> it's the conclusion that family and friends of mallory beach feared after praying for a week for a miracle that maybe she had survived that boat crash and would be found alive. >> it took me months to really believe it. and -- sometimes it still don't feel real. and i just -- i guess that probably happens for everybody. >> your children go through a lot of things in life. you lose people and -- things happen. a lot of people have tragedies. but, for him, he didn't just lose her. he lost her right out of his arms. he had her one second, and the next second she was gone, and he never saw her again -- ever. >> if you got a phone call saying that your girlfriend was just killed in a car wreck, it wouldn't be near as bad as -- losing her out of your own arms. there's nothing worse. >> i like to consider myself lucky. yeah, it sucks that i lost her, but at the same time -- i was the one she loved before she left. >> two months ago, hampton county teen mallory beach died from a boat crash. >> the young man accused of driving the boat when it crashed, paul murdaugh, was arraigned today. >> he was charged with felony boating under the influence that causes a death. so he was facing, literally, 55 years in prison. >> this relates to a boating under influence, charged with the death of mallory beach. >> the big question became -- who was driving the boat when it hit the bridge? based upon the evidence, there's no way the state could have proved paul was driving the boat at the time of the collision. i say that based upon written statements by these witnesses -- paul's girlfriend said paul drove. he was very intoxicated as well as connor. he putted around until connor took over. we slammed into the bridge. anthony cook says paul got defensive and started yelling at everyone else. so connor tried to calm everyone down and let him drive the boat. it's interesting what connor cook said at the hospital. the officer asked connor who was driving the boat at the time of the collision. connor says -- i don't know. connor, who was driving the boat at the time of the collision? i don't know. >> i say, connor, is there any chance that you were driving the boat? and he'd say -- what, mom? no. >> alex told him to say he didn't know who was driving the boat. if connor was asked, not to say no, i wasn't. to say i don't know. >> it was devastating to know that somebody that was supposed to be that good of a friend of mine would be willing to try to sacrifice my child to save his. oh, it -- it -- it -- it brought me to reality. >> he does not have a record. these are serious charges, though, and we ask that a fair and appropriate bond be set given the seriousness of the charges, your honor. >> murdaugh's bond was set by presiding judge, steven s. john, at $50,000. >> it was the moment after the judge said, yes, the charges were going to stand that the bailiff came with handcuffs and paul's eyes lit up. they got big and they went -- somebody's coming with handcuffs to handcuff me. who do they think they are? and they stopped it. the lawyers were able to stop it. and it doesn't make any sense that you didn't get that -- that he never spent a moment, not in a jail cell even, but getting booked. they took his mug shot in the hallway of the courthouse and he walked out that day. and i think that's rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. what you got from a lot of 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 justice until paul gets convicted. [ gunshots ] >> 911, where's your emergency? >> my wife and child have been shot badly! >> i got a call from one of my sources that said you won't believe this, but -- >> prominent family here in south carolina dead after what's being called a double homicide. >> you just sit there with a blank look on your face, going -- what happened? >> paul and maggie murdaugh were found dead at their family hunting lodge. >> it was -- shocking. time stood still. i remember exactly where i was. >> both mother and son were shot and killed execution style. investigators note both were shot multiple times. >> dumbfounded by it. you can't -- you can't express the reaction, and then, of course, you start asking questions. >> this small low country community remains in shock, left with more questions than answers. >> the family asking for the public's help. >> in the low country, a community gathered for funeral services being held for 52-year-old maggie and her 22-year-old son, paul murdaugh. >> there were so many people there and my wife was afraid for our safety going to the funeral. and she was concerned about law enforcement being there 'cause we didn't know what had happened. >> the service starts and maggie murdaugh's sister-in-law starts talking about, like, what a loving and warm person maggie murdaugh was, how she loved her sons more than anything. and then, for paul, they had a partner at the law firm and, in his first remarks, he mentioned that he actually hadn't seen paul in a while. so the guy that they have speak for paul was a law firm member who hadn't seen paul in a while. i don't know if people really got to know who paul really was, which is a shame. i mean, people are more than just their worst things about them. >> anything he did or said ever was going to be scrutinized, maybe, by his family because you have to be this way. you have to act this way. i think anthony almost felt sorry for him for some of that because every little thing you do is based upon who you are. >> did you go to paul's funeral? >> no. no. i wanted to, but i figured it was -- probably a little bit too much drama would be involved. i don't know. i mean, i've -- i've made my -- my peace without having to go to the funeral. >> anthony has since told us that one of the days out at the bridge, that paul did make contact with him. >> he looked at me, dead in my eyes when wasn't nobody paying attention and apologized. and -- and said, you know, i love you. and i said, i love you too. and i -- you know, it's all good. and i had to walk away. but -- that -- that was it. a lot of people try to make it out like it never really fazed him, but it did. he knew deep down. i -- i think there's a lot of people out there in the world that heard a lot of things. maybe if you didn't know him like i did, you wouldn't understand. because he was really a good person. >> usually murders are solved, you know, within days or weeks. and if they don't get solved within days or weeks, i think a large percentage go unsolved. >> still no arrest more than a week after the mother and son from an influential south carolina family were shot and killed. >> i think this may very well be related to the death of mallory beach. people begin to think -- another murdaugh is going to get away with something. so what was the motivation, other than anger, or revenge? >> many people -- me included -- thought that this was the act of some delusional vigilante. >> my instincts tell me that this was a targeted hit meant for the young victim, 22-year-old paul murdaugh. two weapons were used -- a shotgun and an assault rifle. now i find it very difficult to believe that, unless you're a hollywood actor pretending you're carrying two long guns, that one person did this. >> paul was shot two times at very close range. maggie is shot multiple times. then there were two last shots while she was on the ground, at close range. what it appears to be is that paul was the target and that maggie came up on what had happened and was a witness. >> i called connor and his parents and i said you may rest assured that law enforcement will be calling you because they're going to be calling every person in the boat and their family members to learn whether everyone has an alibi. >> is there a nexus between the death of mallory beach in 2019 and the death of paul murdaugh? >> this case has become so convoluted, so crazy, so many twists and turns to it because every time you think it's finished, there's another turn. >> it's another bizarre twist in the story of the murdaugh family. investigators are looking into another crime connected to another family member. >> good evening, everybody. andrew davis out here in hampton county right now with the story that really everybody is talking about. there's a massive investigation going on right now. multiple shell casing signs here -- ten at least. we now know that it was somewhere after 1:30 today that alex murdaugh was shot in the head. >> if you didn't know the murdaughs, you wasn't from hampton. and whether you knew 'em or not, they knew you. >> they've been the solicitors nonstop for 100 years. >> money, position, power. >> kings of the low country. >> you're friends with them and

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