re: Investigators When they KNEW Murdaugh lied (Page 112)

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He shaved his head a while ago, but his lawyers probably told him to grow it back so he didn’t look like Walter White. I think he likes the look.

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He looks like a murderer

My wife has been watching this from the beginning.

She said that he probably loved his wife and son, but loved himself more.

truly a sad and tragic story.

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Yes - that is one of the first steps of processing with the SCDOC.

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You're correct but he hasn't been taken custody by SCDC yet. They cut off all your hair the first day at R&E at Kirkland, which is in Columbia.

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You're telling me that to take the heat off of me from my law firm fraud case I'm just going to go ahead and maliciously and salaciously murder my wife and my son

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I would say it was more about the boat case. Mark Tinsley was breathing down his neck for his financial statements, because he was suing AM for at least 10 million, if not more. Maggie thought that it was 30 million. AM told Tinsley he might be able to cobble together 1 million. Tinsley didn’t buy that because of AM”s court load, and his generational wealth.

Tinsley said that with the murders he just knew that his case was dead in the water-no pun intended. Paul, Maggie and AM were now the victims. Who’s going to sue the estate now? Who could be so curel?
As far as the law firm, the way it was set up, is that the attorneys get paid in December. So AM would have had 6 months to scrape together the money to cover up the settlements the firm(the CFO) was asking him about.
I had a hard time buying the State’s case for this motive, but as I watched it laid out, with all of the supporting testimony, it seemed absolutely plausible.
Don’t forget, you’re a normal person-I’m assuming, and would thus be unable to murder.

I’m sure that AM was angry with Paul for causing him so much trouble, and fed up with Maggie’s nagging to settle on the boat case. According to her housekeeper, she wanted to settle it and start over. She had no idea that they were broke.

As the closing prosecutor said, “he loved Maggie and Paul, but he loved himself more.”

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They cut off all your hair the first day at R&E at Kirkland, which is in Columbia.

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Do you get to grow it back or do you have to stay bald?

This is a reenactment before the trial was over and AM was convicted for double murder.

AI reenactment

Some have added that one gun was always there and was Paul's loaded and the shooter knew this habit. And or that the shots-or maybe one-- were made from the golf cart.

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What is worse is he has a name and hurting him or shanking him will give you creds on the yard. H

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Killing an old white dude is not going to get cred. He will be writing habeous writs for the prisoners and that will give him plenty of protection. Everyone always thinks the celebs and affluent are going to get shanked in prison. It doesn't happen. Prisoners that have crimes involving rape or children (whether rape or murder) are the criminals most in danger inside (and mafia guys).

Buster Murdaugh hiding on ‘Buster’s Island’ after dad’s murder conviction


Maggie Murdaugh and son Buster Murdaugh at graduation with his late mother, Maggie Murdaugh.

Many observers of the six-week double homicide trial of Alex Murdaugh felt sorry for the 54-year-old disgraced lawyer’s sole surviving son, copper-haired Buster.

The 26-year-old, who was at court every day for his father’s trial, has been left almost an orphan with his mother and brother dead and his father sentenced to life in prison for their murders.

“No person with a heart and soul cannot feel sympathy for that young man,” Columbia, SC, attorney Joseph M. McCulloch Jr., a Murdaugh family friend, told The Post. “It’s just been tragedy on top of tragedy for him. I don’t know how anyone can withstand that. I’m glad he has a girlfriend who seems so supportive.”

But even more, dark clouds are lurking overhead for the one-time law school student, one source with knowledge of the situation told The Post Friday.

“Buster is next … your son is next, Alex!” yelled an onlooker as Alex Murdaugh was led to a police van after his sentencing Friday morning.

The person seemingly was referring to the ongoing South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) investigation and lengthy rumors surrounding Buster’s possible involvement in the 2015 death of Stephen Smith.

Stephen’s body was found on a rural road in Hampton County, a few miles from the Murdaugh hunting lodge where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were murdered in June 2021.

His skull was partially crushed, there was a hole in his forehead and his shoulder had been dislocated, according to documents in the case and photos his mother saw.

Based on those discrepancies, Sandy Smith believes her son’s body was deliberately placed in the road after he was murdered to make it look like a hit-and-run accident — and that there may have been a conspiracy among local officials and possibly the Murdaugh family to cover up Stephen’s death.

Both Sandy and former Highway Patrol investigator Todd Proctor, who oversaw the Smith case, previously told The Post that they believe Stephen may have been murdered — though the death was originally ruled a hit-and-run accident.

Sandy, has long been vocal about her belief that the Murdaugh family, including Buster, may have had some tie to Stephen’s death.


Stephen Smith with his mother, Sandy
Sandy Smith believes the Murdaughs may be tied in some way to the death of her son Stephen. Couresty of Family

Speaking after Murdaugh’s conviction, Sandy told The Post: “That jury done excellent. They see through the lies and a Murdaugh is finally brought down.

“Now that this case is back over, they can get on Stephen’s case full-time.”

Buster — aka Richard Alexander Murdaugh Jr., named after his father and great-grandfather — lives with his lawyer girlfriend, Brooklynn White, at a condo that she owns in Hilton Head, SC.

But after Buster broke down outside court Friday, minutes after his father’s conviction, he was whisked off by his uncles to what is known as “Buster’s Island” — a property on Chechessee Creek, near Beaufort, SC, that has been in the Murdaugh family since the 1970s, a source close to the family said.

“There is not a lot of warmth for Alex or Buster in Hampton these days,” one Hampton resident whose family has known the Murdaughs for decades told The Post. “I think [Buster] will stick with his uncles and stay out on Hilton Head. I don’t see him coming back here.”

Buster’s cool and calm demeanor, which he showed in the court gallery every day of the trial as well as on the witness stand, evaporated Friday.

Private island owned by Alex Murdaugh and suspected drug smuggler for sale in SC

It seems like they are trying to sell all islands they own but Buster Island?

Any SC locals know more about Buster's Island? Is it accessible by boat only?

ETA: DELETED Buster's Beach it wasn't SC. I wasn't sure...