>> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. >> i'm innocent. >> alex murdaugh convicted and given two life sentences for the murder of his wife and son.

>> no one who thought they were close to this man knew who he really was. >> the monster you've become. >> for the first time those closely 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, there is an unsolved killing. >> moum families do you know that have five dead bodies in their orbit? >> murdaugh's 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 randy kaye. tonight for the first time alex murdaugh's victims and alleged victims, their lawyers, and local reporters who for years have been covering every detail of this case come together to

talk about the man who changed their lives forever and the mystery that has shaken this community. >> you're all brought together by really one man, but some of you, you do know each other, right, from -- >> yes, yes. our families work together or went to school together. >> there's always a connection. yes. >> my father owned a grocery store for 54 years, which everyone came through that grocery store. that's what put me to be able to know everyone. >> we call him jj. >> jordan james, ginger heriot, and sandy smith grew up in the rural county of hampton south carolina. >> one thing about hampton also, i mean genuine people live

there. >> all your friend's children come to your home and they call you mom. >> what was alex murdaugh like as a young boy? >> kind of rough but typical friend. i mean we were both interested in hunting and fishing and stuff like that. >> we were kids. i mean we went off to school together so i thought he was a zealot. he was loud and he was a zealot. >> alex, he just seemed arrogant and conseated and like i'm better than you. >> you stayed friendly or in touch with him over the years in. >> absolutely. i got wedding gifts from him. i gave him gifts. i went out of town and stuff he liked, i knew it, i brought it back. i mean we were friends. i trusted him. >> alex murdaugh wasn't just a resident of hampton. alex's great grandfather, grandfather, and father had been district attorneys or what they

called solicitors. >> being a solicitors it's one of the most powerful positions in our legal system. >> mandy, john monk, and liz fer ferrell are all local journalists. >> you have to be careful who you hire sometimes because of who they might be associated with. >> over a century ago alex's great grandfather also a solicitor started a law firm or pmped for short. >> the firm is a plaintiff's law firm, which means it specializes in wrongful deaths, medical malpractice, suing big corporations on behalf of victims. >> monk has been reporting in south carolina for nearly 50 years. >> because the murdaughs know pretty much everybody in that county. they could count on getting juries that had the reputation

of siding with them in a big way. >> something that people don't understand about pmped and their control over hampton county, most names that i've looked up in the hampton county index, so many of them have lawsuits connected to pmped. everyone has a cousin who's gotten a lot of money from calling pmped and them handing a car accident, for instance. >> it created a loyalty. >> yeah, it creates a loyalty and a culture of silence basically. >> for sure. >> alex murdaugh, a lawyer himself, worked at his family's law firm since he graduated law school back in 1994. mike, justin, joe, and eric are all local litigators. all four of you graduated from the university of south carolina school of law, correct? >> yes. >> because alex murdaugh also

graduated from the same school. >> randy and i graduated together. >> his brother. >> yes, his brother. >> growing up the murdaughs even in branber county people knew who they were. >> randy, i have stories i'll tell you. i was talking to a lawyer here in town who said his old law partner who's a big political figure here in town got a call one day. >> buster is the nickname of alex murdaugh's grandfather, a solicitor who served for 46 years. >> buster said, counselor, i know you can help me out here. my boy's gotten into some trouble and needs to be gotten out of it, and i know you can handle it. so the lawyer jumped right on it, and within an hour he's made the calls like we could do in the good old days and make problems go away. and he called buster back and said, solicitor, i've got it taken care of. and he said one other thing, solicitor, i don't need to be paid, it's a favor.

and he said buster then said to him, you know, counselor, if you ever need to kill a man, you bring him to hampton county. and whether that was true or false, maybe a joke, that was the reputation and that is what that community has dealt with for decades. >> that law firm did a great deal for hampton county residents, but it doesn't give that law firm the right to have so much power to suppress law enforcement. >> and that's what you think is going on here? >> yeah. if the brother of the family did something wrong, they're guilty. we ain't playing on a level playing field when it comes to hampton county and the murdaugh

family. >> exactly. >> your status in an environment, a town should not exclude you from the law. >> right. >> you should -- if you do wrong, you should be punished like anyone else. >> you know, yeah, i could pick up the phone and somebody's bothering me -- >> until it comes back to bite you. >> exactly. >> pmped, now named parker law, did not respond to cnn's request for comment. >> the state grand jury has indicted murdaugh on about 90 charges or so in terms of schemes to defraud victims totaling nearly $8.8 million or so. he's also been indicted as you know on two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of his wife and son. as lawyers practicing for quite some time in this state, what do you make of that? >> proud. proud of our legal system, proud of our attorney general, proud of our judges.

i mean -- >> i want to add something. i am not proud. i am angry. i'm very angry. you asked how we feel about this. alex threw all of us under a bus. the entire world is looking at south carolina and every lawyer at this table is on trial because of greed and avarice. i represent the family of a 19-year-old kid who was poor, who was brutally murdered and left on the side of the road. and who gave a crap about that in 2015? >> when we return -- >> good morning. >> alex murdaugh takes the stand. >> i have lied well over a decade. >> and look -- >> they bet him to death. >> -- inside the five mysterious deaths all circling alex's orbit. >> there ain't no allegedly. this what happened. ♪ you said close your eyes ♪

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maggie and alex murdaugh married in august of 1993. around that time, they had two kids, buster and their youngest son paul. that's when they met gloria satterfield. >> we grew up close. >> ginger is gloria's younger sister. how close was gloria -- >> very much. she baby-sat for them before she started doing housekeeping. paul was about 13 months old. he was just starting to walk. she would wear skirts all the time and he would walk around and hold her skirt while she was doing the housework and stuff. she pretty much raised him, him and buster. she thought the world of maggie. >> double murder mystery. >> he reported them outside the

dog kennels. >> the number one thing that stood outlet to me was the first time hearing the 911 call. the moment you call 911 and hit send on your phone even though no one has answered and it's just ringing, it's recording on the dispatch end. and the phone is dead silent and you can hear the dogs barking in the background. and as soon as dispatch answers, it's this panicked alex. >> hampton county 911, what is your emergency? >> i never knew panicking could get cut on and off. >> let the blood ringing begin. that was so weird to me. >> you're saying he would have been panicked even before that, before anybody picked up the line. >> really deceptive. >> he would be hyperventilating. >> i'm alex murdaugh, good

morning. >> alex murdaugh sharing his story from the witness stand, telling the jury he didn't kill his wife and son. >> just to be clear were you anywhere in the vicinity where paul and maggie were shot? >> i was nowhere near paul and maggie when they got shot. >> and after more than a year and a half murdaugh finally came clean about this key piece of states evidence against him. >> mr. murdaugh, is that you on the kennel video at 8:44 p.m. on june 7th, the night maggie and paul were murdered? >> it is. >> over and over murdaugh had told investigators he hadn't seen his family since dinner and was not at the dog kennels at the time of the murders, but that video extracted from his son's phone was recorded just a few minutes before prosecutors believe the killings happened. murdaugh told the jury he had left the kennels right after the

video was recorded and driven his golf cart to the main house on the property to take a nap. >> why'd you get out of there so quick, mr. murdaugh? >> because it was chaotic, it was hot. it certainly could have been 8:47 before i left out of there. >> murdaugh estimated it's about a 2-minute drive on the golf cart from the kennel to the main house, which would put him there at 8:49 p.m., the very same time prosecutors say maggie and paul's phones ceased all activity, suggesting they were dead. once back at the house -- >> you lay down on the couch? >> that's correct. >> keep in mind murdaugh's phone showed no activity from 8:09 to 9:02. he says he left it at the main house when he went down to the kennels. >> from 9:02 to 9:06 your phone finally comes to life and starts showing a lot of steps. >> i do agree with that. >> what were you doing? >> i was getting ready to go to my mom's house.

>> that's far more steps in the time period than any time prior as you've seen from testimony in this case. what were you so busy doing? going to the bathroom? >> no, i don't think i went to the bathroom. >> get on the treadmill? >> i didn't get on the treadmill. >> jog in place? >> and what i wasn't doing is doing anything as i believe you've implied. >> along with all the steps murdaugh took, data presented in court shows he made a flurry of phone calls. >> finally having your phone in your hand, moving around and making all these phone calls to manufacture an alibi, is that not true? >> it's absolutely incorrect. >> meanwhile murdaugh's attempt to show he'd been trying to cooperate with investigators backfired. >> other than lying to them about going to the kennel, i was cooperative in every aspect of this investigation. >> very cooperative except for maybe the most important fact of all, that you were at the murder

scene with the victims just minutes before they died. >> the prosecutor did his best to prove to the jury no one other than alex murdaugh could have killed his wife and son. >> what you're telling this jury is that it's a random vigilante that just happened to know paul and maggie were both at mozel on june 7th, that knew they would be at the kennels alone on june 7th, knew you would not be there but only between the times 8:49 and 9:02. >> you've got a lot of factors in there, mr. waters, all of which i do not agree with but some of which i do. >> another key moment, murdaugh explaining to the jury why evidence shows him wearing different clothes before and after the murders. >> paul and i cleaned the bulldozer. we fooled around. yeah, i mean i sweated. i was -- you know, i was heavy, and taking prescription pills also makes you sweat worse or at least taking oxycontin makes you

sweat more than you normally do. >> so was it unusual for you to take a shower when you got back to the house? >> not at all. >> evidence presented in court shows murdaugh left home to visit his mother on the night of the murders on 8:06 p.m. he had a pause saying he was briefly trying to locate his month. >> that minute or however long it was, were you disposing of the murder weapons, alex? >> no. >> were you disposing of bloody clothes? >> no. >> this is going to be the full time line. >> special agent peter analyzed cellphone data from phones belonging to the victims and alex murdaugh as well as gps data recovered from their cars. he presented a time line to the jury on the night of the murders. he told the jury data showess murdaugh arrived at his mother's house at 9:22 p.m., and left there at 9:43 p.m.

>> a roughly 20-minute period. >> correct. >> that's key because murdaugh told investigators he was at his mother's house for about an hour. but this gps data shows he was there for just about 21 minutes. his mother's caretaker also testified earlier that he stopped by for about 15 to 20 minutes. cellphone data shows murdaugh arrived back home at the murder scene just before calling 911 at 10:06 p.m. >> this is showing the suburban arriving at the kennels 10:05 p.m. >> from the moment the suburban arrived at the kennels how long did it take for the 911 call to be made? >> about 20 seconds. >> remember murdaugh told investigators he tried to turn his son over a cup of times and check the pulse of both paul and maggie all before calling 911. >> if the person getting out of

the car had seen the bodies, already knew something was horribly wrong, do you believe that is an unreasonably short period of time to inspect and call 911 in. >> i'm here to testify on thisthis data, not a hypothetical. >> the unsolved killings many of the twists and turns surrounding this family. >> one of the things people outside south carolina don't understand about this entire story is somebody may read about it and they may watch cnn and learn about it and feel like this happened quickly. it did not. this was a slow burn. it was like there was no bottom to the hole that was being dug. >> he's a guy that embeddies the old saying if you're going through hell, just keep ongoing. >> it's the onion, you keep peeling and you never get to the core. >> right. >> mike is the attorney for sandy smith.

sandy's son, 19-year-old steven smith, was found lying in the middle of a hampton county road in july 2015. >> the highway patrol's incident report notes that he suffered from blunt force trauma to the head. >> his death was initially deemed by the south carolina law enforcement division or sled, as a hit-and-run. >> steven's case, it was cold for quite some time and now sled is taking another look at it because of what they say was something that was discovered after the double murder of maggie and paul murdaugh, which is really interesting. >> yeah, because it was like mind-blowing, and i've been begging. you know, nobody ever returned my calls. coming up -- >> you're talking about a young man who's a homo sexual. you're talking about a small southern town. it's taboo. somebody didn't like it. >> and later -- >> 911, what is your emergency? >> my housekeeper has fallen and her head is bleeding. i cannot get her up. >> long time housekeeper for the

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share a little bit about your son. >> i'm sorry you missed the opportunity to meet him. because he was very vibrant. you could have a bad day and all he had to do was walk in the room and say something, and it was like, your mood is gone because you couldn't stop laughing or smiling. >> he would light up a room. >> he had plans and dreams. >> yes. he started at a tech school to become a nurse. >> did you know the murdaugh family? >> stephen played little league one year and randolph and alex were his coach. you know, and that's how i met them. and stephen went to school with buster. >> buster is alex murdaugh's

eldest son. the stephen smith case was reopened by s.l.e.d. as a result of something that was found at the double murder scene for maggie and paul murdaugh. >> so stephen died. and he was found july 7th of 2015. rumors were everywhere. everywhere. this is a small county. it's impossible that people didn't know what happened. people talk. >> what the talk has always been was that stephen had some sort of a relationship with a murdaugh. and that was going to get out. >> so they took him out? >> think how courageous stephen was. you're talking about a young man who is homosexual, who isn't hiding it, is very proud of who he is. you're talking about a small southern town. >> it's taboo. >> it's taboo. and he's wearing it proud. and somebody didn't like it. it clearly had to have been related to his sexuality. don't you believe, mike? >> 100%. 100%. south carolina and wyoming are the only two states that have no

hate crimes law. >> we have no hate crimes law? >> no. we can't get one passed. and we have been trying and begging and fighting. >> you're kidding me. >> no. >> what happened to stephen smith? >> there's so much we don't know. we know some bare bones facts. >> hampton county 911. where is your emergency? >> we know he was found at 4:00 in the morning on sandy run road in hampton. he was about a mile from his car. he had died of horrific blunt force trauma to his head. his skull was fractured. his wallet was in his car. he had his cell phone. and he was not that far from his father's house, where he lived. his twin sister stefanie was also at home. i was a prosecutor for a long time.

i have prosecuted cases of people having been hit by cars. this is not the scene of a hit and run. there was no debris. >> there was no debris. lower extremities, nothing was broken. and his loosely tied sneakers were on his feet? >> yes. >> they would have been blown off. >> if it was a hit and run case. >> every hit and run case i have ever seen, shoes blow off. >> they did not have their shoes on. >> a hit and run is extraordinarily violent. extraordinarily violent. he had some abrasions but not significant. >> what do you remember about that night and when you learned what had happened to your son? >> i was on my way to work. and i heard on the big dog radio that they had found a body in the road on sandy run and joe

miley. and i was like oh gosh, my kids live on joe miley. so i called joel's house. >> joel was stephen's father. >> stefanie answered. i said are y'all okay? i heard something happened down the road. they found a body. and she said, "mom, did stephen spend the night at your house last night?" i said no. and then i knew. i knew it was him. >> is that a mother's instinct? >> oh, yes. yes. because stephen was my baby. so we were always close. >> i know that soon after randy murdaugh had called. randy is alex murdaugh's brother. >> when i was on the phone with joel, he said, let me put you on hold because randy murdaugh is calling. he said, randy wants to take stephen's case pro bono. and i said what case? because they said it was a hit and run. >> did you think that call from randy murdaugh was strange? >> yes. it made no sense to me.

>> yeah. >> really, there was no case yet. >> yeah, you didn't know it was a case yet. >> his law office has said he didn't call -- he didn't know stephen had died until after the funeral. and randy murdaugh were standing at the crime scene. >> oh, wow. >> they were at the crime scene after stephen's body was moved, randy murdaugh called and asked, was that you that just passed by? i said, yeah. he said i wish you would have stopped so i could have met you. >> wow. >> at the crime scene. >> yeah. >> his office says that he never offered to represent the family in any way. >> well, if you can believe anything a murdaugh says. >> s.l.e.d. has released some of the interrogations and interviews regarding stephen's case to the media. >> i don't feel like it's a hit and run. i've looked at the body itself. >> a lot of people seem a little nervous to say the name murdaugh. >> the lead investigator at the

time even voiced his doubts about this being a hit and run. >> typically, you don't see the highway patrol working a murder. and that's what this is. >> wow. >> that was the lead investigator at the time. yet, you still don't have answers and you still don't know who did this. >> right. >> this is either an extreme amount of corruption from very powerful people who were able to pull all of these strings, or everybody involved in this did not do their job, and that is very scary for the justice system. both sides, it's scary. >> what do you believe happened to your son stephen? >> i feel like they beat him to death because the only damage was to his head. and he did have some defense wounds. he had a dislocated shoulder. it had to be somebody he knew to put his body like he was walking home. >> i mean, my heart goes out to her. it's just hard to believe. >> it's been seven years and stephen's case is still

unsolved. his mother's attorney has yet to bring a case against the murdaugh family. >> there's no fact that i can point to other than talk, rumors, speculation and the connection of s.l.e.d. reopening the case at moselle. there's nothing connected to the murdaughs. and i'll tell you one other thing. there are people right now in hampton who know what happened. and they need to come forward. >> sandy lost her son but she is also lost her own community. because people were just turning their backs saying, we can't say anything. >> i want justice for my son. >> you deserve it. >> you deserve it. you do. >> that's all i want. >> yes. >> you'll get it. >> oh, yeah. one step closer. >> mr. murdaugh -- >> when we return --

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tell me about gloria. >> gloria was special. everyone referred to her as the murdaughs' housekeeper. she was more than that. she was a sister.

she was a mother. she was loved by all of us. >> 911. where is your emergency? >> my housekeeper has fallen and her head is bleeding. i cannot get her up. >> according to alex murdaugh, in february of 2018 gloria was picking up a check at his home when the murdaughs' four dogs tripped her and she fell down their front porch steps. >> i believe she maybe hit her head and maybe has a concussion or something. >> do you know what her name is? >> gloria satterfield. >> she died three weeks later. >> maggie called alex first. >> eric bland represents gloria satterfield's estate. >> and he said that he booked it home from work. gloria was bleeding. and she told him the dogs

tripped me. so he said she blacked out after that. >> we all went to the hospital. alex didn't come to the hospital. nobody else came the entire time she was there the three weeks. >> you don't believe your sister was killed? >> was murdered. no. no. we still think it was an accident. >> ginger doesn't believe alex murdaugh killed her sister, but he is liable for another nefarious act in connection with her death. you discovered this insurance document related to the gloria satterfield case. at some point. >> i remember turning to liz and being like, a curse word or two. my god, whoa. >> and there was a settlement. >> alex murdaugh along with another attorney had devised a scheme to sue his insurance company for the death of gloria satterfield, promising to give the money to gloria's two surviving sons. the sons never saw what totaled to be $4.3 million.

on the stand alex murdaugh addressed this and other alleged financial crimes. >> i remember lying to tony satterfield and i remember looking him in the eye on many of occasions. >> and lying to him. >> yeah. >> lying to his family? >> i lied to his family. i took money that was not mine and i shouldn't have done it. i hate the fact that i did it. i'm embarrassed by it. >> i learned that he used gloria's death to enrich himself is horrible. >> it's heart breaking. >> very heart breaking. >> ruthless. >> ruthless is a word for it. >> people wonder, how did they go and ms. gloria died and they steal all the money? well, they had practice.

>> what did happen to hakeem pinkney and why is he so central to this saga? >> august 2009, there's this bad wreck. everybody is tremendously injured. hakim, he already struggled because he was deaf. and now he's a quadriplegic. they didn't know about alex or the murdaughs like that. they get referred there. >> alex murdaugh represented members of the pinkney family and sued the makers of the tires over the crash. but according to the pinkney family lawyer, when the settlement money came in, greed took over. he had a settlement and then he just chose to not pay it to hakim's family. >> so it -- >> allegedly. >> well, there ain't no allegedly. this is what happened. some of the money went where it was supposed to go. and a large portion of it didn't. approximately a million dollars. >> i took money from hakeem

pinkney that did not belong to me that i should not have taken. >> alex murdaugh's alleged accomplice was russell laffitte, the former ceo of palmetto state bank. murdaugh allegedly convinced the pinckney family to hire lafitte as their conservator and then funneled the money through the bank back to himself. >> the i'm the one that took the money i should not have tagen and russell was not involved in helping me do that. if he did it, he did it without knowing it. >> a scheme they allegedly also concocted with alaynia spohn. >> we were on i-95 coming through hampton county. and a firestone bridgestone tire blew out, and which caused our collision. >> mother dies instantly. brother dies instantly. >> eric bland is alaynia's attorney. >> alaynia is pinned in the back

of the car. you're talking 2009, the case is settled for $9 million. a huge settlement. so they have to have somebody to help them manage their money. >> russell lafitte was the conservator for alaynia and her younger sister. >> over the course of them being 11 and 18 years old, as a conservator he loaned money to himself and to alex murdaugh from a conservatorship account. he loaned himself over $600,000. he loaned over $800,000 to alex murdaugh. and these girls would get nsf checks come back to them -- >> not sufficient funds. >> -- because he had spent all the money. >> alex, i remember him telling me, these people took your mom and your brother because of their mistakes and we're going to make it right and you're not going to have to work another day in your life. and knowing that i'm over here pinching pennies -- >> because he was limiting your

funds. >> definitely. >> it's horrible. it's a horrible thought. you've got kids that are in need and scared to even ask to get money to buy something they need, and here they are, they're just spending it like it's nothing. >> you ultimately borrow a million dollars? >> if you tell me that's the number, that surprises me. but i don't dispute what's in the records. >> jordan is alish's childhood friend. >> i had a car accident. i was rear-ended by a pool company out of hilton head. so i called alex. that was the first person i called. >> and alex murdaugh got a settlement for you. >> absolutely. >> and that money came right to you? >> not all of it. >> alex murdaugh allegedly defrauded jordan jinks of $150,000. he was a friend. >> and he convinced you that

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report. >> so you were suspicious. >> very suspicious. everything was suspicious. >> we had good sources in law enforcement. and they told us, you know, the fix is in already. >> in the incident report, law enfo was driving the boat. joe mccullough represents connor cook, one of the surviving passengers. >> as a prosecutor, i have seen done in every dui case, every felony dui and boating under the influence cases, it's law enforcement 101, police academy 101. you separate the people. you figure out who was driving. you stand them up, do the field sobriety exercises. none of that occurred in this case, and now we know there's missing evidence. >> directly after the boat crash, the passengers were transported to the hospital, and according to the hospital staff alex murdaugh and his father went from room to room attempting to speak to the

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son. i sentence you for the term of the rest of your natural life. and i know you have to see paul and maggie during the nighttime when you're attempting to go to sleep. i'm sure they come and visit you. >> all day and every night. >> jurors took less than three hours thursday to convict the disgraced south carolina lawyer. >> i didn't see any true remorse or any compassion or anything. >> how did you know he wasn't crying? >> because i saw his eyes. i was this close to him. >> despite the circumstance substantial evidence against him, murdaugh maintained he was not guilty. >> i'm innocent. i would never hurt my wife maggie, and i would never hurt my son paul paul. >> he's a liar and a thief, and he admitted that. he's not a murderer. >> what about the possibility of an appeal and a successful appeal at that? >> we're appealing and we feel

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