Alex Murdock was a trial lawyer. He was a civil trial lawyer who did personal injury work

and got millions of dollars in verdicts over a couple of decades and made over a million

dollars a year himself.

Hello and welcome to Best Case, worst case. I'm your host, Francie Hakes, former state

and federal prosecutor. Normally, my companion and co-host is Jim Clemente. He's normally

here, you know, bugging me, annoying me and generally speaking, insulting me occasionally

or at least teasing me. He's not here tonight. So that means I get to take shots at

Jim without him. I was out for a few weeks. I was sick and then I was on a great vacation.

I hope you all followed along on my Instagram account to see the great Caribbean getaway.

In the meantime, Jim is on some personal business. And so I wanted to bring you all a best

case, worst case, specifically on the Alec Murdock trial. My intention today was to talk

to you about what I thought was going to happen with the verdict. And of course, as

I'm recording this, the verdict has come in. So let's talk a little bit about the case.

I've been on the media talking about this case over the last few weeks. It's right in my

wheelhouse. I know everything that the state was going through. So I thought I'd give

you all an inside view of kind of my thoughts on the evidence in the Alec Murdock trial,

the state's case, the defense case and the jury verdict and my thoughts on the verdict.

So let's get right into it. Back in 2018, there was a horrible double murder discovered

on the property of a very prominent South Carolina family here in the United States. Paul and

Maggie Murdock were found shot to death on their family's hunting property. Now, it seemed

like a big mystery as to who did it. But what we've learned in the weeks following the

actual criminal trial is that law enforcement settled quite early on the husband of Maggie

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