Alex Murdaugh: He Staged His Own Shooting — If You've Watched Someone Unravel, This Is That Moment
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
On June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called 911 to report finding his wife and son shot to death.
Three months later, he staged his own shooting on a rural roadside.
Both were desperate attempts to maintain control. Both failed.
Part 4 of "The Name" covers the full collapse — the murders, the staged shooting, the investigation that finally caught up with him, and the trial that ended with guilty verdicts in less than three hours.
This episode explores what happens when a narcissist's world closes in completely. They don't surrender. They escalate until there's nothing left.
The Snapchat video proved Alex was at Moselle that night. His own testimony sealed his fate.
Alex Murdaugh is serving two life sentences. He still says he didn't do it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.0 | June 7th, 2021, sometime around 10 p.m. |
| 0:10.8 | Alec Murdoch called 911 from the family's property. |
| 0:15.0 | Moselle. |
| 0:15.8 | He's frantic, hysterical. |
| 0:17.4 | He says he's found his wife and son. |
| 0:20.2 | Shot to death. Oh my God. |
| 0:27.1 | It's been. I've been up to it now. He says in his voice breaking, it's bad. |
| 0:34.3 | And with a phone call, that's my impression of Alec Murdo. |
| 0:43.3 | Maggie and Paul are in the dog kennels near the house multiple gunshot wounds |
| 0:45.1 | no chance of survival they've been dead |
| 0:47.2 | for a while by the time Alec actually makes |
| 0:49.4 | the 9-1-1 call |
| 0:51.3 | and for months Alec plays the grieving husband and father. |
| 0:58.6 | Gives interviews, he attends memorials, offers a hundred thousand dollar reward for |
| 1:03.1 | information about the killers. |
| 1:05.2 | Obviously, a reward he knows he'll never have to pay, but it sure makes him look dandy, |
| 1:09.4 | doesn't it? |
| 1:15.2 | It performs devastation so convincingly that most people believe him. |
| 1:17.4 | Because that's what Alec does. |
| 1:20.2 | That's what he's always done. |
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