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Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Episode #37. Changes In The Firm + Alex's Grandfather's Death Row Controversy

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Changes were made in Alex Murdaugh's old law firm, and a will was revealed. We discuss that and more with our legal analyst, John Snyder. Plus, we talk with Professor John Blume, the director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, about Alex Murdaugh's grandfather's controversial death penalty cases.



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0:00.0

Impact of Influence, the tragic story of a powerful South Carolina family and the mysterious

0:07.0

deaths they are linked to.

0:10.0

Hi, thanks for being here.

0:13.8

I am Matt Harris.

0:15.2

Hello, seat and Tucker.

0:16.4

Hello.

0:17.4

We are going to be talking to John Snyder in a moment, our legal analyst and a little

0:20.8

later in the program, we're going to talk to a professor who will shed light on some

0:26.1

of the unethical things that he believes.

0:31.0

Alec Murdoch's grandfather, Randolph II, known as Buster, did as his time as a solicitor

0:38.8

slash prosecutor.

0:40.0

So there's been a story in the community that says that Alec's great grandfather, Randolph

0:47.3

Senior, the man who started the whole law firm and the whole dynasty was dying of cancer

0:54.4

and allegedly decided to park his car on railroad tracks and wait for a train to take his life

0:58.6

as guaranteeing the Murdoch family money.

1:02.5

And then you'll hear Professor Bloom later talk about Alec's grandfather, Randolph Buster

1:08.4

II who played fast and loose with ethics in the courtroom, putting multiple people on

1:13.0

death row.

1:14.0

Many of those sentences were overturned due to his courtroom annex.

1:18.0

It appeared Alec's granddaddy was a wind at all cost prosecutor who blurred the lines

1:23.8

of its stepped way over the line to get a conviction.

1:27.0

So if you think about this, both Murdoch patriarchs are held in high esteem in the family and

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