It has to be some common sense.

Yes, sir. They have the car stopped in ten and branch, Michael Byzer.

We still don't know who pulled the trigger. Hello everyone and welcome to Police Off the Cuff, Real Crime Stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, 27-year veteran of the NYPD, retired at a Manhattan North Homicide Squad.

Folks, we've been covering, of course, the overarching thing is the Murdoch case.

But it really now, since Alec Murdoch has been found guilty in the murder of his son, Paul,

and his wife Maggie, we move on to the next case, which was the 2015,

which has now been determined to be a homicide of Stephen Smith.

There's a lot of confusing things about this investigation.

One of them, of course, is the fact that why did it take nearly eight years for them to call this a homicide?

You know, we call in the police department there's an an acronym. It's called CYA. And it stands

for cover your ass. And there seems to be a lot of CYA going on behind the scenes here with

different investigative bodies. And it doesn't, it doesn't look well. It doesn't look so good. And especially

when we're seeing it under the umbrella of this whole almost like we call it the Murdoch

crime family, because that's what it's looking like right now. When you have a man who's in a prestigious law firm

that has ruled in a South Carolina town for almost 100 years,

and that very man committed a double murder

and has been linked to $8 to $12 million in thefts,

something's rotten in Denmark, or rather,

South Carolina.

And it's not pretty.

And some of the things my instincts tell me that this case in 2015 is really ugly.

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