S1E2: Murdaugh Family History | The Murdaugh Murders, Money & Mystery | Unsolved South Carolina
The Murdaugh Murders, Money & Mystery | Criminally Obsessed
Anne Emerson, Charlie Condon, Drew Tripp, Daniel Michener, Maxwell Harrison
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Episode 2: A look into the history of the Murdaugh family and their rise to prominence in the legal profession as adept personal injury attorneys and also the top prosecutors in South Carolina's 14th Judicial Circuit, which includes Hampton County and four other surrounding counties.
Randolph Murdaugh Sr., the Murdaugh family patriarch, founded what would become today's Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick law firm as a one-man office in Hampton County in 1910.
Randolph Murdaugh Sr. became the first elected solicitor (district attorney) for the 14th Circuit in 1920. In 1940, Randolph Sr. died after being hit by a train near the Early Branch community in Hampton County.
The same year, Randolph "Buster" Murdaugh, Jr. became his father's successor, the second generation of Murdaugh men elected to serve as 14th Circuit Solicitor.
Buster Murdaugh would face criminal charges in 1956 as part of a federal bootleg liquor conspiracy trial, but was ultimately acquitted despite a federal judge's harsh criticism of Buster and accusations of witness tampering.
Buster would serve until his retirement in 1986, after which Randolph Murdaugh III was elected to continue the Murdaugh family's legal reign over the 14th Circuit. Randolph III held the seat until retiring to private practice in 2006.
Randolph III's sons Randy and Alex followed their father into the legal profession, but didn't seek the solicitor's role.
Read more on the Murdaughs at this link: https://abcnews4.com/news/murdaugh-murders
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| 0:00.0 | We're following a developing story, this one out of Colleton County. |
| 0:09.4 | There's 41 and 47. |
| 0:11.7 | Mosville Road, I'll get up to it now, it's fast. |
| 0:14.6 | Double homicide involving a mother and son. |
| 0:17.0 | Both deaths resulting from apparent gunshot wounds. |
| 0:20.2 | In this town, nobody questioned the Murdox for 100 years. |
| 0:24.4 | You know, powerful people make powerful enemies. |
| 0:27.1 | You commit a murder in the 14th Circuit. |
| 0:29.6 | The odds of you going to death are all high. |
| 0:31.7 | From the studios of WCIV, ABC News 4 in Charleston, this is the podcast unsolved South Carolina. |
| 0:38.8 | Case file number one, the Murdox. |
| 0:45.4 | I didn't think it was a credible threat. |
| 0:47.2 | If it was, I would have tried to do something or notified someone. |
| 0:51.7 | But I guess, no. |
| 0:55.0 | Maybe I made a mistake. |
| 0:56.5 | The Murdox family to know them is to know where they hail from. |
| 1:00.5 | What this family has meant to the low country of South Carolina. |
| 1:04.1 | It does bring attention to the community, to the region at large, but for the room reasons. |
| 1:09.0 | I promise to start this podcast off about an arson attempt at Alec Murdox home back in |
| 1:14.2 | 2009. |
| 1:15.2 | Now, police say a suspect named Michael David List was trying to set Alec Murdox house |
| 1:20.3 | on fire. |
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