What Does Alex Murdaugh’s History With Curtis Smith Reveal About the Night of the Murders?
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Three months after Maggie and Paul were found at Moselle, Alex Murdaugh drove to a rural road and allegedly paid Curtis Eddie Smith to end his life in an insurance scheme. The plan fell apart. Smith didn’t finish. Alex survived with a scratch and a story that collapsed within hours.
That incident established something critical about Alex Murdaugh: he recruits other people for violence. He sets up the circumstances, creates the alibi, and expects someone else to execute. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke dig into listener questions about whether that same pattern was at work on June 7, 2021.
Two weapons were used at Moselle. Two different types of ammunition. Neither gun was ever recovered. And now the defense is publicly hinting at “third parties and potential motives”—information they say has come from people who’ve reached out since the first trial.
Robin applies behavioral analysis to the operational pattern. If Alex planned to have someone else carry out the killings and had to resort to doing it himself, what would that look like? What evidence would survive? And does the physical evidence at Moselle actually support a two-person scenario—or a single person using two weapons? The answers aren’t as clean as either side wants them to be.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drey. |
| 0:07.5 | New trial for Alec Murdoi, it's likely going to be happening. |
| 0:10.4 | No date or anything set yet. |
| 0:11.9 | I don't know people are like, well, what if the state decides they don't want to? |
| 0:15.0 | Well, the state's already said publicly, |
| 0:16.7 | and everyone running for the position has all publicly said, |
| 0:20.1 | they're going to be trying |
| 0:21.6 | Alec Murdo again so unless an asteroid hits or something who knows I guess anything is possible |
| 0:27.9 | we're likely going to be seeing another trial of Alec Murdoe the only thing I think that would be |
| 0:32.8 | preventing that would be death so unless Alec kicks it between now and then, we're likely going to see |
| 0:38.9 | another Alec Murdoch trial. That'd be something, wouldn't it? Yeah, I mean, again, anything's possible. |
| 0:43.7 | The question is, what's going to be, what's going to be happening in a new trial? Will there be |
| 0:50.9 | third party defense arguments being made? |
| 0:56.4 | That's already been hinted at a bit by the attorneys for Alec Murdo. |
| 1:02.3 | They were on television the day after the conviction was overturned and said that they have new information about third parties and potential motives, things that were not in existence |
| 1:13.6 | in trial number one. If we go down the third party road, who are we talking about and why, I guess, |
| 1:21.6 | would be the question. Your thoughts in the comment section as we work through this, I'd love to get your reactions if you think we're going to see a third-party argument made here, |
| 1:32.9 | meaning somebody else did this other than Alec. |
| 1:36.8 | I'd be very curious for everybody's opinion on where that is, in fact, going to land. |
| 1:44.2 | One of the things that I know Blanca Simpson had said |
| 1:48.9 | that essentially she thought there was a plan A and a plan B that night, |
| 1:55.4 | plan A might have been that there was somebody else possibly involved in this. |
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