Why Has Buster Murdaugh Reportedly Stopped Visiting His Father Before Trial Two?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Someone close to Buster Murdaugh called Alex “a selfish, selfish old man” after the Supreme Court granted a retrial. That’s not the language of a family rallying behind a defendant. That’s the language of a family that’s done.
Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through listener questions about the distance between the 2023 family and the 2026 family. Buster testified for his father three years ago. Now he reportedly won’t visit him. The brothers who went on Good Morning America insisting Alex was innocent have gone quiet. And then there’s Maggie’s side—Marian Proctor testified in trial one that Alex never once talked about finding who killed his own wife and son.
Robin analyzes what three years of financial crime revelations do to family loyalty. The people who stood by Alex before the full picture emerged had to reckon with the scope of his deception afterward. Dozens of financial crime convictions. Stolen money from people the family knew. An entire legacy destroyed. Robin explains the behavioral pattern: the last people to let go are the ones who don’t come back.
Tony and Robin examine what the defense does when the witnesses who humanized Alex in round one become unavailable or hostile in round two.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Tiller's Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drink. |
| 0:07.8 | The South Carolina Supreme Court didn't just overturn Alec Murdoz conviction. |
| 0:11.9 | They told prosecutors the first trial went too far on financial crimes and not far enough on the actual evidence of murder. |
| 0:22.0 | We saw a lot of people testify in trial number one, including many a family member of |
| 0:27.8 | Alec Murdo. |
| 0:29.1 | Some for the defense, some for the prosecution, some for both, and being asked to give their side of the story and what they knew for for questioning |
| 0:42.0 | on both ends. It's going to be interesting here to see who's on the stand in Alec Murdoch |
| 0:48.0 | trial number two and where their allegiances lie as we move into into this. |
| 0:55.4 | And I want to throw this out there for everybody in the comments section who's watching right now. |
| 1:00.3 | And give me your thoughts. |
| 1:01.3 | Who do you think from the family of Alec Murdoch could be a very, very powerful witness, |
| 1:15.8 | either for the defense of Alec Mardaw in round two or for the prosecution. |
| 1:21.4 | I'm really wondering here, now that we've had three years to simmer on this, and if the stories are true that most of the family has pretty much distanced himself from Alec, not seeing him in jail, |
| 1:26.5 | not communicating, kind of like, almost |
| 1:28.6 | like he's dead in a way, or dead to them. A lot of them did testify in trial number one, |
| 1:37.1 | to them loving their brother, Alec, and that he could never have done something like this. |
| 1:43.2 | You know, time has changed. |
| 1:44.6 | Information gets processed differently over time. |
| 1:48.7 | And once you see the damage and the depravity of what Alec Murdoch did to several people, |
| 1:54.3 | it does make you wonder if there's going to be any of his brothers, |
| 1:58.9 | anybody else in that family, his own son that may have a different |
| 2:04.3 | tune this time, not that they're going to be adding information in that they didn't have the first |
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