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⚖️ MURDAUGH MURDERS & TRIAL THREAD ⚖️

Yep, that was all staged to influence an eventual jury.
Could be...

Alex stages attempted murder to blow smoke that he too was on the hit list, but Eddie was identified and brought in, forcing Alex to swoop in with the attempted suicide story to save Eddie from the higher charge of attempted murder and confessing to the earlier murders.

Dangerous, but makes more sense than the "attempted suicide" story and calling 911 per above.
 
I get how it logistically could happen, but you don't send millions of dollars out the door for anything that isn't know to the stake holders and why the money was being spent. It just doesn't work that way, particularly in that small of a firm.

Every managing partner is getting a monthly P&L and they will review the line item expenditures by account. there is no way to falsify these and not have help. The P&L has to reconcile back to the balance sheet which should be reconciled with bank balances. Someone would have to overlook massive discrepancies.

Every owner / partner / manager with P&L responsibility (if they are worth their salt) is going to review at a minimum the bottom line. They typically will also scan to compare expenditures month to month on a percentage basis to look for anomalies. It is one thing to move a few percentage points of total revenue each month, but it sounds like this guy was stealing big money.

The majority of service related companies spend money on people. Particularly a law firm, they don't buy goods (which are ripe for kick backs and other shenanigans). Their expenses are their people and consultants.

The man had help pulling this off. Someone knew and was either in on it or turned a blind eye.
I get how it logistically could happen, but you don't send millions of dollars out the door for anything that isn't know to the stake holders and why the money was being spent. It just doesn't work that way, particularly in that small of a firm.

Every managing partner is getting a monthly P&L and they will review the line item expenditures by account. there is no way to falsify these and not have help. The P&L has to reconcile back to the balance sheet which should be reconciled with bank balances. Someone would have to overlook massive discrepancies.

Every owner / partner / manager with P&L responsibility (if they are worth their salt) is going to review at a minimum the bottom line. They typically will also scan to compare expenditures month to month on a percentage basis to look for anomalies. It is one thing to move a few percentage points of total revenue each month, but it sounds like this guy was stealing big money.

The majority of service related companies spend money on people. Particularly a law firm, they don't buy goods (which are ripe for kick backs and other shenanigans). Their expenses are their people and consultants.

The man had help pulling this off. Someone knew and was either in on it or turned a blind eye.
Every owner / partner / manager with P&L responsibility

Isn’t Alex’s older brother one of these in the firm. It sure seems to me he has kept a very low profile while Alex has been, apparently, going crazy.
Any opinions on what involvement, if any, the brother (Randolph IV?) may have in this?
 
Anyome else thinking he doesn’t turn himself in but runs?
It would be par for the course if AM takes a boat to turn himself in. During the ride, the boat crashes, he's thrown from the boat. Unlike Mallory Beach, his body is never found. Since the death is accidental, Buster receives the $10m and AM escapes into obscurity. Presumed dead, but really alive.
 
I hope big red gets what he deserves. My best friend was dating Mallory Beach's sister at the time of the boating accident. He was talking sh*t to Paul and Paul responded "you're next." If I can find the message, I will gladly post it on here.
As an unofficial vigilante detective assigned to this case I had to do some sleuthing; obit indicates the sisters were married at the time of the accident.
 
Here’s Ole Eddie talking to the media.


BTW, it’s called a Red Herring. Has Alex not done this, they come and arrest him for embezzlement. This allows him to put together his story and present his defense publicly (which he did on the Today show) and turn himself in after “admitting guilt” to what amounts to a distraction from the main issue.

This guy was never going to off himself and will go as far as he needs to to be free.

Buster isn’t the only one living his life, Alex has been doing just fine.
 
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Here’s Ole Eddie talking to the media.


BTW, it’s called a Red Herring. Has Alex not done this, they come and arrest him for embezzlement. This allows him to put together his story and present his defense publicly (which he did on the Today show) and turn himself in after “admitting guilt” to what amounts to a distraction from the main issue.

This guy was never going to off himself and will go as far as he needs to to be free.

BTW, Buster isn’t the only one living his life, Alex has been doing just fine.
Dudes crazier than a rat in a tin shithouse.
 
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Here’s Ole Eddie talking to the media.


BTW, it’s called a Red Herring. Has Alex not done this, they come and arrest him for embezzlement. This allows him to put together his story and present his defense publicly (which he did on the Today show) and turn himself in after “admitting guilt” to what amounts to a distraction from the main issue.

This guy was never going to off himself and will go as far as he needs to to be free.

Buster isn’t the only one living his life, Alex has been doing just fine.
Did that dude just make a zombie sound? Crazy
 
Sorry to disappoint, but it was a snapchat message from 2019 and was not saved, sadly. My buddy follows Buster on instagram though and he's been living his normal life all summer. He was at a wedding just last week. Pretty crazy to me that he's just living a normal life through all of this.
Bet Buster's "normal" is waaaaayyyy different from ours.
 
Timeline

Updated working theory...

1. Alex has an opioid addiction, mistress, has been embezzling millions from his firm to support his lifestyle, and is broke.

2. Alex is tired of cleaning up after son Paul's long string of misery that includes brother's gay liaison, house keeper/nanny, and finally Mallory Beach, the last of which is about to result in the start of a wrongful death trial, which will include a catastrophic audit of his finances that will uncover his embezzling.

3. Alex is enjoying life with his mistress and over his wife. His wife is tired of the affair and about to file for divorce, which will also result in a financial audit. He also needs her life insurance proceeds since he is broke and probably being blackmailed.

4. Alex decides to kill two birds with one stone and hires a pair of hitmen including Eddie. The hitmen show up at his property at a designated time that allows Alex to have an ironclad alibi. One rounds up the son with a shotgun while the other rounds up the wife with a rifle and takes her phone away while doing so. Both are brought to the kennel area and shot twice. The phone is tossed out of the car window down the road after leaving the property. Alex "discovers" the bodies an hour later.

5. Three months later SLED uncovers the financial anomalies (or something else damning for Alex) and reports them to the firm and solicitor. The solicitor then publicly recuses himself due to his relationship with Alex since Alex now being accused, and not just a victim or witness.

6. Alex believes that he is close to being arrested and decides to throw up a smoke screen that he is also on the family hit list. He reaches out to Eddie to help stage a fake hit attempt that will allow Alex to help maintain his innocence and avoid implicating Eddie for the earlier murders. (Why doesn't Eddie just really kill Alex instead of faking it? Maybe he tried). Alex is grazed or actually hit in the head by the bullet fired by Eddie and calls 911.

7. Alex issues vague apology and heads into rehab.

8. SLED is able to identify Eddie from the church camera video (or other means) and brings Eddie in.

9. Alex finds out that Eddie has been discovered and calls SLED with the suicide confession to keep a lid on Eddie.

10. SLED arrests Eddie based on the assisted suicide story and later issues the charges against Alex too.

11. SLED also adds to the growing list of reopened cases by reopening the House Keeper death. The death had been ruled an accident without a coroner investigating, and Alex had settled a wrongful death suit with the house keeper's family, but did not yet pay any of the $500,000 settlement that was agreed to and provided by his insurance company. This means that all of the earlier deaths as well as the embezzlement are now being investigated by SLED.

12. Alex has now turned himself in and is in custody. Doesn't appear to be showing any signs of an injury from the news video.

13. Eddie appears in court and doesn't appear to be going along with the story.

14. Still not confident in the entire theory, and shaking my head wondering what could be next in this crazy saga...
 
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Big Red doesn’t exactly sound manly, comes across as a tad sweet and sassy. Bold prediction, some homosexual twist beyond Buster and his deceased love boy wil enter this situation at some point.
 
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Here’s Ole Eddie talking to the media.


BTW, it’s called a Red Herring. Has Alex not done this, they come and arrest him for embezzlement. This allows him to put together his story and present his defense publicly (which he did on the Today show) and turn himself in after “admitting guilt” to what amounts to a distraction from the main issue.

This guy was never going to off himself and will go as far as he needs to to be free.

Buster isn’t the only one living his life, Alex has been doing just fine.
Completely off his rocker. This story is soooooooooo insane.
 
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Well, I’ll give AM credit, he found a full scale meth addict/crack head to help. No way in hell police gonna get shit from him.
 
Eddie's body language shaking his head seems to indicate that he does not agree with the assisted suicide charge. Also says around the 9m mark that "this is all bogus and made up crap anyway". Going to get interesting...

Total bond set at $55K.

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And don't even see a Bandaid on Alex's head

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But but but his lawyer said he had an entry and exit wound in his skull.
 
3 years on Tiger Illustrated, couple hundred $$ spent and this non-football thread is by far my favorite.


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Let's not forget about @appalachiatiger thread. It wasn't to shabby either.
oh yeah - the Darcy saga thread was epic.
 
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Eddie's body language shaking his head seems to indicate that he does not agree with the assisted suicide charge. Also says around the 9m mark that "this is all bogus and made up crap anyway". Going to get interesting...

Total bond set at $55K.

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And don't even see a Bandaid on Alex's head

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He really should be wearing a mask going into that jail.
 
Timeline

Updated working theory...

1. Alex has an opioid addiction, mistress, has been embezzling millions from his firm to support his lifestyle, and is broke.

2. Alex is tired of cleaning up after son Paul's long string of misery that includes brother's gay liaison, house keeper/nanny, and finally Mallory Beach, the last of which is about to result in the start of a wrongful death trial, which will include a catastrophic audit of his finances that will uncover his embezzling.

3. Alex is enjoying life with his mistress and over his wife. His wife is tired of the affair and about to file for divorce, which will also result in a financial audit. He also needs her life insurance proceeds since he is broke and probably being blackmailed.

4. Alex decides to kill two birds with one stone and hires a pair of hitmen including Eddie. The hitmen show up at his property at a designated time that allows Alex to have an ironclad alibi. One rounds up the son with a shotgun while the other rounds up the wife with a rifle and takes her phone away while doing so. Both are brought to the kennel area and shot twice. The phone is tossed out of the car window down the road after leaving the property. Alex "discovers" the bodies an hour later.

5. Three months later SLED uncovers the financial anomalies (or something else damning for Alex) and reports them to the firm and solicitor. The solicitor then publicly recuses himself due to his relationship with Alex since Alex now being accused, and not just a victim or witness.

6. Alex believes that he is close to being arrested and decides to throw up a smoke screen that he is also on the family hit list. He reaches out to Eddie to help stage a fake hit attempt that will allow Alex to help maintain his innocence and avoid implicating Eddie for the earlier murders. (Why doesn't Eddie just really kill Alex instead of faking it? Maybe he tried). Alex is grazed or actually hit in the head by the bullet fired by Eddie and calls 911.

7. Alex issues vague apology and heads into rehab.

8. SLED is able to identify Eddie from the church camera video (or other means) and brings Eddie in.

9. Alex finds out that Eddie has been discovered and calls SLED with the suicide confession to keep a lid on Eddie.

10. SLED arrests Eddie based on the assisted suicide story and later issues the charges against Alex too.

11. SLED also adds too the growing list of reopened cases by reopening the House Keeper death. The death had been ruled an accident without a coroner investigating, and Alex had settled a wrongful death suit with the house keeper's family, but did not yet pay any of the $500,000 settlement that was agreed to and provided by his insurance company. This means that all of the earlier deaths as well as the embezzlement are now being investigated by SLED.

11. Alex has now turned himself in and is in custody.

12. Still not confident in the entire theory, and shaking my head wondering what could be next in this crazy saga...
What is absolutely insane is that this won't even scratch the surface of the crazy shit that has been going on IF we ever hear the full details of the investigation. There are a LOT of people around the state (particularly in the legal world) that will be implicated.
 
What is absolutely insane is that this won't even scratch the surface of the crazy shit that has been going on IF we ever hear the full details of the investigation. There are a LOT of people around the state (particularly in the legal world) that will be implicated.
And SLED appears to be all over it, including the firm's forensic audit. And with the extremely intense public interest, there will be a lot more to come out.
 
What is absolutely insane is that this won't even scratch the surface of the crazy shit that has been going on IF we ever hear the full details of the investigation. There are a LOT of people around the state (particularly in the legal world) that will be implicated.
My line of thinking as well.
 
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Updated working theory...

1. Alex has an opioid addiction, mistress, has been embezzling millions from his firm to support his lifestyle, and is broke.

2. Alex is tired of cleaning up after son Paul's long string of misery that includes brother's gay liaison, house keeper/nanny, and finally Mallory Beach, the last of which is about to result in the start of a wrongful death trial, which will include a catastrophic audit of his finances that will uncover his embezzling.

3. Alex is enjoying life with his mistress and over his wife. His wife is tired of the affair and about to file for divorce, which will also result in a financial audit. He also needs her life insurance proceeds since he is broke and probably being blackmailed.

4. Alex decides to kill two birds with one stone and hires a pair of hitmen including Eddie. The hitmen show up at his property at a designated time that allows Alex to have an ironclad alibi. One rounds up the son with a shotgun while the other rounds up the wife with a rifle and takes her phone away while doing so. Both are brought to the kennel area and shot twice. The phone is tossed out of the car window down the road after leaving the property. Alex "discovers" the bodies an hour later.

5. Three months later SLED uncovers the financial anomalies (or something else damning for Alex) and reports them to the firm and solicitor. The solicitor then publicly recuses himself due to his relationship with Alex since Alex now being accused, and not just a victim or witness.

6. Alex believes that he is close to being arrested and decides to throw up a smoke screen that he is also on the family hit list. He reaches out to Eddie to help stage a fake hit attempt that will allow Alex to help maintain his innocence and avoid implicating Eddie for the earlier murders. (Why doesn't Eddie just really kill Alex instead of faking it? Maybe he tried). Alex is grazed or actually hit in the head by the bullet fired by Eddie and calls 911.

7. Alex issues vague apology and heads into rehab.

8. SLED is able to identify Eddie from the church camera video (or other means) and brings Eddie in.

9. Alex finds out that Eddie has been discovered and calls SLED with the suicide confession to keep a lid on Eddie.

10. SLED arrests Eddie based on the assisted suicide story and later issues the charges against Alex too.

11. SLED also adds too the growing list of reopened cases by reopening the House Keeper death. The death had been ruled an accident without a coroner investigating, and Alex had settled a wrongful death suit with the house keeper's family, but did not yet pay any of the $500,000 settlement that was agreed to and provided by his insurance company. This means that all of the earlier deaths as well as the embezzlement are now being investigated by SLED.

12. Alex has now turned himself in and is in custody. Doesn't appear to be showing any signs of an injury from the news video.

13. Eddie appears in court and doesn't appear to be going along with the story.

14. Still not confident in the entire theory, and shaking my head wondering what could be next in this crazy saga...
Most of this I can buy but why two hit men? That would only serve to make it that much more risky. Why bring in someone else that can finger you or cause trouble when one (assuming competency) could handle it all? And after watching that clip, there's no way I'd trust Eddie with anything.
 
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Updated working theory...

1. Alex has an opioid addiction, mistress, has been embezzling millions from his firm to support his lifestyle, and is broke.

2. Alex is tired of cleaning up after son Paul's long string of misery that includes brother's gay liaison, house keeper/nanny, and finally Mallory Beach, the last of which is about to result in the start of a wrongful death trial, which will include a catastrophic audit of his finances that will uncover his embezzling.

3. Alex is enjoying life with his mistress and over his wife. His wife is tired of the affair and about to file for divorce, which will also result in a financial audit. He also needs her life insurance proceeds since he is broke and probably being blackmailed.

4. Alex decides to kill two birds with one stone and hires a pair of hitmen including Eddie. The hitmen show up at his property at a designated time that allows Alex to have an ironclad alibi. One rounds up the son with a shotgun while the other rounds up the wife with a rifle and takes her phone away while doing so. Both are brought to the kennel area and shot twice. The phone is tossed out of the car window down the road after leaving the property. Alex "discovers" the bodies an hour later.

5. Three months later SLED uncovers the financial anomalies (or something else damning for Alex) and reports them to the firm and solicitor. The solicitor then publicly recuses himself due to his relationship with Alex since Alex now being accused, and not just a victim or witness.

6. Alex believes that he is close to being arrested and decides to throw up a smoke screen that he is also on the family hit list. He reaches out to Eddie to help stage a fake hit attempt that will allow Alex to help maintain his innocence and avoid implicating Eddie for the earlier murders. (Why doesn't Eddie just really kill Alex instead of faking it? Maybe he tried). Alex is grazed or actually hit in the head by the bullet fired by Eddie and calls 911.

7. Alex issues vague apology and heads into rehab.

8. SLED is able to identify Eddie from the church camera video (or other means) and brings Eddie in.

9. Alex finds out that Eddie has been discovered and calls SLED with the suicide confession to keep a lid on Eddie.

10. SLED arrests Eddie based on the assisted suicide story and later issues the charges against Alex too.

11. SLED also adds too the growing list of reopened cases by reopening the House Keeper death. The death had been ruled an accident without a coroner investigating, and Alex had settled a wrongful death suit with the house keeper's family, but did not yet pay any of the $500,000 settlement that was agreed to and provided by his insurance company. This means that all of the earlier deaths as well as the embezzlement are now being investigated by SLED.

12. Alex has now turned himself in and is in custody. Doesn't appear to be showing any signs of an injury from the news video.

13. Eddie appears in court and doesn't appear to be going along with the story.

14. Still not confident in the entire theory, and shaking my head wondering what could be next in this crazy saga...
Admire your determination. I'm obsessed, but not quite this focused. Good on ya man. The truly obsessed among us appreciate you.
 
Most of this I can buy but why two hit men? That would only serve to make it that much more risky. Why bring in someone else that can finger you or cause trouble when one (assuming competency) could handle it all?
Two different guns. Seems like they would have both been shot by the same gun if it was just one shooter.
 
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