I wonder if there is a connection between Alec consistently stating he would never HURT Maggie or Paul, and Randy’s carefully saying he knows Alec knows more than he is saying about “what happened” June 7. My interest is in how they are both circling outside saying “murder.”
Here’s interesting part from article:
Over the next several months, as Alex Murdaugh was charged with stealing more than $8 million from the law firm and clients, Randy said he came to see his brother as a deeply flawed man and a liar. They have not spoken in nearly a year.
Randy said he also began to think back on Alex’s behavior in the first few weeks after the murders. At the time, it seemed like the police had few leads, and Randy began to call just about everyone he thought might help, asking if they had heard anything to suggest why Maggie and Paul might have been targeted. He passed on whatever he heard to the police.
“I spent considerable time, day after day for weeks on end, calling people,” he said. But Alex, he said, never did. Maggie’s sister testified at trial to the same effect,
saying she found it odd that Alex never talked about who might have been the killer. He did tell her, she said, that he imagined whoever had done so had “thought about it for a long time.”
After Alex Murdaugh’s trial ended in a conviction for the murders of his wife and son, his older brother Randy is still trying to understand what happened that night.
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HAMPTON, S.C. — On the surface, the lives of Alex Murdaugh and his older brother Randy appeared to follow the same track: They were born two years apart, both went to the University of South Carolina for college and law school, and then the two worked as partners at the family firm that had grown out of the century-old law practice founded by their great-grandfather.
But even in college, it was clear they were different. Alex was briefly on the football team and a regular at college parties; Randy, a self-described “hometown boy,” would go back home to Hampton every weekend to hunt and fish. In recent years, their offices were close enough that Randy could hear his brother’s constant phone calls, but they rarely spent any time alone together.
“It’s not like there was some problem with our relationship, necessarily,” Randy Murdaugh said. “We just really weren’t alike, so we didn’t do stuff together.”