Alex Murdaugh’s older brother is convinced the convicted murderer remains to be lying over the brutal slayings of his wife and son.
“He knows greater than what he’s saying,” Randy Murdaugh, 56, told The Recent York Times of his drug-addicted, serial-lying brother who still denies gunning down wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22.
“He’s not telling the reality, in my view, about the whole lot there.”
Randy’s admission is in sharp contrast to a claim by his 54-year-old brother’s defense team that the entire family was “more convinced” of the disgraced legal scion’s innocence after his six-week trial.
“The not knowing … is the worst thing there’s,” Randy said of his ongoing doubts about his brother, who’s serving two life sentences for the June 7, 2021, double murder.
Randy shared similar observations to Maggie’s sister, Marian Proctor, who testified how she found it “off” that Murdaugh “never talked about finding” the killer.
Randy also said he “spent considerable time, day after day for weeks on end, calling people” for any potential leads — while his brother did nothing.
Nonetheless, the distraught brother told the Times that he finds it not possible to picture his younger sibling with the ability to shoot his wife and blow the brains out of one in every of his two sons.
Randy said he now questions if he ever really knew his brother, given the torrent of outrageous lies he’s since admitted to — right as much as confessing on the stand that he’d lied for 20 months about being on the crime scene just before his wife and son’s murders.
Randy worked closely with Alex at their powerful, long-respected South Carolina family law firm — and confronted him months after the murders about stealing from the firm.
Alex admitted to embezzling tens of millions and blamed it on a serial addiction to painkillers, his brother said.
He also vowed to never again deceive his brother — a promise he broke inside a day, Randy said, when Alex told him he’d been shot on the side of a road in what he later admitted was a set-up for a life insurance scam.
Unlike their other siblings — younger brother John Marvin Murdaugh and sister Lynn Murdaugh Goettee — Randy didn’t attend on daily basis of the trial.
That was at the very least partially to cope with the damage his brother’s lies and thefts, Randy told the Times, detailing how he even appeared in a court to clear up his brother’s mess while he was on trial nearby.
He recalled how he’s forced to attempt to reassure clients by saying: “‘Listen, I’m not him. I’m doing things the precise way, at all times have.’”
Randy’s lengthy interview with the Times sharply contradicts the claim his brother’s attorney Jim Griffin made at a press conference.
“After six weeks of trial, [the Murdaugh family] got here away more convinced that he didn’t do that, they usually are steadfastly in his camp and support him,” Griffin claimed.
As a substitute, Randy has not spoken to his brother in nearly a 12 months — and stays tormented over the brutal murders.
“I hoped that after the trial, because there’s nothing more that may be presented, that I’d stop fascinated with this,” he said. “But up to now, that has not been the case.”
