Buster Murdaugh didn’t give up on his father — even though he basically called him a psychopath.
In his first public statement since Alex Murdaugh was arrested and convicted of the June 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and his youngest son, Paul, on their South Carolina farm, Buster insisted his father was innocent — and hinted that the real killer was still out there. over there.
“I don’t think he can be associated with harming my mother and my brother,” Buster, 26, said in an upcoming three-part documentary, “The Fall of the House of Murdaugh” with FOX host Martha MacCallum that aired on FOX Nation. August 31st.
“We’ve been here for a while now and that’s where I stand.”
He is also afraid of the killer he says is still on the loose.
“I think I’m ready to be safe but yeah, when I go to sleep at night, I have the fear that there’s someone still out there,” added Buster.
But she doesn’t budge when MacCallum asks her if her father is a psychopath.
Buster Murdaugh says he thinks the killers of his mother and brother are still free — because he believes his father is innocent. Breaking her silence on the Fox Nation documentary, she says she lives in fear.FOX
Alex Murdaugh is serving two life sentences for the murders of his son Paul (left) and wife, Maggie. But Buster Murdaugh (right) has spoken out to defend his father, saying he does not believe he is a murderer. Facebook
“I’m not ready to sit here and say that it encompasses him as a whole, but I certainly think there are characteristics where you see manipulation and lying and carrying that out, and I think that’s a fair assessment,” Buster said.
Murdaugh was convicted in February and is serving two life sentences in a South Carolina state prison.
Murdaugh shot dead his family members in an attempt to cover up his theft, hoping their deaths would give him sympathy and time to think of a plan, prosecutors argued.
Before the murders, state and federal investigators said Murdaugh spent a decade bilking millions from clients who suffered debilitating injuries and who needed money for medical treatment.
Buster collapses for a moment at the end of his father’s murder trial. He lives every day of testimony and now breaks his silence about his father’s conviction.AP
Buster Murdaugh agreed with a Fox Nation interviewer that his convicted father may be a “psychopath.” But he said he did not believe he was a double murderer.AP
Alex Murdaugh in court during his trial on August 29, 2022. Tracy Glantz/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Buster admits, however, that he remains shocked by his father’s shocking admission on the witness stand during his double-murder trial that he lied about not being in the kennel on the family farm, Moselle, shortly before the murders took place on June 7, 2021.
Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, were shot dead with two separate guns in the estate’s kennel.
Prosecutors played recordings from Paul’s phone at the murder trial that complicated Murdaugh’s long-standing claim that he was not present at the scene where his wife and son were killed.
A video taken by Paul minutes before he and his mother, Maggie, were killed near the family’s dog kennel revealed three voices
Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murdering his wife, Maggie, and his youngest son, Paul, in February 2023 and is serving consecutive life sentences.Facebook
“I thought it was very odd,” said Buster. “I am very confused.”
Buster said his dad had “told everyone” that he wasn’t at the kennel that night.
Buster also said he had nothing to do with the 2015 death of his high school classmate Stephen Smith, a 19-year-old gay man whose body was found on a rural road a few miles from Murdaugh’s farm.
Smith’s mother, Sandy, has said for years she believed the Murdaugh family was somehow involved in his death.
“I never had anything to do with his murder, and I never had anything to do with him on a physical level in any way,” Buster said in the documentary clip.
It was the bloodstains after the deaths of Maggie and Paul in the kennel, which the jury accepted as evidence that Alex Murdaugh had committed the murders. Colleton County Courthouse
Murdaugh, 55, was convicted of shooting dead his wife and son in a barn on the family property. via REUTERS
“I don’t mean to be rude here, but have you ever been accused of murdering someone?” Buster asked MacCallum.
“Well, let me tell you, this is very, very, very, very, very, it’s a horrible thing to put on someone without any facts at all. I mean, it has affected my reputation. I mean, people think of me as a murderer.”
Alex Murdaugh’s older brother said earlier this year that he thinks Alex is still lying about the brutal murders of his wife and child.
Buster (centre) defends his father despite being convicted of murdering his mother, but the wider Murdaugh family is not united. Alex’s brother Randy believes that Alex knows more than he is saying.Facebook
“He knows more than he’s saying,” Randy Murdaugh, 56, told the New York Times.
“He’s not telling the truth, in my opinion, about everything there.”
Randy’s admission was in contrast to claims by his 55-year-old brother’s defense team that the entire family was “more confident” of the disgraced in-law’s innocence after a six-week trial.
“Not knowing … is the worst thing,” Randy said.
Randy shared a similar observation with Maggie’s sister, Marian Proctor, who testified how she discovered that Murdaugh “never talked about finding” the killer.
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