My dad Alex is a psychopath, not a murderer

Publish date: 2024-07-22

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Buster Murdaugh’s not giving his father up — even if he’s basically calling him a psychopath.

In his first public statements since Alex Murdaugh’s arrest and conviction for the June 2021 murder of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, at their South Carolina estate, Buster insisted his father is innocent — and hinted that the real killer is still out there.

“I do not think that he could be affiliated with endangering my mother and brother,” Buster, 26, said in the upcoming three-part documentary, “The Fall of the House of Murdaugh” with FOX host Martha MacCallum on FOX Nation which airs Aug. 31.

“We have been here for a while now and that’s been my stance.”

He’s also afraid of the alleged killer who he says is still at large.

“I think I set myself up to be safe but yes, when I go to bed at night, I have a fear that there is somebody that is still out there,” Buster added.

But he didn’t flinch when MacCallum asked him if his dad was a psychopath.

Buster Murdaugh says he thinks his mother and brother’s killer is still at large — because he believes his father is innocent. Breaking his silence on a Fox Nation documentary, he says he 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) is speaking out to defend his father, saying he does not believe he is a killer. Facebook

“I’m not prepared to sit here and say that it encompasses him as a whole, but I certainly think there are characteristics where you look at the manipulation and the lies and the carrying out of that such, 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 gunned down his family members in an effort to cover up his theft, hoping that their deaths would buy him sympathy and time to figure out a plan, prosecutors argued.

Before the killings, state and federal investigators said, Murdaugh spent a decade bilking millions from clients who suffered debilitating injuries and who needed money for medical care.

Buster collapsed briefly at the end of his father’s murder trial. He sat through every day of testimony and is now breaking his silence about his father’s conviction. AP
Buster Murdaugh agreed with a Fox Nation interviewer that his convicted father might be a “psychopath.” But he says he does not believe he is a double murderer. AP
Alex Murdaugh in court during his trial on Aug. 29, 2022. Tracy Glantz/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images

Buster admitted, however, that he remains stumped by his father’s shocking confession on the witness stand during his double murder trial that he lied about not being down at the dog kennels at the family estate, Moselle, shortly before the murders occurred on June 7, 2021.

Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, were shot dead with two separate weapons at the estate dog kennels.

Prosecutors played footage from Paul’s phone at the murder trial that torpedoed Murdaugh’s longstanding claimthat he was not present at the scene where his wife and son were murdered.

A video taken by Paul minutes before he and his mother, Maggie, were killed near the family’s dog kennels reveals three voices

Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murdering his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, in February 2023 and is serving consecutive life sentences. Facebook

“I thought it was very odd,” Buster said. “I was very confused.”

Buster said his dad had “told everyone” that he was not at the kennels 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 the Murdaugh estate.

Smith’s mother, Sandy, has said for years she believes 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 regard,” Buster said in a documentary clip.

This was the bloody aftermath of Maggie and Paul’s deaths in the kennels, which a jury agreed was evidence that Alex Murdaugh had committed the murders. Colleton County Court
Murdaugh, 55, was convicted of gunning down his wife and son at the kennels on the family property. via REUTERS

“I don’t want to be rude here, but have you ever been accused of murdering somebody?” Buster asks MacCallum.

“Well, let me tell you, this is very, very, very, very, very, it’s a terrible thing to place on somebody with absolutely no fact. I mean, it has harmed my reputation. I mean, people perceive me as a murderer.”

Alex Murdaugh’s older brother said earlier this year that he thinks Alex is still lying about the brutal slayings of his wife and son.

Buster (center) is defending his father despite his conviction for murdering his mom, but the wider Murdaugh family is not united. Alex’s brother Randy believes that Alex knows more than he has said. Facebook

“He knows more than what 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 is in sharp contrast to a claim by his 55-year-old brother’s defense team that the whole family was “more convinced” of the disgraced legal scion’s innocence after his six-week trial.

“The not knowing … is the worst thing there is,” Randy said.

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.

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