A Murdaugh Murder Mystery? Part 3 — The Text Alex Never Answered Said This

Alex Murdaugh got a text at twelve minutes to eight the morning after his wife and son were killed, and he never answered it. It came from Curtis "Eddie" Smith, the cousin Alex had written checks to for years. Three more followed that day. The messages stayed in his phone until a South Carolina news site published them in July of 2025, and they had not been on the timeline a SLED agent gave the 2023 jury. Dick Harpootlian said the defense did not know they existed. Part 3 of the Murdaugh murder mystery asks what the defense's suspect list actually contains. Jim Griffin announced it on national television in May of 2026, and the filings since have not named a person on it. The record keeps a list of its own, and every name on it collides with the twenty months Alex spent saying he was never at the kennels.

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