Alex Murdaugh's lawyers said another man failed a lie detector test over Paul and Maggie's deaths.

New court documents identify another suspect in Alex Murdaugh's wife and son's murders.

Attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin alleged in a motion to compel filed on Friday that Curtis "Fast Eddie" Smith failed a lie detector test when asked about Alex's wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, who were found shot to death on the family's Colleton County hunting compound on June 7, 2021.

Smith was polygraphed in May, according to a court motion that requests prosecutors to turn over evidence.

Murdaugh's attorneys claim Smith's answers "suggested attempted dishonesty" when questioned if he killed Maggie or Paul or was present during the shootings.

The defense counsel have requested all data and records relating to the exam from the prosecution. They claim investigators turned a "blind eye" to evidence suggesting Smith was involved in the murders, focusing instead on Murdaugh. He pleaded innocent.

"The state is clearly turning a blind eye to the obvious, that Smith failed the polygraph when asked if he murdered Maggie and Paul"

Smith told South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) detectives before the polygraph he had an alibi for the night of the shootings.

According to court records obtained by FITS News, he said, "I wasn't near where Maggie and Paul were killed."

Smith told investigators he was "35 miles away" with Donna Eason and Steve Hudson and Kevin Salisbury.

Smith told the court, "I wasn't there" "Nobody can place me there, I wasn't there."

Murdaugh's attorneys claim investigators never interviewed Eason to corroborate Smith's alibi and only contacted his two friends two weeks after the interview, giving Smith time to obtain their assistance.

Harpootlian and Griffin argue in the motion that Smith called Hudson on May 17 and Salisbury on May 20 before investigators contacted either guy.

They also claimed that Smith "often brought cocaine to (the hunting camp) near the dog kennels where Maggie and Paul were slain" and that Maggie and Paul may have stumbled into a drug trade on their property the night they were killed.

Smith suggested another motive to investigators. He told a "detailed tale" about Maggie's affair with an unknown groundskeeper.

Maggie had a thing with the groundskeeper, whom I never met. Paul went down into one of the barns and captured him, then he got agitated, got his gun, and screamed and screaming at his mother, who was running away. He shot her in the ass and the bullet came out the top of her head, according to court documents. The groundskeeper got a shotgun from his truck.

Smith says the groundskeeper killed Paul and fled.

Harpootlian and Griffin said prosecutors prosecuted Murdaugh based on a "poor circumstantial case" and failed to explore alternative suspects.

When asked if he killed Maggie and Paul, Smith failed a polygraph, they wrote. "The Attorney General has stated that Smith will be a cooperating witness against Alex in the impending murder trial."

They also mentioned rumors regarding tangible evidence, including blood on Murdaugh's clothes. When he "frantically attended his wife's bloodied corpse," a "miniscule amount" of Maggie's blood got on his T-shirt, they said.

"The state's crime scene forensic evidence is insufficient to prove Alex shot Maggie, and it proves Alex didn't shoot Paul," Harpootlian and Griffin wrote.

They also claimed SLED didn't analyze Maggie and Paul's clothing to identify who killed whom.

Smith's lawyer Aimee Zmroczek rebutted the bombshell filing to WCSC.

Eddie is Alex Murdaugh's pawn. If SLED had any evidence, he would have been charged. She argued polygraphs aren't accepted since they're not accurate.

Harpootlian and Griffin also claimed prosecutors had not handed over all the evidence in the case. They asked authorities to turn over any agreement signed between the prosecution and Smith, as well as materials found during a search of Smith's home and cell phone.

Robert Kittle, attorney general's office communications director, told Oxygen.com that prosecutors will respond Monday.

"We've given the defense more than 750GB of data." No Brady material would be withheld, and the case will be tried in court, he added.

Smith and Murdaugh were indicted in June on money laundering and drug charges. Smith, who is in protective custody, is accused of aiding Murdaugh commit suicide last year.

Murdaugh is also accused of stealing money from his clients and legal practice as a lawyer. On $7 million bond.



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A man in Iowa has pleaded guilty to killing his wife after taking out loans without her permission.

In 2019, a guy in his 70s admitted to stabbing his 65-year-old wife to death after she discovered his financial deception.


According to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, on April 5, 2019, at around 7 a.m., Roy Browning called police to report that his wife, JoEllen Browning, was unresponsive at the couple's house. She had apparently been stabbed in the hand, as well as in the front and back of her torso.

The victim was murdered, as reported by the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Fingernail fragments reportedly contained DNA matching that of suspect Roy Browning.

KCCI-TV says that JoEllen Browning and her husband had an appointment with a bank on the day she was fatally stabbed.

JoEllen allegedly emailed her husband in April, asking him to contact their bank about some unusual activity in their account. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported that the banker the Brownings were scheduled to meet with intended to inform them that Roy had taken out high-interest loans in their joint name without JoEllen's knowledge and that money had been withdrawn from their joint account without her permission. It has been stated that JoEllen has a $2 million retirement and life insurance policy.

The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported that Roy pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder on Wednesday, October 12. He had previously pleaded not guilty in November 2019. According to reports, Roy may get up to 50 years in prison. According to court documents, he is still being held in the Johnson County Jail on $5 million bail despite having a sentencing date set for December 2.

According to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, JoEllen had been working as a health system administrator for the University of Iowa when she passed away.

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Raleigh, North Carolina has seen a mass shooting with 5 fatalities; a 15-year-old suspect is currently in custody.

A male juvenile, age 15, is in jail after he allegedly opened fire Thursday night, killing multiple individuals and a police officer.

Around 5:55 p.m. on Thursday, October 13, Raleigh Police Department issued a statement regarding an ongoing shooting investigation in the Neuse River Greenway area.

Five individuals were killed and two others were injured, Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin stated at a press conference on Thursday night. An off-duty officer from the Raleigh Police Department was among the dead, and a K-9 officer was apparently hurt.

As of 8 p.m., Raleigh Police reported that they had the subject under control, and he was subsequently arrested.

Additional information on the shooting was released by Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson on Friday, October 14. According to her, the suspect is a white male juvenile in severe condition who she named as the perpetrator.

During a press conference on Friday, Patterson stated, "My heart is heavy because we don't have answers as to why this tragedy occurred."

A "senseless gun crime," in her words, the shooting was also.

Nicole Connors, 52, Susan Karnatz, 49, Mary Marshall, 35, Raleigh Police Officer Gabriel Torres, 29, and a male juvenile, 16 years old, have all been confirmed dead. Marcille Gardner, 59, is in serious condition after suffering injuries.

Even though Torres was not on duty at the time, he was "on his way to work" when the incident occurred.

WTVD-TV reported that the injured cop was named Casey Joseph Clark. As Patterson explained, he was treated and then discharged from the hospital.

Patterson claims the crime scene was nearly two miles long and "expansive."

According to Patterson, the suspect and the police had a "long standoff" before he was captured. It was initially unclear whether or not the suspect had injured themselves.

A further look into the matter is still being conducted.