I work in Hampton and the word going around has always been that Paul and the Smith boy had something going on. The Smith boy wanted to come out in the open with their relationship. The Smith boy left a baseball game and ran out of gas on the way home. Murdaugh saw his car parked on the side of the road and drove towards the boy's home, stuck a baseball bat out of the window and struck him in the head as they drove by. It was covered up because of who his family is. Then there was the boating accident in which one of the passengers was preparing to step up and say they were driving all for monetary compensation. It looked like he was about to get away with causing another death. It all looks like vigilante justice to me. Unfortunately for the mom, she was a witness that couldn't be left at the scene. I just don't understand why they shot the animals.