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How Is C.B. Rowe Connected to the Murdaugh Murders?

How is C.B. Rowe connected to the Murdaugh murders? Alex Murdaugh brought him up in a police interview the evening of the murders. Here's what we all know.

Jennifer Tisdale - Author

The day Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were brutally murdered, Alex Murdaugh texted a number of folks and made quite a lot of calls. One of the folks he engaged with is a person via the title of C.B. Rowe.

Later that night time whilst being interviewed through police upon finding the our bodies of his wife Maggie and son Paul, Murdaugh would carry up Rowe as a possible suspect.

Here's what we learn about his connection to the Murdaugh murders.

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Who is C.B. Rowe and what does he have to do with the Murdaugh murders?

In a nearly 35 minute video bought by News 19 WLTX, Murdaugh spent more or less five mins talking about Rowe to police. When requested who may have focused his family, Murdaugh thought of a atypical story he told Paul mere days sooner than his death.

Sitting in a police automotive crying sporadically, he managed to squeak out that Rowe used to be hired as a groundskeeper however wasn't "cutting the mustard."

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For about "three or four pay periods," Rowe helped care for the large swath of land the Murdaugh's owned although he wasn't very good at his process.

He had recently killed the sunflower seeds in the Murdaugh's dove box so Paul used to be tasked with helping him out. Murdaugh claims Rowe shared a worrying tale with his son.

According to Rowe, he used to be recruited by the F.B.I. whilst in high school.

Evidently most effective days ahead of his homicide, Rowe informed Paul a few time when he was once in highschool in which he "got in a fight with some Black guys." This scuffle was observed by a gaggle of "F.B.I. undercover guys" who then "put him [Rowe] on an undercover team with three Navy Seals."

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Apparently the sole process of this staff was once to kill radical contributors of the Black Panthers they usually did this "Myrtle Beach to Savannah." Murdaugh assured government he did not in point of fact think this guy killed Maggie and Paul but he used to be fast to carry him up as an option.

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Both police and Murdaugh mentioned that it was somewhat of a tall story however Murdaugh doubled down by way of allowing them to know Rowe used to be off the day of the murders.

Earlier that day Murdaugh and Rowe spoke in brief on the phone after Murdaugh texted him about the sunflower seeds. The conversation they had was once described as "normal" via Murdaugh who mentioned again, they just mentioned the sunflower seeds.

"I do think him and Paul got along pretty well," Murdaugh added. "That's just really really weird."

Despite mentioning Rowe, Murdaugh doesn't believe he murdered someone.

Once again Murdaugh insisted that he does not consider Rowe in truth killed his spouse and son but he knows the police have to "check it out." For Murdaugh, it was also worth citing because "Paul was so taken aback by it...he recorded him [Rowe] saying bits and pieces of it."

Evidently, Paul sent this recording to his father. "But for all his weirdness, I do think they got along," stated Murdaugh to the officer interviewing him.

As far as Rowe being concerned, he never testified at the trial and his identify used to be handiest mentioned in reference to his communication with Murdaugh on the day of the murders.

While attesting, FBI special agent Matthew Wilde instructed prosecutor John Conrad that Rowe's phone wasn't in the area of the Murdaugh house around the time the murders had been committed, per Fox News.

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