Inside the toxic Murdaugh family dynasty of money, murder and mayhem
The mystery of the Murdaugh murders has exploded into a Netflix-ready Southern Gothic thriller that’s part Grisham, part Faulkner, with more than a dash of Capote’s “In Cold Blood.”
The untouchable family ran the prosecutor’s offices in the five counties that make up the Lowcountry while also, incredibly, operating a powerhouse litigation firm, Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick, with tentacles in the highest echelons of the red state — despite being Democrats.
The story also features an apparently deranged heir in Paul Murdaugh, who allegedly had a dangerous alter ego — called “Timmy” by friends — when he drank.
After the murder of two members of the powerful Murdaugh clan shocked the tiny town of Islandton, SC, locals reveal alleged cover-ups and corruption, and their theories on whodunit.
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In Murdaugh Family Scandal, Tiny South Carolina Town Shaken.
The influential Murdaugh family is at the center of an unfolding drama in the tiny South Carolina town of Hampton.
HAMPTON, S.C. (AP) — Ask any of the 2,600 residents in this South Carolina town whether they know Alex Murdaugh, and you’ll probably get a quick nod. Nearly everyone does in Hampton, a tiny place where every road in has just two lanes.
For the past century, the Murdaughs have steered much of the legal world in this remote corner of South Carolina — north of Savannah, Georgia, and far from the interstate or just about anything else. Running the prosecutor’s office and a large civil law firm allowed the Murdaughs to do it quietly, until recently.
Murdaugh’s wife, Maggie, and son Paul were killed June 7, shot multiple times at the family’s sprawling estate. No one's been arrested in their deaths, which brought scrutiny into every nook of Murdaugh's life.
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