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    Murdaughs, murder and the birth of TV’s newest true-crime sensation

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Feb 22, 2023 7 minutes
    Alex Murdaugh listens to testimony during his double-murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, on Feb. 10, 2023.

    Pat Conroy. Truman Capote. John Grisham. Shakespeare.

    The epic downfall of Alex Murdaugh, the once-mighty South Carolina attorney currently on trial for the brutal double murder of his wife and son and implicated in numerous other crimes, has prompted a slew of literary comparisons — none of which quite capture the full scope of this twisted saga.

    A Southern Gothic tale of greed and deceit, it has also become the country’s latest true-crime obsession. Hundreds of thousands of people tune in to daily livestreams of the trial, being held in the small town of Walterboro, South Carolina.

    The televised proceedings have helped fuel an already thriving Murdaugh cottage industry. There’s a top-rated podcast, “Murdaugh Murders,” created by Mandy Matney, a tenacious local reporter who broke many of the crucial stories in the case.

    There are also specials on “Dateline,” “48 Hours” and “20/20”; a 7,000-word New Yorker deep dive; and docuseries from HBO Max (“Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty”) and Discovery+ (“Murdaugh Murders: Deadly Dynasty”). This week, as the trial stretches into its second month with the outcome far from certain, Netflix enters the fray with “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal,” a three-part docuseries.

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