Alex Murdaugh Wrote a Check to a Cop — Nobody Can Explain Why

A new book is reframing everything about the Murdaugh case — and it starts with the patterns nobody was paying attention to.

James Lasdun's The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh spent years tracing Alex's behavior through original interviews and evidence that never made it to trial. The picture it paints isn't of a man who snapped. It's of a man who had been rehearsing.

The book reveals that the night of the boat crash — years before the murders — Alex showed up at the hospital and immediately began trying to control the narrat...