Alex Murdaugh: The First Statement That Night Said Someone Else Was Driving

Before the murders at Moselle, before the 911 call, before any of it — there was a pattern. And James Lasdun's new book The Family Man traces it through original interviews and evidence that never made it into the trial.

The night of the boat crash that killed Mallory Beach, Alex Murdaugh was already running the playbook. He showed up at the hospital and started working the hallways — trying to get into rooms where passengers were being treated, cornering Connor Cook and telling him to keep quiet, attempting to reach Morgan Doughty even after she begged nurses to keep him...