The Murdaugh murders shook South Carolina’s Lowcountry—an influential family, a double homicide, and a tangled web of power, corruption, and crime. When Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found murdered on their family estate in 2021, suspicion soon turned toward Alex Murdaugh, the family’s powerful patriarch. What followed was a shocking unraveling: financial crimes, staged shootings, decades of cover-ups, and a trial that exposed the dark underbelly of privilege.