A mother’s experience in the South Carolina low country exposes corruption not limited to the Murdaugh family.
Lee Granade considers herself an accidental investigator of SC corruption. Through a lengthy custody battle with her well-connected ex-husband, Lee reports that a carefully curated infrastructure still exists, despite the recent double murder conviction of affluent native son and disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh.
When the Hilton Head Island home she still owned with her ex-spouse was inexplicably destroyed by fire in 2020, local law enforcement refused to investigate or allow an investigation by state agency. Similarly, when insurance documents exposed that Lee should have been paid as a joint owner of the home, Lee gave the evidence of insurance fraud to authorities only to become more familiar with how ‘selective enforcement’ works for those with connections.
The Solicitor, equivalent to the DA in that region, was supported by Alex Murdaugh’s father upon his retirement in 2006; Solicitor Duffie Stone has routinely stonewalled Lee in her plight to receive an investigation of the house fire that nearly killed her son. Curious, frustrated, and familiar with reports of how public officials can be bribed, Lee began researching the Stones’ mortgages.
Shortly after the June 2021 double murder of Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son and during the time when Stone insisted that he should retain prosecutorial authority for the murders, there were several sizable changes to Stone’s mortgages that raised eyebrows. Then just after the payments, in an abrupt about-face, Stone recused himself and a strained relationship between the two families became evident.
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