Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty [9780063269224]

Overview

The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney.

Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn’t right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them.

In this compelling true crime investigation, Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family’s teenage son Paul, and they began to uncover a web of mysteries surrounding the deaths of the Murdaughs’ long-time housekeeper and a young man found slain years earlier on a backcountry road. Just as their investigations were unfolding, the brutal double murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh rocketed Alex Murdaugh onto the international stage.

From the newsroom to the courtroom, to the kitchen-table studio where Mandy recorded her #1 Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Blood on Their Hands is a propulsive true crime memoir, an empathetic work of investigative journalism, and an excoriation of the "good old boy" systems that enabled a network of criminals.

This firsthand narrative from the journalist who was there from the start takes you inside the investigation:

• On-the-Ground Reporting: Follow Mandy Matney from her first instincts that something was wrong in the Lowcountry to the final verdict, based on years of meticulous sourcing and reporting.
• A Legacy of Corruption: Examine how the Murdaugh dynasty wielded absolute power for a century in rural South Carolina, silencing anyone who dared to stand in their way.
• A Web of Mysteries: Unravel the tangled connections between a fatal boat crash, the suspicious deaths of a housekeeper and a local teen, and the brutal double homicide that brought the family down.
• The Story Behind the #1 Podcast: Go behind the scenes of the hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, from its kitchen-table origins to its central role in breaking the case wide open.