Alex Murdaugh: The Book That Exposes What the Trial Couldn't

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · May 15, 2026 · 1h 4m

James Lasdun spent years investigating the Murdaugh case for The New Yorker and his book The Family Man. This interview covers it all — the manipulation patterns that started long before the murders, the evidence that was kept from the jury, and the psychology that finally explains how a father kills his own family.The book reveals that the boat crash narrative may have been built after the fact, traces Alex's staging and framing patterns through the hospital and the roadside shooting, and uncovers a backdated check to a police chief who was at the crime scene.It surfaces calls with men with…