With a legal dynasty that spans three generations, the Murdaugh family has ruled South Carolina’s low country for the past 100 years. But in the course of just a few months, the wealthy clan has been rocked by death and scandal. They have, they said in a statement, “suffered through more than any one family could ever imagine.”
The details are like something out of a Southern Gothic-style mystery. On Sept. 4, Alex Murdaugh, 53, called 911 to report he’d been shot while changing a tire on the side of the road — two months after his wife, Margaret, 52, and their youngest son, Paul, 22, were gunned down at the family’s rural hunting lodge. “I see words used like dynasty and power,” Alex’s brother, Randy, said after the murders.…
