Alex Murdaugh Wrote a Check to a Cop — Nobody Can Explain Why

A new book is reframing everything about the Murdaugh case — and it starts with the patterns nobody was paying attention to.

James Lasdun's The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh spent years tracing Alex's behavior through original interviews and evidence that never made it to trial. The picture it paints isn't of a man who snapped. It's of a man who had been rehearsing.

The book reveals that the night of the boat crash — years before the murders — Alex showed up at the hospital and immediately began trying to control the narrative. He tried to get into Morgan Doughty's room even after she told nurses to keep him out. He cornered Connor Cook and told him to keep his mouth shut. Morgan's first written statement that night said Connor was driving when the boat hit the bridge. That story was rewritten the next day.

After the staged roadside shooting months after the murders, Alex sat with a sketch artist and helped produce a composite that resembled Anthony Cook — a boat crash survivor. He had a bullet wound in his head and was still framing people.

Lasdun also uncovered a $5,000 backdated check to a police chief who was at the Moselle crime scene, connections to a business with drug-smuggling ties, and evidence the state agency investigating the case told conflicting stories about where key evidence was found.

Part 1 of a three-part interview. The blueprint was hiding in plain sight.

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