The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

by Valerie Bauerlein

For most of a century, from 1920 to 2006, a Murdaugh held the local prosecutor's office in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Bauerlein traces four generations of that power down to an heir whose theft from clients and opioid addiction went unchecked for years, through the June 2021 shootings of his wife Maggie and son Paul to the trial she attended.