Blood on Their Hands
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Publisher Description
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.
When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family’s teenage son Paul, 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 saga, an empathetic work of investigative journalism, and an excoriation of the “good old boy” systems that enabled a network of criminals.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This may not be the true-crime book you expect, but it’s a fascinating, deeply personal story. In 2021, Alex Murdaugh—a rural South Carolina lawyer from a prominent family—was charged with the murders of his wife and 22-year-old son. Local journalist Mandy Matney had been investigating Murdaugh for years before the murders, uncovering evidence of embezzlement, drug dealing, and even other possible murders, and in the wake of the new crime, she created the popular Murdaugh Murders Podcast to detail her findings. Rather than rehash the family’s scandals, Blood on Their Hands explores Matney’s process as an investigative reporter doggedly chasing down leads in spite of many obstacles. Harassed by corrupt local cops, stymied by newsroom sexism, and targeted by online trolls, Matney also goes deep on the toll the Murdaugh story took on her mental health, and her narration is alternately steely and intensely emotional. This audiobook reveals how personal true-crime stories can become.
