Blood on Their Hands
Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
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- USD 9.99
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- USD 9.99
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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.
In this compelling true crime investigation, Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family’s teenage son Paul, and 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 memoir, an empathetic work of investigative journalism, and an excoriation of the "good old boy" systems that enabled a network of criminals.
This firsthand narrative from the journalist who was there from the start takes you inside the investigation:
On-the-Ground Reporting: Follow Mandy Matney from her first instincts that something was wrong in the Lowcountry to the final verdict, based on years of meticulous sourcing and reporting.A Legacy of Corruption: Examine how the Murdaugh dynasty wielded absolute power for a century in rural South Carolina, silencing anyone who dared to stand in their way.A Web of Mysteries: Unravel the tangled connections between a fatal boat crash, the suspicious deaths of a housekeeper and a local teen, and the brutal double homicide that brought the family down.The Story Behind the #1 Podcast: Go behind the scenes of the hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, from its kitchen-table origins to its central role in breaking the case wide open.
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Murdaugh Murders podcaster Matney details her experiences covering South Carolina's infamous Murdaugh family in this propulsive memoir cowritten with New York Magazine editor Murnick. In only her second journalism job, at South Carolina's Island Packet, Matney was plunged into the Murdaugh story in the wake of Paul Murdaugh's deadly 2019 boating accident. As she dug into the accident, Matney discovered hints of much deeper, longer-running transgressions, and spent years researching records and cultivating sources to piece together the links between Paul's father, Alex Murdaugh, and a series of mysterious deaths and financial wrongdoings. Fighting overly cautious editors and online threats, Matney eventually broke from the Packet to tell the story in her podcast. When Paul and his mother were murdered in 2021, making national news, Matney's reporting on Alex provided the public with crucial context before his 2023 conviction for the killings. Matney and Murnick smartly spread the focus around, giving more weight than readers might expect to Matney's early reporting in order to establish the Murdaugh family's m.o., and they write with the unshowy momentum of the best investigative reporting. The result is both an engrossing true crime saga and a galvanizing ode to boots-on-the-ground journalism.
