The Murdaugh family are famous American legal family in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina.
Between 1920 and 2006, three members of the Murdaugh family served as solicitors (i.e., district attorney), in charge of prosecuting all criminal cases in the state’s 14th circuit district, leading locals to call the five-county district, “Murdaugh Country.”
The family also founded the law firm, The Parker Law Group, previously Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick (PMPED), which specializes in personal injury litigation in 1910 in Hampton, South Carolina.
Since 2014, Richard “Alex” Murdaugh and other members of the Murdaugh family have been involved in investigations involving several murders, corruption, and other alleged crimes, including insurance fraud, defrauding clients, theft of insurance payouts, and drug-related charges.
Alex Murdaugh has been held in custody at Alvin Glenn Detention Center in Richland County since October 14, 2021.
Is there a documentary about the Murdaugh family?
Yes, there is a documentary about the Murdaugh family.
On January 20, 2023, Netflix released a trailer for its upcoming, three-part docuseries, Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal, which explores the scandals and criminal allegations surrounding disbarred South Carolina attorney Richard “Alex” Murdaugh and the fall of his disgraced family dynasty. It will be premiered on February 22.
The series explores the fatal February 2019 boat crash involving Alex’s younger son, Paul, the unsolved 2015 homicide of Hampton County teen Stephen Smith that has been linked to the Murdaugh family for undisclosed reasons by state police, and the June 2021 murders of Paul and his mother, Maggie, that Alex Murdaugh was charged for, along with more than 100 other crimes.
On September 8, 2021, HBO Max revealed that Campfire Studios would produce a documentary series on the events surrounding the murders. The documentary was released under the name “Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty” on November 3, 2022.
On June 19, 2022, Investigation Discovery aired a three-part miniseries, The Murdaugh Murders: Deadly Dynasty.
On July 15, 2022, ABC aired “20/20 Exclusive: Murdaugh Family Murders”.
American Greed did a two part episodes of this case in December of 2022.