DEADLY dynasty

Netflix's 2023 true-crime series Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal recounted the story of a well-connected South Carolina family that was torn apart by a shocking act of violence in the wake of a fatal boating accident.

- By Ian Macewan

Now these events have been dramatised in Disney+'s eight-part series Murdaugh: Death in the Family, starring The Last Frontier's Jason Clarke as patriarch Alex Murdaugh and Severance's Patricia Arquette as his wife Maggie, alongside Johnny Berchtold and Will Harrison as their sons Paul and Buster.

The region where the family lived was popularly known as 'Murdaugh Country', thanks to the three generations of Murdaughs, including Alex, who had held powerful positions within the local legal system.

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