Pat Conroy. Truman Capote. John Grisham. Shakespeare.
The epic downfall of Alex Murdaugh, the once-mighty South Carolina attorney currently on trial for the brutal double murder of his wife and son and implicated in numerous other crimes, has prompted a slew of literary comparisons — none of which quite capture the full scope of this twisted saga.
A Southern Gothic tale of greed and deceit, it has also become the country’s latest true-crime obsession. Hundreds of thousands of people tune in to daily livestreams of the trial, being held in the small town of Walterboro, South Carolina.
