Alex Murdaugh Wrote a Cop a $5,000 Check After the Murders — and Backdated It
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
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Summary
A Yemassee police chief named Greg Alexander was at the Moselle crime scene the night Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed. One month later, Alex Murdaugh wrote him a personal check for $5,000 and backdated it to March. The chief said it was a loan for his parents. He never explained the backdating. He did post on his reelection Facebook page: "I'm not a cat. I don't cover up no doo-doo." That's one of dozens of findings in James Lasdun's new book The Family Man that never made it into the trial — and nobody has been able to explain.
The book reveals that prosecutors edited SLED's full timeline before the jury saw it, removing calls Alex made on the day of the murders with men who had criminal records. Alex had wiped his call log from that entire week. Eddie texted him the next morning. An unknown individual sent messages referencing a prearranged meeting spot. None of it was put in front of jurors.
The murder weapons were never found — and SLED didn't search the property Alex drove to that night for three full months. Key physical evidence was placed in two different locations by the investigating agency. Unidentified tire tracks at the crime scene were never investigated. Maggie's car was found with the seat in the wrong position.
Eddie told the author — twice, in person — that Alex described the night at Moselle with a phrase that sounds less like a denial and more like a man describing a plan that went wrong. Lasdun built an original theory around those words — one that suggests the murders may have been a staged attack, the same play Alex ran on the roadside three months later, but at the kennels, something went sideways.
The most disturbing claim in the book: Alex knew his grief would be real, and counted on that pain being so genuine that nobody would believe he caused it. He weaponized his own future devastation as an alibi.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.0 | Things just got all effed up. |
| 0:13.6 | That's it Alex Murdoch, allegedly told cousin Eddie about what happened at |
| 0:18.4 | Moselle. |
| 0:19.0 | Not I didn't do it, not somebody, somebody took out my family. |
| 0:26.3 | Things just got all effed up. Five words. It sound less like denial and more like a man describing a plan that went sideways. |
| 0:35.4 | Eddie, the same man who cashed the stolen Satterfield checks, |
| 0:41.0 | the same man Alec hired to shoot him on the roadside three months after the murders. |
| 0:45.8 | The same man who failed a polygraph about the killings told the author of a new book |
| 0:50.8 | in those words in person twice. And the author James Laston took them seriously enough to build an entire theory around them, |
| 1:01.3 | a theory that if true means what happened at the kennels that night may have been something |
| 1:06.7 | far stranger and more disturbing than what either side has presented at trial. |
| 1:12.8 | By the way, James Lastin joining us next week to discuss his new book. |
| 1:20.9 | So we'll talk to him directly about his thoughts on that. |
| 1:23.4 | We're going to talk about what's in this new book. |
| 1:27.2 | The Family Man, by the way. |
| 1:28.9 | Laston covered the case for the New Yorker. |
| 1:31.0 | The article became the magazine's most read story of the year. |
| 1:36.2 | He went in resistant in the idea that Alec could have killed his own wife and son. |
| 1:42.1 | He's honest about that, honest to admit, that part of him didn't want it to be true. |
| 1:50.0 | I guess it would make for a less interesting story. |
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