A new chapter is unfolding in a story of power, privilege, and violence.

Last year, Alec Murdoch was convicted of murdering his wife and son in South Carolina.

The case gripped many across the country, and now the state Supreme Court has agreed to hear his appeal.

A new book chronicles not only the story of the murders and the trial, but a family that for a century used violence to gain power.

Lisa Desjardin has more beginning with a reminder of Murdoch's tangled history.

In a small courthouse with millions of people watching, last March a jury

convicted formerly powerful attorney Alec Murdoch of the unthinkable, shooting

and killing his wife and younger son Paul.

Prosecutors say it was a desperate attempt by Murdoch to distract as years of stealing millions from his clients was coming to light.

The prosecutor Creighton Waters.

It doesn't matter who your family is.

It doesn't matter how much money you have or people think you have.

It doesn't matter what you think, how prominent you are. If you do wrong, if you

break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in South Carolina.

The trial raised the specter of other deaths around Murdoch and his immediate family.

The fatal head injury attributed to a fall of their housekeeper five years earlier. The death of 19 year old

Mallory Beach after witnesses say Paul Murdoch drunkenly crashed his boat and the

death of a teenage classmate of Murdoch's older son, ruled a hit and run, but which police later

investigated as a homicide.

The Murdoch publicly denied responsibility for any of that.

On the stand in his wife and son's murder case, Alec had to admit he

lied to police after cell phone video proved he was at the scene of the crime minutes

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