Discretion is advised.

Ten-minute murder.

In many true crime cases, investigators uncover more than they expected with looking into a suspect. Hidden affairs, suspicious deaths, fraud, and theft.

When Alex Murdo, a highly successful lawyer in South Carolina, called the police to report

that his wife and one of his children had been shot dead, nobody expected the course the investigation

would take. Day by day, the secrets that Alex had been trying so hard to keep hidden

began to see the light.

Alex wasn't just a successful lawyer.

He and his family were some of the most dominant legal forces in the entire state of

South Carolina.

His great-grandfather, Randolph Murdoch, had been the one to bring the family's name

into the public eye when he opened his own law office in the early 1910s.

In 1920, Randolph was elected to serve as the first chief prosecutor for a 3,000-mile region that incorporated five different counties.

From that day forward, being in the Murdof family guaranteed two things, a successful legal career, and all the wealth that came with it.

It was passed on through the generations, each son taking the role from his father.

Alex's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all sat comfortably in that role,

exuding a huge amount of power over the slice of South Carolina that their legal firm ruled.

The Murdaws, being so well known in the area meant that when two of

them were murdered, it was the talk of South Carolina's low country region. It began on June 7,

2021. Alex Murdaugh had spent most of the time at home with his loving wife, 52-year-old

Maggie Murdaugh and one of their two sons, 22-year-old Paul.

They lived in a rural area, isolated 65 miles outside of Charleston. In the late evening,

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