Netflix Investigates Alex Murdaugh's Trail of Dead Bodies and Missing Millions

The streamer's three-part documentary Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal takes viewers inside a twisted, powerful South Carolina family

If you have a taste for misleading news, you probably know

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that Alex Murdoff is currently on trial in Walterboro, South Carolina for the murder of his wife

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And the younger son. It's the kind of story that makes true-crime mavens swoon:

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A once prominent, now disgraced lawyer is accused of a bloody heinousness.

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The Murdoff Murders: A Southern Scandal, a new three-part Netflix documentary,

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is either incredibly timely or brazenly opportunistic or, most likely,

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Both. It provides a crash course in those scandals and deaths

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who have besieged the old moneyed Murdaff family for years

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, involving a fatal boating accident, a family homeowner and

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Involves the mysterious death of a local teen, a planned suicide, and embezzlement. Millions of dollars

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If you can't make out with this content you're not in Netflix's ever-expanding true-crime gallery

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And filmmakers Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason do a fine job spinning the yarn

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