Alex Murdaugh Planned for His Own Grief to Be the Alibi
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The episode discusses a new book that claims Alex Murdaugh planned his grief to serve as an alibi in the murder case.
A new book on the Murdaugh case makes the most disturbing claim anyone has put in print about Alex Murdaugh: that he factored the genuineness of his own grief into the murder plan. That he understood his devastation would be so real, so obviously authentic, that it would function as proof of his innocence. And that he was right — the deputies reached forward to squeeze his shoulder in the patrol car because his pain didn't look performed. It wasn't. That was the point. James Lasdun's The Family Man is built on years of original reporting — including two in-person visits with Cousin Eddie, who told the author that Alex described what happened at Moselle with a phrase that sounds nothing like a denial and everything like a man describing a plan that went wrong. Lasdun built a theory around those words: that the murders may have been a staged attack designed to fail — the same play Alex ran three months later on the roadside — but something went sideways in the darkness at the kennels. The book also reveals evidence that was kept from the jury. Phone calls between Alex and men with criminal records on the day of the murders — removed from the prosecution's timeline. A deleted call…
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