“Things just got all fucked up.”
That’s what Alex Murdaugh allegedly told Cousin Eddie about what happened at Moselle. Not “I didn’t do it.” Not “somebody killed my family.” Things just got all fucked up. Five words that sound less like a denial and more like a man describing a plan that went sideways. Eddie — the same man who cashed the stolen Satterfield checks, the same man Alex hired to shoot him on the roadside three months after the murders, the same man who failed a polygraph about the killings — told the author of a new book those words. In person. Twice. And the author, James Lasdun, took them seriously enough to build an entire theory around them. A theory that, if true, means what happened at the kennels that night may have been something far stranger and more disturbing than what either side presented at trial.
Lasdun covered this case for The New Yorker. That article became the magazine’s most-read story of the year. He went in resistant to the idea that Alex could have killed his own wife and son. He’s honest about that — honest enough to admit that part of him didn’t want it to be true because it would make for a less interesting story. His book, The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh, is the product of years of original reporting after that article. In-person interviews. Two visits to Cousin Eddie’s property. Access to evidence and sources that never made it into the courtroom. And what he found isn’t a rehash of the same Murdaugh story you’ve heard. It’s a book full of findings that have never been publicly reported — and several that directly challenge what the jury was told.
Start with the timeline. SLED built a detailed accounting of Alex’s phone activity on June 7th, the day of the murders. The version prosecutors showed the jury was condensed. What got cut? Phone calls Alex made that day with two men who had criminal records — Kenneth Singleton and Demetrick Manigo. Singleton texted Alex asking him to call. Alex texted back telling him to come by the office for a loan of $1,750. Those names, those communications — stripped from the condensed timeline. The jury never heard them. And that’s not the only thing
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