1A wealthy teenager from a powerful South Carolina family was drunk and behind the wheel of a boat carrying five of his friends in the winter of 2019. The boat slammed into a bridge in the middle of the night, killing a 19-year-old woman who was on board.

Somehow, the saga of the Murdaugh family only gets more twisted and complex after that point.

By the time Erin Lee Carr and Michael D. Fuller met in October 2021 to discuss dramatizing the Murdaugh family’s story, that teen who crashed the boat years earlier had been brutally murdered.

Paul Murdaugh and his mother, Maggie, were killed in June 2021 at their family home. The investigation into their murders, which led to the conviction of the family’s patriarch, Alex, shed light on a host of mysteries surrounding the family.

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