(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)

One of the last things 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh did before he was shot dead on June 7, 2021, was send a text message recommending A Star is Born to a friend.

This evidence isn’t the smoking gun that placed his father, Alex Murdaugh, at the scene in the minutes before Paul and his mother were murdered. Still, it was part of the trove of cell phone data that painted a picture of the crucial last moments of Paul and Maggie’s lives, helping to convict Alex in 2023 of the double homicide.

Hulu’s eight-part limited series Murdaugh: Death in the Family opens with Alex’s (Jason Clarke) 911 call after he “discovered” Maggie (Patricia Arquette) and Paul’s (Johnny Berchtold) bodies at the kennels on the Moselle estate. It concludes with Alex in his jail cell replaying

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