Alicia Seaborne (Nichelle Hines) has come to South Carolina to interview Alex Murdaugh (Chris McGarry) as he's in jail awaiting trial for the deaths of his wife Maggie (Amy Parrish) and son Paul (Joshua Whichard) in this new Tubi original. I'm happy that this exists because one of the things that I miss from the 70s and 80s made-for-TV movies are ripped from the headlines stories that are actual movies and not just episodes of Dateline or 20/20.
A lot of true crime gets watched in our home, so I know the Murdaugh case quite well. Maggie and Paul were found dead at the family's home on June 7, 2021. Alex Murdaugh was from a legendary South Carolina family of attorneys who ran the town. Three generations served consecutively as circuit solicitors for South Carolina's 14th judicial district between 1920 and 2006. This led to the five-county district to be renamed Murdaugh Country by frustrated citizens.
The last generation has been charged with murder, wrongful death, corruption, fraud, witness intimidation, theft, and drug and alcohol-related charges, including Paul being party to a fatal boat accident that he was never punished for and the murders. Alex was also accused of embezzlement from his law firm, taking millions from locals and blaming it all on a drug addiction. There's also the murder of nursing student Stephen Smith, who may have been killed by Alex's son Buster, and the death of housekeeper Gloria Satterfield, who slipped, fell and died with no coroner investigation, no death certificate and a lack of a death certificate.
Alex's cousin Curtis Edward Smith also conspired with him to shoot him on a country road so that Buster would get the insurance money.
Jason Winn, who directed this, also was behind the Tubi original Deadly Secrets of a Cam Girl. If you know the story -- if you have watched any true crime stories at all you are beyond in deep -- this has everything that you expect with the characters actually being in a story and not just a re-enactment. It also adds Charlie Boggs (Aaron Gillespie), a prisoner whose family was taken advantage of by Alex and who is trying to murder him while they are in the same prison. As far as I know, he's not an actual person and someone the movie has made to be everyone that got screwed over by Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick, the family law group.
Who am I fooling with? If you know about the Murdaughs, you already watched this movie.
A lot of true crime gets watched in our home, so I know the Murdaugh case quite well. Maggie and Paul were found dead at the family's home on June 7, 2021. Alex Murdaugh was from a legendary South Carolina family of attorneys who ran the town. Three generations served consecutively as circuit solicitors for South Carolina's 14th judicial district between 1920 and 2006. This led to the five-county district to be renamed Murdaugh Country by frustrated citizens.
The last generation has been charged with murder, wrongful death, corruption, fraud, witness intimidation, theft, and drug and alcohol-related charges, including Paul being party to a fatal boat accident that he was never punished for and the murders. Alex was also accused of embezzlement from his law firm, taking millions from locals and blaming it all on a drug addiction. There's also the murder of nursing student Stephen Smith, who may have been killed by Alex's son Buster, and the death of housekeeper Gloria Satterfield, who slipped, fell and died with no coroner investigation, no death certificate and a lack of a death certificate.
Alex's cousin Curtis Edward Smith also conspired with him to shoot him on a country road so that Buster would get the insurance money.
Jason Winn, who directed this, also was behind the Tubi original Deadly Secrets of a Cam Girl. If you know the story -- if you have watched any true crime stories at all you are beyond in deep -- this has everything that you expect with the characters actually being in a story and not just a re-enactment. It also adds Charlie Boggs (Aaron Gillespie), a prisoner whose family was taken advantage of by Alex and who is trying to murder him while they are in the same prison. As far as I know, he's not an actual person and someone the movie has made to be everyone that got screwed over by Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick, the family law group.
Who am I fooling with? If you know about the Murdaughs, you already watched this movie.
