Tangled vines: power, privilege, and the Murdaugh family murders

Part I. Prologue

Early days

Buster ; Trials and tribulations ; The cock of the walk ; Trouble in paradise ; Growing up a Murdaugh ; Big red ; Succession ; "The house that CSX built" ; The buddy system ; Part II. The seeds of destruction

The next century ; Timmy ; Stephen Smith ; The prime suspect ; The cover-up ; The high life ; Gloria Satterfield ; "We have so much to be thankful for!!!" ; Part III. The boat crash

"Do y'all know Alex Murdaugh?" ; "He's as drunk as Cooter Brown!" ; The search ; "The Murdaughs are out to pin it on him" ; The arrest ; The smoking gun ; Part IV. "My wife and child have been shot badly!" ; "There is no danger to the public" ; "We're just regular people" ; "You can't make this stuff up" ; "This is a pretty unbelievable story" ; A tremendous fall from grace ; "The Murdaugh Citadel is going to fall!" ; "Alex Murdaugh needs to get comfortable getting uncomfortable" ; "A danger to himself and the community" ; "I was in the throes of withdrawal" ; "He stole every dime I had" ; "The scope of Murdaugh's depravity is without precedent" ; "It all came back to Alex Murdaugh" ; The trial ; "What a tangled web we weave"

Epilogue.