Tangled vines : power, privilege, and the Murdaugh family murders /
In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means pow...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.