Murdaugh Murders Podcast

Mandy Matney was a local newspaper reporter in South Carolina's lowcountry when she started pulling on threads nobody else seemed interested in. That work turned into the Murdaugh Murders Podcast, which ended up breaking the story of one of the strangest crime sagas in recent American history: a powerful legal family, nearly a century of local influence, a boat crash, a housekeeper's suspicious death, a botched hitman plot, and eventually the conviction of Alex Murdaugh for killing his own wife and son. Matney hosts with co-host Liz Farrell, and their delivery is closer to small-town investigative journalism than entertainment true crime. They know the county, they know the names, they know how the good-ol'-boy system runs. The show ranked number one globally in both 2021 and 2023, which is almost unheard of for something that started as essentially a local reporter's side project. It has since expanded beyond the Murdaugh family under the True Sunlight banner, taking on systemic corruption cases in other parts of the country, though the original Murdaugh arc is still the reason most people show up. If you only know the Netflix version of this story, the podcast fills in the years of context Netflix didn't have time for. Essential listening for anyone interested in how real accountability actually gets built, one episode at a time.